Early-access interest list
If you join the interest list, we store your normalized email address, submission time, signup source and list status to let you know when accounts open. This does not create an account or subscribe you to unrelated marketing. We confirm receipt in your browser; no confirmation email is currently sent.
The list is private. Short-lived hashed network identifiers help limit repeated submissions and are not attached to your list entry. Contact privacy@followsomeone.com to withdraw your interest or request deletion. We retain your interest until you withdraw, join, or the account-opening invitation process ends, subject to necessary legal retention.
Current availability
Public browsing, registration, login, profiles, posting and signed-in social actions are available. Someone Pro platform billing is available. Private messaging is provided by MessageSomeone (messagesomeone.com and the MessageSomeone Android app) with the same SOMEONE account; see MessageSomeone below. Meet, creator subscriptions, Hire payments, Pay and Paid Access purchases remain unavailable unless explicitly enabled. Pro access does not make an unavailable creator feature operational.
The following describes account data used by enabled features. Creator commerce and private messaging have separate availability gates.
Someone is for people age 18 or older. Users under 18 may not create or use an account. Signup uses a submitted date of birth to check this rule. It is temporarily stored in the signup verification flow and passed to the identity service as verification context. The initial signup intent expires after 20 minutes. The date of birth is not published or stored in the public account record. Expired initial flow records are removed during later signup cleanup; expiry is not a promise of immediate physical deletion. This is self-reported eligibility, not identity or third-party age verification.
Account and public information
Someone uses an account identifier, handle, display name, actor type, profile details, links, interests and selected discovery preferences to provide the service. Actors may be people, creators, journalists, professionals, businesses, publications or organizations.
Public profile fields, public posts and replies, and public engagement counts can be seen by others. Content visibility affects where content appears. Profile presence does not establish verified identity. Only publish information you intend to share. Media and external image links may involve the host serving that media.
Interactions, discovery and ranking
Someone processes follows, likes, replies, reposts and bookmarks to provide those features. Search uses the query you submit to find public people; no search-history product is currently implemented.
For You and people discovery use signals including follows and interactions, interests inferred from engagement and hashtags, content freshness, conversation activity, and diversity and discovery signals. Blocks, mutes, reports and content/account restrictions can affect eligibility for recommendations. Anonymous browsing does not use a signed-in personal history.
Pro, payments, revenue and subscriber count do not buy organic ranking. The network does not promise a particular reach. This disclosure does not publish scoring weights.
Saved and relationship privacy
Saved/bookmarks are private to the account holder; saving something is not a public endorsement. Someone may use bookmark interactions as a personalization signal without publishing the Saved list.
Subscribers identifies people subscribing to an actor; Subscriptions identifies actors a user subscribes to. The relevant customer or actor owner can access their authorized relationship records. Subscriber identities and private billing records are not public lists by default.
Private messages and requests
Direct messages are private to participants, subject to relevant safety reports, moderation and lawful-process handling. Administrators do not have a universal private-message reader. No end-to-end encryption promise is made here.
When messaging is enabled, Someone stores conversations, messages, message-request state and participant read state to operate the inbox. Pending requests do not produce read receipts before acceptance. Blocks and privacy settings control access. Where messaging is enabled, participants can report a message for authorized safety review; you can also contact safety@followsomeone.com. Do not assume a moderator has read a conversation.
MessageSomeone
MessageSomeone uses your public SOMEONE profile (name, username and profile photo) so people know who they are talking to, and stores the people in each conversation, the messages and their times, read state, whether you accepted, declined, archived or muted a conversation, and who you approved, blocked or muted. Messages from people you do not know yet arrive as requests.
Photos can be attached only in accepted conversations. They are stored privately, shown only to the people in that conversation, and their embedded metadata (such as camera details and location) is removed on upload.
Someone without a SOMEONE account may send you a guest request. We store the name they give and a one-way hash used only to limit abuse; we do not store their email address. Your messaging settings (who can contact you, requests, guest requests) are stored with your account. Paid priority messaging is not available; if it is enabled later, payments are handled by Stripe and this policy will be updated first.
