What we keep,
and why.

Brigade is a small, curated guide to London restaurants, kept by a group of people who eat out a lot. This page says, plainly, what the app stores about you and what happens to it.

What we collect

Your email address. Only to send you a sign-in code. Other members never see it.
Your first name and handle. Shown to other members so they know whose recommendations they are reading.
What you add. Restaurants you have been to, notes about them, the ones you liked or loved, tables you save, and any dishes, lines, lunch secrets, bars or photographs you suggest. Notes and likes are visible to members. Suggestions appear on the list only once they have been approved.
Reports and blocks. If you report something or block someone, that stays private. The person concerned is never told.

We do not use advertising, analytics or tracking of any kind, and we never sell or rent anything about you.

Who handles it for us

A few services make the app work. Each only receives what it needs to do its job:

Supabase stores the database and handles signing in.
Google supplies restaurant details and photographs through its Places service. Your phone asks Google for those photographs directly.
Gmail sends your sign-in codes.
Expo delivers updates to the app.
Apple distributes the app, and Netlify hosts the website.

Like any service on the internet, these see your device's IP address when your phone talks to them.

Deleting your account

You can delete your account at any time from inside the app: You → Delete my account. It takes effect immediately and cannot be undone.

Deleted: your sign-in, your email address, your profile, your visits and their notes, your likes and your saved tables.

Kept: dishes, lines, lunch secrets and bars you suggested that were already approved and on the list. They stay as part of the guide, with your name removed.

Children

Brigade is not intended for anyone under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from children.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date.

For anything about your data, including a copy of what we hold about you, write to brigade.london.app@gmail.com.