Privacy

What we collect

Your email address. Needed to sign you in. We send a link rather than storing a password, so there is no password to leak.

What you put in your profile. Display name, and optionally a photo, short bio, home break, and skill level. All optional except the name, and all visible to other surfers.

What you post. Reports, photos, video, chat messages, comments. Posts and chat are public to anyone using the app.

What you tap. Likes, follows, saved posts, saved spots, and anyone you block.

Ordinary server logs. Our host records IP addresses and request times, as every web server does. We do not use these to build a profile of you.

What we deliberately don't collect

Your location. The app never asks for it. Spot conditions come from fixed buoys, not from where you are.

Passwords.There aren't any.

Payment details. Nothing is for sale yet. If that changes, payment is handled by Apple or a payment processor and card numbers never reach us.

Advertising and tracking. No ad networks, no analytics trackers, no third-party cookies for advertising, and we do not sell or share your data with data brokers.

Who else sees it

We use a small number of services to run the app. They only get what they need to do their job.

Supabase stores accounts, posts, and uploads. Vercel hosts the site. Resend delivers your sign-in emails. All are in the United States.

Live cameras are embedded from their operators — YouTube for some spots, other camera hosts for others. When a page with a camera loads, that operator can see your IP address and may set their own cookies, under their privacy policy rather than ours. If you would rather not, avoid the spot pages that show a live camera.

Conditions data comes from NOAA, the National Data Buoy Center, and the National Weather Service. Nothing about you is sent to them.

Deleting your account

Open the You tab and tap Delete my account. That removes your profile, posts, chat messages, comments, and every photo and video you uploaded. It happens immediately and cannot be undone.

You do not have to email anyone or explain yourself. If the button fails, write to privacy@catchwaves.pro and we will do it by hand.

Your rights

You can ask us what we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted. Depending on where you live — California, the UK, the EU and others — you may have a legal right to those things. We honour the requests regardless of where you live. Write to privacy@catchwaves.pro.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.

Other people's posts

Anything you post publicly can be seen, screenshotted, and remembered by other people. Deleting your account removes your content from Catch Waves; it cannot recall what someone else already saw or saved.

You can report a message or block a surfer from the ••• next to any chat message. Three reports hide a post while it is reviewed.

Children

Catch Waves is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their information. If you believe a child has created an account, write to privacy@catchwaves.pro and we will remove it.

Safety

Conditions shown here come from offshore buoys and public forecasts. They can be wrong, delayed, or missing, and the ocean does not care what an app says. Never make a decision about paddling out based on this app alone.

Changes

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top. If the change is significant, we will say so in the app rather than hoping you re-read this page.

Contact

Questions about any of this: privacy@catchwaves.pro