Privacy
Last updated 17 August 2026
What Gibouse is
Gibouse lets you drop a pin at a place while you’re out, and pulls together a report about that area — sold prices, crime, flood risk, schools, green space and more — so you can look at it later. This page explains what personal data the app holds, why, and what you can do about it.
Pins are the product
Every pin you drop stores its exact coordinates. That’s not incidental — it’s the whole point of the app, and we don’t apologise for it or pretend otherwise. Pins are private to you: each one is tied to your account (or, before you have one, to an anonymous identity kept on this device) and protected by database rules that stop anyone else reading them.
What we collect, and why
| Data | Detail | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Pin locations | Full precision, tied to your account | Contract — this is the core feature |
| Email address | Verified, stored by our auth provider | Contract — signing in and keeping your pins across devices |
| Display name | The name you type in | Contract — addressing you in the app |
| Home area | District (e.g. “KT10”) plus a coordinate rounded to ~1km, only if you have an account | Legitimate interest — restoring a rough home location on a new device without re-sending your full postcode to us |
| Usage counts | Which screens are used, how often, never coordinates or names | Legitimate interest — understanding whether the app works, keeping it running affordably |
Your income, savings, mortgage details and full home postcode never reach our servers at all. They’re typed into your phone’s local storage and stay there — we simply don’t have them, so there’s nothing to protect, leak, or hand over even if we wanted to.
Where area-report data comes from
To build a report we send the pin’s coordinates to a handful of free or licensed public data sources — postcodes.io, HM Land Registry, the national Energy Performance Certificate register, police.uk crime data, the Environment Agency, DEFRA, and OpenStreetMap — and to the map tile providers that draw the map itself. These lookups happen for every user of the app, regardless of whether you have an account, because that’s how the report gets built. None of these services receive your name or email.
Where it’s stored
Everything server-side lives in Supabase, hosted in London (eu-west-2). Nothing personal is ever sent to a third-party analytics or advertising platform — the usage counts above live in our own database, queried only by us.
How long we keep it
For as long as your account exists. If you stop using Gibouse we don’t automatically delete anything — ask us (see below) and we will.
Your rights
You can ask us what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it entirely — pins, account, everything. Email info@gibouse.co.uk and we’ll action it by hand; we aim to respond within 30 days, and UK data protection law gives you the right to complain to the ICO if you’re unhappy with how we’ve handled a request. Deletion is currently a manual process on our side while the app is young — a self-serve version is planned.
A word about consent
Adding your email creates an account. It doesn’t sign you up for marketing, and it doesn’t hand your details to anyone else — not an estate agent, not a partner, nobody. If a future valuation feature ever puts you in touch with a named agent, that’s a separate, explicit choice you make at that moment, not something buried in creating an account.
Changes
We’ll update the date at the top of this page if anything here changes. Questions any time: info@gibouse.co.uk.