Privacy Policy
Welcome to & Kleos.
This Privacy Policy explains how & Kleos collects, uses, stores, shares, protects, and deletes personal information when you use our mobile application, website, platform, features, communications, and related services, collectively referred to as the “Service.”
By accessing, creating an account, or using & Kleos, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you must not use the Service.
Who We Are
& Kleos is a social invitation platform designed for coffee dates, casual meetings, refined gatherings, and city happenings.
The Service allows users to create public and private invitations, request to join invitations, accept or decline requests, chat with accepted users, view upcoming and recent meetups, and share proof or memories of completed social moments.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy: “& Kleos,” “we,” “us,” or “our” means Aureliano Technologies, the owner and operator of the Service.
“User,” “you,” or “your” means any person who accesses or uses the Service.
“Personal Information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, can reasonably be associated with, or could reasonably be linked to an individual.
“User Content” means content that users upload, create, submit, send, or display through the Service, including profile information, invite details, messages, images, proof posts, captions, and other materials.
Scope of This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through:
- The & Kleos mobile application.
- The & Kleos website, if available.
- Account registration and login.
- Public and private invites.
- Invite requests and acceptances.
- Chats and messages.
- Proof posts and uploaded images.
- Profile and social features.
- Location and venue features.
- Customer support and safety reports.
- Analytics, diagnostics, and app performance tools.
- Paid features, subscriptions, or in-app purchases, if offered.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites, venues, payment providers, app stores, map providers, or external services that we do not control.
Minimum Age
& Kleos is intended only for users who are at least 18 years old.
We do not knowingly allow users under 18 to create accounts or use the Service.
If we learn that a person under 18 has provided personal information to & Kleos, we may delete the account and related information, subject to legal, safety, and technical requirements.
It is strictly prohibited to upload, store, publish, distribute, request, transmit, or provide access to any content that exploits, abuses, endangers, sexualizes, or harms minors, including child sexual abuse material. Such content may be reported to law enforcement or relevant authorities where required or appropriate.
Information We Collect
We collect information in different ways depending on how you use & Kleos.
4.1 Account Information
When you create or manage an account, we may collect:
- Name or display name.
- Username.
- Email address.
- Password or authentication credentials.
- Profile photo.
- Bio or profile description.
- Date of birth or age confirmation.
- Account creation date.
- Account settings.
- Login and authentication records.
- Account status, such as active, restricted, suspended, or deleted.
Passwords are not stored in plain text by & Kleos where secure authentication providers are used.
4.2 Profile Information
You may choose to add information to your profile, such as:
- Profile image.
- Bio.
- Social preferences.
- City or general location.
- Following or connection information.
- Public activity within the app.
- Upcoming or recent social presence, depending on app functionality.
You are responsible for the information you choose to place on your profile. Do not add information that you do not want other users to see.
4.3 Invite Information
When you create, request, accept, decline, or manage an invite, we may collect:
- Invite title.
- Invite description.
- Invite type, such as public or private.
- Venue, café, meeting place, or selected location.
- Date and time of the invite.
- City, area, or country.
- Invite category, such as coffee, meeting, lounge, walk, dinner, gallery, or happening.
- Host information.
- Guest request information.
- Acceptance, decline, cancellation, and completion status.
- Invite history.
- Any notes, captions, or details you add to the invite.
Public invites may be visible to other users depending on app functionality, filters, location settings, and your choices.
4.4 Meetup and Proof Information
After a meetup, you may be able to upload proof or memories.
This may include:
- Proof photos.
- Captions or descriptions.
- Meetup completion status.
- Date and time of proof submission.
- Associated invite or meetup details.
- Metadata connected to uploaded content, where available.
You must not upload proof that includes another person unless you have permission or a lawful basis to do so.
4.5 Chat and Message Information
When you use chat or messaging features, we may collect:
- Messages you send and receive.
- Message timestamps.
- Participants in the conversation.
- Read, delivery, or activity status, if supported.
