Safety
Safe by design, and yours to set.
Four promises, and then the specifics underneath them: who can read what you share, who can find your Circle, and what RippleCore knows about where you were.
You choose how to respond
React, save it, or walk past. Nothing here counts the times you did not join in, and there is no streak to break.
Your links are yours to share
A ripple keeps a link back to the moment that inspired it, so the chain says where the idea came from — to the Circle it belongs to, not to the open web.
Your Circle can stay private
A Circle is either listed publicly or not listed at all, and nothing inside it is readable without an account in either case.
No popularity contest
There is no follower count to chase and no argument to win. The loudest thing on screen is somebody else’s good news.
Your Circle, unless you choose otherwise
A post is read by the people it was for.
A story is read by the members of the Circle you shared it in. Not other Circles, not the Circle next door, and never somebody signed out and browsing. If you are 18 or over and your Circle allows it, you can choose to share one moment with all RippleCore members; the choice starts on “Circle members only” every time, and you can take it back.
An event and the member list belong to the Circle too — who is coming, and who is in it, is for its members to see.
And if you want to note something for yourself alone, that is what a quick act is for: a private record of what you did, which still counts towards what you have done and which no other member ever reads — not the Circle, not its officers.
Finding, not reading
Listed, or not listed at all.
A Circle is either community or safeguarded, and the difference is whether strangers can come across it.
Community
The Circle itself is listed publicly, so anyone can find it, signed out included.
Safeguarded
The Circle itself is not listed, so people who are not members will not come across it. Its page opens only to its members, and to someone holding a live invite.
That is a separate decision from how you join one, and it is a decision made inside the Circle you belong to. Nothing inside is readable without an account in either case — the two sentences above are the product's own, andthe Circles pages explain the rest.
Where it happened
Coarsened before it is stored.
A moment can say where it happened, and the point on the map is coarsened beforeit is written — by default to the town, not the street. Because the precise point is never kept, no search can find it later, and the range the app offers runs from exact all the way to hidden. A place name you type is kept as you typed it, unless you choose hidden.
Nothing else in RippleCore asks where you are.
When it goes wrong
You can report a post, and an officer sees it.
The report goes to the people who already run that Circle, who can take the post down. It does not go to a moderation queue nobody owns, and it does not need to be explained to a stranger first.
Share as much, or as little, as you like.
That is the whole setting, and it is yours per post rather than once for your account.