Privacy Policy

Shirt Nerds, operated by Adaptive Apps, LLC ("Shirt Nerds," "we," "us," or "our")

Last Updated: August 8, 2026

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") explains how we collect, use, share, and protect information when you use the Shirt Nerds mobile application, our companion website at shirtnerds.io, and any related services (together, the "App").

IMPORTANT NON-AFFILIATION NOTICE

Shirt Nerds is an independent, fan-made collection and trading companion tool. It is not owned, operated, sponsored, authorized, or endorsed by RSVLTS, its parent or affiliated companies, or by any other brand, manufacturer, or licensor whose products may be referenced in the App. Any references to RSVLTS or to other brands, licensed properties, characters, or products are used for descriptive and identification purposes only, to help you organize and identify your own collection, and do not imply any affiliation, sponsorship, approval, or endorsement. All brand names, logos, product names, designs, and related intellectual property are the property of their respective owners.

By installing, accessing, creating an account, or otherwise using the App, you agree to the practices described in this Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the App.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

1.1 Information You Provide

- Account information: email address, username, display name, password, and optional profile details you choose to add — a profile photo or avatar, a short description/bio, a general location, and social media links or handles.
- Collection and listing content: photos of your items, sizes, conditions, notes, set/category names, wanted lists (including desired sizes), status flags (such as owned, wanted, for trade, for sale, or pending), and any optional self-reported prices or sold information you choose to enter.
- Communications: messages, feedback, feature requests, and support requests you send us (for example, through our contact/support form), including any attachments you include.

You are not required to provide all of this information, but some features may not work properly without it.

1.2 Information Collected Automatically

We do not use third-party analytics, advertising, or tracking tools in the App, and we do not build profiles of your activity for advertising. To operate and secure the App, our hosting and infrastructure providers automatically process limited technical information such as your IP address, request timestamps, and basic server logs. We use this only to run the service, keep it reliable, and detect or prevent abuse and security threats.

We also collect a device identifier provided by your phone's operating system (on iOS, the "identifier for vendor"; on Android, the Android ID). We convert it immediately into a one-way, irreversible hash — a scrambled value that cannot be turned back into the original — and store only that hash. We never store the raw identifier.

We use it for one purpose: to keep the community safe by detecting when a single person is operating multiple accounts. This lets us enforce a suspension or ban — for example, when someone removed for harassment tries to return under a different email address — and to investigate reports of abuse.

This is not advertising or tracking. We do not use your device's advertising identifier (IDFA/AAID), we do not build an advertising profile, we do not track you across other apps or websites, and we never combine this information with data from other companies. It is used solely for security and abuse prevention inside Shirt Nerds.

1.3 Camera, Photos, and Images

If you use features that let you add a photo of an item or a profile picture, the App may request access to your device's camera and/or photo library to capture or select images. Images you add are stored so you can view and manage them in the App. You can change or revoke camera and photo permissions at any time in your device settings, though some features may then be limited.

Photos you add to an item or profile may be shown to other users where you choose to make that content visible, and a photo you submit may be selected to serve as a representative catalog image for that item's design.

1.4 Scan to Identify

The App includes a "Scan" feature that identifies a shirt from a photograph. When you use it, the photo you take or select is sent to our servers and then to Voyage AI, a service operated by MongoDB, Inc. in the United States, which converts the image into a numerical representation (an "embedding"). We compare that representation against the same kind of representation of the images in our catalog and show you the closest matches.

We want to be specific about what happens to the photo itself:

- The photo is used only to perform that comparison. It is not added to your collection, shown to other users, or used to build the catalog.
- We do not keep the photo. It is processed and discarded, and it is not stored in our database or our image storage.
- What we do keep, linked to your account, is a record of the scan: the date and time, how strong the closest match was, and which result you selected — including when you tell us none of the results were correct. We use this to measure how accurate the feature is and to improve it. It does not include the image.
- Voyage AI processes the image to generate the embedding and returns it to us. We do not authorize Voyage AI to use your photo to train its models or for its own purposes, and their handling of the data is governed by their agreement with us and by their own privacy terms.
- Scanning is optional. You can use every other part of the App without it, and you can revoke camera and photo access at any time in your device settings.