- Attachments, images, or content sent in chat, if supported.
- Reports or moderation records related to messages.
Chats are intended to help users coordinate accepted invitations and real-life plans.
Unless we clearly state otherwise, messages on & Kleos should not be considered end-to-end encrypted. We may access or review messages where necessary to provide the Service, respond to reports, enforce our Terms, improve safety, prevent fraud, comply with law, or protect users.
4.6 Location and Venue Information
& Kleos may use location-related information to help users create, discover, and join nearby invites.
Depending on your permissions and use of the Service, we may collect:
- City, area, or country.
- Approximate location.
- Precise device location, only if you grant permission.
- Venue or café selected by you.
- Map or place search queries.
- Distance-related information.
- Location attached to invites or proof posts.
- IP-based approximate location.
You can control device location permissions through your device settings. If you disable location permissions, some features may not work properly.
We recommend that you avoid sharing private addresses in public invites.
4.7 Contact Information and Friends
& Kleos may allow users to find, invite, or connect with friends.
Depending on app functionality, we may collect:
- Usernames you search for.
- Users you follow or invite.
- Friend or connection activity within the Service.
- Contact information you manually provide.
- Contact book information only if you expressly grant permission and the feature is available.
- If & Kleos offers contact book syncing in the future, we will only access your contacts with your permission.
- You may be able to disable contact access through your device settings.
Do not share another person’s contact information without permission.
4.8 Photos, Images, and Media
When you upload images, we may collect:
- Profile photos.
- Proof photos.
- Images sent in chat, if supported.
- Image file metadata, where available.
- Image moderation signals.
- Reports connected to images.
We may use automated tools, manual review, or user reports to detect prohibited, unsafe, explicit, abusive, or illegal images.
4.9 Device, Technical, and Usage Information
When you use the Service, we may automatically collect:
- IP address.
- Device type.
- Device model.
- Operating system.
- App version.
- Browser type, if using a web version.
- Language settings.
- Time zone.
- Device identifiers or installation identifiers.
- Session activity.
- Pages or screens viewed.
- Features used.
- Buttons clicked.
- Searches performed.
- Invite activity.
- Crash logs.
- Diagnostics.
- Performance data.
- Date and time of access.
- Referring pages or links, where applicable.
This information helps us operate, secure, debug, improve, and understand the Service.
4.10 Cookies and Similar Technologies
If & Kleos offers a website or web-based features, we may use cookies, local storage, pixels, device identifiers, or similar technologies.
These technologies may be used to:
- Keep you signed in.
- Remember preferences.
- Improve functionality.
- Measure usage.
- Detect errors or abuse.
- Analyze performance.
- Personalize content.
- Support advertising or marketing, if introduced.
You may be able to manage cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect the functionality of the Service.
4.11 Payment and Subscription Information
If & Kleos offers paid features, subscriptions, in-app purchases, boosts, credits, or premium access, payments may be processed by Apple, Google, Stripe, or another authorized payment provider.
We may collect:
- Purchase status.
- Subscription type.
- Transaction identifiers.
- Payment confirmation.
- Renewal or cancellation status.
- Purchase history within the Service.
- Region, currency, and tax-related information where needed.
We generally do not receive or store your full credit card number when payments are processed by third-party payment providers or app stores.
Your purchases may also be governed by the privacy policies and terms of the relevant app store or payment provider.
4.12 Support, Safety, and Legal Communications
When you contact us or submit a report, we may collect:
- Your name or username.
- Email address.
- Account information.
- Message or complaint details.
- Screenshots or attachments you provide.
- Reported user or content details.
- Safety report information.
- Moderation notes.
- Legal request information.
- Communications with our support team.
We use this information to respond to requests, investigate reports, enforce policies, and protect users.
Information We Receive From Third Parties
We may receive information from third parties, depending on the features you use.
This may include information from:
- Authentication providers.
- App stores.
- Payment processors.
- Map and venue providers.
- Analytics providers.
- Cloud hosting providers.
- Customer support tools.
