Privacy

RoamFu is software for the hobby of roaming: finding places on foot. This page says, in plain words, what the app knows about you, why, how long it keeps it, and how you delete it.

What we collect

• Your email address, to sign you in with a code. It is never shown to other members and never used for anything but sign-in and account messages.
• Your username, which you choose once. It is a public pen-name and appears on every coin you strike and every logbook entry you sign, permanently.
• Coin positions. When you strike a coin, the spot you are standing on becomes the coin's public position. That is the only kind of location the app stores.
• Finds. When you find a coin, the app records that you found it, how far from the coin you were and how accurate your phone said it was. It does not record where you were.
• Notes you choose to add to a coin or a logbook, which other members read once they find that coin. Every find also leaves a logbook line with your username and the month.
• Photos you take at a coin. They are private: only you ever see them, in your own Case, and you can save or share the copy yourself. Camera metadata (including location) is stripped before a photo is stored. Photos are deleted with your account.
• Optional extras you turn on yourself: a region name on your profile, and push notifications (a device token, nothing more).

What we never do

• We never track your location in the background or when you are not using the app.
• No other member, and no administrator, can see where you are. Your position stays on your phone.
• Everything a find reveals to other members waits three hours, so nobody can tell where you are right now.
• We never show your photos to anyone, and we never show you another member's.
• We do not sell or share your data with advertisers.

Who else sees your data

The app runs on Vercel and stores data with Supabase. Map tiles and address lookups come from OpenStreetMap services; those requests carry a coin's position, never yours. Notes are checked by an AI classifier (Anthropic) before they are shown and may be reviewed by a human moderator; photos get only an automated check for illegal content and are never seen by a moderator.

How long we keep it

Records of play (coins, finds, logbook entries, promotions) are kept for as long as the game runs, because they are part of other members' collections too. Your email and sign-in data are kept while you have an account.

Deleting your account

Settings has a “Delete my account” button. Deletion removes the person, not the play: your email, sign-in, region, notifications, profile page, photos and Coin Case go at once, and your coins leave the map so nobody can find them again. Your username and your logbook notes stay on the coins you struck and the logs you signed, because they are part of other members' Cases and of the shared record, and the username is never given to anyone else.

Age

RoamFu is for members aged 16 and over. You confirm this when you join.