Privacy Policy
Last Updated: May 2026
T-Bud
Privacy Policy
Introduction
Welcome to T-Bud, an AI travel companion for personalized trip planning, local discovery, and connecting with fellow travelers (the "Platform"). The Platform was developed, and is owned and operated, by T-Bud (the "Company" or "we", "us", "our").
We are committed to complying with applicable data protection laws. This Privacy Policy ("Policy") explains how we collect and use your information when you access and use the Platform, and it forms an integral part of our Terms of Use. Please read it carefully.
The Platform is not intended for users under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 18 or allow minors under the age of 18 to use the Platform.
The Policy may be amended from time to time. We will post any change to this Policy on our Platform a reasonable time in advance of the effective date of the change, and we will also make efforts to proactively notify you of the changes if we have your email address.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding this Policy or our processing of your personal information, please contact us at info@tbud.app.
What We Collect and Why
| Scenario | Purposes | Categories of personal information processed |
|---|---|---|
| Creating your account on the Platform | Facilitating the creation of your account on the Platform and allowing you to use the Platform and its features | Your email address and password. If you join the Platform using your account on a third-party platform such as Google, we will also collect any information that is publicly available on your third-party platform account. You may also choose to share your name, your profile picture, a short description of yourself, and your travel preferences (e.g., topics of interest, whether you travel solo, with adults or with kids, etc.). We refer to this information as "Registration Information". |
| Planning your trips | Providing you with the Platform and its features | Your trip itinerary and the contents of your conversations with our AI chatbot - which may include or indicate to personal information. Please note that when you use our AI chatbot, the information you receive is generated by AI models and not by humans. The chatbot is intended for general informational and assistance purposes only and should not be relied upon as a substitute for your own review and judgment. If you enabled access to your device's GPS location, we will also collect your precise location to provide location-based trip suggestions. We refer to the above information as "Trip Information". |
| Chatting with other users on the Platform | Facilitating communication between Platform users | Your Registration Information, and the content of the messages you send. Please note that you may chat with another user only if the "enable social connections" setting is turned on, and both users have waved at each other. Please use discretion when deciding which information to share with other users. We do not actively monitor or read your messages. However, we may review your messages if another user submitted a report about you or the messages you sent. |
| Reporting inappropriate user behavior | Moderating content and detecting inappropriate user behavior | Your Registration Information, your chat messages, and any additional information provided in the report. |
| Contacting us with inquiries | Responding to your inquiry; maintaining our business relations with you; the ongoing operation of our business | Your name, email address, the contents of your inquiry, and any further communications with you. |
| Our use of strictly necessary cookies | Facilitating a feature of the Platform that you requested | IP address, pages visited, functions used, fields completed in forms, etc. |
| Our use of other cookies | Analyzing the use of our Platform to evaluate and improve performance; tailoring content and advertisement to you | IP address, pages visited, functions used, fields completed in forms, etc. |
| Analytics | Operating, improving and enhancing our Platform | Information about how you use our Platform, features, etc. This may include the pages you viewed, the actions you took while using the Platform, etc. This information will not directly identify you. |
You do not have a legal obligation to provide the above information; however, if you choose not to share this information with us, we may not be able to allow you to access and use the Platform and its features, allow you to plan your trips and chat with other users on the Platform, handle reports of inappropriate behavior, or respond to your inquiries.
Methods and Sources for Collecting Your Personal Information
We collect personal information from several sources:
- Directly from you, when you provide us with the information described above.
- Through the device you use to access our Platform.
Sharing Your Personal Information
We will not share your information with third parties, except in the circumstances listed below or when you provide us with your explicit and informed consent.
| Scenario | Purposes | Examples of third parties involved |
|---|---|---|
| We will share your information with our service providers who assist us with the internal operations of the Platform. These companies are authorized to use your personal information in this context only to the extent necessary to provide these services to us, and not for their own promotional purposes. | Operating the Platform and managing our business | Tiqets.com Sports Events 365 |
| In some cases, we will share your information with other users of the Platform. | Operating the Platform and providing you with its functionalities | If you choose to enable the "social connections" setting, we will share your Registration Information with all users of the Platform. If you set the connection settings to only show travelers with overlapping trip dates, we will only share your information with users whose trip dates overlap with yours. If both you and another user wave at each other, you will be able to chat with each other. |
| If you abused your right to use the Platform or violated any applicable law while engaging with us. | Responding to, handling, and mitigating suspected violations of law in connection with our business | Competent authorities, legal counsel and advisors |
| If a judicial, governmental, or regulatory authority requires us to disclose your information. | Complying with a binding request from a competent authority | Competent authorities |
| If the operation of the Platform or our business is organized within a different framework, or through another legal structure or entity. | Enabling a structural change in the operation of the Platform and our business | The target entity of the merger or acquisition, legal counsel and advisors. |
The third parties with whom we share information as described above may be located outside your jurisdiction, and subject to the privacy and data protection laws of these jurisdictions. By using the Platform, you agree to the transfer of your personal information to other jurisdictions.
