Guide by Vana — Privacy Policy

The Guide includes optional social features. If you add friends or make yourself discoverable by username in Settings, other members can see your profile — your handle and the places, collections and notes you choose to share. Finding friends by phone number. Optionally, you can make yourself findable by phone number and find members you already know. This is off by default. If you turn on “Findable by phone number” (Settings), members who have your number can find your profile. If you use “Find friends from your contacts”, the numbers in your device’s address book are hashed on your device — a one-way transformation, so your actual numbers never leave your phone — and only those hashes are checked, in memory, against members who have chosen to be findable. Matches are shown so you can send a friend request; everything else is discarded at once. We don’t store your contacts, we store nothing about people who aren’t members, and we never message anyone on your behalf. You can also look up a single number, and turn all of this off in Settings. Lawful basis: your consent, and our legitimate interest in helping members connect — with non-members’ numbers processed only transiently and never stored. You control what you share and can keep saves private. If you opt in, we send a daily digest of places your friends have saved. You can report any profile or piece of user content, and block any member, from within the app; reports reach our safety team directly. Lawful basis: performance of a contract and our legitimate interest in operating features you choose to use. See our Child Safety Standards for how we handle abuse and exploitation.