Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 31, 2026

The short version: your email is only used to sign you in, signed-in neighbors see your statements with the display name you chose, anything published outside the app is anonymized, your exact location is never stored, and we do not run ads, sell data, or track you around the web.

1. Who this covers

This is the privacy policy for Rise ("Rise: Neighborhood Voice"), the app and website at rhaeize.com, operated by People Ventures Inc., a British Columbia company. It applies wherever you use Rise: in a browser, as an installed web app, or through the Rise app on Google Play. It works together with our Terms of Service.

2. What we collect

Your email address, used to sign you in and to reach you about your account. Nothing else.
The neighborhood you declare (for example, "Mount Pleasant"). We never collect your address.
What you submit: your words and the short structured version Rise records (a summary, a one-sentence statement, a topic, and the neighborhood it concerns). If you use the microphone, your device's own speech recognition turns speech into text; Rise stores the text, not audio recordings.
Your echoes (agree or disagree votes on neighbors' statements), any reports you file about a statement, and any neighbors you block.
A display name. It is required before your first opinion, Board listing, or Board message, and signed-in neighbors see it beside what you post. It is whatever you choose to be called; we never ask for your legal name.
The Verified badge result. If you choose to verify that you live in your declared neighborhood, your device checks your location once and sends coordinates for a single yes-or-no check. The coordinates are used for that check and immediately discarded; they are never stored. What we keep is the result and when it happened. If a check fails, we record what kind of error occurred (never where you were) so we can fix problems.
Standard technical logs needed to run and secure the service.

3. How we use it

To run Rise: sign you in, show your neighborhood its voices, count echoes, and close the loop.
To show your neighborhood its voices: signed-in residents see your statements with your display name, never your email.
To build the anonymized, aggregated neighborhood digests, statistics, and reports described in the Terms. Anything published outside the app, including public share pages, says "a neighbor in your area", never a name. You are never quoted in a way that identifies you unless you explicitly agree first.
To review reported content and keep the ground rules.
Nothing else. No ads, no sale of data, no tracking pixels, no profiles built for third parties.

4. AI processing

When you speak or type a submission, it is processed by an AI service (Anthropic's Claude) to structure and classify it. Submissions are not used to train third-party AI models.

5. Who we share it with

Other signed-in residents see your statements with your display name, as described above.
The public record: aggregates and anonymized statements may appear in digests and reports for the public, community organizations, journalists, and decision makers.
Service providers that run Rise for us: Supabase (database and sign-in, hosted in central Canada), Cloudflare (serving the site), Resend (sending sign-in emails), and Anthropic (the AI processing above). They process data only to provide their service to us.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it with anyone for advertising.
We may disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect Rise and its residents from fraud or abuse.

6. Where it lives and how long

Your data is stored on Canadian servers (currently in central Canada). We keep it while your account is active. Anonymized statements and aggregates may persist in published reports, which no longer identify you.

7. Your rights and choices

Under British Columbia's Personal Information Protection Act you can ask what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete your account and submissions. Email hello@rhaeize.com and we will handle it. Deleting your account removes your profile, submissions, echoes, and reports.

8. Children

Rise is not for people under 16, and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 16.

9. Security

Data moves over encrypted connections, access is restricted account by account at the database level, and secrets are kept out of the app you run.

10. Changes and contact

If we change this policy in a significant way, we will tell you in the app before the change takes effect. Questions or requests: hello@rhaeize.com, or write to People Ventures Inc., 202-19141 Ford Road, Pitt Meadows, BC V3Y 2P8, Canada.

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