Privacy policy

Groupped uses your email to sign you in. We use community memberships, messages, uploads, notification preferences and payment records to run the features you use. Checkout takes place with Paystack or Stripe.

Community and location data

Community membership can reveal interests or views, including political views. Location sharing for the public map is optional. The map shows broad areas only when enough eligible members have shared. We use the country estimated from your connection to open the map and show relevant communities. If you enable the live You pin, the browser uses your device location to update it on your screen. Groupped keeps that pin in your browser. The optional street map loads tiles from OpenStreetMap, and tile requests identify the area you’re viewing.

When you join a city chat, Groupped stores the city you enter with your membership. You can update it or leave city chat from the community page.

Messages and email

Chat messages are available to eligible community or room members. In-app broadcasts go to their selected audience. You can separately opt in to receive eligible broadcasts at your sign-in email. We use an email provider to deliver them and include an unsubscribe link in every broadcast email.

When automatic image review is enabled, we send the uploaded image to Google Cloud Vision to screen for explicit content and read text for moderation. Images that need further review stay private while moderators review them.

Retention and choices

Scheduled cleanup removes chats, broadcasts and their images under the app’s 30-day retention schedule. Account, billing and transaction records have separate retention needs. You can leave communities, stop sharing your area and change your email preferences in Groupped. Contact group@groupped.com about privacy or to request access, correction or deletion.

Site traffic

Groupped uses Statcounter, a third-party analytics provider, to measure visits and activity on the site. Statcounter may use cookies to distinguish new and returning visitors.