Privacy notice

Buds is run by Tomas Dunford, a sole trader (ABN 20 759 020 562) based in Melbourne, Victoria. "We" and "us" mean Tomas Dunford. For anything about your information, email privacy@findyourtaste.app.

If you join the waitlist: your email address; a record of your consent (the wording you agreed to, its version and the time); whether you've confirmed your email; your personal invite code and, if you joined through a friend's link, their invite code; and, only if you choose to give it, the suburb you eat out in most.

Like any website, our hosting and security providers process technical information such as your IP address, browser details and request logs, and run a bot check when you submit the form. We don't use advertising or tracking cookies. We count visits with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which doesn't use cookies.

If you register a venue's interest on our Partners page: the venue's name and suburb; your name, work email and role; the venue's website if you give it; and a record of your consent.

If you email us, we receive your name, address and message.

To send the confirmation email; to email you about the Buds launch and invitations to test the app, as you agreed; to group friends who join together into the same testing group; to choose where in Melbourne to start; to tell venues when they can claim their page and help them set it up; to keep the website secure and prevent abuse; and to reply when you contact us. We don't sell your information or use it for unrelated marketing.

We use these providers to run the website. They process information for us and not for their own purposes:

• Cloudflare (hosting, the waitlist database, bot checks and email forwarding). Cloudflare runs a global network and is based in the United States.

• Resend (sending our emails). Resend is based in the United States; our emails are sent from its Tokyo region.

So your information may be stored or processed outside Australia, including in the United States and Japan. We may also disclose information where the law requires it.

If you don't confirm your email, your sign-up is deleted automatically after 7 days. Confirmed waitlist details are kept until you unsubscribe, or until 12 months after the app launches publicly, whichever is first. When you unsubscribe, your record is deleted, not just switched off.

Venue interest details are kept until 12 months after venues can claim their pages, or until you ask us to remove them, whichever is first.

Every email has a link to remove yourself. You can also email privacy@findyourtaste.app to ask what we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted. We'll act on unsubscribe requests straight away, and always within 5 working days.

Email privacy@findyourtaste.app first and we'll respond within 30 days. If you're not satisfied, you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.

We'll update this page if anything changes, and ask for your consent again before using your information in a materially different way.