Whappz Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 31, 2026

Whappz is operated by Atypical Affinities. In this Privacy Policy, “Whappz,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Atypical Affinities as the operator of the Services. This Privacy Policy should be read together with our Terms of Service (“Terms”), which govern your access to and use of the Services.

Our Commitment to Privacy. As a social networking service primarily serving men in the LGBTQ+ community, Whappz respects your privacy and is committed to being transparent about how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect your Personal Information. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes our privacy practices, including the choices available to you regarding the information you provide, and provides notice of rights that may be available under applicable law. This Policy applies to the Whappz mobile application, website, web application, and other related services that link to this Policy (collectively, the “Services”), and to information we collect when you contact us or otherwise interact with Whappz. This Policy does not apply to third-party websites or services that may be linked from the Services.

Adults Only. The Services are only for adults who are eighteen (18) years of age or older. If you believe that a minor under 18 years of age has used the Services, or that information about a minor has been provided through the Services, please notify us through the in-app reporting tool or by submitting a request so that we can take appropriate action. Whappz may investigate suspected underage use, require age assurance in certain jurisdictions or circumstances, and suspend or remove accounts as appropriate.

Personal Information We Collect

“Personal Information” is information that identifies, relates to, describes, or could reasonably be linked to you. It includes information you provide directly through the Services, information we collect automatically when you use the Services, and information we receive from other sources. We process all Personal Information as described in this Policy.

Information You Provide Directly Through the Services

We collect the information that you provide to use the Services, including:

• Account Information. To create your account, you must provide your email address, date of birth to determine age, username, password, a profile photo, your city or profile location, gender, and any other information required during registration.
• Mobile Phone Number. A valid non-VoIP mobile phone number is required to register. After verification, Whappz stores a unique digital fingerprint of your phone number in a secure database through an irreversible cryptographic hash to help prevent abuse and fraud.
• Profile Information. You may provide information in your profile, including your relationship status, what you are looking for, who you are interested in meeting, physical characteristics, ethnicity, sexual orientation, role and sexual preferences, hosting and travel considerations, interests and tags, and other information you choose to provide.
• Photos and Private Albums. You may upload profile photos, with or without captions, create private albums and upload photos to them, make those albums available to specific users, and send photos directly to other users.
• Messages. When you communicate with another user, the recipient receives the content of your messages, including any photos or other content you send, and the content is received and stored by us to provide the messaging service across all platforms.
• Other Information You Provide. You may provide information through other features of the Services, including notes you make on other profiles, travel dates and locations you choose to share, verifications you provide for other users, responses to community events, as well as postal code or other information to facilitate subscription purchases.
• Customer Support, Feedback, and Reports. When you contact or otherwise communicate with Whappz, including to request support, submit feedback, make a report, or appeal an account action, you provide the information included in that communication.

Information We Collect Automatically

When you use the Services, we automatically collect or generate certain information, including:

• Device, Browser, and Log Information. This information includes your device type, operating system, browser type, Internet Protocol (IP) address, device or application identifiers, access times, and crash, performance, and log information.
• Usage and Interaction Information. We collect information about how you use the Services, including profile and collection views, search and filter activity, favorites, verifications, blocks, unlocked albums, responses to community events, message delivery, reactions and read status, and other interactions with the Services.
• Location and Distance Information. With your permission, Whappz collects precise location information from your device or browser when you open, load, or refresh the Services. We may also determine your approximate location from your IP address and generate information about the distance between you and other users.
• Cookies and Similar Technologies. We use cookies, software development kits (SDKs), and similar technologies to collect device, usage, and diagnostic information and to operate, analyze, secure, and improve the Services.

Information We Receive from Other Sources

We may receive Personal Information about you from other sources, including:

• Purchase and Subscription Information. If you purchase a subscription, whether through an app store or on our website, your payment is processed by the applicable app store or payment processor. Whappz receives information about your subscription and, for website transactions, limited payment-card information, including the transaction or order ID, auto-renewal status, authorization or decline information, card brand, last four digits, and expiration date.
• Verification Information. We may receive verification information from service providers, including confirmation that you completed mobile phone verification and, where applicable, the result of an age assurance check. Whappz does not receive or have access to any selfie, government identification card, or other verification material that you submit to an age assurance service provider.
• Information from Other Users. We may receive information about you from other users. This may include information provided when another user verifies your profile, reports your profile or content, or describes an interaction with you.

