LGB Social — Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 8, 2026 Last updated: October 8, 2026

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how LGB Social ("LGB Social," "we," "us," or "our"), collects, uses, shares, and protects your information when you use the LGB Social app, the website at unitedlgb.com, and related services (the "Service").

We know that information about sexual orientation, sex life, and health is deeply personal, and that for many people, being outed can put their safety, jobs, families, or freedom at risk. We built LGB Social with privacy controls throughout, and we treat this information with special care.

The short version:

• We collect what we need to run a social and dating community: your account details, your profile, what you post and send, and your approximate location.
• We do not sell your personal information. We may show ads in the Service. We do not use your sexual orientation, sex life, or health information for advertising. If we add advertising partners, we will update this policy and the Google Play Data safety listing.
• Calls, video rooms, and live streams are not recorded by us unless the session or content is reported. If a report copy does not violate our Terms or this Privacy Policy, we release it from admin records. Reported material that is illegal or criminal can and will be submitted to law enforcement. By creating an account or continuing your membership, you consent to the surrender of any illegal or criminal material you add to the Service to the appropriate authorities.
• You control much of what others see, and you can clear your content or delete your account.

This policy is part of our Terms of Service. The Service is for adults 18 and older only.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information you give us when you sign up

2.2 Profile information you choose to add

Display name, profile photo, bio, interests, marital status, religious faith, ethnicity, height, weight, body type, location label, and other optional profile fields. Some optional fields may include health information, such as HIV status or PrEP use, if you choose to provide it.

2.3 Adult Browse profile (optional, 18+)

If you turn on Adult Browse, you may provide: an adult handle, "About me," availability, preferred meeting places, how you describe yourself, sexual positions, activity interests, the types of people you are seeking, a main adult photo, up to four private photos (which may contain nudity), whether to show your distance, and records of who you have granted or requested access to private photos.

This is sensitive information about your sex life and sexual orientation. We collect it only if you choose to create an adult profile, and you can delete it at any time.

2.4 Content and communications

• Posts and comments: text, photos, videos, layouts, reactions, shares, and friend tags.
• Private messages: text, photos, and videos you send in the inbox and the adult messenger, and whether a message has been read (used to show unread counts).
• Call information: when you start or answer an audio or video call, we store the call invite and short-lived connection data needed to connect the call (see Section 6). We do not record or store the audio or video of calls unless the call is reported.
• Groups: groups you create, join, or leave, group names, descriptions, categories, tags, photos, and join passwords (stored hashed).
• Pool chat rooms: room names, optional room passwords (stored hashed), and messages and photos, which are deleted automatically after about 10 minutes.
• Video rooms: rooms you create or join and short-lived connection data. Video is not recorded unless the room is reported.
• Channels: channel title, description, keywords, category, card image, live chat messages, uploaded videos, video covers, titles, descriptions, and keywords. Live streams are not recorded unless reported.
• Social connections: friend requests, friendships, follows, and blocks.
• Reports: if you report a user or content, we store your report and related information.
• Support: messages you send us by email.

2.5 Information collected automatically

• Location.
• Precise location: with your permission, the app uses your device's location (GPS, Wi-Fi, and cell networks) to determine your approximate area and distance from other users.
• IP-based location: if you deny location permission or it is unavailable, we estimate your city, region, country, and approximate coordinates from your IP address.
• We store a location label (for example, "City, Region, Country") and latitude/longitude coordinates on your account. We do not show your coordinates to anyone. Other users may see your city/region label and an approximate distance (for example, "2.4 mi"), which you can hide.
• Online status and activity: whether you are online, away, or offline (the app updates this about every 30 seconds while it is open), when you last signed in, and when you were last active.
• Technical information: IP address, device type, operating system, app version, and server logs needed to keep the Service working and secure.
• On your device: we store your sign-in session in your device's secure storage (Android Keystore / iOS Keychain), and a few app preferences (for example, whether you have dismissed a notice).

2.6 Information we do not collect

• We do not collect your phone number at signup.
• We do not access your contacts.
• We do not use advertising IDs, third-party analytics, ad networks, or social media tracking pixels.
• We do not collect payment card numbers. The Service does not process payments or creator payouts.

3. Device Permissions

The app asks for permissions only when a feature needs them, and you can change them at any time in your device settings.

Camera and microphone content is not recorded or saved by us during calls, video rooms, or live streams unless the session is reported. Photos and videos are uploaded only when you choose to post or send them.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

1. Provide the Service: create and secure your account, show your profile, deliver posts and messages, connect calls, run groups, chat rooms, video rooms, and channels, and show notifications.
2. Match and Browse: show you people in Browse and Adult Browse based on your birth sex, orientation, filters, and approximate location, and calculate distances.
3. Keep the community safe: enforce our Terms and Community Standards, review reports, prevent spam, fraud, and abuse, detect and remove illegal content, and protect users from harm, including child exploitation.
4. Communicate with you: send verification codes and important account, safety, and legal notices. We do not send marketing emails. If that changes, we will ask for consent where required and give you an easy way to unsubscribe.
5. Maintain and improve the Service: fix bugs, understand storage use, and develop features.
6. Comply with the law: respond to lawful requests, and meet legal obligations such as reporting child sexual abuse material to NCMEC.

We do not use your sexual orientation, sex life, or health information for advertising, and we do not sell it or use it to make decisions with legal or similarly significant effects about you.

5. What Other Users Can See

Please remember: anything you share with other users can be saved, screenshotted, or forwarded by them, even though our Terms prohibit doing so without consent. Think carefully before sharing photos or details that could identify you.

6. Calls, Video Rooms, and Live Streams

• Audio and video calls, video rooms, and channel live streams use WebRTC, which sends audio and video directly between devices (peer-to-peer) whenever possible.
• When a direct connection is not possible, the audio and video stream may pass through a relay server (TURN), which forwards the encrypted media stream without storing it. Relay servers may be operated by us or, as a fallback, by a third-party relay provider (see Section 7).
• WebRTC media streams are encrypted in transit.
• To connect calls, our servers briefly store connection data (call invites, session descriptions, and network candidates, which include IP addresses). This data is deleted automatically: call invites expire after 15 minutes, call connection data is deleted after about 15 minutes, and video room and live stream connection data is deleted after about 2 minutes.
• We do not record, store, or review audio or video from calls, video rooms, or live streams unless the session or content is reported. If a retained copy does not violate our Terms or this Privacy Policy, we release it from admin records. Illegal or criminal material can and will be submitted to law enforcement.

7. How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

We share information only as follows:

7.1 With other users

As described in Section 5, based on your settings and what you choose to share.

7.2 With service providers

These providers process data on our behalf and only to provide their services to us:

7.3 For legal, safety, and child protection reasons

We may preserve and disclose information if we believe in good faith that it is necessary to:

• comply with a law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or other legal process;
• report apparent child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) as required by 18 U.S.C. § 2258A, and cooperate with law enforcement;
• prevent death, serious bodily harm, trafficking, or other emergencies;
• investigate and enforce our Terms, or protect the rights, property, and safety of LGB Social, our users, or the public.

We take user privacy seriously when governments ask for data. We will review requests carefully, push back on overbroad requests where appropriate, and, where the law allows, notify affected users. We will not voluntarily disclose a user's sexual orientation or HIV status to any government except where legally compelled or to prevent imminent harm.

7.4 Business transfers

If LGB Social is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you and require the new owner to honor this Privacy Policy.

7.5 With your consent

We will share information in other ways only with your consent.

8. How Long We Keep Information

9. Your Choices and Controls

• Privacy Settings: choose whether to accept friend requests and inbox messages, and whether to show your last name, marital status, age, and Browse distance.
• Browse: hide your profile from Browse, hide yourself from friends in Browse, and hide your adult distance.
• Adult Browse: turn it off at any time, lock your private photos (which revokes everyone's access), or delete your adult profile and all adult photos.
• Blocking: block anyone, at any time.
• My Report: see how much storage each feature uses, and permanently clear your messages, posts, comments, reactions, photos, groups, channels, videos, notifications, and more.
• Device permissions: turn location, camera, microphone, and photo access on or off in your device settings.
• Edit or delete your profile information and content at any time.

10. Deleting Your Account

You can delete your account and associated data at any time. We also automatically delete accounts that have not signed in for 1 year.

• In the app: Menu → Delete account.
• On the web, without the app: visit delete-account.php or email privacy@unitedlgb.com from the email address on your account. We will verify your identity before deleting.

When you delete your account, we delete your account, profile, profile and adult photos, adult profile, posts, comments, reactions, groups you organize, channel and videos, messages you sent, friend and follow connections, and notifications, within 30 days.

We may keep limited information as described in Section 8, including records of purchases (where required for tax and accounting), information needed to prevent banned users from returning, and information we are legally required to preserve. Messages you sent may remain visible to the people who received them if they saved copies on their own devices.

11. Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect your information, including:

• passwords and verification codes stored only as salted one-way hashes (bcrypt);
• your sign-in session stored in your device's secure storage;
• encrypted connections (TLS/HTTPS) between the app and our servers, and between our servers and our database in production;
• encrypted WebRTC media for calls and video;
• access to production data limited to authorized personnel.

No system is perfectly secure. If we learn of a data breach affecting your personal information, we will notify you and the authorities as required by law.

12. Children's Privacy

The Service is only for adults 18 and older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18, and the Service is not directed to children under 13 under the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). We require your date of birth at signup and do not allow accounts for anyone under 18. If we learn that we have collected information from someone under 18, we will delete the account and its information, except where we must preserve information to report child exploitation as required by law. If you believe a minor is using the Service, contact safety@unitedlgb.com.

13. Sensitive Information

The information about you that the Service involves includes information considered sensitive under many privacy laws, including:

• sexual orientation and birth sex, collected at signup;
• sex life information, from your adult profile, if you create one;
• health information, such as HIV or PrEP status, only if you choose to provide it;
• precise location, if you grant permission;
• intimate images, in adult private photos, if you choose to upload them;
• contents of private messages.

We process sensitive information only with your consent (which you give by choosing to provide it and by agreeing to this policy), and only to provide the features you use. We do not use it to infer other characteristics about you, for advertising, or for profiling. You can withdraw consent at any time by deleting the information or your account. Sexual orientation and birth sex are needed to create an account, because the Service uses them to show you the right people in Browse.

14. U.S. State Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live (for example, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Washington, and other states with consumer privacy laws), you may have the right to:

• know and access the personal information we have about you;
• correct inaccurate information;
• delete your personal information;
• get a copy of your information in a portable format;
• opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for targeted advertising, and of profiling (we do not sell, share for targeted advertising, or profile);
• limit the use of sensitive personal information (we only use it to provide the Service);
• not be discriminated against for exercising your rights;
• appeal if we deny your request.

California (CCPA/CPRA) notice at collection: In the past 12 months we have collected these categories of personal information: identifiers (name, email, handle, IP address); personal characteristics, including protected classifications (age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status); sensitive personal information (sexual orientation, sex life, health information if provided, precise geolocation, message contents, account login credentials); internet and electronic activity; geolocation data; audio and visual information (photos and videos you upload); and inferences you provide through your profile preferences. We collect them from you, your device, and other users (for example, when they tag or message you), for the purposes in Section 4, and we disclose them only to the service providers in Section 7. We do not sell or share personal information, and we have no actual knowledge of selling or sharing information of anyone under 16.

To exercise your rights, email privacy@unitedlgb.com with the subject "Privacy Request," or use the in-app tools in Section 9. We will verify your identity by confirming your account email. You may use an authorized agent. We will respond within the time required by law, usually 45 days. To appeal a decision, reply to our response with the subject "Appeal."

15. Consumer Health Data (Washington, Nevada, and Similar Laws)

If you choose to add health-related information, such as HIV or PrEP status, or information about sexual health, that information may be "consumer health data" under laws like the Washington My Health My Data Act and Nevada SB 370.

• What we collect: only health information you choose to enter in your profile.
• Why: to display it on your profile as you choose.
• Sharing: we share it only with our service providers that host our data (Section 7.2), and with other users only as you choose. We never sell it.
• Your rights: you can access, delete, or withdraw consent for this data at any time by editing your profile, deleting your account, or emailing privacy@unitedlgb.com.
• No geofencing: we do not use location to target or track people near health care facilities.

This Section 15 is our Consumer Health Data notice.

16. Users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland

If you use the Service from the EEA, the UK, or Switzerland, the following also applies:

• Controller: LGB Social, United States. Email privacy@unitedlgb.com for our current mailing address, privacy@unitedlgb.com. No EU or UK representative is appointed at this time.
• Legal bases:
• contract, to provide the Service you signed up for;
• explicit consent (GDPR Article 9(2)(a)), for sexual orientation, sex life, and health information;
• consent, for precise location;
• legitimate interests, for safety, security, fraud prevention, and improving the Service;
• legal obligation, for complying with the law.
• Your rights: access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability, objection, and withdrawal of consent at any time (without affecting earlier processing). You may also complain to your local data protection authority.
• International transfers: we are based in the United States, and your information is processed in the United States. Where required, we use safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses with our service providers.
• Automated decisions: we do not make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about you based solely on automated processing.

17. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

We do not track you across other websites or apps. Because we do not sell or share personal information for targeted advertising, there is nothing for Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signals to opt you out of. We honor them where the law requires.

18. Google Play Data Safety

Our Google Play Data safety listing reflects this policy. In summary:

• Data collected: personal information (name, email, user IDs, date of birth, sexual orientation, other info you provide), location (approximate and precise), messages, photos and videos, app activity (in-app interactions, user-generated content), and app information and performance (logs), plus health information if you choose to provide it.
• Data shared with third parties: none, other than service providers processing data on our behalf, which Google does not count as "sharing."
• Security: data is encrypted in transit, and you can request deletion of your data.

19. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you in the app or by email before they take effect, and update the "Last updated" date above.

20. Contact Us

LGB Social (LGB Social) United States. Email privacy@unitedlgb.com for a mailing address. Privacy questions and requests: privacy@unitedlgb.com General: info@unitedlgb.com Child safety: safety@unitedlgb.com