OshiAtlas is an anime convention and community application provided by Building Buddies LLC (“Building Buddies,” “we,” “us,” or “our”).
This Privacy Policy explains how information is handled when you use OshiAtlas, including its convention, community, profile, location, and related features.
1. Information You Provide
Depending on the features you choose to use, OshiAtlas may process information such as:
- Your display name
- Your email address when provided through Sign in with Apple
- Account and authentication information
- Convention-board memberships and preferences
- Community posts and replies
- Reports and blocks associated with community-safety features
- Acceptance of Community Terms
- Locally saved convention, character, or voice-actor preferences
- Profile and cosplay photos you select in the native mobile app
- Cosplay drafts, captions, and related locally saved information
- A home-state preference used for convention filtering
- Information you voluntarily send when contacting support
OshiAtlas does not require an account simply to browse all available app content. Certain community features require an account.
2. Accounts and Authentication
OshiAtlas supports platform-specific community accounts.
On iOS, OshiAtlas uses Sign in with Apple. Apple may provide OshiAtlas with an identity identifier, name, and email address depending on your Apple account and sharing choices.
On Android, OshiAtlas creates a community profile using the display name you choose and a randomly generated credential used to identify and authenticate that profile.
OshiAtlas stores account identifiers, authentication information, display names, account timestamps, and related information necessary to provide and secure community features.
Authentication credentials stored on your device are protected using platform-provided secure storage where applicable.
OshiAtlas does not operate its own password-based login system and does not receive your Apple ID password.
3. Community Boards and Public Content
OshiAtlas includes convention-centered community boards.
Convention-board content is public and may be read without signing in or joining the convention board.
When you post or reply, publicly visible information may include:
- Your display name
- Your post or reply
- The date and time of the post
- Information necessary to organize posts and replies into discussions
Do not post information that you do not want publicly visible.
Your email address, authentication credentials, and Apple identity identifier are not displayed as part of public board posts.
OshiAtlas does not currently provide private direct messaging.
4. Convention Memberships and Preferences
If you join a convention board, OshiAtlas stores information associated with your account, including the convention joined, applicable community terms acceptance, notification/reply preferences, and related timestamps.
Some favorites and following preferences are stored locally on your device rather than in your community account.
Leaving a convention board removes the applicable membership but does not by itself delete your OshiAtlas community account or other content that is not part of that membership.
5. Community Safety, Reporting, Blocking, and Moderation
OshiAtlas provides tools intended to support community safety, including:
- Community Terms
- Content filtering
- Posting rate limits
- User reporting
- Blocking
- Automated hiding after applicable reports
- Staff moderation
Reports may contain identifiers for the reporting user, the reported content, the reason for the report, timestamps, and moderation-review information.
Blocking information is stored so OshiAtlas can personalize what content is displayed to the user who created the block.
Authorized moderators may review reported content, associated display names, report information, and moderation status.
These systems are intended to support community safety but cannot guarantee that all inappropriate or objectionable content will be detected or removed immediately.
6. Photos and Cosplay Information
In the native OshiAtlas mobile app, profile and cosplay photos you select are stored locally in OshiAtlas-controlled app storage. The current native photo feature does not intentionally upload those photos to the OshiAtlas community backend.
Your device's operating system and photo-selection services may separately process information according to their own functionality and privacy practices.
OshiAtlas also has a separate web-based profile feature that can upload a user-selected profile photo to OshiAtlas's hosted storage. That web flow is separate from the native mobile photo feature.
Original photos in your device's photo library are not deleted when you remove OshiAtlas's local copy.
7. Location
OshiAtlas offers an optional Near Me feature to help filter conventions by state.
Location access is requested only after you choose to use the location feature. Manual state selection remains available if you prefer not to provide location permission.
On the inspected Android implementation, OshiAtlas requests approximate/coarse foreground location rather than precise or background location.
On iOS, OshiAtlas requests foreground location access. The precision available to the app can depend on your operating-system settings.
OshiAtlas uses platform location and geocoding services to determine a state from your location. OshiAtlas stores the resulting state preference locally.
OshiAtlas does not intentionally upload your latitude or longitude to the OshiAtlas community backend.
Apple, Google, your device manufacturer, or other platform/location providers may process location information when providing location or geocoding services according to their own practices.
OshiAtlas does not use background location tracking.
8. Notifications and Reply Alerts
The current native OshiAtlas mobile app does not use a mobile push-notification service or register a mobile push token.
When you use a community account, OshiAtlas may check for recent replies associated with your community activity and display an in-app alert.
The OshiAtlas web experience may provide browser notifications when you have granted browser notification permission and the applicable web page is running.
These features should not be interpreted as guaranteed background or real-time notification delivery.
9. How We Use Information
Building Buddies uses OshiAtlas information as necessary to:
- Create and authenticate community accounts
- Provide public convention boards
- Display posts and replies
- Maintain convention memberships
- Provide community preferences
- Operate reporting, blocking, filtering, and moderation
- Provide reply-alert functionality
- Provide location-based convention filtering when requested
- Maintain application security
- Respond to support requests
- Provide and improve OshiAtlas's core functionality
OshiAtlas does not use your information for targeted advertising or cross-app advertising profiling.