How We Use Personal Information

We process your Personal Information for the purposes described below:

• Provide and Operate the Services. We process Personal Information to create, authenticate, and maintain accounts, confirm eligibility, provide features such as profiles, search and discovery, location and distance, messaging, private albums, and other user interactions, manage subscriptions and premium features, and support the operation of the Services.
• Maintain Safety, Security, and Integrity. We may process Personal Information to detect, prevent, investigate, and respond to fraud, abuse, suspected underage use, unauthorized access, ban evasion, security threats, and violations of our Terms or Community Guidelines. This may include reviewing reports and relevant content, screening profile photos, and retaining information needed to document moderation decisions or prevent repeated violations.
• Analyze and Improve the Services. We analyze usage, performance, errors, and other information to troubleshoot issues, conduct internal analytics, improve the Services, develop new features, and consider voluntary feedback.
• Develop and Provide Related Services. We may use Personal Information to develop, improve, create, provide, integrate, and promote related services, features, or products offered by Whappz or Atypical Affinities, including community events, event registration, ticketing, subscriptions, verification services, and payment services.
• Communicate with Users. We may send verification codes and communications about your account or use of the Services, including messages, profile activity and views, new users, photos, event updates, reminders, and other service-related notices. We may also use Personal Information to send communications about new or existing features, related products or services, community events, event registration and ticketing, advertising or sponsored content, branded merchandise, promotions, and other information or offerings related to your use of the Services.
• Provide Customer Support. Personal Information may be used to respond to questions and support requests, troubleshoot account and technical issues, and review reports and appeals.
• Comply with Law and Protect Rights. Personal Information may be processed as needed to comply with applicable law and lawful requests, protect the rights, safety, and property of Whappz, our users, and others, or establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
• Other Uses. We may process Personal Information for other purposes disclosed at the time of collection, at your direction, with your consent, or as permitted by law.

How We Disclose Personal Information

We may disclose Personal Information as follows:

• Other Users. Depending on the feature or your settings, we make certain information visible to other users through the Services, including profile information, age, registration date, photos, interest tag selections, distance information, online status, profile views, verifications, travel dates and locations, and responses to community events. With your permission, Whappz displays approximate distance information to other users, but the Services do not disclose your precise location to any user. Profile photos on the grid may be displayed with a Whappz watermark and your username. We deliver messages, photos, and other content to users you choose to interact with. We allow you to send a “whapp” to another user and make private album content available to users you choose to grant access to. Information or content that you share with another user may be copied, saved, or further shared by that user.
• Service Providers, Affiliates, Advertising, and Other Partners. We may disclose Personal Information to service providers, affiliates, or other companies that help us operate, maintain, secure, improve, create, and develop the Services, including companies that may support functions such as hosting and storage, communications, analytics, logs and diagnostics, customer support, phone verification, age assurance, photo screening, security, payment processing, or app distribution. We may also disclose Personal Information to affiliates to develop, provide, integrate, and operate related products or services, including community events, event registration, ticketing, subscriptions, verification services, or payment services. We may provide advertising and other partners with aggregated or deidentified information that does not identify individual users.
• Legal, Safety, and Enforcement Disclosures. We may disclose Personal Information to comply with applicable law, legal process, or lawful government requests, enforce our Terms and Community Guidelines, investigate or prevent unlawful or harmful conduct, respond to safety concerns, protect the rights, safety, and property of Whappz, our users, or others, or establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
• Business Transactions. We may disclose Personal Information in connection with an actual or proposed merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar business transaction.
• At Your Direction or With Your Consent. We may disclose Personal Information to third parties at your direction or with your consent.

Retention and Deletion

We retain Personal Information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the Services, fulfill the purposes described in this Policy, and meet our legal, safety, security, fraud prevention, and operational needs.

