Egg Community Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 3, 2026

Effective date: May 3, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Egg Community ("Egg Community", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, discloses, retains, and protects information when you use The Egg mobile application, related web pages, and related services (collectively, the "Service").

Egg Community is a local community marketplace and social networking app for neighbors to connect, post items or requests, chat, share, borrow, lend, buy, sell, host or discover meetups, and build community reputation through ratings and trust signals.

This policy applies to the iOS and Android app identified as:

• iOS Bundle ID: com.theegg.marketplace
• Android Package Name: com.theegg.marketplace

Privacy contact: theegg.devops@gmail.com

If the developer or legal entity listed in an app store listing is different from "Egg Community", that listed entity is responsible for the Service and should be understood as included in "we", "us", and "our" for that store listing.

Summary

This summary is provided for convenience. The rest of this Privacy Policy contains the complete terms.

• We collect information needed to run a neighborhood marketplace: account information, profile information, posts, photos, messages, ratings, friendships, blocks, reports, notification preferences, device information, approximate location or location information you provide, and app diagnostics.
• Other users may see information you choose to share, including your public profile, posts, reputation signals, ratings, and activity that is visible under your privacy settings.
• Direct messages are intended for chat participants, but they may be reviewed by us or our service providers when needed for safety, abuse prevention, support, legal compliance, or when a message is reported.
• We do not sell your personal information. We do not use your personal information for third-party targeted advertising.
• We use service providers to operate the Service, including Supabase for authentication, database, storage, realtime features, and backend functions; Expo, Apple, and Google for push notifications and app infrastructure; Sentry for crash and error diagnostics; and Mixpanel for analytics if analytics are enabled.
• We use push notification tokens only to send app notifications you request or permit, such as messages, responses, friend requests, ratings, and community activity.
• We use privacy controls, database access controls, telemetry sanitization, SecureStore/Keychain/Keystore-backed auth storage on native devices, encryption in transit, and image metadata stripping where supported.
• You can request access, correction, deletion, or other privacy help by contacting theegg.devops@gmail.com.

1. Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to information processed through:

• Egg Community mobile app.
• Egg Community web pages that link to this policy.
• Account registration, login, support, moderation, notifications, and other backend services used by the app.
• Communications with us about the Service.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to:

• Third-party websites, apps, payment services, messaging tools, or services that you access outside Egg Community, even if another user links to them.
• In-person exchanges, meetings, payments, deliveries, or other offline actions between users. Those are between the users involved.
• App store platforms, mobile operating systems, and device manufacturers, which process information under their own privacy policies.

2. Information We Collect

We collect information in the ways described below. In this policy, "collect" includes accessing, receiving, storing, using, generating, transmitting, or otherwise processing information.

2.1 Account Information

When you create or use an account, we may collect:

• Email address.
• Password or authentication credentials, handled by our authentication provider. We do not store your plain-text password.
• Display name.
• User ID and other account identifiers.
• Account creation date, login state, session metadata, and authentication events.
• Optional profile photo or avatar.
• Optional username or handle.
• Information submitted during signup or account recovery.

We use Supabase authentication to create and manage accounts and sessions.

2.2 Profile Information

You may provide or generate profile information, including:

• Display name.
• Username or handle.
• Profile photo and cover photo.
• Bio or "about me" text.
• City and neighborhood.
• Optional profile details, such as personal interests or other profile fields you choose to add.
• Friend count, post count, member since date, verified badge, and other profile status indicators.
• Privacy settings, such as profile visibility and activity status visibility.
• Notification preferences.
• Trust and reputation indicators, such as "Happy Neighbors" counts, ratings, vouches, and exchange history.

Some profile information is visible to other users. See "Visibility and Privacy Controls" below.

