Privacy Policy

Last modified: June 8th, 2026

Welcome to privacy at amo.

We care about your privacy and want to be upfront about how we treat your data when using the services (“Services”) that amo (“amo”) offers: what we collect, why we collect it, where it all goes, for how long, your rights, and what you can ask us to do with it. So we wrote this policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain it to you in the clearest and simplest way we know.

Your use of our Services is subject to our Terms of Service. Please read them – it’s important that you understand and agree to what you’re signing up for before using any of our Services.

As always, feel free to reach out to us at privacy@amo.co should you ever have any questions related to this policy.

amo is your data controller

amo is the “controller” of your data as described in this Privacy Policy. By your “data”, we mean any piece of data that identifies you directly (such as your photo, your first name, last name, or your phone number) or indirectly (such as your user ID, your locations, or the technical data related to your device). We are a French company, and our head office is at 29 Boulevard des Italiens, 75002, Paris, France. As a company established in France, amo complies with the GDPR and applies its standards to all user data. This in short means that law requires us to take your privacy very seriously. We’re not just saying we do… we really do.

What kind of data do we collect?

There are three categories of data we collect: data you provide us; data we collect through the use of our Services; data we collect from third parties.

Data you provide us

• Account data. When you register for the Services you provide us with your first name, last name, year of birth, and phone number. We cannot provide the Services without these. Sometimes, we'll send you a verification code via text message to enable us to verify your account. We find it easier and more secure than remembering a password, and it also helps us minimize bots and maximize real humans on amo. Please note that no one under 13 is allowed to create an account or use the Services.
• Profile picture. If you want, you may also add a profile picture to make it easier and more fun to interact with your friends. Of course, you're free to change your photo anytime you’d like: just go to Settings in the app. Some of the profile pictures on amo use Apple’s TrueDepth API or Google’s ML Kit face detection in order to generate the video of your face. We do not collect, store, or share TrueDepth data or ML Kit data.
• Contacts. We also ask you to share your contacts to let you easily find friends that are already active on our Services. Sharing your contacts also makes it easy to invite friends. When you provide access to your contacts we can also get access to your own contact information, this can include your email address. You could also receive a text message from us through one of our partners to connect you with your friends on the app.
• Location. amo is always evolving. We create many features built around your experience of the world and the people in it. In order for our Services to fully function we need access to your location and location history while on amo. You provide this to us through the permission settings on your phone. We collect your location using methods that include GPS, wireless networks, cell towers, Wi-Fi access points, and other sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and compasses. We use this range of data sources to give the friends you choose the most accurate picture of where you are or were.
• Communications. You also provide us with any other data you create or share with your friends through our Services, such as comments, images, videos, and other media. We also keep track of communication metadata, such as the time and date of correspondence.
• Media. We collect the media content you create, import, upload, or publish during your time using amo such as pictures, videos, and more.
• Support. When you contact us for support, for example via love@amo.co, we collect the information you send us. This includes the content of our communications, photos, and identifiers like the method you used to contact us. In specific and rare cases, we'll ask for a copy of government-issued identification.
• Exercising your rights. When exercising your data protection rights (privacy@amo.co), we receive data from you that is necessary to identify and respond to you.
• Transaction data. If you purchase paid features, we retain your purchase and subscription history.

Data we get from your usage of the services

• Usage data. We collect data with regards to your activity on any of the Services. For example, how you communicate with your friends, how much content you create in a day, search results when you look for friends, and so on. This helps us understand what you like and how we can improve.
• Friendship data. Your friends, the number of friends, intros, friend invitations, comments you leave on content shared by others, the friends with whom you interact the most, and functional data related to comments or messages.
• Location data. We collect location data and location history so we can build useful and fun services and features for you, like giving your friends more context about the content you created by sharing where it was made.
• Device data. We read collect a variety of device-specific data, the BSSIDs of Wi-Fi terminals, as well as the SSIDs (the address of any WiFi routers you’re connected to).

