Privacy Policy

Last update: 2026.10.24

This Privacy Policy is part of the User Agreement – a legally binding contract governing your use of Rebut. You should read this Privacy Policy in full.

1. Information We Collect

The information we collect when you use Rebut falls into three categories.

1.1 Information you provide us.

To use some of our products and services you need to have a verified account, and to create a verified account, you need to provide us certain information. Basically, certain information is necessary if you want to use many of our products and services.

Personal Accounts.

If you create an account, you must provide us with some information so that we can provide our services to you. This includes a display name; a username; a password; an email address; and third-party single sign-in information (if you choose this sign-in method). You can also choose to share your location in your profile and posts, and to upload your address book to Rebut to help find people you may know. Your profile information, which includes your display name and username, is always public.

If you are creating a verified profile, your real name is displayed and can not be changed. Your real name is necessary to use our services except viewing.

Your real name shall be verified through the verification methods of Rebut, which includes retrieving information from third-party single sign-in or predefined and authorized domains, and email lists. You can create only one verified account.

Preferences.

When you set your preferences using your settings, we collect that information so that we can respect your preferences.

Biometric Information.

Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes.

1.2 Information we collect when you use Rebut.

When you use our services, we collect information about how you use our products and services. We use that information to provide you with products and services, to help keep Rebut more secure and respectful for everyone, and more relevant to you.

Usage Information.

We collect information about your activity on Rebut, including:

content you post (including the date, application, and version of Rebut) and information about your broadcast activity, including broadcasts you’ve created and when you created them, your lists, bookmarks, and Communities you are a part of.

Your interactions with other users’ content, such as shares, reactions, downloads, questions, if other users mention or tag you in content or if you mention or tag them, and broadcasts you’ve participated in (including your viewing history, listening, asking questions, speaking, and reacting).

How you interact with others on the platform, such as topics you follow, and when you use Direct Messages, including the contents of the messages, the recipients, and date and time of messages.

If you communicate with us, such as through email, we will collect information about the communication and its content.

We collect information on links you interact with across our services (including in our emails sent to you).

User Content and Arena Participation

When you create or interact with User Content through the Services, we collect information necessary to provide those features.

This may include:

Rebuts, video responses, and video threads you create or participate in;
Arenas you create, host, moderate, join, or watch;
recordings of Arenas when recording is enabled;
messages, questions, votes, reactions, comments, transcript edits, files, and other contributions you submit;
your role in an Arena (such as host, moderator, speaker, participant, or viewer);
information about when you join, leave, or otherwise interact with an Arena or other User Content.

Depending on how you use the Services, this information may include your voice, image, likeness, username, profile information, and opinions.

Device Information

We collect information from and about the devices you use to access Rebut, including:

Information about your connection, such as your IP address, browser type, and related information.

Information about your device and its settings, such as device and advertising ID, operating system, carrier, language, memory, apps installed, and battery level.

Your device address book, if you’ve chosen to share it with us.

Location Information

When you use Rebut, we collect some information about your approximate location to provide the service you expect, including showing you relevant ads. You can also choose to share your current precise location or places where you’ve previously used Rebut by enabling these settings in your account.

Inferred Identity

We may collect or receive information that we use to infer your identity as detailed below:

When you sign into Rebut on device, we will associate that device with your account. We may also associate your account with browsers or devices other than those you use to sign into Rebut (or associate your signed-out device with other browsers or devices or Rebut-generated identifiers).

When you provide other information to Rebut, including an email address, we associate that information with your Rebut account. Subject to your settings, we may also use this information in order to infer other information about your identity, for example by associating your account with hashes of email addresses that share common components with the email address you have provided to Rebut.

When you access Rebut and are not signed in, we may infer your identity based on the information we collect.

Log Information

We may receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our products and services, even if you have not created an account or are signed out, such as:

IP address and related information; browser type and language; operating system; the referring webpage; access times; pages visited; location; your mobile carrier; device information (including device and application IDs); search terms and IDs (including those not submitted as queries); ads shown to you on Rebut; Rebut-generated identifiers; and identifiers associated with cookies. We also receive log information when you click on, view, or interact with links on our services, including when you install another application through Rebut.

Advertisements

When you view or interact with ads we serve on or off Rebut, we may collect information about those views or interactions (e.g., watching a video ad or preroll, clicking on an ad.

Cookies and similar technologies

Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional website usage data and to operate our services. Cookies are not required for many parts of our products and services such as searching and looking at public profiles. You can learn more about how we use cookies and similar technologies here.

Interactions with our content on third-party sites

When you view our content on third-party websites that integrate Rebut content, such as embedded timelines or post buttons, we may receive log information that includes the web page you visited.

1.3 Information we receive from third parties. When you use other online products and services, they may share information about that usage with us.