2.3 Posts, Listings, Requests, Events, and Community Content

When you create or interact with posts, listings, requests, events, meetups, or other community content, we may collect:

• Post title and description.
• Post type and intent, such as sell, rent, giveaway, host, buy, borrow, help, or meet.
• Category, tags, pricing, budget, timing, availability, event date, fulfillment state, and other post-specific metadata.
• City, neighborhood, postal code, selected location, and approximate location coordinates used for local discovery when available.
• Photos, thumbnails, image metadata generated by the app, and storage paths.
• Saves, vouches, reposts, shares, responses, offers, acceptances, declines, completion actions, and other engagement.
• Post status, such as draft, active, paused, in negotiation, fulfilled, expired, or deleted.
• Post history and audit events, such as creation, edits, publishing, pausing, expiration, fulfillment, deletion, and moderation actions.

Egg Community is designed around local visibility. Posts and related activity may be shown to other users based on your profile privacy settings, post visibility settings, block status, friendship graph, neighborhood filters, and safety rules.

2.4 Messages and Chat Information

If you use chat, we may collect:

• Chat participants.
• Message text.
• Message timestamps and read state.
• Chat status, muted, pinned, archived, or deleted state.
• Last-message summaries used to render inboxes.
• Message attachments, such as images.
• Attachment metadata, such as file type, dimensions, file size, storage path, and thumbnail path.
• Context cards or system messages related to a post, response, offer, or exchange.

Messages are intended for the chat participants. We may access, review, retain, or disclose messages if reasonably necessary to operate the Service, investigate reports, prevent abuse, enforce rules, provide support, comply with law, or protect rights, safety, and security.

2.5 Photos, Camera, and Media Library Information

If you choose to upload images, we may collect:

• Photos selected from your device.
• Photos taken with your camera through the app.
• Image file names, dimensions, file type, file size, thumbnails, and storage paths.
• Generated image versions used by the app.

We request access to your camera or photo library only when you use a feature that needs it, such as profile photos, post photos, or chat images. We do not access your full photo library unless your device permission choice allows that access, and we do not upload photos unless you select or capture them for use in the Service.

Where supported by the app workflow, we re-encode uploaded images to strip EXIF metadata, including GPS and device metadata, before upload. Because image handling depends on operating system behavior and user actions, you should avoid uploading images that reveal sensitive information you do not want others to see.

2.6 Location Information

Egg Community uses location information to support local discovery and neighborhood community features.

We may collect:

• City and neighborhood you enter in your profile.
• Location information you enter in posts, listings, events, or messages.
• Location suggestions you search for or select.
• Approximate coordinates or location keys derived from your profile or post location, when needed for local discovery and proximity filtering.
• Device location if you use an app feature that asks for location permission.

The app is intended to use location in a local and contextual way. We do not sell location information. We do not use location information for third-party targeted advertising. We do not continuously collect background location unless a future version expressly asks for that permission and you grant it. You can control device location permissions in your device settings.

2.7 Friendships, Blocks, Reports, Moderation, and Trust Signals

To support community safety and trust, we may collect:

• Friend requests, accepted friendships, mutual-friend signals, and friend list visibility state.
• Blocks and block-related information.
• Reports submitted by users, including report reason, description, reported user, reported post, reported message, timestamps, and evidence snapshots.
• Moderator actions, warnings, suspensions, bans, removed posts, hidden messages, moderator notes, and review status.
• Ratings, rating comments, vouches, "Happy Neighbors" indicators, exchange counts, and other reputation data.
• Abuse, spam, suspicious activity, or fraud-prevention signals.

Reports and moderation data may be reviewed by our team or service providers who help us operate and secure the Service. We may preserve moderation records even after certain content or accounts are deleted where reasonably necessary for safety, fraud prevention, dispute handling, legal compliance, or enforcement.

2.8 Notifications

If you enable notifications, we may collect and process:

• Push notification token.
• Device platform, such as iOS, Android, or web.
• Device name if provided.
• Notification preferences.
• Notification events, such as friend requests, responses, messages, ratings, post expiration reminders, post fulfillment reminders, reposts, welcome messages, and system notices.
• Notification read, dismissed, actioned, sent, failed, deferred, or suppressed state.

We use this information to send, route, deduplicate, troubleshoot, suppress, defer, or revoke notifications. Push notification delivery may involve Expo, Apple Push Notification service, and Google/Firebase Cloud Messaging.

You can disable notifications in the app where controls are available and in your device settings. When you log out, the app attempts to revoke the stored push token on a best-effort basis.

