Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 4, 2026 · Version 1.7 · Effective November 4, 2026

What’s changing

Version 1.7 · published November 4, 2026 · takes effect November 4, 2026

Our Terms of Service change on the same day — see what’s changing in the Terms. If you keep using D Lulu after November 4, 2026, the updated policy applies.

Privacy at a glance

1. Who we are

D Lulu is operated by QuantumShieldAI Pte. Ltd. (“D Lulu”, “we”, “us”, “our”), a company incorporated in Singapore (UEN 202650970C). For the purposes of the EU and UK GDPR and similar laws, QuantumShieldAI Pte. Ltd. is the controller of your personal information.

You can reach us about privacy, including our Data Protection Officer, at support@dlulu.app.

2. Scope of this policy

This policy applies to the D Lulu mobile application (iOS and Android), the website at dlulu.app (including the waitlist, the demo at /try and the business and ambassador portals), and any related services we operate (together, the “Service”). It does not apply to third-party services you may reach from the Service — those are governed by their own policies. The demo at /try runs in your browser with sample data; nothing you do in it is sent to us.

3. Information we collect

We collect only the information we need to run the Service. The categories are summarised below.

3.1 Information you give us

Optional private video intros

Feature notice: September 18, 2026. Where it is offered, this optional feature has a separate, unchecked consent control before recording. We compress your recording and extract five image samples to compare against your existing verified identity and run image-content checks. These checks do not create a new identity anchor, grant verification, review every video frame or analyse speech. They are not a guarantee that a person is safe or that a recording is live.

Your intro is not published on your profile or activity. Another person can watch only after you both explicitly agree to exchange the current intros for that activity. Depending on the selected mode, access begins before the meetup decision or after acceptance. Agreeing to an intro exchange does not itself accept an activity or reveal a hidden venue. A shared intro reveals your face and, if included, voice even when your profile photo is hidden or blurred. A viewer may record what they see; we cannot recall copies made outside the app.

You can replace or delete your intro, or stop sharing it for an activity. Replacing or deleting either intro, withdrawal, cancellation or blocking ends the corresponding access. Access also ends 24 hours after the activity. Playback already buffered on a device may remain briefly visible while access is rechecked.

Intro media is stored privately in our existing encrypted Amazon S3 storage. Original uploads are scheduled for permanent removal after processing; rejected, replaced and deleted media is also queued for permanent removal, including stored object versions. The current approved intro and its thumbnail remain until replacement, deletion or account erasure. Processing records for removed intros are deleted after 30 days once their media has been purged. Video-frame embeddings used for comparison are not added to your account.

3.2 Information collected automatically

3.3 Biometric identifiers

When you verify your face, the app takes a short live capture of you while you follow a few on-screen steps. On our own servers we check that the capture shows a live person and use the AuraFace face-recognition model to turn it into a 512-number vector (a “face embedding”). That embedding becomes your verified face: the reference we compare your photos with, and the entry we use to keep to one account per person (see Section 6). We also compute embeddings from your main profile photo and from other photos we check against your verified face. The captured frames are not stored; we keep the embedding and the scores of the check. An embedding is a mathematical representation, not a photograph — it cannot be reversed into a recognisable image. See Section 6 and our standalone Biometric Data Consent.

