Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 13, 2026

Go Mama helps moms find real friendship with other moms nearby. Your trust is the whole point — so here's the short version: we collect only what we need to run the service, we never sell or rent your personal data, and we don't use it for advertising. The details below explain exactly what we collect and why.

1. Who we are

This Privacy Policy describes how Go Mama ("Go Mama", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and protects information when you use our mobile and web application and related services (the "Service"). By using the Service, you agree to the practices described here.

2. Information we collect

Information you give us

• Account details — your first name and the email address used to create and secure your account, or the Apple, Google, Facebook or Instagram account you sign in with. You can add a phone number to your profile, but we do not need one to create your account.
• Profile information — things you choose to add, such as your kids' ages, interests, the type of mom community you're looking for, your general neighborhood or area, a short bio, and photos.
• Availability & preferences — the days, times, and places you're open to meeting, used to suggest matches.
• Verification signals — to keep the community safe and "verified-only", we may ask you to connect a social account (such as Facebook or Instagram) and add a real photo.
• Messages & activity — content you send to other moms in the app and actions you take (matches, saved items, RSVPs).
• Questions for Fifi — the questions you type, or choose to dictate with your microphone, when you use our AI assistant. A voice recording is sent to OpenAI to create an editable transcript; Go Mama does not save the recording in your chat or database.

Information from Facebook & Instagram login

If you choose to sign in with or connect Facebook or Instagram, we receive a limited set of information from those platforms based on the permissions you grant — typically your name, profile photo, and email address. We use this only to create your account, verify that you're a real person, and personalize your experience. We do not post to your social accounts, and we do not access your friends list, posts, or contacts. You can revoke this connection at any time in your Facebook or Instagram settings, or by contacting us.

Information collected automatically

• Device & usage data — basic technical information such as device type, browser, app version, and how you interact with features, used to keep the Service working and improve it.
• Approximate location — derived from the area you tell us or, with your permission, your device, so we can show moms and places near you. You can use the app with only a general area instead of precise location.

3. How we use your information

• To create and secure your account and verify you're a real mom.
• To match you with nearby moms, groups, places, and events that fit your preferences.
• To enable messaging and playdates between you and your matches.
• To transcribe optional voice input and answer questions you ask Fifi.
• To keep the community safe, prevent fraud, and enforce our Terms.
• To send you account, safety, and service-related notifications (you control optional notifications).
• To understand, troubleshoot, and improve the Service.

4. How information is shared

We share information only in these limited ways:

• With other moms — the profile details you choose to make visible (such as your first name, photo, general area, and shared interests) are shown to potential matches so you can connect. You control what goes on your profile. Go Mama has no paid tier and no “full profile” upgrade — what another mom sees depends only on whether she has signed up and verified, as described below. We never reveal your exact contact information (phone/email) to other users.
• With service providers — trusted vendors that operate the Service on our behalf, such as our authentication and database provider (Supabase), our hosting provider (Vercel), and OpenAI, which provides the automated content-safety screening described below and processes Fifi questions and optional voice input. They process data only to provide their service to us and are bound by confidentiality and data-protection obligations.
• For legal & safety reasons — if required by law, or to protect the rights, safety, and security of our users, the public, or Go Mama.
• In a business transfer — if Go Mama is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may transfer as part of that transaction, subject to this Policy.

In groups and playdates

Groups and playdates share one privacy setting, and each of its three values means the same thing on both:

• Public — visible to everyone on Go Mama, including a visitor who has not signed up. Anyone with a Go Mama account can join it without asking, verified or not. In a public group, anything you post can be read by everyone above — including that signed-out visitor — and may appear in the community feed. The same is true of anything you post to the app-wide Everyone feed.
• Private — visible to everyone on Go Mama just as widely: everyone can see that it exists, its name, its cover photo and how many moms are in it. What differs is the door — a Go Mama member requests to join and the host decides. In a private group, only members can read the posts, replies and reactions, and nothing from it is shown to anyone outside it — it never reaches the community feed of a mom who is not a member.
• Invite only — not visible on Go Mama at all. It is listed nowhere, and only the moms you invite can find it; in a group only its members can read anything posted inside. You can invite moms with a shareable link, by choosing them in the app, or by posting the invitation into one of your groups.

