This English text is provided for convenience. The French version is the legally binding one.
This policy explains what personal data FTC (“FTC”, “we”) collects, why, and what your rights are. We limit collection to what the app strictly needs to work.
1. Data we collect
- Account — your email address or phone number, or, if you use “Continue with Apple”, the identifier Apple provides and the email address you choose to share (your real address or Apple's relay address, never your name). These credentials are handled by Firebase Authentication and are not stored in our application database.
- Profile — username, photo, bio, languages, the neighbourhoods you hang out in, interests and visibility preference (public/private) that you fill in.
- Content and outings — comments, reviews, tips, lists, reminders and saved items you create; your “I'm going” and your answers to “Were you there?” (attendance, rating).
- “I'm going” without an account — without an account, your “I'm going” stays on your phone; only the event's counter goes up by 1, with nothing linking you to that +1.
- Where you come from — after an “I'm going”, you may, if you want, tell us your arrondissement or town. This answer is linked neither to your account nor to your phone: it is added to a plain total per event, used in the report sent to the organiser (see 4).
- The “Local business” vote — if you answer it, your take on the idea (yes or no), your area (arrondissement, town or département) and up to three neighbourhoods where you go out are stored under an identifier drawn at random by your phone, used only so you can change your vote. This vote is linked neither to your account nor to your IP address. We only publish totals (number of votes, share of “yes”, top neighbourhoods), and we use it to choose where to look for shops to feature.
- Location — if you allow it, your position is used on your phone to centre the map and compute distances; we do not store it. Our analytics tool derives an approximate city from your IP address.
- Usage — usage events (screens viewed, key actions), linked to your account's technical identifier if you have one — never to your email or phone number —, to understand and improve the app.
- Survey — if you choose to answer the “Your take on FTC” survey, your answers are collected by Tally. We only attach the app version, its language, where you opened the survey from and whether you have an account (yes/no) — never your identity.
- Waiting list — the email address you leave on joinftc.app (for example “Android is coming”), used only to tell you when the app is released.
2. Why we use it
- to provide and secure the app (authentication, personalisation of the feed and the map);
- to show your content and interactions to the community according to your visibility settings;
- to count attendance at events and places, and turn it into an aggregated report for their organisers;
- to handle reports and enforce the community rules;
- to measure usage and collect your feedback in order to improve the product.
3. Processors
We rely on service providers that process data on our behalf:
- Google Firebase (Authentication, Firestore, Storage, push notifications) — hosting and application infrastructure.
- PostHog (European instance) — audience measurement and usage analytics.
- Mapbox — map display. Like any map service, Mapbox receives your device's requests (IP address, area shown).
- Tally — the survey form, only if you choose to answer it.
- Resend — sending the waiting-list emails.
These providers do not use your data for their own purposes and are bound by confidentiality obligations.
4. Sharing
We do not sell your personal data. Content you publish publicly (comments, reviews, public lists, username, your profile if public) is visible to other members. The rest is only shared with the providers listed above, or where the law requires it.
Your activity. If your profile is public and “Share my activity” is on, your “I'm going”s, the places you save, the nights you confirm you went to, your comments and your reviews are also shown to other members: to your friends, in Community and in “Buzzing”. Your likes on events and articles stay between friends. You can turn this off at any time in Settings › Privacy.
Waves. When you wave at a member going to the same event as you, they get a notification with your username and the event's name — nothing else. If it's mutual, you become friends. You can block a member from their profile: they can no longer wave at you.
Reports for organisers. An “I'm going” never notifies the organiser. FTC does the counting, then sends them an attendance report for their event or place: totals only — number of “I'm going”, of people who attended, average ratings, breakdown by arrondissement or town of origin. Never a name, a username or a way to contact anyone; a cell that would concern fewer than 5 people stays empty.
5. Retention
We keep your data for as long as your account is active. When the account is deleted, your personal data is deleted or anonymised, unless we are legally required to keep it.
Every waiting-list email carries an unsubscribe link; you can also ask us to erase your address by writing to us.
6. Your rights (GDPR)
Under the GDPR you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict and object to the processing of your data, as well as the right to data portability. You can delete your account from the app settings, or exercise your rights by writing to hive.ftc@gmail.com. You may also lodge a complaint with the CNIL, the French data protection authority.
7. Minors
The app is not intended for people below the legal age required in their country. We do not knowingly collect data about minors under that age.
8. Changes
This policy may change. The date of the last update is shown at the top of this page; significant changes will be signalled to you.
9. Contact
For any question about your data, write to us at hive.ftc@gmail.com. See also our Terms of use.