Privacy Policy

MY FORAGE is a personal foraging journal. This page describes exactly what the app stores, what it shows to other users, and what it erases.

1. What we store

Account: username, password (stored as a scrypt hash, never in clear text), optional e-mail and display name, country and region if you provide them.
Foraging spots: name, description, GPS coordinates, habitat, soil, exposure, altitude, photos.
Outings and finds: dates, species, quantities, weights, weather, notes, photos, coordinates if you record them.
Progress: experience, level, trophies.

2. Who can see your spots

Every spot carries a visibility that you choose:

Private — you only. This is the default.
Friends — people whose friend request you accepted.
Close friends — only those you marked as such; the designation is one-way.
Public — every user of the app.

A spot you may not access does not appear in the app, and the API answers "not found": its very existence is not disclosed.

3. The coordinates we show are the real ones

The app used to let you mark a spot as sensitive: its coordinates were then replaced, for everyone else, by a point offset by several hundred metres. That option has been removed, and the columns that held those offset positions have been dropped from our database.

The reason is short: the offset was permanent, so a wrong spot stayed wrong forever. Anyone who went there found nothing, with no way of knowing why. What section 2 describes — private, friends, close friends, public — is enough and is understood: a spot you do not want to show, you do not show. A spot you do show is shown at its real position.

4. Photos

Your photos are stored on our servers, in Europe, and are readable only by you. They are not analysed, not shared, and never used to train a model.

5. What we do not do

No advertising, no advertising trackers, no data brokers.
No sale or sharing of your spots with third parties.
No background location tracking: location is read only when you open the map or record a point.

6. Processors

Hosting: Hetzner (Germany, European Union).
Subscriptions: RevenueCat, Apple and Google process payments. We never see your payment details.
Species sheet translation: catalogue common names and descriptions — which contain no personal data — are translated by a third party service and then cached.

7. Retention

Your data is kept for as long as your account exists. Account deletion is immediate and permanent (see Account deletion).

8. Your rights

You can view, correct and export your data from the app at any time, and delete your account without going through us. Questions: support@imin.uno.

These documents are written in French and English. In case of any discrepancy between the two versions, the French version prevails.
Last updated : 2026-09-22