ourflow

Privacy Policy

What we keep,
and why.

Last updated 8 September 2026

OurFlow is a private memory space for a group of friends. This page says exactly what the app collects, who can see it, and how to make it go away. It is written to be read, not to be survived.

The short version

Who is responsible

OurFlow is operated by the developer of the OurFlow app. For anything in this policy, including a request to access or delete your data, write to privacy@ourflow.de.

What we collect

WhatWhyWhere it comes from
Your name and handleSo your crew can find you and see who did whatYou, when you sign up
A user identifier and email addressTo sign you in and keep your account yoursApple or Google, when you sign in
Photos and video you addThey are the appYou
Titles, notes and datesThey are the appYou
A place name and coordinateOnly when you ask a memory where it happenedYour phone, with your permission
Your birthdayOptional. It is what lets a day know whose it isYou, if you give it

We do not collect your contacts, your browsing, your advertising identifier, or your location in the background. There is no analytics SDK in the app and no third party that receives your content.

Sign in with Apple

If you use Sign in with Apple and choose to hide your email address, Apple gives us a relay address instead of your real one. That is fine — we never need your real address, and we never try to work it out.

Who can see what

Who we use to run it

The app stores your data with Google Firebase (Firebase Authentication, Cloud Firestore and Cloud Storage), acting as our processor. Firebase's own privacy information is at firebase.google.com/support/privacy. Data may be processed on Google servers outside your country; transfers out of the EEA and the UK rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

We do not use any other third-party service. Nobody buys, rents, or is given your content.

How long we keep it

Deleting your account

In the app: You → Settings → Delete my account. It removes your account, your handle, your profile, every crew where you were the only member, and every AirFlow drop that was yours.

Memories in crews that other people are also in belong to that group, and stay with them — the same way a photograph you gave a friend stays theirs. If you want those removed too, delete them, or leave the crew, before you delete your account. You can also ask us at privacy@ourflow.de, or use the web form.

Your rights

If you are in the EEA or the UK, the GDPR gives you the right to access, correct, export, restrict, object to, and delete what we hold about you. Our legal basis is the performance of our contract with you (Art. 6(1)(b)) for running the app, and your consent (Art. 6(1)(a)) for camera, photo library and location access, which you can withdraw in iOS Settings at any time. Write to privacy@ourflow.de and you will get an answer within 30 days. You may also complain to your local supervisory authority.

Children

OurFlow is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect anything from them. If you believe a child has an account, write to us and it will be removed.

Security

Everything travels over TLS. What a crew holds is readable only by accounts on that crew's roster, enforced on the server rather than in the app. On your phone, the journal is written with iOS file protection.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, the app will say so before the change takes effect. The date at the top always says when it was last touched.