US Privacy Policy

The operator and data controller for the personal information described in this policy is Oded Moshe ("Barteria, operated by Oded Moshe"), an Israeli sole proprietor (osek patur no. 021384789), Maayan St 15, Rosh HaAyin 4853312, Israel. Contact: oded.moshe5@gmail.com, +972-52-478-8477.

This policy applies to accounts whose market is the United States. Users whose account market is Israel are instead covered by our Hebrew privacy policy.

Account information: your email address; if you sign in with Google, the name, email address and account identifier that Google shares with us; and the language, theme and currency you choose. Sign-in by mobile number is not currently offered in the United States.

Profile information: your display name, an optional photo and bio, and the items you optionally enter.

Location information: the coordinates of the place you choose during onboarding or in Settings, stored rounded to about 11 meters. See section 4.

Items and activity: the items you list (photos, descriptions, category), your swipes, matches, chat messages, meeting proposals, swap confirmations, ratings, and reports and blocks.

Device and technical information: a session identifier, your browser's user agent and IP address for security logging, and, if you enable push notifications, the push token your browser or device issues.

Usage information: records of app use for statistics such as daily and monthly active users, and error reports your device sends when something breaks.

To run the service: sign you in, show you items near you, create matches, run chats, confirm swaps and compute reputation.

To keep the community safe: review flagged listings, handle reports and blocks, and enforce the Terms of Service.

To offer optional AI-assisted features (listing suggestions, description rewrites, on-demand message translation) and to help our moderators spot likely scams, payment requests outside the app and prohibited items. These features are optional, nothing is published or decided automatically, and you can keep using the service without them.

To communicate with you: sign-in links, match and message notifications, and service announcements.

To improve and secure the service: aggregated statistics, rate limiting, and fraud and abuse detection.

You choose how to set your location: your device's GPS (with your permission), an address search, or a neighborhood from a list.

We store your location rounded to about 11 meters. On public surfaces of the app, other users never see this precise location — they see only your neighborhood name and a distance rounded for display. We treat precise geolocation as sensitive personal information and use it only to operate the service (matching you with nearby items and neighbors), never to sell it or to build advertising profiles.

Meeting places you propose in a chat are shared only with the other party to that match.

Other users see only your public profile: display name, photo, bio, neighborhood, badges, ratings and your active items. They never see your phone number, email address or exact location.

Service providers: Google LLC hosts the service and its database (Barteria runs on Google Cloud and Firebase App Hosting), and Firebase Authentication signs you in, including sending email sign-in links and handling Sign in with Google. We do not currently use any other email-delivery or SMS provider for United States users. If you turn on push notifications, they are delivered through your browser's or device's push service (for example Google, Apple or Mozilla). Maps are drawn with tiles from OpenStreetMap's servers, which receive your IP address when a map is shown. Payments are not offered to United States users at this time. For address search and neighborhood lookup, the address text you search (or coordinates rounded to about 100 m) is sent through our proxy to the Nominatim service of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, without your name or any account identifier. The database and files are stored in Google's data center in the European Union (europe-west4, Netherlands), so this data is transferred outside the United States.

