Privacy Policy
Last updated 16 August 2026 · Applies to the Yallameet iOS app and yallameet.app
Yallameet is a small app for meeting up with people near you in the next few hours. This policy says exactly what it holds about you, what it deliberately doesn't, and how to erase all of it from inside the app.
The short version. We collect what the app needs to work: your sign-in, a profile, the hangouts you post or join, and the messages you send. Your device location never leaves your phone. There is no analytics SDK, no advertising, no tracking, and nothing is sold or shared with anyone for marketing.
Who we are
Yallameet is operated by Amer Sarhan, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. For anything in this policy, write to amer.sarhan@gmail.com — a person reads it.
What we collect
| Account | Your phone number if you sign in with a phone number, or the identifier Apple gives us if you use Sign in with Apple. If you use Apple's Hide My Email, we only ever see the relay address, never your real one. |
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| Profile | Your display name, a short bio if you write one, the emoji you pick, and a profile photo if you add one. |
| Hangouts | The plans you post — title, description, category, the venue name and its coordinates, the time, how many people it's for and any rough cost you state. Plus which hangouts you join, request to join, or waitlist for, and who the host marked as having turned up. |
| Messages | Group chat messages in hangouts you're part of, and direct messages between you and one other person. These are stored so they can be delivered and re-read. They are not encrypted end-to-end — see below. |
| Device | A push notification token so we can send you notifications, and your timezone identifier so the app's quiet hours land at the right time of night for you. |
| Safety | Reports you file (what you reported, why, and that it was you), and the list of people you've blocked. |
What we never collect
- Your location. The app asks for location permission and uses it entirely on your device, to work out how far away each hangout is and to sort the list. Your coordinates are never uploaded to our servers and no other user can see where you are. What does get stored is the venue a host picks for their own hangout — that is a public place chosen deliberately, and everyone going needs it.
- Analytics or tracking. There is no analytics SDK in the app, no advertising identifier, no third-party ad network and no cross-app or cross-site tracking. We do not build a profile of you for advertising, and we do not sell or rent your data to anyone.
- Your contacts, photos library, calendar, microphone or health data. The app never asks for them. If you set a profile photo, only the single image you choose is uploaded.
Why we hold it
- To let you sign in and stay signed in.
- To show hangouts near you, and to show hosts who is coming.
- To deliver group and direct messages to the people they're addressed to.
- To send notifications about plans you host or joined — nothing else generates a push.
- To act on reports and keep people who break the rules off the app.
Who can see what
- Other people see your display name, emoji, bio, profile photo, the hangouts you host or have joined, your turn-up rate, and anything you write in a chat you're part of.
- Group chats are closed. Only the host and the people actually let in can read a hangout's thread. This is enforced on our servers, not just in the app — someone who isn't in the plan cannot read it by any means.
- Your phone number and email are never shown to other users.
- Reports are private. The person you report is never told who reported them.
Who processes it for us
We run on Google Firebase and use Apple's platform services. These are the only third parties that touch your data, and they act as processors on our instructions:
- Google Firebase — Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Realtime Database, Cloud Storage, Cloud Messaging and Cloud Functions. Data is stored on Google Cloud infrastructure in the United States (us-central1). See Firebase's privacy terms.
- Apple — Sign in with Apple, the Apple Push Notification service for delivering notifications, and MapKit for showing the map and estimating drive time. Map and directions requests go to Apple under Apple's privacy policy; Apple states these are not tied to your identity.
Because our servers are in the United States, using Yallameet involves transferring your data there.
Encryption
Everything travels over TLS and is encrypted at rest by Google. Messages are not end-to-end encrypted — we could technically read them, and we will if a report requires it. We say this plainly rather than implying a privacy guarantee the app doesn't provide.
How long we keep it
- A hangout you delete is removed along with its group chat.
- A hangout you mark as done comes out of the feed but keeps its chat and its list of who turned up, because that record belongs to everyone who was there.
- Direct messages stay until one of the two people deletes their account.
- Reports are kept while they're being acted on and for as long as we need them to enforce a ban.
- Everything else lasts as long as your account does.
Deleting your account
Open the app, go to Settings → Delete account, and confirm. It happens immediately and it cannot be undone. No email, no waiting on us.
Deleting erases: your profile and photo, every hangout you host (and its group chat), your membership of everyone else's hangouts, your direct message conversations, your notification history, your presence record and your sign-in credential.
One thing is anonymised rather than erased: messages you posted in a group chat stay in place with your name and photo stripped and replaced with "Deleted account". Removing them outright would tear holes in conversations belonging to people who didn't leave.
Your rights
You can see and change your profile in the app at any time, and delete everything as described above. If you want a copy of what we hold on you, or you want us to correct something, email amer.sarhan@gmail.com and we'll answer within 30 days. Depending on where you live you may also have the right to object to processing, restrict it, or complain to your data protection authority.
Age
Yallameet is for people aged 17 and over. It is not directed at children and we don't knowingly hold data about anyone under 17. If you believe a child has an account, email us and we'll remove it.
Changes
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we'll update the date at the top and say so in the app before the change takes effect.