Privacy

The short version

Zula has no analytics, no advertising and no third-party trackers. Your position and your heading are read on your phone and stay there. You can use the whole app without an account.

What stays on your phone

• Location and heading. Used only to sort what is around you by how far off your bearing it sits. Never sent anywhere.
• Questions you ask. Speech is turned into text on the device, and the answer is matched against places already downloaded. Nothing is transmitted.
• Notes and photographs. Anything you write or attach to a place is stored on the device. It leaves only if you sign in and it syncs — see below.
• Saved places and visits. Kept locally by default.

If you sign in

Signing in is optional and adds exactly one thing: the same saved list on your next phone.

• Sign in with Apple gives us an anonymous identifier. If you use Apple's private relay we never see your real email address.
• Your saved places, visits, notes and any attached photographs are then stored against that identifier so they can be restored on another device. Each account can read and write only its own rows.
• Deleting your account removes those rows and any uploaded photographs.

Who else is involved

• Apple — Sign in with Apple, and the App Store's own reporting, which is aggregated and which we cannot tie to a person.
• Supabase — hosts the database and file storage used for sync. They process this data on our behalf and for nothing else.
• Wikimedia — photographs of places are fetched from Wikimedia Commons as you browse, so their servers see the request. No identifier of yours is attached.

What we never do

• No analytics or usage tracking, in any softened form.
• No advertising, and no place can pay to rank higher.
• No selling or sharing of personal data with anyone.
• No account required to use the app.

Children

Zula is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.

Your rights

You can delete everything from inside the app. If you would rather we did it, or you want a copy of what is held against your account, write to hello@tryzula.com and we will do it within 30 days.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, the date at the top changes and the app tells you the next time you open it.

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Questions: hello@tryzula.com