Privacy Policy

Your Circle is the product and consumer brand. The service is operated by Montrelle House GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland (company identification number CHE-308.422.547), which is the data controller for the personal information processed through Your Circle.

You can reach us at any time at hello@joinyourcircle.com.

These are the categories of information Your Circle actually holds:

• Account and identity. Your email address and sign-in credentials, held by our authentication provider, your name and the name you prefer to be called.
• Where you are. Your city and broad region, and the regions relevant to a particular piece of your experience or to something you are looking for. We do not collect precise device location.
• What you have lived and done. The experience you describe — professional, business, education and family, philanthropy, property, relocation, sport, travel and life, and anything else you add — together with the role you held, the timeframe, context and outcome, and how discoverable you want each entry to be. Where you describe yourself in your own words, in writing or by voice, that description is kept as the source of the structured entries.
• Interests and direction. Your interests, what you are open to, and what you are currently looking for or asking about, in your own words.
• A portrait, if you add one. Stored privately and never served from a public address; it is shown to other members only through short-lived, expiring links.
• What you do here. Whom you express interest in, which introductions you accept or decline, and the messages you exchange in a private conversation after an introduction opens. Messages are stored on our database in readable form so the conversation persists for both people; they are not end-to-end encrypted.
• Feedback and standing. The feedback you give after a connection, and the feedback others give about connecting with you, together with the signals derived from it.
• Records that keep the service safe. Your acceptance of these documents and your confirmation that you are 18 or older — the confirmation itself, with the time and the place in the service where you gave it. We do not ask for or store a date of birth. Alongside it: a record that an automated analysis ran (its purpose, the model used and the size of the input, not the text itself), rate-limit records used to prevent abuse, and administrative action logs.

To operate your account and provide the service you asked for; to understand your experience well enough to surface people who are genuinely relevant to you; to open introductions only where interest is mutual; and to keep the network safe and free from abuse. The legal basis is the performance of our agreement with you for everything needed to run the service, our legitimate interest in the safety and integrity of the network, and your consent where we ask for it. Where consent is the basis, you may withdraw it.

Your Circle uses no advertising cookies, no analytics services and no cross-site tracking. What is stored on your device is functional only: your sign-in session, held by your browser so that you stay signed in, and short-lived values such as an access token you arrived with or your age confirmation for the current visit. Our typefaces are served from this site itself, so loading Your Circle makes no request to any third-party font or content network and discloses your address to none.

Two things here are done by machine, and we want you to know exactly which.

Understanding what you tell us. When you describe yourself, an AI model is used to turn that description into structured entries — a piece of experience, an interest, or what you are looking for. The model only proposes; nothing enters your profile until you have seen it and confirmed it. Alongside each proposal we keep the fragment of your own words it came from, so you can always see why something was suggested. If you speak instead of typing, the recording is sent to the same provider to be transcribed and is not stored by us: we keep the transcript you then work with, not the audio.

Deciding who is surfaced to you. Which members appear as suggestions, and the short explanation of why the two of you might be worth knowing, are produced by our own logic running on our servers, comparing your experience and what you are looking for against other members', weighted by the standing described below. This part is not an AI model. It does not release contact details and it never opens an introduction on its own: an introduction requires your explicit choice and the other person's, and no decision with a legal or similarly significant effect on you is made by automated means alone.

Where AI processing takes place, the provider acts on our instructions as a processor and does not use your text to train its own models. We keep a record that an analysis ran — its purpose, the model, and how much text went in — but not the text itself. If you would rather no AI analysis touched your words, write your entries yourself rather than using the assisted drafting, and do not use voice input.

After a connection, either person can give feedback: how relevant it was, how credible the experience proved, how valuable the conversation was, and how the other person conducted themselves. That feedback is turned into signals held against your account and shapes how prominently you are surfaced to others.

Other members never see your ratings, scores or individual pieces of feedback about you. They see, at most, a plain-language sense of where you are established and how reliably you engage. Individual signals are visible only to us, and are used to keep the network worth being part of. If you believe your standing rests on feedback that is unfair or inaccurate, write to us and we will look at it.

When you create your profile we record that you accepted the version of these documents then in force — the Terms of Service, this Privacy Policy, and the automated and AI processing described above. The record holds which document, which version and when. The version currently in force is 24 August 2026.

Contact details are never released automatically. Another member sees your profile as you have chosen to present it, and only the entries you marked as discoverable; your portrait is shown through an expiring link. Where you have chosen to remain less visible, you may be represented to a relevant member only by a general description of your experience rather than by name. Direct contact becomes possible only after both people have privately agreed to an introduction, and what is said inside that conversation is visible only to its participants.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it with advertisers. We rely on a small number of service providers, each acting on our instructions and only to deliver the service:

• Supabase — hosting of our database, authentication, private file storage, and the delivery of account emails such as confirmation and password reset.
• Lovable — application hosting, and the gateway through which our AI requests are sent.
• Google — the Gemini model used for the transcription and drafting described above. Nothing else on Your Circle contacts Google: our typefaces are served from this site.

Some of these providers process data outside Switzerland and the EU/EEA, including in the United States, under contractual safeguards for such transfers. We may also disclose information where the law requires it, or where it is necessary to protect a person from serious harm.

We keep your profile and the content you have added for as long as your account exists. Shared records such as messages and feedback persist for as long as the other person's own history requires, detached from you once you leave. Your acceptance of these documents and your age confirmation are kept for as long as they are the evidence that you agreed, and records that let us keep a closed abusive account from returning are kept beyond the life of your account.

The operational records are deleted automatically, on a schedule, by age:

• Rate-limit records — 7 days. Only the most recent hours are ever consulted.
• Records that an automated analysis ran — 180 days, long enough for us to answer your question about what ran and why.
• Administrative action logs — 2 years, because they are what makes operator access accountable.

You can close your account at any time from within the product. We want to be precise about what happens, rather than promise something instant and absolute that would not be true.

Immediately. Your profile and the content that belongs only to you are removed from the service, your uploaded portrait is deleted from private storage, you disappear from other members' discovery and suggestions, and your live sessions are ended. Your account can no longer be used to sign in.

Detached rather than destroyed. Records that are shared with another person — a message inside a conversation, feedback another member received — are separated from your identity rather than deleted, so that the other person's own history is not rewritten. What remains is no longer attributable to you.

Anonymised records. Deletions are logged against a random reference rather than against you, so we can demonstrate that a deletion happened without keeping a list of who left.

Where removal cannot complete at once. Removing the sign-in identity itself depends on our authentication provider. If that step does not succeed in the moment, the identity is immediately disabled and made unusable — sign-in blocked, credentials invalidated, and your email address detached from it, so it cannot be recovered or reset by anyone — and it is queued for final removal, which may require action by our team. In that case the account is closed from your side straight away and the remaining removal is completed afterwards. Backups and provider-side logs may also retain traces for a short period before they expire on their normal cycle.

If you would like written confirmation once removal has fully completed, ask us at hello@joinyourcircle.com.

You may access, correct, export or delete your data, object to certain processing, and withdraw consent where processing rests on it. Export and deletion are both available directly inside the product.

To exercise any of these rights, write to hello@joinyourcircle.com. If you believe we have handled your data improperly, you may also contact the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, or your local supervisory authority in the EU/EEA.

If this policy changes materially, we will make the new version available here and record the version in force. Montrelle House GmbH remains the responsible entity for any version of this policy.