privacy.

Degrees (“Degrees,” “we,” “us”) is a social app operated by Degrees App Inc. that assigns you and your friends a bar on Friday nights. This policy explains what information the Degrees iOS app and this website collect, how we use it, and the choices you have. Questions: matthew@trydegrees.com.

Phone number. You sign in with your phone number, verified by a one-time SMS code. We use it to create and secure your account and to match you with friends who have your number.

Profile. The name, username, and profile photo you choose. These are visible to other Degrees users.

Date of birth. Collected at sign-up to confirm you are at least 21. It is never shown to other users.

Contacts (optional). If you grant contacts access, the phone numbers in your address book are sent securely to our server to find friends already on Degrees. We store those numbers only as one-way cryptographic hashes — the raw numbers are not retained, and your contacts are never displayed to anyone or used for marketing.

Location (optional).With your permission, we use your precise location to place you at your assigned bar, power waves, and build your “Bar DNA” (a private history of bars you’ve visited). If you grant background access, arrivals can be logged while the app is closed. Your friends can see which bar you’re assigned to or checked in at on Friday nights — never your live GPS position. Location and visit history are also used to generate the venue reports described in “venue and brand partners”; such reports do not include your name.

Activity. Friendships, invites, waves, and bar assignments — the core of how the app works.

Push token.If you enable notifications, we store your device’s push token to deliver the Wednesday reveal and waves.

If you join the waitlist — on this site or inside the app — we collect your name, email address, and phone number, along with who invited you and whether you agreed to receive texts. SMS consent is optional and is not a condition of joining.

To decide when it’s your turn, we convert your phone number into a one-way cryptographic hash (an HMAC) and match that hash against the hashed address books that existing members have chosen to sync. That’s how we measure how many people you already know on Degrees — without exposing your number or anyone’s contacts. To be removed from the waitlist, email matthew@trydegrees.com.

Degrees does not sell personal information that identifies you, and does not disclose your personal information to data brokers. Degrees does not serve targeted or interest-based advertising: no content displayed to you is selected on the basis of your personal information, Degrees does not provide your personal information to advertisers, and Degrees does not track your activity across third-party applications or websites. Degrees does work with bars, venues, beverage brands, and other sponsors and partners, and shares information with them solely as described in this Privacy Policy.

We use a small set of infrastructure providers to run Degrees: Supabase (database and authentication), Twilio (SMS verification codes), Railway (application hosting), and Apple (push notifications). They process data only on our behalf.

Bars, venues, beverage brands, and other commercial partners (collectively, “Partners”) may pay Degrees fees based on the number of members who attend a venue or redeem an offer. Degrees provides Partners with attendance counts, statistics, and reports concerning Degrees nights, including the number of attendees, arrival times, duration of visits, occupancy over the course of a night, and first-time versus returning attendance. Such reports may include visit-level detail but will not include your name, telephone number, photograph, or contact information. When you redeem a Partner offer (such as a sponsored first drink), Degrees records the redemption for billing purposes; the Partner does not receive your identity.

Degrees may create de-identified or aggregated data from information about you, and may use and disclose such de-identified or aggregated data for any purpose without restriction.

Your name, username, and photo are visible to other users (for example in friend search, your friends’ network graphs, and “who you know” suggestions). On Friday nights, friends and friends-of-friends can see which bar you were assigned to or are at. Blocking a user removes you from each other’s view.

You can delete your account any time in the app: Profile → Delete account. This permanently removes your profile, friendships, waves, invites, photo, contact hashes, and phone number from our systems. You can also email us to request deletion.

Data retention.Degrees retains your information for as long as your account remains active or as reasonably necessary to provide the service. Deleting your account removes your information from Degrees’ systems as described in this section.

Degrees is for adults. You must be at least 21 years old to use the app. We collect your date of birth at sign-up to verify this and actively monitor accounts for compliance; accounts that misrepresent their age may be suspended or removed. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 21, and we delete any such data we discover.

If we make material changes to this policy we’ll update this page and note the date above. Continued use of Degrees after a change means you accept the updated policy.

Business transfers. If Degrees is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of all or substantially all of its assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. Degrees will provide notice before your information is transferred.

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of your personal information, or to opt out of certain disclosures. To exercise these rights, contact matthew@trydegrees.com; Degrees will respond within thirty (30) days.

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