3.4 Information from third parties

4. How we use your information

PurposeCategories of data
Create and authenticate your accountPhone number and SMS code, or email address and emailed code, or the identifier, email address and (if shared) name from Google or Apple; passkeys; device info
Verify you are at least 18 years oldBirth month + year; age signals from Apple or Google
Verify your face (live capture checks) and that your photos match your verified faceFace embeddings and check scores, photos, device-check results
Keep to one account per person and stop banned members returning (compare your verified face with other accounts’ verified faces; staff review of uncertain matches)Face embedding from your live verification capture, account status, a one-way digest of a banned member’s phone number
Apply face blocks created before face blocking was withdrawnFace embeddings, block list
Delete new accounts that never complete face verification (after 7 days and one reminder)Account record, verification status, push token
Handle safety reports and legal requests about a deleted account, for 90 daysAccount details, photos, chats, meetups, check-ins, reports, device and IP records
Image-content moderation (block nudity, violence, hate, drugs)Photos (sent to AWS Rekognition)
Check the text you publish (activities, profile text, check-in notes, reviews, business text, questions) for unsafe content before it appearsThat text, without your name or account details (sent to OpenAI’s moderation service)
Show you activities and people near you, and rank your feedLocation, profile, activity content, your interactions
Show your interests to other members — on your profile, to a host reviewing your request to join and on your hidden-identity profile — and to you in the preview of your own activityInterests
Send Nearby hangouts alerts (only if you switch them on) about activities near you that match your interests, what is active near you, and an evening summaryInterests, current location, push token, notification settings
Rank your first feed: until you have 10 interactions of your own, activities that match your interests rank a little higher and lead “For you”; mark matching activities “For you” in the activity pickerInterests, per-activity interaction counts
Run activity creator rewards: record who started an activity name, count other members’ public activities that use it, check who can count and who can receive a reward, issue reward passes and tell you about your progress (Section 4.2)Activity creator record; other members’ activities that use the name, their guests’ check-ins and account status (verified face, first account, test or automated account, moderation); reward passes; push token
Deliver Live to nearby members, and suggest and search placesLocation (approximate when shown to others), activity content, search text
Confirm a meetup happened (check-in)Location at check-in (not stored), distance band, one-time code
Share your plan and, if you choose, your live location with someone you pickThe meetup details you can see, your latest location point
Check chat messages for abusive or offensive words before they are sentMessage content (checked on our own servers; never sent to an outside service, and the check keeps only counts, not the text)
Features no longer offered for new use (Encounters matching and verification questions, the in-app AI assistant), for any that still runThe text involved (sent to OpenAI)
Moderate reports and enforce our Terms and Community GuidelinesReports, profile, activity content, messages relevant to a report, account history
Send push notifications you opted in to, and service emails (sign-in codes, account and safety messages, and notifications we could not deliver to your phone)Push token, email address, profile
Let you follow businesses, and deliver their new-activity alerts, invitations (only if you allowed them) and announcementsFollows and alert settings, invitation answers, push token
Run waitlists, joining questions and door lists for business activitiesWaitlist place, joining answers, door marks, check-ins, display name and photo
Keep your private attendance record and show businesses a “reliable” markDoor marks, check-ins, late cancellations after a published deadline
Run the launch waitlist and its offerEmail address, country, confirmation time
Run referrals and the ambassador programme, and pay ambassadorsInvite codes, qualifying meetups, Premium months of invited members (anonymised for the ambassador), application answers, payout details
Verify and run business accountsBusiness details, registration number, staff accounts, plan and invoices
Bill you for subscriptions and handle refundsApp Store / Play Store transaction IDs and status
Debug crashes, improve reliability and understand how features are usedLog data, crash traces, error reports, device info, app usage statistics
Prevent fraud, abuse, and account takeover (including limits on sign-in attempts)Log data, device info, IP, phone number or email address
Comply with legal obligations, respond to lawful requests, and establish or defend legal claimsAny category, as necessary

We do not use your personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising, we do not sell it, and we do not run third-party advertising networks inside the app. Places marked “Sponsored” are paid for by businesses, not targeted using your personal profile. We also do not use your photos, messages, or any other user-generated content to train, fine-tune, or evaluate AI models — neither our own nor any third party's. See Section 8.1 below.

4.1 Your interests

You can pick up to 10 interests from our list. Interests typed in your own words are no longer kept: when this change went live, they were matched to our list where possible and the rest were deleted. We use your interests only to:

Your interests are not used for advertising, not shared outside D Lulu, and not used to decide who may join an activity — that is set by each host’s “Who can join” rules.

4.2 Activity creator rewards

The rules are in Section 7g of our Terms of Service. To run them:

4.3 Age checks

D Lulu is for adults only. You give us your birth month and year when you create your profile; we refuse anyone under 18, and the date cannot be changed later. Where your device supports it, the app also asks Apple or Google for an age signal and sends us only the outcome. If the outcome says you may be under 18, or you choose not to share it where we ask, we restrict your account until a later signal confirms you are an adult; a restriction for being under 18 also closes your live activities, requests and chats. We keep the latest outcome, its kind, the platform and when it was checked, and use them only to keep D Lulu adults-only and to meet our legal obligations — never for advertising or analytics.

4.4 Launch waitlist

If you join the waitlist on our website, we keep your email address, your country, when you joined and when you confirmed, and, for the launch offer, your place in line and whether you claimed it (see Section 7i of our Terms). We use them to confirm your address, email you once at launch, and run the offer. We do not keep your IP address with your entry. Every waitlist email has a link to leave the list, which deletes your entry; unconfirmed entries are deleted after 30 days. If we remove an entry for abuse, we keep it with the reason so it cannot take part in the offer.

