Privacy policy

Who runs this

Spot a is built and operated by Clément Picard Zivy, an individual developer, reachable at clementpicardzivy@gmail.com. That address is the contact for any question, correction or deletion request covered below.

What the app collects

• Your photos. Each spot is two pictures taken inside the app, the rear camera on the target and the front camera on you. They can only be taken live, there is no import from your gallery.
• A display name. Whatever you type when you join. It does not have to be your real name.
• An anonymous account id. A random identifier created on first launch so your spots stay yours. It is not linked to an email, a phone number, a password or your Apple ID.
• An optional place name. A short line you type yourself, like "behind the station". The app never reads your device location, and it never asks for location permission.
• What you did in the game. Which crew you belong to, which prompt a spot answers, your favourites, your upvotes, your validations, and the time each of these happened.
• Your self-declared age check. The fact that you confirmed being 13 or older. No date of birth is stored.

The app has no analytics SDK, no advertising SDK, no crash reporter, and no push notifications. Nothing you do inside it is measured for any purpose other than running the game.

Who can see your spots

Only the members of your crew, and only once they have posted their own spot for that prompt. That gate is the game. Photos live in a private store, they are never public, and they are served through links that expire after an hour, so a copied link stops working on its own.

Nothing is posted anywhere else on your behalf. Sharing an invite goes through your own phone's share sheet, so you pick who receives it.

Where it is stored, and who else is involved

• Supabase hosts the database, the file storage and the anonymous accounts. It processes this data on Spot a's behalf and for no other purpose.
• Apple distributes the beta through TestFlight, and sees the fact that you installed and used a beta build. That is Apple's relationship with you, under Apple's own privacy policy.
• Google Fonts serves the app's typeface. On first launch the app downloads the font file from Google's servers and caches it on your device, which means Google sees a request carrying your IP address. No account data is sent with it.

Nothing is sold, rented, or handed to advertisers or data brokers. There is no such arrangement, and there will not be one without this page changing first.

How long it is kept

Spots stay until you ask for them to go, or until the beta ends. When the beta ends the test database can be wiped in full. This is early software, so treat anything you post in it as temporary, and do not use it as the only copy of a photo you care about.

Deleting your data

You can delete any of your own spots from inside the app. To have everything removed, the account included, email clementpicardzivy@gmail.com from any address and say so. Deletion is done by hand and confirmed back to you.

One consequence of anonymous accounts, and it cuts both ways: there is nothing to prove an account is yours other than being on the device that created it. So please write in from the phone you play on, and mention your display name and crew.

Depending on where you live you may also have the right to ask what is held about you, to have it corrected, or to get a copy. Same address, same answer, by hand.

Age

Spot a is for people aged 13 and over, and it asks you to confirm that when you join. It is not aimed at children under 13 and it does not knowingly keep their data. If you are a parent or guardian and believe a child under 13 is using it, write to clementpicardzivy@gmail.com and the account will be removed.

A word on what you point the camera at

The game sends you out into the real world, so other people can end up in the frame. Be decent about it: no photographing anyone who does not want it, nothing you would not want taken of you, nothing that identifies where someone lives. Spots that break that get removed.

Changes

If what the app collects changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves. During the beta that is the only notice you get, so it is worth a glance when a new build lands.