- Safety or moderation tools.
- Other users who report content or interactions involving you.
For example, a map provider may help us display venue information, while an app store may confirm subscription status.
How We Use Personal Information
We may use personal information to:
- Create and manage accounts.
- Authenticate users.
- Provide public and private invite features.
- Allow users to request, accept, decline, and manage invites.
- Enable chats and coordination between accepted users.
- Display profiles and user activity.
- Show venue, map, and location-based features.
- Allow proof posts and meetup memories.
- Send service notifications.
- Provide customer support.
- Respond to safety reports.
- Moderate content and accounts.
- Detect, prevent, and investigate abuse, fraud, spam, illegal activity, and policy violations.
- Improve app performance and reliability.
- Analyze how the Service is used.
- Develop new features.
- Personalize the user experience.
- Process subscriptions, purchases, and paid features, if offered.
- Comply with legal obligations.
- Protect the rights, safety, and property of users, & Kleos, and others.
- Enforce our Terms and Conditions.
Legal Bases for Processing
Depending on your location and applicable law, we may rely on one or more legal bases to process personal information, including:
- Your consent.
- Performance of a contract with you.
- Our legitimate interests, such as operating, securing, improving, and protecting the Service.
- Compliance with legal obligations.
- Protection of vital interests, such as user safety.
- Establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
Where processing is based on consent, you may be able to withdraw consent at any time, subject to legal or technical limitations.
Public Information and User Responsibility
Some parts of & Kleos are social and may involve public or semi-public sharing.
You should assume that information you post in public areas, public invites, public profiles, or visible proof posts may be seen by other users.
We are not responsible for how other users use information that you choose to share publicly or directly with them.
Do not post personal information, private addresses, confidential information, financial information, sensitive documents, or images that you do not want others to see.
Location Privacy
Location information is important for features such as nearby invites, venue selection, café discovery, and city-based happenings.
We may use location information to:
- Show nearby invites.
- Help users select cafés, lounges, or venues.
- Display map previews.
- Personalize location-based content.
- Improve the quality and relevance of the Service.
- Prevent fraud, spam, or misuse.
- Support safety and moderation.
You can disable precise location access through your device settings. You may still be able to use certain features by manually entering a city, area, or venue.
We recommend using public venues for meetups and avoiding private addresses in public invites.
Contact Book Privacy
If & Kleos offers a contact syncing or friend-finding feature, we may ask for permission to access your contact book.
If you grant access, we may use contact information to:
- Help you find people you know on & Kleos.
- Suggest private invites or connections.
- Show whether contacts may already use the Service.
- Improve friend discovery features.
We will not access your contact book unless you grant permission through your device or app settings.
You can revoke contact permission through your device settings.
If & Kleos does not currently offer contact syncing, this section applies only if such a feature is introduced in the future.
Notifications and Communications
We may send you communications related to:
- Account activity.
- Invite requests.
- Invite acceptances or declines.
- Chat messages.
- Upcoming meetups.
- Proof post reminders.
- Safety notices.
- Policy updates.
- Support responses.
- Subscription or purchase updates.
- Product updates and announcements.
- Marketing communications, where permitted.
You can manage push notifications through your device settings. You may be able to unsubscribe from marketing emails using the link in the email or by contacting us.
We may still send important service, safety, legal, or account-related notices even if you opt out of marketing communications.
Advertising and Tracking
& Kleos may use analytics tools to understand app performance and user engagement.
We do not sell personal information for money.
If we introduce advertising, personalized ads, tracking technologies, or third-party advertising networks, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide any consent or opt-out choices required by applicable law and app store rules.
Where required, we will ask for permission before tracking you across apps or websites owned by other companies.
Analytics and App Improvement
We may use analytics and diagnostic tools to understand how users interact with the Service.
This may help us:
- Identify bugs.
- Improve performance.
- Understand which features are used.
- Measure invite activity.
- Improve safety features.
- Prevent misuse.
- Improve design and user experience.
- Plan future updates.
