Effective Date: June 24, 2026
Vicinitti Platforms Inc. ("Vicinitti", "we", "us", or "our") operates the hyper-local neighbourhood network, including our website, mobile applications, and connected services (collectively, the "Platform"). This Privacy Policy is a legally binding document that governs how we collect, use, disclose, process, and protect your personal information when you register for, access, or interact with our Platform.
By creating an account, accessing the Platform, or utilising any of our hyper-local services, you explicitly consent to the collection, processing, and storage of your information as described in this comprehensive policy. If you do not agree with any terms within this document, you must immediately cease all access to the Platform.
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
To maintain a secure, verified, and functional hyper-local environment, we collect several categories of information depending on how you interact with our Platform.
A. Information You Provide Directly to Us
Account Registration Data: When you sign up for an account, we collect your full name, email address, physical residential address, and account credentials (such as passwords or third-party authentication tokens).
Profile Information: You may choose to provide additional profile details, such as a display name, profile photograph, biographical notes, and specific local interests or domestic service offerings.
Community Contributions: We collect the text, images, videos, alerts, and other content that you post, publish, or broadcast within your verified local neighbourhood hub space.
Customer Support Communications: If you contact our support teams, data protection officers, or administrators, we collect the content of your communications, along with your contact information and any attachments you provide.
B. Information Collected Automatically
Precise Geolocation Data: Because the Platform is inherently built around radius-bound boundary matching and hyper-local connectivity, we collect high-resolution latitude and longitude metrics directly from your native device or browser sandbox. This data is collected continuously while the app is active to verify your proximity and presence within your designated neighbourhood container.
Device and Usage Technical Telemetry: We automatically collect details regarding the hardware and software you use to access the Platform. This includes your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, operating system version, device identifiers, mobile network information, specific pages visited, app crashes, and timestamps of your activity.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We utilise essential cookies, pixels, and local storage mechanisms to preserve your active session state, securely cache authentication context, and remember your interface preferences.
C. Information from Third Parties
Authentication Providers: If you choose to log in or register using a third-party single sign-on container (such as Google Provider), we receive authorisation tokens, your email address, and your public profile picture from that service to populate your account context.
Referral Networks: We may collect and temporarily cache invitation keys and referral identifiers when an existing verified user invites you to join their specific regional coordinates.
2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We process your personal information strictly under lawful bases to deliver, maintain, and optimise our hyper-local ecosystem. Specifically, your data is used for the following operational mandates:
Geographic Container Verification: To verify your exact physical location against our radius-bound neighbourhood parameters, ensuring that the local hub remains restricted exclusively to real residents within that specific area.
Platform Delivery and Maintenance: To create and manage your account, authenticate your login sessions, process synchronisation requests, and allow you to interact seamlessly with neighbouring users.
Community Safety and Moderation: To enforce our localised terms of service, detect fraudulent or malicious activity, prevent non-resident intrusion, and maintain a secure space for all verified participants.
Localised Alerts and Communication: To deliver vital community safety alerts, localised notifications, regional updates, and automated system emails regarding your account status.
Service Analytics and Optimisation: To monitor system performance, fix software bugs, refine our user interface elements, and scale our microservices infrastructure efficiently.
3. OUR STRICT ZERO-SALE AND NO-SHARING GUARANTEE
Vicinitti is built as a pure service utility layer dedicated to community resilience, not ad monetisation. We enforce an absolute, non-negotiable data protection framework regarding how your personal telemetry is shared:
No Data Brokerage or Sales: We strictly enforce a zero-sale policy. We never package, distribute, license, lease, or sell your precise geographic tracking data, location logs, communication records, or identity profiles to advertising brokers, corporate entities, or third-party marketing networks.
No Targeted Advertising Tracking: We do not track your behaviour across external websites or use your local platform activity to build advertising profiles for third-party companies.
Limited Operational Disclosures: We will only share your information with trusted infrastructure vendors who host our servers, secure our microservices, or process critical backend utilities (such as our database and authentication infrastructure). These partners are legally bound by strict confidentiality agreements and are permitted to process your data only to perform services on our behalf.
Legal and Regulatory Compliance: We may disclose your information if explicitly required to do so by operational law, a valid subpoena, a court order, or to protect the immediate physical safety of our users, staff, or the public.
4. DATA SECURITY, ENCRYPTION, AND RETENTION
The security of your hyper-local digital footprint is integrated directly into our infrastructure design.
Technical Safeguards: All personal identifiers, location history logs, and security credentials are encrypted at rest using industry-standard cryptographic keys and protected in transit using secure socket layer (SSL/TLS) communication protocols.
Decoupled Architecture: We utilise a secure, decoupled microservices configuration to segment user identity credentials from raw real-time communication feeds, minimising the impact of any potential security event.
Retention Boundaries: We retain your precise geolocation logs and profile details only for as long as your account remains active or as necessary to enforce local radius-bound compliance checks. If you close your account, your precise physical tracking data is systematically deleted or permanently anonymised.