Ad Partners, Developers, Publishers

Our ad and business partners share information with us such as browser cookie IDs, Rebut-generated identifiers, mobile device IDs, hashed user information like email addresses, demographic or interest data, and content viewed or actions taken on a website or app. Some of our ad partners, particularly our advertisers, also enable us to collect similar information directly from their website or app by integrating our advertising technology. Information shared by ad partners and affiliates or collected by Rebut from the websites and apps of ad partners and affiliates may be combined with the other information you share with Rebut and that Rebut receives, generates, or infers about you described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.

Other Third Parties, Account Connections, and Integrations

We may receive information about you from third parties who are not our ad partners, such as other Rebut users, developers, and partners who help us evaluate the safety and quality of content on our platform, our corporate affiliates, and other services you link to your Rebut account.

2. How We Use Information

2.1 Operate, improve, and personalize our services

We use the information we collect to provide and operate Rebut products and services. We also use the information we collect to improve and personalize our products and services so that you have a better experience on Rebut, including by showing you more relevant content and ads, suggesting people to oppose with, moderators and topics to follow.

We may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this policy. We may use the information we collect from accounts of other services that you choose to connect to your Rebut account to provide you features like cross-posting or cross-service authentication, and to operate our services.

We use your contact information to help others find your account if your settings permit, including through third-party services and client applications.

2.2 Foster safety and security

We use information we collect to provide for the safety and security of our users, our products, services, and your account. This includes verifying your identity, authenticating your account, and defending against fraud, unauthorized use, and illegal activity. We also use the information to evaluate and affect the safety and quality of content on Rebut - this includes investigating and enforcing our policies and and terms, as well as applicable law.

2.3 Measure, analyze and make our services better

We use the information we collect to measure and analyze the effectiveness of our products and services and to better understand how you use them in order to make them better.

2.4 Communicate with you about our services

We use the information we collect to communicate with you about our products and services, including about product updates and changes to our policies and terms. If you’re open to hearing from us, we may also send you marketing messages from time to time.

2.5 Research

We use information you share with us, or that we collect to conduct research, surveys, product testing, and troubleshooting to help us operate and improve our products and services.

3. Sharing Information

You should know the ways we share your information, why we share it, and how you can control it. There are five general ways we share your information.

3.1 When you post and share

With the general public

You are directing us to disclose that information as broadly as possible. Rebut content, including your profile information (e.g., name, username, profile pictures, ranking), is available for viewing by the general public. The public does not need to be signed in to view some content on Rebut. They may also find Rebut content off of Rebut: for example, from

search query results on Internet search engines or videos downloaded and reshared elsewhere.

With other Rebut users

Depending on your settings, and based on the Rebut products and services you use, we share: Your interactions with Rebut content of other users. Content you send to a specific Rebut user.

Access to User Content depends on how it is shared through the Services.

Public Rebuts, public video threads, and Public Arena content may be available to all users and may appear in profiles, feeds, recommendations, search results, or other publicly accessible areas of the Services.
Unlisted Arena content is available to users who have the Arena link.
Private Arena content is available only to invited participants and invited viewers.

Users who are authorized to access User Content may be able to download, copy, screenshot, screen-record, or otherwise redistribute that content. Rebut cannot control copies or further distribution outside the Services.

3.2 With third parties & third-party integrations

With service providers

We may share your information with our service providers that perform functions and provide services on our behalf, including service providers that help us understand the use of our services; and those that provide fraud detection services.

With advertisers

Advertising revenue enables us to provide our products and services. Advertisers may learn information from your engagement with their ads on or off Rebut. They may also collect other personal information from you, such as cookie identifiers, or your IP address.

Third-party content & integrations

To improve your experience, we work with third-party partners to display their video content on Rebut or to allow cross-platform sharing. When you watch or otherwise interact with content from our video or cross-platform sharing partners, they may receive and process your personal information as described in their privacy policies.

Through our APIs

We use technology like APIs and embeds to make public Rebut information available to websites, apps, and others for their use, for example, displaying posts on a news website or analyzing what people say on Rebut. We generally make this content available in limited quantities for free and charge licensing fees for large-scale access. We have standard terms that govern how this information can be used, and a compliance program to enforce these terms. But these individuals and companies are not aﬃliated with Rebut, and their offerings may not reflect updates you make on Rebut.

3.3 When required by law, to prevent harm, or in the public interest

We may preserve, use, share, or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to:

comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request;

protect the safety of any person, protect the safety or integrity of our platform, including to help prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actors on our services;

explain why we have removed content or accounts from our services (e.g., for a violation of our Rules);

address fraud, security, or technical issues; or

protect our rights or property, or the rights or property of those who use our services.

We may also use diﬀerent signals and your data to infer, preserve, use, share, or disclose your identity information in order to comply with regulatory requirements as well as for safety, security, fraud, know-your-customer, know-your-business, and identity verification, as the case may be. We may also share or disclose your identity information with our partners, service providers, and others for these purposes.

