Privacy policy

[Company name] runs Spotted and this website. Our address is [Company address].

For anything about your data, email [privacy@ email].

When you join the waitlist, we store:

• Your mobile number.
• The city you picked, or that you picked Somewhere else.
• The country your number belongs to.
• When you agreed to get a text, and which version of that wording you saw.
• Campaign tags from the link you came from, if it had any. Never the full link or the page you came from.

We don't store your name, your email, your browser or your device. We don't store your IP address with your entry. To stop spam, we keep a scrambled version of it for up to 24 hours.

If you visit without joining, we store nothing about you.

To text you once, when your city's wave opens.

Your city tells us where people want Spotted next. Campaign tags tell us which posts bring people here.

That's all. We never sell your number or use it for ads.

By joining, you agree to get one text from Spotted when your wave opens. Msg & data rates may apply.

We send it at noon your city's time, never at night.

Reply STOP to opt out. We then remove your number from the waitlist and never text it again. To keep that promise, we keep the number on a do-not-text list.

This site sets no cookies and has no ad pixels.

We count visits with [cookie-free analytics tool], which uses no cookies and stores no personal data.

Our fonts and videos come from our own servers or Cloudflare, never from Google, YouTube or Vimeo.

• Supabase stores the waitlist in its database.
• Cloudflare hosts this website and runs Turnstile, the spam check on the form.
• [SMS provider] sends the one text.

Your data is stored in the United States.

If you're in Europe or the UK, it's transferred under the Standard Contractual Clauses, with the UK Addendum for the UK.

Your entry stays until you join Spotted or ask us to remove it.

• When you join the app, your waitlist entry is deleted.
• If you never join, we delete it 24 months after you signed up, or 12 months after your city opens, whichever comes first. If your city was already open, the 12 months count from your signup.
• If a friend nominated your number, the entry stays until 12 months after their last nomination.
• Our backups roll over every 7 days, so a deleted entry leaves them within 7 more days.

You can ask to see what we hold about you, to correct it or to delete it. You can also object to how we use it.

Email [privacy@ email] with the number you used. We answer within one month.

• Europe and the UK (GDPR and UK GDPR): access, correction, deletion, objection and a copy of your data. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
• California (CCPA and CPRA): you can ask what we collect and ask us to delete it. We don't sell or share your personal information, and asking never changes how we treat you.
• Canada (PIPEDA and Quebec's Law 25): access, correction, and withdrawing your consent.

This policy covers the website. The app has its own privacy policy for everything the app does: [link to the app's privacy policy].

A few things the app keeps to:

• Statuses, check-ins, posts, messages and Meet Ups clear at 5 AM city time.
• Your exact location is never sent to anyone. Check-ins are at the venue level, and friends of friends see the neighborhood at most, never the venue.
• Suggested photos from your camera roll stay on your phone. They are never uploaded.
• Delete your account in Settings. It's hidden at once, erased after 7 days, and out of our backups 7 days later.
• Download my data, in Settings, gives you a copy of what the app holds about you.

We aim for WCAG 2.2 level AA on this website.

If something doesn't work for you, with a screen reader, a keyboard or anything else, email [hello@ email]. Tell us the page and what happened.

If this policy changes, we update the date at the top.

The rules for using the site and the waitlist: Terms