What we collect
Account details (name, email address, optional telephone number), your application answers, the metro/general area you choose to display, your 18+ attestation and self-selected age range, your interview recording and edited video, your consent and approval records, friendship requests you send or receive, and support correspondence. We do not collect a street address, exact location or postal code, and we do not collect a date of birth.
Payment card information is handled by our payment processor, Stripe. We do not store card numbers, expiration dates, CVC codes, billing addresses or bank information. Our database stores transaction status, amounts, payment-processor identifiers and related payment records only.
What is shown publicly
Only approved public-profile information: your public first name, the metro/general area you chose to display, your age range, selected interests and profile preferences, the general kind of friendship you hope to find, approved prompt/profile content, your approved photo and video, your Friend Code and your approved video link.
Your legal first and last name, email address, telephone number, private application details, payment records, consent records, safety/reporting information and any administrator notes are kept private and are not displayed publicly. Your legal first and last name are kept private. The public first name you choose for your profile will be displayed publicly if your profile is published. Your approved public profile may display who you generally welcome friendship requests from. This is an informational preference and does not automatically prevent another eligible participant from expressing interest. You decide privately whether to allow contact.
Consent records
For every agreement or approval we store your account identifier, the exact consent wording or legal-document version, the date and time, the action taken, the applicable video and profile versions, a payment or appointment identifier where relevant, and the administrator action and date for publication or removal.
Raw interview footage
Raw interview footage is never published or supplied to other participants. Bestiemony does not guarantee ongoing storage of raw footage after publication and may delete it at any time, unless preservation is reasonably required for a dispute, safety report or legal requirement.
Contact information is never exchanged automatically
When someone selects “I'd Like to Contact Them,” they first confirm that the email address they have approved for introductions may be shared if you also say yes. You are then notified privately and choose “Yes, They May Contact Me” or “No, Not at This Time.” If you decline, nothing is shared. Only when both participants say yes do you each receive an introduction email containing the email address the other person approved for introductions. If no separate connection email has been provided, the account contact email may be used. Telephone numbers, street addresses and anything beyond that email are never shared automatically.
What this policy covers
- • The information we collect
- • Why we collect it
- • What is public and what stays private
- • Recording, editing and publication
- • Our service providers: YouTube, video recording, calendar, payment, email and SMS
- • Cookies, analytics and referral tracking
- • Retention and deletion
- • State-specific privacy rights where applicable
- • How to submit a privacy request
- • The policy effective date and version
Recording consent
- • Affirmative written recording consent is obtained from every person being recorded before the interview begins.
- • We explain that audio and video will be recorded, edited, stored and potentially published.
- • We identify anticipated publication on the public app and the Bestiemony YouTube channel.
- • The exact consent wording and version, the participant, and the date and time are stored.
- • The interviewer asks for verbal confirmation on the recording before the interview continues.
- • If anyone does not clearly agree, recording stops.
- • Recording consent is kept separate from final publication approval.
We follow a nationwide recording and privacy baseline, including written and verbal recording consent from everyone recorded. We do not claim that this service is legally certified or compliant in all 50 states.
Referral tracking
A referral link such as expandyourfriendcircle.com/?ref=EFC-1001 stores the Friend Code in your browser for 30 days so it can be carried into your application and checkout. A valid Friend Code entered directly at checkout always takes priority over an earlier referral-link value.
We do not sell personal information. We do not share mobile numbers with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.
Service providers
We use third parties to run the service, including hosting and database providers, a secure third-party video-recording service, YouTube for published video, a payment processor for checkout, and email and SMS delivery services. They receive only what is needed to perform their function.
Text alerts
Text sending is not currently active. We record your choice now, and the STOP and HELP instructions apply once text messaging becomes active.
- • Text alerts are optional.
- • Message frequency varies.
- • Message and data rates may apply.
- • Consent is not a condition of purchase.
- • Reply STOP to stop text alerts.
- • Reply HELP for assistance.
- • Mobile information will not be sold or shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.
Your choices
You can set your listing to Active, Taking a Break or Hidden at any time, edit your profile before publication, unsubscribe from marketing email, and request access or correction of your information by emailing hello@expandyourfriendcircle.com.
Deletion requests and what we keep
You may request deletion of your information. We will delete information we are able to delete and may retain records that we are required or permitted to keep for legal, tax, payment-dispute, consent, safety, fraud-prevention or recordkeeping purposes.
Records the current system retains include payment and transaction records, consent and approval records, safety reports and administrator review notes, and issued Friend Codes and their referral history.
Removal requests
A participant may withdraw future publication permission by contacting hello@expandyourfriendcircle.com. If you request removal, we will remove your profile from the directory and make your video unavailable through Bestiemony-controlled accounts and links within 10 business days.
We cannot control or retrieve copies previously shared, downloaded, cached, independently reposted, screen-recorded, copied or otherwise saved outside Bestiemony-controlled systems.
Contact
hello@expandyourfriendcircle.com
J Hobbs Enterprises Inc.1829 Old Murfreesboro PikeNashville, Tennessee 37217
See also the Privacy & safety overview.