Happily. Privacy Policy

Contact And Scope

Happily. is developed and operated for the Happily service. Published support and privacy contact is available at https://happily-backend-3fir.onrender.com/legal/support. App Review may also contact the developer through App Store Connect.

This policy covers the Happily iOS app, backend APIs, hosted legal pages, and support requests related to Happily.

Information We Collect

Contact Info and account/profile data may include Name, display name, username, Email Address, Phone Number if provided, Physical Address if you provide it in support, restaurant claim, owner access, or related workflows, Other User Contact Info, profile photo, preferences, favorite neighborhoods, favorite cuisines, favorite deal types, vibe tags, and other profile settings.

Sign in with Apple data may include your Apple user identifier, Happily User ID, private relay or real email address if Apple provides it, authorization status, and tokens needed to keep your Happily account secure. Happily does not receive your Apple Account password.

Location may include Precise Location or Approximate Location if you grant permission, plus neighborhood, map area, radius, distance, and location-based app settings.

Restaurant, search, and activity data may include Search History, place lookups, map queries, selected results, viewed restaurants, saved places, happy hour reports, confirmations, corrections, duplicate reports, proof submissions, comments, profile activity, list activity, follows, blocks, notification interactions, and support activity.

Photos or Videos and User Content may include profile photos, proof photos, restaurant media, screenshots, source links, OCR-derived text, pasted Smart Parse text, notes, comments, reports, corrections, confirmations, restaurant claims, Customer Support messages, and other content you choose to submit.

Diagnostics and Performance Data may include Crash Data, app performance signals, logs, device type, app version, build number, request timing, and error data used to operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve Happily.

App Store and StoreKit data may include Apple transaction identifiers, original transaction identifiers, product identifiers, subscription status, entitlement status, purchase dates, expiration dates, refund or revocation status, App Store Server Notification records, and related audit data needed to verify Happily+ access.

Notifications data may include notification preferences, APNs device tokens, delivery status, notification events, and read status when push notifications or in-app notifications are enabled.

AI Smart Parse data may include user-provided text, images or OCR-derived text, restaurant names, schedules, prices, and notes that you submit for AI-assisted draft organization.

How We Use Information

We use information to create and manage accounts, authenticate users, show happy hours, power search and maps, display nearby results, save places, submit reports, confirm, correct, provide proof, show comments, prevent duplicate reports, and maintain community trust history.

We use information for trust and moderation, including screening user content, receiving objectionable-content reports, blocking abusive authors where supported, reviewing abuse or privacy issues, hiding or removing content, and protecting users, restaurants, and service integrity.

We use App Store and StoreKit information to verify Happily+ subscription entitlement, restore purchases, prevent unauthorized access to paid planning features, answer support requests, and handle refund, revocation, expiration, billing failure, or cancellation states received through Apple.

We use notification data only to provide notification features you enable, such as saved-place alerts, nearby alerts, confirmation prompts, and account or support notifications.

We use support, diagnostics, and activity information to respond to questions, investigate abuse, improve app reliability, improve search and report quality, measure feature performance, and protect the service.

Location Controls

Location helps Happily show nearby happy hour discovery, map results, distances, local filters, radius-based results, and location-aware planning tools.

If you deny location permission, Happily should still provide fallback discovery through search, map movement, neighborhoods, saved places, or other non-location inputs, though nearby ranking and distance may be less precise.

You can grant, deny, or revoke location permission in iOS Settings at any time. Happily+ purchase does not require location permission.

Photos, Uploads, And AI

Proof photos, profile photos, restaurant media, and other uploads are stored to provide the feature you used and may be associated with your account, restaurant, report, support request, or moderation review.

Smart Parse and other AI-assisted draft features are optional. When you use them, Happily sends the text, image-derived text, or OCR text you provide to the backend and, when AI parsing is enabled, to the AI provider DeepSeek to organize draft happy hour fields.

AI output is a draft aid only. It does not verify a report, submit a report for you, mark a restaurant verified, or increase trust or credibility.

