Privacy and terms

Last updated: DATE

The short version. Flush Hour shows how many people are pooping right now, country by country. There is no account, no name, no email and no GPS. The app only ever shows totals.

Who runs this

Flush Hour is run by YOUR NAME OR COMPANY, COUNTRY. Questions, or a request about your data: CONTACT EMAIL.

What the app uses

A rough location. Your country and city are guessed from your internet (IP) address. Your position is rounded and shifted by a kilometre or two on your phone before it is sent. It is used to colour your country on the map and to count people around your city. The app never asks for GPS.
Your presence. While you are "sitting", your phone tells the service that one more person is there, with your country and that blurred position. It disappears when you flush, close the app, or after a few minutes.
Anonymous usage events. Opening the app, sitting down, how long you stayed, sending a roll, sharing. They are stored with a random ID made by your phone. That ID is not linked to your name, your email or your phone number, because the app never has them. Running totals of these events (how many poops, rolls and flushes, how many phones came by, and the total time spent sitting) are shown in the app as plain numbers.
Things kept only on your phone. The random ID, your poop count and title, your last guessed location, and a copy of the app's own files so it can open without a connection. You can erase them with "erase my data on this phone" in the app.

What the app does not do

No advertising and no advertising trackers.
No selling or renting of data.
No photos, no contacts, no microphone, no precise location.

Other companies involved

GeoJS (geojs.io) guesses your country and city. To do that it receives your IP address.
Supabase stores the anonymous events and carries the live "who is here" signal.
HOSTING PROVIDER, e.g. Netlify serves the app, and like any web host sees your IP address when the page loads.

How long things are kept

Your presence lasts only while you are sitting. Anonymous usage events are kept for up to 12 months, then deleted or kept only as totals.

Your rights

You can erase what is stored on your phone at any time from the app. If you live in the European Union or the United Kingdom, you can also ask to access or delete data linked to your random ID, or object to its use, by writing to the address above. You can complain to your data protection authority (in France, the CNIL).

Age

Flush Hour is for people aged 16 and over.

Terms of use

Flush Hour is a joke app, offered as it is, free of charge, with no guarantee that it works, stays online or that the numbers are exact.
Use it honestly: do not send fake presences, do not try to break or overload the service, do not use it to harass anyone.
The app may change or stop at any time.
These terms are governed by the law of COUNTRY.

Credits

The poop drawings are adapted from Noto Emoji by Google (Apache License 2.0). The typeface is Fredoka (SIL Open Font License). Country shapes come from Natural Earth (public domain).