Privacy policy

Last updated 9 November 2026

Dunglee is an iPhone app for remembering the people you meet travelling and the places you go. This policy explains what the app stores, where, who can see it, and how to delete it. "We" means Dunglee. Questions go to hello@dunglee.com.

The short version

• Your data is yours. It lives on your iPhone and in your Dunglee account, and only you can read your account.
• Dunglee never stores your exact location. Trip logging and photo import keep only cities and dates.
• Your photos never leave your iPhone. Photo import reads only where and when each photo was taken.
• No ads, no analytics, no tracking, and we never sell your data.
• You can export everything, and delete your account in the app at any time.

1. What we collect

Your account

• How you sign in: your email address, if you sign in with an emailed code, or the identifier Apple gives us, if you use Sign in with Apple. Apple may also share your name and an email address (which can be a private relay address) the first time you sign in.
• Your profile: your name, username, and when you accepted the terms.
• Your birthday: used only to check you're 16 or older. It's kept on our server, not on your iPhone, and never shown to anyone.

What you add in the app

Your account holds a full copy of what you keep in Dunglee, so it's on all your iPhones:

• Your profile details: photo, bio, home city, where you're from, where you've lived (by month), and the contact handles you add (for example an Instagram username).
• People you add: their name, photo, where they're from and live (as cities), how, when and where you met, a category, a closeness rating, your notes, and their contact handles. This is information about other people, so please add only what they'd be happy for you to keep.
• Trips and plans: the place (a city, country or continent), the dates or a rough time ("March", "2027", "someday"), whether you share it with friends, and whether you added it, it came from your photos, or it was logged from your location.
• Your "How you met" categories with their default date and place.
• Photo import history: which drafted trips you've already reviewed (city and dates only), so they aren't suggested again.
• Deletions: a note of what you deleted and when, so the deletion reaches your other iPhones.

Friends and requests

• Your friend code: a random code in your QR code and invite link. It carries your name and username, so someone who scans it sees who you are even with no signal.
• Requests: who sent a request to whom, when, and whether it was accepted. Your copy of each friend also records whether you've sent them a request.
• Search: finding someone by username needs their whole username; Dunglee has no way to browse people.

On your iPhone only

• App settings, such as your sort order and whether trip logging is on.
• While trip logging is on, a note of the city you're staying in and the trips it created, so it can tell a short stop from a stay. No coordinates.
• City photos downloaded from Wikipedia, kept so they show offline.
• A file of friend requests waiting for signal, sent when you're back online.

What we don't collect

Dunglee has no ads, analytics, tracking or crash-reporting tools, and contains no third-party code other than Supabase's library for talking to our server. We don't read your contacts. The camera is used only to scan friends' Dunglee codes; nothing it sees is kept.

2. Your location and your photos

• Trip logging is off until you turn it on. When it's on, iOS tells Dunglee when you visit somewhere or move a long way. Dunglee works out the city on your iPhone, using a list of cities built into the app, then throws the coordinates away. Only the city and the dates are kept, as a trip in your account. It uses only iOS's battery-light location services, never continuous tracking.
• Arrival notes ("You're in Lisbon. Marta lives here.") are written on your iPhone from your own friends list and shown as a notification on your iPhone.
• Photo import reads only the location and date of each photo, on your iPhone, to draft trips. It never looks at the photos themselves, and never uploads photos or their locations. Only the trips you save (city and dates) are kept.
• "Look up online": if photo import can't name a place from its built-in list, you can tap "Look up online" for that one group of photos. Dunglee then sends that group's approximate location to Apple's place-name service, and keeps only the city it returns.

3. Where it's stored, and who processes it

A full copy of your data is on your iPhone. Your account copy is stored by the providers below, who process it only to run Dunglee for you.

These providers may handle data outside your country, including in Singapore and the United States, under their own safeguards. We don't sell or rent your data, or share it for advertising.

4. Who can see what

• You: everything in your account, on any iPhone you sign in on.
• Someone you send a request to, or who finds you by your whole username or your code: your name, username and photo.
• Everything else stays private to you, including the people you've added, your notes, your closeness ratings, your trips and plans, and your birthday. Our server only lets each account read its own data.

Dunglee is adding sharing between friends, so friends can see each other's cities and upcoming trips (never an exact location or past dates). That isn't switched on yet. We'll update this policy, and you'll be able to keep any trip private, before it is.

5. How long we keep it, and deleting it

• We keep your account data for as long as you have an account.
• Signing out removes Dunglee's copy from that iPhone; your account keeps it.
• Deleting your account (Settings → Account → Delete account…) removes your profile, everything in your account and your uploaded photos from our server, and everything Dunglee keeps on that iPhone. Your username becomes free for others. It can't be undone, so the app offers to export a backup first.
• Friends who had you as a friend keep their own entry for you, with what they last saw, as a friend they added by hand. That entry belongs to their account.
• Our providers keep short-lived technical logs and backups under their own retention schedules, after which deleted data is gone from them too.
• If you can't use the app, email hello@dunglee.com from your account's email address and we'll delete your account for you.

6. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you have the right to see, correct, export or delete your data, and to object to or limit how it's used. In the app you can:

• see and correct everything you've added;
• export it as a file (Settings → Export data);
• delete your account (Settings → Account → Delete account…).

For anything else, email hello@dunglee.com; we reply within 30 days. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

7. Minimum age

You must be 16 or older to use Dunglee. The app and our server both check your birthday when you sign up. If we learn that someone under 16 has an account, we'll delete it.

8. Security

Everything between the app and our server is encrypted in transit. Our database only lets each account read and change its own data, and photos are stored privately under your account. No system is perfectly secure, so please tell us at hello@dunglee.com if you find a problem.

9. Changes, and contact

We'll update this page when Dunglee changes how it handles data, and tell you in the app before a change that matters. The date at the top shows the latest version.

Email hello@dunglee.com with any question about your data.