who we are
This policy says what FOMOTION reads and keeps about you when you use it, why, who else handles it, and what you can ask us for.
FOMOTION is run by the FOMOTION team: "we" and "us" on this page. We decide what is collected and why, so we are responsible for your data. Reach us on X (@getfomotion).
Terms of use
signing in with X
You sign in with X. X asks you to let FOMOTION read your account (X's users.read and tweet.read permissions). We use that once, while you sign in, to read:
- your X user id, a number that never changes;
- your @handle and your display name;
- whether X shows a blue check on your account;
- when your X account was created.
We keep the id, the @handle, the blue-check status (and when we last read it) and the creation date, and refresh them every time you sign in. We read your display name but don't keep it.
We never store your X login. X's access token is used once, while you sign in, and then dropped; we don't ask X for a token that would let us act for you later. We never post, follow, like or read your messages.
what we store
- Your account: the X details above, and the Fomo handle you claimed, when you proved it, and Fomo's own id for it when the feed gives one.
- Handle claims: the one-time codes you were given, how many times you pressed check, and what the read of the claimed Fomo profile found (whether the handle exists, its trade count, its bio and display name).
- Missions: the missions you post and join, each check you ask for, whether it was counted and why not, and approvals or rejections of your work.
- Ranks: reviewers' ratings and flags on your theses, and whether you kept your follows. Your rank is worked out from them.
- The Fomo account check, for dollar missions: your Fomo account's age, its number of trades and dollars traded, the wallet addresses your Fomo profile shows, and the coins it held when we read it.
- Money: every amount credited to or taken from your balance, on which chain, and when it became withdrawable.
- Withdrawals: the address you sent to, the amounts and the fee, the status and the transaction's hash. When a withdrawal is held for a check, the admin's decision and their reason.
- Holds on your balance: when an admin releases a hold put on it because you and another account shared a withdrawal address and a mission, who released it, why and when, with the other account, the mission and the address it was about. When the hold was on another account and you were the account it shared with, that release record keeps your account id too.
- Your IP address, briefly: some actions (starting a claim, creating a mission, approving a thesis, withdrawing) are limited per IP address, and the counter is deleted once its window has closed.
what we read from Fomo
Fomo has no official API, so we read Fomo through a third-party data feed (fomoapi.io). Everything we read is public on Fomo:
- posts and theses, including the code you post to claim a handle and the thesis you post for a mission;
- the profile of the Fomo handle you claim, when you start the claim and each time you press check: whether it exists, its bio, display name and number of trades — we keep the bio and display name we read, to show the claim was proved;
- trades that appear in Fomo's public live feed;
- the follower list of a page with a follow mission and, when a check or a join needs it, the list of pages you follow;
- your Fomo profile, for the account check, the first time you join a dollar mission (and again later if it did not pass);
- public leaderboard figures, and the likes on top creators' posts, for the fomo traders board.
Fomo's public live feed includes people who have never used FOMOTION. We keep the posts and trades it carries, so missions can be checked.
wallet addresses
- The address you withdraw to is kept with the withdrawal. The payout is a public blockchain transaction: anyone can see that address receive it, for ever, and your page links to it.
- We compare the address with other accounts' withdrawals. If another account has used it, the withdrawal is held for an admin.
- We also compare the addresses you withdraw to, and when you completed each dollar mission, with other accounts'. If you use a withdrawal address another account has money at, and the two of you completed the same dollar mission within 24 hours of each other, your balance is put on hold: withdrawals are refused until an admin releases the hold. One already waiting to go out is held for that admin, not cancelled. Nothing is taken from your balance.
- When a creator funds a mission, the mission wallet's address and the deposit's transaction are shown on the mission page, so anyone can check the escrow on-chain.
- We never ask for a private key or a seed phrase. Anyone who does is not FOMOTION.
what other people see
- Your Fomo handle and Fomo profile picture on the missions you join and post, with your status on each.
- Your rank, and the dollars you earned on the top earners board.
