Your dacha is yours.

Who we are

Our Dacha is made by Dacha Town, a small, independent software studio. When this page says "we," "us," or "the studio," that's who we mean. We are the people who built the app and who run the server it lives on. There is no large company behind us, and no third party we hand your world to.

What we collect

We try to hold as little as we can while still making the app work. Here is everything:

• Your account email

  So you can sign in, so the two of you can be paired into one shared dacha, and so we can reach you about your account if we ever need to.

• The things you make together

  Notes and love letters, postcards, photos you upload, the moods you set, your daily diary answers, gifts, and the keepsakes in your curio cabinet. This is your shared world — the whole point of the app.

• Live location — only if you turn it on

  If, and only if, you enable it, your current location so your partner can see your pin on your private map. See Location below.

• A little technical housekeeping

  Basic things the app and server need to function — like your device's push token if you opt in to notifications, and ordinary server logs that help us keep the service up and secure. We don't use these to build a profile of you.

That's the whole list. We don't ask for your name, your phone number, your contacts, or anything we don't need. We don't run advertising or analytics SDKs, so there is no hidden collection happening underneath.

How we use what we collect

We use your information for one set of reasons, and one set only:

• To run the app — to show the two of you your shared rooms, moods, photos, notes, diary, gifts, and map.
• To deliver the notifications you've asked for (mail arriving, your partner coming home, and the like).
• To keep the service working, safe, and backed up.
• To answer you when you write to us.

We do not use your content to train models, to advertise, to "improve engagement," or to measure you in any way. There are no growth metrics here. The audience is exactly two people, and we mean to keep it that way.

Location, specifically

Live location is a feature you choose, not a default. It is off until you deliberately turn it on, and you can turn it off again at any time from within the app and from your device's own settings.

• Your location is shared only with your one partner — never with us as a marketer, never with anyone else, never publicly.
• It exists to do one warm thing: let the two of you find each other as pins on a private, live map.
• The map never loads tiles or imagery from outside services, so no third party learns where you are by drawing it.
• When you switch it off, the app stops collecting your location. We don't keep a secret history of where you've been for any other purpose.

Push notifications

Notifications are opt-in. If you say yes, your device gives us a push token we use to send the small messages the app sends — your partner left you a note, your daily question is ready, that sort of thing. You can turn notifications off in the app or in your device settings whenever you like, and we'll stop.

This website (dacha.town)

The marketing site you're reading does not track you. It has no analytics, no cookies set for measurement, no advertising pixels, and no third-party scripts. Every image, font, and script is served from our own domain under a strict Content-Security-Policy, so your browser isn't quietly reaching out to anyone else while you visit.

Everything shown on the site is anonymous, made-up material — example photos, example notes, example names. No real couple's data ever appears here.

Where it lives & how we keep it safe

Your data is stored on a backend we host ourselves: a self-hosted Supabase stack built on PostgreSQL, running on the studio's own server. It sits behind Caddy, which serves everything over encrypted HTTPS. We are not handing your world to a third-party cloud product to do with as it pleases.

Inside the database, your data is couple-scoped with row-level access control. In plain terms: each couple's rows belong to that couple, and the database itself enforces that one couple cannot read another's. The walls between dachas are built into the data, not just the app on top of it.

No method of storage is perfectly secure, and we won't pretend otherwise. But we keep our software updated, we keep the surface that faces the public deliberately narrow, and we keep backups so your shared world isn't lost to a bad day.

Who we share it with

With your partner — that's the whole idea — and otherwise, essentially no one.

• We do not sell, rent, or trade your data. Not ever, not to anyone.
• We don't share it with advertisers, data brokers, or analytics companies, because we don't use any.
• Because we self-host, we don't ship your content off to a roster of outside "processors." The short list of basic services we rely on (for example, to actually deliver a push notification to your phone) only ever sees the minimum needed to do that one job.
• We would only disclose data if the law genuinely compelled us to, or if it were truly necessary to protect someone's safety. Given how little we hold and how it's scoped, there is little to give.

Keeping it, and deleting it

We keep your account and your shared world for as long as you have an account with us, so your dacha is there when you come back to it. We don't expire your memories on a timer.

When you want it gone, it goes. You can ask us to delete your account and the data associated with it, and we will. Once deletion is complete, your content is removed from our live systems; copies remaining in routine encrypted backups age out on the normal backup cycle and are not restored or used for anything else.

To delete your account, or to ask for a copy of what we hold about you, just write to us at the address below.

Children

Our Dacha is made for adults sharing a life together. It is not directed at children, and we don't knowingly collect information from anyone under the age required to consent to an online service where they live (16 in many places, 13 in some). If you believe a child has given us information, please contact us and we'll remove it.

Changes to this policy

If we change how any of this works, we'll update this page and move the "last updated" date at the top. If a change is significant — something that meaningfully affects your privacy — we'll let you know in the app rather than hoping you notice.

How to reach us

We're a small studio and a real person reads your mail. For anything about your privacy, your data, deleting your account, or this policy:

Thank you for trusting us with your little place. We don't take it lightly.