Who controls Vexoris
Vexoris is operated from California, United States. Questions about privacy, access, or deletion can be sent to hello@vexoris.app.
Information we collect
- Account information such as username, email address, password credentials handled through authentication providers, city, optional phone number, and optional profile photo.
- Your daily answer, optional answer text, answer timing, and answer visibility state needed to operate the answer-first discussion model.
- Friend relationship records, outgoing and incoming requests, contact-match results, and circle activity such as presence and daily pings.
- Circle-room records, message content, and message metadata needed to operate the daily room, investigate abuse, and support users.
- Operational, device, security, and diagnostics information needed to authenticate users, keep the app working, and investigate abuse or bugs.
- Push notification tokens for your device, used to deliver the notifications you enable (the daily question, friend requests, reminders). You can turn these off in the app or in iOS Settings.
- First-party usage analytics (for example which screens are used and whether flows complete), tied to your account and used only to operate and improve Vexoris. We do not use third-party advertising or tracking SDKs.
- Crash reports via Firebase Crashlytics, which include device model, OS version, and the state of the app at the time of a crash, used to find and fix bugs.
How we use information
- Create, authenticate, and secure accounts.
- Deliver the current daily question and maintain the answer-first access flow.
- Show which friends have answered, when the shared room is open, and whether a circle streak is active.
- Support contact matching and exact search by username, email, or phone number.
- Maintain service reliability, investigate bugs, prevent abuse, and respond to support requests.
- Comply with legal obligations and protect users, the public, and the service.
Contacts and friend discovery
Contacts are strictly optional. If you grant access, Vexoris reads contact identifiers such as email addresses and phone numbers to look for existing accounts tied to people you already know. Contacts are not uploaded for advertising, sold, or messaged automatically.
You can also search manually by exact username, email, or phone number from inside the app.
You can share a personal invite link from the Circle tab. Anyone who has the link sees a page with your first name or username. A person who opens the link in Vexoris is added to your circle, and you to theirs. The link stops working if you delete your account.
Daily answers and chat
Vexoris is built around one question per day. The service uses your answer state to determine when your friends' answers and the shared room become visible to you. This means answer visibility, friend visibility, and room access are all part of the service logic and are processed so the product can work.
Discussion resets when the next question cycle begins. Some supporting records, operational logs, and backup material may remain longer where needed for reliability, fraud prevention, dispute handling, or legal compliance.
Message security
Circle-room messages are protected in transit with standard network encryption and stored in Vexoris systems behind authenticated access controls. They are not end-to-end encrypted or stored as unreadable client-side encrypted payloads.
No security system is perfect. You remain responsible for your own device security, passcode protection, and account access.
Third-party services
Vexoris uses Google Firebase for authentication, database storage, cloud functions, hosting, push notification delivery, crash reporting (Crashlytics), and operational support.
Vexoris uses Resend to deliver account emails such as verification and password reset messages.
Vexoris uses OpenAI for three separate purposes:
- Automated safety moderation. Before it is published, content you submit is sent to OpenAI's moderation service to check it against categories such as hate, harassment, sexual content and self-harm. This applies to your written takes, your replies, your circle-room messages, and any profile photo you upload. This is a safety check, not training data.
- Daily question generation and editorial drafting. This uses news sources, not your content. Your takes, replies and room messages are not used as input for question generation.
- Take grading. After you post a written take, its text is sent to OpenAI to score it for clarity, reasoning and civility. The scores are stored on our servers and, for now, are shown to no one, including you. OpenAI does not use the text for training, and may keep it for up to 30 days to monitor for abuse. Your replies and room messages are not graded.
Vexoris also uses Anthropic's Claude as a backup for when OpenAI is unavailable. In that case Claude writes the daily question from the same news sources, and the safety check on content you submit is done by Claude instead. Anthropic does not use that content for training.
To find each day's topic and its sources, Vexoris reads public news and video listings from providers such as Google News, The Guardian, GNews, NewsAPI, the YouTube Data API and Wikipedia. Only the question pipeline talks to these providers; nothing about you is sent to them.
If you sign in with Apple or Google, Vexoris receives the identifier, email address and name that provider shares with the app, and uses them only to create and sign in your account.
Legal disclosures and safety
We may preserve, use, and disclose information we hold when we believe it is necessary or appropriate to comply with law, regulation, court order, subpoena, legal process, or a valid government or law-enforcement request, or to protect users, the public, rights, property, or the service itself.
Because circle-room messages are not end-to-end encrypted, disclosures are limited to the records and metadata we actually possess and are legally allowed to provide.
Retention and deletion
We keep information for as long as reasonably needed to operate Vexoris, protect the service, comply with legal obligations, and resolve disputes. You can request account deletion through the app or by contacting hello@vexoris.app.
Your rights and choices
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to request access, deletion, or correction. You may also choose not to grant contacts access. Privacy requests can be sent to hello@vexoris.app.
Age requirement
Vexoris is currently intended only for adults age 18 and older. If we learn an underage account was created, we may remove it.