Fray Privacy Policy
Last updated November 13, 2026
The short version
Fray is an app for sharing what you wear each day with other college students. We collect what you give us, like your email, profile and Fits, plus what you do in the app, and we use it only to run Fray.
- We don't sell your information.
- We don't show ads or use advertising trackers.
- Your Fits are seen only by signed-in Fray members, never the open web.
- You can delete your account and everything in it from Settings at any time.
What we collect
We collect only what Fray needs to work. We never collect your contacts or advertising IDs, we never save your exact location, and the only camera roll photo we see is a profile picture you choose to add.
| What | Includes | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|
| Account | Your college email, password (stored scrambled, never in plain text), username, display name, bio, profile picture, the date you confirmed you're 18 or older, and your privacy and comment settings | Our servers |
| Your Fits | Photos taken with Fray's camera, captions, styles, the song you chose and which part plays, your post settings, the date, any pieces or store links you add, and the general area you add, if any (like a campus or neighborhood) | Our servers |
| Activity | Likes, comments, saves, follows, follow requests, "Where's it from?" asks, who viewed your Fits from today, blocks and reports | Our servers |
| Styles you pick | The styles you choose when you join | Our servers |
| Notifications | A push token, a code that lets us send notifications to your phone | Our servers |
| Messages to us | What you send through Contact us, plus your phone type and system version | Our servers |
| Get notified list | The email and school you leave on frayfits.com to hear when Fray opens at your school | Our servers |
| Technical info | Basic request records our hosting providers keep automatically, like IP address and time | Our hosting providers |
| Phone-only settings | Recent searches, which Today tiles you've seen, your reminder time | Only on your phone |
Location: location is off for every Fit until you add a general area. When you do, your phone uses your location once to look up nearby place names, then forgets it. Only the name you pick, like "Barnard" or "Morningside Heights, New York," is saved.
How we use it
We use your information to run Fray and keep it safe, and for nothing else.
- Running the app: showing your Fits and profile, building your Friends and Explore feeds, and sending notifications.
- Personalizing: suggesting styles, Fits and people based on the styles you pick, wear, like and save, and showing your Style match with friends.
- Safety: reviewing reports, enforcing our rules and honoring blocks.
- Account emails: confirming your email and helping you reset your password.
- Replying to you: answering what you send through Contact us.
We don't use your information for ads, and we don't sell or rent it. If we ever add features that send your photos to an outside service, like a tool that identifies clothing, we'll update this policy before it launches.
Who can see what
Everything you post is visible to signed-in Fray members, not the public web. Within Fray:
- Your profile (username, name, bio, picture and follower counts) is visible to all members. Your streak, style stats and calendar are too, unless your account is private.
- Your Fits are visible to all members if your account is public, or only to followers you accept if it's private. If you mark a Fit Friends only, only people who follow you can see it. A general area you add shows with the Fit.
- Likes, comments and follows are visible to people who can see that Fit or profile. You can hide a Fit's like count or turn off its comments.
- Who viewed your Fit from today is visible only to you.
- Reports and Contact us messages are seen only by the Fray team. We never tell someone who reported them.
- People you block can't find your profile or see your Fits, and you won't see theirs.
When you share or download a Fit, it leaves Fray, and what happens to it after that is up to you and the apps you share it with. Sharing your profile link opens a page on frayfits.com that shows your username and nothing else.
Services we use
A few outside companies help run Fray. Each gets only what it needs for its job and has its own privacy policy.
| Service | What it does for Fray | What it receives |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Hosts our database, sign-in and photo storage | Your account, Fits, photos and activity |
| Apple | Song search, 30-second previews, the top songs chart, notifications, and looking up place names when you add a general area | The songs you search for, and your location when you add a general area; your phone connects to Apple directly, so Apple also sees your IP address |
| Expo | Passes Fray's notifications to Apple to deliver to your phone | Your push token and the text of each notification |
| Resend | Sends sign-up, password and email-change codes | Your email address |
| Cloudflare | Hosts frayfits.com and forwards email sent to [email protected] | Basic visit records like IP address, and emails you send to [email protected] |
| Store websites | Open when you tap a piece link | Whatever any website sees when you visit it |
Your choices and controls
You control what you share and can delete it at any time.
- Each Fit: make it Friends only, add a general area or leave it off, hide its like count, turn off "Where's it from?" or comments, archive it, or delete it.
- People: block or report anyone from their profile or a Fit.
- Your account: make it private, so only followers you accept see your Fits, calendar and style, and choose who can comment on your Fits.
- Notifications: choose which activity notifies you and turn the daily Fit check reminder on or off in Settings.
- Phone permissions: Fray asks for the camera (to take Fits), location (only when you add a general area to a Fit), adding to your photos (only when you download), choosing photos (for your profile picture) and notifications. You can change any of these in your iPhone's Settings.
- Deleting your account: Settings > Delete account permanently deletes your profile, Fits, photos, comments, likes and saves.
- Anything else: to get a copy of your information or fix something you can't change in the app, use Contact us or email [email protected].
- The Get notified list: to be taken off it, email [email protected].
How long we keep things
We keep your information while your account exists. When you delete a Fit, a photo or your whole account, it's removed from our database and photo storage right away. Copies in our hosting provider's backups can last up to 7 days before they're overwritten. We keep reports and Contact us messages only as long as we need them to handle them.
Age requirement
Fray is only for people 18 and older, and everyone confirms their age when they join. We don't knowingly collect information from anyone under 18. If we learn an account belongs to someone under 18, we'll delete it. If you think that's happened, tell us at [email protected].
Security
Everything between your phone and our servers travels over an encrypted connection. Passwords are never stored in plain text, and our database rules let people change only their own information. No system is perfectly secure, so if you ever notice something wrong, tell us right away.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. For bigger changes, like collecting something new, we'll also tell you in the app or by email before they take effect.
Contact us
Questions about your privacy or this policy? Use Contact us in Settings, or email [email protected]. Fray is run by Charles Dennis Nagle in Chicago, Illinois.