Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 2026
This policy explains what information Vyral collects when you use the Vyral app, the Vyral Terminal at terminal.vyral.market, or the beta signup page at beta.vyral.market, why we collect it, who we share it with, and the choices you have.
The short version
- We collect what we need to run a video app with play-money predictions: your email, profile, birthday (for the 18+ check), the videos and comments you post, and what you do in the app.
- Your handle, name, bio, photo, videos, comments, likes and follows are public. Your email, birthday, balance, orders and positions are not.
- To keep view counts and markets fair, we log views with a random app ID and a scrambled (hashed) version of your IP address.
- We don't sell your information, show ads, or use advertising IDs.
- You can delete your account in the app at any time.
1. Who we are
Vyral is operated by Quinn Luevano, based in California (“Vyral”, “we”, “us”). We are responsible for the information described in this policy. You can reach us at fidrec26@gmail.com.
This policy works together with our Terms of Service.
2. What we collect
Information you give us
- Account details
- Your email address, which we use to sign you in with a one-time code (there is no password). The invite code you used to join the beta.
- Profile
- Your handle, and if you add them, a display name, a short bio, a profile photo and the interests you pick during sign-up.
- Date of birth
- We ask for your birthday to confirm you are 18 or older. We store the date only. It is never shown on your profile, and we don't ask for ID documents.
- Content
- Videos you post (including the sound recorded with them), captions, the hashtags and topics in them, and comments. When you record or choose a video, the app asks for access to your camera, microphone or photo library; it only uses that access to let you post.
- Reports and blocks
- When you report a video, comment or account, we keep the report, the reason and any details you add. We also keep the list of people you block.
- Waitlist
- If you join the waitlist on beta.vyral.market, we collect your email address, the role you pick (viewer, creator or trader), the referral link you arrived from and the campaign tags in the page address (for example
utm_source). Before storing your email we normalize it (for example, Gmail dots and “+tags” are removed) so one inbox gets one spot. - Messages to us
- If you email us, we keep the message and our reply.
Information created when you use Vyral
- Activity
- The videos you watch and for how long, likes, saves, follows, shares (which share option you used, not who you sent it to), and your notifications.
- Calls, VYR and trading
- Your free Yes/No calls, your VYR balance and every change to it, your orders, trades and positions in play-money markets.
- Device and integrity data
- The app creates a random ID the first time it runs and stores it on your device. It is not your phone's advertising ID or a hardware serial number. Each time you watch a video we record that ID, a per-launch session ID, and a hashed version of your IP address (scrambled with a secret key, so we don't store the IP itself). The waitlist also stores a hashed IP to limit spam signups.
- Technical logs
- Like most online services, our hosting and infrastructure providers automatically log technical information such as IP address, browser or app version, device type and the time of each request. Our sign-in provider also records when you sign in.
Website analytics
On the beta.vyral.market signup page we may use PostHog, an analytics service, to understand how people find and use the page. It records page views and a few events (such as “joined the waitlist” or “copied a referral link”) along with standard browser information (page address, referring site, browser, operating system, device type, screen size) and a random visitor ID stored in a cookie. We turn off automatic click tracking and session recording, and we never send your email address, birthday or IP address as part of these events. The Terminal does not use any analytics service.
App analytics and crash reports
Usage analytics (PostHog). The Vyral app may send PostHog a short record when you do key things in the app: open it, request a sign-in code, finish sign-up, view a video, make a call, open the trade screen, place or cancel an order, see a result, open your portfolio, post a video or tap share. Each record holds only IDs and simple values (for example a video or market ID, Yes or No, a price and quantity), which screen you were on (for example “trade”, never the page address), your app version, phone model, operating system, language and time zone, and a random app ID. When you are signed in, it is linked to your Vyral account by a random account ID, never your email, name or handle. We never send your email address, birthday, IP address, display name, handle, bio, captions or comment text, and we turn off session recording and automatic tap tracking. You can turn this off at any time in Settings > Share anonymous usage data.
Crash reports (Sentry). If the app crashes or hits an error, it sends Sentry a crash report: the error and where in the code it happened, app version, phone model and operating system, the last few screens and actions before the error (screen names and which buttons were tapped, not what you typed), and your random account ID if you are signed in. For a small share of sessions it also sends timing data about how fast screens and network requests are. We strip email addresses, sign-in tokens, request contents and web addresses' query details from these reports, and we don't send your IP address. Crash reports stay on when usage analytics are off, because we need them to keep the app working.
What we don't collect
We don't access your contacts, precise location or advertising ID, and we don't collect payment card or bank details. VYR can't be bought, so there is nothing to pay for.
3. How we use it
- Run Vyral: create and secure your account, sign you in, show your profile, host and stream your videos, show comments, likes and follows, send in-app notifications, and keep your VYR balance, calls, orders and positions.
- Count views and settle markets: count views under our counting rules, resolve calls and markets, and pay out or refund play-money VYR.
- Keep things fair and safe: filter out repeat, self and bot views; enforce rate limits; detect fake engagement and market manipulation; and stop people from trading on their own videos or on videos of creators they're linked to (for example, sharing a device, or the same network within the last 30 days).
