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Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how wogo ("wogo", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, shares, stores, and protects personal information when you use https://joinwogo.com, the wogo website, the wogo mobile application, and any related services that link to this Privacy Policy.

wogo is currently operated as an early-stage product by an individual founder/developer and has not yet been incorporated as a separate legal entity. If this changes, we will update this Privacy Policy with the relevant legal entity details.

By using wogo, you agree that your information will be handled as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you should not use the website, mobile application, or related services.

1. Who we are and how to contact us

wogo is a mobile-first discovery and planning service for restaurants, cafés, dhabas, highway food stops, scenic food spots, weekend destinations, and similar places. The public-facing brand name is wogo.

For privacy questions, account deletion requests, data rights requests, or concerns about how your information is handled, you can contact us at support@joinwogo.com.

2. Scope of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to the wogo website, mobile application, waitlist pages, invite links, account features, place discovery features, review and photo features, restaurant/place owner features, sponsored placement features, and related services that link to this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites, apps, restaurants, cafés, places, app stores, map providers, social platforms, payment providers, or other services that we do not own or control. Those third parties may process your information according to their own privacy policies.

3. Information we collect

We collect information that you provide directly, information generated when you use the website or app, and information received from third-party services used to operate, secure, analyze, and improve wogo.

3.1 Account and contact information

Depending on how you use wogo, we may collect:

  • Name, email address, phone number, username, display name, and profile photo.
  • Account registration details, login details, and authentication method.
  • One-time password or verification-related information for phone number login.
  • Google Sign-In or Apple Sign-In information where you choose to use those login methods.
  • Communication preferences, notification preferences, and marketing preferences.
  • Support requests, feedback, survey responses, and messages you send to us.

3.2 Restaurant owner and place owner information

If you use wogo as a restaurant owner, café owner, place owner, manager, or representative, we may collect information needed to create, verify, manage, or update your owner account and related place listings. This may include your name, contact details, role, place relationship, business details, and information you submit about the place.

3.3 User content and community contributions

When you use community features, we may collect content you submit, including:

  • Reviews, ratings, comments, tags, and place recommendations.
  • Photos and media uploaded for places, listings, reviews, or experiences.
  • Place suggestions, edits, reports, correction requests, and moderation reports.
  • Visit plans, invite links, invitation responses, suggested alternatives, and plan activity.
  • Any other content or information you choose to submit through the app or website.

3.4 Contacts and invitation information

If you allow contact access, we may access contact details on your device to help you invite friends, share plans, or send invitation links. We may also process phone numbers or other contact details that you manually enter or select for invitation purposes.

We do not sell your contacts. We do not share your phone number or your contact list with restaurants, cafés, places, sponsors, or other users unless you choose to share that information yourself or give us permission to do so.

3.5 Location information

wogo is a location-based discovery service. If you allow location access, we may collect precise GPS location while you are using the app. We may also collect approximate location from your IP address, device settings, or selected map location.

Location information may be used to show nearby places, calculate distance, display map results, recommend relevant places, support location picking, help with navigation handoff, and verify whether a review or rating is connected to a real visit.

3.6 Technical, usage, analytics, and diagnostic information

When you visit the website or use the app, we and our service providers may automatically collect technical and usage information, including:

  • IP address, device identifiers, advertising identifiers where enabled, and app instance IDs.
  • Browser type, operating system, device type, screen size, language settings, and app version.
  • Pages viewed, app screens visited, links clicked, session duration, referral URLs, and feature usage.
  • Crash reports, diagnostics, performance data, security logs, and error logs.
  • Cookie identifiers, local storage, SDK events, pixels, tags, and similar tracking technology data.

3.7 Payment and billing information

We do not currently collect payment, subscription, or billing details in the MVP. If paid features, restaurant sponsorship billing, subscriptions, in-app payments, table payments, or similar payment features are introduced later, we will update this Privacy Policy before or when those features become available.

4. Location data and visit verification

wogo uses location to help you discover nearby restaurants, cafés, dhabas, scenic food spots, highway stops, weekend destinations, and similar places. Location helps us calculate distance, show map-based results, suggest relevant places, and improve local discovery.

We may use your location at the time you submit a review, rating, or visit-related action to determine whether the visit can be marked as verified. For visit verification, our goal is to store the verification result, such as verified or unverified, rather than storing your exact visit coordinates with the review.

In the MVP, we do not intend to collect continuous background location data. In the future, we may introduce optional background or passive location-based features, such as notifying you about nearby places, recommendations, or promotions while you are travelling. If we introduce those features, we will request the required device permissions, explain the feature clearly, and update this Privacy Policy where required.

You can disable location access at any time through your device settings. Some nearby discovery, map, distance, recommendation, and visit verification features may not work properly without location access.

