Pojus

Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 9, 2026

Pojus is an iPhone app operated by Uxgency Inc, a Massachusetts corporation. Its website is pojus.com. This policy describes the app and that website. It matches what the product does.

What we collect

• An account identifier. Sign in with Apple gives us the identifier Apple assigns to your account, and we keep the date you first signed in. We do not ask Apple for your name or email.
• A name, if you choose one. You can give yourself a name of up to 24 characters, such as the one friends call you. It is shown on your list and next to dishes you loved, to people who follow you. You can change it at any time.
• Dish photos and places. When you add a dish, we store the photo, the dish name, the place name, the place's coordinates, and the city it is in.
• Your reactions. A plus or a heart is stored with your account and the dish.
• Who you follow. Opening a friend's list while signed in follows them, and so does typing the name on their page. We store that you follow them, and when.
• Who sent you, if a friend did. When you tap the download link on a friend's page, we note for up to an hour that someone on your network was sent by that friend. We keep a scrambled form of the network address, never the address itself. After you first sign in, the app asks whether that friend sent you. Nobody is followed unless you say yes. If you do, we keep which friend it was. The note is deleted when it is used, or after the hour.
• A notification address for your phone. So Pojus can tell you when a friend hearts or adds a dish, we keep the token Apple gives the app for sending notifications to your phone. It is removed when you sign out or delete your account. You can turn notifications off in Settings at any time.
• Location, when you allow it. The app sends your coordinates so the list can show the dishes around you, and uses them on the phone to find restaurants near you. We do not track you in the background, and we do not keep a trail of where you have been. When you look around another place, Apple turns its name into coordinates on the phone, and only those coordinates are sent.
• Reports. If you report a dish, we store the report, the dish, and your account identifier so we can review it.
• A handle and your picks, if you choose them. A handle gives your page a readable address, pojus.com/yourname. Picks are the dishes you choose to show on that page. We also keep the name you give your Pojus.
• Questions you ask Pojus. When you ask Pojus a question, the question and the dishes it remembers for you, from your list and your friends' lists, are sent to a model provider to write the answer. We do not keep the question or the answer.

Who can see what

• Dish photos, dish names, places, and scores are visible to everyone using Pojus, and on the web page for that dish when someone shares it.
• Your list has its own link. Anyone with that link can see your name and the dishes you added or hearted. The link appears only after you choose a name, and you decide who gets it.
• People who follow you see your name on the dishes you added or hearted, when they look near those dishes. A plus is never shown as yours, though it counts toward the score.
• Your page on the web is public. Anyone with the link sees your name, your Pojus's name, and the dishes you picked for it, or all of your dishes if you picked none. Dishes hidden by a block stay hidden there too.
• People who follow you can get a notification with your name and the dish when you heart or add one. A plus never sends one.
• Sharing a dish to your Instagram story hands Instagram the dish photo and a small card with the dish, the place and your page's address. Nothing is posted until you post it in Instagram.
• Your Apple identifier is never shown to anyone and never appears in a link.

Service providers

• Apple, for Sign in with Apple, for finding restaurants near you through MapKit, and for turning a place name into coordinates. Those searches run on the phone. Apple also delivers our notifications. It receives the notification and your phone's token.
• Instagram, only when you choose to share a dish to your story. The photo and the card go from your phone to the Instagram app. Our server sends Instagram nothing.
• OpenStreetMap, only when Apple's maps find nothing for a place you are adding. Our server sends it the name you typed, and never your account.
• Google Firebase, for the database and for storing dish photos, and Google Cloud Vision, which screens each photo on upload for content we do not allow.
• Anthropic, and Google as a fallback, whose models write the answers when you ask Pojus a question. They receive the question and the dish names, places, cities, friends' first names and dates Pojus remembers for you, never your account identifier or your photos.
• Vercel, for hosting the website and the service the app talks to.
• Hustlin, our own growth tool, to count a visit to pojus.com and, when you confirm that a friend's page sent you, to count that sign-up against the link you came by. It receives an internal account number for that count, never your Apple identifier, your name or your dishes. The iPhone app does not include the counter, and none of this is used to advertise to you.

What we never do

• We never sell your personal information.
• We never track your location in the background.
• We never use your photos to train a model or to advertise.
• We never post to Instagram, or anywhere else, for you.

Deleting your account

In the app, open You, scroll to the bottom and choose Delete account. That removes your account, your name, your reactions, who you follow and who follows you, which friend sent you, your phone's notification token, and the dishes and photos you added. Your list link stops working. You can also email hello@uxgency.com. Reports we are already reviewing may be kept long enough to finish that review.

Children

Pojus is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Contact

Uxgency Inc, a Massachusetts corporation. Email hello@uxgency.com.