Privacy
Your information
A short privacy notice for the LocalHab Athens pilot.
When you share a recommendation, we keep your name, email and answers in our private database so the LocalHab team can review and edit them. Nothing you send is published automatically.
We keep your original answers and your permissions separately from any changes the team makes. Anything you tell us about a personal, professional or financial connection stays private. We only use your email to ask about a recommendation if you allowed us to.
Searching approved recommendations
The Athens search shows the text, the “good for” choices and the practical advice from approved recommendations. Your name appears next to an approved recommendation only if you ticked the box to show it. Otherwise a general contributor label is shown instead. We never show email addresses, other private profile details, connection details or permission records. Example records are clearly marked as made-up sample feedback.
To find matching places, our server sends the visitor’s question and the text of relevant approved recommendations to OpenAI, an AI service. Private profiles, email addresses, connection details, permission records and notes from our team are never sent. We do not keep questions as a history, and we ask OpenAI not to store them. OpenAI may still keep some data for a limited time under its own rules, for example to check for misuse. Questions are not sent to Google. Please do not put personal information in a search question.
Optional Google Maps search
When you search for a place, what you type and a rough Athens search area are sent to Google Maps through our server. Your email, profile, answers and private details are not part of that search. You can always add a place by name instead.
Google Maps search is covered by the Google Privacy Policy. If you pick a place, we save Google’s reference code for that place with your recommendation. The place’s name, address, location and photos (with the photographer’s name) are loaded from Google each time they are shown. We do not copy them into our database.
Visitor accounts
To ask LocalHab, you create an account with your email address and a password. We store your email address, a secure one-way hash of your password (never the password itself) and your sign-in sessions. We use your email only to identify your account and, if needed, to help you with it. We do not send newsletters and we do not ask for your phone number. Your browser keeps a sign-in token on this device until you sign out or the session ends.
Questions you ask are not saved as a history. We count how many questions each account asks so we can keep the service fair for everyone.
Your contributor details on this device
Your details stay filled in while you add more recommendations on the same page. The form does not save your name, email or profile in your browser for future visits.
Corrections and withdrawal
To correct or withdraw a recommendation, or to stop showing your name, ask the LocalHab team member who invited you. Give them the reference from the thank-you page so they can find your submission.