Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Sherbert is made by Mazyte Studio (“we”, “us”). This policy covers the Sherbert iPhone app and this website, sherbert.app.

If you have a question about your information, email mazytestudio@gmail.com.

2. Information we collect

2.1 Information you provide

• Account: a display name, email address, and password when you create an account or sign in. Firebase Authentication stores the password. We do not keep a copy of your password ourselves.
• Partner details: your partner’s display name, once they join your space.
• Couple photo: the main image you choose for Home, if you add one.
• Collection: titles, categories, notes, links, favourites, archive or deleted status, and optional photos for movies, TV series, restaurants, cafés, activities, travel, and custom ideas.
• Decisions: rooms, likes and passes, mutual matches, wheel spins, winners, and decision history.
• Pairing codes: short codes used to invite a partner into a shared space.
• Notification choices: which alerts you want, such as matches, rooms and spins, collection changes, favourites and seen items, and when a partner joins.

2.2 Information collected automatically

• Account identifier: a Firebase user ID so your account, space, and devices stay connected.
• Push token: a Firebase Cloud Messaging token, only if you allow notifications, so we can deliver alerts. Signing out removes the token from your account.
• Email delivery status: whether your email address is verified, and the fact that a verification or password-reset message was requested. Those messages are sent by Firebase.

A few product counters (for example that a first item was added) are stored only in UserDefaults on your iPhone. They are not sent to us, and they are not used for advertising.

2.3 Information we do not collect

Sherbert does not ask for your location, contacts, health data, payment details, or browsing history outside the app. There is no advertising, no advertising identifier, and no tracking across other companies’ apps or websites. We do not use a third-party analytics or crash-reporting SDK.

Photos come only from images you pick. The photo library permission is used to attach a picture you choose to an item, or to the Home image. Sherbert does not scan your photo library.

3. How we use information

We use information to:

• Run the app: your collection, rooms, swipes, matches, spins, and history
• Create and protect your account, including email verification and password reset
• Sync a signed-in space between your phone and, when you pair, your partner’s phone
• Send the notifications you have turned on
• Answer a support request you send us

We do not sell personal information. We do not use it for advertising, and we do not share it with data brokers.

4. Who can see your information

4.1 Your partner

Until you pair, the collection lives with your account and on your phone. After your partner joins with a pairing code, shared items, photos, rooms, votes, matches, spins, and history are visible to both of you and stay in sync.

Items, rooms, and results marked just for you stay limited to the account that created them. They are not shown to your partner.

4.2 Service providers

When you sign in, Sherbert uses Google Firebase to store and deliver the service:

• Firebase Authentication for email, password, verification, and password reset
• Cloud Firestore for your account, space, collection, decisions, and preferences
• Cloud Storage for item photos and the Home image you upload
• Cloud Functions for pairing, votes, spins, notifications, and account deletion
• Firebase Cloud Messaging for push notifications you allow

Google processes this information for us so the app can work. Google’s privacy policy is at https://policies.google.com/privacy. Firebase may process and store data in the United States, including the us-east1 region, and in other locations Google operates.

We do not share your information with anyone else except where the law requires it, or where you ask us to.

5. Where information is stored

The app keeps a copy on your iPhone so you can keep using your collection. Signing in also saves that space in Firebase, which is what lets a partner join and lets you open the same space on another sign-in.

A pairing code created before you sign in stays on that phone. Signing in with email is what makes a code usable from your partner’s phone.

Transmission between the app and Firebase uses HTTPS.

6. Notifications

Notifications are optional. iOS asks before the app can send them, and you can turn categories off inside Sherbert or turn notifications off in iOS Settings. Alerts can cover mutual matches, shared rooms and spins, collection changes, favourites and seen items, and a partner joining. We use them to tell you what changed in your space, not to advertise.

7. How long we keep information

We keep account and space information while your account exists and the space still needs it.

• Deleting an item hides it from the collection and from new rooms. Past decisions can still show the name that was saved with that decision. An open room can still finish a swipe that already included it.
• Signing out stops new notifications to that phone and clears the push token we hold for it. It does not delete the account.
• Deleting the account is described in the next section.

8. Deleting your account and your other choices

You can delete your account in the app, in Settings. You do not need to email us first. Deleting your account:

• Deletes the Firebase Authentication user for that email
• Deletes your membership, the votes you cast, private items you created, and pairing invites you created that nobody has used
• If nobody else is in the space, deletes the space itself, including the shared collection, photos, rooms, matches, history, and stored image files
• If a partner is still in the space, leaves the shared collection, shared rooms, shared matches, and shared history with them. Your private items and your votes are removed. The space becomes a solo space for the person who stays.

You can also, without deleting the account:

• Edit or delete individual items, photos, and decisions from inside the app
• Disconnect a partner from Settings
• Turn notification categories off, or revoke notification permission in iOS Settings
• Stop photo access in iOS Settings. That does not delete photos already uploaded.
• Sign out, which clears the push token on that phone

Uninstalling the app removes the copy on that phone. It does not delete a cloud account. Use Delete account in Settings, or email mazytestudio@gmail.com from the address on the account if you cannot open the app and want the account removed.

If you are in the UK or the EEA, you can also ask us for a copy of the personal information we hold, ask us to correct it, or object to a use that is not required to run the app. We will respond to requests sent to the email above.

9. Children

Sherbert is a couples app and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe we have, email us and we will delete it.

10. This website

sherbert.app is a static site about the app. It does not use analytics cookies, advertising cookies, or an account. Your browser may still record standard server logs with the host that serves the site, such as an IP address, the page requested, and a user agent. Those logs are used to operate and secure the site.

11. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, we will post the new version on this page and update the date below. The URL stays https://sherbert.app/privacy, which is the privacy policy link for the App Store listing.

12. Contact

• Email: mazytestudio@gmail.com
• Website: sherbert.app
• Studio: mazytestudio.com