Privacy Policy

Effective July 31, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains what information Twunked collects, how it is used, when it may be disclosed, and the choices available to members.

Contents

1. Scope of this Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to information processed through Twunked, including its website, member accounts, profiles, social wall, posts, photographs, comments, likes, follows, notifications, reports, and account-security features.

This Policy does not apply to independent websites, services, or applications operated by third parties, even when they are linked from Twunked.

By using the service, you acknowledge the information practices described in this Policy.

2. Information we collect

Account information

When you register or manage an account, information collected may include:

  • Username.
  • Email address.
  • Securely hashed password.
  • Display name.
  • Birth date or age-confirmation information.
  • Account role and account status.
  • Registration and account-update dates.

Profile information

You may choose to provide profile information such as:

  • Biography.
  • Location.
  • Relationship status.
  • Profile photograph or avatar.
  • Profile cover image.
  • Privacy and online-status preferences.

Some profile fields are optional. Information you add to your profile may be visible to other members, depending on your privacy settings.

Posts and community content

Information submitted through community features may include:

  • Posts and captions.
  • Uploaded photographs.
  • Comments and replies.
  • Likes and reactions.
  • Follow relationships and follow requests.
  • Content visibility selections.
  • Content-editing and creation dates.

Safety and moderation information

When you use safety features or staff review content, information may include:

  • Members you block.
  • Reports you submit.
  • Report reasons and supporting details.
  • The reported profile, post, or comment.
  • Moderation decisions and staff notes.
  • Account restrictions, suspensions, or bans.

Login and security information

To operate and protect accounts, the service may process:

  • Internet Protocol address.
  • Login-attempt dates and results.
  • Password-reset requests.
  • Password-reset token hashes and expiration dates.
  • Session identifiers.
  • Recent account activity.
  • Security and error logs.

Password-reset tokens are stored in hashed form rather than storing the reset link’s original secret token.

Device and technical information

When you access the service, servers and hosting systems may automatically receive technical information such as:

  • Browser type.
  • Device and operating-system information.
  • Requested pages and access dates.
  • Referring page or website.
  • General network and connection information.
  • Error, performance, and security events.

Communications

When you contact support, the service may retain your email address, account information, the contents of your request, attachments you provide, and responses sent by support staff.

3. How information is used

Information may be used to:

  • Create, maintain, and authenticate member accounts.
  • Display profiles and community content according to selected privacy settings.
  • Provide posts, comments, likes, follows, and notifications.
  • Process profile photographs and uploaded content.
  • Send password-reset and account-security communications.
  • Remember login sessions and account preferences.
  • Detect spam, fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, and security threats.
  • Enforce blocks and privacy restrictions.
  • Review member reports and moderate content.
  • Investigate violations of the Terms of Service.
  • Respond to support questions and account requests.
  • Diagnose technical errors and improve reliability.
  • Maintain backups and protect the integrity of the service.
  • Comply with lawful requests and legal obligations.
  • Protect members, staff, the service, and the public.

Information should not be used for a materially different purpose without updating this Policy or providing another appropriate notice.

4. Profile and content visibility

Twunked is a social community. Information you publish may be visible to other members or the public depending on the feature and your selected settings.

Public profiles

Information visible on a public profile may include:

  • Username and display name.
  • Avatar and cover image.
  • Biography and location.
  • Public posts and photographs.
  • Follower and following counts.
  • Public comments and interactions.
  • Online status when enabled.

Private profiles

Private profiles restrict some profile information and posts to accepted followers. Certain basic information, such as username, display name, avatar, and private-profile status, may remain visible so members can identify and request to follow the account.

Post visibility

Posts may support visibility options such as:

  • Public.
  • Followers.
  • Private.

Privacy controls limit how the service displays information, but they cannot prevent another person from photographing, copying, saving, or redistributing content they were permitted to view.

Do not publish information that you would not want another person to retain or share.

5. When information may be shared

With other members and visitors

Profile information, posts, photographs, comments, likes, and follow activity may be displayed according to the service’s features and your privacy settings.

Hosting and service providers

Information may be processed by companies that help operate the service, such as:

  • Website-hosting providers.
  • Database and storage providers.
  • Email-delivery providers.
  • Backup and security providers.
  • Technical-support providers.

These providers should receive only the information reasonably necessary to perform services on behalf of Twunked.

Legal and safety disclosures

Information may be preserved or disclosed when reasonably believed necessary to:

  • Comply with applicable law, a court order, or another valid legal request.
  • Investigate fraud, abuse, harassment, threats, or illegal conduct.
  • Prevent imminent harm or protect someone’s safety.
  • Protect the rights, property, and security of members, staff, or the service.
  • Enforce the Terms of Service.

Business changes

Information may be transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, asset sale, or transfer of the service to another operator.

Where reasonably possible, notice will be provided before personal information becomes subject to a materially different privacy policy.

With your direction

Information may also be shared when you request, authorize, or direct the disclosure.

6. Sale of information and advertising

Twunked does not currently sell members’ personal information for money.

Twunked does not currently use personal information for cross-site behavioral advertising.

The service may display promotions for its own features, memberships, events, or community activities. These internal promotions are not a sale of personal information.

Before introducing practices that legally qualify as selling or sharing personal information for targeted advertising, this Policy and any legally required privacy controls should be updated.

7. Cookies and session storage

The service may use cookies or similar browser-storage technologies to:

  • Keep members logged in.
  • Protect forms from unauthorized submissions.
  • Remember security and interface preferences.
  • Support account and session security.
  • Prevent repeated display of certain notices.
  • Diagnose technical problems.

Essential cookies are necessary for login, account security, and core site functions.

Disabling essential cookies may prevent registration, login, password recovery, posting, or other account features from working correctly.