Data we collect from third parties

We may obtain data from other companies that are owned or operated by us — or any other third party sources — and combine that with the data we normally collect through our services:

• Other users. We may receive data from other users, especially in user generated content, support requests and user reports.
• Business partners. We may receive data from trusted business partners, such as app stores or operating system providers and analytics providers.
• Law enforcement and NGOs. We may receive data from non governmental or law enforcement organizations for safety purposes, investigations, or legal proceedings.

How do we use your data?

We use your data to:

• Develop, operate, improve, deliver, maintain, and protect our Services.
• Send you communications, including by SMS and email. For example, we may use email to respond to direct support inquiries.
• Create statistical studies and analyze trends:
  • Statistical studies. Creating statistical studies on an anonymous basis. For example, we may look for groups of users with similar usage patterns or habits to see if we can improve the user experience of the Services.
  • Registration statistics. Determining which groups like country, users of different phone types, operating systems, etc. are statistically relevant to the different studies that we conduct on an aggregate basis.
  • Movements over time. We may measure and analyze the movements of users over time. This can enable us to add useful features like how long your commute may be.
• Enhance the safety and security of our products and services. For example by detecting and preventing excessive friend requests.
• Send you push notifications to get updates when friends accept your requests, comments, updates on your friends’ whereabouts, and some other important news.
• Verify your identity to prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity.
• Enforce our Terms of Service and other usage policies that apply to you.
• Respond to your exercise of rights requests.
• Store data locally on your phone, so that you can open the app and view content faster.
• Where necessary, to meet our legal obligations.

You can find an up-to-date recap chart at the end of this policy that shows what data we collect, what we use it for, and the legal basis for that use.

What are our bases for using your data?

As an EU based company, we are only allowed to use your data when certain conditions apply. These conditions are called “legal bases” and, at amo, we typically rely on any of these legal bases depending on why we are using your information:

• Contract. We may use your data should it be needed to be able to provide our services to you as described in our Terms of Service. Because amo's Services may use your camera and location, we need to access and store said data in order to offer our Services to you. This data is needed to provide you with the full amo experience.
• Legitimate interest. We may need to use your data to provide and improve our services, including protecting your account, delivering our Services, providing customer support, helping you find friends, or to detect fraudulent activity. We only rely on legitimate interest when we believe that the way we use your data doesn’t significantly impact your privacy.
• Consent. In some cases, we may ask for consent to use your data for specific purposes. If we do, we’ll make sure you can revoke your consent to our Services or through your device permissions. Even when we do not rely on consent to use your data, we may ask you for permission to access it via your device permissions.
• Legal obligation. We may be required to use your data to comply with the law, like when we respond to valid legal processes or need to take action to protect our users.

Who can have access to your data?

A lot of good people are involved with providing you with our Services. Here’s who they are and how we may share your data with them:

• amo employees. As our Services can’t run themselves for now, authorized amo employees and contractors may access your data to provide our Services or a required support. Such access is only granted within the scope of their responsibilities and only for the data which they need to access in order to carry out these responsibilities.
• Other users who use our Services.
• Our affiliates. That means that we may share data with entities within amo.
• Third parties.
  • Service providers (processors). We rely on a number of service providers who process data on our behalf and on our instructions, solely to help us operate and provide the Services. They are not permitted to use your data for their own purposes. These providers fall into the following categories: cloud infrastructure; analytics providers; customer support tools; communications providers; mapping and location services; and error tracking and monitoring. A full list of our service providers is maintained in our records and is available on request.
  • Third parties acting as their own controllers.Some third parties that we integrate into our Services process your data for their own purposes and under their own privacy policies, rather than on our behalf. When this is the case, they act as independent controllers and we are not responsible for their processing. This includes, for example, map providers for location features, and the app stores (Apple App Store, Google Play) for purchases. We encourage you to review their respective privacy policies.
  • Third parties for legal reasons. We may share data about you if we reasonably believe that disclosing the data is needed to:
    • Comply with any valid legal process, governmental request, or applicable law, rule, or regulation.
    • Investigate, remedy, or enforce potential Terms of Service violations.
    • Protect the rights, property, and safety of us, our users, or others.
    • Detect and resolve any fraud or security concerns.
  • Other third parties. We may also share aggregated, non-personally identifiable or non-identifiable data.
• Third parties as part of a merger or acquisition. If amo gets involved in a merger, asset sale, stock sale, share sale, financing, liquidation or bankruptcy, or acquisition of all or some portion of our business to another company, we may share your data with that company before and after the transaction closes. Sharing just in case although we have no plans of going anywhere!