- A creator's reason for rejecting a thesis. The reason from our own quality check is shown only to you.
- Not your X handle: you see it on your page, and FOMOTION's admins can see it.
cookies and browser storage
- fomotion_session: keeps you signed in. It is signed so it can't be forged, and lasts 30 days or until you sign out.
- fomotion_oauth: holds the sign-in handshake with X for up to 10 minutes, and is deleted as soon as the sign-in finishes.
- seen_activity_at: remembers the newest event you have seen in "what happened", so the bell counts only new ones on this device. It lasts 365 days.
- fomotion_admin: only for FOMOTION's admins, after they sign in to the admin page. It lasts 12 hours.
- Your browser's session storage remembers which status a page last showed, so a change can be marked when it arrives. It is cleared when you close the tab.
No advertising or analytics cookies, no tracking pixels and no third-party scripts.
Some pictures load from other sites: profile pictures from Fomo's image host, and coin logos from DexScreener, CoinGecko and GeckoTerminal. Your browser asks those sites for them directly, so they see that request, as with any site you visit.
how we use it, and no sale
- signing you in, and keeping one account per person;
- checking missions and working out ranks;
- paying people, keeping the money ledger and sending withdrawals;
- stopping abuse: several accounts, shared payout addresses, fake activity;
- running FOMOTION: our own alerts when something waits on a person.
We don't sell your data, rent it, or share it for advertising.
- Signing you in, checking missions and paying you: you asked us to, by agreeing to the terms.
- Stopping abuse and keeping the money safe: everyone using the site needs that, us included.
- Keeping the money ledger and payment records: the law can require it.
who else handles it
- Vercel hosts the site and handles every request, including your IP address.
- Neon runs our database, where everything under what we store is kept.
- Privy provides the mission and treasury wallets. It sees wallet addresses and the amounts sent; we don't send it your X or Fomo identity.
- fomoapi.io, a third-party Fomo data feed, answers our lookups. It receives the Fomo handles we look up, yours included when a check needs it.
- X handles signing in. X's own privacy policy covers what X does.
- Telegram carries our own alerts to FOMOTION's private chat. An alert can name a Fomo handle whose check is waiting on a person.
- DexScreener and GeckoTerminal answer coin lookups when a creator pastes a coin's address. They receive the address, and nothing about you.
Our database is in the United States, and most of these providers are based there, so if you live elsewhere your data is handled outside your country. We rely on each provider's own safeguards for moving data between countries, such as the European Union's standard contractual clauses where they offer them.
how long we keep it
- Account, mission and money records: for as long as your account exists.
- The money ledger only ever adds lines. It never edits or deletes one, because every balance is worked out from it.
- IP counters: deleted once the window they count has closed.
- The sign-in handshake cookie: deleted when the sign-in finishes.
- Posts and trades from Fomo's public feed: kept, so missions can be checked.
When you ask us to delete your account, we delete or anonymise your X details, your claimed handle, your claims and your ranks. We keep what we must: the ledger lines and withdrawal records behind every payment, for as long as the law requires financial records to be kept, and what we need to stop the same abuse happening again. Deleted data can stay in our encrypted backups until they roll over.
your choices and requests
- Sign out at any time from your page. That deletes the session cookie.
- To see what we hold about you, or to ask us to delete your account, message FOMOTION on X (@getfomotion). We answer there, and may ask you to sign in to show the account is yours.
- What we can't delete: the ledger lines behind what you earned, were refunded and withdrew, and anything public on a blockchain or on Fomo, which is not ours to delete.
- Clearing your cookies signs you out and resets the bell's count. Nothing else changes.
your rights
- to see the data we hold about you;
- to have it corrected;
- to get a copy in a common format;
- to have it deleted, apart from what we must keep (above);
- to object to a use of it.
Ask on X and we answer there. If you're not happy with the answer, you can complain to the data protection authority where you live.
changes to this policy
We can change this policy. The date at the top says when it last changed, and when a change affects what we collect, we also say so on X (@getfomotion).