This document governs your use of Socialize, a mobile application developed and operated by DAB Innovation Group, LLC. Please read the following carefully. By downloading or using Socialize, you agree to be bound by both the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service set out below. If you do not agree, please discontinue use of the application.
Privacy Policy #
Effective Date: June 13, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Socialize, operated by DAB Innovation Group, LLC, collects, uses, and protects your information. We believe in your fundamental right to privacy. Our business model is built on providing a secure social experience, not on monetizing your personal data.
Information We Collect
To provide a streamlined and secure experience, Socialize limits account creation to third-party authentication services. We collect the following data:
- Authentication Data: We utilize OAuth exclusively. We receive a token and basic profile confirmation when you sign in with Apple or sign in with Google.
- Profile Data: First name, birthdate, gender, interests, and profile images provided by you.
- Location Data: Socialize is fundamentally based on physical proximity. We collect precise location data to enable the app's core features. You must grant location permissions via your device settings to use the app and interact with others.
- Communications: We facilitate chat messages and image sharing between users.
How We Use Your Information
We use your data strictly to operate, maintain, and provide the features of the Socialize app.
- Your profile data and location are used to display your profile to other users and facilitate real-world connections. If you revoke location permissions, the app's core matching functionality will pause.
- Your birthdate is utilized during onboarding to ensure you are at least 18 years of age. We may utilize on-device, localized ID checks to confirm age appropriateness without transmitting or storing your physical ID on our servers.
- In alignment with our corporate social responsibility standards, we are committed to providing an equitable platform. We do not use your gender, interests, or location to serve targeted advertising, nor do we employ algorithms designed to discriminate or marginalize users.
Data Sharing
Your privacy is our priority. Socialize does not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. We share data only in the following limited circumstance:
- Authentication Providers: We share necessary routing data with Apple and Google strictly to facilitate the OAuth sign-in process.
Data Retention, Encryption, and Security
- Informed Consent for Indefinite Retention: To ensure you do not lose your social graph or connections if you take an extended break from the app, we retain your account data indefinitely. By using Socialize, you consent to this indefinite retention. Upon receiving a verifiable deletion request from within the app, all associated personal data will be permanently purged from our active servers.
- End-to-End Encryption (E2EE): All user chat messages and images sent within chats are fully end-to-end encrypted. Socialize and its parent company cannot decrypt, view, or scan your private communications.
- Security: We implement industry-standard encryption and security protocols to protect your location data and private communications from unauthorized access.
Safety, Moderation, and Reporting
Because we utilize strict E2EE, we cannot proactively scan your messages for inappropriate content. We rely on our community to maintain a safe environment.
- If you experience harassment or inappropriate behavior, you may report the offending user directly through the app.
- Submitting a report will immediately block the user from further interactions with you.
- To protect your privacy, reporting a user does not forward or decrypt your chat history to our moderation team. You will be asked to type a brief note explaining the violation, which our team will use alongside behavioral metrics to take appropriate action against the offending account.
Contact
For privacy-related inquiries, please contact us at privacy@dabinnovation.com.
Terms of Service #
Effective Date: June 13, 2026
Welcome to Socialize. These Terms of Service ("Terms") constitute a legally binding agreement between you and DAB Innovation Group, LLC ("Company," "we," "us," or "our"). By authenticating your account and using the Socialize application (the "App"), you agree to be bound by these Terms. Questions about these Terms or the use of the App should be directed to support@dabinnovation.com.
Acceptable Use
Socialize is designed to facilitate safe, real-world connections. To maintain this environment, you agree to the following rules of conduct:
- Age Requirement: You must be at least 18 years of age to use this App. By creating an account, you represent and warrant that you meet this requirement.
- Proximity Features: You understand that Socialize requires precise location tracking to function. You must enable these permissions via your device.
- User Conduct: You agree not to use the App to stalk, harass, intimidate, or harm any other user, either digitally or in the physical world.
- Prohibited Content: You may not use the App to distribute illegal material, spam, or solicitations.
- Reporting and Blocking: We provide in-app tools to report and block abusive users. We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these Terms, based on user reports and our internal safety metrics.
Intellectual Property
- Our Property: Except for third-party software, open-source components, and third-party trademarks incorporated into the App, all code, design, logos, and features of Socialize are the exclusive intellectual property of DAB Innovation Group, LLC. You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the App strictly for its intended purpose.
- Third-Party Trademarks: "Apple," "Sign in with Apple," "Apple Maps," "Google," "Sign in with Google," and "Google Maps" are registered trademarks of their respective owners (Apple Inc. and Google LLC). The use of these trademarks within the App is strictly for interoperability and authentication purposes and does not imply any affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement by Apple Inc. or Google LLC.
- Open Source Software: The App utilizes certain third-party libraries and open-source software components (such as XMPP client libraries, etc.). These components are subject to their own respective open-source licenses. Nothing in these Terms limits your rights under, or grants you rights that supersede, the terms and conditions of any applicable open-source license.
