THE IMPORTANT THINGS
Your city.
Your privacy.
Here is what A Good Turn uses to make the app work—and what stays on your iPhone.
Last updated September 2026A Good Turn is a Chicago discovery and itinerary app for iPhone. Some features work without an account; others use a confirmed account and our managed service. We do not include advertising or third-party analytics scripts in this website.
Details you share with us
If you create an account, we process your email address, password, email confirmation and account profile (including a name and any fun-budget preference you set) through our managed authentication and database provider, Supabase. Your password is handled by the authentication service; the app keeps its sign-in session in the iPhone Keychain. If eligible and you choose to use an authenticator app, the service also processes multi-factor authentication information. Account and role information is used to control access to features.
What you save and submit
Your latest itinerary is saved on your iPhone. The monthly itinerary-build allowance is recorded against your confirmed account on the service. If you submit a business, trail, or activity listing, we store the name, category, address, description, your account attribution, and its review status. Submissions are reviewed before publication. If you request a listing claim or propose an edit, we store and review that request; approved listing information can be visible to anyone browsing the app.
Gem suggestions submitted through the existing suggestion feature are associated with your confirmed account and held for review; they are not resident votes. The separate Add a Gem nomination flow is not open for production submission. In beta, a saved nomination draft and an optional photo you choose are stored on your iPhone, not submitted to the service. The app recreates the selected photo as a JPEG without the original photo’s EXIF/location metadata for that local draft.
Only when you choose nearby
When you first open Discover, the app explains optional When In Use location permission before asking. You may decline and still browse Chicago. Giving permission by itself does not request a location fix. When you tap Near me in Discover, the app requests your current device location and sends its latitude and longitude to our discovery service to find nearby places; refreshing that screen’s search may send the same origin again.
The separate Find gems near me search calculates a roughly five-mile bounding box on your iPhone and sends the box—not the raw fix—to our gems service. The box may still indicate approximately where you are. We do not use your location in the background or save a location history in the app. Service and network logs may process search requests and associated network information; their retention and whether they can be linked to an account have not yet been verified, so we do not claim that nearby searches are anonymous.
Approximate preview stops can use Apple’s geocoding of a neighborhood name, not your device location. Those previews are labeled and are not verified place addresses or live resident votes.
Stay in control
You can browse citywide without location permission, turn off location access in iPhone Settings, and choose whether to create an account, submit a listing, or save a beta nomination draft. You can edit your profile and request account deletion from the app’s Profile area. Deleting the app removes locally stored app data from that device; deleting a cloud account is a separate action. If you need help with privacy or an account request, visit our support page. We are still confirming provider-side logging and retention periods; contact support for a specific request.
Just a place to learn
This site is a static introduction to A Good Turn. It does not offer account sign-in, collect form submissions, or set its own analytics cookies. Following an App Store link, once available, will take you to Apple’s service under Apple’s own privacy terms. This policy will be updated when the app’s features or data practices change.
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