Privacy

What we collect

• Account: your name, email and profile picture from the service you sign in with (Spotify or Google).
• Sources you connect (read-only): from Spotify, your top and followed artists, saved podcasts and recent plays. From YouTube, your subscriptions and liked videos. From exports you upload (Spotify history, Instagram following, Google Maps saved places), only a short list of names. The files themselves never leave your device.
• What you do in Scene: the city you pick, events you save or hide, lists you make, and your Turn it up choices.
• Crew: the username and display name you choose, your friend requests and friends, anyone you block, and the events you mark Going.
• Technical: a session cookie to keep you signed in, plus your IP address and browser type with that session, for security.

How we use it

• To build your taste profile and rank events for you. A compact summary of your signals (names, not files or messages) is sent to our AI provider to write the profile. We don't use your data to train AI models, and we don't sell it.
• We never infer or store sensitive traits such as health, religion, political affiliation or sexual orientation from your data.
• To show invite and sharing stats (counts only).
• To email you about your beta access, if you asked for it, and a weekly picks email (Thursdays) that you can switch off in Settings or with one click from any email.

Google user data

Scene's use and transfer of information received from Google APIs follows the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. YouTube data is used only to understand your interests. Calendar access is requested only if you turn on sync, and is used only to add events you saved and to check when you're busy.

What's shared, and with whom

• Nothing is public by default. Your taste card or a Scene list is visible only if you turn on its link. You can turn it off or get a new link at any time.
• Crew. Anyone with your friend link, friend code or exact @username can see your display name, username, avatar and taste archetype, and send you a request. Nothing else is shown until you accept, and there is no search by name or email. Accepted friends also see the events you mark Going and how much your tastes overlap (a percentage and up to three shared interests, never sensitive ones), but never your saves, sources or taste evidence. With Getting seen you choose who sees each Going: all friends, crews you make (private groups only you can see), or just you. Blocking someone hides you from them and stops their requests.
• Service providers who run Scene for us: hosting (Vercel), database (Turso, in the EU), AI processing (Anthropic) and email (Resend). They process data only to provide their service.
• When you open a ticket link, you leave Scene. The ticket seller's own privacy policy applies there.

Cookies and storage

• A session cookie to keep you signed in.
• An invite cookie (30 days) if you arrive from someone's invite link, so they can see that a friend joined.
• Small preferences in your browser's local storage, such as your daily spin and animation view.
• No advertising or third-party tracking cookies.

Your choices

• Disconnect any source on the Sources page. We revoke access where the provider allows it and delete that source's data.
• Delete your account from Sources. This removes your profile, signals, saves, lists, friends and connected accounts. We keep only an anonymous record that a deletion happened (a one-way hash and row counts) to prove it completed.
• Ask for a copy of your data or a correction at hop@mail.scenehop.app.

Security

Access tokens from connected services are encrypted at rest and never sent to your browser. Connections use read-only permissions wherever possible.

Contact

Questions about privacy: hop@mail.scenehop.app. If this policy changes in a meaningful way, we'll tell you in the app.