BHive is an independent student app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or run by the American University of Bahrain (AUBH). This notice explains what we collect, why, who sees it, and how you can delete it. Use of BHive is also covered by our Terms of Use.
1. Who we are
The operator of BHive is ZAYMAR LLC, a limited liability company registered in Florida, USA, with its address at 7901 4th St N, Ste 30170, St Petersburg, FL 33702, USA ("we", "us"). For privacy questions or requests, write to support@bhivecampus.com.
2. Who can use BHive
BHive is for people aged 18 or over with an @aubh.edu.bh email address. You confirm you are 18+ when you set up your profile. If we learn someone under 18 has an account, we will delete it.
3. What we collect
| What | How it comes to us |
|---|---|
| Your AUBH email address | You enter it to sign in. We send you a one-time code. The email is used to sign you in and is not shown to other students. |
| Display name | You choose it. Please do not use your email or student ID. Other students see it. |
| Courses | You choose them yourself ("self-declared"). We do not check them against AUBH records. Only you can see your own course list; others cannot. |
| Clubs, teams, events | Clubs you join or create, events you create or join, check-in codes, and whether you were checked in. This gives you badges and a weekly attendance streak. |
| Posts and messages | Feed posts, lost-and-found posts, club chats, course chats and private messages (DMs) you send. |
| Poll votes | Your vote in the daily poll. Totals are shown, never who voted for what. |
| Zone presence (optional, off by default) | If you turn it on, you tell us which campus area you are in (for example Library or Cafeteria). We never use GPS or measure distance. It expires automatically after 2 hours, and you can hide yourself at any time. |
| Reports and blocks | Reports you make or that are made about you, and the people you block. |
| Sign-up record | When you confirmed you are 18+ and accepted the Terms and this Notice. |
| Settings | Your notification switches. |
| Technical records | Counters and timestamps used for rate limits (for example, how many posts you made in the last hour) and standard security logs kept by our hosting provider. |
We do not collect GPS location, contacts, photos from your phone, or your student ID number.
4. Why we use it
- To let you sign in and keep the app limited to AUBH students.
- To run the features you use: events, clubs, feed, chat, polls, badges.
- To keep people safe: word filter, reports, blocks, bans, rate limits and stopping spam and abuse.
- To answer your requests and comply with the law.
We do not use your data for advertising, we do not track you for ads, and we never sell your data.
5. Zone presence: how it is limited
Presence is off unless you switch it on. By default other students only see counts per area (for example "5 in the Library"). Your name is shown only if you turn on a second setting ("show my name"), and then only to people in your clubs or people you already message. People you block, and people who block you, never see you. Presence is never sent live; it is checked when someone looks, and it ends after 2 hours.
6. Who sees what
- Other students see your display name, the clubs and public posts you join or make, badges and attendance counts, and messages sent to them or to chats they are in.
- Club and event hosts see names (not emails) of members and of people who joined or checked in to their event.
- BHive administrators can see reports and the content reported, and can hide content and ban accounts. Our administrators can technically reach the database where messages are stored. We will only look at private messages when needed to handle a report, keep people safe or meet a legal duty.
- Our service providers process data for us: Supabase (database and sign-in, servers in the EU, Frankfurt, Germany), Hostinger (email: sends sign-in codes and hosts our support mailbox), and Stripe (payments, only once paid tickets are offered; we never see your full card number). They may only use data to provide their service to us.
- Authorities, if the law requires.
AUBH does not receive your data from us.
7. Storage outside Bahrain
Your data is stored by Supabase on servers in the European Union (Frankfurt, Germany). That means your personal data is transferred outside Bahrain. We ask for your consent to this when you create your profile (you tick a box to accept the Terms, this Notice and storage in the EU). If you do not agree, please do not use BHive.
8. How long we keep data
Your data is kept while your account exists. Presence ends after 2 hours. Rate-limit counters are short-lived. Security logs kept by our providers are deleted on their normal schedule, within 90 days. Deleted data may remain in provider backups until they expire, normally within 30 days.
9. Deleting your account
- In the app, open Profile and choose Request account deletion, then confirm.
- The app shows a confirmation that your request was sent. You can cancel the request until it is carried out.
- A BHive administrator deletes your account within 7 days.
What is deleted: your profile, display name, courses, clubs memberships, presence, settings, check-in codes, poll votes, DM requests, your private messages (DMs), and your sign-in record. You are signed out everywhere.
What stays after deletion:
- Your posts and group-chat messages (club and course chats) stay, but are anonymised and shown as "Deleted user".
- A report about you, if someone made one, is kept in minimal form so we can handle abuse.
- If you were banned, your banned email address is kept so a banned person cannot simply sign up again.
- A basic deletion record without your name or email (type of deletion, dates, which administrator acted).
- Clubs you ran alone: leadership passes to another member; if no one is left, the club and its chat are deleted.
10. Your rights
You can ask us to give you access to your data, correct it, delete it, or stop using it for a purpose, and you can withdraw your consent at any time (deleting your account does this). Write to support@bhivecampus.com. We will reply within 30 days. You may also complain to the Bahrain Personal Data Protection Authority.
11. Safety, moderation and limits
- A word filter blocks some abusive text.
- You can report posts, messages and users, and block people. Blocks work both ways: neither of you sees the other.
- We review reports within 24 hours. We may hide content and ban accounts that break the rules.
- Rate limits cap how much you can post, message or request per hour or day, to stop spam.
12. Security
Access to data is controlled in the database itself: you can only reach what the rules allow, and we do not give the app any master keys. No system is perfectly secure. If a breach affects you, we will tell you and the authorities as the law requires.
13. Changes
If we change this Notice in a way that matters, we will tell you in the app before it applies. The date above shows the latest version.
14. Contact
ZAYMAR LLC · support@bhivecampus.com · 7901 4th St N, Ste 30170, St Petersburg, FL 33702, USA