Legal

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 16 August 2026

What we collect, why we collect it, who else sees it, and what you can change. Bid is a social network built on a public blockchain, so this page is as much about what is public by design as about what we keep.

01The short version

We never see your private keys. They are generated and held inside Privy's secure hardware enclaves. Export encrypts them to a keypair your own browser creates, so the ciphertext that passes through our servers is something we hold no key to open.

Most of what we do store is the minimum needed to run a social trading network: who you are on Telegram, what you traded, and what you chose to publish. Your trades are public by default — that is what a leaderboard is — and you can change that at any time with /privacy.

02What we collect

From Telegram

When you start the bot, Telegram gives us your numeric user ID, username, and first name. We use your ID to identify your account and your username and name to display you to other users, subject to your privacy settings. Your profile photo is fetched from Telegram on demand and proxied to the app; we do not need your phone number and Telegram does not give it to us.

In groups, we record that your account is present in a group so clans and shared-group suggestions work. We do not read, store or analyse group conversation; the bot acts on commands and pasted contract addresses.

What you give us

Your display name, bio, privacy tier, DM policy, watchlist, theses, clan applications, direct messages sent through the app's inbox, and — if you connect it — your X (Twitter) handle.

What your activity produces

Your trades, positions, realized and unrealized PnL, follows, referrals, claims, wallet addresses, and the on-chain transactions those produce. Also the ordinary technical records any service keeps: request logs, IP address, device and app version, error traces, and product analytics about which screens and commands get used.

What we never collect

Private keys and seed phrases. Not in our database, not in our logs, not in our network traces. Nobody from Bid will ever ask you for one.

03Why we use it

  • To run the service — execute the trades you request, keep your positions and balances accurate against the chain, deliver alerts and receipts.
  • To provide the social layer — profiles, follows, feeds, leaderboards, clans, the weekly pot, and referral attribution.
  • To keep it safe — detect abuse, manipulation and multi-account farming, apply sanctions and jurisdiction screening, and rate-limit attacks.
  • To improve it — aggregate analytics about what works and what breaks.
  • To meet legal obligations — where a law that applies to us requires it.

04What is public, and what you control

Bid is a social network, so some information is published by design. Your privacy tier decides how much:

  • Public — your profile, trades, positions and PnL are visible to anyone, and you are eligible for leaderboards and the pot.
  • Friends only — visible to mutuals: people you follow who follow you back.
  • Private — visible to nobody but you. You still accrue your own history.

You can also hide your Telegram @username separately, so you are shown by display name everywhere instead, and control who may DM you.

One exception, deliberately. A trade you place inside a group is announced to that group whatever your tier — everyone there watched you run the command, and a silent trade on a public floor would be misleading. Your tier still governs everywhere else.

05On-chain data is permanent and public

Your wallets and every transaction they make exist on public blockchains. That data is permanent, worldwide, and outside anyone's control, including ours. It cannot be edited, retracted or deleted — not by us, not by you, not by a deletion request.

Anyone who learns one of your wallet addresses can see its full history. Changing your Bid privacy tier changes what Bid displays; it does not and cannot change what the chain shows.

06Who we share it with

We do not sell your personal data. We share it only with the providers that make the service work, and only to the extent they need it:

  • Privy — wallet creation, key custody in enclaves, signing.
  • Telegram — inherently, since Bid runs inside it. Your use of Telegram is governed by Telegram's own privacy policy.
  • Jupiter, 0x, Relay and blockchain RPC providers — to build, route and broadcast transactions.
  • Market-data and token-security providers — for prices, charts and the honeypot / holder checks on token cards.
  • Infrastructure providers — hosting, managed database, error monitoring.
  • Authorities — where a valid legal request requires it, or where we must to comply with sanctions law.

07Retention

We keep account and trading records for as long as your account exists and afterwards where we need them — to keep leaderboards and historical seasons coherent, to resolve disputes over money, and to meet legal obligations. Technical logs are kept for a short period for security and debugging.

Deleting your Bid account removes your profile and stops the service processing you. It does not, and cannot, remove your on-chain history.

08Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, correct it, delete it, object to or restrict how we use it, or receive it in a portable form. You may also have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority.

Exercise any of these by writing to contact@bidbot.club. We will need to be satisfied you control the Telegram account in question before acting on a request about it.

09Security

Signing is isolated in its own service with policy limits, and withdrawals sit behind stricter gates — every one is confirmed by you, and a first withdrawal to an address you have never used is held for two hours with a cancel button, so a hijacked Telegram session cannot quietly drain you.

No system is perfectly secure. The weakest link is almost always your Telegram account: set a strong password, turn on two-step verification, and do not leave sessions open on devices you do not control.

10Children

Bid is not for anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a minor is using Bid, tell us and we will close the account.

11Changes and contact

We will post changes to this policy here with a new "last updated" date, and we will flag material ones in the app.

Questions, requests, or anything you think this page gets wrong: contact@bidbot.club.