Portside Members App Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2026-11-09

The Portside members app (the "App") is a members' app for Portside Pottery, a membership pottery studio in Vancouver, Washington. It is made and run by Drew Leivan, a Portside member, with the studio's permission. This policy explains what the App stores, who can see it, where it goes, and how to delete it.

The short version: the App only holds what you and the studio put in it (your name, email, profile, and the pottery you share). Other members see your first name, last initial, profile and shared pieces. Studio staff see a little more, so they can run the studio. Nothing is sold, there are no ads, and nothing tracks you. You can delete your account from the App at any time.

Who can use the App

Only people the studio has added can sign in: members, studio staff, and (in time) students in the studio's classes. Staff add you by email. You sign in with a link or a 6-digit code sent to that email; there is no password.

What the App stores

All of this is stored in the App's database (Supabase, on Amazon Web Services in Oregon, United States).

About you, from the studio:

• Your email address, first and last name, whether you're a member, student or staff (and a staff role and job title), and the month you became a member.
• If the studio removes your access, when and by whom.

What you add:

• Your profile: an optional photo, a short bio, what you make, and what you're working on.
• Pieces you share: the photo, name, clay, glazes and how you applied them, an optional note, and the monthly challenge it's for, if any.
• Hearts you give pieces and kiln posts, thumbs-ups on studio notices, and events you mark "I'm going".
• Questions you send the studio (Ask the studio) and your replies to studio messages.
• Problem reports you send (for example, a wheel that isn't working).
• Your settings: which phone notifications you want and the events you asked to be reminded about.

From your phone:

• If you allow notifications, a notification address for your phone (an Expo push token), so the App can send studio notifications to it. Signing out or deleting your account removes it.

The App does not collect your location, contacts, browsing, device identifiers for tracking, or anything not listed here. It has no analytics, advertising or crash-reporting tools, and it does not track you across other apps or websites.

Who can see what

• Other members and staff see your first name and last initial, your profile, the pieces you share, your hearts (as counts), and the events you're going to. Problem reports show who sent them, so others can see a problem is already reported.
• Studio staff also see your full name, email, member-since month and whether you've signed in, so they can manage the studio's member list. They see the questions you send and the messages they send you, and they can hide a shared piece or profile photo that isn't suitable.
• Only you see your own settings and reminders, and your messages and questions are between you and the studio.
• The App's developer (Drew Leivan) can reach the database to keep the App running and fix problems, and looks at people's information only for that.

Photos: shared piece photos, profile photos and studio photos are stored so the App can show them quickly. Anyone who has a photo's exact web address can open it, but the addresses are long and random and are not listed or searchable. Don't share a photo you'd want kept completely private.

Services the App uses

• Supabase stores the database and photos (https://supabase.com/privacy).
• Resend sends the sign-in emails, from no-reply@mail.drewaveryceramics.com (https://resend.com/legal/privacy-policy).
• Expo (and Apple) deliver phone notifications and App updates (https://expo.dev/privacy). A notification contains its title and text, such as a studio message.
• portsidepottery.com: the App reads the studio's public class schedule from the studio's website. Nothing about you is sent.
• Discord: the App links to the members' Discord server. Discord has its own privacy policy; the App sends it nothing.

Your data is not sold or shared with anyone else.

Permissions the App may ask for

• Camera and photos, to take or choose a photo of your pottery or a profile photo. Only the photo you pick is uploaded.
• Calendar, to add a studio event to your phone's calendar when you tap "Add to my calendar". The App only adds events; it doesn't read your calendar.
• Notifications, for the studio notifications you choose (kiln unloaded, studio notices, event reminders, hearts on your pieces, the monthly challenge, and messages from the studio). You can turn each kind off on your profile, or all of them in your phone's Settings.

How long it's kept, and deleting it

Your information stays while you have an account. You can change your name, profile and settings, and edit or delete your shared pieces, at any time.

Delete my account (at the bottom of your profile) permanently removes your account and everything tied to it: your profile and photo, your shared pieces and their photos, your hearts, settings, questions, messages to you, and your sign-in. Studio notices or kiln posts written by staff stay up without the staff member's name. The studio can add you again later as a new account.

If the studio removes your access, your information stays until you or the studio ask for it to be deleted. To ask, email the address below.

Children

The App is for the studio's members and class students. It is not directed at children under 13, and the App does not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has an account, contact us and it will be deleted.

Changes to this policy

If what the App collects changes, this page and the date at the top will be updated, and members will be told in the App.

Contact

Questions or requests about your information: info@drewaveryceramics.com.