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While the concept of this app is noble, why would anyone give up there phone number, full name and location to a site that says absolutely nothing about what they will do with that data.

There is a privacy policy and terms of use on the site, but those only cover use of the website itself and mostly just protect the site creator.

There is a significant revenue opportunity to gather this information and sell it and if that is the intent it should be clearly stated. If that isn't the intent, then they are potentially losing users by not yelling that from the rooftops.



Totally. We certainly have no intent to sell your phone number.

We only ask for your full name because we think that will better identify you in case of an emergency. (But you can put anything there.) And we actually don't need your location. We do need your phone number, though, so we can communicate with you on the go.

I'll think of ways to make this more clear.




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