Last updated: 1 October 2026
Vouch is built by Thunder River Tech. This policy explains what the Vouch app collects, why, and what you can do about it.
Account information. Depending on how you sign in, we store your email address, phone number, display name and basic profile details supplied by Google, Apple or Facebook. If you use Apple's private relay, we only ever see the relay address. Authentication is handled by Firebase Authentication. Phone numbers used for text-message sign-in are sent to and stored by Google for spam and abuse prevention. If you add a passkey, we store its public key and an identifier for it. Vouch never receives your private key or any fingerprint or face data; your device and passkey provider keep those.
What you contribute. Your votes, your comments, the restaurants you save, and any reports or blocks you submit. Votes and comments are tied to your account so that each person counts once and so that you can delete what you wrote.
Subscription status. If you subscribe, Apple or Google Play processes the payment. We never see your card details. We receive your subscription status through RevenueCat so the app knows what to unlock.
Diagnostics and usage. Crash reports through Firebase Crashlytics and aggregate usage events through Firebase Analytics. These tell us which screens break and which get used. Firebase Analytics also estimates an approximate location from your IP address for those aggregate reports. They are not sold and are not used to build advertising profiles.
Device integrity. We use Firebase App Check to help confirm that requests come from a genuine copy of the app rather than a script.
Email lists. If you join a city opening list, we store your email address and the city you enter so we can tell you when Vouch opens there. Weekly board emails are a separate, optional choice. The weekly box starts unchecked, and we send a confirmation link to the address before weekly messages begin. Every weekly email includes an unsubscribe link. Unsubscribing from weekly updates does not remove your city opening request.
We do not collect your precise location. Near me uses your device location on your phone to sort your vouched and saved places by distance, and that location never leaves your device. We do not collect your contacts, photos, or microphone. We do not sell your data. We do not run ads and we do not accept payment to change any restaurant's ranking.
Vouch ranks restaurants by user votes. Every vote counts the same, regardless of whether you subscribe. That is enforced in our security rules, not just in policy.
Google, as the operator of Firebase, processes account, database, crash and analytics data on our behalf. RevenueCat processes subscription status. Apple and Google Play process payments. We do not share your data with anyone else except where the law requires it.
Your display name appears next to your comments and is visible to other users. Your individual votes are not shown to other users; only the totals are.
You can delete your account from the profile screen inside the app. Deleting removes your account, your votes, and your saved restaurants. Comments you posted are anonymized rather than removed, so that conversations other people took part in do not break.
Vouch is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect information from them.
If this policy changes we will update the date at the top of this page.
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