Gerany shows you content from neighbors near you, so it needs location permission from your device.
- Every post is tagged with its author's location at posting time, and appears to neighbors who have it within their radius.
- Neighbors never see your exact location — only a coarse distance like "2 km away".
- Your phone number is never shown to anyone.
- Your feed range adjusts automatically to neighbor density — as more neighbors join, it narrows to people truly nearby.
01
What neighbors can and cannot see
Neighbors can see: your display name, @username, photo, bio, your public posts and comments, and a coarse distance like "2 km away".
Neighbors can never see: your phone number, your email, your exact location, or your address. Phone numbers are never exchanged — even when you message or call each other.
Extra protections that are always on:
- Every stored location point has random jitter added, so even our own database never holds your exact spot.
- Distances shown to others are rounded, never precise.
02
Control who can reach you
1. Open Privacy & data from your profile menu.
2. Who can message me / Who can call me — choose Everyone, People I've interacted with, or No one.
3. Hide my distance — neighbors see just "nearby" instead of a distance.
4. Appear in search — turn off and nobody can find you by name.
5. To silence one specific person, open their profile and block them — they can no longer message, call, or see your activity, and they are not told.
03
Go quiet for a while
Ghost mode pauses your presence without deleting anything:
1. Open Privacy & data → Ghost mode.
2. While it's on, you have no last-seen, and you're hidden from search.
3. Turn it off any time — everything returns exactly as it was.
04
See, download, or delete your data
1. Download my data (in Privacy & data) gives you a complete export of everything Gerany holds about you.
2. Consent history shows every agreement version you accepted, when, and in which language.
3. Sign-in history lists every sign-in with time, device, and network address — if you see one you don't recognize, change your password and use Sign out everywhere.
4. Delete my account deactivates you immediately and permanently erases everything after 30 days. Changed your mind? Sign in again within those 30 days and your account is restored.