Privacy at Close

Close processes account and profile information to provide its services. You choose whether optional profile fields are visible. Your email address and full date of birth are not shown on public profiles.

New accounts are hidden on the radar until visibility is enabled. Location sharing requires consent and device permission. You can choose precise or approximate sharing. Approximate sharing uses a 100-metre area and displays a coarse distance range and direction; agreed meeting places remain exact.

Close processes information needed to show local activities and handle meeting proposals, participation and safety features. You can control contact sharing and block people or locations in the app.

Optional analytics are subject to your consent. The app includes a voluntary social-connectedness questionnaire. Aggregated reports are intended to help the foundation learn about participation and connectedness.

In the app you can adjust visibility, location and sharing settings, export your data, object to processing and request account deletion. Contact the foundation if you have a privacy question.

The responsible organisation is Stichting Close Foundation Against Social Loneliness. This summary describes documented product features; details of processing purposes, legal bases, recipients, retention and applicable rights require confirmation in the full privacy notice.