5. YOUR RIGHTS AND DATA CONTROL
Regardless of your geographic jurisdiction, Vicinitti provides all users with absolute agency and control over their private personal portfolios. You may exercise the following rights directly through your account dashboard or by contacting us:
Right of Access and Portability: You have the right to request a comprehensive, structured data export file containing all personal information, location records, and profile details we hold about you.
Right to Rectification: You have the power to update, correct, or modify inaccurate or incomplete account registration and profile details at any time.
Right to Restriction of Processing: You can revoke the Platform's access to your precise device location or browser geolocation settings. Please note that since our network relies heavily on spatial verification, disabling location services will restrict or entirely suspend your access to localised hub functionalities.
Right to Permanent Erasure (The Right to be Forgotten): You may request the absolute and permanent deletion of your entire account context. Upon receiving a valid erasure request, we will permanently purge all identity strings, verified addresses, geolocation records, and historical credentials from our production databases and microservices backups.
6. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to deploy administrative or technical updates to this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect changing international privacy codes, security benchmarks, or architectural upgrades to our Platform.
When modifications are finalised, we will instantly update the "Effective Date" stamp displayed at the very top of this document. For significant structural changes that impact how your spatial or personal records are processed, we will provide a prominent notification banner within the Platform interface or deliver a direct alert to your registered email address before the updates take effect. Your continued use of the Platform after the posting of a modified policy constitutes your formal acceptance of the updated terms.
7. CONTACT US
If you have any questions, complaints, or feedback regarding this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to formally execute your data erasure and portability rights, please submit a detailed request to our data protection team:
Vicinitti (A NexOrbit Ltd Company).
Data Protection & Privacy Operations
Email: privacy@vicinitti.com
8. ADDENDUM: GOOGLE API SERVICES USER DATA DISCLOSURE
To ensure complete regulatory compliance with the Google API Services User Data Policy and the Google APIs Terms of Service, this section outlines the precise scope, access parameters, operational usage, storage boundaries, and sharing restrictions regarding information obtained through Google API Services.
1. Data Accessed and Collected
When you choose to authenticate your account, register, or connect with our Platform utilising Google sign-in capabilities, we access and interact strictly with a limited subset of your Google account context via the Google API infrastructure. The specific data points retrieved are:
Primary Email Address: Your verified Google email address (e.g., name@gmail.com).
Public Profile Information: Your basic public profile properties, specifically your default display name and your public profile picture URL.
We do not request, access, or interact with any other sensitive scopes or personal Google user data containers, such as your Google Drive files, calendar entries, contacts, or search histories.
2. Purpose and Data Usage
We process the Google user data retrieved via the APIs exclusively to deliver core user lifecycle functionalities. Your data is used for the following specific purposes:
Identity Authentication: To verify your identity, process secure single sign-on requests, and safely log you into your personalised hyper-local hub dashboard.
Account Creation and Profile Syncing: To seamlessly establish your system profile without requiring manual data entry, automatically utilising your Google display name and profile photograph within your neighbourhood container.
Critical Account Communications: To route essential system updates, localised security alerts, and verification notifications to your verified Google email address.
Our application processes and handles this data strictly to execute these user-initiated authentication actions. We do not use Google user data to analyse behaviour, serve advertisements, or build consumer profiles.
3. Data Storage and Retention
All Google user data transferred to our Platform is stored securely using elite industry-standard technical safeguards:
Security Scopes: Profile and authentication identifiers are stored in an encrypted database at rest and protected during transit using secure cryptographic transport layer protocols (SSL/TLS).
Retention Policy: Your Google profile data is retained only for as long as your account remains active on our Platform. If you choose to disconnect your Google account or request a permanent account erasure, all synchronised Google user data points will be instantly and permanently purged from our production databases and microservices backups.
4. Absolute Sharing and Transfer Restrictions
In strict adherence to the Google API Services User Data Policy, particularly the Limited Use requirements, we maintain absolute restrictions over how Google user data is transferred:
No Third-Party Sharing or Sales: We do not sell, lease, trade, or distribute your Google user data to any third-party advertising networks, data brokers, tracking companies, or commercial aggregators.
Prohibited AI Training Scopes: We never utilise, transfer, or expose your Google user data to train, refine, or optimise artificial intelligence (AI) models, machine learning systems, or large language models.
Limited Operational Transfers: We only transfer Google user data to internal infrastructure service providers (such as secure backend database and cloud-hosting systems) strictly necessary to run the Platform features. These partners are legally bound by rigorous confidentiality agreements to ensure the data is never used for any secondary purpose.
Regulatory Compliance: We may only disclose Google user data if required by enforceable law, explicit regulatory mandates, or a valid legal subpoena.
All global hyper-local neighbourhood operations strictly conform to localised regional privacy guidelines and structural data frameworks.