Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 17, 2026

SOZIAL (“SOZIAL,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and share information when you visit our website, join our waitlist, or otherwise interact with SOZIAL online.

SOZIAL is currently a pre-launch social discovery and community platform designed to help people discover things to do, meet people, and build real-world connections.

Information We Collect

When you join the SOZIAL waitlist or submit information through our website, we may collect information you voluntarily provide, including:

First name
Email address
Age range
City or neighborhood
Whether you are new to Charlotte
Interests and activity preferences
Instagram username, if you choose to provide it
Responses to questions or surveys about your social life, interests, experiences, or preferences

We may also automatically receive certain technical information when you visit our website, such as your IP address, device or browser information, pages visited, and interactions with our website. This information may be collected through Wix and cookies or similar technologies.

How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect to:

Manage the SOZIAL waitlist
Notify you about SOZIAL's launch and availability
Send updates about SOZIAL, upcoming events, community opportunities, and other relevant announcements
Understand the interests and needs of our future users
Research and improve SOZIAL's products, events, services, and user experience
Determine which types of activities, communities, and experiences our audience is interested in
Communicate with you when necessary
Maintain, analyze, and improve our website
Protect against fraud, abuse, or security threats
Comply with applicable legal obligations

We may use aggregated or de-identified information to better understand our audience and make business, product, or marketing decisions.

Email Communications

If you join the SOZIAL waitlist or otherwise choose to receive communications from us, we may send you emails regarding SOZIAL's launch, events, community opportunities, product updates, and related announcements.

You may unsubscribe from promotional emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the email or by contacting us.

We may still send non-promotional communications when reasonably necessary, such as responses to requests you send us.

How We Store and Protect Information

Our website is currently hosted through Wix. Information submitted through our website may be processed and stored using Wix's systems and other service providers that help us operate our website, communications, analytics, or business.

We take reasonable measures designed to protect the information we maintain. However, no website, database, or electronic transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information for money.

We may share information with service providers that help us operate SOZIAL, such as website hosting, email communications, analytics, data storage, and other technology providers.

These providers may process information on our behalf in connection with the services they provide.

We may also disclose information if required by law, legal process, or governmental request, or when reasonably necessary to protect the rights, safety, security, or property of SOZIAL, our users, or others.

If SOZIAL is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar business transaction, information may be transferred as part of that transaction where permitted by law.

Cookies and Analytics

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, understand website traffic and usage, improve performance, and measure the effectiveness of our marketing.

Wix and third-party services integrated into our website may also use cookies or similar technologies according to their own privacy practices.

Where required by applicable law, visitors may be provided with choices regarding non-essential cookies.

Your Choices

You may contact us to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information we maintain about you, subject to applicable law.

You may also withdraw from the SOZIAL waitlist or unsubscribe from marketing communications at any time.

To submit a privacy-related request, contact us at:

Hello@getsozial.com

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.

Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including maintaining our waitlist, communicating with our community, improving SOZIAL, and satisfying applicable legal or business requirements.

We may delete or anonymize information when it is no longer reasonably necessary for these purposes.

Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to third-party websites, social media platforms, or services.

SOZIAL is not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing personal information to them.

Children's Privacy

SOZIAL is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate authorization, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as SOZIAL grows, including when we launch new features, services, events, or the SOZIAL mobile application.

When we make changes, we will update the effective date at the top of this page. Material changes may also be communicated through our website or other appropriate means.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how SOZIAL handles your information, please contact us at: Hello@getsozial.com