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Privacy Policy

What we collect, why, who can see it, and how to delete it. In plain language.

Effective November 8, 2026

1. The short version

  • We collect what we need to run OuttaChat: your name, email, the groups you’re in, and what you add and vote on.
  • Your group sees what you add to it and how you vote.
  • We don’t sell your personal information or use it for targeted ads.
  • Location, notifications and photo access are optional.
  • You can delete your account and data anytime in Settings.

2. Information we collect

Information you give us

  • Account details: your first and last name, email address and password (stored only as a secure hash). If you use Sign in with Apple or Google, we receive your name and email (or an Apple private relay email) from them.
  • Content: groups and collections you create, ideas, notes, comments, links (like TikTok links), plans, trip dates, photos you add when you mark something done, and your Yay, Maybe and Nay votes.
  • Messages to us: what you send when you contact support or ask us to email you a download link.
  • Reports and blocks: if you report an idea, comment or person, we keep the report (the reason, any details you add, and a copy of what was reported) so we can review it. Reports are seen only by our team, and the person reported isn’t told who reported them. If you block someone, we keep that so their content stays hidden from you; they aren’t told.

Information collected automatically

  • Device and usage information: device type, operating system, app version, language, time zone, IP address, crash reports, and how you use features (for example, which screens you open).
  • Location (optional): if you allow it, your device’s location, used to show distances and nearby things to do. You can turn it off anytime.

Information from partners

When you search or add an idea, we get details like titles, posters, showtimes, venues and prices from partners such as TMDB, TVmaze, Ticketmaster, Viator and Foursquare. When you paste a link, we fetch that page’s title and preview image.

3. How we use your information

  • Run OuttaChat: sign you in, show your groups, save ideas, count votes and create plans
  • Send password reset emails, plan reminders and notifications you’ve turned on
  • Show nearby ideas and distances if you’ve shared location
  • Keep OuttaChat safe: prevent spam, abuse and fraud, and enforce our Terms
  • Fix bugs and improve features, using usage and crash information
  • Respond to you when you contact us
  • Meet legal obligations

We don’t sell your personal information, and we don’t use it to show you targeted ads.

4. Who can see your information

Your groups

Members of a group can see your name (your first name, plus your last initial or last name if someone else in the group shares your first name), your profile picture, what you add to that group, your comments, and the plans you create. They can also see how you voted on each idea in that group. Anyone who joins with the group’s invite link can see the group’s content.

Service providers

We share information with companies that help us run OuttaChat, such as cloud hosting, email delivery, analytics and crash reporting. They can only use it to provide services to us.

Content partners

To search, we send your search terms (and, if you allow location, an approximate area) to partners like TMDB, TVmaze, Ticketmaster, Viator and Foursquare. We don’t send them your name or email. If you open a partner link, that partner’s own privacy policy applies.

Legal reasons and business changes

We may share information if the law requires it, to protect people’s safety, or to protect our rights. If OuttaChat is involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, your information may transfer as part of it, and this policy will still apply.

5. Your choices and controls

  • Permissions: turn location, notifications and photo access on or off in Settings or your phone’s settings.
  • Leaving: leave any group or collection you didn’t create.
  • Editing: edit or delete ideas and comments you added.
  • Deleting your account: go to Settings and tap Delete account, or email admin@outtachat.com.
  • Emails: unsubscribe from non-essential emails using the link in them. We’ll still send password resets and important account notices.

6. Keeping and deleting data

We keep your information while your account is open. When you delete your account, we delete your profile, votes, comments and personal list, and any groups you created (including their content, for all members). Ideas you added to other people’s groups stay so the group keeps its list, but your name is removed from them.

Deleted data is removed from backups within 30 days. We may keep limited information longer when the law requires it or to prevent abuse.

7. Security

We use encryption in transit, access controls and other safeguards to protect your information. Passwords are stored only as secure one-way hashes, so no one at OuttaChat can see yours. Password reset links expire after 1 hour and work only once. No system is perfectly secure, so please use a strong, unique password and keep your email account secure too.

8. Children

OuttaChat isn’t meant for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect their personal information. If you think a child under 13 has given us information, contact admin@outtachat.com and we’ll delete it.

9. Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live (for example, California, other U.S. states, the EU or the UK), you may have the right to access, correct, download or delete your personal information, and to object to or limit certain uses. To make a request, email admin@outtachat.com. We’ll verify it’s you and respond within the time the law requires. We won’t treat you differently for using these rights.

California residents: we don’t sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

10. Where your information is stored

OuttaChat is based in the United States, and your information is stored and processed in the United States. If you use OuttaChat from another country, your information will be transferred to the U.S., with safeguards the law requires.

11. Changes to this policy

If we make important changes, we’ll let you know in the app or by email before they take effect. The date at the top shows when this policy was last updated.

12. Contact us

Questions or requests? Email admin@outtachat.com.