nogoe — Privacy Policy

Last updated 12 October 2026

nogoe is made by praptiyogi.app. The short version: we don't track you, show ads, or sell anything. You can browse, search, scan and save without an account, and then we store nothing about you. If you create an account to contribute, we store your email address, the display name you choose, and what you decide to post to the community.

This policy covers nogoe 2.0 and later, on iPhone and iPad and on Android. Where the two apps work differently, it says so.

Accounts are optional

An account is only needed to contribute: to add a place, a dish or a product, share what you found, confirm or correct what someone else reported, upload a photo, or report a problem. Everything else works without one.

You can sign in with an email address and password, or with Sign in with Apple. On Android, Sign in with Apple opens Apple's sign-in page in your browser. The same account works in both apps. Accounts, and everything members post, are stored with our backend provider, Supabase, which runs the database, the sign-in and the photo storage on our behalf.

What the app does with your information

• Email address — used to sign you in and to send account emails, such as confirming your address or resetting your password. It is never shown to other members and we send no marketing. If you use Sign in with Apple, we receive the address Apple passes on, which can be Apple's private relay address if you choose to hide yours.
• Password — kept by our backend provider in a protected, scrambled form. We cannot read it.
• Display name and avatar — the display name you choose, and a profile photo if you add one, are public. They are shown on your profile and next to what you post, together with counts of your contributions and any badges.
• What you post — the reports, answers, notes and photos you choose to post, and the places, dishes and products you add, are stored so that other people using nogoe can see them. This is public content, shown with your display name and the date: treat it as visible to everyone.
• Saved places and products — kept on your device. When you are signed in they are also synced to your account so they follow you to another device. They are not shown to other members.
• Blocks and reports you file — private. The members you block are not told, and nobody else can see your list. A report you file about a place, a post, a photo or a member is seen only by nogoe's moderators.
• Settings — what you avoid, appearance, units and similar choices are saved only on your device.
• Anonymous usage events — the app sends the names of a few actions (a search was made, a restaurant was opened, directions were tapped) with coarse details, such as whether a search had any text, and the app version. These carry no user ID, no device ID and no location, and nothing you type. You can switch them off in You → Settings → Privacy → "Share anonymous usage statistics"; then nothing is recorded or sent.
• Sign in with Apple — when you sign in this way, we keep the token Apple gives us for one purpose only: so that the link to your Apple ID can be revoked when you delete your account.

Location

nogoe asks for your location only after explaining why, and it works without it. With your permission, your location is used to search for places near you and to sort them by distance. It is sent with that search to our backend, and, when the app looks up a place or an address, to Apple Maps (on iPhone and iPad) or to Photon, a place-search service run by komoot (on Android). We never store your location and never attach it to your account.

If you turn on new place alerts, your device remembers a rough position (rounded to about a kilometre) so that it can check for new places near you in the background. That rough position stays on your device, is sent only with the check itself, and is erased when you turn the alerts off. The alerts are created on your device; we hold no notification token for you.

Camera and photos

The camera is used only when you scan a barcode or take a photo of a package, a restaurant or a dish. Nothing is captured in the background. When you photograph an ingredients label, the text is read on your device; it is not sent anywhere to be read. A photo is uploaded only when you choose to post it, and then it is public. If you pick a photo from your library instead, the app receives only the photo you pick.

Community content and moderation

Reports, notes and photos are written by other members of the community, not by us. They describe what members found at the time; restaurants and manufacturers change things, so always confirm with the restaurant and check the package yourself.

Text you post is screened automatically, on your device and again on our backend, before it is published. You can report any place, dish, product, post, photo or member, and block any member, from inside the app — what you report, and everything from someone you block, disappears from your app immediately. Moderators review reports within 24 hours and can remove content and suspend accounts that break the community guidelines. Contact info@praptiyogi.app to report content or to ask about anything you have posted.

Deleting your data

You can withdraw a report or remove a photo you posted from inside the app at any time. To delete your account, go to You → Settings → Delete account. It happens in the app, immediately, and cannot be undone.

Deleting your account removes:

• your login — the email and password, or the link to your Apple ID;
• your email address;
• your display name, profile photo and badges;
• your saved places and products, and your list of blocked members;
• the free-text notes on your reports;
• the photos you uploaded, which are taken down from every page.

It keeps the structured yes / no / unknown answers you gave about onion, garlic and egg, and the places, dishes and products you added. These stay without your name, attributed to "Deleted member", so that what others are told does not silently change.

If you can't get into your account, email info@praptiyogi.app and we'll delete it for you within 30 days.

Who else is involved

• Supabase, our backend provider, stores the data described above and handles sign-in on our behalf. Like any internet service, its servers see your device's IP address when the app connects, and may keep it briefly in technical logs to keep the service running and to prevent abuse. We don't use it to identify you or to work out where you are.
• Apple provides Sign in with Apple. On iPhone and iPad it also provides the map, and the place searches and lookups done through Apple Maps, which receives the area being searched in order to answer. Where no member has photographed a place, the iPhone and iPad app shows Apple Maps' street view of its address or a small map; for that Apple receives the position of the place, not yours. Apple's own privacy policy covers that.
• OpenFreeMap draws the map in the Android app, from OpenStreetMap data. Its servers receive the part of the map being shown (and, like any internet service, your device's IP address). Where no member has photographed a place, the Android app shows a small map of where it is, drawn the same way; for that OpenFreeMap receives the position of the place, not yours.
• Photon, run by komoot, answers the place searches and address lookups in the Android app. It receives what you type in a place search and the area being searched; when you choose to search near you, or ask the app to name where you are, that area is your location. It is not sent with anything about you or your account.
• Google: if you paste a short link shared from Google Maps while adding a place, the app asks Google which address the link stands for. That request carries no cookies and nothing about you or your account beyond your device's IP address. The app reads the name and position written in the address it gets back; it does not load the Google Maps page, and takes nothing else from Google.
• Google ML Kit (Android only) reads barcodes and ingredient labels on your device; the camera image is not sent anywhere to be read. As Google describes in its ML Kit data disclosure, ML Kit sends Google diagnostic and usage information about itself — the device model and Android version, the app's name and version, performance measurements and error codes — which Google uses for diagnostics and usage analytics. The list Google publishes does not include the images or what was read from them.

There are no advertising networks and no analytics companies in either app. The iPhone and iPad app contains no third-party code. The Android app is built with open-source libraries (for the map, networking and showing images) and with Google ML Kit, described above.

What we don't do

• No advertising
• No tracking, in this app or across other apps and websites
• No selling or sharing of your data with anyone for their own use
• No showing your email address to anyone
• No storing your location

Earlier versions

Reviews posted in nogoe 1.x were stored in our Apple CloudKit database under an anonymous identifier. They are not part of nogoe 2.0 and were not copied to it. To have them deleted, email info@praptiyogi.app. Places from the original community list were carried over and are shown as coming from the original nogoe list; the names of the people who added them are not shown.

Children

nogoe is not aimed at children, and browsing stores nothing about the person using it. If you believe a child has created an account, email us and we'll remove it.

Changes

If this policy ever changes, the updated version will be posted at this address with a new "last updated" date.

Contact

Questions or reports: info@praptiyogi.app