Privacy
Last updated: 1 September 2026
alsohere asks one question a workday and keeps your answer. This page says exactly what is held, where, for how long, and who else can see it. It is written to match what the app does, not to leave room.
If anything here is broader than what the app actually does, the app is what counts, and this page is wrong and should be corrected.
Who is responsible
alsohere is run by Randy Berridge, as an individual rather than a company. A person can be a data controller, and that is who is responsible for what this page describes.
Contact: hello@alsohere.today.
What is kept
The domain of your work address. Not the address — the part after the @. It is how an answer reaches the right office.
Which office you chose. So the app knows which set of counts is yours.
Your answers. One a day: the day, which of the three answers you gave, and the time it was logged. The time is shown back to you and is not sent with any count.
Whether you voted to show your office to people who do not work there. Never how you voted.
An opaque Apple identifier, from Sign in with Apple. It is specific to this app and is not an email address or a name.
On your phone only: your answers, your settings, and a sign-in token in the Keychain. The token never leaves the device and is not included in backups.
What is not kept
Your email address. You type it once so a six-figure code can be sent to it. It is used to address that one message and is never written to the database.
What is stored instead is a keyed hash of it — a one-way fingerprint, computed with a secret that is not in the database. It exists for two reasons only: to limit how often codes can be sent, and so that an invitation is never sent to the same person twice. It cannot be turned back into an address.
Your name. It is never requested. Sign in with Apple is asked for no scopes at all, and database triggers strip a name or an address from the sign-in record if Apple ever sends one.
Where you are. The app contains no location code of any kind. There is no CoreLocation, no location permission, and no city coordinates on the server. The map is drawn from a list of public city positions bundled inside the app, and it marks the city you named — never you.
Anything for advertising or analytics. The app has no third-party code in it at all: no SDKs, no trackers, no advertising identifiers, no crash or usage analytics.
Nothing about you is sold, and nothing is shared for advertising — including in the specific senses the words "sell" and "share" carry under California law. There is no opt-out to offer because there is nothing to opt out of.
What other people can see
Nobody is ever told what any one person answered. Not your employer, not your colleagues, not us in any form the app exposes.
An office's counts are shown to the people who work there once at least 12 people have confirmed a work address at it. If any one of the three answers has fewer than three people behind it, no split is shown at all — not the two that were fine, because a total minus two recovers the third.
For anybody else to read an office, the people who work there have to agree to it: at least 12 of them, with two thirds voting yes. Until they do, an office can be read only from the inside, and it stops being readable from outside again the moment the vote falls back below that line.
A city total counts every answer in that city. Where publishing it would let somebody subtract the already-public offices and recover an office that chose not to publish, the city shows nothing instead.
Who processes it
- Supabase — database, sign-in and server functions. Hosted in eu-west-2 (London).
- Resend — sends the sign-in code and invitations. eu-west-1 (Ireland). Open and click tracking are switched off; the messages contain no images or tracking pixels.
- Apple — Sign in with Apple. Apple learns that you use alsohere. That fact leaves and cannot be called back, and it is the cost of that sign-in route.
The servers are in the UK and Ireland. alsohere is run from the United States, so data held on those servers is accessible from the US when it is administered. If you are in the UK or the EU, that is a transfer to a country without an adequacy decision, and it happens under the safeguards in Article 49 — it is necessary to provide the service you asked for. It is a small amount of access, to a database that holds no name, no email address and no location.
How long
Your answers are kept until you delete them or delete your account.
The address fingerprints described above are kept: the sending log for rate limiting, and the invitation log for as long as the promise not to write to somebody twice should hold. Sign-in codes are deleted when used and expire after fifteen minutes.
Deleting everything
In the app: Yours → Settings → Delete everything. This removes your account, every answer behind it, and your votes. It is immediate and cannot be undone.
Deleting the app removes everything held on the phone.
Because no email address is stored, there is no confirmation email — there is no address to send one to. That is the cost of not keeping it, and it is the right way round.
Your rights
You can ask for a copy of what is held about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted, at hello@alsohere.today. Deletion is also available in the app at any time without asking anyone.
There is currently no export feature in the app. A request by email will be answered by hand.
If you are in California
alsohere is run from California.
Nothing about you is sold, and nothing is shared for cross-context behavioural advertising, in the senses the CCPA gives those words. There is no opt-out link because there is nothing to opt out of.
You can ask to know what is held about you, ask for it to be corrected, or ask for it to be deleted. Deletion is in the app and needs no request. You will not be treated differently for asking, and there is nothing to treat you differently with: the app has one question and three answers, the same for everybody.
Children
alsohere is for people at work. It is not directed at children, and it is not intended for anyone under 13. No account is knowingly created for a child. If you believe one has been, write to the address above and it will be deleted.
Changes
If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.