Privacy Policy
Last updated: 9 November 2026.
Garbbeo is a game about conquering the map by walking or running. This page tells you what we keep about you, why, for how long and what you can do about it. It covers the Garbbeo app and garbbeo.com.
Who we are
Garbbeo is run by Antonio González, in Spain, who is responsible for your data. Write to hello@garbbeo.com about anything on this page.
What we keep
- Your account. An identifier the app creates the first time you open it, so you can play as a guest. If you save your account with Apple, Google or an email code, also that email address or account. With Apple, also the name Apple shares the first time, which never becomes public, and a token to disconnect Garbbeo from your Apple ID.
- Your profile. Your language, and the name and color you choose, if you choose them.
- Your activities, when you claim them. The GPS route from the point where the app marked your start to the end, with the time and accuracy of each point, and the version and platform of the app. Nothing from before the start is sent. If you never claim an activity, its route stays on your phone and is deleted there.
- Your territory. The hexagons you won and when, and a summary of each claim: distance, time, speed and how many hexagons it won.
- The days you open the app. The date, and the platform and version of the app, once a day.
We don't show ads, we don't sell your data and we don't track you across other apps or websites.
Why
- To run the game: turning the routes you claim into territory, showing the map and the rankings, and keeping your account. The legal basis is providing the service you ask for.
- To keep the game fair and working: spotting claims made by bike or car, repeated claims and errors, and tuning the rules. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in a fair game.
- To know whether the game works: counting how many people keep playing week after week, from the days they open the app, as totals that never single anyone out. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in improving the game.
What others see
Everyone sees the map: the hexagons each player owns, in that player's color, and later the rankings with the name you choose. Nobody else sees your routes. An activity counts from where you press Start, so if you'd rather not show where you live, start a little way from your door.
For how long
- Routes: 30 days after you claim them. Then we delete the route and keep only its summary and the hexagons it won.
- The days you open the app: 90 days.
- Your account and your territory: while you play. A guest account with no claim in 90 days is deleted with its territory.
- Deleting your account in the app deletes everything at once: profile, claims, routes, territory and the days you opened the app. If you signed in with Apple, we also disconnect Garbbeo from your Apple ID.
Who processes it for us
- Supabase stores the data and runs our server in Frankfurt, Germany, in the European Union.
- Apple draws the maps in the app (MapKit) and delivers the app and, if you allow it in iOS settings, its crash reports, under Apple's privacy policy.
- Hostinger hosts garbbeo.com and our email.
Your rights
In the app, in Settings, you can export everything we keep about you in a file and delete your account. You can also ask us to see, correct, delete or move your data, or to stop or limit how we use it, by writing to hello@garbbeo.com. We answer within a month. If you are not happy with our answer, you can complain to the Spanish Data Protection Agency (aepd.es) or to the authority where you live.
Age
You need to be 16 or older to play.
Security
Data travels encrypted. On our server, each player can only read their own claims and routes. On your phone, the route of the activity you are recording is encrypted until you first unlock the phone after it starts.
Your location on your phone
The app uses your location while you record an activity, to show where you are on the map and, when you open the ranking, to find your municipality: that position goes to our server only for that and is not kept. You decide, in the app and in iOS settings. Notifications are created on your phone; we don't send any.
The website
garbbeo.com uses no cookies and no analytics.
Changes
If we change this page in a way that matters, we'll tell you in the app before it applies.