If you report a message or person, the report and the relevant messages are kept for safety review.
Trust, moderation and verification
Block, mute and report records support safety and feed exclusions. Reports include a target, reason and review status. Authorized administrators review relevant reported information and record moderation actions; reporter identity is not part of public profile or post output.
Public verification is a status, not publication of internal review evidence, reviewer identity or private review notes. Verification and Pro entitlement are separate records.
Subscriptions, Pro and conditional payments
Someone Pro billing stores Stripe customer and subscription references, entitlement status and effective dates. Stripe processes payment credentials; Someone does not store card details. Role-based and complimentary Pro access are separate from paid subscriptions.
Paid Access and payment integrations are not available for purchase today. Future enabled transactions may require order, support and fulfillment metadata, with the actual provider and terms disclosed before purchase. Someone’s public pages do not expose card details, bank information or payment credentials.
Technical information and service providers
Hosting and delivery providers process technical request information such as network address, request URL, browser information and error/security logs to deliver and protect the site. Requests for externally hosted media also reach the relevant host.
On eligible public discovery pages in the United States, Someone may load non-personalized Google AdSense advertisements only after you separately allow advertising in Privacy choices. Google may process request information and use cookies for frequency limits and aggregated ad reporting. No Google advertising script loads without that choice, for signed-in visitors, or outside the United States. Someone has no client analytics tracker. It records limited first-party signup, login and interaction events with account identifiers, target identifiers and event times. These events do not contain post or message bodies. There is no historical profile-view analytics product. Interaction records used for service functions and ranking are distinct from advertising tracking. See Cookies for browser-storage details.
Information may be handled by providers needed for hosting, content delivery and, when enabled, identity or payment services. Someone may disclose relevant information where required or permitted by law, for lawful process, or to address abuse and protect people.
Mobile apps and notifications
The SOMEONE (FollowSomeone) and MessageSomeone Android apps sign you in through followsomeone.com and keep a sign-in token in the device's secure storage. If you allow notifications, the app registers a Firebase Cloud Messaging push token with Someone, together with your device language and which app it belongs to, so we can deliver notifications. Google provides Firebase Cloud Messaging as our service provider. Signing out removes the token from our servers; you can also turn notifications off in Android settings.
The apps contain no advertising or analytics SDKs and do not use the advertising ID. Our hosting provider does not keep location derived from your network address in our request logs.
Retention, removal and choices
Signed-in users can edit profile information, remove their posts or bookmarks and manage follows, blocks and message settings. Removing a post from display is not a promise of immediate physical erasure of all records.
You can export your data and delete your account at followsomeone.com/settings/data (a recent sign-in is required), or in the SOMEONE or MessageSomeone Android app under Settings, then Delete account. Steps and details: /delete-account. Your account is hidden and you are signed out at once; after a 30-day grace period, during which you can cancel, your profile, posts, photos and videos, follows, likes, saved posts, blocks, mutes, notifications, messaging settings and notification tokens are erased.
Messages you sent stay in the other person's conversation, shown from Deleted account, with no name, username, photo or other profile detail from your account. When both people in a conversation have deleted their accounts, its messages and photos are erased too, unless a safety report needs them. Records of payments and safety decisions may be kept where the law or safety requires it. Removing information from public display does not necessarily erase all retained records.
Your SOMEONE sign-in identity (sign-in email and passkeys) is shared with ShareSomeone and ResearchSomeone. When your account is erased, that identity is deleted as well, unless you still have data in ShareSomeone or ResearchSomeone; then it is kept until you delete that data there.
Send privacy, access, correction, deletion and account/privacy requests to privacy@followsomeone.com. General account help is available at support@followsomeone.com. Include enough information to identify the account or request, but do not send passwords or unnecessary sensitive documents. Verification of your authority to make a request may be needed.
Security and contact
No service can promise absolute security. Keep credentials and sensitive personal information out of public posts. See Security for responsible-reporting boundaries.
Contact Someone at support@followsomeone.com for general support and account questions.