2.9 Device, App, Network, and Diagnostic Information

We may collect technical information needed to operate, secure, and improve the Service, including:

• Device type, operating system, app version, build number, runtime version, platform, and environment.
• Crash reports, error reports, stack traces, performance traces, and session diagnostics.
• Network state, app lifecycle events, route or screen names, and feature usage.
• Opaque IDs, such as account IDs, post IDs, chat IDs, item IDs, notification IDs, and request IDs.
• Security and authentication events.
• Server logs, request metadata, timestamps, and error codes.

We configure diagnostics to reduce personal data exposure. For example, Sentry is configured not to send default personally identifiable information, not to attach screenshots, and to sanitize events and breadcrumbs. Mixpanel is configured with IP address collection disabled where our app configuration is in effect. Analytics payloads are sanitized before dispatch to remove or redact emails, phone numbers, tokens, coordinates, freeform user text, message bodies, and other sensitive values where supported by the app code.

2.10 Analytics and Product Usage Information

If analytics are enabled, we may collect product usage events such as:

• Account login or logout events.
• Screen views.
• Feature usage.
• Post, response, search, chat, notification, and profile interaction events.
• Counts, durations, category or post type enums, status values, and operational metadata.
• Opaque user ID or device/app identifiers used to understand app usage.

We use analytics to understand whether the Service works, improve features, debug issues, measure adoption, and prioritize product development. We do not use analytics for third-party targeted advertising.

2.11 Support and Communications

If you contact us, we may collect:

• Your name, email address, and contact details.
• The content of your message.
• Attachments, screenshots, or logs you choose to provide.
• Information needed to respond, investigate, or resolve your request.

2.12 Information from Other Users

Other users may provide information about you when they:

• Send you a friend request.
• Message you.
• Respond to your post.
• Rate, vouch for, report, block, or mention you.
• Create a post, chat, report, rating, or other content involving you.

2.13 Information from Service Providers and Platforms

We may receive information from service providers and platforms, including:

• Authentication, database, storage, and realtime-service information from Supabase.
• Push token and delivery status information from Expo, Apple, Google, or Firebase-related push services.
• Crash, error, and diagnostic information from Sentry.
• Analytics information from Mixpanel if analytics are enabled.
• App installation, distribution, and platform information from Apple App Store, Google Play, Expo Application Services, or operating system platforms.

3. Information We Do Not Intend to Collect

Egg Community is not designed to collect:

• Payment card numbers, bank account numbers, or government ID numbers.
• Biometric identifiers, such as face geometry or fingerprint templates.
• Precise background location on a continuous basis.
• Health information.
• Contact lists.
• Advertising identifiers for third-party targeted advertising.

If a future version adds features that require new sensitive data, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide notices or consent prompts where required.

Do not include sensitive personal information in profile text, posts, messages, photos, reports, ratings, or other user-generated content unless you understand that it may be processed and, depending on your settings and the feature, shown to other users.

4. How We Use Information

We use information for the purposes below.

4.1 Provide and Operate the Service

We use information to:

• Create, authenticate, and manage accounts.
• Maintain profiles.
• Show posts, listings, requests, events, and local community content.
• Enable search, filters, saved posts, vouches, reposts, responses, and other marketplace features.
• Enable chat and message attachments.
• Process ratings, trust signals, and community reputation.
• Provide notifications.
• Sync app data across devices.
• Maintain app sessions and secure authentication.

4.2 Local Discovery and Neighborhood Matching

We use location and profile information to:

• Show nearby posts and neighbors.
• Provide location suggestions.
• Filter content by neighborhood, city, friendship graph, or visibility.
• Support local meetups, lending, borrowing, giving, buying, selling, and helping.

4.3 Safety, Moderation, Abuse Prevention, and Trust

We use information to:

• Detect, investigate, and prevent spam, scams, harassment, suspicious behavior, fraud, and policy violations.
• Enforce blocks, privacy settings, account restrictions, suspensions, and bans.
• Review reports and preserve evidence.
• Protect users, our team, the public, and the Service.
• Maintain audit trails for marketplace and moderation actions.

