Circles is the secure social sharing app for families and friends.

# SECURITY
Every Circles post is encrypted end to end using state of the art secure messaging protocols from Matrix. No one can read your posts or look at your photos unless you invite them first.

# FOR PARENTS
Circles helps you keep your little ones safe. You have total control over who can see every post. Safely and easily share photos and videos with grandparents, aunts and uncles, and other family members and friends.

# SECURE SOCIAL CIRCLES
Easily share updates with lots of your friends all in one place, even if they don't all know each other. A social circle works like a secure, encrypted version of Facebook or Twitter. But unlike other networks, Circles lets you create as many social circles as you want, so you can share different updates with different sets of friends.

# PRIVATE GROUPS
Create secure, private discussion groups to coordinate clubs, organizations, and other groups of friends who all know each other.

# PHOTO GALLERIES
Share photos securely with all your friends, using Circles' secure cloud-based photo galleries. Shared photo galleries are great for family vacations, weddings, and any other event where everyone gets together and takes lots of photos.

# NO ADS - MAXIMUM PRIVACY
Unlike other social networks, Circles does not sell advertising, and we never will. So we have no need to data mine your posts, or to follow you around the web with a network of creepy trackers. We don't harvest your data, and we don't share your information with sketchy third parties.

# NO LOCK-IN
If you'd rather not rely on us to host your account, you are free to run your own server or use a friend's. Circles works with any standards-compliant Matrix server that implements the Matrix client-server API version 1.9 or above.

# CREATED BY FUTO WITH LOVE
FUTO is a different kind of tech company. We believe in putting users first. We don't want to control you or manipulate you. We are on a mission to take tech back to its roots: innovation not exploitation. We build software for our own families to use. Our business model is simple: Give the people what they want, at a reasonable price.

# LEGAL
* Use of the Circles iOS app is permitted under the standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA) available at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
* The privacy policy for the Circles iOS app is available at https://circles.futo.org/privacy/ios/index.html
* The privacy policy for accounts hosted on the FUTO Circles servers is available at https://circles.futo.org/privacy/service/index.html