Dookie Deluxe is a personal gut-health tracker. What you log is some of the most private information you have, and we've built the app so that it stays yours: private by default, shared only when you explicitly choose to share it, and deletable at any time.
1. Who we are
Dookie Deluxe ("we", "us") is the data controller for the information described here. For any privacy question or request, email admin@dookiedeluxe.com.
2. What we collect
| Data | Why |
|---|---|
| Account details Email address, display name, optional profile photo |
To create your account, sign you in, and let people you invite recognise you. |
| Health entries Bowel movements (time, Bristol type, colour, volume, urgency, pain, blood, mucus, notes), water intake, meals and tags, medications and doses, symptoms |
This is the core function of the app — to record your entries and show you trends, streaks and your Gut Regularity Score. |
| Approximate location Latitude, longitude and a place name, attached to a bowel-movement entry |
Optional and off by default. Only collected if you turn on "Track dookie locations" in your profile, and only at the moment you save an entry. Used solely to draw your private Dookie Map. |
| Sharing relationships The email addresses you invite, and invitations sent to you |
To connect you with your "Dookie Dudes" and enforce who is allowed to see what. |
| Notification preferences | To send only the reminders and updates you asked for. |
| Waitlist email Collected on dookiedeluxe.com |
To email you once, when Dookie Deluxe reaches the App Store. Nothing else. |
| Donations The amount, your email address, and the name and message you choose to add, if you donate on the website |
To take the payment, send your receipt, say thank you, and keep the financial records the law requires. Donations are received by Godji Tech (Pty) Ltd, the South African company that makes Dookie Deluxe. They are separate from the app — donating does not create an account, is not linked to your health entries, and grants no Premium features. We never see your card details; Paystack handles the payment. |
We do not collect advertising identifiers, contacts, photos beyond a profile picture you choose, browsing history, or background location.
3. Sensitive data and your consent
Bowel, medication and symptom entries are health data, which receives special protection under laws such as the UK/EU GDPR. We process it on the basis of your explicit consent, given when you create an account and choose to log entries. You can withdraw that consent at any time by deleting your data or your account, as described in section 8.
4. How your data is stored
Your data lives in a Supabase-hosted PostgreSQL database, encrypted in transit (HTTPS/TLS) and at rest. Every table is protected by row-level security policies enforced by the database itself, not just by the app — meaning a request for someone else's records is rejected at the data layer.
Location data is kept separately
Dookie Map coordinates are stored in their own table with no read access granted to anyone but you. Even a Dookie Dude who can see your bowel-movement entries cannot see where they happened. That access only opens if you switch on "Share my Dookie Map", and it closes again the moment you switch it off.
5. Who can see your data
People you invite
You can invite someone by email to become a Dookie Dude. Once they accept, they can view your logged entries and calendar in read-only form — they can never edit or delete anything. You choose per category what they are notified about, and you can revoke their access at any time, which takes effect immediately.
Service providers
We use a small number of processors to run the service: Supabase (database, authentication and file storage), Expo (app delivery, over-the-air updates and push notifications), Netlify (website hosting and the early-access form), Resend (sending the confirmation email when you join the waitlist), Sentry (crash reports, with personal data collection switched off) and Paystack (card payments for donations made on the website, through Godji Tech's account). These providers process data on our instructions only.
Paystack is also its own data controller for the card payment itself, and has its own privacy policy. From it we receive the amount, your email address and whatever name and message you typed into the donation form — never card or bank details. Please leave health details out of that message: it is kept with our payment records, not with your account. Donation records are kept for as long as South African tax law requires us to keep financial records. If you supported us earlier through another platform, we still hold the name, email and message you gave it then. To have a supporter record removed (where the law allows), email admin@dookiedeluxe.com.
Nobody else
We do not sell, rent or trade your personal data. We do not share it with advertisers or data brokers. We would only disclose data if legally compelled to do so, or to protect someone's safety.
6. Notifications
With your permission the app sends local reminders (for example, an evening nudge if you haven't logged) and updates about your Dookie Dudes' activity. Reminder scheduling happens on your device. You can turn any of these off in the app, or revoke notification permission in your device settings.
7. How long we keep it
We keep your entries for as long as your account exists, because the point of the app is your long-term history. Delete an individual entry and it is removed immediately. Delete your account and all associated records — entries, locations, sharing relationships and preferences — are permanently deleted within 30 days.
8. Your rights and how to use them
Depending on where you live, you have the right to access your data, correct it, delete it, export a copy, restrict or object to processing, and withdraw consent. In practice:
- Delete an entry — tap it in the app and delete.
- Stop sharing — remove a Dookie Dude in the app; their access ends at once.
- Stop location collection — turn off "Track dookie locations" in your profile.
- Export or delete everything — email admin@dookiedeluxe.com and we'll action it within 30 days.
If you believe we've mishandled your data, you can complain to your local data protection authority — in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).
9. Children
Dookie Deluxe is not intended for children under 13 (or under 16 where local law sets that threshold), and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will remove it.
10. International transfers
Our providers may process data in countries outside your own, including the United States. Where that happens, transfers are covered by appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses.
11. Changes to this policy
If we make a material change we'll update the date at the top of this page and, where the change meaningfully affects you, notify you in the app before it takes effect.
12. Contact
Questions, requests or complaints: admin@dookiedeluxe.com.