Privacy

Sharing your location should be a decision, not a default.

Circl is built so that going quiet is always one tap away, and so that doing it costs you nothing.

Controls

Four ways to stop sharing without leaving.

Each of these is in the app rather than in a policy document, because a control you have to email somebody about is not a control.

Pause

Hide for an hour, or indefinitely

Places, moments and activity keep working while you are hidden. The time you were paused simply has no data in it, and nothing fills it in later.

Quiet places

Somewhere that never announces you

A clinic, a workplace, a house you visit often. Circl still recognises the place, and tells nobody you are there.

Quiet hours

A window each night with nothing sent

Set by whoever owns the space, and applied to everyone in it.

Your data

A copy, or none at all

Ask for everything Circl holds about you and it arrives in a readable form. Delete your account and it goes, with thirty days to change your mind.

Who can see you

Only the spaces you are in.

Your location is visible to the people in your spaces and to nobody else. Members of one space cannot see your other spaces, or anyone in them. There is no public profile, so there is nothing for a stranger to find.

Circl privacy controls, showing sharing paused
What we hold

Location history is capped and pruned.

ShapedSocial LTD is the data controller for Circl and keeps a documented record of what is processed, why, and for how long. Retention is enforced in the product rather than promised in a policy.

Managing saved places in Circl
Early access

Circl is invite only while it is in beta.