• Photos. Whappz stores the digital images you upload to the Services, including profile photos and photos in private albums, until they are deleted by you or are removed through moderation. Deleted photos may remain in backup systems for up to 30 days before being fully removed. Photos sent directly to other users through messages are retained and deleted in accordance with our standard practices.
• Messages and Conversations. Whappz stores messages while an account remains active. Deleting or hiding a message or conversation from your account does not remove it from the other user’s account or from Whappz systems. Blocking another user makes the existing conversation history inaccessible to both users but does not immediately delete the underlying messages from Whappz systems. Unblocking a user does not restore visibility of the prior conversation history. When an account is set for deletion, its associated messages are no longer accessible to other users unless the account is reactivated during the 30-day cooling-off period. After that period, the messages and other information associated with the deleted account are deleted, subject to the limited retention described below.
• User Activity Data. If you unfavorite or unblock a user or revoke access to a private album, the corresponding record is deleted. If you delete travel plans or withdraw or decline a verification, that information is hidden from the Services but the underlying record is not deleted. Travel and verification records are deleted as part of the account deletion process.
• Logs. Whappz purges IP and application logs every 14 days.
• Account Deletion. When you request deletion of your account, it enters a 30-day cooling-off period during which you may reactivate your account. During this period, your profile and associated messages are not accessible to you or other users. After this period, Whappz deletes your account and associated Personal Information, except for limited retained information as described below. Any remaining backup copies of information deleted through this process are removed within 48 hours after deletion.
• Limited Retention After Deletion; Account Termination. After an account is deleted, Whappz retains the email address associated with the account and hashed phone number information, including to help prevent abuse or circumvention of our Terms, such as through repeated account creation, except where deletion is required by applicable law. The account is otherwise deleted, including its profile, messages, photos, and associated Personal Information, except for information that Whappz may retain as reasonably necessary for safety, security, fraud prevention, enforcement of our Terms, or compliance with applicable law. During any suspension or appeal period, Whappz may retain account information necessary to administer and review a moderation or enforcement action. After an account is terminated, Whappz may retain limited information associated with the account and records relating to the enforcement or termination. Information retained under this section is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary to meet our legal, safety, security, fraud prevention, enforcement, and operational needs.

International Transfers

Whappz is based in the United States. If you access the Services from outside the United States, your Personal Information will be processed in the United States. The United States may have data protection laws that differ from those of other countries where the Services may be accessed. Where required by applicable law, we use appropriate safeguards for international transfers of Personal Information.

Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your Personal Information.

Your Privacy Rights and Choices

You have choices about the Personal Information you provide and how you use the Services. Depending on where you live, you may also have rights under applicable law regarding your Personal Information.

• Account and Profile Controls. Through available settings and features, you may review and update certain account and profile information, choose whether to provide certain optional information and content, manage privacy settings for your profile and activity, hide city name, hide profile views, grant or withdraw access to private albums, block other users, manage your photos, and delete your account.
• Location Controls. You may manage precise location permissions through your device or browser settings. These choices will affect the availability or operation of certain location-based features.
• Communications and Notifications. You may manage certain email, app, and browser notification preferences through your account settings and, where applicable, your device or browser settings. You may opt out of promotional emails by following the unsubscribe instructions provided by our Services. We may continue to send account, security, and other service-related communications.
• Cookies and Similar Technologies. You may configure your browser to limit cookies. Doing so may affect the operation of certain features. Whappz does not use cookies or similar technologies to track your activity over time across unaffiliated websites or online services for targeted advertising.
• Privacy Rights. Depending on where you live and subject to applicable exceptions, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your Personal Information, receive a copy of certain Personal Information in a commonly used machine-readable format, withdraw consent, or object to or restrict certain processing.
• Exercising Your Rights. You may submit a privacy request by contacting us at [email protected]. We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before fulfilling a request. We will respond as required by applicable law and may deny or limit a request where permitted by law.

Legal Bases for Processing

Where required by applicable law, we process Personal Information on one or more of the following bases:

• Performance of a Contract. We process Personal Information as necessary to perform our contract with you and provide the Services for your use, including maintaining your account, providing profile and discovery features, facilitating messages and other interactions between users, providing location and distance features, and managing subscriptions.
• Legitimate Interests. Where permitted by applicable law, we process Personal Information as necessary for our legitimate interests in operating, supporting, securing, and improving the Services, responding to support requests, preventing fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, and ban evasion, enforcing our Terms and Community Guidelines, and protecting Whappz, our users, and others.
• Consent. We rely on your consent to provide certain features of the Services, including features that use precise location. We also rely on consent for promotional communications where required by applicable law. Where Personal Information reveals racial or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or information concerning a person’s sex life, we process it subject to any explicit consent or other conditions required under applicable law. Where we rely on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
• Legal Obligations. We process Personal Information where necessary to comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations, including age assurance requirements in certain jurisdictions.
• Vital Interests. We may process Personal Information where necessary to protect the life or physical safety of a user or another person.

Additional Information for UK and EEA Users

If you are in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, Atypical Affinities is the controller of the Personal Information processed under this Policy. You may exercise the rights described above under Your Privacy Rights and Choices. You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your Personal Information for direct marketing. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with an applicable data protection authority where you live or work or where you believe a violation of applicable data protection law occurred.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. We will post the updated Policy and revise the “Last Updated” date above and provide additional notice if required by applicable law.

Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, complaints, reports, or requests relating to this Policy, your Personal Information, or Whappz’s privacy or safety practices, please contact us at [email protected].