Privacy Policy

Niguvim — The Hummus Trail of Israel

Last updated: 30 July 2026

Who we are

Niguvim is an app for finding hummus restaurants in Israel, operated by Itay Talev (איתי טלב). Privacy questions: itaytalev@gmail.com.

What we collect

Account

The app creates an anonymous account for you automatically. No name, email or password is required. The identifier is tied to your installation and lets us keep your ratings and visits.

Location

Location is collected in three situations only, each one started by you:

• "Nearest to me" — a single reading to sort places by distance. Not stored on our servers.
• Active trip — after you tap "we're off on a trip", your location is updated on our servers for the duration of that trip, so we can alert you if a nearby place runs out of hummus. When the trip ends — manually or automatically at expiry — the stored location is erased in the same operation. With no active trip, we hold no location for you at all.
• Verifying a visit or suggesting a new place — a single reading to confirm you're there.

Location is only collected while the app is open. We do not track you in the background.

Content you create

Ratings, free text, photos you upload, "sold out" reports, and suggestions for new places. This content is shown to other users.

Your profile — recommended, not required

A display name and avatar are how you keep your own history: which places you've been to, what you said about them, and where you stand on the נגבנים ladder. We recommend picking one — it turns your visits into a personal trail rather than a list. None of it is required, and the app works fully without giving us anything.

Email — recommended, so we can restore your account if you change device. Phone — entirely optional. If you ask to manage a place as its owner, we do need the name and phone you give us so we can call to verify.

Trip history

We keep when you set out on a trip, where to, and when it ended, so you can look back at the trips you've taken, like an album. The route and positions themselves are not kept: when a trip ends the location is erased, and what remains is the destination and the date.

Notifications

If you enable notifications we store a device push token and your preferences. Turning both switches off deletes that record entirely.

How we use it

• Showing places by distance and along your route
• Calculating place scores and the leaderboard
• Sending a "sold out" alert when a place you're near reports it has run out — only if you asked for notifications
• Reviewing new places suggested to us

We do not sell or rent your data to third parties.

Advertising and sponsorship

There are currently no ads in the app. In future we may show sponsorships — places or food brands paying for a position in the app. If and when that happens:

• Any sponsored content will be clearly marked as such.
• Sponsorship will not change scores or the leaderboard. Ratings are decided by users alone.
• We will not hand your personal data to advertisers.

If we ever add advertising that is based on data about you, we will update this policy before that happens and ask for your consent where the law requires it.

Who we share it with

• Supabase — database hosting.
• Expo and the push services of Apple and Google — to deliver notifications. They receive the push token and message content, not your location.
• Maps — rendering uses Apple Maps (iOS) and Google Maps (Android).

How long we keep it

• Trip location — until the trip ends, and no longer.
• "Sold out" reports — shown for 3 hours.
• Ratings, visits and profile — until you ask us to delete them.

Deleting your data

From inside the app, at any time: open the menu (☰) and choose "מחיקת החשבון והמידע". We show you exactly what is about to go — how many ratings, visits and trips — and on confirmation all of it is removed: profile, ratings, visits, trips, notifications and preferences. Ratings you wrote are also removed from the places' scores. This cannot be undone.

If you managed a place as its owner, that place is released and can be claimed again by someone else.

You may also access and correct your data. The profile is editable in the app at any time and you can clear any individual field without deleting the account. For anything else: itaytalev@gmail.com.

You can revoke location or notification permission at any time in your device settings. The app keeps working, with those features unavailable.

Children

Niguvim is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If we update this policy, we'll update the date at the top of this page.

Place data attribution

Places data © Overture Maps Foundation contributors. Includes data from Foursquare Labs, Inc. (Apache 2.0), OpenStreetMap contributors, and AllThePlaces (CC0). Maps © Apple, © Google.