4.5 Referrals, ambassadors and payouts

4.6 Business accounts

If you register or work for a business on D Lulu, we keep the business’s details (such as its name, legal name, registration number, address, contact email and phone, website and locations), who its owner, managers and staff are, its plan, invoices and payments, and records of its activities, offers, reviews and replies. To verify a business, we may check its registration number with an official business register (such as Singapore’s data.gov.sg or Japan’s National Tax Agency), send a code to its business email, or check its website. Members and the public can see a business’s public page, activities, offers and public reviews.

For users in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we rely on the following legal bases under Article 6 GDPR:

Legal basisProcessing activities
Contract (Art. 6(1)(b))Creating your account and signing you in (including with Google or Apple), showing you activities and people nearby, messaging, delivering subscription features, showing your profile (including your interests), ranking your feed (including the first-feed boost), running activity creator rewards (Terms Section 7g), referrals, the ambassador programme and payouts, the waitlist offer, and business accounts.
Consent (Art. 6(1)(a))Push notifications, optional email address, access to your device’s location, joining the waitlist, optional features such as video intros and live location sharing, and all biometric processing (Art. 9(2)(a)).
Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f))Fraud prevention, safety moderation (including checking text you publish), age checks, debugging and usage statistics, network security, enforcing our Terms, deleting new accounts that never complete face verification, keeping a deleted account’s records for 90 days to handle safety reports and legal requests, checking that the activities and guests counted towards an activity creator reward are genuine, and establishing or defending legal claims. You can object at any time — see Your rights.
Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c))Responding to valid law-enforcement requests, tax and accounting records, age requirements, statutory retention.

Biometric data is a special category under Article 9 GDPR. We process it solely on the basis of your explicit consent, which you give in the app before your first face scan (and again when we add a new purpose). Deleting your main profile photo stops us using that photo’s embedding; deleting your account removes all of your face data, including your verified face, at once (see Biometric Data Consent).

6. Biometric information

Because biometric information is particularly sensitive, we keep the disclosure here brief and point you to our full, standalone Biometric Data Consent, which is our written policy and retention schedule under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), Texas CUBI, Washington’s biometric identifiers law, and comparable laws.

7. How we share information

We share your information only as described below.

We never sell personal information as that term is defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act. We do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.

7.1 Businesses on D Lulu

Verified businesses host activities on D Lulu. This section explains what we keep, and what a business sees, when you follow one, join its activities or hear from it. A business never receives your phone number, email address or any other contact detail, and cannot export a list of members.

8. Third-party processors and services

We use a short list of service providers. Processors act on our instructions under their contract or terms with us, which limit their use of your information to providing the service to us. We do not allow any of them to use your photos or messages to train AI models. See Section 8.1.

ProviderPurposeData categoriesRegion
Amazon Web Services (AWS) — EC2, S3, SESApplication hosting (including our face-recognition servers), photo storage, encrypted database backups, transactional email (including your email sign-in codes)All data categoriesap-southeast-1 (Singapore); backups in ap-southeast-2 (Sydney, Australia)
Amazon Web Services (AWS) — RekognitionImage-content moderation only (nudity, violence, hate, drugs labels)Photos at upload time, and still frames of video introsap-southeast-1 (Singapore)
OpenAIChecking the text you publish for unsafe content; for features no longer offered for new use, Encounters matching and verification questions and the in-app assistantThe text being checked or processed, without your name or account details. Chat messages are never sent to OpenAI or any other AI service. Photos are NOT sent to OpenAI.United States
Google (Gemini API), when we turn it onUnderstanding custom activity names and checking date questionsThat text onlyUnited States / global
TwilioDelivery of SMS sign-in codesPhone number, code, languageUnited States
Google FirebasePush notifications (FCM), crash reporting (Crashlytics) and app usage statistics (Analytics)Push token, notification content, device info, crash stack traces, screen views and key app stepsUnited States / global
Sentry, when we turn it onError monitoring for our serversTechnical details of errors, with request bodies, query strings and sign-in tokens removedUnited States or European Union
OpenStreetMap (Nominatim)Turning a location into a city or area name, and searching for placesCoordinates or search text, without your name or account detailsEurope
Apple (Maps), when we turn it onSearching for places on iPhoneSearch text and an approximate locationUnited States
Apple Inc. / Google LLCIn-app subscription processing; device checks (App Attest / Play Integrity) when you verify your faceTransaction identifier, subscription status; device-check tokensUnited States
Google LLC (Sign in with Google) / Apple Inc. (Sign in with Apple)Signing you in when you choose them. They act as independent identity providers under their own privacy policies; they tell us your account identifier, email address and (if shared) name, and we send Apple a request to cancel your Sign in with Apple authorisation when you delete your account.Account identifier, email address, name if sharedUnited States

Maps in the app are shown by Apple Maps or Google Maps on your device, under their own terms. Official business registers we check are run by public authorities.