AI service provider: Anthropic, PBC processes content for our optional AI features on our behalf, as a service provider. While you write a new listing, the first photo you add is sent to Anthropic to fill in the listing's details. This happens automatically, once per listing, as long as the "Fill in automatically from the photo" switch on the first screen is on (it is on by default, and you can switch it off there), and again each time you tap "Fill in from the photo" or "Fill in again from the photo", which also work when the switch is off. The title you type is also sent, without a tap, only to suggest a category that you can always change. When you open a listing written in another language, its title and description are also sent to Anthropic, without a tap, to translate them into your language, never with the name of whoever wrote it or any other detail about them; the translation is stored with the listing and erased with it. This means that the text of a listing you publish may be sent to Anthropic when another member views it in a different language. When you ask for a value estimate while writing a listing, we send Anthropic the title, category, condition, details and description of that listing and the answers you give for the estimate (what it cost new, its age, whether it is complete, a short note), with any phone number, email address or link removed, and nothing else about you; the estimate is shown to you only and is not saved. When you tap "Improve description", or "Translate" on a chat message, we send Anthropic only what the feature needs — your description text, or the text of that one message. None of this includes your name, account identifier, email address or location. Where we have switched it on, an automatic safety check also sends the text of new listings, wish posts and profile bios and the first messages of a match to Anthropic to flag possible scams, requests for payment outside the app and prohibited items; it only adds a flag for our moderators, who make every decision, and it never removes content or restricts an account by itself. Translations are stored with their message and erased with it. The existing photo features also send the photo you choose to Anthropic: the shelf scan ("What is my storage worth?") and "Search by photo" send that one photo, re-encoded on our server so that all metadata, including any GPS data, is removed, together with a fixed prompt and nothing about you.

We disclose information to law enforcement or other authorities when legally required to do so, such as in response to a valid subpoena, court order or similar legal process, and to protect the rights, safety or property of Barteria, our users or the public.

We do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, and we do not use advertising networks that track you across other sites or apps.

Barteria is a small operator. It does not currently meet the thresholds under which the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA) applies, and comprehensive state privacy laws such as the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act may not apply to it either. We nonetheless honor the following rights for every user in the United States.

Access: you can ask what personal information we hold about you and receive a copy of it. You can also download a file with your data yourself at any time, in Settings → Download my data.

Deletion: you can delete your account at any time in Settings, or ask us to delete your personal information. We will do so, except for what we must keep to comply with the law or to resolve a dispute (see section 8).

Correction: you can correct your profile in the app, or ask us to correct information that is inaccurate.

Opt-out: you can opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information and of targeted advertising. Because we do not sell personal information, do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising and do not show targeted ads, there is nothing to opt out of today. If that ever changes, we will update this policy first and honor opt-out requests, including Global Privacy Control signals (section 12).

Sensitive information: we use your precise geolocation only to operate the service, as described in section 4.

How to ask: email oded.moshe5@gmail.com. We may ask you to confirm the request from the email address on your account. We respond within 45 days, free of charge, and will not treat you differently for exercising these rights. You may use an authorized agent; we may ask for proof of their authority.

We do not sell personal information and do not share it with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising, as those terms are used in California and other U.S. state privacy laws, and we have not done so in the past 12 months.

We do not use advertising networks, data brokers or cross-site tracking pixels.

Account and profile information: until you delete your account. Matches and chats: message content is erased 12 months after a match closes; the match record is kept for reputation statistics.

Ratings: kept as long as the rated account exists; if you delete your account, ratings you gave become anonymous, but the scores are kept so other users' averages do not change.

Security logs: up to 90 days. Aggregated daily activity records: 24 months.

Sign-in codes and links are stored as salted hashes and expire quickly. Connections are encrypted in transit, and photos are stored under random identifiers.

Administrative access to personal contact details requires an explicit, logged action. No system is perfectly secure; if we learn of a breach affecting you, we will notify you as required by law.

Barteria is not directed to children under 13, and you must be 18 or older to create an account. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete it and close the associated account. Contact us at oded.moshe5@gmail.com if you believe this has happened.

Barteria is operated from Israel. Your information may be processed on servers located in the United States, the European Union and Israel by us or by our service providers.

By using the service, you understand that your information will be transferred to and processed in countries that may have data protection laws different from those of your own country.

Some browsers send a "Do Not Track" signal or a Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal. We treat a GPC signal we detect as a valid request to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for the browser or device that sent it, consistent with section 6 — though, as noted there, we do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising in the first place.

We may update this policy. We will announce material changes in the app before they take effect, and the date at the top of this page always reflects the current version.

Privacy questions and data requests: oded.moshe5@gmail.com or +972-52-478-8477, or by mail to Barteria, operated by Oded Moshe, Maayan St 15, Rosh HaAyin 4853312, Israel.