4.4 Communications and Notifications

We use information to:

• Send push notifications you enable.
• Notify you about messages, responses, friend requests, ratings, expiring posts, completed exchanges, safety notices, support responses, and account events.
• Respond to support and privacy requests.
• Send administrative or service-related communications.

4.5 Analytics, Debugging, and Improvement

We use information to:

• Diagnose crashes and errors.
• Monitor reliability and performance.
• Understand feature usage.
• Improve usability, safety, ranking, search, and product quality.
• Test and validate changes.

4.6 Legal, Compliance, and Rights Protection

We use information to:

• Comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process.
• Enforce our terms, policies, and community rules.
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
• Protect rights, safety, security, property, and integrity.

5. Legal Bases for Processing

If privacy laws require a legal basis for processing, we rely on one or more of the following:

• Contract: to provide the Service you requested, including account, profile, posts, chat, notifications, and local discovery features.
• Legitimate interests: to operate, secure, troubleshoot, improve, and protect the Service; prevent fraud and abuse; and understand product usage.
• Consent: when you grant device permissions, opt in to push notifications, or provide optional information.
• Legal obligations: when processing is necessary to comply with law or legal process.
• Vital or public interests: when reasonably necessary to protect safety.

You may withdraw consent where consent is the basis for processing, such as by changing device permissions or notification settings. Withdrawing consent may limit some features.

6. Visibility and Privacy Controls

Egg Community is a community app, so some information is visible to other users by design.

6.1 Public or Generally Visible Profile Information

Regardless of profile privacy settings, other users may be able to see basic profile and trust information such as:

• Profile picture/avatar.
• Display name.
• Username or handle.
• City or neighborhood.
• Bio.
• Friend count.
• Post count.
• Verified badge.
• Rating or review summary.
• Member since date.

This helps users evaluate trust and context before connecting or exchanging.

6.2 Privacy-Controlled Profile Information

Depending on your privacy settings and the viewer's relationship to you, Egg Community may limit access to:

• Posts tab.
• Closet or listed items.
• Friends list.
• Activity status.
• Detailed profile information.
• Other profile activity.

Current profile visibility options may include:

• Public.
• Friends and friends-of-friends.
• Friends only.
• Private.

Settings may change over time as the Service evolves.

6.3 Post and Listing Visibility

Posts and listings may be visible based on:

• The visibility setting selected for the post.
• Your profile privacy settings.
• Friendship or friends-of-friends relationships.
• Neighborhood or city filters.
• Block status.
• Safety and moderation rules.
• Whether the post is active, paused, expired, fulfilled, or deleted.

Users who can see a post may see its title, description, category, metadata, photos, approximate location, author profile, vouches, saves or repost signals, response state, and other relevant information.

6.4 Chat Visibility

Chats are intended for chat participants. However:

• Participants can view, save, screenshot, or share messages outside the app.
• We may review messages or attachments when reported or when needed for safety, support, enforcement, legal compliance, security, or abuse prevention.
• Chat metadata, such as unread count or last-message summaries, may be used to render inboxes and notifications.

6.5 Ratings, Vouches, Reports, and Blocks

Ratings and vouches may be visible as trust and reputation signals. Reports and blocks are generally not shown to the reported or blocked user as a full record, but the effects of a block, moderation action, suspension, or ban may be visible or communicated where appropriate.

7. How We Disclose Information

We may disclose information as described below.

7.1 To Other Users

We disclose information to other users when needed for the Service, including:

• Public or visible profile information.
• Posts, listings, photos, locations, ratings, vouches, reposts, and trust signals.
• Messages and attachments to chat participants.
• Friend request information to the sender or receiver.
• Notification-related context, such as who sent a friend request or responded to a post.
• Information necessary to complete, rate, or review an exchange.

7.2 To Service Providers

We disclose information to service providers that help us operate the Service. They may process information on our behalf and subject to their own contractual, technical, and legal obligations.