Chat messages are not end-to-end encrypted. They are encrypted in transit (TLS), but they are stored in a form our systems can read, and before they are sent they pass through an automated check on our own servers that looks for abusive or offensive words (nothing is sent to an outside service). Our authorised staff can access messages where needed for safety, to investigate a report, or when the law requires it. Please do not use D Lulu chat for anything you would not want a moderator to be able to read.

An earlier version of this policy described client-side end-to-end encryption (X25519 + AES-256-GCM) for the Encounters and Sealed Notes modules. That mechanism has been removed from the product, because encrypted messages bypassed the very safety checks that protect against doxxing and harassment. No chat in D Lulu is end-to-end encrypted today.

8.1 No AI training on your data

We make this commitment: we do not train, fine-tune, or evaluate AI / machine-learning models on your photos, messages, profile content, location, or any other personal information you provide to D Lulu. We also do not sell, license, or otherwise transfer your photos to any party for the purpose of training or evaluating AI models.

The AI we do use:

If we add known-CSAM hash matching (such as Microsoft PhotoDNA or Thorn Safer), or another AI provider that receives personal information, we will update this Section first. We will not use existing user data for a new AI purpose that the law requires your consent for without asking you.

9. International data transfers

Our primary servers are in Singapore (AWS ap-southeast-1), and encrypted backups of our database are kept in Australia (AWS ap-southeast-2). Some of our providers are located in the United States, Europe or elsewhere (see Section 8). When your personal information is transferred outside the jurisdiction in which you are located, we rely on one or more of the following safeguards, as the law where you are requires:

You can request more information about the safeguard for a transfer by emailing support@dlulu.app.

10. Retention schedule

We keep personal information only as long as we need it for the purposes in this policy. The times below are the latest it can take.

When you delete your account, it disappears from D Lulu at once and your face data is deleted. We keep your account details, chats, meetups, check-ins and reports for 90 days so we can handle safety reports and legal requests, then delete them for good — longer only while a report or legal request involving the account is open. Until then, only our safety staff can see them, and the other person in a chat keeps the conversation read-only, shown as “Deleted account”. Other data this policy says is deleted with your account is also deleted at the end of the 90 days. Deletion cannot be undone; you can make a new account later unless you were banned.

Data categoryRetention period
Account record (phone, email, profile, photos)Until you delete your account, then 90 days (see above). Then erased from live systems; backups are encrypted and expire within 60 days.
Verified face (from your live capture) and its one-account entryLife of the account (for a banned account, while the ban lasts). Deleted at once when you delete your account; a banned account’s entry is kept until the 90-day hold ends, so the same face cannot sign up again meanwhile. Absolute cap: 3 years after last interaction.
Photo face embeddingsWhile the photo is in use; deleted within 30 days after you remove or replace it, and at once when you delete your account. Absolute cap: 3 years after last interaction.
Face-verification attempt records (capture embedding and scores)30 days after the attempt is used or expires; at once when you delete your account.
Duplicate-face review flags (the two accounts and how similar they were)Deleted at once when either account is deleted (for a banned account, when its 90-day hold ends).
Email sign-in codesStored only as a one-way digest; valid for 10 minutes and deleted once used, replaced or expired (expired codes are cleared within a day).
Sign-in attempt limitsCounters stored under a keyed one-way digest of the email address, phone number or account they limit; at most 24 hours.
The accounts you sign in with (phone, email, Google, Apple, passkeys)Until you delete your account, then 90 days. A phone number or email address can also be removed or changed in Settings; a Sign in with Apple link is also removed if you stop using Apple sign-in for D Lulu in your Apple settings.
New accounts that never complete face verificationDeleted 7 days after sign-up, after one reminder, straight away and without the 90-day hold. Not applied to accounts created before 15:42 UTC on October 11, 2026, to business owners or staff, or to accounts that have ever verified.
Activities you publish (Hangout Now, Hangout Plan, Live) and their placeShown until they end. Then kept for up to 365 days for your history, safety and disputes, and deleted. A short summary stays in your activity history until you delete your account. Deleting an activity hides it at once.
Records from features no longer offered for new use (Encounters, Sealed Notes)Kept under the same rules as activities and chats, and deleted with your account.
Live locationYour approximate position is removed from the live map when Live ends.
Live location shared through “Share my plan”Only the latest point; deleted when you stop sharing or the share ends, at the latest 30 minutes after the meetup.
Your latest location on your accountReplaced each time it updates; deleted with your account.
Chat messagesUntil you or the other person deletes their account. Then the other person keeps the conversation read-only, shown as “Deleted account”, for 90 days; after that it is deleted for both.
Reports and moderation recordsAs long as needed to keep the Service safe, enforce our rules and handle legal claims. When a deleted account is erased after 90 days, its link to these records is replaced with a pseudonym.
Banned accountsKept while the ban lasts, to stop the person returning. A one-way digest of a banned member’s phone number is kept even if the account is later deleted.
Business follows, invitation answers, invitations and announcements receivedUntil you unfollow, change your answer or delete your account.
Waitlist places, joining answers and door marksKept with the activity; deleted when the activity’s records are deleted or when you delete your account.
Attendance notes (no-show, late cancellation)Count in full for 90 days, half until 180 days, then not at all; deleted 365 days after the activity, or sooner when you delete your account.
Activity interaction counts (taps, join requests and dismissals per activity)Until you delete your account.
Activity creator records (activity name, first-seen date, its creator and first activity, counts and reward levels reached)Kept as the record of the activity. When the creator deletes their account, the link to them and to their first activity is removed.
Creator reward passesUntil you delete your account.
App usage statisticsDetailed events 180 days; the days you were active, up to 800 days; totals without any identifier may be kept longer. Deleted with your account.
Device records180 days after the device was last used; if you delete your account, at most 90 days after that.
Launch waitlist (your email address and country)Kept to tell you when D Lulu launches; removed when you leave the list. We also use it to run the launch offer. Unconfirmed sign-ups are deleted after 30 days. Deleting your app account does not remove your waitlist entry; leave the list from any waitlist email or ask us.
Referral and ambassador records, earnings and payoutsAs long as the programme and tax and accounting law require; after account deletion, kept without your name. Payout details are deleted with your account.
Server logs and error reportsServer logs are kept briefly on our servers and overwritten automatically as new logs are written. Error reports sent to our error-monitoring provider are kept under its retention settings.
Purchase, billing and tax recordsAs required by tax and accounting law (typically 5 years); after account deletion, kept without your identity.

