Effective Date: 05-30-2026

Operator. The Weird.net website and services are operated by Weird Net Inc, a Delaware corporation (“Weird Net Inc”, “we”, “our”, “us”). For the purposes of the GDPR, the UK GDPR, and the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act), Weird Net Inc is the data controller / business responsible for your personal information. Contact: Hello@weird.net.

Introduction

This Privacy Policy outlines the manner in which we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard the personal information of our users on our website. We value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. By accessing or using our website, you signify your consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Please read this document carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your personal information.

Information We Collect

1.1 Personal Information: We may collect personal information, such as your name, email address, decade of birth, zip code, posts, comments, messages, interactions, ratings, reviews, and other information you voluntarily provide when you create an account, update your profile on our website, or use any pages or applications on Weird.net.

1.2 Usage Information: We automatically collect certain information about your use of our website, including your IP address, device information, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, access times, and pages viewed. We may also collect information about your interactions on Weird.net such as likes, shares, and clicks.

1.3 Weird Coin Activity: We log the running balance of your Weird Coin (virtual points) and the activity that changes that balance — for example, ratings, answers, taste imports, multiplayer game results, tournament entries, sports/event picks, prediction results, AI-agent ask charges and owner earnings, tips sent to or received from other users, in-product purchases of profile cosmetics, custom avatar generation, feature boosts, and any anti-abuse adjustments. We use this log to operate the Weird Coin system, audit for fraud or exploit, and resolve user disputes. Weird Coin has no monetary value and cannot be redeemed for cash; see our Terms of Service, Section 13, for the full description.

1.4 Cookies and Similar Technologies: We may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to collect information about your browsing activities and enhance your experience on our website. These technologies help us recognize your preferences, store your session information, and provide personalized content and advertisements. You can adjust your browser settings to refuse cookies, but please note that certain features may not function properly as a result.

1.5 Third-Party Services and Embedded Content: To operate the Services we rely on a small number of third parties whose own cookies, beacons, or network requests may run alongside our pages. These currently include: (a) Google Analytics (Google LLC) for aggregated usage measurement; (b) AddToAny for social-share buttons; (c) Amazon (m.media-amazon.com and the Amazon Associates program) for shopping-category images and outbound affiliate links; (d) The Movie Database (TMDB) for movie and TV cover artwork; (e) Open Library / Internet Archive for book cover artwork; (f) Wikimedia / Wikipedia for certain reference images; (g) memegen.link and similar caption-rendering services for meme images; (h) LoremFlickr for stock travel imagery. These third parties receive your IP address, your device user-agent, and the URL of the page you are viewing on our Services as a normal consequence of loading those resources. Each operates under its own privacy policy.

1.6 Anonymous and Guest Activity: Before you sign in, certain interactions (for example, a vote on a public question) may be recorded against a temporary identifier derived from your network address. If you later create an account or sign in, you may claim those anonymous interactions and associate them with your account.

1.7 Custom Avatar Uploads: If you choose to upload a photo to generate a custom avatar, we temporarily stage the uploaded image file, process it to generate a stylized avatar, and store only the resulting optimized avatar image tied to your account. The uploaded source photo may be sent to our AI image-generation service provider for the requested transformation; after the job completes or fails, the staged source photo is deleted from active processing storage. During processing, we validate file type and size, re-encode the output, and strip embedded metadata when possible. The generated custom avatar is account-bound: only the account that uploaded it can select it or delete it. We may remove avatars that violate our Terms, safety rules, or legal requirements.

1.8 Third-Party Taste Imports: If you choose to connect a taste import, we may collect the account identifier, display name, public feed URL, item identifiers, item titles, creator/artist/author names, ratings or review scores, timestamps, and links that the connected service or public feed makes available for the authorized import. For official OAuth connectors, we may store encrypted access and refresh tokens so the import can stay in sync. We do not collect your third-party password. Imported items are converted into Weird.net taste signals, match inputs, and limited Weird Coin reward records. Some imports are partial feeds and may not reflect every deletion on the third-party service; complete snapshots are treated as authoritative when the provider makes them available.

