Privacy
Scarab scores places, not people. Privacy isn't a feature we added — it's a consequence of how the product works. This page says what little there is to say, plainly.
The short version
You don't need an account to read a city. We don't need your location — you tell us the city you care about by searching it. We don't sell data, we don't show ads, we don't track you across other apps or websites, and we never will. Reads are computed about cities from public-world signals; they contain nothing about you.
The app
To do its job, the app needs remarkably little:
- City searches. When you look up a city, that request is what fetches the score. It is not tied to your identity.
- Purchases. Subscriptions are processed entirely by Apple. We never see your payment details; Apple tells the app only that a plan is active.
- Support email. If you write to us, we have your email and what you wrote — used to help you, kept for our records, never added to any marketing list.
This website
The site is static pages. No analytics scripts, no advertising pixels, no cookies. One preference — your Oasis/Light theme choice — is stored on your device only, in your browser's local storage, and never sent anywhere. Fonts are served by Google Fonts, which receives the standard technical request any font download involves.
What we never do
- No selling or renting data — there is nothing to sell.
- No advertising, and no data shared for anyone else's advertising.
- No tracking across apps or websites.
- No profiling of travelers. The read is about the city; every person gets the same honest answer.
Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have legal rights over personal data — access, correction, deletion. Given how little we hold, exercising them is usually as simple as one email: scarabcity.app@gmail.com. We'll respond to any privacy request, from anyone, regardless of jurisdiction.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date below changes with it, and material changes will be called out in the app. We won't quietly rewrite our promises.
Draft · last updated 10 July 2026