Privacy Policy
Retracee: last updated 2026-08-09
Retracee is a photo-angle scavenger hunt. You find the spot a photograph was taken from, line up the same shot, and collect the badge. This page explains exactly what that involves collecting, why, and how to get rid of it.
What is collected
- Your account: a username, an email address, and either a password (stored only as a bcrypt hash, never in readable form) or a link to your Google account if you sign in that way.
- Photographs you submit: the picture itself, its title, and the coordinates of where it was taken. Submitted photographs are meant to be public: they become badges other players hunt.
- Your location when you capture a badge: checked against the badge's position to confirm you were actually there, then discarded. Your location is not stored, not tracked over time, and not recorded when the app is closed.
- Game progress: which badges you have collected, your score and level, the cosmetics you own, your votes, and any badges you report.
What is not collected
- No advertising identifiers, no third-party analytics, no tracking across other apps or sites.
- No camera frames from the live match view. The percentage is computed on your device and only that number is sent: the frames themselves never leave the phone.
- No contacts, no microphone, no background location.
Who else sees it
- Other players see your username, avatar, score, and the badges you submitted, credited to you.
- Google: submitted photographs are sent to Google's Gemini image API, which turns them into the stylised badge artwork. Google processes them to return that result.
- Resend delivers the password reset email, and therefore handles your email address.
- Nothing is sold, and nothing is shared for advertising.
Where it lives, and for how long
Data is held on a server in the European Union and kept while your account exists. Delete your account and it goes: see below.
Deleting your account
In the app: Profile → Delete my account. This immediately and permanently removes your account, email, password, collected badges, votes, reports, cosmetics and any submissions still awaiting review.
One thing is kept: badges you submitted that are already live. Other players have those in their collections, and removing them would take away progress from people who did nothing. They are unlinked from you first: after deletion nothing connects them to your account, and the "submitted by" credit disappears.
Without the app: delete your account from this website. It works even if you have uninstalled Retracee or can no longer sign in. We email you a link to confirm, and nothing is removed until you open it.
You can also email mireludev@gmail.com and ask.
Your rights
If you are in the EU or UK, the GDPR gives you the right to access, correct, export or erase your data, and to object to its processing. Email mireludev@gmail.com and it will be handled.
Children
Retracee is not intended for children under 13, and accounts are not knowingly created for them.