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Privacy Policy
Your account data
Email sign-up uses Clerk to manage your email address, password, verification emails and password resets. Velvet never stores your password. Owner and existing invited accounts can still use ChatGPT sign-in; existing test accounts use private access codes. These are separate accounts and are not automatically merged by email. Velvet stores your name, age, gender, city, bio, relationship choices, optional interest in consensual group experiences, rule acknowledgement, and photo on the server. Your sign-in email is displayed to you; it is not added to your profile. Your profile starts hidden. After your face photo and selfie are approved, switching on discovery makes your profile visible to approved members. Members who can see your profile automatically see a heavily blurred colour preview when they cannot view your original photo. Your photo has a separate audience: all members, paid members only, mutual matches only, verified members, or only you. Paid-only access requires an active paid membership; paid subscriptions are not available in Velvet143 yet. Changing your photo audience restricts future requests, but cannot remove copies already viewed or saved. Blocking prevents either person from viewing the other’s profile or photo.
Photo uploads are resized in your browser and metadata is removed before they are sent. Velvet does not ask for your precise location. You can edit your profile, remove a photo, or delete your saved profile below. Deletion removes it from active storage; provider backups may follow separate retention periods.
New and edited bios, including existing bios awaiting their first review, are held for owner review before publication. Phrase checks flag possible issues but a human makes the decision. You see the review status and reason in My profile and can revise or request another review. The owner can read submitted and previously approved bios, review requests and member reports. Review decisions and read status are recorded as in-app account updates. Reported members can see the report category, respond privately to the moderator, and request another review after a report closes. Reporter identities are not included in these updates. Your first face photo and challenge selfie require manual approval before you can browse, like or message. Photo and message moderation is not automated. Member likes, blocks, and reports are stored on the server. Mutual likes create a match and allow text messages between those two accounts. Messages are stored on the server, visible through the app only while both profiles are visible and mutually liked, with no blocks. Velvet143 does not offer end-to-end encryption. Removing a like or blocking stops access to that conversation. Hiding a profile pauses messaging. Saved history becomes available again if both profiles are visible and mutually liked. Deleting your saved profile removes messages sent or received by you from active storage for both participants. Demo likes, conversations, blocks, and reports stay on this device. Reset demo clears them without deleting your saved account profile. The hosting provider and, for email accounts, Clerk also process sign-in and technical connection information. Deleting your saved profile does not delete your sign-in account with Clerk or ChatGPT. Sign out after using a shared device.