Privacy policy

Last updated July 7, 2026

1. The short version

No ads. We never sell your data. Nothing is shared until you share it, every share is scoped to a circle you chose, and everything location-related expires on its own. Beaconeer exists so your closest friends can find you when you want to be found — that only works if you can trust it completely.

2. What we collect

• Account — the identifier Apple or Google gives us when you sign in, and your name if you chose to share it. We never see a password.
• Profile — your username, display name, and avatar if you set one.
• Messages and photos — what you send inside your circles.
• Beacon pins — the spot you picked when you sent up a beacon, its place name, and who responded.
• Push tokens and timezone — a device token from Apple so beacons can reach your lock screen, plus your timezone so times read correctly.
• Coarse compass pings — only if you turned compass on for a circle (see the tiers below).

That's the whole list. No contact books, no ad identifiers, no analytics profiles of your behavior.

3. Location — the four tiers

Location is the whole reason to be careful, so here is exactly how it works. These are the same words you'll find inside the app, on purpose.

Off by default

Nothing is shared. This is where you sit until you decide otherwise.

A beacon is a place, not a track

When you send a beacon, your circle sees the spot you picked — for up to one hour. The coordinates are deleted a day later; only the place name and who came stay as circle lore.

Compass is coarse and opt-in

If you turn it on for a circle, members see a rough direction and distance — never your exact location, never a map pin. Pings are snapped to a grid of roughly 500 meters on our servers (coarseness is a guarantee, not a client promise) and are deleted after 24 hours.

Approach is yours to start and stop

Sharing your live approach only happens after you tap "On my way", shows the indicator the whole time, and ends the moment you arrive.

We never ask for always-on location. Not now, not later.

4. Photos

Photos live in private storage buckets scoped to circle membership — only members of the circle a photo was shared with can load it. There are no public links. Leaving a circle ends your access to its photos, instantly.

5. Your contacts stay yours

The contact picker never uploads your contacts. When you invite a friend, the app helps you compose a message on your own phone — the invite is a code or link that you send yourself. Your address book never touches our servers.

6. Push notifications

To deliver beacons to your lock screen we store an Apple push token for each of your devices. Tokens are deleted when you sign out, when Apple tells us a device is gone, and when you delete your account.

7. Who processes data for us

We keep the list short:

• Supabase — database, storage, and authentication infrastructure.
• Apple — sign in with Apple and push notification delivery.
• Vercel — hosts this website.

Each processes data only to run the service. No advertising networks, no data brokers, no tracking SDKs.

8. Retention and deletion

• Beacon coordinates: deleted 24 hours after the beacon expires.
• Compass pings: deleted after 24 hours.
• Messages and photos: kept while the circle exists, so the circle keeps its lore.
• Everything tied to your account: erased when you delete your account in the app — profile, memberships, devices, messages, and media. If you signed in with Apple, we also revoke your Apple sign-in token.

9. Your rights

Wherever you live, we extend the same rights to everyone: you can access, correct, export, or delete your data. Most of that you can do directly in the app; for anything else, email us and a human will answer. If you're in the EU/EEA, UK, California, or somewhere else with a privacy law, these are the rights those laws describe — we just don't make you cite a statute to use them.

Beaconeer is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, tell us and we'll delete it.

10. Changes to this policy

If we change how we handle your data in any meaningful way, we'll tell you in the app before the change takes effect — not bury it here and hope. The latest version always lives at beaconeer.co/privacy.

Contact

Privacy questions: johnny@uppercloud.com. Beaconeer is made by UpperCloud.