We may keep information longer where the law requires it, to resolve disputes or legal claims, or to protect someone’s safety.

11. Security

We take reasonable and appropriate security measures, including:

No system is perfectly secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of information you send us. Keep your device and sign-in methods secure. If we learn of a personal data breach that presents a risk to you, we will notify you and the relevant supervisory authority as required by applicable law.

12. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the following rights:

You can see and correct your profile, change your sign-in methods and notification settings, and delete your account in the app. For anything else, including a copy of your data, email support@dlulu.app. Before acting on a request, we verify your identity, for example with a one-time code sent to your phone number or email address, or by asking you to sign in to the app. We respond within the time the law requires (usually one month). These rights have limits set by law: for example, we may keep information we must keep by law or need for a legal claim, and we will not give you information about other people.

13. California and other US states

If you are a California resident, you have the rights listed above and, in addition:

We do not “sell” or “share” personal information as those terms are defined under the CCPA/CPRA and we have not done so in the preceding 12 months. Residents of other US states with privacy laws (such as Colorado, Connecticut, Texas, Utah and Virginia) have similar rights to access, correct, delete and obtain a copy of their information, and to opt out of sale, targeted advertising and profiling — which we do not do. You or an authorised agent can make a request at support@dlulu.app; if we decline it, you can appeal by replying to our decision, and if you disagree with the outcome you may contact your state attorney general.

14. Singapore residents (PDPA)

Under the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act 2012 you have the right to request access to, and correction of, personal data we hold about you, and to withdraw consent on reasonable notice. You may contact our Data Protection Officer at support@dlulu.app. If you are not satisfied with our response, you may complain to the Personal Data Protection Commission of Singapore.

15. Minors

D Lulu is strictly for users aged 18 and over, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. We collect month and year of birth at sign-up, refuse anyone under 18, and use age signals from Apple and Google where available (see Section 4.3). If we learn that a user may be under 18 — through an age signal, a report, self-disclosure or otherwise — we restrict the account and may close it and delete its personal information, including any biometric data. Refunds of subscriptions bought through Apple or Google are handled by them under their policies. If you believe someone under 18 is using D Lulu, please report it in the app or email support@dlulu.app.

16. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. We will publish the new version on this page with a new “Last updated” date and the date it takes effect. If a change is material, we may also tell you in the app or by email (if you have given us one), and where the law requires your consent to a change, we will ask for it. If you keep using the Service after the effective date, the updated policy applies.

Previous versions are available on request.

17. Contact

QuantumShieldAI Pte. Ltd.
UEN 202650970C · Singapore
Email: support@dlulu.app