Last updated 7 September 2026
Airport Crush shows you people who are in your airport terminal right now, and stops when your flight leaves. That is a lot of trust to ask for, so this page says plainly what is collected, what is never collected, and what happens to all of it when you take off.
This is the whole list. It matches the privacy manifest inside the app, which Apple publishes on the App Store listing.
| What | Why | Kept for |
|---|---|---|
| Your first name and date of birth | Your profile, and to check you are 18 or over and inside other people's age ranges. | Until you delete your account. |
| Gender, and who you would like to meet | Nobody is shown to you unless you are also someone they asked to meet. | Until you delete your account. |
| Precise location | To confirm you are inside the terminal. Asked for once at check-in, never in the background. | Not stored. Only the yes/no answer is. |
| Your boarding pass barcode | Flight number, route and date, to confirm you are flying today. | Flight, route, terminal and departure time. The passenger name and booking reference in the barcode are read and discarded. |
| Three photos | Your profile. Three, and no more. | Until you replace them or delete your account. |
| Your Instagram account | To show you are a real person. We read your handle, photo and follower count. We never post, and never read your messages. | Until you delete your account. |
| Your school, and optionally religion and politics | Shown on your profile and used in matching. The last two are optional and count only when both people have chosen to answer. | Until you delete your account or clear them. |
| Messages you send | To deliver them. | Until the first of the two flights departs. |
| Contacts — only if you turn it on | To show how many people you and someone else both know. Off by default. See below. | Scrambled fingerprints only, until you turn it off. |
The app asks for location only while you are using it, and only at check-in and when your presence is refreshed. There is no background tracking, no location history, and no monitoring of where you go.
When you check in, your phone sends its coordinates once. The server tests them against the outline of the terminal building and keeps a single true or false. The coordinates themselves are never written to the database. Location that is not kept cannot be leaked, subpoenaed, or sold.
Your gate is never involved at any point. It is not recorded even privately. If two people are in the same lounge, that is the most precise thing the app will ever say about where anybody is.
This is off unless you switch it on, and it is the only feature here that involves people who never signed up, so it works differently.
Your phone numbers never leave your device. Each one is scrambled on the phone into a fingerprint that cannot be turned back into a number, and only those fingerprints are sent. Matching compares fingerprints to fingerprints. The app never holds your address book, never learns any contact's name or number, and only ever shows a count — "3 mutual contacts", never who they are.
Turn it off and the fingerprints are deleted.
Both are optional, on a screen that says so, and "Rather not say" is a real answer that is stored as no answer at all. They are used in matching only when both people have chosen to disclose, and they are shown on your profile to the people who can already see you.
Under UK and EU law this is special-category data, and we rely on your explicit consent to hold it. You can clear either answer at any time from your profile, and doing so removes it.
When the first of your two flights departs, the conversation closes and you leave each other's boards. This is deliberate and cannot be turned off — it is the point of the app.
In the app: You → Delete account. It removes your profile, photos, trips, messages, matches and contact fingerprints. It is immediate and it is not reversible.
Two things survive, and you should know which. Reports other people have made about you are kept, because deleting your account should not erase a safety record. Messages you sent to someone else may remain in their conversation until it expires at takeoff, in the same way an email you sent stays in the other person's inbox.
You can report or block anyone from their profile or your conversation. Reporting also blocks them, immediately, without asking twice. We aim to review reports about safety or anyone under 18 within 24 hours. Reports are read by people, and they are not shown to the person reported.
Airport Crush runs on Supabase, on servers in Oregon, United States. If you are in the UK or EU, your information is transferred there and protected by standard contractual clauses.
We do not sell personal information, we do not share it with advertisers, and there is no advertising or third-party tracking in the app. The app does not ask for permission to track you, because it does not.
Wherever you live you can ask us for a copy of what we hold, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it — and if you are in the UK or EU you can also object to how we use it, ask us to restrict it, and complain to your data protection authority. Write to the address below and we will answer within 30 days.
Airport Crush is 18 and over. We do not knowingly hold information about anyone younger, and an account found to belong to someone under 18 is removed permanently rather than suspended.
Before the app opened, this site collected an email address, a home airport and an Instagram handle, to say when we launched and to decide which airport to launch at. That list is not merged with app accounts, is never sold, and you can ask to be removed at any time.
If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect or why, you will be told in the app before it takes effect, not by a silent edit to this page.
Privacy: privacy@getairportcrush.com
Safety: safety@getairportcrush.com