Privacy

Last changed 11 October 2026

Hobby Hub helps you find people, teachers and shops for your hobby in Cairo. This page says what we keep about you, why, and how to get rid of it. It is short because we keep very little.

What we keep

  • Your email address. It is how you sign in, and the only thing we need in order to know who you are.
  • Your first and last name, if you give them — asked for the first time you write a review. Only your first name and last initial are ever shown, as in “Mostafa H.”
  • The places you save. Only you can see them.
  • The events you mark “I’m going”. Only you can see your choice, and you can take it back at any time; everyone else sees just how many are going, and only once three or more are. It is deleted with the event, the night after it ends, or with your account.
  • The music genres you tap in Settings. Only you can see them; we use them to suggest events and places to you.
  • The reviews you write. They are public, under that short form of your name.
  • A listing or events you add — the business details you type, and any picture you upload for your place or an event, with the moment you confirmed you had the right to use it. These are public once approved; that is what they are for. An event is deleted automatically, with its picture, the night after it ends.
  • Which language and look you chose, kept on your phone so the app opens the way you left it.
  • If you sign in with Google, Google also tells us the address of your profile picture. It is not shown anywhere in Hobby Hub today.
  • If you tap Google Calendar on an event, your browser opens Google with the event's details; Google's own privacy policy applies there.
  • Which version of these terms you last signed in under, and when — kept as our record that you agreed to them. If you upload a picture for an event, we also keep the moment you confirmed you had the right to use it.

What we never keep

  • No password. There is no password to steal because we never ask for one — your email inbox is the key instead.
  • No payment details. Hobby Hub does not take payments.
  • No phone number for your account. The only phone numbers we hold are the ones a business chooses to put on its own listing, or an organiser gives as the booking number for an event, and those are published on purpose.

Where you are

  • When you open Explore or a place's page, the app asks your browser where you are so it can sort places by how near they are to you.
  • That position is sent to our database to work out the distances, and is not saved. Close the page and it is gone.
  • Saying no is a perfectly ordinary answer. Nothing breaks — you pick a district from the list instead.

Who else is involved

  • Hobby Hub is a small app built on other people's services, and it would be dishonest not to name them.
  • Supabase holds the database and handles signing in. Its servers for Hobby Hub are in Frankfurt, Germany.
  • Vercel serves the website itself, and counts page views for us so we can see which screens people use. That count is made without cookies and without any identifier that follows you between visits; Vercel calls it Web Analytics and describes it in its own privacy policy.
  • We also measure visits ourselves, anonymously: when a visit started, how long it lasted, how many pages it opened and which language. Nothing else — no account, no IP address, no device, no cookie — so a visit cannot be tied to you or to another visit. The only thing your browser keeps is a random visit number, for as long as the tab is open.
  • Resend delivers the sign-in emails.
  • Cloudflare checks that it is a person, not a program, asking for a sign-in email. On the sign-in page your browser loads a small script from Cloudflare, which looks at signals such as your IP address and how your browser behaves and normally decides without asking you to do anything. We added this after a program spent two days feeding strangers' email addresses into the form. Cloudflare calls it Turnstile and describes it in its own privacy policy.
  • Zoho holds the support@hobbyhub.app mailbox, so anything you write to us sits on Zoho's servers until we delete it.
  • Google, but only if you choose to sign in with Google.
  • Google draws the maps and supplies the photographs of places. Your browser fetches both from Google directly, so Google can see your IP address whenever a map or a photo is on your screen. What Google does with that is governed by Google's own privacy policy, not ours.
  • Some places have a picture given to us by the business — uploaded by its owner from their listing, with a declaration that they may use it and that anyone recognisable in it agreed to appear — and kept on our own servers rather than fetched from Google. We look at each picture before it shows. A business can have its picture removed by writing to support@hobbyhub.app.
  • We do not sell anything about you to anybody, and there is no advertising.

Getting rid of it

  • Tap Delete my account in Settings. It removes your account, your saved places, anything you have written, and any listing or events you added — at once, and for good.
  • Or write to support@hobbyhub.app and ask; we do the same by hand, and you hear nothing from us again.
  • You do not have to give a reason, and we will not ask for one.

Asking us anything

  • support@hobbyhub.app reaches a person. Use it for a question about this page, to correct something we hold about you, or to complain.
  • If your business, or your name as a teacher, is listed here and you would rather it were not, write to the same address and we remove it.

Children

  • Hobby Hub is not meant for children under 13, and we do not knowingly keep anything about them.

If this page changes

  • The date at the top changes with it. If a change matters to you — if we start keeping something new — we will say so in the app rather than quietly editing this page.
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