10. Where Information Is Stored
OshiAtlas uses a combination of local device storage and hosted infrastructure.
Local information may include preferences, saved state information, native profile/cosplay photos, drafts, and authentication credentials.
Community accounts, memberships, public posts and replies, reports, blocks, terms acceptance, and associated preferences are stored off-device using OshiAtlas's backend infrastructure.
OshiAtlas currently uses Cloudflare infrastructure, including database and storage services, to operate portions of its backend and web functionality.
Sign in with Apple uses Apple's identity services.
Device location and geocoding features use applicable operating-system and platform services.
11. Analytics, Advertising, and Tracking
The current OshiAtlas implementation does not include third-party advertising networks, cross-app advertising trackers, or an app-configured analytics service for behavioral marketing.
OshiAtlas does not use your community information for targeted advertising.
Operating systems, hosting providers, distribution platforms, and other infrastructure providers may process ordinary operational information such as network or diagnostic information according to their own services and policies.
12. Data Retention
Community information is generally retained for as long as necessary to provide the applicable account/community functionality or until an available deletion control is used.
OshiAtlas does not currently apply a universal automatic expiration period to community accounts or all community content.
Authentication sessions have limited validity, although technical session records may remain until applicable cleanup occurs.
Content hidden by moderators may be retained for moderation and safety purposes while being excluded from public display.
Infrastructure providers may maintain operational logs or backups according to their own configurations and retention practices.
13. Deleting Your Posts and Replies
OshiAtlas allows users to delete their own community content.
When you delete your own reply, OshiAtlas removes that reply and its associated report records from the active application database.
When you delete your own root post, OshiAtlas removes the root post, its direct replies, and applicable report records from the active application database.
Content previously copied, quoted, screenshotted, or otherwise saved by another person or external service is outside OshiAtlas's control.
Moderator-hidden content is handled separately from ordinary user-requested deletion and may be retained for moderation purposes while remaining unavailable in public board responses.
14. Clearing Local OshiAtlas Data
OshiAtlas provides a control to Clear Local OshiAtlas Data.
This can remove OshiAtlas-controlled local preferences, drafts, locally saved photos, credentials, and other applicable local app information.
Clearing local data does not delete a remote OshiAtlas community account or public community content.
If you have a community account and want to delete it, use the separate community-account deletion function while authenticated.
If you cannot regain access to the applicable account, contact us at support@buildingbuddiesstudio.com.
15. Deleting Your OshiAtlas Community Account
Authenticated users may request deletion of their OshiAtlas community account through the app.
Account deletion removes applicable OshiAtlas-controlled active community-account information, including associated sessions, memberships, blocks, authored community content, and applicable reports and account records.
For accounts using Sign in with Apple, OshiAtlas must complete the required Apple authorization-revocation process before OshiAtlas's account deletion can be confirmed.
If deletion cannot be completed, OshiAtlas will not intentionally represent the remote account as successfully deleted.
After remote account deletion, OshiAtlas also attempts to clear applicable local app information.
Account deletion does not constitute a forensic deletion of your device and cannot delete:
- Copies or screenshots made by other users
- Information independently shared with third parties
- Original photos in your photo library
- Operating-system or temporary caches outside OshiAtlas's control
- Third-party provider records
- Infrastructure logs or backups that OshiAtlas cannot immediately erase through the application
- Separate accounts or data maintained by Apple or other external services
16. Device Backups
The current hardened Android configuration is designed to exclude OshiAtlas-controlled app preferences, databases, files, saved images, and authentication information from Android cloud-backup and device-transfer mechanisms supported by the application configuration.
This configuration applies to new builds using the hardened configuration and does not guarantee deletion of any backup that may have been created previously.
Backup behavior can also depend on the operating system, device, provider, and platform.
Equivalent iOS backup behavior should not be inferred from the Android configuration.
17. Children and Age Requirements
OshiAtlas community participation is intended for users 13 years of age or older.
OshiAtlas does not currently collect your date of birth or technically verify your age.
Users who participate in OshiAtlas community features are required to comply with the age requirements stated in the Community Terms and obtain parental or guardian consent where required.
OshiAtlas is not intended for children under 13.
18. External Links
OshiAtlas may provide links to convention organizers, anime-related sources, retailers, and other third-party websites.
When you choose to open an external link, the destination website or service may receive information ordinarily associated with a web request and will operate under its own privacy practices.
Building Buddies does not control the privacy practices of third-party websites.
19. Security
Building Buddies uses technical and organizational measures intended to protect information handled by OshiAtlas, including authenticated access to private account functions and platform-provided secure storage for certain credentials.
No system can guarantee absolute security.
You should protect access to your device and OshiAtlas account and avoid posting sensitive personal information on public community boards.
20. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as OshiAtlas evolves.
If changes materially affect how personal information is collected, used, stored, or shared, we will update this policy and provide notices or obtain consent where required.
The effective date at the top of this policy indicates when it was most recently updated.
21. Contact Us
OshiAtlas is provided by:
Building Buddies LLC
Building Buddies Studio
support@buildingbuddiesstudio.com
For privacy questions, account-deletion assistance, community concerns, or other support requests, contact us at the email address above.