Soda City Your data, plainly put.
What we collect, why, who sees it, and how to get rid of it — in language you should not need a lawyer to parse.
Last updated 11 October 2026 · Columbia, South Carolina
Your account, your profile, your messages and the photographs you upload are stored on a server, not on your phone. That is what makes the app work across devices, and it means the ordinary rules apply: use a password you do not use anywhere else, and do not put anything in a photograph or a message that you would not want held by somebody other than you.
Photographs you upload can be opened by the person who runs this site, to check they are appropriate. Accounts that break the community guidelines can be hidden or removed. You must be 18 or over.
What changed, and when
Until October 2026 Soda City Crush kept everything in your own browser, and this page said so: no server, no account database, and photos that never left your device. That stopped being true when real accounts launched, and this page was not updated at the time — it kept describing the old build for several weeks while members were signing up under it. That was our mistake, and this is the correction rather than a quiet edit to the date at the top.
What is different now: your account, your profile, your messages and your photographs are stored on a server. Clearing your browser no longer deletes anything. And photographs can be looked at by the person who runs this site, to check they are what this place is for. The sections below say exactly what that means.
Where your data lives
Your account and everything attached to it live on a server — a hosted Postgres database and file store, run for us by Supabase, located in the United States. That is what lets you sign in on your phone and your laptop and find the same profile, and it is also what makes the rest of this page necessary.
Photographs are uploaded. They are resized in your browser first, then stored on the server, which is how other members can see them at all. Public photographs are readable by signed-in members; private ones are not served to anybody until you grant access, and then only to that person.
Clearing your browser no longer deletes your account. It only signs you out. Deleting is a separate thing and it is described under Your controls.
Some things still never leave your device, because they are nobody else's business: which tab you had open, a filter you set, an unsent draft, and the picture you were building in the avatar studio before you saved it. Pixelation applied in that studio is burned into the saved image before it is uploaded, so the hidden part is not in the file anybody can fetch.
Two external services receive requests when you load a page: Google Fonts serves our typefaces, and some demonstration photographs are fetched from image hosts. They see your IP address as they would on any site that embeds them.
Two external services do receive requests when you load a page: Google Fonts serves our typefaces, and placeholder profile photographs are fetched from image hosts. Those providers see your IP address as they would on any site that embeds them.
What we collect
- Account: first name, username, email address, and password. We ask your date of birth to check you are 18 or over, then keep only the age — the date itself is not stored.
- Profile: display name, age, your description, general location, neighborhoods, date-spot picks, and who you want to see.
- Dating Fingerprint: your answers to any check-ins you complete, and the scores derived from them.
- Photographs: the pictures you upload, stored on the server, each marked public or private by you.
- Messages: conversations, and images you send, which expire after 24 hours.
- Reports and blocks you submit.
We do not collect your contacts, your browsing on other sites, your precise GPS trail, or anything from your device you have not typed into the app.
Your Dating Fingerprint deserves its own section
The check-ins ask genuinely personal questions — what hurts, how you attach, what you need. That data is treated as the most sensitive thing in the product.
No part of your fingerprint appears on your profile unless you switch that specific section on. There is deliberately no single "share my fingerprint" toggle: you can reveal your Connection rhythm without revealing your Emotional triggers, because those are very different disclosures.
Your individual answers are never shown to anyone — only the summary scores for sections you have chosen to reveal. You can retake any check-in or delete it at any time, and deleting removes the answers as well as the scores.
These results are descriptive and non-clinical. They are not a diagnosis, not a psychological assessment, and not a prediction about any relationship.
Location
Location is coarse by design. We ask for a city or neighborhood, and if you use the "use my current location" button we resolve it to a general area only. We do not store precise coordinates, and we do not track your movements. Other members see a neighborhood and an approximate distance, never an address.
Your controls
- See it: everything about you is on your profile and fingerprint pages.
- Change it: every field is editable, and every check-in can be retaken.
- Hide it: reveal or re-hide any fingerprint section, at any time.
- Delete it: email privacy@sodacitycrush.com from the address on your account and say you want it deleted. Your profile, your photographs, your check-in answers and your messages are removed from the server and cannot be recovered. There is no button for this in the app yet; until there is, the email is the route and we will confirm when it is done.
Clearing your browser's site data no longer deletes anything. It used to, when everything lived in the browser, and that sentence stood on this page after it stopped being true. It signs you out.
Contact
Questions about your data, or a request we have not covered here, can go to privacy@sodacitycrush.com. We are a small local team, so please allow a few days.