Current or expected service providers include:

• Supabase: authentication, database, storage, realtime subscriptions, backend functions, and related infrastructure.
• Expo and Expo Application Services: app updates, push-notification infrastructure, build/distribution infrastructure, and related app services.
• Apple and Apple Push Notification service: iOS app distribution, platform services, and push notification delivery.
• Google, Google Play, Firebase Cloud Messaging, or related Google platform services: Android app distribution, platform services, and push notification delivery.
• Sentry: crash reporting, error monitoring, diagnostics, and performance monitoring.
• Mixpanel: product analytics, if analytics are enabled.
• Email, support, hosting, logging, security, and operations providers we use to communicate with users and operate public web pages.

7.3 For Safety, Legal, and Enforcement Reasons

We may disclose information if we believe disclosure is reasonably necessary to:

• Comply with law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or other legal process.
• Respond to lawful requests from public authorities.
• Enforce terms, policies, community rules, or agreements.
• Investigate fraud, security issues, abuse, harassment, threats, or harmful conduct.
• Protect the rights, safety, privacy, property, or security of users, Egg Community, our team, or the public.
• Prevent death, physical harm, financial harm, or other serious harm.

7.4 Business Transfers

If Egg Community is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or similar transaction, information may be disclosed, transferred, or evaluated as part of that transaction, subject to appropriate confidentiality and legal protections.

7.5 Aggregated or De-Identified Information

We may disclose aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you. For example, we may disclose overall usage counts, category trends, or safety metrics.

8. No Sale of Personal Information and No Targeted Advertising

We do not sell personal information.

We do not share personal information for third-party cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising.

We do not show third-party behavioral ads in the app.

We may use analytics to understand how users use the Service, but we configure our app analytics to avoid advertising use and to minimize sensitive data.

9. Device Permissions

The Service may request device permissions. You can control permissions in your device settings.

9.1 Camera and Photos

Used to let you upload profile images, post images, and chat images.

9.2 Notifications

Used to send push notifications about app activity, such as messages, friend requests, responses, ratings, post reminders, and system notices.

9.3 Location

Used only if a feature asks for location permission and you grant it. The app also lets you provide city, neighborhood, and post locations manually.

9.4 Local Authentication

If a future or optional feature uses device biometrics or passcode prompts, the app uses the operating system's local authentication flow. We do not receive or store your fingerprint, face scan, iris scan, or biometric template.

9.5 Clipboard, Sharing, and Media Export

If you use sharing, clipboard, screenshot, or export features, the app or your operating system may process the content you choose to share.

10. Local Storage on Your Device

The app stores some information locally to keep the Service usable and secure. Local storage may include:

• Auth session tokens.
• App settings and preferences.
• Feature state, filters, selected options, and cache data.
• Push notification token.
• Opaque IDs and timestamps.

On native iOS and Android builds, auth tokens are stored using SecureStore, which uses Keychain/Keystore-backed storage where available. We intentionally avoid storing auth tokens in plain AsyncStorage on native devices at runtime.

The app is designed to avoid persisting sensitive freeform drafts, message bodies, recent search query text, or raw user-authored content in unencrypted local storage. Some temporary state may exist in memory while the app is running.

Deleting the app from your device may remove local app data, but it does not automatically delete your account or server-side data.

11. Security

We use administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information. These measures may include:

• Encryption in transit using TLS.
• Provider-managed encryption at rest where supported.
• Supabase row-level security and access policies.
• Authentication and session controls.
• Secure native auth-token storage using SecureStore/Keychain/Keystore where available.
• Push token ownership checks and revocation flows.
• Telemetry sanitization for analytics and error reporting.
• Sentry screenshots disabled to avoid capturing private screens.
• Image metadata stripping for uploaded images where supported by the app workflow.
• Block, report, suspension, and moderation systems.
• Access restrictions for administrative and moderation functions.

No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee that information will never be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.

12. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

Retention periods depend on the type of information and context.

12.1 Account and Profile Data

We generally retain account and profile data while your account is active. If your account is deleted, we delete or de-identify associated account and profile information within a reasonable period, subject to the exceptions below.

12.2 Posts, Listings, Photos, and Community Content

We retain posts, listings, photos, and related activity while they are active or needed for the Service. Deleted, expired, fulfilled, or moderated content may be retained for a period in backups, audit logs, moderation records, safety records, or legal records.

