Privacy Policy

Welcome to The Fun Guy Forager ("we," "our," or "us"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your data when you use our mobile application, website, and related services.

Gnome Brigade Innovations LLC is the data controller responsible for your personal information, meaning we decide how and why it is processed.

Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the application.

We collect information that helps us provide core mapping, foraging tools, and AI identification features:

• Account Information: When you create an account or sign in, we collect your email address and username to manage your user profile and sync your saved data.
• Location Data: With your explicit permission, we collect precise GPS coordinates when you drop custom foraging pins, log observations, or view your current position on the map. This data is used solely to provide mapping features and offline navigation utilities.
• Camera and Image Data: When you use our AI mushroom scanner, photos of fungi or plants that you capture or upload are processed to deliver identification results, safety traits, and look-alikes.
• Subscription and Transaction Data: In-app Pro purchases are handled through Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and RevenueCat. Web subscriptions such as the Business Station Pass are sold by Paddle.com as Merchant of Record; we receive your subscription status and a customer reference. We do not collect or store your raw financial account numbers or credit card details.
• Technical and Usage Data: We collect standard device information, operating system details, crash logs, and performance metrics to diagnose technical bugs and ensure app stability.

Having accurate information permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we use collected information to:

• Operate, maintain, and improve the core features of the App (such as AI scanning and mapping).
• Securely sync your saved personal foraging spots and logs across your devices.
• Manage your user account and verify your Pro subscription status.
• Respond to customer support inquiries and troubleshoot issues.
• Keep the App secure and prevent fraud, abuse, and fake listings.

We process account, location, photo, and subscription data to perform our contract with you (providing the features you ask for). We process technical and usage data based on our legitimate interests in keeping the App secure and working well. Location and camera access rely on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time in your device settings. We keep certain records where the law requires it, such as tax and transaction records.

We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share data with trusted third-party vendors who perform services on our behalf, including:

• Supabase: For secure user authentication and database management.
• RevenueCat & App Stores: For processing subscriptions and managing purchase validation.
• OpenAI: For processing image inputs during AI mushroom identification.
• Mapping Providers: For rendering geographic map tiles and navigation overlays. Your device requests map tiles directly from these providers, which see your IP address and the map area viewed.
• Paddle.com (Merchant of Record): For selling web subscriptions, managing subscriptions, processing payments, tax compliance, and invoicing. Paddle receives the details you enter at checkout.
• Lovable (website analytics): Records which pages are visited, where visitors came from, their country, browser, operating system and device type, how long they stay, how fast pages load, errors, and which buttons and links are clicked. It uses no cookies, stores nothing on your device, doesn't keep IP addresses, and doesn't identify visitors. Everything listed is recorded for every visitor. Detailed data is kept for 90 days and daily summaries for a year. Lovable collects this data for us. Lovable's privacy policy (https://lovable.dev/privacy) explains how it handles it.
• Professional advisers and authorities: Our legal and accounting advisers where needed, and government authorities when required by law.

We keep your account data, saved spots, and posts while your account is active. When you delete your account, or when data is no longer needed, we delete or anonymise it, except records we must keep by law (such as transaction records). Crash and technical logs are kept only as long as needed to fix problems.

We do not use advertising or tracking cookies. The App stores your sign-in session and your offline spots, settings, and cached map tiles in your browser or device storage so it works offline; these are essential for the App to function. Clearing your app or browser data removes them. The checkout window, provided by Paddle, may set its own essential cookies when you buy a subscription.

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

You retain full control over your data. You have the right to:

• Access, update, or correct your account information at any time within your app settings.
• Object to or restrict certain processing, withdraw consent, and request a copy of your data.
• Request complete deletion of your account and associated personal data directly through the app or by reaching out to our support team.

Our App is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete that information immediately.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by updating the "Effective Date" at the top of this policy.

Questions about this policy or your data: Funguyforagersupport@gmail.com