Privacy
What we hold,
said plainly.
What we collect
- Your email address and name, from the sign-in method you choose. They never appear on your public card.
- Your profile: age, gender, city and country, profession, education, faith practice, the attributes and interests you choose to answer, your prompts, and your photos.
- Your approximate location, as coordinates, if you allow it.
- Your messages, swipes, matches, and who has viewed your profile.
- Occasions you post publicly, with their photos, names and comments.
Location and distance
If you allow location access, we store your coordinates so other members can see how many miles away you are. Your exact position is never sent to another member — the distance they see is rounded. You can switch distance off in Settings, or refuse location access entirely; the app works without it.
Photos, and the 72-hour rule
- Profile photos stay for as long as your account exists.
- Photos sent in chat, and verification selfies, are permanently deleted 72 hours after upload — unrecoverable afterwards, by you or by us. (One exception: the selfie that earned a verification badge is kept while the badge stands — see Face verification below.)
- Chat photos must be taken live inside the app; a picture from the gallery cannot be sent into a conversation.
- Photos on public Occasions posts are deleted with the post, 72 hours after it goes up.
- Within those 72 hours your own device may keep a local copy in the app; deleting the app removes it.
Messages and encryption — honestly
Message text is encrypted before it is stored, using AES-256-GCM. If our database were read directly, your conversations would be unreadable.
Message text is kept indefinitely unless you delete your account.
Face verification (biometric data)
Verification happens live, in the app — a picture from your gallery is refused. On most phones you are asked to follow a short sequence in a random order — look straight, turn, blink, smile — read directly from the camera, so a printed photo or a replayed video does not pass. On devices that cannot stream the camera, a single in-app selfie is used instead, which is a weaker check. Software then compares the captured face with the faces in your own profile photos; the verified badge is granted only on a match. Face comparison is used for identity verification and fraud prevention only — never for advertising, and never shared. Verification photos are never shown to other members.
What other members see — and never see
- Your profile, your photos, and a rounded distance. Never your email, never your coordinates.
- People you have not matched with cannot read your private messages.
- Occasions you post are visible to all signed-in members, with your first name.
- Blocked members disappear from your deck, and you from theirs.
Where your data lives
Jura runs on Cloudflare infrastructure: profiles and messages in Cloudflare D1, photos in Cloudflare R2. Face verification runs on a private Jura service; images pass through it for comparison and are not retained there. If you sign in with Google, Google confirms your identity to us — we never receive your Google password.
We do not sell your data. We do not show advertising. We do not share your information with third parties beyond the infrastructure named above, acting on our instructions.
Deleting your account
Settings → Account → Delete my account removes your profile, photos, matches and messages, immediately and permanently. Records of moderation actions are kept as a permanent audit trail. Full instructions: delete your account.
Age
Jura is for adults. You must be 18 or older. Accounts found to belong to anyone younger are removed.
Your rights
Write to us and a person will read it. We will tell you what we hold about you, correct it, or delete it: support@jura.best.