12.3 Chat Messages and Attachments

We retain chat messages and attachments while needed to provide chat history, support safety, enforce policies, comply with law, and maintain user experience. Deleting a chat locally may hide it from your inbox without deleting every copy from all participants or backend systems.

12.4 Notifications and Push Tokens

Notification records are periodically cleaned up. Current backend retention logic is designed to delete:

• Read notifications after approximately 30 days from read time.
• Dismissed notifications after approximately 7 days from dismissal.
• Unread notifications after approximately 90 days from creation.

Push tokens may be deactivated when revoked or when stale. Current backend logic is designed to deactivate push tokens that have not been re-registered for approximately 60 days.

12.5 Analytics and Diagnostics

Analytics and diagnostics are retained for as long as needed to understand usage, operate, troubleshoot, secure, and improve the Service, and according to the retention settings of the relevant service providers.

12.6 Reports, Moderation, Safety, and Legal Records

Reports, moderation actions, safety records, audit trails, fraud-prevention records, and legal records may be retained after account deletion or content deletion where reasonably necessary to protect users, enforce policies, prevent abuse, resolve disputes, comply with law, or establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

12.7 Backups

Deleted information may remain in backups for a limited period until those backups are overwritten or deleted through normal backup cycles.

13. Account Deletion and Data Deletion

You may request account deletion or data deletion by contacting:

theegg.devops@gmail.com

Please include the email address associated with your account and state that you are requesting account deletion or data deletion. We may need to verify your identity before completing the request.

When we delete an account in response to a verified request, we will take reasonable steps to delete or de-identify personal information associated with that account within 30 days, unless retention is required or permitted for safety, fraud prevention, legal compliance, dispute resolution, financial records, moderation, security, backup, or other legitimate purposes.

Deleting your account may not remove:

• Information other users already viewed, copied, screenshotted, saved, or shared.
• Messages retained in another participant's account or records.
• Ratings, reports, moderation records, audit trails, or safety records that we reasonably need to preserve.
• Aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized information.
• Information retained in backups until normal backup deletion cycles complete.

You may also delete or edit some content from within the app where those features are available.

14. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on your location and the feature, you may have the choices below.

14.1 Account and Profile

You can update certain profile information in the app, such as name, username, avatar, bio, city, neighborhood, and privacy settings where available.

14.2 Profile Visibility

You can choose privacy settings that control who can see your full profile, posts, friends list, activity status, and profile details where available.

14.3 Notifications

You can change notification preferences in the app where available and in your device settings.

14.4 Device Permissions

You can grant, deny, or revoke camera, photo, notification, and location permissions in your device settings.

14.5 Analytics and Diagnostics

Some analytics and diagnostics are necessary to operate, secure, and improve the Service. Where legally required or technically available, we will provide additional choices.

14.6 Marketing

Egg Community does not currently describe marketing emails as a core app feature. If we send marketing communications in the future, we will provide an unsubscribe or opt-out mechanism where required.

15. Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to:

• Know whether we process your personal information.
• Access personal information we hold about you.
• Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
• Request deletion of personal information.
• Request a portable copy of personal information.
• Object to or restrict certain processing.
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
• Opt out of sale, sharing for cross-context behavioral advertising, targeted advertising, or certain profiling where those activities occur.
• Appeal a denied privacy request where applicable law provides an appeal right.
• Not be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights.

To exercise privacy rights, contact:

theegg.devops@gmail.com

We may ask you to provide information reasonably necessary to verify your identity and locate your account. If you use an authorized agent, we may require proof of authorization and may still ask you to verify your identity directly.

We will respond to privacy requests within the time required by applicable law. If we deny a request, you may appeal by replying to our response and stating that you are appealing the decision.

16. U.S. State Privacy Notice

This section provides additional information for residents of U.S. states with consumer privacy laws, including California where applicable.