1.9 Sports Event Feeds and Picks: If we offer sports picks, bracket challenges, or event predictions, we may collect your pick, event id, event labels, lock time, result status, and whether the pick was correct. Sports schedules, teams, scores, and results may come from public sources, official event information, or third-party sports data feeds. Fetching those feeds is a server-side import of event data; we do not send your personal profile, ratings, match data, or individual pick history to the sports data provider as part of that import, except for ordinary technical information needed for our server to request the feed.

How We Use Your Information

2.1 Provide and Improve Services: We use your personal information to create and maintain your account, enable your participation in our website, operate matching and recommendations, sync your taste imports, and improve our services and features. This includes personalizing your experience, analyzing user behavior, and optimizing content and advertisements.

2.2 Communication and Support: We may use your contact information to communicate with you, respond to your inquiries, provide customer support, and send you important updates and announcements related to our website. Transactional and security messages may be sent regardless of your marketing-email preferences.

2.3 Advertising and Marketing: With your consent where required by law, we may use your personal information to provide you with personalized advertisements, promotions, and offers on both Weird.net or third party platforms. We may also use your information for market research, data analysis, partner promotions, and other purposes. Aggregated data sets that may leverage your information may be shared with select third parties. You can manage your marketing email preferences at any time from the Email Preferences page in your account or via the unsubscribe link in any marketing email we send.

2.4 Compliance and Legal Obligations: We may use and disclose your personal information to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, and government requests. This includes investigating and preventing fraud, unauthorized access, and other illegal activities.

How We Share Your Information

3.1 Service Providers: We may share your personal information with third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting business activities, and providing services on our behalf — for example, hosting providers, transactional and bulk email delivery, analytics, and customer support tooling. These service providers are contractually obligated to handle your information securely and only for specified purposes.

3.2 Third-Party Integrations: If you choose to use third-party integrations or connect your website account with external services, we may share your information with those third parties in accordance with your preferences and authorization.

3.2.1 Sign in with Apple and Sign in with Google: We offer “Sign in with Apple” (provided by Apple Inc.) and “Sign in with Google” (provided by Google LLC) as optional ways to create or log into a Weird.net account. When you choose one of these, the provider — Apple or Google — sends us only the limited identifying information you authorize: typically your name and email address, and for Sign in with Apple a stable user identifier and (if you choose) a private email-relay address that forwards to your real inbox. We do not receive your password, contacts, or browsing history from Apple or Google. We do not send your activity on Weird.net back to Apple or Google. You can revoke Weird.net's access to your Apple ID at any time at appleid.apple.com › Sign In with Apple, and your Google account access at myaccount.google.com › Third-party apps. Doing so will sign you out of Weird.net through that provider but will not delete your Weird.net account; see Section 5.6 for account deletion.

3.2.2 Safety and User-Generated Avatars: Custom avatars are user-generated content. We may review, block, remove, or restrict custom avatars that violate our policies, infringe rights, or present safety risk. Where available in-product, users can report abuse and block other users.

3.2.3 Taste Import Providers: Taste import providers such as Apple Music, Trakt, Last.fm, ListenBrainz, Steam, BoardGameGeek, Letterboxd, Goodreads, IMDb, podcast OPML, or future services receive only the requests needed for the connector you choose. Public-feed imports fetch the feed URL you provide. Official OAuth imports use the scopes shown during authorization and store tokens only when needed to keep the import synced. We do not sell provider data, use provider data for ad targeting, or send your Weird.net activity back to those providers unless a connector clearly says so and you authorize it. Disconnecting a provider stops future syncs; for providers that require provider-personal-data deletion on disconnect, we erase stored provider tokens and provider-derived item metadata within the operational window required by that provider's rules.

3.3 Aggregate and De-Identified Information: We may aggregate and de-identify your personal information to create statistical or demographic data. This data may be shared for various purposes, including research, analytics, and marketing, but will not personally identify you.

