Data Storage and Security Remaply is designed to operate across the Pacific region, and its privacy protocols are structured to respect the privacy expectations and sovereignty of Pacific Island nations. While data services are centralized, we apply regionally aware privacy considerations and operate within applicable cross-border data principles. • Primary Storage Jurisdiction: All core data infrastructure is hosted on Google Cloud Platform within Australia. This regional anchoring supports compliance with Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) and aligns with regional data localization goals. • Operational Dependencies: Certain system operations including code deployment, telemetry monitoring, and push notification services may rely on platform-level services based in the United States (e.g., Vercel, Firebase, Apple App Store, Google Play Services). These services are subject to U.S. data processing frameworks but are scoped to pseudonymized operational metadata where possible. • Pacific Island Nation Applicability: Users across Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and other participating island states are subject to the same privacy controls and transparency practices, regardless of national origin or local data laws. Where necessary, we will work with local authorities to align with evolving regional legislation. In all cases, data transfer between jurisdictions follows encrypted transport protocols (TLS 1.3+), strict role-based access, and auditable logging procedures to ensure integrity and accountability across international boundaries. • In addition to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), portions of the Remaply codebase, app deployment infrastructure, and user interaction analytics may also be hosted on Vercel’s edge platform for front-end optimization. Mobile applications are distributed via the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, with usage and diagnostic data stored in regionalized infrastructure with a preference for Australian-based zones when applicable. Data entered or derived from your interaction with Remaply is retained within a geographically redundant, compliance-audited infrastructure hosted on the Google Cloud Platform. • Encryption: All data, whether in motion or at rest, is protected using industry-grade encryption standards including AES-256 and TLS 1.3. • Access Control: Role-based access mechanisms, credential rotation, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and audit logging govern all internal data access. • Backup & Recovery: Automated backup jobs are executed on a rolling schedule, with snapshots retained in compliance with internal disaster recovery objectives. • System Monitoring: Intrusion detection, firewall-based rule enforcement, and third-party security scans are utilized to ensure real-time threat visibility. While every commercially and technically reasonable effort is made to ensure the protection, confidentiality, and integrity of user data, it must be understood that no technological or procedural system is entirely immune to failure, compromise, or circumvention. These include, but are not limited to, threats arising from zero-day vulnerabilities, state-sponsored cyber threats, or catastrophic infrastructural failure. By continuing to use Remaply, you acknowledge, consent to, and accept this underlying operational risk associated with any cloud-native, distributed platform. • Infrastructure is primarily hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), which includes globally distributed, ISO 27001-certified data centers employing granular role-based access controls (RBAC) across compute, storage, and networking layers. These controls enforce permission inheritance, access token expiration, audit trails, and geographic boundary constraints. • System-wide backups and transaction-level audit logs are maintained using encrypted storage volumes with write-once, read-many (WORM) policies. These backups are stored across physically isolated regions, with backup frequency determined by data tiering classification policies and verified by hash integrity validation protocols.