5. Device permissions

Depending on the features you use, the mobile app may request access to certain device permissions. These permissions may include:

  • Location: used to show nearby places, calculate distance, support maps, recommend relevant places, and verify visits.
  • Camera and photos: used to let you take or upload photos for places, listings, reviews, recommendations, and experiences.
  • Contacts: used to help you invite friends, share visit plans, or send invite links where you grant permission.
  • Notifications: used to send account alerts, invitation updates, plan updates, reminders, service messages, launch updates, feature announcements, and promotional messages where permitted.

You can manage these permissions through your device settings. If you deny or disable a permission, the related feature may not be available or may work with limited functionality.

6. User contributions and public content

wogo is a community-driven discovery app. When you submit reviews, ratings, photos, place suggestions, tags, comments, reports, or similar content, some of that content may be shown publicly or to other users inside the app.

Your display name, profile image, contribution history, verification status, or other profile details may also be shown with your public contributions, depending on the feature.

Please do not upload private, confidential, unlawful, sensitive, or harmful information about yourself or other people. We may review, restrict, remove, preserve, or moderate content where needed for safety, abuse prevention, fake review prevention, legal compliance, dispute handling, or service integrity.

7. Visit plans, invite links, and group activity

If you create or join a visit plan, we may process information such as the selected place, planned date or time, invite link, invitation status, suggested alternatives, and participating users.

People who receive an invite link may be able to view limited information about the plan and respond to the invitation, depending on the feature and link settings. You should share invite links only with people you want to invite to the plan.

Chat is not part of the MVP, but if messaging or chat features are introduced in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy to explain how those messages are handled.

8. Cookies and tracking technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, understand usage, improve performance, and, where applicable, measure campaigns. Cookies are small files placed on your browser or device. Similar technologies may include local storage, pixels, tags, SDKs, app SDK events, and device identifiers.

We may use the following categories of cookies or similar technologies:

  • Strictly necessary technologies: required for security, navigation, consent management, authentication, and core website or app functions.
  • Analytics technologies: used to understand traffic, usage patterns, errors, app performance, website performance, and feature adoption.
  • Preference technologies: used to remember settings such as language, region, display preferences, or cookie choices.
  • Marketing and advertising technologies: used where applicable and legally permitted to measure campaigns, improve promotions, personalize sponsored content, or understand marketing performance.

Where required by law, non-essential cookies and tracking technologies will be used only with your consent. You may change or withdraw your cookie choice at any time using . You can also control cookies through your browser settings, but disabling certain cookies may affect website functionality.

9. Analytics and Google services

We use Google Analytics and may use related Google tools, including Google Tag Manager, on the website and mobile app to understand usage, measure traffic, analyze feature adoption, identify technical issues, and improve wogo. These tools may use cookies, tags, SDKs, app instance IDs, device information, usage events, and similar technologies.

We do not intentionally send names, phone numbers, email addresses, or other direct personal identifiers to Google Analytics. Google may process analytics information according to its own privacy practices. You can learn more about how Google uses information from sites and apps that use Google services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites .

Where consent is required, we will request consent before using non-essential analytics, advertising, or similar tracking technologies.

10. How we use personal information

We may use personal information for the following purposes:

  • To provide, operate, maintain, secure, and improve the website, app, and related services.
  • To create and manage accounts, authentication, profiles, preferences, and settings.
  • To verify phone numbers, email addresses, login attempts, and account activity.
  • To show nearby places, map results, distance information, recommendations, and relevant place details.
  • To support visit verification, reviews, ratings, photos, place submissions, and community contributions.
  • To create and manage visit plans, invite links, invitation responses, and suggested alternatives.
  • To help restaurant owners, café owners, and place owners claim, manage, or update their place information.
  • To send service messages, account notices, OTP messages, plan updates, invite alerts, push notifications, and support responses.
  • To send marketing emails, feature announcements, app launch updates, and promotional communications where permitted by law and your choices.
  • To personalize the user experience and show relevant recommendations or sponsored places.
  • To analyze website and app usage, performance, traffic sources, and feature adoption.
  • To detect, prevent, and address fraud, spam, fake reviews, abuse, security incidents, and technical issues.
  • To comply with legal obligations, enforce terms, and protect legal rights.

11. Sponsored listings, advertisements, and promotions

wogo may show sponsored restaurants, cafés, places, offers, or promotions. Sponsored content will be clearly labeled as "Sponsored" or "Ad." Sponsored placement does not mean that a place is organically top-rated or independently recommended by the community.

Sponsored listings may be shown based on factors such as your location, app activity, preferences, past visits, place categories, and likely interest. We may use this information to avoid showing irrelevant sponsored listings and to highlight places that may be useful to you.

We do not share your phone number, email address, precise location, or contact list with sponsored restaurants, cafés, place owners, or advertisers unless you choose to contact them, share information with them, or give us permission to do so.

