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by artificialLimbs 1975 days ago
Beautiful idea, app, and page, but from the Privacy Policy:

>We may share Your personal information in the following situations: With Service Providers, For business transfers, With Affiliates, With business partners

I can't get down with that.

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I like the idea, but without privacy I would never share my thoughts and feelings in social network. Even though I find a important psychological point is missed in the concept.

On behalf of a psychological viewpoint, every human tells 2 narratives. One to belong to a group, seeking an image he wants to be seen as, and, an inner one, reflecting on behaviours with utmost honesty to one self in order to mature\grow.

Sharing personal insights while knowing anyone could read your thoughts later on, twists your notes in a misleading direction, I find. This kept me from journaling 20 years in fear someone could neglect myself on behalf of my notes\points\feelings\ideas written down.

In this high speed, working environment today, we rarely take time to reflect, and when we do, taking notes, shouldn't be a privacy lost way to do that. --- Some months ago I started with 2 friends regular and self-honest check'ins. Every one does daily journaling for him\herself and only presents insights about themselves, not to proof anything to the group, nor getting something out, bit to have the courage to speak out to oneselfs with courage what new viewpoint has been gathered lately on one selfs behaviour.

Start that with that. Pick beloved ones nearby, ask them if they are interested in having such an interview, encouraging oneself and others and you start maturing (I find myself). No online social network needed.

I don’t see anything particularly wrong with that as long as their business model isn’t ad based. Plus, it’s their MVP, so it’s probably a legal template to protect themselves more than their actual intent.
Agree it’s likely a legal template but it’s a bit like bringing a dead canary into a coal mine - normally there might be a warning that there’s a gas leak but now there definitely will not be
Appreciate the feedback here. Was a legal template for the MVP (as you hinted at above), and not our intention to leave any uncertainty re data privacy.

We've amended the policy, and added this statement so things are clear.

Sundayy does not, and never will, rent or sell your personal data to any third party for any purpose (including advertising or marketing purposes) nor do we, or will we, permit targeted advertising on our Service. We only share personal information with third party service providers under limited circumstances as described in the section below.

Yeah, that's not particularly great but isn't that what other social media networks do as well? Assuming you do use other social media.
To me the appeal of this product is that the intent seems more personal.

The types of interactions that you only want to share with a small crowd or a few friends.

All that goes out the window if you're just going to sell all my personal thoughts that you want me to share with my friends.

100% agree. Our intent is to be far more intentional, personal, and less attention hijacky than FB. Yes, that intention would go out the window if we did what they did re user data.

We've amended the privacy policy by adding this statement to make things far more explicit;

Sundayy does not, and never will, rent or sell your personal data to any third party for any purpose (including advertising or marketing purposes) nor do we, or will we, permit targeted advertising on our Service. We only share personal information with third party service providers under limited circumstances as described in the section below.