- Check age: confirm you are 18 or older.
- Personalize your feed: rank the For You feed using the interests you picked, topics of videos you liked or watched most of, and who you follow.
- Moderate: review reports, remove content and accounts that break our rules, and keep records of what we did.
- Improve Vyral and our forecasts: study how videos gain attention over time. Our research and forecasting work uses video-level data (views, likes, comments, shares and saves over time, and aggregate counts of Yes and No calls) rather than information about who you are.
- Run the waitlist: give you a founder number and referral link, send you a welcome email and, when the beta opens, an invite.
- Communicate with you: send sign-in codes and service messages, and answer you when you contact us.
- Legal reasons: comply with the law, respond to lawful requests, enforce our Terms and protect the rights and safety of our users and Vyral.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the UK or a similar jurisdiction: we rely on performing our contract with you (running the service you asked for), our legitimate interests (keeping counts and markets fair, preventing abuse, security, improving Vyral, website and app analytics, crash reporting), legal obligations, and your consent where we ask for it (for example, camera and photo access). You can object to processing based on legitimate interests; see Your rights.
4. What other people can see
Vyral is a public platform. Anyone, including people who aren't signed in, can see:
- your handle, display name, bio, profile photo, interests, founding creator number (if you have one) and the date you joined;
- the videos you post, with their captions, hashtags, view counts and other counts;
- your comments on live videos;
- which videos you liked and who you follow and who follows you.
Market prices and the list of trades in each market are public, but trades are not shown with your name. Your email, birthday, VYR balance, calls, orders, positions, saves, blocks and reports are not public.
7. How long we keep it
We keep your account information for as long as your account exists. When you delete your account, we delete or de-identify it as described in the next section.
Some records are kept longer because Vyral's view counts and play-money markets depend on a complete, tamper-proof history: view logs (including the random app ID and hashed IP), calls, orders, trades and VYR balance records. After account deletion these records stay linked only to an internal account number, not to your email, handle or profile. We also keep records of moderation actions and reports, and information we need to resolve disputes, enforce our Terms, prevent repeat abuse or meet legal obligations.
Waitlist entries are kept until the beta has launched and invites have been sent, or until you ask us to remove yours.
Backups and service-provider logs are deleted on those providers' normal schedules.
8. Deleting your account
You can delete your account in the app: Profile → Settings → Delete account. When you do:
- your videos are taken down and your comments are hidden;
- your likes, saves, follows, blocks and notifications are deleted;
- your open orders are cancelled;
- your display name, bio, photo link and interests are erased and your handle is replaced with a random one;
- your login is deleted, so the email can't be used to sign in to that account again.
As explained above, view, call, trading and VYR records are kept in de-identified form, along with the date of birth used for the age check and records of reports and moderation. Copies of removed videos and photos may remain with our storage and video providers for a period after deletion.
If you can't use the app, or want your waitlist entry removed, email fidrec26@gmail.com from the address you signed up with.
9. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:
- access the personal information we hold about you and get a copy of it in a portable format;
- correct information that is wrong (you can edit most of your profile in the app);
- delete your information;
- object to or restrict certain processing, including processing based on our legitimate interests;
- withdraw consent where we rely on it (for example, by turning off camera or photo access in your phone's settings);
- opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. We don't sell or share personal information for targeted advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of;
- not be discriminated against for using any of these rights.
To make a request, email fidrec26@gmail.com from the address linked to your account. We may need to confirm it's really you before we act, and we'll reply within the time the law requires (for example, 30 days in the EEA and UK, 45 days in California). You can use an authorized agent where the law allows it. If we decline your request, you can ask us to reconsider by replying to our decision.
If you are in the EEA or UK, you can also complain to your local data protection authority.
California residents: in the last 12 months we collected the categories described in section 2 (identifiers such as email and the random app ID; personal records such as your profile; age; internet activity such as views and interactions; audio and visual content you post; and inferences about your interests used for the feed) for the purposes in section 3, and disclosed them only to the service providers in section 5. We don't sell or share personal information and don't use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you.
10. Adults only
Vyral is only for people who are 18 or older. We ask for your birthday at sign-up and block anyone under 18 from creating an account. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If you believe someone under 18 is using Vyral, report their account in the app or email fidrec26@gmail.com and we will remove the account.
11. Security
We use measures designed to protect your information, including encrypted connections (HTTPS), sign-in by one-time code instead of passwords, storing your session in your phone's secure storage, database rules that limit each person to their own private data, hashing IP addresses instead of storing them, and append-only logs for view counts and VYR balances. No system is perfectly secure, so we can't guarantee absolute security. If we learn of a breach that affects your information, we'll notify you as required by law.
12. International transfers
Vyral is run from the United States, and our service providers may process information in the United States and other countries. Those countries may have different data protection laws from yours. Where the law requires it, we rely on appropriate safeguards, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, for transfers out of the EEA or UK.
13. Changes to this policy
We'll update this policy as Vyral changes. We'll change the “Last updated” date at the top, and if the changes are significant we'll tell you in the app or by email before they take effect.
14. Contact us
Questions or requests about your privacy: fidrec26@gmail.com
Quinn Luevano