Privacy Policy

Krets is a place discovery app that lets you save, recommend and share restaurants, cafés and bars with a trusted circle of people. To do this we store a small amount of data tied to your account, described below. We do not sell your personal data.

Account & profile When you create an account we store your email address (or the identifier from Apple or Google sign-in), your display name, username, optional bio and optional profile photo. If you sign in with Apple using "Hide My Email", we only ever see Apple's relay address.

Content you create The places you recommend or save, the notes and tags you write, any photo you attach to a recommendation, and your connections (who you follow) are stored so the app can show them to you and to the people in your circle.

Location With your permission, your device location is used to sort places by distance and to show what is near you. Your precise location is used on your device and is not stored on our servers as a location history.

Place data & photos Place information and place photos are fetched from Google Places. Krets does not store these Google photos itself; they are loaded from Google (through a proxy) when shown.

Smart search & translations A couple of features use AI services from OpenAI. When you use smart (natural-language) search, your search text is sent to OpenAI to help find relevant places. Short, factual place descriptions are machine-translated into your language using OpenAI (the app labels these as "machine-translated"). These features don't make decisions about you, and the recommendations in Krets are always written by people — never generated by AI.

Recommendation photos You can optionally add one photo to a recommendation. Unlike Google place photos, a recommendation photo is uploaded by you and stored by Krets in Supabase Storage. It is private: it is shown only to people who can see that recommendation (you and your circle), is used only to display the recommendation in the app, and is served through short-lived signed links. It is not shown on Home, on public or shared web links, or to anyone outside your circle. If you remove the photo or the recommendation, we delete — or attempt to delete — the stored image; deleting your account removes your recommendation photos; and moderators may remove a photo that is reported for breaking our rules.

Push notifications If you enable notifications, we store a device push token so we can send you relevant alerts (for example, when someone in your circle recommends a place). You can turn notifications off at any time in your device settings.

Diagnostics We use Sentry to collect crash reports and error diagnostics so we can fix bugs. These reports may include technical details about your device and the error, but are not used to identify or track you for advertising.

We use the data above to operate the core features of Krets: to run your account, show your saved and recommended places, deliver content from the people you follow, send notifications you have opted into, and keep the app working reliably. We do not use your data for third-party advertising.

Within Krets Your profile, recommendations and notes are visible to people in your circle, as the app's social features require. You control who you connect with.

Blocking You can block another user from their profile. Once blocked, their recommendations and activity no longer appear to you across the app.

Service providers We rely on a small number of providers to run the app — Supabase (database, authentication and photo storage), Google Places (place data and place photos), Sentry (crash reporting), Expo (push notification delivery) and OpenAI (smart search and translation, described above). They process data only to provide these services to us.

International transfers OpenAI processes the text it receives on servers in the United States, and some of our other providers may also process data outside your country. Where data is handled outside your region, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as our providers' standard data-protection terms.

Delete your account You can permanently delete your account and all associated data at any time from within the app: Profile → Settings (⚙) → Account → Delete account.

Edit your information You can update your name, username, bio and profile photo from your profile, and remove individual recommendations or notes at any time.

Permissions Location and notification access are optional and can be changed at any time in your device settings.

We keep your data for as long as your account exists. When you delete your account, your profile, recommendations, notes, recommendation photos and connections are permanently removed. Some diagnostic logs may persist for a limited time before being automatically deleted.

Krets is not directed at children under 13, and you must be at least 13 years old to create an account.

We may update this policy from time to time. We will post the updated version at this URL with a new "Last updated" date.

Krets is operated by Kasper Duus Sørlie ("we", "us"), the data controller responsible for your personal data. Questions about your privacy or this policy? Email us at krets.places@gmail.com.