Privacy Policy
How Carrier Pidge collects, uses, and protects the information needed for private messages and pigeon flights.
This Privacy Policy explains how Carrier Pidge handles information when you create a roost, add friends, send messages, and follow carrier pigeon flights. We collect only what is needed to operate the service, protect the community, and help messages reach the right destination.
Information We Collect
- Account information you provide, such as your sign-in identity, username, display name, and language preference.
- Loft profile information, including your chosen approximate area, location mode, privacy settings, and notification preferences.
- Message and flight records, including sender, recipient, message status, destination label, and carrier pigeon delivery events.
- Device and technical information needed for sign-in, security, delivery status, and reliable operation, such as browser type, operating system, and IP address.
- Basic usage information, such as pages visited and interactions with messages, friends, pigeons, and language settings.
- Messages or requests you send to support, including feedback about a flight, a friend request, or a privacy concern.
How We Use Your Information
- Create accounts, connect friends after confirmation, and maintain your loft profile.
- Route messages, show delivery status, and calculate flight estimates between approximate areas.
- Keep messages, friend requests, and pigeon inventory associated with the correct account.
- Protect accounts and the service from abuse, unauthorized access, spam, and automated misuse.
- Remember language and interface preferences and improve Carrier Pidge through aggregated service data.
- Comply with legal obligations, respond to lawful requests, and enforce these policies.
How We Share Information
- With trusted infrastructure providers that host Carrier Pidge, store data, or deliver authentication and notifications under confidentiality obligations.
- With service providers that help process maps, approximate location, delivery estimates, or message notifications when those services are enabled.
- With support and safety providers when needed to investigate abuse, account compromise, or a reported message.
- With law enforcement or other authorities when required by law or necessary to protect users, the service, or our rights.
- We do not sell message content, loft locations, or personal information to advertisers or data brokers.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
- We use essential cookies to keep you signed in, remember language preferences, and protect account sessions.
- We may use limited first-party measurements to understand whether messages, flights, and safety features work reliably.
- You can disable cookies in your browser, but sign-in, language selection, and message delivery may not work correctly.
- We do not use cookies for cross-site advertising or third-party retargeting.
Data Security
- Data is encrypted in transit using HTTPS/TLS and protected at rest with appropriate safeguards.
- Access to message, friend, and loft data is limited to authorized systems and personnel who need it to operate or protect the service.
- Exact device location is not presented to friends; Carrier Pidge uses an approximate area for flight routing and privacy.
- No system can guarantee perfect security. Keep your sign-in account secure and report anything unusual to us.
Your Privacy Rights
- Access — ask us what account, friend, message, and loft information we hold about you.
- Correction — update your username, display name, language, or loft settings in the product where available.
- Deletion — request account deletion, subject to records we must retain by law or for safety.
- Portability — request a copy of your account data in a commonly used format.
- Objection — contact us if you object to a particular use of your information.
Data Retention
- Account, friend, and loft data is kept while needed to provide the service or while your account remains active.
- Message and flight records may be retained so conversations and delivery history remain available to participants.
- Security and abuse-prevention logs are retained for a limited period and then deleted or aggregated.
- After account deletion, remaining personal data is removed within a reasonable period unless a legal or safety reason requires retention.
Children's Privacy
- Our platform is not intended for users under the age of 16.
- We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
- If we learn that a child has provided personal information, we will delete the account and all associated data.
Contact Us
If you have questions about privacy, message visibility, friend connections, or loft locations, contact our support team through the service. We will respond within a reasonable time.
Policy Updates
We may update this Privacy Policy as Carrier Pidge changes or as the law requires. Material changes will be shown on the service. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised policy.