How Drift Bottle handles personal information.

1. Information we collect

Depending on how you use Drift Bottle, we may collect the following categories of information:

• Account information such as email address, profile identifiers, and sign-in credentials managed through authentication services.
• Profile and preference information such as nickname, selected emotional intent, desired intent, language, and settings choices.
• User-generated content such as messages, bottles, replies, uploaded images, uploaded audio, and moderation-related metadata.
• Approximate location or sea-area data if you grant location permission, including blurred location or grid-based proximity data rather than a precise public location display.
• Operational data such as timestamps, device or app version information, push token data, and records tied to safety, fraud, and abuse prevention.
• Support and deletion request information when you contact us by email or use the deletion page.

2. How we use information

We may use information for the following purposes:

• To provide the core Drift Bottle experience, including sending, receiving, matching, and displaying bottles and replies.
• To power mood-based features such as emotional intent matching, sea weather recommendations, time-based delivery, and approximate local tide experiences.
• To review and moderate content, enforce rules, investigate abuse, and keep the service safer.
• To respond to support requests, account access questions, and deletion requests.
• To maintain, secure, debug, and improve the service.

3. Sharing and service providers

We may share information with service providers or infrastructure providers that help us host, secure, moderate, and operate Drift Bottle. We may also disclose information when required to comply with law, protect users, respond to valid legal process, or address fraud and abuse.

Drift Bottle is not designed to publish your exact live location to other users through the public web site. App content shared inside the experience may still be visible to the users participating in that interaction.

4. Retention

We may retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate the service, provide support, enforce rules, investigate abuse, comply with legal obligations, and resolve disputes. Some limited records may be retained after account deletion where required for these purposes.

5. Your choices and rights

• You can choose whether to provide optional profile details and whether to grant location access.
• You can block or report other users inside the app.
• You can request account deletion without reopening the app at /delete-account.
• You can contact us to ask privacy-related questions using the support email listed below.

6. Contact

For privacy questions, support, or deletion requests, contact .