Privacy Policy

Sidequest is a small indie product for everyday micro-adventures. This page explains what information the app uses and why - in plain language, not lawyer fog.

What Sidequest is for

Sidequest helps you pick one doable adventure based on interests, time, and place, then keep a light record of what you tried. An account is used so preferences and progress can follow you across sessions.

Information we use

• Account details. Email (and optional Google sign-in) through our auth provider so you can sign in securely.
• Preference profile. Interests, time/budget/social preferences, and similar settings you share in onboarding or later edit in Settings - used to rank and suggest quests.
• Quest activity. Which quests you save, start, or finish, so Discover and your journey stay personal.
• Memories. Titles, captions, and related notes you choose to save. Photos you attach are intended to stay on your device when the product stores them locally.
• Onboarding draft. While you are chatting through first-run setup, a draft may live in your browser so you can resume without starting over.
• Technical basics. Session cookies and ordinary request logs needed to run and secure the app.

AI assistance

Onboarding and some personalization features may send the relevant conversation or preference context to an AI provider so Sidequest can propose questions, summaries, or rankings. We aim to send only what is needed for that turn - not your full life story, and not sensitive attributes we do not ask for (health, politics, precise identity details, and similar).

What we do not do

• We do not sell your personal information.
• We do not run a social feed of your memories - scrapbook content is for you.
• We do not claim perfect anonymity; signed-in features need an account.

Who helps run Sidequest

Hosting, authentication, database, and (when enabled) AI providers process data so the product can function. Those services act under their own terms and privacy practices. Mock/local auth modes keep more data on your device and do not create a cloud account.

Retention and deletion

We keep account and preference data while your account is active. You can sign out anytime. Where the product offers account deletion, that removes the cloud profile and related saved preferences we control; device-local drafts or photos may still need clearing from your browser or device.

Children

Sidequest is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes

If this policy changes in a meaningful way, we will update the date above. Continued use after an update means the revised policy applies.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Reach the maker through chiradeep.me/projects.