Overview
Crush is a college connection app for current students. The app uses Apple sign-in, .edu verification, profile photos, prompts, school polls, one school-local Daily Drop at 8:30 PM, in-app chat, and safety tools. This policy explains what we collect, how we use it, and the choices you have.
Information We Collect
- Account and school information, including your app user ID, first name, age, school, .edu verification status, graduation year, major, gender, interested-in preferences, intent, Drop preference, and account settings.
- Profile content you provide, including photos, prompts, interests, and other profile details shown only through authorized app experiences.
- Daily Drop, poll, and chat activity, including match outcomes, Meet or Pass actions, poll answers, school-only poll aggregates, chat messages, unread counts, and safety actions such as block, report, and unmatch.
- Device and notification data, including APNs tokens, notification preferences, app version, and basic diagnostics used to operate the service.
- Safety and moderation data, including photo review results, text moderation signals, reports, rate-limit events, and admin audit logs.
How We Use Information
- To authenticate accounts, verify school eligibility, hydrate the app, and operate Daily Drops at each school’s local 8:30 PM reveal time.
- To match students using eligibility, compatibility, activity, prompt, poll, profile, safety, and quality signals while enforcing blocks, reports, cooldowns, and other boundaries.
- To show school polls and school-only results after enough votes are available.
- To deliver in-app chat, push notifications, foreground banners, and exact routing to Daily or chat threads.
- To review photos and user-visible text, enforce rate limits, investigate reports, prevent abuse, and improve reliability.
AI and Matching Signals
Crush may use private profile, prompt, poll, behavior, and photo-style signals to rank compatible candidates. Missing AI signals do not block a Daily Drop. Photo signals are used only as private ranking inputs and are not used to create user-facing appearance explanations. Crush does not intentionally infer or score protected traits such as race, ethnicity, disability, religion, or body type for matching.
How We Share Information
We do not sell personal data. We share data only as needed to operate Crush, including with infrastructure, authentication, storage, notification, email, moderation, and safety providers such as Supabase, Apple, APNs, and backend moderation services.
Other users can see the profile information and photos that are revealed to them through authorized app surfaces such as Daily Spotlight, match sheets, and chat. Chat participants can see messages in their shared thread. Poll results are shown only in school-level aggregate form; individual poll answers are not shown to other users.
Notifications
Crush may send notifications for Daily Drops, chat unlocks, and messages if you enable them. Message notification previews do not include message text. You can manage notification preferences in the app and in iOS Settings.
Retention and Deletion
We keep account, profile, Drop, poll, chat, and safety records while your account is active and as needed for safety, abuse prevention, auditing, and service operation. You can request deletion from the app where available or by contacting hello@crushso.com. Some operational records may be retained for a limited period where needed to prevent abuse, enforce cooldowns, investigate reports, or comply with legal obligations.
Security
Crush uses authentication, row-level access controls, private storage, signed media URLs, encrypted transport, rate limits, moderation, and audit logging to protect the service. No system can be guaranteed perfectly secure, but we design the app so private school, photo, chat, and notification data are not publicly accessible.
Children
Crush is for current college students who are at least 18 years old. We do not knowingly collect information from minors.
Changes and Contact
We may update this policy as Crush changes. The updated date will reflect the latest version. Contact hello@crushso.com with questions, privacy requests, or complaints.