Effective Date: April 7, 2026 · Last Updated: June 11, 2026
Effective Date: April 7, 2026
Last Updated: June 11, 2026
Situationshit LLC ("Company," "we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to transparency about how we handle information when you use our application, website at situationshits.com, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and your choices regarding that information.
Our Core Privacy Principle: Situationshit is designed to collect as little personal information as possible. We do not collect real names. We do not use Meta (Facebook) Pixels, Google Analytics, or comparable third-party advertising trackers or pixels. We do not sell your personal information. We do not engage in targeted behavioral advertising based on your activity within the Service.
This Privacy Policy applies to all users of the Service. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use the Service.
Account Registration Information:
Pre-Launch Waitlist Information: Prior to the full launch of the Service, we use a third-party waitlist service provider, Waitlist LLC (operating as GetWaitlist.com, “Waitlist Provider”), to manage our pre-launch waitlist at situationshits.com. When you sign up for the waitlist, the Waitlist Provider collects the following information on our behalf and for the purpose of administering the waitlist:
This information is collected and stored on the Waitlist Provider’s servers and is shared with us for the sole purpose of administering the waitlist, communicating with waitlist registrants, and facilitating onboarding when the Service launches. We do not sell or share waitlist email addresses with any third party for marketing or advertising purposes. The Waitlist Provider’s own collection and use of data is governed by its privacy policy, available at getwaitlist.com/privacy, which we encourage you to review. Upon full launch of the Service, waitlist data may be migrated to our own systems, at which point it will be governed solely by this Privacy Policy. If we discontinue the waitlist, we will instruct the Waitlist Provider to delete all data collected on our behalf within a commercially reasonable timeframe.
User Content: Content you create within the Service, which may include: nicknames you assign to people in your dating life (always shown with honorifics such as Mr., Ms., or Mx.); descriptive text you choose to enter in the “About” field associated with a nickname; vibe ratings and notes you attach to a nickname; records of dates, updates, and milestones you choose to log on a nickname, which may include the date itself, your free-text notes, a vibe rating, and a venue name and address you voluntarily select from an autocomplete; status changes you make to a nickname; predictions (“reads”) made by you on a connected friend’s activity, or by your connected friends on yours; hot takes you submit; emoji reactions you drop on reads or hot takes; comments you submit on reads or hot takes; resolved outcomes (“receipts”); a profile picture you choose to upload to identify your own account (see Section 2.6); and any other content you submit through the Service. All such content is associated with your nickname, not your real name.
When you use the Service, we may automatically collect certain technical information that is necessary to operate and secure a modern web or mobile application:
For the avoidance of doubt, we do not collect:
The Service is designed around nicknames and does not request or require real names. However, we recognize that some Users may voluntarily provide their real name (e.g., as a nickname) or include the real names of others in User Content, despite our guidance not to do so. If a User provides a real name, the Company treats it as a self-selected, unverified user identifier—not as a confirmed legal identity. We do not verify whether any nickname or content corresponds to a real person’s legal name. We make no representation that any identifier within the Service reflects a real identity. The Company reserves the right, but has no obligation, to remove content containing real names or personally identifiable information. Users who voluntarily provide real names do so at their own risk and acknowledge that the Company’s data minimization design does not extend to information that Users affirmatively choose to submit contrary to our guidance. The same principle applies to any descriptive information a User chooses to enter about a third party (such as occupation, neighborhood, employer, or other potentially identifying details) in the “About” field, in a date note, or in any other free-text field within the Service. The Company does not solicit such details, does not verify them, and treats them as User Content submitted at the User’s own risk.
The Service permits Users to log dates, updates, and milestones (collectively, “Logged Updates”) about a person they have added to the Service. When creating a Logged Update, a User may, at their option, attach a place to that record by selecting a venue from an autocomplete list of search results. If a User selects a place, the Service stores the venue name, formatted address, and the venue’s latitude and longitude coordinates as part of that Logged Update record.
Important characteristics of this feature: (i) the Service does not request and does not access your device’s GPS or operating system location services, and no location permission is ever requested; (ii) the latitude and longitude stored on a Logged Update are the coordinates of the venue the User selected from a list, not the User’s location at the time of submission; (iii) Users can create a Logged Update without attaching any location; (iv) the autocomplete is provided by Apple Inc.’s MapKit framework, and the search text a User enters is transmitted to Apple to return results, governed by Apple’s own terms; and (v) location data attached to a Logged Update is treated as User Content and is shared with the User’s connected close friends in accordance with Section 5.
Although this feature does not involve GPS tracking or device geolocation, the latitude and longitude of selected venues are technically “precise geolocation” under the California Consumer Privacy Act. We disclose this category in Section 8.1 for full transparency, and we describe how we use this category in Section 8.
A User may, at their option, upload a profile picture to identify their own account within the Service. Profile pictures are stored as image files associated with the User’s account. Important characteristics of this feature: (i) profile pictures are uploaded only by the User and only to represent the User’s own account — under our Terms of Use, a User may not upload an image depicting any person other than themselves; (ii) we do not apply facial recognition, face matching, face geometry extraction, or any other biometric identification or verification technology to profile pictures, and we do not create or store any biometric template, faceprint, or similar identifier derived from a profile picture; (iii) profile pictures are displayed only within the Service and only to the User and to that User’s connected close friends, in accordance with Section 5; (iv) profile pictures are not made publicly available, broadcast outside the application, or indexed by search engines; (v) a User may remove or replace their profile picture at any time, and removed images are deleted from active systems within a commercially reasonable timeframe (residual copies may persist in routine backups for a limited period before being overwritten); and (vi) the Company reserves the right, but has no obligation, to review, remove, or refuse to display any profile picture that violates these Terms or applicable law.
Because we do not extract biometric identifiers from profile pictures, we do not collect “biometric information” as defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act or comparable state laws. We disclose the collection of profile picture images as a separate category in Section 8.1.
We do not use Meta (Facebook) Pixel, Google Analytics, or any comparable third-party advertising pixel or tracking technology. We do not embed code from social media platforms, advertising networks, or data brokers on the Service. We do not allow third-party advertisers to place cookies or tracking pixels on the Service. We do not participate in cross-site tracking, browser fingerprinting for advertising purposes, or retargeting programs.
The Service may use the following limited, essential technologies:
We do not honor Do Not Track (DNT) browser signals because we do not engage in the tracking activities that DNT is designed to prevent. We do, however, honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals as a valid opt-out request under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA), as described in Section 8.
The Service may in the future display general, non-targeted advertisements related to the dating and relationships space. These advertisements, if displayed, will be contextual (based on the general nature of the Service, not based on your individual behavior, profile, or personal data). No personally identifiable information will be shared with any advertising partner. We will update this Privacy Policy before implementing any advertising.
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
We do not sell your personal information. We do not share your personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
In-Service Sharing with Connected Close Friends. The Service is designed to enable a User to share certain content about their dating activity with the close friends they have voluntarily connected with inside the application. By design, the following content created by you will be visible to the close friends you have connected with inside the Service: nicknames you add (including the honorific and any “About” description, vibe rating, or notes you attach to the nickname); dates, updates, and milestones you log on a nickname (including the date itself, the vibe rating you selected, the venue you attached if any, and any note text); status changes you make to a nickname; predictions (“reads”) made by you on a connected friend’s activity, or by your connected friends on yours; hot takes you submit; emoji reactions you drop on reads or hot takes; comments you submit on a read or hot take; and your profile picture if you have uploaded one. Your connected close friends may also see your activity aggregated alongside their other connections in an in-app timeline view; this aggregated view is visible only to the User receiving it and only includes activity from people that User has connected with. This sharing is internal to the Service. None of this content is made publicly available, broadcast outside the application, indexed by search engines, or shared with anyone other than the close friends you have connected with within the Service. You control your set of connected close friends through the friend-management features of the Service. Removing a connected close friend ends future visibility of new content to that person but does not retroactively delete copies of content already delivered to their in-app feed.
Beyond the in-Service sharing described above, we may share information with parties outside the Service in the following limited circumstances:
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including to satisfy legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Specifically:
We implement commercially reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. These measures include encryption of data in transit and at rest, access controls, and regular security assessments. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
If you are a California resident, you may have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively, “CCPA”):
Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the categories of sources, the business or commercial purposes for collection, and the categories of third parties with whom we share personal information.
