Spotlo

Privacy Policy

Effective June 8, 2026 · Last updated June 8, 2026

Spotlo is a place-journal app. You save places you have visited, rate them, and you can share them with people of your choosing. This document explains what data we process, why, and what your rights are.

1.Data controller

The app is published by Jean-Christophe Vermeersch, 14 cours Balguerie Stuttenberg, 33300 Bordeaux, France.

For any question about your data, write to jc.vermeersch@gmail.com.

2.Data we process

CategoryDetail
AccountEmail address and password. The password is managed and encrypted by our authentication provider. We never see it in clear text.
ProfileDisplay name and profile picture, if you provide them.
ContentYour visits: place, date, rating, comment, names of companions you enter freely, photos. Your albums.
SharingShare links you generate, and the list of accounts that have claimed a share.
LocationYour location is used occasionally, in the foreground, to suggest nearby places and center the map. The coordinates we store are those of places, not a record of your movements.
Technical dataOur host logs technical data (IP address, timestamp) for operation and security purposes.

Photos are re-compressed before upload. This removes most embedded metadata, including any GPS location.

3.Purposes and legal bases

4.What we do not do

No advertising. No selling of your data. No tracking of your activity across apps. No advertising tracker is embedded in the app.

5.Recipients and processors

6.Transfers outside the EU

Storage of your data and place search stay within the European Union. Apple may process some technical data outside the EU, under appropriate contractual safeguards.

7.Retention

Your data is kept for as long as your account exists. When you delete your account from within the app, your account, visits, albums, shares and photos are erased. The host's technical backups are purged according to its own schedule.

8.Your rights

Under the GDPR, you have the rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, objection and portability, as well as the right to withdraw your consent.

You can exercise some of these rights directly in the app: edit your profile, and delete your account. For other requests, write to jc.vermeersch@gmail.com.

You may also lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority, the CNIL: www.cnil.fr.

9.Security

Exchanges with our servers are encrypted in transit. Access to data is restricted by authorization rules at the database level. No system is infallible, but we apply reasonable measures to protect your data.

10.Minors

The app is not intended for people under 15. If you believe a minor has provided us with data without authorization, contact us so we can delete it.

11.Changes

This policy may change. In case of a significant change, we will update the date at the top of the page and, if necessary, notify you within the app.

12.Contact

For any question about this policy or your data: jc.vermeersch@gmail.com.