Privacy Policy

1. Data controller

PlaYa! is a free mobile application developed independently. For any privacy-related inquiries, you can contact us at hola@playaya.xyz.

2. Data we collect

PlaYa! does not collect personal data. There is no user registration, no login required, and no personal identifiers are stored. The application operates completely anonymously.

We do not collect names, email addresses, phone numbers, device identifiers, usage data, or diagnostic information.

3. Use of location

The application may request permission to access your location. This permission is completely optional and is only activated when you choose to enable it. Your location is used exclusively to calculate the distance to the nearest beaches.

Your location is never sent to our servers or to third parties. All distance calculations are performed directly on your device. When you close the application or disable location access, the data is immediately removed from device memory.

4. Local storage

PlaYa! stores certain information locally on your device to improve the experience:

• Custom alerts: the alert conditions you configure for your favorite beaches.
• Notifications: the history of generated notifications, which are automatically deleted after 7 days.
• Dismissed weather alerts: the warnings you have marked as read.

This data resides solely on your device and is never transmitted. You can delete all local data by uninstalling the application.

5. Third-party services

PlaYa! uses the following external services to obtain weather and cartographic data:

• Open-Meteo: open-source weather data. No account or API key required. Does not track users.
• AEMET (Spanish Meteorological Agency): official government weather data and alerts.
• Government of the Canary Islands: regional weather alerts.
• MapLibre / OpenStreetMap: map rendering. Does not track users.

None of these services receive personal data or user location information. Server requests only contain beach coordinates (public data), never the user's location.

6. Cookies and analytics

PlaYa! does not use cookies, does not employ analytics tools, and does not perform any form of tracking. We do not use Firebase, Google Analytics, or any other analytics service.

7. GDPR compliance

As PlaYa! does not collect or process personal data, it complies with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). There is no designated data controller because no personal data is processed.

If this policy is modified in the future, we will update this page and indicate the new date of the update.

8. Applicable law

This privacy policy is governed by Spanish law and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679.

9. Contact

For any questions about this privacy policy, write to hola@playaya.xyz.