Privacy Policy

What we collect

• Account data: email, optional display name, phone number (used only to vet your account through a text-message code).
• Location data: an optional home location and alert radius you choose, and the locations you enter or share in sighting reports and search parties. Location in photos you upload is intentionally kept because it helps searchers.
• Photos: photos you attach to alerts and sighting reports.
• Sighting reports and votes: what you report, and whether you confirm or dispute others' reports.
• Registry (optional): sensitive details about a person you care for. Only you can read them; sensitive fields are encrypted at rest.
• Technical data: IP address and logs for security and rate limiting.

How it is used and shared

• Alerts and photos you publish are visible to everyone. Sighting reports are visible to you, the alert's creator and vetted members.
• We do not sell personal data. Service providers (email delivery, text-message verification, bot protection, hosting) process data on our behalf.
• Public alerts may be imported from public sources such as the US National Weather Service.

Your choices and deletion

You can delete your own account from the account page at any time. This erases your sightings, votes, registry entries, settings and notifications. Alerts you created that others reported sightings on are anonymised. Backups are rotated out on a schedule. To ask a privacy question, contact us.

No guarantee

We cannot guarantee that law enforcement will act on any report, or that any alert is accurate or complete.