Privacy Policy

This policy explains how Mazi (“Mazi,” “we,” “us”) handles information when you use the Mazi mobile app and this website. Mazi is operated by [legal entity name and location].

We're a small, early-stage team. We've tried to write this in plain language and to describe only what Mazi actually does today.

To create a Mazi account you provide:

• Your email address, which you use to sign in.
• A password. Passwords are handled by our authentication provider (see Service providers), not stored by Mazi in readable form.

Your email address is not shown on your profile or to other members.

When you set up your profile, you choose a username and can add:

• a display name,
• your home city,
• a short bio (up to 160 characters), and
• a profile photo.

Your profile (username, display name, home city, bio and photo) can be seen by other signed-in Mazi members, for example when they search for friends. Profile photos are stored at a web address that isn't password-protected, so anyone who has that link could view the image.

When you use Mazi, we store the things you add:

• Ratings: a star rating, a “how close to Greece” score, and an optional short note (up to 280 characters) for each restaurant you rate. Your personal rankings are built from these.
• Saved restaurants you want to try. These are visible only to you.
• Friends and follows: friend requests you send, receive, accept or decline, and the people you follow.
• Restaurant suggestions and corrections you send us, such as a missing restaurant or one that has closed.
• Reports and blocks. If you report a rating or profile, we keep the report, its reason, any details you add and a copy of the reported note so we can review it. Blocks you make are private.

Who can see your ratings. You and your friends can see your ratings with your name. Other members may see your ratings and notes without your name or profile attached, and every rating counts toward a restaurant's average scores. Confirm this matches the version submitted to the stores.

Photos of dishes. The app can ask for access to your photo library so you can attach photos to a review. Today those photos stay on your device and aren't uploaded to Mazi. Update this section if photo uploads are added before launch.

This website has forms to join the app waitlist and to subscribe to The Mazi Journal. If you submit one, we use your email address only to send what you signed up for: news about the app launch, or new Journal stories. Every email will include a way to unsubscribe.

At the moment these forms are not connected to an email service, so addresses entered on the site are not saved, and the form says so. When we connect one, we'll name the provider here. [email service provider]

On this website we use Vercel Web Analytics to understand which pages are visited. It records page views and a few interactions (such as opening a Journal story, clicking a restaurant, or submitting the signup form), along with general information like the referring site and browser or device type. It does not use cookies. We never attach your email address or other personal details to these events, and we remove any query strings from page addresses before they're sent.

Like any website, our hosting provider processes technical information such as your IP address in order to deliver pages to you.

In the app, Mazi does not currently include analytics, advertising or crash-reporting tools. Confirm before each release. The app keeps you signed in by storing a login token on your device. The only device permission it asks for is access to your photo library; it does not access your location, contacts, camera or microphone.

We use the information above to:

• create and run your account and sign you in;
• show your profile, ratings and rankings to you and, as described above, to other members;
• calculate restaurant averages, rankings and badges from members' ratings;
• keep the community safe by reviewing reports, enforcing blocks and filtering prohibited words;
• review restaurant suggestions and corrections;
• reply when you contact us, and send waitlist or Journal emails you asked for; and
• understand, in aggregate, how the website is used so we can improve it.

We do not sell your personal information, and we don't use it for advertising.

We share information only with the service providers that run Mazi for us, and only to provide the service:

• Supabase hosts the app's database, sign-in and profile photo storage.
• Vercel hosts this website and provides its analytics.
• [email service provider], once connected, for waitlist and Journal emails.

We may also disclose information if required by law, or to protect the safety of Mazi's members or others. If Mazi is ever involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, information may transfer as part of that transaction. Needs legal review

App data is stored with Supabase. Database access rules limit who can read what: for example, only you can see your saved restaurants, and members can't read reports or blocks at all. Information is sent over encrypted (HTTPS) connections.

Servers are located in [hosting region, e.g. the United States]. No system is perfectly secure, and we can't guarantee that information will never be accessed without permission. Needs legal review

We keep your information for as long as your account is open.

You can delete your account at any time in the app: go to Profile → Settings → Legal & Support → Delete Account. Deleting your account permanently removes your profile, profile photos, ratings and notes, saved restaurants, friends, follows, friend requests and suggestions. Reports you made about others are kept for moderation, but are no longer linked to you. If you can't sign in, see how to request deletion.

Our providers may keep backup copies for a limited time after deletion. [backup retention period] Waitlist and Journal addresses are kept until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them.

You can:

• edit your profile, or delete individual ratings, at any time in the app;
• block other members;
• delete your account, as described above; and
• ask us for a copy of your information, or to correct or delete it, by emailing mazieats@gmail.com.

Depending on where you live, such as California, the European Union or the United Kingdom, you may have additional rights under local law. We'll respond to requests within [response time, e.g. 30 days]. Needs legal review

Mazi is not intended for children under [minimum age, e.g. 13], and we don't knowingly collect their information. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we'll delete it. Needs legal review

If we change how Mazi handles information, we'll update this page and its effective date. For significant changes, we'll also let members know in the app.

For privacy questions or requests, email mazieats@gmail.com or visit our contact page.