16.1 Categories of Personal Information

Depending on your use of the Service, we may collect the following categories:

• Identifiers, such as email address, account ID, username, push token, and device/app identifiers.
• Personal information categories under California Civil Code section 1798.80, such as name and contact information.
• Protected classification information only if you choose to include it in content you provide. We do not request it for ordinary app use.
• Commercial or marketplace activity, such as posts, responses, offers, exchanges, saves, vouches, and ratings.
• Internet or electronic network activity, such as app events, screen views, diagnostics, logs, and usage data.
• Geolocation information, such as city, neighborhood, post location, approximate coordinates used for local discovery, or device location if you grant permission for a location feature.
• Audio, electronic, visual, or similar information, such as photos, chat images, profile images, and user-submitted attachments.
• Professional, educational, or profile detail information only if you choose to provide it.
• Inferences, such as reputation signals, recommendation or ranking signals, safety signals, and usage patterns.
• Sensitive personal information, such as account login credentials and precise location if you grant permission to a precise-location feature. We do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics where restricted by law.

16.2 Sources

We collect information from:

• You.
• Your device.
• Other users.
• Service providers.
• App stores and platform providers.
• Internal app systems that generate operational, safety, and usage records.

16.3 Purposes

We collect and use these categories for the purposes described in this policy, including operating the Service, local discovery, chat, posts, ratings, notifications, safety, moderation, analytics, diagnostics, security, support, legal compliance, and improvement.

16.4 Disclosure Categories

We may disclose these categories to:

• Other users, based on visibility settings and app features.
• Service providers.
• Legal, safety, fraud-prevention, security, and enforcement recipients.
• Parties involved in business transfers.

16.5 Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising

We do not sell personal information.

We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

We do not process personal information for third-party targeted advertising.

16.6 Sensitive Personal Information

We use sensitive personal information only for permitted purposes, such as account security, authentication, location features you request, safety, debugging, fraud prevention, legal compliance, and providing the Service.

17. EEA, UK, and Similar Jurisdictions

If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another jurisdiction with similar data protection laws, you may have additional rights, including:

• Access.
• Rectification.
• Erasure.
• Restriction.
• Portability.
• Objection.
• Withdrawal of consent.
• Complaint to a data protection authority.

Egg Community may process information in the United States and other countries where we or our service providers operate. Those countries may have data protection laws that differ from the laws in your country. Where required, we rely on appropriate transfer mechanisms or safeguards.

To exercise rights, contact theegg.devops@gmail.com.

18. Children and Teens

The Service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction, you should use the Service only with permission and supervision from a parent or guardian.

If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to us, contact theegg.devops@gmail.com. If we learn that we collected personal information from a child under 13 without appropriate consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

Because Egg Community involves local interactions between users, parents and guardians should supervise any offline exchanges, meetups, buying, selling, lending, borrowing, or giving.

19. International Users

Egg Community is operated from the United States. If you use the Service from outside the United States, you understand that information may be processed in the United States and other countries where we or our service providers operate.

20. Automated Processing

Egg Community may use automated systems to support:

• Search and ranking.
• Local discovery and neighborhood filtering.
• Notification routing and deduplication.
• Spam, abuse, fraud, and safety detection.
• Trust, reputation, and moderation workflows.
• Analytics and diagnostics.

We do not currently use automated processing to make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects without human involvement, unless we notify you or applicable law permits it.

21. Third-Party Links, Offline Exchanges, and User Responsibility

Egg Community may contain links, references, or user-generated content that points to third-party services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties.

Egg Community helps users connect locally, but users are responsible for what they share and how they interact offline. You should avoid sharing sensitive information in public posts, profiles, photos, ratings, or chats. You should use care when meeting, exchanging items, paying, lending, borrowing, buying, selling, or helping another user.

22. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will take reasonable steps to notify you, such as by updating the "Last updated" date, posting notice in the app, sending an email, or using another appropriate method.

Your continued use of the Service after an update means the updated policy applies to information processed after the effective date, except where applicable law requires otherwise.

23. Contact Us

For privacy questions, account deletion, data deletion, access requests, correction requests, appeals, or other privacy requests, contact:

Egg Community Privacy

Email: theegg.devops@gmail.com

Please include enough information for us to identify your account and understand your request. Do not send passwords, full payment card numbers, government ID numbers, or other highly sensitive information by email unless we specifically request it through a secure process.