12. How we share information

We do not sell personal information in the ordinary meaning of selling it for money. We may share information only in limited circumstances, including:

  • Public or in-app visibility: reviews, ratings, photos, place suggestions, display names, verification labels, and other community contributions may be visible to other users.
  • Plan participants: selected visit plan details may be visible to people who create, join, or receive access to a plan or invite link.
  • Service providers: vendors that help us host, store, maintain, analyze, secure, support, communicate, or improve the website and app.
  • Analytics and tracking providers: providers such as Google Analytics that help us understand usage and performance, where permitted by law and your choices.
  • Authentication providers: services such as Google and Apple where you choose to sign in using those services.
  • Communication providers: providers that help us send emails, OTPs, service messages, push notifications, or invitation messages.
  • Storage and infrastructure providers: providers that help us host the website, backend, images, uploaded media, files, and app infrastructure.
  • Business transfers: as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar transaction.
  • Legal and safety reasons: where required by law, court order, legal process, government request, or to protect rights, safety, and security.
  • With your consent: where you direct us or give us permission to share information.

13. Third-party services

We use third-party services to operate and improve wogo. These may include hosting providers, cloud storage providers, analytics providers, maps and location services, authentication providers, email providers, SMS or OTP providers, notification providers, app stores, support tools, security tools, and other operational services.

We currently use Hostinger for hosting and Cloudinary for image and media storage. This infrastructure may change as the service develops. Third-party services may process information according to their own privacy policies.

The website and app may also contain links to third-party websites, platforms, app stores, maps, login providers, social apps, navigation apps, restaurant pages, or other services that we do not own or control. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those third parties.

14. Data retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the services, fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, maintain security, prevent abuse, and keep appropriate business records.

Account data is generally retained while your account is active. Reviews, ratings, photos, place submissions, reports, and moderation records may be retained while needed for the app, community safety, legal compliance, dispute handling, or abuse prevention.

Technical logs, analytics data, security records, support records, and backup copies may be retained for different periods depending on operational and legal needs. If we no longer need information in identifiable form, we may delete it, anonymize it, or aggregate it.

15. Account deletion

You may request deletion of your account by contacting us at support@joinwogo.com or by using any account deletion feature available in the app or website.

When your account is deleted, we will delete or de-identify personal information associated with your account unless we need to retain certain information for legal, security, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, moderation, backup, or legitimate business record purposes.

We aim to remove or anonymize public reviews, photos, and related user contribution data after account deletion within a reasonable period, generally within 15 days where practical. Some backup, security, legal, or moderation records may take longer to delete or may need to be retained where permitted or required by law.

16. Data security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure. These safeguards may include access controls, secure communication methods, role-based permissions, monitoring, and other security measures appropriate to the nature of the information and the service.

However, no method of transmission over the internet, mobile network, or electronic storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

17. Your rights and choices

Depending on your location and applicable privacy laws, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or portability of your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw consent, object to certain processing, opt out of marketing communications, manage cookies, manage app permissions, or raise a privacy grievance.

You can manage some choices through your account settings, device settings, browser settings, app permissions, email unsubscribe links, notification settings, and our .

To exercise rights that are not available directly through the website or app, contact us at support@joinwogo.com. We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests.

18. Marketing communications and notifications

We may send service messages, launch updates, feature announcements, promotional emails, and push notifications where permitted by law and your choices. You can opt out of marketing emails using the unsubscribe option in those emails, where available, or by contacting us. You can manage push notifications through your device settings.

Even if you opt out of marketing messages, we may still send non-promotional messages such as account notices, OTP messages, security alerts, support replies, invitation updates, plan updates, and important service-related communications.

19. Children's privacy

wogo is intended for users who are at least 18 years old. The service involves location, travel planning, public contributions, photos, recommendations, sponsored content, and community features, and is not directed to children.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so we can review and take appropriate action.

20. International availability and data transfers

wogo is initially focused on India and may be available in other Asian, Middle Eastern, and international markets. The availability of the app in a country does not mean that place data, full functionality, or local support is available in that country.

We may process, store, and transfer personal information in India and other countries where we or our service providers operate. These countries may have privacy laws that differ from those in your location. Where required by applicable law, we will use appropriate safeguards for international transfers of personal information.

21. App store privacy disclosures

If you download wogo from an app store, the app store may require privacy disclosures such as Apple App Privacy labels or Google Play Data safety information. We aim to keep those disclosures consistent with this Privacy Policy and the app's actual data practices.

22. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or services. When we update the policy, we will revise the "Last updated" date above.

If changes are material, we may provide additional notice as required by law, such as through the website, app, email, or in-app notification.

23. Contact information

If you have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, you may contact us at: