Privacy Policy

Welcome to BEV ("BEV," "we," "our," or "us"). BEV is an 18+ social nightlife app for discovering places, connecting with friends, and sharing venue moments. This policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, who may see it, and the choices available to you.

Short version: BEV is still moving fast, especially across web and native testing. We keep this policy clear at category level so you know what is happening without publishing our private engineering playbook.

• Authenticate accounts and keep BEV available.
• Provide bar discovery, maps, check-ins, and social features.
• Match contacts, friend invites, and other connections you ask BEV to make.
• Personalize recommendations, memories, events, and app experiences.
• Send service messages, push notifications, and safety or account updates.
• Moderate content, respond to reports, prevent fraud, and protect users and venues.
• Improve performance, understand feature use, fix bugs, and develop BEV responsibly.
• Test and improve web/native builds, app reliability, and in-development features.
• Comply with law and enforce our Terms of Service.

We share information only as needed to operate, protect, and improve BEV. We do not sell your personal data or your contacts.

• Other users: Your profile, photos, messages, check-ins, friend status, and venue presence may be visible to friends or other users depending on the feature and your choices.
• Service providers: Hosting, storage, authentication, push notifications, maps, analytics, crash reporting, moderation, email, and support providers may process data for BEV under their service terms.
• Authorized testers and collaborators: People helping us build, review, support, test, or secure BEV may access data when needed for those purposes, especially in development and native test builds.
• Venues and public surfaces: Content you post to venue pages or public BEV areas may be seen by other users and may help improve venue information.
• Safety and legal reasons: We may disclose information if required by law, to respond to valid legal requests, or to protect BEV, users, venues, or the public.
• Business transfers: If BEV is involved in a merger, financing, acquisition, or asset sale, information may transfer as part of that transaction, subject to this policy or a replacement policy disclosed to users.

• Location: Manage access in device settings. Nearby discovery, check-ins, and presence features may be limited without it.
• Contacts: Contacts sync is optional. You can revoke access in device settings and still use other friend discovery methods.
• Photos and camera: You choose what to upload or share. You can change photo-library permissions in device settings.
• Notifications: You can opt out in device settings or in-app settings where available.
• Development builds: Test builds may include extra diagnostics and preview behavior. If a build feels experimental, that is the point; use a public build or a test account for lower-risk testing.
• Account deletion: You may request deletion of your account and associated personal data by contacting bevvcool@gmail.com. We may retain limited information when needed for security, fraud prevention, legal obligations, or dispute resolution.

We keep personal information for as long as needed to provide BEV, comply with law, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and protect the app. Some nightlife activity, such as check-ins, photos, and messages, may be designed to expire or be cleared on a shorter schedule for privacy. Backups, logs, cached copies, and content already shared with others may persist for a limited period.

Contacts sync data is used for matching when you use the feature. BEV does not maintain your address book as a general marketing list.

Development and native testing records may be kept while an issue, migration, safety review, or experiment is active. We may also retain limited records for security, legal, fraud-prevention, abuse-prevention, or dispute-resolution reasons.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, export, object to, restrict, or withdraw consent for certain processing of your personal information.

To make a request, contact us at bevvcool@gmail.com. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.

BEV may process and store information in the United States and other locations where our service providers operate. Where required, we use appropriate safeguards for international data transfers.

We use cookies, local storage, and similar technology for authentication, security, preferences, analytics, and app functionality. You can manage browser cookies in your browser settings, though some features may not work without them.

BEV is not intended for anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information to BEV, contact us so we can take appropriate action.

We use administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information. No internet or mobile service can be guaranteed 100% secure, so please use strong device security and report suspicious activity.

We may update this policy as BEV evolves. When we make changes, we will post the updated policy on this page and update the last-updated date above. If changes are material, we may provide additional notice in the app or by other reasonable means.

If you have questions about this privacy policy or our data practices, contact: