LEGAL
Privacy Policy
Last updated 22 September 2026
This policy explains what information Pazt handles, where it is kept, and how to remove it.
What Pazt stores
When you use Pazt, the app stores the information you give it: your childhood country and city, your birth year, the places you lived, the memories you create (including photos you choose), your answers to memories, and the stamps and activity that result.
If you choose to add a memory to Pazt (a contribution) or report a memory, Pazt also stores what you send — see "Memories you add to Pazt" and "Reports" below.
Where it is stored
Without an account, all of that information is stored on your device only.
Accounts are optional. If you sign in with Apple, Google or email, Pazt stores your account (your email address and the sign-in method) and your profile (Home World, city or region, and birth year) on its servers, hosted by Supabase, so you can continue on another device. A random identifier for the archive on your device is kept with your profile to connect the two. Your profile can only be read by your signed-in account.
When you're signed in, Pazt also stores your archive history with your account: the places and years you lived (Places That Made Me), your answers to archive memories, the stamps you've unlocked, and your activity history (for example, which memories you recovered, and the titles of memories you created, as they appeared at the time). Each item is linked to your account and can only be read by your signed-in account.
When you're signed in, the memories you create (including drafts) and the photos you add to them are also stored with your account. Photos are kept in private storage: only your signed-in account can read them, through links that expire. These memories are private to you — marking one "published" does not share it. Settings stored on your device are not uploaded.
Memories you add to Pazt
Adding a memory to Pazt ("Add a memory", or "Add a note or photo" on an existing memory) is different from keeping a private memory: it is sent to Pazt to be considered for the shared archive. It needs an account.
What is stored: the words you write, the place, era and kind of memory you choose, the photo if you add one, the name you choose to be credited as (or none), your account, and when you sent it.
Review: people on the Pazt team read every contribution before anything is shown to anyone. They may publish it as a new memory (possibly edited — for example a clearer title), add it to a memory that is already in Pazt, keep it as a note or photo on an existing memory, or not use it. Decisions are made by people, not automatically. The team can also stop an account from sending contributions if it breaks the Terms or Community Guidelines.
What becomes public: only contributions that are approved as a new memory. Their text, their photo (if it was approved) and your credit name — if you chose one — are shown to everyone who uses Pazt, including people without an account. Your email address and account are never shown. Your photo stays in private storage while it is reviewed; if it's approved, a copy is published with the memory.
You can follow what happened to each contribution in My Contributions. A draft you haven't sent stays on your device only.
How long: contributions you send stay with your account while it exists — including ones still waiting for review and ones that weren't used. Contributions that are accepted become part of the shared archive and are kept for as long as Pazt runs it, so it stays accurate and duplicates can be recognised. Pazt can take a published memory down at any time. There is no timed deletion schedule. To have a contribution or a published memory removed, email the address below.
Reports
If you report a memory, Pazt stores which memory, the kind of problem, the note you write (if any), the app version and device platform, when you sent it, and your account if you're signed in. Reports can only be read by the Pazt team.
Network use
Some archive photos, and memories added by the community, are loaded from the internet when you use Pazt. Those requests fetch content; they don't include your archive, profile or answers.
When you're signed in, the app talks to Pazt's servers to keep your session active and to back up your profile, places, answers, stamps and activity.
Sharing
Information leaves Pazt only when you choose to share it, for example by sharing a result or a feedback note through your phone's share sheet. Where it goes from there depends on the app you pick.
Contributions you send are shared with the Pazt team for review, and approved ones are shown in Pazt as described above.
Your control
- Edit your profile and places at any time in Settings. When you're signed in, these edits are saved to your account.
- Sign out at any time. Signing out doesn't remove the archive on your device, or what's stored with your account.
- Delete individual memories you created. When you're signed in, this also removes the memory and its photo from your account.
- Delete your whole local archive from Settings → Data & Storage. This removes it from your device only; what's stored with your account is kept and restored when you're signed in.
- Deleting the app also removes the archive stored on this device.
- Delete your account from Settings → Privacy & Data → Delete account. This permanently deletes your Pazt account, your profile, your places, answers, stamps and activity, and the memories and photos you created. It can't be undone.
- Deleting your account also deletes your contributions that are still waiting for review or weren't used, and every photo you sent with a contribution from private storage. Contributions Pazt accepted stay in the archive without your name or account: a memory published from yours stays public — with its approved photo, if one was published — and is credited to "the PAZT community". Email us if you want an accepted contribution removed as well.
Contact
Questions about your data, or want a copy or a deletion confirmed? Email support@pazt.app.
Changes
As more of your archive becomes available to sync, this policy will be updated to describe it before it happens.