Privacy

bugungisi is a small, invite-only coffee check-in app. This page says, in plain words, what the app knows about you and what happens with it. The short version: your data exists to show your postcards to the companions you chose, and for nothing else.

What the app stores

Your account. Your email address and a password (the password is stored by our authentication provider in hashed form; we never see it). Your username, display name, and, if you add them, a profile photo, a short bio, your birthday (day and month only, never a year) and the city you’re based in.

Your postcards. Each postcard is a photo taken live in the app, stamped with the time, the city and country you were in, and the map coordinates of that spot (that’s what draws the pins on your passport map). Optionally a café name and the companions you tagged.

Your activity. Your connections, invites you’ve sent and redeemed (including who invited you), hearts, comments, and private messages between you and your companions.

What the app does not do

No ads, no selling or sharing of data with advertisers or data brokers, no third-party analytics or tracking, and no push notifications. Location is read once at the moment you take a postcard, never in the background. Photos come only from the in-app camera (your profile picture is the one exception; it may come from your photo library).

Who sees what

Your postcards are visible to your companions, and, when a companion passes one along, to that companion’s companions. Postcard images live in private storage and are served through short-lived signed links, not public URLs. Your profile (name, username, photo, bio) is visible to signed-in members. Private messages are visible only to the two people in the conversation.

Where it lives

Data is stored with Supabase on servers in Frankfurt, Germany (EU). Transactional email (sign-up confirmation, sign-in codes) is sent via Resend. Both act as processors for us; neither uses your data for their own purposes.

Deleting things

You can delete any postcard in the app; that removes the image and everything attached to it (hearts, comments, pass-alongs). You can delete your whole account in the app too: Settings → Delete account. It removes your postcards and their images, connections, messages, comments and hearts immediately, and there is no undo. If you’d rather we do it, email support@bugungisi.com from your account address.

Questions

Write to support@bugungisi.com. If this policy changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes with it.