Weird (the "app") lets you record and share strange experiences — ghosts, UFOs, urban legends — on a map, together with the place they happened. To do that, the app handles a small amount of information about you, including your location. This page explains what we collect, what becomes public, who else receives it, and how you can have it deleted.
Weird is developed and operated by an individual. We will provide the operator's legal name and postal address on request, without undue delay; write to the address above.
| Information | How we get it | Why we use it | Who can see it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Email address and your Google or Apple account identifier | From Google or Apple when you sign in | Signing you in and identifying your account | Operator only |
| Your Apple user identifier and the linking token issued by Apple | When you use Sign in with Apple | Managing the link to your Apple account, and breaking that link when you delete your account | Operator only (the token is stored encrypted) |
| Profile (display name, user ID, bio, external links, avatar image, background image) | You enter it | Showing your profile | Public |
| Post content (title, body, thoughts on the cause, tag, weather, photos, the date and time of the experience and how precise it is) | You enter it | Showing and searching posts | Public |
| The location of a post (latitude and longitude) | Your device's location, or a pin you drop on the map | Showing the post on the map, calculating distance, counting similar experiences nearby | Public (also for anonymous posts) |
| The time zone of the place you describe | Derived automatically from the post's location | Displaying the date and time of the experience | Public |
| Supporting details recorded with a post (when the location was captured, when the form was opened, how many seconds you spent filling it in, the distance between the captured location and the posted location) | Recorded automatically | Calculating a post's trust score and detecting abusive posting | Operator only (never shown in the app or returned by the API) |
| A post's trust score and statistics (view count, number of similar experiences, the date it was posted) | Calculated on the server | Showing how solid a post looks, and its statistics | Public |
| Follows and followers | Your actions in the app | Providing the follow feature | Public |
| Blocks | Your actions in the app | Providing the block feature | You and the operator only |
| Access logs (IP address, the time of the request, app and OS version) | Recorded automatically by the server | Investigating problems, detecting abuse, keeping the service secure | Operator only |
| Reports you submit (the reason you pick, plus the optional details you write) | You enter them | Reviewing and acting on violations | Operator only |
| A record of posts opened (which post, and your account if you are signed in) | Recorded automatically when a post's detail view is opened | Counting views. A daily job tallies these records and deletes them, leaving only the total view count for each post | Operator only |
| Your device's language (sent to the server as a note when you sign in), your trust score as a user, and your account status | Read from your device settings, or calculated on the server | Choosing the language of future messages, calculating trust scores, operating the service | Operator only |
| Your Weird+ subscription status and your identifier in the subscription-management service (a random anonymous ID before you sign in, your account ID afterwards) | When you use an in-app purchase | Checking your subscription and unlocking paid features | Operator only |
In-app purchases are processed by Apple. The operator never receives your payment details, such as a credit card number.
You can report a post by opening it, swiping up to reveal the action row, and tapping "⋮" → Report. There are two reasons to choose from: privacy violation and spam. We review every report within 24 hours. You can block someone from the "⋮" menu that appears when you expand their profile, and unblock them at any time in the app under Settings → Blocked users.
The following is kept on your device and is not sent to our servers.
None of this is used for advertising or behavioral analysis. The app's display language follows your device's language setting; there is no language switch inside the app.
Posts in Weird can be read by anyone, including people who are not signed in. The following is public:
Post photos, avatars and background images are stored in a publicly readable location: anyone who knows the URL can open them.
An anonymous post hides exactly four things that identify you:
Anonymous posts are also left out of the list of your posts and your post count as other people see them.
However, the following stays public even for an anonymous post:
Because of this, the place or the contents of a photo can still point back to you. For somewhere you would rather not reveal, such as your home, consider not posting it, or dropping a pin on a different spot on the map instead of using your current location.
The table below lists the information your device sends outside the app while you use Weird, where it goes, and why. "Processor" means a company that handles information on our behalf so that Weird can run; "disclosure" means information that reaches the other company because of something you chose to do.
| Provider | Role | What they receive | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supabase | Processor | The information Weird holds (accounts, profiles, posts, photos, activity records) | Database, file storage and authentication |
| Apple | Disclosure (based on your action) | What is needed for Sign in with Apple, and information related to in-app purchases | Sign-in and subscription payments |
| Disclosure (based on your action) | What is needed to sign you in if you use Google, and what is needed to draw the map (such as the map area being displayed and your IP address) | Sign-in and map display | |
| RevenueCat | Processor | Your identifier in the subscription-management service (an anonymous ID before you sign in, your account ID afterwards) and your subscription status | Managing Weird+ subscriptions |
| Expo (EAS Update) | Processor | The request your app makes to fetch an update (IP address, app version and similar) | Delivering app updates |
| GitHub (GitHub Pages) | Processor | The request your app makes to fetch its configuration file, and the request your browser makes to load this page (IP address and similar) | Hosting the configuration file and these policy pages |
We supervise the processors listed above as required. How each company handles information is governed by its own terms and data processing provisions, and we choose providers that publish their security practices. Apart from these processors and the disclosures above, we do not provide personal information to anyone else, except where the law requires it.
Weird uses Google Maps to draw its map. For how Google handles information, see the Google Privacy Policy.
All of the providers above are based outside Japan, so your information may be stored and processed on servers outside Japan.
As reference information, each company publishes how it handles information, and how it protects it, in its own privacy policy. For the data-protection regimes of the countries involved, see also the surveys published by Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission.
By using Weird, you consent to these transfers to companies outside Japan. If you do not agree to them, please do not use the app. If you would like to know where your data is currently stored, or what safeguards a provider applies, write to the address above.
We keep your information for as long as your account exists, and we have not set a fixed retention period. The one exception is the record of posts you open: a daily job tallies those records and deletes them, leaving only the total view count for each post.
You can delete your account yourself in the app: Settings → Delete account. See Deleting Your Account for the steps and the exact scope. If something prevents you from deleting it in the app, write to the address above.
Deleting your account deletes:
Deletion cannot be undone.
What remains: reports that other people filed about you are kept, so that violations can still be handled.
Deleting a single post is not yet possible inside the app. Email us at the address above and the operator will delete it for you; we plan to add this to the app in a future version. A deleted post disappears from view for other people, but the record itself remains in the database (as do the photo files). Deleting your account removes your posts and their photo files entirely.
If you subscribe to Weird+: deleting your account does not cancel your subscription. Apple manages the subscription, so cancel it on your device under Settings → your Apple ID → Subscriptions.
You may ask us to disclose, correct, add to, delete, stop using, or stop sharing your information. Write to the address above. So that we can confirm who you are, please write from the email address registered to your account, or tell us your user ID in the app. Complaints go to the same address. We charge no fee for these requests.
You can change your profile information yourself in the app.
If you live outside Japan — including in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or California — you can use the same address to request access, correction or deletion, or to object to how your information is processed.
Weird is for people aged 13 and over. If you are under 13, you may not use the app. If you live in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom and are under 16, please use Weird only with your parent's or guardian's consent. We do not verify age, so if we learn that we hold information about someone under 13, we will check and delete the account and the related information. Parents and guardians who believe this applies to their child should write to the address above.
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page and applies from the moment it is posted. The date at the top of the page shows when it was last updated.