Privacy Policy

Last updated November 7, 2026

Tara (taraletseat.com and the Tara apps) is a free, personal project run by an individual, not a company. In this policy, “we” means the person who runs Tara. Questions or requests: taraletseatapp@gmail.com.

What we collect

• Your Google sign-in: your name, email address and Google account ID. We don’t read your email or post anything on your behalf.
• Your profile: name, handle, home city, age range, bio and photo.
• What you add: the places you rate, save and visit, your notes, lists, shared links, plans and friends.
• The waitlist, our interest survey and feedback: your email and name, and whatever you tell us there.
• Technical data: a cookie that keeps you signed in for up to 30 days, and server logs (such as IP address and pages requested) for security. No advertising or tracking cookies.
• How you found Tara: where you arrived from when you signed up (for example Instagram, a search engine or a friend's shared list), kept with your profile. Visits to our public pages are only counted, with no cookies and nothing that identifies you.

How we use it

Only to run Tara: to sign you in, show your lists to you and to the friends you accept, suggest places and where a group should eat, keep the service secure, and contact you about your account or the waitlist. We don’t sell your data, show ads, or share it for anyone else’s marketing.

Who else sees it

• Other members: your name, handle and photo, so friends can find you. Your ratings, lists and visits are shown to friends you accept, and to anyone you send a share link.
• The public: Tara’s city guides and the map on our home page are made from members’ ratings, and don’t name anyone.
• Services that run Tara for us: Render (hosting and backups), Google (sign-in, Maps and place search), and Slack (alerts to the team, including a new member’s name, handle and home city).
• AI assistants you connect: if you give an assistant your Tara key, it can read and change your lists on your behalf, under that assistant’s own terms.
• Authorities: if the law requires it.

Where it’s stored

On Render’s servers in Oregon, in the United States. If you live elsewhere, your data is moved to the United States to run the service.

How long we keep it

For as long as you have an account. When your account is deleted, we remove your profile, lists, plans, friendships, photo, sign-ins and waitlist entry. Copies in our daily backups expire within about a week. Waitlist and survey answers from people who never joined are kept until you ask us to delete them, or until we stop running Tara.

Your choices and rights

You can delete your account yourself at any time: in the app, open Edit profile and tap Delete account. It takes effect straight away and removes everything listed above.

Wherever you live, you can also ask to see, correct, export or delete your data, or to delete your account, by emailing taraletseatapp@gmail.com. We’ll answer within 30 days. If you’re in the EU, the UK or another place with data protection laws, we rely on running the service you asked for, and our legitimate interest in keeping it secure, to use your data. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

Age

Tara is for people 18 and over. If we learn someone younger has signed up, we delete their account.

Changes

If we change this policy, we’ll update the date above, and tell members about important changes before they take effect.