Privacy and age

Your account and content

Bleacher Circle receives your account ID, name, and email when you sign in with ChatGPT. We store the profile details and content you choose to share, along with follows, reactions, messages, notifications, and basic activity needed to run the site. Bleacher Circle does not receive or store your ChatGPT password.

You can choose a public or private account in Settings. For private accounts, signed-in members can still find your name, profile photo, bio, and follower counts, but only approved followers can see your posts, videos, stories, and follower lists. People who already follow you keep access unless you remove or block them. Live streams and messages may be shared with other people; do not use them for sensitive information. Direct messages are available to the people in that conversation. The site owner can see signup names and emails in the owner dashboard and review reported content. Other members cannot see your signup email.

City on posts

Adding a city is optional. If you tap “Use my location,” your browser asks permission and sends your device’s current coordinates and network address directly to BigDataCloud to look up a city. Bleacher Circle receives the city label you choose to post, not the coordinates. You can edit or remove the label before posting. The city label appears with that post to people who can view it. You can always enter a city yourself without sharing device location.

Services and payments

Uploaded photos and videos are stored with the site's hosting provider. New captions and comments are sent to xAI for automated safety screening, and flagged content is reviewed by site moderators. Flagged videos are held for moderator review before appearing publicly. Automated checks review captions, while uploaded video images and audio are not automatically analyzed. If you use Grok, your questions are sent to xAI to generate answers. Gift and badge payments use Stripe checkout; Bleacher Circle stores payment and payout references, while card entry takes place on Stripe.

Children's Privacy

Bleacher Circle is for people age 13 or older, or the higher minimum age required where they live. People under 18 should have permission from a parent or guardian. Children under 13 should not create an account or send personal information through the site.

Bleacher Circle uses ChatGPT sign-in and requires an age-group self-declaration before community access. We save the age group, parent-permission confirmation for teens, and confirmation time, without a full birth date. This is not independently verified age or verified parental consent. Teen accounts start private. Gift purchases, sending, and payout setup are restricted to confirmed adults. If you believe an account belongs to a child under 13, use the Report option on that account's content so the site owner can review it. Parents and guardians can use the parent privacy contact form without signing in. Do not include a child’s full birth date or identity documents.

Basic link traffic

We count site arrivals by day and broad source, such as TikTok or Instagram. We do not save full referring URLs, precise locations, or account identities in this report. Your browser tab remembers a visit for 30 minutes to avoid counting page changes again. A daily hash of the network address and a random visit reference are kept until the next day’s traffic cleanup to limit automated traffic and duplicate submissions. Daily totals are kept for up to 90 days and visible only to the owner.

Signup source

When you first join, we save the broad campaign source from your tracked link with your account. Repeat sign-ins do not change it. The owner sees aggregate signup counts by source, without names or email addresses in that report. Older accounts are not assigned a source retroactively.

Your choices

You can edit your profile, choose a public or private account, review follow requests, block another member, or request deletion of your community account data in Settings. The deletion flow removes your profile, posts, messages, and many related records. Payment-related records and some live history may need separate handling and are not yet covered by that automated deletion. Deleting Bleacher Circle data does not delete your ChatGPT account or Stripe's records.

Help, appeals, and retention

Use Help & safety for support, moderation appeals, or parent privacy requests. The owner can read these requests and reply to signed-in members within the site. Anonymous requests include your contact email for manual follow-up. Appeals do not automatically restore content. Limited security information is used to prevent form spam.

Private database snapshots may contain earlier copies of deleted data for up to 7 days, with cleanup at the next successful backup. Payment and support records may require separate handling. Captured technical alerts contain an error category, route, and time, without your message content, password, or card information.