If you delete your account, your scan records are deleted with it, as described in Section 7.

2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use the information we collect to:

- Provide, operate, and maintain the App and your account.
- Build and display your collection, sets, wanted lists, and listings.
- Personalize your experience (preferences, layout, and settings).
- Communicate with you, including service notices, security alerts, and — if you opt in — notifications about drops, news, or activity.
- Monitor, analyze, and improve the App's performance and features.
- Detect, prevent, and address fraud, abuse, violations of our Terms, and other harmful or unlawful activity.
- Comply with legal obligations and enforce our agreements.

We do not sell your personal information.

3. INFORMATION VISIBLE TO OTHER USERS

Shirt Nerds includes social features, so some information is visible to other users by design. This may include your username, display name, profile photo/avatar, any optional bio, general location, and social media links you add, and the collections, sets, or listings you choose to make visible (for example, items you mark for trade or for sale). You control your profile and collection visibility through public/private settings, and optional fields stay empty unless you fill them. In the future, this may also include community posts, messages you send to other users, and ratings. Please consider what you choose to make public. Information you share with other users may be seen, copied, or re-shared by them, and we cannot control how others use it.

We share information only in limited circumstances:

- Service providers: trusted vendors that perform services for us — such as cloud hosting and storage, authentication, customer support, and image recognition for the Scan feature described in Section 1.4. They may use information only to perform services for us and are expected to protect it.
- Legal and safety: when reasonably necessary to comply with law or legal process, enforce our Terms, or protect the rights, property, or safety of Shirt Nerds, our users, or others.
- Business transfers: in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, in which case we will seek to ensure continued protection of your information.

We do not share your personal information for third-party advertising, and we do not share your information with RSVLTS or any other brand for their independent marketing.

5. PAYMENTS AND TRANSACTIONS

Shirt Nerds does not process payments, hold funds, or facilitate transactions between users. Any buying, selling, or trading happens directly between users off-platform. Any prices or sold information shown in the App are self-reported by users for informational purposes and are not verified by us. See our Terms of Service for more.

6. DATA RETENTION

We retain personal information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide the App, and for a reasonable period afterward to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. When information is no longer needed, we take reasonable steps to delete or de-identify it. If you delete your account, we will delete or de-identify your personal information, subject to any legal or legitimate retention requirements.

To protect the community and enforce bans, if an account is banned for violating our Terms, we retain a one-way, irreversible cryptographic hash (a scrambled fingerprint) of the associated email address and of the device(s) that account signed in from. We keep only these scrambled values — never the address or the identifier itself — so that a ban cannot be defeated simply by deleting the account and signing up again with a new email. These hashes cannot be used to recover the original email address or device identifier and are retained for this security purpose. You may ask us to review this at support@shirtnerds.io.

7. YOUR CHOICES AND RIGHTS

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access, correct, delete, or port your personal information, or to object to or restrict certain processing. You can:

- Edit your profile and collection information in the App.
- Delete your account in the App, which removes your personal information subject to the retention note above.
- Manage camera, photo, and notification permissions in your device settings.

To make a request or ask about your rights, contact us using the details below. We may need to verify your identity before responding.

8. SECURITY

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect your information. Information is encrypted in transit (using HTTPS/TLS) between the App and our servers, and is stored with our hosting provider under access controls. Your sign-in session on your device is stored in encrypted form using your device's secure keychain. However, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. You are responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential.

9. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

The App is intended for users 13 and older, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are at least 13 but under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you should use the App only with a parent or guardian's permission. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us personal information, please contact us so we can delete it. This section is intended to support compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and similar laws.

10. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

We are based in the United States and may process and store information in the United States and other countries where we or our service providers operate. These locations may have different data-protection laws than your country. Where required, we use appropriate safeguards for international transfers.

11. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may update this Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date and may provide additional notice in the App or by other reasonable means. Your continued use of the App after changes take effect means you accept the updated Policy.

12. CONTACT US

If you have questions about this Policy or your information, contact us at:

Adaptive Apps, LLC
Email: support@shirtnerds.io
shirtnerds.io