Effective date: July 15, 2026
Birds is a dating app where a bird — not a feed, not a swipe deck — does the looking on your behalf, gets to know you, and makes introductions. This policy explains what we collect to make that work, why we collect it, and what we will never do with it.
This policy applies once you create a Birds account. It reflects the app at launch, when accounts, messaging, and My Flock run against our backend (earlier TestFlight builds ran fully on-device with no account and no network calls — see the note at the bottom of this document).
If anything here is unclear, email us at privacy@getbirds.app.
To keep Birds to one account per person — and so we can help you get back into your account if you lose access to your device — we collect one or more of:
We use identity information to authenticate you, prevent duplicate accounts, recover your account if you're locked out, and send account-critical messages (verification codes, security notices).
To let your bird represent you accurately to other birds, we collect:
None of this becomes a browsable profile. Other users never see a feed or grid of your photos and answers directly — your bird decides what to share, when, and only in service of a specific introduction it's making.
When your bird makes an introduction, we store the messages exchanged in that thread so the conversation persists across sessions and devices. We also store the record of your bird's own conversation with you (the Nest thread) — the questions it's asked, what you've answered, and the sorties it's run on your behalf.
My Flock lets you connect with friends who also use Birds and see aggregated, anonymized insights about your group ("our flock's birds have been turned down in 41 conversations this week" — that kind of thing, never about one specific person). Here's exactly how it works:
Birds offers in-app purchases (for example, a second bird). All payment is handled by Apple through StoreKit. We never see or store your card number, billing address, or other payment credentials — Apple shares with us only that a purchase was completed, for which product, and a receipt identifier we use to unlock it in your account.
To run the app reliably, we collect standard technical information: device type and OS version, app version, crash logs, and basic performance data. [If we add product-analytics tooling before or after launch, we'll update this section — TBD, see the App Store privacy label for the current status.]
Birds asks for permission to send local and push notifications — most visibly, to tell you when your bird has landed from a sortie with news. If you grant permission, we use a device push token to deliver these; if you decline, the app works fully, just without that nudge. You can turn notifications off anytime in iOS Settings.
This is a promise as much as a policy:
We use a small number of infrastructure providers to run Birds. We select and finalize these at backend build-out; this section will be updated with final names before launch. As of this policy's effective date:
Each provider is contractually limited to processing your data only to provide their specific service to us — none of them may use your data for their own purposes. We do not use any of these providers' data for advertising.
International transfers: Birds is a US-based company and our infrastructure providers are expected to process and store data primarily in the United States. [If any provider stores or processes data outside the US, add the specific countries and transfer mechanism here — e.g., Standard Contractual Clauses.]
We keep your account data for as long as your account is active, plus what we need afterward for the reasons below.
You can delete your account and all associated data at any time, from the You tab → Account → Delete Account. When you do:
You can also request a copy of your data (see Section 7) before or instead of deleting it.
Birds is for adults 18 and older. While the App Store may list a minimum age rating of 17+ for the app category, Birds itself requires every user to confirm they are at least 18 years old at sign-up, and our age policy is stricter than the store rating: you must be 18+ to create a Birds account, full stop.
Birds is not directed at, marketed to, or intended for use by anyone under 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13 (or under the age required by local law, if higher). If we learn that someone under 18 has created an account, we will terminate the account and delete the associated data. If you believe a minor has provided us with personal information, contact us at privacy@getbirds.app and we will investigate and delete it promptly.
Regardless of where you live, you can always:
To exercise any of these, use the in-app controls where available, or email privacy@getbirds.app. We will respond within a reasonable time and, where required by law, within the specific deadline that law sets.
You have the right to:
Our legal bases for processing are: performance of a contract (running your account and making introductions), consent (My Flock sharing, marketing communications if any), and legitimate interests (fraud prevention, service reliability), as applicable to each processing activity described above.
You have the right to:
To exercise California rights, email privacy@getbirds.app. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request.
We use industry-standard measures to protect your data, including:
No system is perfectly secure, and we can't guarantee absolute security, but we design Birds so that a breach of any single component exposes as little as possible about you.
We may update this policy as Birds evolves — for example, when we finalize infrastructure providers (Section 4) or add new features. If we make a material change, we'll notify you in the app or by email before it takes effect, and update the effective date at the top of this document. Your continued use of Birds after a change takes effect means you accept the updated policy.
Questions, requests, or concerns about this policy or your data:
Email: privacy@getbirds.app Mail: Base Social, Inc.
31 NE 17th Street
Miami, FL 33132
United States
A note on earlier builds: Prior TestFlight builds of Birds ran entirely on-device, with no accounts, no backend, and no network calls — App Store Connect's App Privacy answer for those builds was accurately "Data Not Collected." This policy describes the app from the point accounts and the backend go live; see privacy-nutrition-label.md in this repository for how the two periods are declared differently in App Store Connect.