Privacy Policy

Effective November 5, 2026 · Blake Edward Groff · support@secondsplease.app

The short version: we collect what you give us to run your account and the social features. We don't sell your data, show ads, or track you across other apps. We never store the phone numbers you type to text an invitation.

What we collect

• Account: your email address (for sign-in codes and support) and a random user ID.
• Profile: display name, @username, and optionally a photo, a city (never your address), and a bio. Plus your visibility setting.
• Activity: reviews (cook, dish, meal, reaction, comparisons, anything you write about it, and any food photos you add), comments, likes, wishlists, friend requests, friendships, and blocks.
• Events: anything you add, such as title, time, location note, menu, details, and RSVPs, plus invite links (we store only a scrambled version of the link's code).
• Approximate area (optional): only if you tap "Use my location" on the Nearby screen, we read your phone's approximate location once and store it rounded to about 7 miles. It's used only to compare your cooking with cooks near you, is never shown to anyone, and you can forget it any time.
• Phone number (optional): if you add it (Friends → Find friends from your contacts), so friends who have your number can find you. It's never shown to anyone, and you can remove it any time.
• Contacts check (optional): only when you tap "Check my contacts", the app reads the phone numbers in your contacts, scrambles each one on your phone (a one-way hash), and sends only those to find people already on Seconds. We don't store them, and we never receive names or other contact details.
• Notifications (optional): if you allow notifications, a code from Apple that lets us send them to your phone (a push token). We use it only to tell you about friend requests, accepted requests, and event invites, and we forget it when you sign out.
• Reports and support messages you send us.
• Technical logs (such as IP address and app version), kept briefly by our host to run and secure the service.
• Usage statistics: hourly counts of how often the app talks to our servers (for example, how many times your feed loaded and how much photo data was downloaded), stored under a scrambled code instead of your user ID or IP address. We use them only to plan how much server capacity Seconds needs, and keep them for about 13 months. They aren't deleted with your account, but once your account is gone they can't be connected to you.

What we don't collect

Phone numbers you text (they go straight to Apple's Messages app), your contacts' names or details (see "Contacts check" above), your precise location, ongoing or background location, microphone, advertising IDs, or payment information. The camera opens only when you choose to take a food photo, and we receive only that photo. Photos are resized on your phone and their hidden details, such as where they were taken, are removed before upload.

How we use it

To run Seconds (sign-in, profiles, reviews, scores, feed, friends, wishlists, events), to keep people safe (reviewing reports, removing content, suspending accounts), to plan server capacity (using the usage statistics above), and to reply to you. No advertising, no selling, no marketing email.

Who can see what

Your name, @username, and photo are searchable so friends can find you (except by people you've blocked). Everything else follows your setting in Settings → Privacy (public, friends, or private). Food photos are seen by the same people who can see the review they belong to. Cooks see reviews of their dishes and who wishlisted them. People are notified in the app when you review their cooking, like or comment on their review, accept their friend request, or invite them, unless they've switched that kind of notification off. Event details are visible only to people you invite (with a link, or by picking them from your friends). Anyone with the link can join, so share it carefully.

Service providers

• Supabase: hosting, database, sign-in, and file storage.
• Google Workspace: sends sign-in codes and handles email to support@secondsplease.app.
• Anthropic (only if AI suggestions are on): receives only the dish name and meal category, never your name, email, or ID, to suggest a matching familiar dish.
• Apple: App Store, the Messages composer on your phone, and delivering notifications (Apple receives only the notification's text, like "Maya sent you a friend request").

We may disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect people's safety.

Keeping and deleting your data

We keep your data while you have an account. Settings → Delete account permanently deletes your account, profile, photos, reviews, comments, likes, wishlist, friendships, blocks, and the events you created. It's completed within 30 days, including backups on their normal cycle. Reports you filed are kept without your name so we can keep people safe.

Your rights

You can view and change your profile, delete your comments, change your visibility, and delete your account in the app. To access, export, or correct data, or to object, email support@secondsplease.app. EU/UK and US state residents have additional rights, described next.

More about your rights

• Everyone: you can ask us what we hold about you, get a copy, correct it, or have it deleted. Email support@secondsplease.app from the address on your account. We reply within 30 days (45 for US state requests, and we may need to confirm it's really you).
• EU/UK: we use your information to provide the service you asked for (account, reviews, friends, events), for our legitimate interest in keeping people safe, and, for the optional features (approximate area, phone number, contacts check, notifications), with your consent, which you can withdraw any time by turning the feature off. You can also ask us to restrict or object to our use of your information, or to move it to another service, and you can complain to your local data protection authority. Our service providers may process data in the United States.
• Virginia and other US states: you can access, correct, delete, or get a copy of your information, and appeal if we turn you down (reply to our answer, or email us with "Appeal" in the subject). We don't sell your information, use it for targeted advertising, or use it for profiling that affects your legal rights, so there's nothing to opt out of.

Children

Seconds isn't for children under 13. If you believe a child has signed up, contact us and we'll delete the account.

Changes and contact

We'll tell you in the app about important changes. Questions: support@secondsplease.app.