Privacy policy
Who is responsible
Nearer, operated by Vihaan E., Zurich, Switzerland. Contact: nearer.social@gmail.com.
The app: your people stay on your phone
- Everything you put into Nearer (people, rings, groups, notes, check-ins, your score) is stored only on your phone. Nearer has no account and no server that holds your people.
- Contacts: if you choose to pick people from your contacts, only the people you pick are saved, on your phone: their name, their birthday if it's in your contacts, and a reference to the contact so Nearer can show who's already on your map. Nearer never uploads your address book.
- The people on your map are never told they are on it.
- Face ID: handled by iPhone. Nearer only learns whether the check passed.
- Notifications: the weekly reminder is scheduled on your phone. Nothing is sent to us.
- Export and delete: you can export everything (JSON or CSV) or delete everything from inside the app, at any time.
Message ideas
Message ideas are written on your phone from what you already keep in Nearer (how long it's been, a birthday, your notes). Nothing is sent anywhere. If this ever changes, for example to use an AI service, this policy will say exactly what is sent before the update arrives, and it will never include names or contact details.
Purchases
Nearer Pro is bought through Apple. Apple handles payment. To know whether Pro is active, Nearer uses RevenueCat, which receives an anonymous app-generated ID and your purchase history for Nearer. No name, email or contact data is shared. See RevenueCat's privacy policy.
No tracking
The app has no analytics, no advertising and no third-party trackers. We do not sell data.
The website and the waitlist
- If you join the waitlist we store your email address, the page version you saw, the site that sent you here and your invite code, so we can credit invites and see what works. If you answer the optional questions (first name, life stage, whether you'd pay), we store those too.
- We use it to email you about the launch, your free months of Pro and beta access. Every email has an unsubscribe link.
- The website uses no advertising trackers and sets no cookies. It keeps a small value in your browser to remember that you joined and which page version you saw.
- Vercel, which hosts the website, measures page speed and page views for us without cookies and without identifying you.
- Who processes it for us: Vercel hosts the website; Make (Celonis, servers in the EU) receives the form and saves it to a Google Sheet (Google). Your email is used only for Nearer and never sold or shared for marketing.
- We keep waitlist data until launch emails are done, or until you ask us to delete it, whichever comes first.
Children
Nearer isn't directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect any data from them. The app itself collects none from anyone.
Your rights
Under Swiss data protection law (and the GDPR, if you're in the EU), you can ask us what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected or deleted, or withdraw your consent, by emailing nearer.social@gmail.com. App data is yours to export or delete directly in the app.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and anything that matters will be explained in the app or by email.