Privacy Policy

When you create or manage an account, we may process account and profile data.

• name and surname;
• username;
• email address;
• password, stored in protected hashed form;
• phone number, if you choose to provide it;
• date of birth, if you choose to provide it;
• profile photo or avatar;
• language, privacy settings, onboarding status, terms acceptance, and other account preferences;
• review preferences, rating settings, diet preferences, favourite tags, and favourite locations.

If you sign in using a third-party authentication service, we process the information needed to authenticate you and create or link your Vimini account. We do not store social provider access tokens on our servers.

When you use Vimini's restaurant, review, list, collection, and social features, we may process related content and activity.

• reviews you create, including notes, ratings, scores, price information, date/time of visit, tags, dishes, and uploaded photos;
• restaurants and places you save, review, search for, or add, including place names, addresses, coordinates, phone numbers, websites, ratings, and images;
• custom lists and collections, saved places, favourites, list and collection notes, and list and collection collaborators;
• likes, comments, tags, mentions, and other interactions with reviews;
• follow relationships, friend requests, blocked users, and profile visibility choices;
• gamification activity, such as points, badges, titles, progress counters, and leaderboards.

If you use messaging, groups, surveys, or recommendation features, we may process the data needed to provide those features.

• conversations, participants, roles, read/mute state, join/leave timestamps, and related metadata;
• message content and message metadata;
• messages that reference a review, place, list, collection, or survey;
• group names, members, avatars, shared reviews, and group review participation;
• surveys you create or vote on, including survey title, options, votes, deadlines, share links/codes, and related conversation data;
• recommendation requests and replies, including city/place area, radius, deadline, moment of day, title, description, tags, comments, mentions, and attached places or reviews.

With your permission, Vimini can access phone numbers from your device contacts to help you find people you may know who already use Vimini.

We use this data only to compare your contacts with existing Vimini users. We do not store your address book or contact phone numbers on our servers after the matching request. If you want updated matches, you need to sync contacts again.

With your permission, Vimini may access your approximate or precise device location to show nearby restaurants, map views, and location-based search results. Location consent is requested through the standard iOS and Android system permission prompts.

If you choose to enable always-on or background location access, Vimini may also process location updates while the app is not actively open on screen, only for features that require ongoing location availability. Always-on or background location is not enabled by default and must be actively allowed by you in your device location settings.

We may also process city or area information related to searches, reviews, recommendations, and favourite locations.

If you select or upload photos, we process the images you choose. When you select a photo, Vimini may read date/time metadata from the photo on your device to help pre-fill fields such as the visit date.

If you send feedback, report content, or contact us through the app, we may process the submission and related account or app context.

We archive feedback and report data for analysis, support, safety, abuse prevention, and product improvement. We may contact you directly at the email address associated with the submission to discuss or resolve the feedback or report.

• the feedback or report type;
• your comment or message;
• your user ID, name, username, and email address;
• optional contact email, if provided;
• relevant app, screen, place, content, or diagnostic information connected to the submission.

We may process technical data needed to operate, secure, and improve Vimini.

Vimini also uses local storage on your device to keep you signed in, remember preferences, cache app content, support offline or faster loading, and improve the app experience.

• authentication tokens and session information;
• push notification identifiers and notification delivery state;
• device type, operating system, app version, language, and similar technical information;
• app events, feature usage, diagnostics, crash or performance information;
• server logs, such as IP address, timestamps, request metadata, and security events;
• content or links you choose to share into Vimini from another app.

Depending on your privacy settings and the feature you use, other users may see parts of your profile and content, such as your username, profile photo, reviews, comments, lists, collections, recommendations, survey activity, groups, or social interactions.

External links are a Vimini sharing feature that lets you share selected content, such as reviews, surveys, lists, or collections, with people outside the App. Some features may also make limited profile or content information visible to people who are not registered or not signed in to Vimini. For example, during onboarding, someone may be able to search for Vimini users before creating an account, and someone opening an external link may see the linked profile, review, list, collection, survey, recommendation, or related preview information. Depending on your privacy settings and the feature used, this may include your name, username, profile photo, review count, privacy status, and the specific content shared through the link.

Vimini may automatically share anonymous review content or review insights with the restaurant or venue being reviewed. This sharing does not include your name, username, profile photo, contact details, or other direct account identifiers.

We use trusted service providers that help us operate Vimini. These providers process data on our behalf and only as needed to provide their services to Vimini.

• hosting, storage, and infrastructure;
• maps, place search, and geocoding;
• authentication;
• email, support, and feedback handling;
• push notifications;
• real-time communication;
• analytics, diagnostics, performance monitoring, and product improvement.

To provide search, maps, places, geocoding, authentication, notifications, analytics, diagnostics, infrastructure, and security features, Vimini integrates with third-party platforms and APIs.

Third-party processing is limited to what is needed to provide each feature. Vimini does not use this data to sell personal data. You can disable optional permissions in device settings at any time, including changing location permission from always-on or background to while-using or denied. You can request account deletion, which removes data from active systems as described in this policy.

• place search input, place identifiers, map coordinates, city/area context, and device location if enabled;
• technical metadata such as IP address, device/app identifiers, app version, request timestamps, and basic diagnostics;
• account identifiers or tokens required to keep you signed in and secure sessions.

We may disclose information if required by law, legal process, or a valid government request, or where necessary to protect the rights, safety, and security of Vimini, our users, or others.

If Vimini is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets, personal data may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

If you are in the EEA or UK, you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

If you are a resident of a US state with privacy laws that apply to Vimini, you may have rights that can include the rights listed below.

Vimini does not sell personal data. Vimini does not share personal data for cross-context behavioral advertising as those terms are defined under certain US state laws.

To submit a US privacy request, contact help.vimini@gmail.com. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.

• right to know or access categories and specific personal data we process;
• right to request deletion of personal data, subject to legal exceptions;
• right to correct inaccurate personal data;
• right to data portability;
• right to opt out of certain processing where required by law.