Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 26 August 2026

1. Information We Collect

Information You Provide

• Phone number (used to sign you in)
• Name
• Profile photo (optional)
• Photographs of your vehicle's number plate and of its vehicle licence (رخصة تسيير), taken once to prove the car is yours
• Vehicle details (make, model, colour — optional)

Collected Automatically

• Sign-in code requests — your phone number and the time of each request
• Search history — the plates you searched and the time of each search
• Log data (IP address, access times)
• Session tokens stored locally on your device to keep you signed in

2. Vehicle Licence Photographs

This section describes the most sensitive data the App handles, and we want to be exact about it.

To register a vehicle you photograph its number plate and its vehicle licence. The licence card carries your full name and address.

• Both photographs are transmitted once to Anthropic's Claude API, which reads the plate number from each image so we can check that the two agree
• We ask it to return the plate only. We do not request, receive or record the owner name, the address, or the chassis or engine number
• The images exist only for the duration of that request. They are never written to our storage and never attached to your account
• We keep only the plate number that was read, and whether the check passed or failed
• The resized copies held temporarily on your phone are deleted once registration finishes, or as soon as you retake a photo

3. How We Use Your Information

• Sign you in, using a one-time code delivered over WhatsApp
• Verify that a vehicle you register actually belongs to you
• Display your contact information when another user searches for your registered plate
• Prevent fraud and abuse, through rate limits and logs of verification and search activity
• Improve the App and the user experience
• Comply with legal obligations

4. Information Sharing

We may disclose information to law enforcement where we are legally required to do so.

Visible to other users

• When someone searches for a plate you have registered and verified, they can see your name, your profile photo if you uploaded one, your phone number, and your vehicle details if you provided them
• Only verified vehicles are searchable. A vehicle you have not proven ownership of never resolves to your contact details

Service providers who process data for us

• Supabase — database, authentication, and storage of profile photos
• Anthropic (Claude API) — reads the plate number from your two verification photographs. Images are transmitted for that single request and are not retained by us
• Wapilot — delivers your one-time sign-in code over WhatsApp

We do not

• Sell your personal information
• Share your data with advertisers
• Use your phone number for marketing

5. International Transfers

Your data may be transferred to and processed in countries outside Egypt, including the United States and the European Union, by the service providers listed above.

6. Data Security

No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

• Encrypted transmission (HTTPS) throughout
• Sign-in by one-time code rather than a stored password
• Vehicle registration requires proof of ownership before a plate becomes searchable
• Vehicle licence images are never stored
• Contact details are not readable in bulk — they are returned one at a time, only for an exact plate, and only to a signed-in user
• Daily limits on searches and on verification attempts, with both logged

7. Your Rights

You can delete your account from Profile → Edit Profile → Delete account inside the App. Deletion is immediate and permanent: it removes your profile, your registered vehicles, your verification history, your search history, and your profile photo. Your plates become available for another user to register.

If you no longer have the App installed, you can request the same deletion from the web at https://tal3ni.github.io/delete-account.html — no reinstall required.

For anything else, contact noreply.tal3ni@gmail.com.

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Correct inaccurate data
• Delete your account and everything attached to it
• Request a copy of your data

8. Data Retention

• Active accounts: retained while the account exists
• Deleted accounts: removed immediately when you delete the account, not on a delay
• Vehicle licence and plate photographs: never stored
• Verification attempts: the plate that was read and the outcome are retained to enforce daily limits and detect abuse
• Sign-in code requests: the phone number and the time of each request are kept in an abuse log that is not linked to your account and is not erased when you delete it. This is what stops the daily send limit from being reset by deleting and recreating an account

9. Children's Privacy

Tal3ni is not intended for users under 18, and we do not knowingly collect data from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal data, contact noreply.tal3ni@gmail.com and we will delete it.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy. If we change how we handle your data in a material way, we will make that clear in the App. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated policy.

11. Contact Us

• Email: noreply.tal3ni@gmail.com
• Support: noreply.tal3ni@gmail.com