We hold personal details back from a signed-out visitor. Until she signs up, a visitor sees first names and initials rather than moms' faces, wherever a face would otherwise appear — the moms wall, the community feed, and the moms attached to a playdate. She is also not shown last names, an exact distance (only a rough band such as "nearby"), children's names, social handles, or when a mom was last online. A mom who has signed up sees the app as it is, whether or not she has finished verification.

Verification gates the things that reach another mom directly. A mom who has signed up but not yet verified can browse and read what is open to her, and she can join a public group and post, reply and react inside it. Until her profile is verified she cannot message another mom, join or host a playdate, or join a private or invite-only group. Only verified moms appear on the moms wall.

Whoever can see a playdate, the moms attached to it are protected: until a viewer has signed up, we do not show her the host's name, the faces of the moms going, or the exact number going when it is small enough to identify someone.

Your posts, replies, and reactions carry your first name and profile photo. You can edit or delete anything you have written — a post or a reply — at any time, and remove a reaction by tapping it again. Deleting your account deletes everything you have written along with the rest of your data.

Discussions attached to a specific place, event, or playdate are a separate space from groups: they are readable by any signed-in member so that a mom can see what people say about a venue before she goes. Only verified members — and moms whose verification is being reviewed — can post in them.

5. Data retention

We keep your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide the Service. When you delete your account, we delete or de-identify your personal information within a reasonable period, except where we must retain limited records to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements.

Go Mama does not save a Fifi voice recording in your account, chat, or database. The returned transcript is treated the same way as a question you type after you choose to send it.

6. Your rights & how to delete your data

You can access and update most of your information directly in the app's Profile screen. You may also request to access, correct, or permanently delete your personal data at any time.

• In the app — edit your profile, photos, contact details, and preferences from the Profile tab.
• Delete your account & data — follow the steps on our Data Deletion page, or email us at privacy@gomama.app with the subject "Delete my data", from the email address on your account. We will verify your request and delete your personal information.
• Facebook data — to disconnect Facebook, remove Go Mama from your Facebook App Settings. To delete the data we obtained through Facebook, use the email request above.

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights under laws such as the GDPR or CCPA/CPRA (for example, to object to or restrict processing, or to data portability). We honor these rights — contact us to exercise them, and we will not discriminate against you for doing so.

Automated content safety

To keep Go Mama safe for moms and their children, photos and text you share in the app — profile photos and bio, group and playdate details, place notes, comments, and messages — are checked automatically by an AI content-classifier (OpenAI's moderation service) at the moment you share them, before they are published to anyone else.

• Images are checked before they are stored. If a photo is refused, it is never saved to our servers and never given a web address — it simply does not upload.
• What we keep is the decision, not the content. For a refused image we record only the category and score that refused it, never the image itself.
• People make the final call. The automated check is a first pass. Our team reviews what it flags, and if you think a decision was wrong you can tell us in the app or email hello@gomama.app.
• Your content is not used to train AI models — see our promise above.

The screening is tuned for a community of mothers: breastfeeding, birth, postpartum and ordinary family beach or swimming photos are not violations.

7. Security

We use industry-standard safeguards — including encryption in transit, access controls, and a least-privilege data model — to protect your information. No method of transmission or storage is ever 100% secure, but we work hard to protect your data and to limit who can access it.

8. Children's privacy

Go Mama is built for adults — parents and caregivers who are 18 or older. It is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe a minor has given us information, contact us and we will delete it.

9. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we'll update the "Last updated" date above and, where appropriate, notify you in the app. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect means you accept the updated Policy.

10. Contact us

Questions, requests, or concerns about your privacy? Email us at privacy@gomama.app and we'll be glad to help.

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