Analytics information may be aggregated or de-identified where appropriate.
Data Retention
We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Retention periods may depend on:
- The type of information.
- Whether your account is active.
- Whether the information is needed to provide the Service.
- Legal or regulatory obligations.
- Safety reports or investigations.
- Fraud prevention needs.
- Dispute resolution.
- Accounting, tax, or payment records.
- Backup and security requirements.
- Enforcement of our Terms and Conditions.
Examples:
- Account information may be kept while your account is active.
- Invite and meetup information may be kept to provide history, safety, and proof features.
- Messages may be kept to provide chat functionality and support safety investigations.
- Support and safety reports may be kept for longer where necessary.
- Payment records may be kept as required by law or payment provider rules.
- Deleted content may remain in backups for a limited period before being overwritten or deleted.
Account Deletion
You may request deletion of your account through the app, where available, or by contacting us at connect@andkleos.io When your account is deleted, we may delete, anonymize, or restrict access to personal information associated with your account, subject to legal, safety, and technical requirements.
We may retain certain information where necessary for:
- Legal compliance.
- Safety investigations.
- Fraud prevention.
- Security.
- Dispute resolution.
- Accounting or tax obligations.
- Backup systems.
- Enforcement of our Terms and Conditions.
- Protection of users, & Kleos, or the public.
Deleting your account may not automatically delete:
- Messages already sent to other users.
- Content already seen, saved, reported, or shared by others.
- Records we must retain for legal, safety, or security purposes.
- De-identified or aggregated information.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to:
- Access personal information we hold about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate information.
- Request deletion of personal information.
- Request restriction of processing.
- Object to certain processing.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Request a copy of certain personal information.
- Request information about how your data is shared.
- File a complaint with a relevant data protection authority.
To exercise privacy rights, contact us at connect@andkleos.io We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.
We may deny, limit, or delay requests where allowed by law, including where information must be retained for safety, legal, fraud prevention, dispute, or security reasons.
Data Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal information.
These may include:
- Access controls.
- Authentication protections.
- Encryption in transit where supported.
- Secure hosting providers.
- Monitoring for suspicious activity.
- Database security rules.
- Limited employee or contractor access.
- Backup and recovery practices.
- Moderation and abuse-prevention tools.
However, no system, network, app, database, or method of transmission is completely secure.
You are responsible for protecting your account, device, password, and email access.
If you believe your account has been accessed without permission, contact us immediately at connect@andkleos.io
Data Breaches
If we become aware of a data breach that affects personal information, we will take reasonable steps to investigate, contain, and respond to the incident.
Where required by applicable law, we will notify affected users, regulators, or authorities.
International Data Transfers
& Kleos may use service providers, servers, databases, or cloud infrastructure located in different countries.
This means personal information may be processed, stored, or transferred outside your country of residence.
Where required by applicable law, we will use appropriate safeguards for international transfers of personal information.
By using the Service, you understand that your information may be processed in countries that may have different data protection laws than your country.
Third-Party Services
& Kleos may integrate with or rely on third-party services, including:
- Backend, database, authentication, and file-storage providers.
- Mobile platform and app-store providers.
- Map and place-information providers.
- Push-notification and email-delivery providers.
- Cloud-hosting and content-delivery providers.
- Customer-support, moderation, and safety providers, where used.
- Payment processors, if paid features are introduced.
- Analytics or crash-reporting providers, if those services are introduced.
Third-party services may collect information according to their own privacy policies.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party services that we do not control.
Apple App Store and Device Permissions
If you use & Kleos on an Apple device, Apple may collect and process information according to Apple’s own privacy policies and App Store rules.
& Kleos may request device permissions, such as:
- Location access.
- Photo library access.
- Camera access.
- Push notifications.
- Contacts, if friend discovery is introduced.
- Microphone, if future features require it.
We will request permissions only when needed for app functionality. You can manage permissions through your device settings.
Some features may not work properly if permissions are disabled.
