Privacy Policy

A. Information You Provide to Us

• Public Profile Information: When you create an account, we may collect your name and email. You may also voluntarily provide a bio, city, and profile picture. This information is publicly visible to other users.
• User-Generated Content: We collect the content you create, including reviews you write for cafes, photos you upload to cafe or personal galleries, and posts and replies you make in the Javaphiles Circle Hub (Community).
• Cafe Listing Information: If you are a cafe owner, we collect the information you provide when you submit a listing, such as the cafe name, address, description, contact details, and website.
• Communications: When you contact us directly (e.g., through our contact form), we collect the information you provide, such as your name, email address, and the content of your message.

B. Information Collected Automatically

We and our third-party service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your device and how you use our Service, such as your IP address, browser type, and pages visited. This helps us improve our Service.

C. Information from Third Parties

If you choose to log in using a third-party service like Google, we receive information from that service, such as your name, email address, and profile picture, as permitted by your settings on that service.

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our Service.
• Create and manage your public profile and allow you to interact with other users.
• Display your reviews, posts, and photos to the community.
• Process cafe listing submissions and payments.
• Respond to your inquiries and provide customer support.
• Personalize your experience.
• Utilize AI for Service Enhancement: We use AI models (via Genkit and Google AI) to process the text of user reviews to generate sentiment analysis and improvement suggestions. This is done to provide valuable insights to cafe owners. Your review text is the input for this process.

A. Publicly Shared Information

Your username, profile picture, bio, city, and any content you post (reviews, photos, forum posts) are publicly visible.

B. With Service Providers

We share information with third-party vendors and service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as:

• Resend: To send transactional emails for listing submissions and contact inquiries.
• Google Maps Platform: To provide interactive maps and geocode addresses. Its use is subject to the Google Privacy Policy.

C. For Legal Reasons

We may disclose your information if required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.