Your private life is your business

Privacy you can actually use

We’re building cruush for the way people actually meet. Sometimes you want to be easy to find. Sometimes you want to see who’s around while keeping your own location less specific. Sometimes you want to share a little more with someone you’re into.

You should get to make those choices. That’s why privacy is part of how cruush works, from the pin on the map to the information on your profile.

The point is to give you more room to enjoy yourself. Find your people, make your interest known, and choose what you share as you go.

The personal stuff stays protected

cruush encrypts sensitive profile information, stored locations, messages, Confessional content and media on our servers. Your relationship records are encrypted too, including who you have a mutual cruush with. The settings behind Ghost Mode and its location-sharing choices get that protection as well.

We’ve paired that encryption with access checks and checks against tampering. The protection reaches the things that make meeting people personal: what you share, who you connect with, and where you are.

You get the features you came for, with serious work happening underneath them.

Be nearby without putting your exact location on display

Nearby discovery is the heart of cruush. We built it so the app can find people around you using coarse location cells, with your stored location encrypted.

What another member sees follows your sharing settings. Precise location sharing is something you choose for mutual cruushes, so you decide when to make it easier for someone to find you.

Want more space around your pin? Turn on Ghost Mode and choose your privacy radius. Other members who don’t have precise-location access see a decoy inside that area. The decoy moves during your Ghost Mode session, keeping your map presence from settling into one fixed spot.

Ghost Mode also stays with your pin while your map-presence window is open, even after you log off. Choose how long your pin stays around, and your location choices keep applying for that whole window.

A mutual cruush takes two people

Sending a cruush tells someone you’re interested. When they cruush you back, it’s mutual. Both of you chose it. That’s the whole point.

You can reserve parts of your profile for mutual cruushes and choose whether to share your precise location with them. Becoming mutual keeps those choices in your hands. You decide what opens up, and you can change your mind.

We encrypt the mutual relationship itself, alongside the personal information around it. Who you’re into deserves care too.

Room to be yourself, tools to draw the line

We want cruush to be a place where queer adults can be direct about what they want. That includes adult content, specific interests and conversations that don’t need to be dressed up for someone else.

We’ve built reporting, blocking, moderation, spam protection and account protections into that experience. Blocking draws a firm line across the app. Your visibility and messaging settings let you make more specific choices about who sees you and who can reach you.

These are tools for the moments that actually come up while meeting people. You can be interested, change your mind, narrow your audience, or step back. Your settings should work with you through all of it.

We’re putting more into privacy

The foundation today is encryption on our servers, paired with sharing rules that shape the app around your choices. Next, we’re working toward end-to-end encryption for suitable private parts of cruush.

That work includes moving between devices, recovering your account and reporting abuse, because we want those parts of the experience to work well together. We’ll share the new features as we build them.

We care about this because we want to use the kind of app we’re making. An app with personality, room for real queer lives, and privacy controls you can actually do something with.

Come find someone you’re into. You choose what happens next.