Privacy policy
Privacy
Last updated: November 1, 2026
Après (“we”) is a live music diary operated by Jacob Landy. This policy explains what we collect, why, and the choices you have.
What we collect
- Account. Your email address and sign-in details, handled by our sign-in provider, Clerk.
- Profile. Your username, display name, bio, favorite artists, and your profile photo or avatar choice.
- Date of birth. Used only to confirm you’re 18 or over. It isn’t shown to anyone and can’t be changed after you enter it.
- Your nights. The shows you log, with any ratings, notes and photos you add, plus shows you save for later.
- Social activity. Friends and friend requests, friends you star as favorites, reactions and replies, people you’ve passed or said hi to in Discover, and blocks and reports you make.
- Check-ins and XP. The shows you check in at and the XP and levels you earn from them.
- Ticketmaster imports. If you paste order details to import past shows, we use them to find those shows and log them to your archive.
- Location (optional). If you allow it, we use your location in three ways:
- Nearby shows. Your device turns your location into a city name to suggest shows, and the map asks for venues around a rough area (a few miles across) rather than your exact spot.
- Check-ins. When you check in at a show, we use your location once to confirm you’re at the venue. We save the check-in with the venue’s location, not yours.
- Sharing with friends on the map. If you choose to share, we keep your most recent position (only the latest one, never a history) so the friends you picked can see you. We delete it when you leave the map, close the app or stop sharing. If you turn on sharing while your phone is locked, we keep updating it in the background until the time you pick, then stop and delete it.
- Photos. Profile photos and photos you add to your nights. Before we store a photo we resize it and remove its hidden details (like the location and device it was taken with), and check it automatically for nudity and violence. Deleting a photo, a night or your account deletes the photo.
- Waitlist. If you join the waitlist on this site, your email address.
How we use it
To run Après: to keep your archive, show you who was at the same nights, connect you with friends, award badges and records, keep the community safe, and contact you about your account. We don’t sell your information and we don’t show ads.
Who can see what
Your profile and the nights you log can be seen by other Après members, including people who logged the same show. You can make your past shows (your diary, ratings, notes and photos) visible to friends only in Settings. Shows you’re going to and your plans are only ever shown to friends. On the map, only accepted friends can ever see you, and you choose which of them (no one, favorites, friends, or only when you’re checked in at a show). Your starred favorites are private. People you block can’t see you. Reports are seen only by our moderators.
Service providers
We use trusted providers to run the service: Clerk (sign-in), Render (app hosting), Neon (database and photo storage), Google Cloud Vision (checking uploaded photos for nudity and violence), Anthropic (checking uploaded photos for hate symbols, and reviewing reported photos and profiles; it doesn’t use them to train its models), Cloudflare (this website), Resend (email), Google Maps (the map in the app, under Google’s privacy policy), and Ticketmaster, SeatGeek, setlist.fm and Google Places (show and venue information; we send them search terms like artist names, venue names and a rough area, never your account details). They process data only to provide their services to us.
Your choices
You can edit your profile at any time, change who sees you on the map or stop sharing from the map’s settings, and turn off location access in your phone’s settings. You can delete your account from the app’s profile screen. Deleting your account removes your profile, nights, check-ins, location and activity. To leave the waitlist or ask about your data, email support@apresgroove.com.
Age
Après is only for people 18 and over. We don’t knowingly collect information from anyone younger.
Changes
If we change this policy, we’ll update the date above and, for significant changes, let you know in the app.