Privacy Policy

Embarq is a taste-matched travel planner published by Seldon Strategies. You can browse recommendations without an account; cloud saving and shared planning require sign-in.

Information We Collect

Account Information

If you create an account, Firebase Authentication processes your email address and authentication credentials, or your Apple sign-in identifier and information you choose to share. Embarq stores an internal user ID and optional display name.

Travel Profile

Your taste-calibration answers, derived preference profile, and settings. These are stored locally and may sync to your account when you sign in.

Trips, Places, and Ideas

For signed-in users, we store trips, saved places, planning notes, taste-match context, travel circles, idea boards, and collaboration records that you choose to create. Apple Maps and MapKit may process place searches and shared map links under Apple's policies.

Analytics and Crash Reporting

We use Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics for usage metrics, diagnostics, and crash reports. These records help us improve reliability and may include an internal user ID when you are signed in.

Purchase Information

If you subscribe to Navigator, Apple processes the payment and provides Embarq with product, transaction, subscription-status, and entitlement information needed to unlock and restore paid features. Seldon Strategies does not receive your payment-card details.

How We Use Your Data

• Rank place recommendations against your taste profile
• Save and sync trips, places, and shared ideas
• Verify, unlock, and restore Navigator entitlements
• Authenticate accounts and process account deletion
• Improve app quality and fix bugs

Data Sharing

We do not sell your data. We share data only with:

• Firebase (Google) — authentication, database, analytics, and crash reporting
• Apple — Sign in with Apple, Apple Maps links, and MapKit place search
• Apple App Store — subscription billing, transaction verification, entitlement restoration, and subscription management

Data Storage

Account data is stored in Google Cloud Firestore with authenticated, user-scoped access rules. Shared Ideas are also available to the circle members you invite or join.

Your Rights

You can delete your account from Me > Account > Delete account. You may also request access, correction, or deletion by contacting us. Limited records may be retained when required for security, legal compliance, or dispute resolution.

Contact

Email: support@seldonstrategies.com