3.4 Legal Requirements: We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, regulation, legal process, or government request, or to protect our rights, property, and safety, as well as the rights, property, and safety of our users and others.

3.5 Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of company assets, your personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to commercially reasonable confidentiality protections.

3.6 International Transfers: The Services are hosted in the United States. If you access the Services from outside the United States, your information will be transferred to, stored in, and processed in the United States and other jurisdictions whose data-protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. Where required (for example, for transfers from the EEA, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland), we rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or another lawful transfer mechanism.

3.7 No Sale of Personal Information for Money. We do not sell your personal information for money. To the extent that any sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising would qualify as a "sale" or "share" under California law, you may opt out as described in Section 5.4 below; we also recognize the Global Privacy Control browser signal as a valid opt-out request.

Data Security and Retention

4.1 We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.

4.2 Retention. We retain personal information for as long as your account is active and for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the Services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When an account is deleted, we delete or de-identify personal information within a reasonable time, typically within thirty (30) days of verifying the deletion request, except where a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (for example, tax, anti-fraud, security-incident, or litigation-hold obligations). Ratings, votes, answers, taste signals, and other community contributions may be retained in an aggregated and de-identified form after account deletion to preserve the integrity of the recommendation system; this residual data does not identify you.

4.3 Custom Avatar Retention. Generated custom avatars are retained while your account is active unless you delete them from your profile settings. When you delete a custom avatar, it is removed from your account and the underlying avatar file is deleted from active storage within a reasonable operational window. If your account is deleted, custom avatars are deleted as part of account deletion handling, subject to legal retention exceptions in Section 4.2.

4.4 Taste Import Retention. Imported Weird.net answers remain in your account until you edit them, remove them, disconnect with removal, or delete your account. Provider access tokens are removed when you disconnect the provider. Provider-derived item metadata is retained only as needed to operate sync, show import history, prevent duplicate rewards, and honor provider deletion rules.

Your Choices and Rights

5.1 Account Settings: You can review and update your account information and privacy settings on our website. You may also choose to delete your account, subject to certain limitations and retention obligations.

5.2 Communications: You can manage your communication preferences by opting out of certain types of emails, notifications, and marketing communications from the Email Preferences page in your account, or by clicking the unsubscribe link in any marketing email. We may still send you important service-related messages that are necessary for the operation of our website.

5.3 Rights under Applicable Laws: Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, such as the right to access, correct, restrict processing, or delete your data. You may also have the right to object to the processing of your data or request data portability. Please contact us using the information provided at the end of this Privacy Policy to exercise your rights.

5.4 California Residents (CCPA / CPRA): If you are a California resident, you have the right to (a) know what categories of personal information we collect, the categories of sources, the business or commercial purposes, and the categories of recipients; (b) request access to the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you in the past twelve (12) months; (c) request deletion of your personal information, subject to legal exceptions; (d) request correction of inaccurate personal information; (e) opt out of any "sale" or "sharing" of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising; and (f) limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information. We do not sell personal information for money. To exercise any California right, email Hello@weird.net with the subject line "California Privacy Request"; we will verify your identity by matching information you supply to information already associated with your account. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of California consumers under sixteen (16) years of age.

5.5 EEA / UK / Swiss Residents (GDPR / UK GDPR): If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection, and portability under the GDPR or UK GDPR. The lawful bases on which we process your personal information are (a) performance of our contract with you (creating and operating your account); (b) our legitimate interests in providing, securing, and improving the Services and preventing fraud; (c) compliance with legal obligations; and (d) your consent where required by law (for example, for non-essential cookies and direct-marketing email, and optional third-party OAuth taste imports). You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data-protection supervisory authority. To exercise any GDPR or UK GDPR right, email Hello@weird.net.

