We help you find a bathroom. Anything beyond that only happens with your explicit permission — and you can always say no.
No accounts, and we never sell your personal information. Tracking happens only if you explicitly allow it — and saying no changes nothing about how the app works.
On iOS, Throne asks for permission to track. If you allow it, your device identifier and usage data may be used to improve the app and help keep it free. If you tap "Ask App Not to Track," we don't — full stop. You can change your mind anytime in iOS Settings → Privacy → Tracking.
When you allow it, your location is used to show nearby bathrooms and calculate routes. It is processed in the moment and never stored. For directions, your coordinates are sent anonymously to our routing service (OpenRouteService) — just two points on a map, with no identity attached.
Crown ratings, problem reports, feature additions, and new bathrooms you submit are stored in our database completely anonymously. There is no way for us — or anyone — to connect them to you.
If you use the smart search, your search text (and nothing else) is sent to Anthropic's Claude to understand what you're looking for. Voice input is converted to text by your device or browser; we never receive or store audio.
To understand which features help and where the world needs more bathrooms, Throne records anonymous events — a search happened, a navigation started — with locations rounded to about a kilometer before they ever leave your device. These events contain no identifiers of any kind and cannot be traced to you. We may publish or license aggregate insights (like "bathroom deserts" by city); your personal data is never part of that, because we never have it.
Supabase hosts our database. Map tiles come from CARTO and OpenStreetMap. Facts come from Wikipedia. Routing comes from OpenRouteService. Each receives only the minimum needed to do its job — never your identity.