Privacy policy
Effective October 25, 2026
This policy describes how RuThere handles information through RuThere.net and the current RuThere mobile app. For privacy questions, contact bryan@tbglabsllc.com.
Information we process
- Account information: your email address, name, profile image where provided, sign-in credentials in protected form, and account settings.
- Location: current and historical positions, timestamps, accuracy, and related information used for location sharing, history, and arrival or departure alerts. Depending on device permissions, location can be precise or approximate.
- Connections and communications: friend requests, accepted connections, messages, and location-alert rules and activity.
- Technical information: device and app information, notification tokens, authentication/session information, IP addresses, service logs, usage analytics, and crash diagnostics where those services are enabled.
- Requests you send us: information supplied when asking for help, account deletion, or data deletion.
- Safety and moderation: blocked or hidden users, hidden-message settings, user/content reports, copies of reported messages, and administrator review records. We use these to enforce your choices, investigate abuse, and protect the service. Authorized administrators can review reports. Some moderation records may be retained for legitimate safety, fraud-prevention, or legal purposes.
How we use information
We use information to authenticate you, display your people and shared locations, deliver messages and alerts, maintain location history, respond to requests, protect accounts, diagnose problems, and operate and improve RuThere.
Location sharing and your choices
Location sharing follows accepted connections. A connection may be directional: accepting someone's request can let that person view your location without automatically giving you access to theirs. Review your connections before sharing.
The Android app can collect and upload location while closed or not in use when you permit background location. You can decline location access, revoke it in device settings, or stop sharing in the app. Revoking permission stops future collection through that permission; it does not erase locations already stored. The website requests browser permission before sharing a location.
Notification permissions and device settings control alerts. Signing out or uninstalling the app does not delete your account or previously stored data.
Who can receive information
Your chosen connections can see information made available through sharing and messaging. Service providers process information needed to operate the service, including hosting, email delivery, Google Maps, and Google Firebase services used for notifications, authentication, app integrity, analytics, or crash reporting. We may disclose information when required by law or when necessary to protect people, accounts, or the service.
Cookies, advertising, and third-party services
RuThere.net uses cookies for sign-in and security. Other website pages may load Google advertising, which can process cookies, device identifiers, IP addresses, and interactions according to Google's policies and your applicable choices. Maps and mobile SDKs also process information under their providers' policies. These privacy, terms, and deletion pages do not load the website's advertising script.
Read Google's Privacy Policy and how Google uses information from services that use its technology. Third-party processing is subject to those providers' policies.
Retention and deletion
Account and service data may remain stored while needed to provide the service. You can request deletion of your account and associated RuThere data, or request deletion of particular data while keeping your account. We verify ownership before acting and explain any information that must be retained for security, fraud prevention, legal obligations, or resolving disputes.
Deletion from active systems may not immediately remove copies in backups or technical logs. Any applicable retention exceptions and expected completion timing will be explained when your request is reviewed. Copies already received or independently saved by another person may remain outside our control.
Security and shared accounts
We use authentication, access controls, and other safeguards to protect information. No system can guarantee absolute security. RuThere uses existing Gibsonetwork sign-in infrastructure, so a request to remove a shared login may affect access to connected services. We clarify that scope before completing account deletion.
Children and other people's information
Only share information you are authorized to share. A parent or guardian with a concern about a child's information should contact us so we can review the request and verify authority. Do not use RuThere to secretly monitor someone or collect information without appropriate permission.
Questions and changes
Contact bryan@tbglabsllc.com about access, correction, deletion, or other privacy requests. We may update this policy as the service changes and will update the effective date shown above.