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Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 16, 2026

Zawmo is a place to share moments with the people who were there. This page explains plainly what we keep about you, why, who sees it, and how you control it.

What we keep

  • The name you give yourself.
  • If you sign in with Google: your Google account ID, your email, and your Google name and photo. Your email is never shown to other users.
  • What you add: photos and videos and when they were taken, moment titles, comments, likes, inbox messages, and who you follow.
  • What is recorded as you use it: who viewed your shots (only you see the count), reports, and who you blocked.
  • To protect the site from floods: a temporary count of some actions (like uploads and comments), deleted within a day. For visitors who aren't signed in, the network address is kept only as a one-way hash, never the address itself.
  • Where you first came to Zawmo from: a general name only, like an ad campaign's name, "TikTok" or "Google", so we know which ads help. We never keep the full link, and no other user sees it.
  • Your rough country and city, as your internet connection suggests when you join (no GPS, no permission, and it can be wrong), to shape Zawmo and content for your country. No other user sees it.

What we don't collect

  • We don't track your exact location or movements, and we don't ask for your contacts or phone number. We ask for location only when you tap “📍 Where I am”, and even then your phone turns it into a town name; the coordinates never reach us.
  • No ads, no tracking tools, and we never sell your data.

Your photos and videos

  • Photos are re-processed on your device before upload, which removes all hidden data, including the coordinates of where they were taken.
  • Videos are stored as uploaded and may contain data from your device. We don't read or display it.
  • Files are stored privately, not published on the web. They are shown only to people allowed to see them, through temporary links that expire within 30 minutes.

Where a shot was taken 📍

  • If your photo carries where it was taken, your phone turns that into the name of the city, village or neighbourhood (e.g. “Bethlehem”), and only that name is sent to us. The coordinates themselves never leave your phone and are never stored.
  • The place name shows on your shots in public moments and on that place's page (e.g. zawmo.com/p/بيت-لحم). “✓ Verified” means the place came from the photo itself.
  • You can remove the place from any of your shots at any time: “✨ Edit” → “Remove place”.
  • Shots in Friends and link-only moments never appear on place pages.
  • We never show how many people are in a place with fewer than 20, and we never sell or share place data. If we ever show ads for a place, advertisers see totals only, never names.
  • When you upload, your internet connection tells us an approximate town (often just the nearest big city). We keep only that town's name with the shot, to suggest “Shoot together”. It is never shown to anyone, and your network address is not kept.

Who sees what

  • You choose for each moment: "Friends" (people you've shared moments with), "Only people with the link", or "Everyone".
  • "Everyone" moments appear in Discover for every Zawmo user signed in with Google, with all their angles. Anyone can add to them, a guest with just a name too, and only photos that passed the automatic check are shown. Because they are for everyone, their pages, photos and videos may appear in search engines such as Google. “Friends” and “Only people with the link” shots never appear in search engines.
  • Link-only moments never appear on your profile to anyone who isn't in them.
  • Until someone adds an angle to a moment, they see only its first angle.
  • Your likes and your shots' view counts are visible only to you.
  • People you block can't see your comments or profile, and can't message you.

How we use your data

  • Only to run Zawmo: showing your moments to the people you chose, making montages, and delivering what you share to your friends.
  • To keep people safe: reviewing reports and hiding content that breaks the rules.
  • Every photo and video is checked automatically when uploaded; anything that breaks the rules (such as sexual content or graphic violence) is hidden and reviewed by our team.
  • The same check names the shot's scene in one word (sunset, rain, wedding…) and reads names visible in it, such as a shop sign or a well-known place. If someone else shot the same scene near you at the same time in a public moment, we suggest adding your shot to it (“Shoot together”). To tell whether it's the same moment, the same automatic check compares your picture with recent public shots. Only you see the suggestion, and you decide. From your page you can stop others joining your moments.

Services we rely on

  • Vercel: hosting, and storage for photos and videos.
  • Neon: the database.
  • Cloudflare Stream: preparing videos and playing them at a quality that suits each device's connection. Videos are private there too, shown only through temporary links to people allowed to see them.
  • Google: sign-in, if you choose it.
  • Google Gemini: the automatic check of photos and videos. The image (or a few frames of a video) is sent only to be checked, and Google does not use it to train its models.
  • Sentry (servers in Germany): alerts us to errors so we can fix them. It receives the error, the page and the browser type only: no names, network addresses or cookies.
  • Google Analytics: general visit statistics (number of visitors, most viewed pages, country and device type) so we know what helps people and improve it. No names or content of yours, with advertising features turned off.
  • The list of places comes from open data: Wikidata, GeoNames, and © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  • These services store data on our behalf and may not use it for their own purposes.

Cookies

  • Essential cookies: one keeps you signed in, one remembers your language.
  • Google Analytics cookies, for visit statistics only (see above). No advertising cookies.

How long we keep things

  • Your shots are kept, so your memories stay, until you delete them or your account.
  • You can delete your shots and comments at any time, and the file is deleted with them.
  • You can delete your account yourself at any time (your page → “Delete my account”, or zawmo.com/account/delete); it goes right away, with your shots and files.

Your rights

  • Change your name from your profile.
  • Delete what you posted.
  • Delete your account yourself, or ask for a copy of your data by emailing us.

Children

  • Zawmo is not intended for anyone under 13.

Changes

  • If we change this policy we'll update this page and its date, and let you know in the app if the change matters.

Questions or requests: info@zawmo.com

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