- Your Profile: By creating an account, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free license to display your profile information (such as your first name, age, gender, image, and interests) to other users within the App for the sole purpose of operating the service.
Third-Party Mapping Services
Socialize relies on third-party mapping integrations to provide proximity features. By using the App, you are also bound by the terms of these third-party providers:
- Google Maps: On Android devices, the App utilizes Google Maps APIs. By using the App, you agree to be bound by the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service and the Google Privacy Policy.
- Apple Maps: On iOS devices, the App utilizes Apple MapKit. By using the App, you agree to be bound by the Apple Maps Terms of Use.
Disclaimer of Warranties
THE APP IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DAB INNOVATION GROUP, LLC DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Real-World Interactions: Socialize does not conduct criminal background checks on its users. We make no representations or warranties regarding the conduct, identity, or intentions of users you meet through the App. You agree to take reasonable precautions in all interactions with other users, particularly when meeting in person.
Limitation of Liability
The liability of DAB Innovation Group, LLC, its Managing Member , and officers is strictly limited according to Texas state law. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COMPANY BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS OR REVENUES, WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, OR ANY INJURY, DISTRESS, OR HARM ARISING FROM YOUR USE OF THE APP OR YOUR INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER USERS.
Changes to These Terms
We reserve the right to modify these Terms at any time. If we make material changes, we will notify you via the email address associated with your authentication provider or through a prominent notice within the App. Continued use of the App following such notice constitutes your acceptance of the updated Terms.
Account and Data Deletion Requests #
- Indefinite Retention: We retain your account data in perpetuity to ensure continuous service should you take an extended break from the App.
- Deletion: You may request the permanent deletion of your account and associated data at any time by using the in-app deletion tools or by emailing us at privacy@dabinnovation.com. Upon verification of your request, we will permanently remove your data from our active systems.
Child Safety and CSAM Policy #
- Zero Tolerance: Socialize is strictly for users 18 and older. We have a zero-tolerance policy for the exploitation of minors and the distribution of Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM).
- Standard Moderation & Behavioral Metrics: Because all private communications on Socialize are End-to-End Encrypted (E2EE), we cannot and do not proactively scan, view, or possess your messages. Standard user reports (e.g., for harassment or spam) submitted via a user's profile do not grant us access to your chat history. Instead, we enforce our Terms using behavioral metrics, such as report volume and block velocity, to suspend or terminate abusive accounts.
- Reporting Illegal Content (The Blind Relay): To ensure illegal material can be reported without compromising our E2EE architecture or forcing DAB Innovation Group, LLC into legal possession of illicit content, we utilize a direct-to-authority reporting mechanism. If you encounter CSAM or severe illegal content, you must use the in-chat "long-press" reporting feature. This encrypts the specific message and relays it directly to trusted authorities (such as the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children) without our systems ever decrypting or viewing the payload.
- Reporting Interface Roadblocks: Attempting to report illegal content through the standard profile reporting tool will prompt a redirect, instructing you to use the in-chat long-press feature. We do not accept text-based allegations of CSAM through standard channels without the accompanying cryptographically secure relay to authorities.
Apple App Store Additional Terms #
If you download the App through the Apple App Store, the following additional terms apply. In the event of any conflict between these additional terms and the rest of the Terms of Service, these additional terms shall control with respect to your use of the App on Apple-branded products.
Acknowledgement
You and DAB Innovation Group, LLC acknowledge that these Terms are concluded between you and DAB Innovation Group, LLC only, and not with Apple Inc. ("Apple"). DAB Innovation Group, LLC, not Apple, is solely responsible for the App and the content thereof.
Scope of License
The license granted to you for the App is limited to a non-transferable license to use the App on any Apple-branded Products that you own or control and as permitted by the Usage Rules set forth in the Apple Media Services Terms and Conditions.
Maintenance and Support
You and DAB Innovation Group, LLC acknowledge that Apple has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the App.
Warranty
Apple will have no warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App. Any other claims, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, or expenses attributable to any failure to conform to any warranty will be the sole responsibility of DAB Innovation Group, LLC, subject to the limitations of liability set forth in these Terms.
Product Claims
You and DAB Innovation Group, LLC acknowledge that DAB Innovation Group, LLC, not Apple, is responsible for addressing any of your claims or any third-party claims relating to the App or your possession and/or use of the App, including, but not limited to: (i) product liability claims; (ii) any claim that the App fails to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (iii) claims arising under consumer protection, privacy, or similar legislation.
Intellectual Property Rights
In the event of any third-party claim that the App or your possession and use of the App infringes that third party's intellectual property rights, DAB Innovation Group, LLC, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement, and discharge of any such intellectual property infringement claim.
Legal Compliance
You represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country; and (ii) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
Third-Party Beneficiary
You and DAB Innovation Group, LLC acknowledge and agree that Apple, and Apple's subsidiaries, are third-party beneficiaries of these Terms, and that, upon your acceptance of the terms and conditions of these Terms, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce these Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary thereof.