Third-Party Services

Apple services are used for Sign in with Apple, the App Store, StoreKit, in-app purchase processing, App Store Server APIs, App Store Server Notifications, APNs push notifications, Apple Maps, and MapKit.

Apple handles payment credentials for in-app purchases. Happily does not collect credit card numbers, debit card numbers, bank account numbers, or payment credentials for Happily+.

Backend hosting, database, logging, and operational infrastructure may process data needed to run Happily. The production backend is hosted at Render, and the service uses a database and server logs to operate and secure the app.

S3-compatible object storage may be used for profile photos, proof photos, restaurant media, and related uploads.

DeepSeek may process Smart Parse input when AI parsing is enabled. Email delivery providers may process support or owner-invite email if email delivery is enabled. Happily does not list a third-party advertising network or data broker as part of the service.

Paid Features And Permissions

Happily+ is an optional auto-renewable subscription for planning upgrades. Happily+ purchase is verified through Apple In-App Purchase and backend entitlement checks.

Paid features do not require unrelated permissions such as location, notifications, photos, contacts, or tracking. Some features work better when you choose to grant relevant permissions, such as location for nearby discovery, notifications for alerts, or photos for proof uploads.

Data Sharing

Happily may share information with service providers that help operate the app, including hosting, database, storage, maps, Sign in with Apple, StoreKit, push notifications, email delivery if enabled, AI-assisted draft organization if enabled, moderation, security, diagnostics, and customer support providers.

Public contributions, such as happy hour reports, confirmations, corrections, proof, comments, and related trust history, may be shown to other Happily users.

Happily may disclose information if required by law, to protect rights and safety, to prevent fraud or abuse, or in connection with a business transfer, subject to appropriate safeguards.

Data Used to Track You: None. Happily does not use personal data for third-party tracking, does not sell personal data, does not share user data with data brokers, and does not share location, user IDs, emails, or identifiers with third-party advertising networks for cross-app tracking.

User Controls

You can delete your account in the app and review account deletion details at https://happily-backend-3fir.onrender.com/legal/account-deletion.

You can revoke location, notifications, photos, camera, and other iOS permissions in iOS Settings. You can manage notification preferences in the app where available.

You can manage, cancel, or review Apple subscriptions through your Apple Account subscription settings. Restore Purchases is available in the app for Happily+.

For privacy questions, deletion support, access/export requests, or abuse reports, use in-app controls where available or visit https://happily-backend-3fir.onrender.com/legal/support.

Data Retention And Deletion

Happily keeps information for as long as needed to provide the app, maintain account and entitlement records, support happy hour accuracy, operate community trust history, respond to support requests, analyze performance, prevent abuse, comply with law, and resolve disputes.

When you delete your consumer account, Happily revokes active sessions, deletes private/personal rows where supported, removes notification and preference records where supported, removes App Store entitlement snapshots, deletes AI usage rows, and scrubs profile identity fields from the retained user record.

Public trust-history contributions such as happy hour reports, confirmations, corrections, proofs, comments, duplicate signals, and moderation reports may be retained after account deletion for accuracy, service integrity, moderation, abuse prevention, legal compliance, or dispute handling. Where supported, they appear without your name, handle, email, or profile photo.

Some operational logs, backups, legal records, security records, App Store transaction audit data, and moderation records may be retained for limited periods when needed for legal, security, fraud prevention, or service-integrity reasons.

Children And Responsible Use

Happily is intended for adults of legal drinking age and is not directed to children under 13.

Happily presents restaurant happy hour information for responsible adult use. Please drink responsibly and follow all applicable laws.

Effective Date And Contact

Effective date: June 16, 2026. Last updated: June 16, 2026.

Privacy contact and support: https://happily-backend-3fir.onrender.com/legal/support. Related pages: Terms https://happily-backend-3fir.onrender.com/legal/terms, EULA https://happily-backend-3fir.onrender.com/legal/eula, and Subscription Terms https://happily-backend-3fir.onrender.com/legal/subscription-terms.