Amigas ("Amigas", "we", "us") is a women-only friendship app. This policy explains what personal information we collect, why, how we use and protect it, and the rights you have over it. It applies to the Amigas mobile app and our website — including if you sign up on our website to hear about our launch.
Amigas is the "data controller" responsible for your information. You can reach us any time at contact@amigas.click.
Information you give us
- Account details: your email address, used to sign you in with a one-time code (we do not store a password).
- Profile information: your name, date of birth (used to show your age and confirm you are 18 or over), a short bio, interests, languages, your neighbourhood, your answers to profile prompts, and — only if you choose to add them — optional details such as whether you have children (and their ages) and your relationship status.
- Photos: the profile photos you upload.
- Content you create: messages you send (including in group-activity chats), coffee invites, profile prompts, group activities you host or join, and any reports you submit about other members.
Information we collect automatically
- Location: we do not collect your exact location. The app never asks your device where you are: to suggest members near you, we use only the city and neighbourhood you choose yourself.
- Device and usage data: with your consent, we record how the app is used, through Google Analytics for Firebase and PostHog. We use this to make Amigas better — to see which parts help women actually meet, find the screens where people get stuck or give up, and fix what is not working. It is never used to advertise to you, and we do not sell it. Specifically:
- What you do in the app — screens you open and actions such as completing sign-up, viewing a daily pick, sending or accepting a coffee invite, and opening a chat. We record that these things happened, never their content.
- Your device — type, model, and operating system version.
- Approximate location — the city, region and country our analytics providers work out from your internet (IP) address. Neither provider stores the IP address itself.
- Context about your account — how many days it has been since you joined, which week you joined in, and a rough band for how many connections you have (none, one, two, three-four, five or more), and whether you are on the trial, the free plan, or Amigas Club. We use these to understand whether Amigas is actually helping women make friends.
- An identifier for your account, once you are signed in, so these events can be understood as one person's experience rather than a crowd. This means your usage data is not anonymous — it is linked to your account.
We do not record your screen, your messages, your photos, or your profile text. Analytics is off until you turn it on: nothing is collected before you agree, and you can give or withdraw consent at any time in Settings. One choice covers both providers.
Google Analytics data is exported to Google BigQuery, in the European Union, so we can analyse it. PostHog data is stored in the European Union.
- Crash reports: with the same consent, if the app crashes we send Google (Firebase Crashlytics) a report describing what went wrong — the error, where in the app it happened, and your device type and operating system version. We use this only to fix the app. A crash report is not linked to your account: we deliberately do not attach your identity to it. Reports are deleted after 90 days. Like analytics, this is off until you agree, and the same switch in Settings turns it off again.
- Notification token: if you turn on notifications, a device token so we can send them.
Our launch waitlist
Before Amigas is available in your city, you can ask us to let you know when it launches. If you sign up on our website, we collect:
- your email address, so we can contact you;
- the city you'd like Amigas in, so we can tell you when we launch there and understand where the demand is; and
- your name — only if you choose to give it (this is optional).
We use this solely to send you launch and early-access updates about Amigas, on the basis of your consent. We do not use it for anything else, and we do not sell it. We send these emails through our email service provider. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link in any email we send you, or by contacting us at contact@amigas.click; we delete your waitlist details once you unsubscribe, or once we no longer need them for this purpose.
How we use your information
- To create and run your account and show your profile to other members.
- To suggest compatible members for your daily picks, based on shared interests, languages, neighbourhood, and age.
- To run group activities (where available): while an activity is open, it is visible to every member of the app — so any member can see the activity and the name, photo, age, and neighbourhood of its host and the members who have joined, until it is closed. Messages you post in an activity's group chat are visible to the other attendees of that activity.
- To keep Amigas safe — including automated photo checks (see below) and reviewing blocks and reports.
- To send you the messages, invites, and notifications that are part of the service.
- To respond to your support requests.
- To make Amigas better — with your consent, to understand which parts of the app help women actually meet, and where people get stuck, so we can improve it.
- To meet our legal obligations and to enforce our Terms.
Subscriptions and payments
If you subscribe to Amigas Club, the payment is handled entirely by the app store you bought through — Apple's App Store or Google Play. We never receive or store your card details, billing address, or any other payment information.
What we do hold is the minimum needed to know whether your account is entitled to Amigas Club: the date your access runs until, whether it came from a purchase or from a free grant we gave you, and the store's identifier for the subscription (used only so that one subscription cannot be used to unlock several accounts). To confirm a purchase is genuine, our server sends that identifier to the store and stores what it answers.
