Privacy policy
The short version
- We collect what Jeeran needs to suggest places, plans and families: your first name, area, children’s age bands and what you like to do.
- Children are age bands only. We never ask for their names, birth dates, photos or schools.
- Other families see your first names, area, age bands, interests and why you were suggested. Never your email, exact location, red lines or anything sensitive.
- We don’t sell data, show ads or track you across other apps.
- Data is stored in the EU (Frankfurt). You can ask for a copy, a correction or deletion at any time.
Who we are
Jeeran (“Jeeran Family Friends”) is a free app for expat families in Dubai. It is a personal, non-commercial side project run by its founder, Milad Aslaner, not a company. He decides how your data is used and is the person to contact: [email protected].
What we collect and why
When you join the waitlist on this website
Your email address, and if you choose to give them, your first name, your area and your children’s age bands. We record that you agreed to be contacted, which version of this policy you saw, and when. We use your email only to invite you to the TestFlight beta and to send occasional updates about Jeeran, and nothing else. Updates stop when your request is deleted (see “How long we keep it”).
When you use the app
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Sign in with Apple: your email (or Apple’s private relay address) and an Apple user ID | To sign you in. We never see your Apple password. |
| How your age was checked (Apple’s age range or your own confirmation that you are 18 or over), and when | Jeeran is for adults only. We don’t store your age or birth date. |
| Which terms you accepted, and when | To show which rules applied. |
| The invite code you used | Jeeran is invite-only. If the code came from a partner such as a nursery, your household shows “verified via a nursery”. The partner is never named to other families. |
| Adults’ first names, languages, and optionally where you are from | Shown on your household card and used to suggest families. |
| Work pattern (weekdays, shifts or flexible) | To suggest families with free time that matches yours. Never shown to others. |
| Your neighbourhood. We place you at its centre, not at your home | To work out distances. Others see only the neighbourhood name. |
| Children’s age bands (for example “1–2”) | To suggest places, events and families that fit. |
| Pets, interests, free times and who may contact you | To suggest families and plans that fit. |
| Red lines (things your family wants to avoid) | To leave out families and places that cross them, in both directions. Never shown to anyone or mentioned in a reason. |
| Weekly suggestions, “Suggest meeting at…”, who you met, “Not for us”, blocks and reports | To run suggestions and connections, and to keep people safe. |
| Places and interests you suggest | To improve the catalogue. We delete your text and the link to your household 30 days after we decide on it. |
Sensitive information, only if you choose
Some answers can reveal health or religious beliefs, such as dietary needs or certain red lines. We ask for your explicit consent before storing them. They are stored encrypted, used only to filter suggestions, and never shown to another family, put in a reason, a notification, an email or analytics. You can withdraw consent in the app or by email; we then delete them at once.
When you visit this website
The site has no cookies, no analytics and no advertising. It is hosted by Cloudflare, which handles your IP address to deliver the pages and protect them from attacks. When you send the invite form, our database counts requests per IP address for up to an hour, and per email address (stored only as a one-way hash) for up to a day, to stop spam.
Not active yet
Messaging, product analytics and crash reports are not part of the app today. Before any of them is switched on we will update this policy. As planned: messages will be encrypted in transit and on our servers but not end-to-end, so that a moderator can review a message someone reports. Analytics will use a random ID that is not linked to your account, carry no names, messages or locations, and have an off switch in Settings.
What other families see
Only the families Jeeran suggests to you, families you have met, and members of your circles can see your household, and only: adults’ first names, your neighbourhood, children’s age bands, interests, the reason you were suggested and trust badges. They never see your email, your exact location, your work pattern, your red lines or any sensitive answer. There is no search or browsing of households.
Our legal basis
- To provide the app you asked for (contract): your account, household profile and suggestions.
- Your consent: invite requests from this website, and sensitive information. You can withdraw it at any time.
- Our legitimate interests: preventing spam and abuse, keeping families safe, and fixing problems.
- The law: when we must keep or report something, for example to protect a child.
Who processes data for us
- Supabase hosts the database, in Frankfurt, Germany (EU).
- Cloudflare hosts this website and stores our encrypted backups.
- Apple provides Sign in with Apple, TestFlight and, later, notifications.
We don’t send member data to AI models. We don’t sell or share your data with anyone else, unless the law requires it.
How long we keep it
| Data | Kept until |
|---|---|
| Waitlist sign-ups | 30 days after we decline, 90 days after we send an invite, or 180 days if we never answer |
| Your account and household | You delete them. A household is deleted with its last adult |
| Sensitive information | You withdraw consent or delete the household |
| Place and interest suggestions | 30 days after our decision (only the outcome is kept) |
| Rate-limit counters | About an hour after their time window ends |
| Records of admin actions | Two years |
| Encrypted backups | Up to 12 months. Data you delete can remain in a backup until it expires |
Your rights
Under the EU GDPR and the UAE’s data protection law, you can ask us to give you a copy of your data, correct it, delete it, stop using it, or withdraw your consent. Email [email protected] from the address on your account. We answer within one month. In-app export and deletion are coming; until then, email works for everything.
If you are unhappy with how we handle your data, please tell us first. You can also complain to a data protection authority, such as the one where you live in the EU, or the UAE Data Office.
Children
Accounts are for adults (18 and over). Children are described only by age band. Jeeran has no field for a child’s name, birth date, photo, school or location.
Security
Data is encrypted in transit. Sensitive answers are encrypted again in the database. Admin access needs two-step sign-in and every admin action is recorded. Backups are encrypted before they leave the database. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach affects you, we will tell you.
Changes
When this policy changes, the version and date at the top change. If the change matters, the app asks you to read it again.