How long do we keep your data?

We retain your data for as long as necessary to provide our Services to you and for the other purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, including complying with legal obligations, enforcing our terms, and improving the safety, security, and performance of our Services and platform.

Retention periods vary depending on the type of data and the purposes for which we use it. For example, when we process your data to provide you with the Services, we keep it for as long as you have an active account.

We care about your data, so we delete the data associated with your account after an extended period of inactivity.

Your control over your data

• Access. We let you access and update most of the data that we have about you. Most of this can be done in the profile section of the app. If you need to access any other data that we may have, you can contact us via email at love@amo.co or via the in-app support chat. Note that we may ask you to verify your identity or provide additional information before we can provide access to your data.
• Location. You can change which friends can see your location at any time in the settings.
• Contact data. You can change your contacts sharing setting at any time in your device settings.
• Object and restrict. You have the right to object to our use of your data or restrict it. The data we collect is necessary to provide our Services, and we apply data minimization throughout. We only collect what we genuinely need. This data is processed to perform our contract with you, so it is not subject to a right to object; if you wish to stop this processing, you can delete your account at any time. For the limited processing we carry out on the basis of our legitimate interests, you have the right to object and we will stop unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds.
• Correct. Where inaccurate data cannot be updated through the profile section of the app, you can ask us to correct the relevant information by contacting us via email at love@amo.co or through the in-app support chat.
• Delete. You can easily delete data in app such as any messages sent (including media like images and videos) or friends you’ve added. Some features rely on your location history to work, so while you use the Services this data is necessary and cannot be erased on its own. You can have it erased by deleting your account, which ends our contract and removes the related data.
• Account deletion. We don’t like seeing you go, but if for some reason you want to delete your account you can always reach out via email at love@amo.co or through the in-app support chat to request your account’s deletion.
• Account un-deletion. If you’ve asked us to delete your account and then changed your mind and want it back, you have up to 30 days to restore your account before we delete your data from our servers. During this period, your account will not be visible to other users.
• Data portability. You have the right to obtain, in a structured and machine-readable form (something that your computer can decipher), the data that you provide us directly on the basis of your consent or on the basis of the contract.
• Define handling of your data after your death. You have the right to give instructions regarding whether amo should communicate this data (or not) to a previously designated third party. You can do so by reaching out via email at love@amo.co or through the in-app support chat to request your account’s deletion.
• Lodge a complaint. If you believe the processing of your data infringes on your rights or data protection regulation, you have the right to file a complaint with the CNIL or your local supervisory authority.

To exercise your rights, you can contact our Data Protection Officer at dpo@amo.co. We’ll try our best to get back to you quickly, but we’re only human, so if your request is complex or if you make too many, we may need some time to answer.

Data transfers outside of the European Union

Similar to our transfer of your data to third parties, your data can be transferred and be accessible to third parties and users outside of the European Union. This can include countries that may not have the same level of protection of your data as those within the EU. Whenever we share your data outside the EU with third parties we make sure adequate mechanisms are in place to protect your data.

Any transfers of data originating from within the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland to countries outside the EEA, UK, or Switzerland will normally be made on the basis of:

• The Data Privacy Framework, where the provider is located in the United States and certified under the framework (i.e. appears on the U.S. Department of Commerce's Data Privacy Framework List).
• The Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission, available on the Commission’s website, including the controller-to-processor module where we share data with our service providers and the controller-to-controller module where applicable.

We’re always happy to answer any questions you may have about data sharing to countries outside the EU, so feel free to reach out at love@amo.co or through the in-app support chat should you ever have any questions.

Future revisions

Times change, and so will this Privacy Policy. We’ll update it to take into account any technical, regulatory, or legal developments in order to comply with any changes in applicable laws and regulations, or data practices.

That’s it for now

Always feel free to reach out at love@amo.co or through the in-app support chat – we love reading emails so don’t be shy.

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