Privacy Policy

pIQued is operated by Manna Driven Investments LLC (“we”). This policy explains what we collect, what is public, and how to delete it. Questions: support@piquedapp.com.

What we collect

• When you sign in with Google or Apple: your email address, and the name and profile photo your account provides. (A few accounts our team sets up sign in with an email address and password instead.) Apple lets you hide your email; if you do, we receive a private relay address instead.
• Your age: before you can use pIQued we ask your date of birth. We don't save the date: we keep only a record that you are old enough, and when you told us.
• What you give us: your username and bio, your answers to the test (with how long you took on each question, and when you paused), the posts and comments you write (including any images you upload, with their location data removed), your votes, who you follow, and any reports or blocks you make.
• If you buy lifetime access: a record of the purchase (when, how much, and whether through Stripe or Apple). Stripe or Apple handles the payment itself; we never see or store your card details.
• What we calculate: your IQ score, the IQ range you are placed in (116+, 101–115, 85–100 or under 85) and category sub-scores, from your test answers.
• Technical data: our hosting and database providers record IP addresses, device and browser details, and request times, for security and to keep the service running.

We do not use advertising, analytics or tracking SDKs, we do not collect your location, and we do not track you across other apps or websites.

What is public

pIQued is built around a public score. Your username, profile photo, bio, IQ score and range, and the posts and comments you share with everyone can be seen by anyone, including people who aren't signed in. We ask search engines not to index the feeds. Your category sub-scores are private unless you choose to show them in Settings. Who you have blocked, and anything you report, is never shown to anyone else.

When you limit a post to your IQ range, only people in that range can read it. Everyone else, signed in or not, sees a blurred card with your username and photo, your IQ score, when you posted, who it's for, the range you posted it in, roughly how long it is, whether it has an image, and how many upvotes it has: never its words or image. On an anonymous post the card shows “Anonymous” and your score instead.

You can post or comment anonymously. Then others see your IQ score and section, but not your username, photo or profile. We keep a private record of who wrote it, which only we can see, so we can act on reports and remove it if you delete your account. Anonymous posts can't include an uploaded photo, because the file would identify you.

How we use it

• To run the app: sign you in, score your test, place you in a section, and show feeds and threads.
• To keep it safe: review reports, apply blocks, and prevent abuse, cheating and spam.
• To secure the service and fix problems.
• To contact you about your account when necessary.

We do not sell your personal information. We don't show ads today; before we do, we will update this policy and ask for any consent the law requires.

Legal bases (UK and EEA)

• Running your account, the test, purchases and the app itself: performing our contract with you.
• Safety, moderation, preventing cheating and abuse, and security: our legitimate interest in a safe, fair service.
• Age checks and disclosures the law requires: legal obligation.

Who we share it with

Only the service providers that run the app for us, under contracts that limit them to doing so:

• Cloud hosting and content delivery for the app and website.
• Database, sign-in and file storage, in the United States, under a data processing agreement with standard contractual clauses.
• Apple or Google, only to sign you in, if you choose them. If you sign in with Apple, we keep a token Apple gives us for one purpose: when you delete your account, we use it to disconnect pIQued from your Apple Account.
• Stripe and Link, Stripe's checkout service, if you buy lifetime access on the web. Link sells it to you as merchant of record: it takes the payment, handles any sales tax or VAT, and receives your email address to send your receipt.
• Apple, if you buy lifetime access in the iPhone app.

Stripe (and Link), Apple and Google handle that data under their own privacy policies. Email support@piquedapp.com for the names of our current providers.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect the safety of our users or the public.

Keeping and deleting your data

We keep your data while your account exists. You can delete your account at any time in the app: open your profile, tap the settings gear, then Delete account.

Deleting your account permanently removes your profile, IQ score and test results, your posts and the images in them (along with the comments other people left on those posts), your votes, and who you follow. Your comments are not removed but anonymized: the text is replaced with “[deleted]” and your name and score are detached, so that other people's replies to them stay readable. Deleted data may remain in our database provider's daily backups for up to 7 days before they are overwritten.

Your choices

• Edit your bio at any time. (Your username can't be changed once chosen.)
• Show or hide your sub-scores in Settings.
• Block anyone, or report content, from the ⋯ menu.
• Delete any post or comment you wrote from its ⋯ menu. If you're under 18, you can remove anything you've posted this way, or ask us to at support@piquedapp.com.
• Delete your account from inside the app, as described above.
• Ask us for a copy of your data, or to correct or delete it, by contacting support@piquedapp.com. Depending on where you live, you may have further rights under local law, such as the GDPR or California privacy law, and you can exercise them the same way.
• Complain to your local data protection authority (in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office, ico.org.uk), though we'd like the chance to help first.

Cookies and storage

If you sign in, we keep your session on your device. We also remember that you've seen the welcome tour, and, if the age check stopped you, keep a 30-day note of that. None of these track you or are shared with anyone.

We don't respond to “Do Not Track” browser signals, because we don't track you across other sites in the first place.

Children

pIQued is not for anyone under 13. We ask everyone's date of birth before they can use it. If someone tells us they are under 13, we delete their account and its data straight away. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, contact support@piquedapp.com and we will delete it.

Security

Data is encrypted in transit, and the database enforces access rules on every request, so each person can only change their own data. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect yours.

Where your data is stored

Your data is stored and processed in the United States. If you use pIQued from elsewhere, your information will be transferred there.

Changes

We will update the date at the top of this page when this policy changes, and tell you in the app before any change that materially affects how your data is used.

Contact

Manna Driven Investments LLC · 5 Kocher Drive #1006, Bennington, VT 05201 · support@piquedapp.com