Your data

Forage knows things most apps don't — who you travel with, who's single, what you're into, when you'll be away. That deserves plain words, not a wall of legal text.

What Forage keeps

• Your account — a handle, the name you choose, and your email if you gave one.
• What you tell the desks — every conversation with Chai, Bruno, Don, Carlos, Olivier, Max, Theo and Pip, so they remember you. Olivier's thread is the frankest: who's partnered, who's looking, who's discreet.
• Your profile — the lasting facts the desks learn: home airport, budget, diet, tastes, language, how you like to book.
• Your passport — the events you've been to and what you thought of them.
• Your plans — trips, dates, who's in each crew, decisions, and any money logged in a crew's Honey Pot.
• Running costs — how much AI time your chats used, so the bills get paid.

Who can see it

• The desks — see your profile and their own thread with you. A desk never repeats one person's private business to anyone else — not even a crewmate.
• Your crew — sees what's shared: the trip, its plan, decision cards and the crew room. Not your private threads, and not your profile.
• The steward (the person who runs Forage) can technically see everything in the database, as anyone running a service can. What they'll actually read is covered below.
• Nobody else. Forage doesn't sell data, doesn't run trackers, and doesn't share your information with Bearings or anyone else. Shared pages — a trip link, a voting card — carry only the crew name, the question and its options.

Reading chats to improve Forage

Forage is young, and the fastest way to improve it is to see where a real conversation went wrong. That means reading actual chats — different from counting them — so it's your call.

• Always collected, always anonymous: counts and shapes. How far people get, which desks they reach, whether a search came back empty. Never any message content. A search record does keep your account id — only so one person asking five times doesn't read as five people — and it is never shown to anyone; Forget everything unlinks it.
• Only with your yes: reading the actual words in your threads. Off unless you switch it on in AI → Your data, and you can switch it off any time.
• Switching it off doesn't erase conversations — they stay so the desks remember you. Use Forget everything for that.

Taking it and deleting it

• Download it. Get everything Forage holds on you as a file, from AI → Your data. No need to ask.
• Delete it. Forget everything removes your profile, notes, passport, travel windows and every desk conversation.
• Deletion can't reach what belongs to a whole crew — a trip, its plan, a decision card, crew-room messages — because it's other people's too. Leave the crew, or ask its planner to delete the trip.
• Backups are kept briefly for disaster recovery, so a deleted item can linger there before it ages out.

Where it lives

On a server the steward runs in Europe — not a third-party analytics platform. Conversations are processed by Anthropic's API to write the replies. Event data comes from the Bearings commons; nothing about you goes back to it.

What we count

How busy each page is, by day. That's a number per page per day and nothing else — no visitor identity, no IP address, no browser, no order of pages, so the count can't be turned back into one person's visit. It tells us which parts of Forage are worth building on. Your own account keeps a separate list of sign-ins and keys, which only you can see. One exception, only at the very start: when you first join, Forage records the order of your first dozen steps — purely so the steward can see where new members get stuck setting up. It's tied to your account, visible to the steward alone, and stops after those first steps.

Somewhere risky

In countries where being gay is criminalised, Forage never records or shows an event's location more precisely than the country, and never attaches anyone's identity to it. If that's your situation and you'd rather Forage held less, say so — the desks will work with whatever you're comfortable sharing.

Not built yet

Honest roadmap: your data lives on Forage's server because that's the only option built. Keeping your data somewhere you choose is wanted, not done. This page will change when that does.

Questions, or want something removed by hand? How Forage is funded and run.