Browser session storage may also be used for temporary interface settings or notices. Session-storage information is generally removed when the browser session ends, although browser behavior may vary.

8. How long information is retained

Information is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, to operate the service, resolve disputes, protect safety, enforce agreements, and comply with legal obligations.

Account information

Core account information is generally retained while an account remains active.

After an account is closed, limited account and security information may be retained when necessary for fraud prevention, abuse prevention, legal compliance, dispute resolution, or enforcement of a permanent ban.

Posts and uploaded content

Posts, photographs, and comments are generally retained until they are deleted by the member, removed through moderation, or removed as part of account closure.

Deleted content may remain temporarily in backups, logs, caches, or moderation records before being overwritten or securely removed.

Reports and moderation records

Reports, moderation actions, account restrictions, and related records may be retained longer than ordinary content when needed to:

  • Identify repeated violations.
  • Prevent ban evasion.
  • Respond to appeals or disputes.
  • Protect member safety.
  • Establish or defend legal claims.

Security records

Login attempts, password-reset records, Internet Protocol addresses, and security logs may be retained for a limited period appropriate to detecting abuse, investigating incidents, and protecting accounts.

Legal preservation

Information may be retained beyond ordinary periods when preservation is required by law, litigation, investigation, court order, or a valid government request.

9. Data security

Twunked uses administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect information from unauthorized access, alteration, loss, misuse, or disclosure.

Security measures may include:

  • Password hashing.
  • Hashed password-reset tokens.
  • Expiring, one-time password-reset links.
  • Form-request security tokens.
  • Prepared database statements.
  • Login and request rate limits.
  • Access restrictions for moderation features.
  • File-type and upload-size restrictions.
  • Account blocking and privacy controls.
  • Server, database, and file-system access controls.

No website, server, database, or transmission method can be guaranteed completely secure.

Members should use a unique password, protect their login information, log out from shared devices, and report suspected unauthorized access promptly.

Twunked staff will not ask you to provide your account password.

10. Your privacy choices

Edit profile information

Logged-in members can edit profile information, avatar, cover image, biography, location, and relationship status from the profile-editing page.

Profile privacy

Members may be able to:

  • Make their profile public or private.
  • Enable or disable online-status visibility.
  • Enable or disable follow requests.
  • Select post visibility.
  • Remove posts or comments they created.
  • Unfollow another member.
  • Cancel a pending follow request.
  • Block or unblock another member.

Email communications

Essential security communications, including password-reset emails, may be sent when requested or necessary to protect an account.

Because these communications are related to account security, they may not include an unsubscribe option.

Account closure

A member may request account closure or deletion by contacting:

support@twunked.com

Identity verification may be required before an account or personal information is deleted.

Some information may be retained after closure where required or permitted for security, fraud prevention, moderation, legal compliance, or dispute resolution.

11. Location-dependent privacy rights

Depending on where you live and which privacy laws apply to Twunked, you may have rights concerning your personal information.

These rights may include the ability to request:

  • Confirmation that personal information is being processed.
  • Access to certain personal information.
  • Correction of inaccurate information.
  • Deletion of certain information.
  • A portable copy of certain information.
  • Restriction of certain processing.
  • Objection to certain processing.
  • Information about categories of data collected, used, or disclosed.
  • Opt-out from sale or qualifying sharing of personal information.
  • Limitation of certain uses of sensitive personal information.
  • Equal service without unlawful discrimination for exercising a privacy right.

These rights are not absolute. A request may be limited or denied when an exception applies, when the requester’s identity cannot be reasonably verified, or when the request would affect another person’s rights.

Submitting a privacy request

Privacy requests may be sent to:

support@twunked.com

Include:

  • Your account username.
  • The email address connected to the account.
  • The privacy request you are making.
  • Enough information to locate the account and reasonably verify your identity.

Do not send your password, password-reset token, government identification, or payment information unless support specifically explains why a particular verification document is legally necessary and provides a secure submission method.

Authorized agents

Where applicable law permits an authorized agent to submit a request, Twunked may require proof of authorization and direct confirmation from the account holder.

Appeals

Where required by applicable law, instructions for appealing a denied privacy request will be provided with the response.

12. Underage users

Twunked is intended only for adults who are at least 18 years old.

The service is not directed to children or teenagers under 18, and they may not create accounts.

Twunked does not knowingly seek to collect personal information from anyone under 18.

When an account is reasonably believed to belong to someone under 18, the account may be suspended while the issue is reviewed and may be permanently removed.

A parent, guardian, or other person who believes an underage individual has provided personal information should contact:

support@twunked.com

The report should include the username or profile address involved, but should not include unnecessary sensitive information about the underage person.

13. International processing

Twunked may be accessed from locations outside the country where its servers, hosting provider, or operators are located.

Information may therefore be stored or processed in countries with privacy laws different from those in your location.

Where required, reasonable measures should be used to protect personal information transferred across national borders.

15. Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may be updated to reflect changes to:

  • Site features.
  • Information practices.
  • Hosting or service providers.
  • Security practices.
  • Legal or regulatory obligations.
  • Business operations.

The effective date at the top of the page will be changed when the Policy is revised.

Material changes may also be announced through the service, account notifications, email, or another reasonable method.

Continued use of the service after an updated Policy takes effect means the updated Policy applies to information processed after its effective date, subject to applicable law.

16. Privacy contact

Questions, privacy requests, account-deletion requests, and concerns about this Policy may be sent to:

Twunked Privacy

Email: support@twunked.com

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This Privacy Policy is a general template based on the currently planned Twunked features. It must be reviewed against the service’s actual hosting, email, analytics, advertising, payment, data-retention, and business practices before public launch. A qualified privacy attorney should review it for the jurisdictions where the service operates.