Stiska privacy policy

Effective date: 12 November 2026

Stiska helps you find the nearest public toilet in Serbia. It is made by Oriens, an independent developer (“I”, “me”). Stiska has no user accounts and does not ask for your name, email address or phone number. This page explains what data the app uses and why.

Your location

• Stiska asks for your location only while the app is open, to show the toilets nearest to you and to guide you there. It does not use your location in the background.
• Your location is sent to my server to find nearby places and to calculate a walking route. It is used only to answer that request and is not stored. The server logs do not record your location or your IP address.
• If you do not allow location access, the app shows central Belgrade instead.

Device identifier

On first use, the app creates a random identifier and keeps it on your phone. It is not linked to your phone’s hardware, your Google account or advertising IDs. The app sends it with ratings, reports and new places so that one phone counts once (for example, one rating per place) and to limit abuse. The server stores only a one-way, salted hash of this identifier, never the identifier itself.

What you add

• Ratings: a score from 1 to 5 for a place, stored with the hashed device identifier.
• Reports: the reason you report a place, stored with the hashed device identifier. A place is hidden after several different devices report it.
• New places: the place’s position and details you enter, stored with the hashed device identifier. New places are visible to all users.

Stiska has no free-text comments, photos or messages.

Data on your phone

The app keeps the device identifier, your last list of nearby places (so it can work without a connection) and your preferred navigation view. Uninstalling the app or clearing its data removes all of this.

Third parties

• Map tiles: the map images are loaded from OpenFreeMap. Like any website, their servers receive your IP address and the map area being loaded.
• Place data: the starting list of toilets comes from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL).

I do not sell or share your data, and Stiska contains no advertising, analytics or tracking.

Storage and retention

The app’s server runs on a virtual server that I rent from a hosting provider. Ratings, reports and places are kept while the app is in service. Database backups are kept for 14 days and then deleted automatically.

Your choices

Because I hold no name or contact details, I cannot link data to you personally. You can stop all data collection by uninstalling the app. If you would like a rating, report or place you added to be removed, contact me and describe it (the place and roughly when you added it), and I will remove it.

Children

Stiska is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect data from them.

Changes

If this policy changes, I will update this page and its effective date.

Contact

Oriens · zodi.janos@gmail.com