Privacy

Anything attached to a report can be seen by anyone, signed in or not:

• The photo you upload
• The category, description, and status
• The region, province, city/municipality, barangay, and street or landmark
• Coordinates, if you used “Use my current location”
• The display name on your account, and the time you reported

Assume a report is permanent and quotable. If you would not want it screenshotted, do not submit it.

• Your email address, if you signed in with Google — never shown publicly
• Anything you send through the contact form — only Tambuli admins read it
• Your IP address — we store only a one-way hash of it, used to rate-limit contact submissions. The address itself is never written down.

You can report without signing up. Tambuli creates a guest account automatically with a randomly generated name, which is what appears on your reports.

Signing in with Google links that account to your Google identity so your contributions carry over, and unlocks confirming other people's reports — a confirmation should mean a real, distinct person, not a fresh browser session. Your Google name and photo are not copied into your profile; your display name stays whatever you choose.

Location is requested only at the moment you tap “Use my current location” on the report form. There is no background tracking, and nothing is requested while you browse the map or feed.

When you do use it, the coordinates are sent once to OpenStreetMap's free geocoding service to turn them into an address. Every field it fills in stays editable, and you can always type the address manually instead.

Please photograph the problem, not people. Avoid faces, house numbers, plate numbers, and anything else that identifies a private individual. Reports that expose someone unnecessarily will be removed.

If a report includes something it should not — your face, your address, a mistake, or anything that puts someone at risk — contact us and choose Privacy or safety concern. Say which report and what needs to go. Safety takedowns are handled ahead of everything else.

You can also ask for your account and its reports to be deleted. Note that a report already forwarded to an LGU may exist in that office's records, which we can't reach.

Tambuli runs on Supabase (database, accounts, and file storage) and uses OpenStreetMap for maps and address lookup. Reports prepared for a local government unit are sent to that office by email. We do not sell your data, and we do not show ads on Tambuli.

To understand how many people use Tambuli and which parts are useful, we use Google Analytics (GA4). It records aggregate statistics — how many people visit, which pages they view, approximate location (city or region, from your IP address), device type, and how they reached the site. It uses cookies, and this data is processed by Google. We also have Google's demographics reporting enabled, which estimates an age range and gender for some visitors based on their own Google account settings.

This data is aggregate. It is never linked to a specific report, is not used to identify you, and is never used for advertising. You can opt out of Google Analytics with Google's opt-out browser add-on, and you can control ad personalization in your Google account settings.

Tambuli is intended for general public use and is not directed at children. Please don't create an account for a child.

If this policy changes in a way that affects what is collected or shown publicly, the date at the top will change and the difference will be described here.