A little privacy, please.

Last updated September 26, 2026. This notice describes the MVP. Contact hello@rateyourtoilet.com for privacy requests or to report a problem.

Ratings without an account

You can browse, add a bathroom and submit ratings without giving us an email address. Public pages show bathroom information and aggregate scores. They do not show device identifiers or who gave an individual rating.

Optional accounts

If you sign in, Supabase stores your email and authentication information. We privately associate signed-in ratings with your account to count contributions and limit duplicate ratings. This means signed-in ratings are anonymous to the public, not unlinked from your account in our database. Your profile is private until you choose to publish your display name and contribution count. Emails and individual bathroom histories are never part of a public profile.

Location

Location permission is optional. Browse coordinates are sent to our server to sort nearby bathrooms and can appear in the page URL and hosting logs. We do not store your browsing location in our application database or account profile. A bathroom pin you submit, its name and its address are public. Do not add a private home or personal information.

Cookies and spam prevention

We set a signed random device cookie for up to one year to limit repeat ratings. Authentication uses separate session cookies if you sign in. For abuse checks we use keyed hashes of the device identifier and the network IP address. We do not build browser fingerprints. Abuse records expire after 24 hours and are removed by the next scheduled daily cleanup or a later successful submission, normally within 48 hours. Hosting and authentication services may retain their own security logs under their policies.

Maps and other services

Map tiles come from OpenStreetMap servers, which receive your IP address and the requested map area. Opening directions sends the destination to Google Maps. Production hosting uses Vercel and database and authentication use Supabase. We do not add advertising trackers or analytics in this MVP.

Keeping and removing information

Bathroom listings and ratings remain until moderated or removed. Contact us to request account deletion. We verify the request, remove the account and public profile, and detach its ratings from the account. Anonymous ratings cannot always be identified after abuse records expire. If you need a particular listing corrected, include its URL.

A note for younger visitors

Accounts are intended for people aged 13 and older. Do not publish personal information in bathroom names or public display names.