Privacy Policy
Effective date: September 12, 2026
Bear Logic LLC ("Bear Logic," "we," "us," or "our") operates the Yak mobile application (the "Service"). This Privacy Policy describes how Yak collects, uses, and protects information when you use the Service.
1. Information We Collect
Account information. When you create an account, we may collect your name, email address, and a user identifier associated with your account.
Profile and user content. You may choose to upload a profile photo and photos related to climbs or trip reports. You may also submit notes, route information, and other content within the app. Content you submit may be shown publicly to other users within the Service, including as representative or thumbnail imagery for mountains, routes, and quests.
Activity and app usage. We collect information about how you use the Service, such as planned or completed climbs, quest progress, product interactions (for example, sign-in, account creation, and onboarding steps), and support messages you send us.
Location. If you enable location services, we may collect precise or approximate location data to provide mapping, navigation, and related features.
Device information. We may collect device identifiers, operating system version, app version, and similar technical data needed to operate the Service, deliver push notifications, maintain security, and measure performance.
Push notifications. If you allow notifications, we store a device token so we can send alerts such as trip reminders or activity on content you follow.
Email. If you create an account, we may send account-related emails (such as password resets) and occasional lifecycle emails about Yak (for example, a welcome note from our team). You can opt out of non-essential lifecycle emails using the unsubscribe link in those messages.
2. How We Use Information
We use collected information to provide and maintain the Service, personalize your experience, deliver maps and tracking features, send notifications you request, improve features, communicate with users, measure app performance, understand how the Service is used, support advertising and marketing measurement (including campaign attribution), ensure security, prevent fraud, enforce our Terms, and comply with legal obligations.
3. Third-Party Service Providers
Yak does not sell personal information. We use trusted service providers that process information on our behalf to operate the Service, including:
Supabase — account authentication, database hosting, and storage for app data.
Resend — delivery of lifecycle and administrative emails on our behalf.
Mapbox — map tiles and location-based mapping features. Map requests may include approximate location and device or network information needed to load maps.
Meta (Facebook) — app analytics and advertising measurement. Meta may receive identifiers such as your user ID, device identifiers, and information about app events (for example, account registration, sign-in, and onboarding completion) to help us understand installs, usage, and the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.
Anthropic (Claude) — generation of the AI-written "trends" summary shown on your profile. When this feature runs, we send Anthropic a limited set of facts about your own completed climbs (such as mountain names, ranges, difficulty grades, elevations, and climb dates) so its Claude model can write a short summary about your climbing history. We do not send your name, email, photos, personal notes, or precise location. Anthropic processes this data only to return the summary and, under its commercial API terms, does not use it to train its models. Anthropic's privacy policy is available at anthropic.com/legal/privacy.
We may also share information when required by law, to protect our rights, or in connection with a business transaction such as a merger or acquisition.
4. AI-Generated Content
Yak includes an optional profile feature that displays a short, AI-written summary of your own climbing history (the "trends" summary). This summary is generated by a third-party AI model provided by Anthropic (Claude). It is created only from facts about your completed climbs, as described under "Third-Party Service Providers" above; we never send your name, email, photos, personal notes, or precise location to generate it.
The summary is clearly labeled as written by AI within the app. AI-generated text can be inaccurate or incomplete and is provided for interest only, not as advice. You can report a summary you believe is wrong or inappropriate using the "Report" control shown with it; reporting removes the current summary and lets a new one be generated. This feature does not let you chat with or send free-form prompts to the AI.
5. Tracking and Your Choices
On iOS, Yak may ask for permission to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites for advertising and analytics purposes, in accordance with Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework. You can allow or deny this request. You can also change your choice at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
If you deny tracking permission, we and our partners may still collect limited analytics and device information as described in this policy for app functionality, security, and aggregated measurement where permitted by your device settings and applicable law.
You can manage location permissions and push notifications in your device settings. You may opt out of Yak lifecycle emails using the unsubscribe link in those emails. You may request account deletion as described below.
6. Data Retention and Deletion
We retain information for as long as necessary to provide the Service and fulfill legal obligations. You may request deletion of your account and associated personal information by contacting hello@yakapp.co, subject to applicable legal requirements.
7. Data Security
We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect information. However, no method of electronic transmission or storage is completely secure.
8. Children's Privacy
Yak is a general-audience app rated for ages 9 and up. We do not direct the Service to children under 13 for the purpose of collecting personal information, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from a child under 13 without verifiable parental consent as required by the U.S. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and similar laws. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child under 13 has provided us personal information without your consent, please contact us at hello@yakapp.co and we will delete it.
The AI-generated trends summary described above is created only from facts about a user's own recorded climbs, is labeled as AI-written, includes a reporting control, and does not allow open-ended conversation with the AI. We are committed to using these AI services responsibly for all users, including minors, consistent with our providers' requirements for products that may be used by younger audiences.
9. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the effective date above. Continued use of the Service after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.