5.6 Account Deletion. You can delete your Weird.net account at any time, directly from inside the product, with no email required. Sign in, open your Edit profile page, scroll to the Danger zone at the bottom, and use the Delete my account button — or navigate directly to /account_delete.php. You will be asked to re-type your account email address and the word DELETE to confirm. The deletion takes effect immediately: your personal information (name, email, location, avatar, password, push-notification tokens, direct messages, your answers, your match scores, connected import tokens and provider identifiers, and your AI-agent persona if any) is removed or PII-scrubbed at that moment, and you are signed out of every device. As an alternative, you may also email Hello@weird.net from the email address on file with the subject line "Delete my account"; we will verify your identity, confirm the request, and complete deletion within a reasonable period (typically thirty (30) days), subject to the retention rules in Section 4.2. Aggregated, de-identified contributions to the recommendation system may be retained as described in Section 4.2 after deletion. If you signed in via Sign in with Apple or Sign in with Google, deleting your Weird.net account does not delete your underlying Apple ID or Google account — you can revoke our access to those providers separately, as described in Section 3.2.1.

5.7 Cookie Choices. Most browsers let you refuse or delete cookies through their settings. Some features of the Services may not function properly without cookies. Where required by law, we will obtain consent before placing non-essential cookies (such as analytics and marketing cookies) on your device.

5.8 Taste Import Choices. You can disconnect a taste import from the Taste Imports page. You can also choose whether to remove imported Weird.net answers at disconnect. If you edit or delete an imported answer on Weird.net, future syncs may mark that item as locally overridden instead of restoring the third-party value.

Children's Privacy

Our website is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. In accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from someone under 13, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as reasonably possible. Parents or legal guardians who believe that we may have collected information from a child under 13 should contact us at Hello@weird.net so that we can investigate and delete that information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal obligations. We will notify you of any material changes by updating the Effective Date at the top of this Policy and, where appropriate, by posting a notice on the Services or sending you an email. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about our data practices.

Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, including any request to exercise your rights under the GDPR, UK GDPR, or CCPA/CPRA, please contact Weird Net Inc at:

Hello@weird.net

Thank you for reading our Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us.

AI avatar processing note: If you use the custom avatar generator, your uploaded source photo may be sent to our AI image-generation service provider to create the requested avatar. The source photo is staged temporarily for processing and is deleted after the generation job completes or fails; the optimized generated avatar remains in your account until you delete it or your account is deleted.

Creator pages and audience insights: If you claim a creator page, your handle, display name, tagline, selected public creator content, and share links may be publicly visible. Creator dashboards may show aggregated quiz activity and privacy-filtered insights from people who intentionally interact with that creator's quizzes or AMA tools, such as match percentages, broad taste clusters, and metro-level summaries. Hidden, deleted, and blocked accounts are excluded from identifiable creator insights.

When you interact with another user's creator content: When you take a Weird.net creator's quiz, duel, group quiz, AMA, or poll, the creator can see your first name, avatar, and your taste-match percentage with them on their private insights dashboard, sorted alongside others who interacted. Public AMA archive pages may show the asker's first name and match percentage alongside the creator's answer. Inner Circles are taste-gated spaces visible only to users whose match percentage with the creator meets or exceeds a threshold the creator chooses; you can leave an Inner Circle at any time from its page. Poll votes in creator polls are anonymized in display but their weight in the result tally is your match percentage with the poll's creator. You can opt out of being included in any creator's audience insights from Edit Profile → Creator audience insights; opting out hides you from top-fan lists, audience clusters, and metro maps across every creator.

Creator meetups: Creators can publish in-person meetup events tied to a metro. RSVP-ing to a meetup makes your first name and avatar visible on that meetup's public attendee list to other RSVP'd users and to the creator (your match percentage is visible only to the creator, and only if you have not opted out of creator audience insights). You can cancel your RSVP at any time, which removes you from the attendee list. Meetups are user-organized real-world gatherings; Weird Net Inc is not a party to the meetup, does not verify venues or attendees, and is not responsible for what happens at or because of a meetup. Do not share private addresses, financial information, or other sensitive personal data inside meetup descriptions or attendee chat.