We also record how many invites you have sent, accepted, and how many activities you have joined, because the free plan's allowances are counted from those numbers.
Photo moderation
To keep the community safe, every photo you upload is automatically checked for explicit content using Google Cloud Vision before it goes live. Photos that are clearly explicit are rejected automatically; the rest are published. This check is automated. If you believe a photo was rejected by mistake, contact us at contact@amigas.click.
Reports and automatic safety measures
When a member reports someone, we use the report — who made it, who or which activity it is about, the reason chosen, anything written in it, and where in the app it was made — to review what happened and protect our members.
Some safety measures happen automatically, before a person has looked at the report. Members who have reported or blocked each other are kept apart and are not shown the same group activities. Reports from several different members can pause an account, or hide a group activity, until we have reviewed them.
These automatic steps are temporary and precautionary. The final decision — to restore an account or activity, warn, suspend, remove an activity, or permanently remove an account — is made by us, not automatically. If two of a member's activities are removed after review, she can no longer create activities.
If you think an automatic step or a decision was wrong, you can ask us to look at it again and explain your side: contact us at contact@amigas.click. The screen a paused account sees gives the same address.
Legal bases (for EU/EEA and UK users)
We rely on: performing our contract with you (to provide the app); your consent (for the approximate location you give us by choosing your city and neighbourhood, and for analytics, crash reports, and push notifications, all of which you can withdraw at any time); our legitimate interests (keeping the community safe and preventing abuse); and legal obligations where they apply.
Who we share information with
We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with:
- Service providers who run the app on our behalf: Google (Firebase and Google Cloud — sign-in, database, storage, analytics and its BigQuery analysis, crash reports, photo moderation, notifications; and Google Fonts, which may serve fonts to your device), PostHog (product analytics, EU hosting) and Resend (sending your sign-in emails). They may only process your data on our instructions.
- Other members — any member of Amigas can see the profile information and photos you choose to share, not only your daily picks; in a group activity, they are also visible to the other attendees.
- Apple or Google, if you subscribe: we send the subscription identifier to the store you bought through — Apple's App Store Server API, or Google Play's equivalent — to verify the purchase is genuine and current. We send no personal information with it.
- Authorities, where we are legally required to, or where it is necessary to protect the safety of our members.
International transfers
Some of our service providers store and process data on servers outside your country, including in the United States and other countries. Where your information is transferred outside the EU/EEA or the UK to a country that is not covered by an EU or UK "adequacy" decision, we protect that transfer using safeguards approved by the regulators: the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK's International Data Transfer Addendum, and, for transfers to certified US providers, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
How long we keep your information
We keep your information for as long as your account is active. When you delete your account, we permanently and immediately delete your profile, your photos, your account, and related personal data.
Five things are handled differently:
- Messages you have already sent stay visible in the other person's chat history, but they are stripped of your identity — your name shows as "Deleted user" and your photo is removed. We do this because the conversation also belongs to the other person; we cannot erase their side of it.
- Group activities you hosted are cancelled, but stay in the members' list as a record, stripped of your identity in the same way — the title and description you wrote remain.
- Safety and moderation records — such as reports involving you and blocks other members have made against you — are kept as a security and legal record, even after your account is gone.
- Analytics records — if you consented to analytics, the usage events described above are held by our analytics providers separately from your account, for up to 14 months. When you delete your account we ask each provider to delete these records too. Google Analytics also keeps its own copy of the events for only two months, so anything there expires on its own even sooner.
- Crash reports are held by Google for 90 days and then deleted. They are not linked to your account, so deleting your account does not affect them — there is nothing in them that identifies you.
We may also retain limited information where the law requires it.
Your rights
You have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to our use of your personal information, the right to data portability, and the right to withdraw consent at any time. You can:
- Edit your profile information directly in the app.
- Delete your account at any time from Settings → Delete account — this deletes your profile, photos and account immediately; see "How long we keep your information" above for the few things kept, and why.
- Contact us at contact@amigas.click for any other request.
If you are in the EU/EEA or the UK, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority (in Spain, the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, www.aepd.es; in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office, www.ico.org.uk).
Security
We protect your information using industry-standard measures, including encrypted connections and access controls enforced by our database security rules. No system is perfectly secure, but we work hard to keep your information safe.
Children
Amigas is only for adults aged 18 and over. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe someone under 18 is using Amigas, please contact us.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. We will always update the date above, and for significant changes we will take reasonable steps to let you know — for example, by a notice in the app or by email.
Contact
Questions about your privacy? Email us at contact@amigas.click.