Privacy

Last updated: October 1, 2026.

Information categories, purposes and recipients

Nearuvo processes only the categories needed for the features you choose: precise location when you affirmatively request current-location results; city/ZIP search terms when you search an area; local saved identifiers and preferences; pseudonymous product-usage events; and information you voluntarily submit through Local Board, business, deal, social-link or privacy-request forms. These data are used to provide discovery and planning features, remember choices on your device, measure product reliability, review submissions, respond to requests, prevent abuse and operate the service.

Depending on the feature you use, data may be processed by Nearuvo and its service providers or data providers, including Netlify for hosting/forms/storage, Google Maps Platform for supported place/location/routing features, YouTube for optional video discovery after you enable it, OpenStreetMap infrastructure for map tiles, and public-agency/open-data services used for weather or approved event data. Nearuvo does not sell personal information or precise geolocation data and does not currently use personal information for targeted advertising.

Hosting, security and network providers may process ordinary technical request information such as IP address, timestamps and browser/network metadata in their service logs even though Nearuvo does not intentionally copy that information into its first-party product-analytics records.

Location and precise-location consent

Nearuvo does not request precise browser location automatically. If you choose “Use my current location,” that affirmative action is your consent for Nearuvo to process the location for the specific purpose of providing nearby discovery, distance and planning features. You can instead search by city or ZIP code or browse without precise location. Nearuvo does not sell precise geolocation data or use it for targeted advertising.

If you tap “Use my current location,” your browser may share latitude and longitude with Nearuvo. Those coordinates are sent to Nearuvo’s server functions when needed to request nearby place results from supported third-party providers. Your last location choice, optional travel-distance preference, and a short list of recent searched areas may be stored in your browser’s local storage for up to 30 days so the site can reopen where you left off and offer quick location shortcuts. You can clear this local data at any time from Settings & data. If you choose an optional distance limit, that preference is used when Nearuvo asks supported providers for nearby results. With Automatic selected, Nearuvo uses the provider-supported nearby search area and shows closest results first.

Saved items

Saved listing identifiers may be stored locally in your browser. For Google-backed places, Nearuvo is designed to persist the Google Place ID and refresh current Google place details when needed rather than permanently copying the full place record into your saved list. Nearuvo does not currently require a user account for saved items.

Product analytics

Nearuvo uses first-party analytics stored with Netlify to measure basic product usage during beta testing. A random pseudonymous visitor identifier is stored in your browser so Nearuvo can estimate repeat visits. The analytics store records actions such as page/screen views, Quick Pick choices, searches, listing opens, saves and outbound-link clicks. It also records Nearuvo Function endpoint names, success/failure state, and coarse response-time buckets so the owner can monitor reliability and API demand without storing raw request content. Nearuvo does not intentionally store your GPS coordinates, raw search text, name, email address, IP address or full browser user-agent string in this analytics data. Analytics session records are automatically pruned on a rolling basis with a target retention period of 90 days. You can turn this first-party usage analytics off from Settings & data. Nearuvo also suppresses these analytics when the browser exposes Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track.

Health, legal and veterinary discovery

Nearuvo treats Health, Lawyers and Veterinary features as place discovery. The current directory experience does not ask users to upload medical records, diagnoses, medications, symptoms, attorney-client communications, legal case files or veterinary medical records. Nearby searches may use the selected area or device-provided location to request public place results from Google Maps Platform. Nearuvo does not currently use health, legal or veterinary browsing for cross-context behavioral advertising or sell that browsing information.

Social video links

If you add a public YouTube, TikTok or Instagram video link to a listing, Nearuvo stores the public URL and any optional note you provide so the link can appear with that listing. Nearuvo does not re-upload the video. Automatic YouTube discovery is optional and remains off until you enable it. Nearuvo may temporarily cache non-authorized YouTube search metadata for up to 7 days to reduce repeat API requests; the cache is refreshed or expires well within YouTube’s 30-day maximum for this data type. If enabled, Nearuvo may send the public listing name, location label and category to the YouTube Data API to find relevant public videos. You can continue using Nearuvo without enabling automatic YouTube discovery. See the YouTube Terms of Service and Google Privacy Policy.

Pulse submissions

If you submit a Local Board post or business deal, Nearuvo receives the information you enter, including public listing details and your contact email. Contact information is for review and follow-up and should not be displayed publicly as part of the approved post unless you separately choose to provide a public business contact. Netlify may process form submissions as Nearuvo’s hosting provider. Authorized Nearuvo administrators may review those submissions through a private owner dashboard protected by server-side credentials. The dashboard may store private moderation status and internal review notes; only approved public-facing submission fields are eligible to appear in Pulse, and contact emails are excluded from the public feed.

Business requests

If you submit a business claim, featured-listing inquiry or partnership request, Nearuvo receives the business details, contact information and message you provide so the request can be reviewed and followed up on.

Payments

If you choose to purchase a Nearuvo promotion, checkout may be provided by a third-party payment processor such as Stripe. Nearuvo does not need to receive or store your full payment-card number. The processor handles payment information under its own privacy terms.

Third-party services

Nearuvo uses Google Maps Platform for supported place discovery, current place details and nearby movie-theater discovery; OpenStreetMap for separate map tiles and supplemental outdoor discovery; YouTube for optional public video discovery; and Netlify for hosting, forms and first-party analytics storage. Movie-theater place data is requested when the Movies tab is used and is cleared from the active app state when the user leaves that tab. TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and other external links open the original public service and may be governed by that provider’s own privacy policy.

Google Maps Platform content is subject to the Google Privacy Policy. Nearuvo uses Google Place IDs for saved Google-backed places and refreshes current provider content when needed rather than intentionally creating a permanent copy of Google place records.

OpenStreetMap map/outdoor data is credited to OpenStreetMap contributors and is available under the Open Database License (ODbL).

Data sales, targeted advertising and opt-out signals

Nearuvo does not currently sell personal information, sell precise geolocation data, or use personal information for cross-context behavioral or targeted advertising. Because those activities are not currently performed, there is presently nothing to opt out of for those purposes. If Nearuvo adds them later, the product and this notice must be updated before launch, including support for legally required opt-out preference signals where applicable.

Children

Nearuvo is a general-audience discovery service and is not directed to children under 13. Nearuvo does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If Nearuvo learns that such information was collected, a parent or guardian may use the privacy-request form below to request deletion.

Your privacy choices and requests

Depending on where you live and whether a privacy law applies to Nearuvo, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of personal data, and to appeal certain request denials. Nearuvo also accepts these requests voluntarily during beta. Requests may require reasonable identity verification. For Connecticut requests subject to the CTDPA, Nearuvo will target the statutory 45-day response period (subject to any permitted extension); appeals will be handled within the applicable statutory period. If an appeal is denied where the CTDPA applies, Nearuvo will provide information about how to contact the Connecticut Attorney General.

This policy describes the current beta implementation. Privacy and consumer-protection obligations vary by jurisdiction; qualified counsel should review it before a large commercial launch, paid advertising rollout, account system, or material expansion of data collection.