Zari privacy policy
Zari is an iPhone app for saving places you find in videos and posts. It is published by Alexis Logothetis. This page explains what the app does with your information. If anything here is unclear, write to hello@zarithemole.com.
The short version
- Zari has no accounts. We never ask for your name, email address or phone number.
- The spots, notes, categories and links you save are stored on your phone, with a backup copy in your own iCloud. We cannot read either.
- Searching for a place sends your search text and the area on your map to Apple or Google so they can answer.
- We collect anonymous usage statistics. They never include the places you save, your searches, your links, your notes or your location.
- There are no ads. We do not sell your information and we do not track you across other apps or websites.
What stays with you
Your spots
Every spot you save (its name, address and position), your categories, your notes and the link a spot came from are stored in the app on your phone. They are not sent to us.
iCloud backup
Zari keeps a copy of your spots and categories in your iCloud account, so they come back when you reinstall the app or move to a new iPhone. Apple stores that copy under your Apple Account and we have no access to it. You can switch it off for Zari in the iCloud section of the Settings app.
Your location
If you allow it, Zari uses your location to show where you are on the map, to pin a spot where you are standing and to put nearby places first when you search. We do not store your location. Zari works without it, and you can change the permission at any time in the Settings app.
Your clipboard
When you open the map, Zari checks whether your clipboard holds a link it can import and, if it does, offers to import it. Nothing from your clipboard leaves your phone unless you accept.
What leaves your phone
Some features only work by asking another service. This is everything the app sends, and who receives it.
Place search: Apple and Google
When you search for a place, or Zari looks one up for a link you shared, it sends the search text, the area your map is showing, and your phone’s language and region. Depending on the language you type in, the request goes to Apple Maps, to Google’s Places service, or to both.
Requests to Google pass through a small relay server that we run, hosted by Supabase in Frankfurt, Germany. The relay forwards the request and does not store your searches. To stop abuse it counts requests per hour against a one-way scrambled form of your IP address, which cannot be turned back into the address, and those counters are deleted after about a day.
Place details: Google
When you open a saved spot, its rating, opening hours and reviews are shown in a card that Google provides and loads directly. Google receives the place’s identifier, your IP address and basic information about your device.
The map: Apple
The map is Apple Maps. Apple receives the area you are looking at in order to draw it.
Importing a link
When you share a link to Zari, the app asks the site the link belongs to, for example TikTok or Instagram, for the post’s public title and caption. The request goes straight from your phone, so that site sees your IP address and which link was asked for, as it would if you opened the link in a browser. The caption is read on your phone to work out which place the post is about.
Usage statistics: PostHog
Zari sends anonymous events to PostHog, hosted in the European Union. An event records that something happened, such as “a spot was saved”, “a link import started” or “the subscription screen was shown”, along with counts and outcomes. If the app hits an error, a technical error report is sent too.
Each event carries a random identifier created on your phone, the app version, and general device information such as the system version, language, time zone and screen size. PostHog also sees the IP address the event came from and uses it to estimate your country and city.
Events never contain place names, addresses, coordinates, links, captions, notes or search text.
Subscriptions: Apple and RevenueCat
Zari Pro is bought through the App Store. Apple handles the payment and we never see your card details. To know whether a phone has an active subscription we use RevenueCat (RevenueCat, Inc., United States), which receives a random identifier for your install, the purchase records Apple provides (the product, dates, price and store country) and general device information. The random identifier used for usage statistics is attached as well, so that purchases can be counted in those statistics.
Version check
When the app opens it downloads a small file from this website to check that your version is still supported. The web host sees your IP address when it does.
Why we are allowed to do this
Under the GDPR, the legal bases we rely on are:
- Providing the app you asked for. Search, link import and subscriptions cannot work without the requests described above.
- Our legitimate interests. Anonymous statistics, error reports and abuse protection keep the app working and tell us what to improve, with very little impact on you.
- Your consent. Zari uses your location only after you allow it in the system prompt, and you can withdraw that at any time.
Where your information goes
Our relay server and our usage statistics are hosted in the European Union. Apple, Google and RevenueCat may process information in the United States and other countries, under the safeguards set out in their own terms, such as the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or Standard Contractual Clauses.
Each of them handles what it receives under its own privacy policy:
How long it is kept
- Spots on your phone stay until you delete them or delete the app.
- The iCloud copy stays until you switch iCloud off for Zari.
- The relay’s request counters are deleted after about a day.
- Usage statistics are kept for as long as they are useful for improving the app, and are then deleted.
- Purchase records are kept for as long as a subscription is active and for the period tax and accounting rules require afterwards.
Your choices and rights
- Turn location or iCloud off for Zari in the Settings app. The app keeps working.
- Delete the app to remove everything it stored on your phone.
- Manage or cancel Zari Pro in the app, or in your Apple Account’s subscriptions.
If you live in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or another place with similar laws, you have the right to ask for a copy of your personal data, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to or restrict its use, and to complain to your local data protection authority.
Because Zari has no accounts, we usually cannot tell which statistics or purchase records belong to you. Write to hello@zarithemole.com and we will do what we can to find and delete the records from your install.
Children
Zari is not aimed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.
Changes to this policy
If the app starts handling information differently, we will update this page and the date at the top before the change reaches you.
Contact
Alexis Logothetis
hello@zarithemole.com