Google Play and Android Permissions
If & Kleos becomes available on Android, Google may collect and process information according to Google Play and Android privacy rules.
Android users may be asked to grant permissions for features such as location, photos, camera, contacts, notifications, or storage, depending on app functionality.
You can manage permissions through your device settings.
Children and Minor Safety
& Kleos is not intended for children or users under 18.
Users must not upload, share, request, or distribute any content involving minors in a sexual, exploitative, abusive, dangerous, or inappropriate context.
We may remove such content, suspend accounts, preserve records, and report the matter to authorities where required or appropriate.
Sensitive Information
You should not share sensitive personal information through & Kleos unless it is necessary and you are comfortable doing so.
Sensitive information may include:
- Government identification numbers.
- Financial information.
- Private addresses.
- Health information.
- Religious or political views.
- Precise personal routines.
- Private relationship details.
- Biometric information.
- Sensitive images or documents.
& Kleos is designed for social invitations, coffee dates, meetings, and city happenings. It is not intended for sharing highly sensitive personal information.
User Reports and Moderation Data
When users report content, messages, invites, proof posts, or other users, we may collect and process information related to the report.
This may include:
- Reported content.
- Reporter account information.
- Reported user account information.
- Screenshots or attachments.
- Message history relevant to the report.
- Invite or meetup details.
- Moderation notes.
- Actions taken.
- Safety risk indicators.
We use this information to review reports, enforce our Terms, protect users, improve moderation, and comply with legal obligations.
We are not required to disclose the outcome of moderation decisions.
Blocking Users
If you block another user, we may process blocking information to help prevent unwanted interactions.
Blocking may limit a user’s ability to:
- Message you.
- Request your invites.
- View certain parts of your profile or activity.
- Interact with you through the Service.
The exact effect of blocking may depend on app functionality.
Objectionable Content Filtering
& Kleos may use automated systems, manual review, user reports, keyword filters, image review, or other safety tools to help detect and restrict objectionable or prohibited content.
This may include content that is:
- Sexually explicit.
- Pornographic.
- Abusive.
- Threatening.
- Hateful.
- Exploitative.
- Illegal.
- Violent.
- Harassing.
- Spam or scam-related.
- Unsafe for minors.
- In violation of our Terms and Conditions.
No filtering system is perfect. Users should report content or behavior that appears unsafe or inappropriate.
De-Identified and Aggregated Data
We may create or use de-identified, anonymized, or aggregated information that does not reasonably identify you.
We may use this information to:
- Improve the Service.
- Analyze usage trends.
- Measure app performance.
- Understand invite and meetup activity.
- Develop new features.
- Prepare internal reports.
- Support business planning.
We may use de-identified or aggregated information for any lawful purpose.
Business and Legal Recordkeeping
We may retain certain records for business and legal reasons, including:
- Invoices and payment records.
- Subscription records.
- Tax and accounting records.
- Security logs.
- Fraud prevention records.
- Legal notices.
- Consent records.
- Moderation actions.
- Support communications.
- Terms acceptance records.
- Privacy request records.
These records may be retained for as long as required or permitted by law.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
If changes are material, we may notify you through the app, by email, by website notice, or by another reasonable method.
The updated Privacy Policy will be effective when posted or on the date stated in the notice.
Your continued use of the Service after the updated Privacy Policy becomes effective means you acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.
If you do not agree with the updated Privacy Policy, you must stop using the Service.
How to Contact Us
For privacy questions, data requests, account deletion, safety concerns, legal notices, or general support, contact us at: & Kleos Support Email: connect@andkleos.io Privacy Requests Email: connect@andkleos.io Safety Reports Email: connect@andkleos.io Legal Notices Email: connect@andkleos.io Company / Developer Name: Aureliano Technologies. Website: andkleos.io
Final Note
& Kleos is built for coffee dates, meetings, refined gatherings, city happenings, and social moments made with intention.
Your privacy matters. Your safety matters. Your choices matter.
Use the Service with care, share with judgment, and meet beautifully.