Last updated October 2026
Nearune is a small, private ritual for two people to share a daily question — built by one person for close-to-home use, now open for anyone to use. This page explains, plainly, what data we collect and what we do with it.
Nearune doesn't use passwords or accounts in the traditional sense. Each room is reachable only by its private link — a random, hard-to-guess address. Anyone with that link can act as either person in the room. Treat your room link the way you'd treat a shared password, and don't post it anywhere public.
You can optionally give an email address during registration, solely to send a one-time confirmation link and (if you ever lose your room link) a recovery link. Once your email is confirmed we do not store it in plain text anywhere. If you start registering but never confirm, we keep the address for up to 7 days solely so we can send you a reminder to finish, then delete it. Instead we store a one-way cryptographic fingerprint of it (an HMAC hash) that lets us recognize the same email again later without being able to reverse it back into the original address. Your email is never shared, sold, or used for marketing.
Room data and uploaded photos are stored in a cloud object-storage bucket. Outgoing emails (confirmations, invites, recovery links) are sent through a transactional email provider (Resend or SendGrid) — the email content passes through that provider but isn't retained by us beyond what's needed to send it. Location text you enter is sent to a free geocoding service (Open-Meteo) solely to resolve a timezone and language default; it isn't stored by us beyond the fields above.
To provide specific features, text or data you enter is sent to these services. We use them only for the feature named, not for advertising.
Each person in a room can report their partner's photo, answer or comment, and can block their partner to hide that content from their own screen. Reports are logged for the app's owner to review.
We don't run ads, use ad trackers or analytics pixels, or sell or share your data with third parties for marketing. We don't read your answers except as needed to operate or debug the service.
Either person in a room can permanently delete that room's data at any time from within the app ("Delete my data"). This removes the room's answers, photos, and puzzle state, and removes both people's entries from the recovery index. Deletion is immediate and can't be undone.
Nearune isn't directed at children and isn't intended for use by anyone under 16.
If this policy changes in a meaningful way, we'll update the date at the top of this page.
Questions about this policy or your data: support@nearune.ai.
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