Privacy policy

About Find My Store

Find My Store is an independent app by Tomas Maillo for discovering Apple locations and recording your visits. Tomas is responsible for the personal information described here. This policy covers the app and this website. Find My Store is not affiliated with Apple.

What we collect, and why

When you sign in with Apple, we receive an account identifier and the email address Apple provides, which may be a private relay address. We store your username, optional profile photo and sign-in information to create and secure your account.

We store the comments, visits, dates, store photos, selfies and imported images you choose to share. These power your visit history, profile and progress. We also store blocks, reports and temporary request-limit records to operate and protect the service.

To diagnose service problems, signed-in app versions with diagnostic reporting send structured failure records linked to your account: the operation that failed, its time and duration, error codes, connection availability, and app and operating-system versions. These records exclude sign-in credentials, request contents, photos and coordinates, and are not visible to other app users.

Versions with activity reporting also record events linked to your account to understand which app features are used: opening a profile or store-detail page, submitting a search, switching between store and selfie photos, and changing profile or main tabs. Records include event times, app versions, simple selections, whether a profile is your own, and location-search result counts. They do not include search text or identify the profiles, stores or photos you view, and are not visible to other app users.

Notifications keep you up to date with new followers, visits posted by people you follow, new comments and apples you receive. We store who you follow, the apples you give and receive, and your notification history, read status and preferences. Following relationships are visible to other signed-in users. We also store private device notification identifiers to deliver alerts.

The app does not use advertising trackers or sell your personal information.

Location and permissions

Location is optional. It helps show nearby places and, when you take visit photos, calculate your distance from a location. Capture coordinates are sent to our server for that calculation; the post stores the distance, accuracy and capture time, rather than those exact coordinates. A visit still identifies the specific place you visited.

Nearby-alert location checks happen on your device. We save each signed-in device’s last reported Always-location permission status, notification authorization status, Scheduled Summary setting and their update times. You can change camera, location and notification permissions in iOS Settings.

Photos are re-encoded before upload to remove their original metadata. If you import a past-visit photo, its date can be used for the visit date you review and save.

What other people can see

Your username, profile, progress, comments, visits and posted photos are visible to other signed-in users, subject to account blocking. Shared visits include their location, dates and any captured distance and accuracy. There is no private-account or private-post setting. Onboarding includes a fixed selection of the app owner’s store photos and an available selfie bundled with the app; it does not automatically display other users’ posts.

Your email and sign-in credentials are not shown on your profile. Profile photos use public image links, so anyone with that link may view the image. Blocking does not undo screenshots or copies someone has already made.

Services that help run the app

Comments are sent to OpenAI for moderation.

Convex hosts our account data, visits and uploaded images. Apple provides sign-in, maps, push-notification delivery and TestFlight distribution. Apple’s push service receives the device token and notification content to deliver alerts. These providers process information needed to deliver their services, which may include technical connection data. During the beta, Apple may share crash information and feedback you submit through TestFlight with us.

Read more in Convex’s privacy policy and Apple’s privacy policy. This webpage adds no analytics, advertising scripts or cookies; its hosting service may process connection logs to deliver and secure it.

Keeping and deleting your data

Your account, comments and published visits remain until you remove them. Deleting or replacing a visit removes its stored photos. Uploaded photos that are never attached to a post expire after one day and are removed by scheduled cleanup.

Following relationships remain until you unfollow, block an account or delete your account. Notification history remains until the related post or account is deleted; temporary delivery records expire after seven days. Device notification registrations are removed on sign-out, session expiry, invalidation or account deletion, with offline sign-out retried when back online. You can manage alerts in the app and notification permission in iOS Settings.

Diagnostic and activity records expire after 14 days and are removed by scheduled cleanup. The app keeps up to 100 queued diagnostic records and 100 queued activity records for up to seven days when delivery fails; these are retried when a connection is available and cleared for the active account when you sign out or delete it.

To delete your account, open Settings → Delete account in Find My Store. This removes your account, posts, uploaded images, sessions and associated account records from the active app database, and revokes the Apple sign-in token. Provider backups and operational logs may follow separate retention schedules.

The app keeps preferences, caches and pending uploads on your device. Pending uploads can remain after sign-out so you can retry with the same account. Account deletion also clears that account’s pending uploads and visit cache on the device used to delete it.

Your choices

You can remove visits, change your profile photo, block accounts and delete your account in the app. Depending on where you live, you may also have rights to access, correct, obtain a copy of or request deletion of your information, restrict or object to processing, and complain to your local data-protection authority.

We’ll update this page when our data practices change.

Contact & support

For help with the app, privacy questions or a request about your data, email Tomas Maillo at tomas [at] tomasmaillo [dot] com.

During the beta, you can also send feedback from Find My Store’s page in TestFlight.