🍪 The Cookie Index — Privacy Policy
Last updated: October 22, 2026
The Cookie Index is a community app for rating chocolate chip cookies. This page explains what we collect and why. Short version: only what the app needs to work, and we don't sell any of it.
What we collect
- Account: your email address and a sign-in identifier from Google or Apple, used only to create and secure your account.
- Profile: the username, home city, and emoji you choose. Usernames are visible to other users.
- Ratings: the scores, tags, comments, and photos you submit. Ratings are shown to all users anonymously; your username is attached only for people whose follow request you have accepted.
- Location: when you allow it, your approximate location is used once per session to center the map. It is not stored.
- Feedback & reports: messages you send through the feedback button or when reporting content, reviewed by the founder.
What we don't do
- No advertising, no data sales, no tracking across other apps or sites, no analytics SDKs.
Where it lives
Data is stored with Supabase (hosted Postgres and file storage) in the United States, protected by row-level access rules. Venue search uses the Google Places API; your search text is sent to Google to return results.
Your controls
- Delete any rating you made from your Profile. Deleted ratings are kept privately for 30 days so we can restore one deleted by mistake (email us), then permanently erased.
- Block or report any user's content from the ⋯ menu on a rating.
- Delete your account at any time from Profile → "Delete my account". This permanently removes your profile, ratings, follows, and reactions.
Children
The Cookie Index is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their data.
Contact
Questions or requests: benjaminrhyne@gmail.com