1. Introduction
CaféRadar (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our mobile application and website (collectively, the “Service”).
2. Information We Collect
2.1 Information You Provide
- Account Information: When you create an account, we collect your name, email address, and profile photo (via Google or Apple Sign-In).
- User Content: Reviews, check-ins, journal entries, photos, and other content you create within the app.
- Preferences: Coffee preferences, favorite drinks, roast preferences, and interests you set during onboarding.
- Communications: Messages you send to us for support or feedback.
2.2 Information Collected Automatically
- Location Data: With your permission, we collect your precise location to show nearby cafés, enable check-ins, and send proximity alerts. You can disable location access at any time in your device settings.
- Device Information: Device type, operating system, unique device identifiers, and app version.
- Usage Data: How you interact with the app, including pages visited, features used, and time spent.
- Analytics Data: We use PostHog for analytics and Sentry for error tracking. We request your permission via App Tracking Transparency before collecting cross-app tracking data.
3. How We Use Your Information
- Provide and maintain the Service, including finding nearby cafés and personalizing recommendations.
- Process check-ins, reviews, and other user-generated content.
- Send push notifications about nearby cafés and merchant promotions (with your consent).
- Calculate achievements, badges, leaderboard rankings, and other gamification features.
- Improve the Service through analytics and error monitoring.
- Communicate with you about updates, support, and promotional offers.
- Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, or security issues.
4. Information Sharing
We do not sell your personal information. We may share information with:
- Other Users: Your public profile, check-ins, reviews, and achievements are visible to other CaféRadar users. Your activity feed is only visible to users who follow you.
- Merchant Partners: Aggregated, anonymized analytics about foot traffic and engagement for their listings.
- Service Providers: Third-party services that help us operate the app, including Clerk (authentication), Supabase (database), Sentry (error tracking), PostHog (analytics), OneSignal (notifications), and RevenueCat (subscriptions).
- Legal Requirements: When required by law, court order, or to protect the rights, safety, or property of CaféRadar, our users, or the public.
5. Data Retention
We retain your data for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide the Service. You can delete your account at any time from the app's Settings, which permanently removes your personal data, check-ins, reviews, and associated content.
6. Your Rights
You have the right to:
- Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Correct: Update or correct inaccurate personal data.
- Delete: Delete your account and all associated data from within the app.
- Export: Export your check-in history (available to Premium subscribers).
- Opt Out: Disable location tracking, push notifications, and analytics tracking at any time.
7. Data Security
We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your data, including encrypted data transmission (TLS/SSL), secure authentication via Clerk, Row Level Security (RLS) on our database, and secure storage for sensitive tokens. However, no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure.
8. Children's Privacy
CaféRadar is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have collected data from a child under 13, please contact us immediately.
9. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of material changes by posting the new policy in the app or via push notification. Your continued use of the Service after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
10. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
privacy@caferadar.app