3.4 With our Aﬃliates

We may share information amongst our affiliates to provide our products and services.

3.5 As a result of a change in ownership

We may share, sell, or transfer information about you in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or bankruptcy. This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal information that is shared with (before and after the close of any transaction) or transferred to the new entity.

4. How Long We Keep Information

We keep different types of information for different periods of time, depending on how long we need to retain it in order to provide you with our products and services, to comply with our legal requirements and for safety and security reasons. For example:

We keep your profile information, such as your display name, user name, password and email address for the duration of your account. We cannot provide you with our products and services without retaining this information.

We keep your usage information, such as the content you post, your interactions with other users’ content and how you interact with others on the platform for the duration of your account or until such content is removed.

If you communicate with us, such as through email, we will keep information about the communication and its content for up to 18 months, unless it is necessary for us to retain it for a longer period to comply with our legal obligations or to exercise or defend our legal rights.

We generally collect device information, location information, inferred identity information and log information using cookies.

Where you violate our Rules and your account is suspended, we may keep the identifiers you used to create the account (such as your email address) indefinitely to prevent repeat policy offenders from creating new accounts.

We may need to keep certain information longer than our policies specify in order to comply with legal requirements and for safety and security reasons. For example:

To comply with a law, regulation, legal process or governmental request. Including in order to adhere to a legally appropriate preservation request made by law enforcement.

In connection with legal claims, litigation and regulatory matters. Including where it is reasonably necessary to retain information relating to your account in order to defend Rebut against legal claims.

To maintain the safety and security of our products and services. Including where it is necessary to store your information longer in order to investigate and fight abuse on our products and services. Remember public content can exist elsewhere even after it is removed from Rebut.

For example, search engines and other third parties may retain copies of your posts longer, based upon their own privacy policies, even after they are deleted or expire on Rebut.

5. Take Control

5.1 Access, Correction, Portability

You can access, correct, or modify the information you provided to us by editing your profile and adjusting your account settings.

To protect your privacy and maintain security, we take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with a deletion, portability, or other related request. We may, in certain situations, reject your request for access, correction, or portability, for example, we may reject access where you are unable to verify your identity.

5.2 Deleting your Information

If you follow the instructions here, your account will be deactivated and your data will be queued for deletion. When deactivated, your Rebut account, including your display name, username, and public profile, will no longer be viewable on Rebut mobile applications for iOS, and for Android.

Some content (e.g., past messages) may remain visible to others, but labeled as “Deleted User.”

5.3 Authorized Agent Requests

To submit a request related to access, modification, or deletion of your information, or someone else’s information if you are their authorized agent, you may also contact us as specified in the How To Contact Rebut section of our Privacy Policy below. We may require you to provide additional information for verification.

6. Your Rights and Ours

We provide Rebut to people all over the world and provide many of the same privacy tools and controls to all of our users regardless of where they live. However, your experience may be slightly different than users in other countries to ensure Rebut respects local requirements.

6.1 Legal bases to use your information

We don’t sell your personal information.

6.2 We move your data to make Rebut work for you

Just as you use Rebut to seamlessly participate in global conversations with people in countries all over the world, Rebut must move information across borders and to diﬀerent countries around the world to support the safe and reliable service you depend on. For example, if you live in Europe and are having a conversation with someone in the United States, information has to move between those countries to provide that experience – it’s what you expect from us.

7. Rebut's Audience

Our services are not directed to children, and you may not use our services if you are under the age of 18. You must also be old enough to consent to the processing of your personal data in your country.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us here. If we become aware that a child under 18 has provided us with personal information, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account.

8. Changes To This Privacy Policy

The most current version of this Privacy Policy governs our processing of your personal data and we may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time as needed. If we do revise this Privacy Policy and make changes that are determined by us to be material, we will provide you notice and an opportunity to review the revised Privacy Policy before you continue to use Rebut.

9. General

Our Privacy Policy is written in English but it may be made available in multiple languages through translations. Rebut strives to make the translations as accurate as possible to the original English version. However, in case of any discrepancies or inconsistencies, the English language version of the Rebut Privacy Policy shall take precedence. You acknowledge that English shall be the language of reference for interpreting and constructing the terms of the Rebut Privacy Policy.

10. How To Contact Rebut

For any questions or concerns related to this Privacy Policy, please contact us at report@rebut.co or by writing to us at the appropriate address below. The data controller responsible for your personal data is Rebut Inc., with an address of:

Rebut Inc.

Attn: Privacy Policy Inquiry

74 E Glenwood Ave Unit #5767

Smyrna, DE 19977, USA

If you wish to raise a concern about our data processing practices, you have the right to do so with your local supervisory authority.

Eﬀective: 24 October 2026