Privacy Policy

When you create an account we store your display name, username, email address, a hashed password, your role, and timestamps for account creation and activity.

Your “Me” profile and how you present yourself — name, photo and its framing, bio, social links, and visibility preferences such as whether your orbit is public.

The contacts, places, and businesses you add to your orbit, including how you arrange them (tiers, clusters, positions). Contacts who are not Orrery accounts exist only in your own orbit and are not shared with anyone else.

When you follow or join a business, we record your relationship (follower, member, or staff). Followers are audience-only and are not exposed to other followers or shown a business’s internal members.

Your membership and role within clusters/communities, and which clusters you can see, are governed by each community’s visibility settings and your role.

Posts, comments, reactions, and bookmarks you create, and where they are shared (personal feed, a community feed, or both).

Direct and group messages, including in community and business inboxes. Messages are visible to the participants of a conversation; community and business chats are visible to their members and to authorized moderators for moderation purposes.

Profile photos and media you attach to posts or messages are stored so they can be displayed to the people permitted to see that content.

To keep accounts and communities safe we record security and administrative events (logins, role changes, moderation actions, ownership transfers) along with the actor, target, and time.

Actions taken by community owners, moderators, or platform admins — such as removing a post, muting a member, or removing a member — are recorded for accountability.

Visibility depends on roles and settings. For example:

• Your public orbit (if you enable it) shows a limited, PII-stripped view to anyone.
• Community content is visible per the community’s visibility tier (public / community / internal).
• Business followers see public content only; members and staff see more.
• Private contacts in your orbit are never shown to other viewers.

You can delete your account from Settings. Deletion removes your account record and orbit data, hands off or orphans communities you own so they are not destroyed, and deletes messages you sent. Some records may persist where required for security or legal reasons (for example, audit logs of moderation actions).