Right to Delete: You have the right to request deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
Right to Correct: You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.
Right to Opt Out of Sale/Sharing: We do not sell or share (as defined by the CCPA) your personal information. Because we do not sell or share personal information, there is no need to opt out. However, if our practices change, we will provide a conspicuous “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link and honor all opt-out requests, including Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals.
Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: With one narrow exception described below, we do not collect sensitive personal information as defined under the CCPA, such as Social Security numbers, financial account numbers, racial or ethnic origin, or health information. The single category we may collect is the precise geolocation coordinates of venues that a User voluntarily attaches to a Logged Update (see Section 2.5). We use this data solely to display the Logged Update to the User who created it and to share it with that User’s connected close friends as part of the social functionality of the Service. We do not use it to infer characteristics about a User, for advertising, for profiling, or for any purpose other than the feature for which it was collected. For the avoidance of doubt, profile pictures uploaded by Users are not processed for facial recognition, face matching, or any other biometric identification or verification purpose, and we do not collect “biometric information” as defined by the CCPA or comparable state laws (see Section 2.6). Because we do not use any category of sensitive personal information beyond the purpose for which it was collected, the right to limit such use under the CCPA does not require additional opt-out mechanisms in our current practice. If our use of any such data ever expands beyond its original purpose, we will provide a conspicuous “Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information” mechanism and update this Privacy Policy.
Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.
Exercising Your Rights: To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@situationshits.com. We will verify your identity before processing your request. We will respond to verifiable consumer requests within forty-five (45) days, as required by law.
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have collected the following categories of personal information as defined by the CCPA:
Identifiers: Email address, self-selected nickname, IP address.
Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information: Device type, browser type, pages visited within the Service, date/time of access.
Geolocation Data: Precise geolocation coordinates (latitude and longitude) of venues that a User voluntarily attaches to a Logged Update they create within the Service. This data is treated as sensitive personal information under the CCPA. It is not collected from a User’s device, GPS, or operating system location services. See Sections 2.5 and 8.
Audio, Electronic, Visual, Thermal, Olfactory, or Similar Information: Profile picture images voluntarily uploaded by Users to identify their own accounts within the Service. We do not process these images for facial recognition or any other biometric purpose, and they are not treated as biometric information under the CCPA. See Section 2.6.
No other categories of personal information (as defined by the CCPA) have been collected.
Personal information sold or shared in the preceding 12 months: None.
Personal information disclosed for a business purpose in the preceding 12 months: Identifiers (email address) and Internet Activity Information have been disclosed to Waitlist LLC (GetWaitlist.com) for pre-launch waitlist administration. Search text a User enters into the venue autocomplete is transmitted to Apple Inc. via the MapKit framework solely to return autocomplete results. Identifiers, Internet Activity Information, Geolocation Data, and Audio, Electronic, Visual, Thermal, Olfactory, or Similar Information (profile picture images) may be disclosed to our hosting, storage, content-delivery, email, and security service providers solely for the purpose of operating the Service.
Residents of other states with comprehensive privacy laws (including but not limited to Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee, Delaware, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nebraska, Minnesota, Maryland, and Kentucky) may have similar rights to access, delete, and correct their personal information, and to opt out of the sale of personal information and targeted advertising. Because we do not sell personal information or engage in targeted advertising, many of these opt-out rights are not applicable. To exercise any applicable rights, please contact us at privacy@situationshits.com.
The Service is not intended for use by anyone under the age of eighteen (18). We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 18, we will take steps to delete that information promptly. If you believe a child under 18 has provided us with personal information, please contact us at privacy@situationshits.com.
The Service is operated from the United States. If you are accessing the Service from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States, where data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. By using the Service, you consent to this transfer.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on the Service and updating the “Last Updated” date. We will provide additional notice (such as email notification) for material changes. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of any changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us at:
Email: privacy@situationshits.com
Situationshit LLC
San Francisco, California
This supplemental notice is provided for maximum transparency regarding the Company’s use (and non-use) of tracking and advertising technologies, in light of ongoing regulatory developments and litigation trends related to pixels, cookies, and similar technologies under federal and state law, including the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and comparable state wiretap laws.
We affirm the following:
Should any of these practices change in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide conspicuous notice to Users before any such change takes effect.