Privacy
Jig is a small app in its first trial. This page says, in plain words, what we keep, why, who can see it and how to have it deleted. Jig is run by its founder, in India, who is responsible for your data until Jig becomes a company. Questions or complaints (our grievance contact): hello.jigapp@gmail.com.
What we keep
- Your account: your email address and password. Sign-in is handled by Supabase.
- Your profile: the name you give, your @handle, and your answers when you joined: date of birth, country, stage, interests, goal, budget and equipment.
- Your agreement: which version of the “Before your mentor starts” screen you agreed to, and when.
- Your builds: the projects you start and how, the steps you tick, and whether you opened the code for a step.
- Work you send for review: photos, code and your own explanation for each step, and the reviews of it.
- Mentor chats, quizzes, certificates and project pages, when you use them.
- Who you follow and who follows you.
On your own device, your browser keeps three small cookies: your theme, the build you opened last, and, for up to an hour, the page to take you back to after you sign in. It also keeps your sign-in. Bench-mode ticks, parts you’ve marked as in hand, lab journal entries, the mentor panel setting and whether you’ve seen the opening scene stay in this browser only; we never receive them.
Jig has no advertising and no third-party trackers.
What we count
To see what helps people build, Jig counts page visits and a few taps (ticking a build action, opening the code, the 3D model, the serial monitor or the mentor) in its own database. No other company receives them, and no cookie is used for it: a random id that lives only in the open tab ties one visit together. If you’re signed in, the counts are linked to your account; if you aren’t, they aren’t linked to anyone, and signing in starts a new id so earlier visits stay unlinked. Page addresses are kept without anything after the “?”; some addresses include a build, project or @handle id. The sign-up agreement and onboarding screens aren’t counted. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control, nothing is counted. Counts are deleted after 13 months.
Why we use it
- Account: to sign you in and send account emails, such as confirming your email or resetting your password.
- Profile: to suggest builds that fit your stage, budget and equipment, to show your name to people you share with, and to check the trial’s age and country limits.
- Builds, work and reviews: to save your progress, let a reviewer check your work, and give you certificates and project pages.
- Mentor chats: to answer your questions about your build, once the mentor is switched on.
- Follows: to show you your friends’ accepted work, and them yours.
We don’t sell your data or use it for advertising.
Who can see it
- Your builds start private. For each build you choose Only me, Followers or Everyone on your Profile. Team builds stay private.
- What a shared build shows: only steps a reviewer accepted, with one photo and your own words. Drafts and mentor chats stay private.
- Your name and @handle are on your maker page. Anyone signed in to Jig can open it; people who aren’t signed in can only if one of your builds is set to Everyone.
- Followers means anyone signed in who follows you. You can remove a follower any time.
- Your photos are stored privately. You, your team and reviewers can see them, plus the one photo per accepted step on a build you share.
- A project page link (from Certificates) can be opened by anyone who has it. It shows the build, its accepted steps, your words and your name. There’s no button to turn a link off yet: email us and we will.
- Jig’s team: reviewers see the work you send for review, and we may read mentor chats to check the mentor teaches well.
Where it’s stored, and who handles it
- Supabase stores your account, data and photos, in Mumbai, India.
- Vercel hosts the app. Its server code runs in Mumbai too.
- Google (Gmail) sends our account emails.
- Anthropic (Claude) will power the AI mentor and AI review. They are not switched on yet, so nothing is sent to Anthropic today. Once they are, the photos, code and chats you send to the mentor go to Anthropic’s API, as the agreement screen says. Under Anthropic’s commercial terms it may not train its models on that content, and it deletes API data within 30 days unless it’s flagged for misuse or the law requires keeping it.
These companies may keep short technical logs, such as IP addresses, to run and protect their services.
How we protect it
Every connection to Jig is encrypted (HTTPS). Supabase stores passwords only as one-way hashes, never as plain text. Photos sit in private storage, and database rules stop one account from reading another’s private data. Only the founder can reach the admin tools.
Your choices and rights
- See, copy, correct or delete your data: email hello.jigapp@gmail.com from the address you signed up with. There’s no delete or download button in the app yet.
- Change it yourself: your @handle, who sees each build, who you follow and who follows you, any time, on your Profile and Friends tabs.
- Withdraw your agreement: ask us to delete your account. Jig can’t work without the data above, so withdrawing means closing the account.
We reply within 7 days and finish within 15 days. We keep your data while your account exists and delete it when you ask; nothing is deleted automatically.
Instagram auto-replies
When you comment a keyword such as JIG on one of our Instagram posts, our auto-reply sends you a direct message with a link. To do that it keeps your Instagram user ID and name, your comment and whether the message was sent, plus a click record (hashed IP address and browser type) if you open the link. We use these only to send that message and to count how many people open the link. This runs on our own small server in India, not on Supabase, and is kept until you ask us to delete it or we stop the auto-replies.
Don’t want messages from us? Message us on Instagram or email us and we’ll stop. How to have it deleted.
Age
During the trial, Jig is for people aged 18 and over in India.
Changes
If this page changes, the date at the top changes too. If a change affects how your data is used, we’ll tell you in the app or by email first.