Data Retention
We will retain your information for as long as you are an active user of the Platform. Thereafter, we may retain your personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, establish and defend legal claims, and enforce our agreements.
Data Security
We implement measures to reduce the risks of damage, loss of information, and unauthorized access or use of information. However, these measures do not provide absolute information security. Therefore, although efforts are made to secure your personal information, there is no guarantee that it will be immune from information security risks.
Your Rights
T-Bud is the Controller of the database containing your personal information described above.
- Right to review your information. You have the right to review, either by yourself or through an authorized representative or a guardian, any information we have stored about you in our databases.
- Right to request the rectification of your information. If, upon reviewing your information, you find it to be incorrect, incomplete, or outdated, you have the right to ask us to rectify it. We will inform you within 30 days of receiving your request whether we can comply with your request.
- Right to have your personal information deleted, under certain circumstances, such as when the information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
Additional Information for Individuals in the EEA and UK
Data Controller. T-Bud is the controller of your personal information processed on the Platform.
International data transfers. To facilitate processing your information through the Platform, and by our service providers, we will transfer your information to and within countries outside the EU or the UK, such as Israel. We do so under an adequacy decision or under the terms of a data transfer agreement that contains standard data protection contractual clauses with adequate safeguards determined by the EU Commission and the UK Information Commissioner's Office.
Legal basis for processing your personal data. We process your personal data based on the following legal bases:
| Purpose or Scenario | Legal Basis |
|---|---|
| Creating your account on the Platform | The performance of our terms of use contract with you. |
| Planning your trips | The performance of our terms of use contract with you. Your consent, in relation to your location. |
| Chatting with other users on the Platform | The performance of our terms of use contract with you. Our legitimate interest in the proper operation of the Platform and our business. |
| Reports of inappropriate user behavior | Our legitimate interest in moderating content and detecting inappropriate user behavior. Protecting vital interest of other natural persons. |
| Contacting us with an inquiry | Our legitimate interest in providing you with support in your use of the Platform and maintaining our customer relations with you. |
| Use of strictly necessary cookies | Our legitimate interest in the proper operation of the Platform. |
| Use of optional cookies | Your consent. |
| Analytics | Our legitimate interest in developing and enhancing our business and the Platform. |
| Sharing your data with our service providers | Our legitimate interest in the proper operation of the Platform and our business. |
| Sharing your data with other users of the Platform | Our legitimate interest in providing you with the functionalities of the Platform. |
| Responding to, handling, and mitigating suspected violations of law in connection with our business | Our legitimate interest in defending and enforcing against violations and breaches that are harmful to our business. |
| Complying with a binding request from a competent authority | Our legitimate interest in complying with mandatory legal requirements imposed on us. |
| Enabling a structural change in the operation of the Platform, and our business | Our legitimate interest in our business continuity. |
Data subject rights. If you are in the EEA or the UK, you have the following rights:
- Right to Access and receive a copy of your personal information that we process.
- Right to Rectify inaccurate personal information we have concerning you and to have incomplete personal information completed.
- Right to Data Portability, that is, to receive the personal information that you provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. You have the right to transmit this data to another person or entity. Where technically feasible, you have the right to have your personal information transmitted directly from us to the person or entity you designate.
- Right to withdraw your consent to processing your personal information, easily and at any time, if the basis for our processing is your consent. We may continue to process personal information with respect to which your consent is not necessary. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of the processing we carried out based on your consent before such withdrawal.
- Right to Object to our processing of your personal information based on our legitimate interest. However, we may override the objection if we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds, or if we need to process such personal information for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
- Right to Restrict us from processing your personal information (except for storing it): (a) if you contest the accuracy of the personal information (in which case the restriction applies only for a period enabling us to determine the accuracy of the personal information); (b) if the processing is unlawful and you prefer to restrict the processing of the personal information rather than requiring the deletion of such data by us; (c) if we no longer need the personal information for the purposes outlined in this Policy, but you require the personal information to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) if you object to our processing based on our legitimate interest (in which case the restriction applies only for the period enabling us to determine whether our legitimate grounds for processing override yours).
- Right to be Forgotten, under certain circumstances, such as when you object to our processing of your personal information based on our legitimate interest and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing. However, notwithstanding such a request, we may still process your personal information if it is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us through the channels listed in this Policy.
When you contact us with a request, we reserve the right to ask for reasonable evidence to verify your identity before we provide you with information. If we are unable to provide you with the information that you have requested, we will explain the reason.
Subject to applicable law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. If you are in the EU, then pursuant to Article 77 of the GDPR, you may lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in the Member State of your residence, place of work, or place of an alleged infringement of the GDPR. For a list of supervisory authorities in the EU, click here.
If you are in the UK, you may lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) pursuant to the instructions provided here.
Additional Information for Individuals in the United States
T-Bud is providing the following additional information to its clients residing in the United States, pursuant to applicable state privacy laws in the U.S.
We do not sell your information to any third party, or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. Furthermore, we do not share or sell sensitive information.
We keep the personal information specified below for the periods described above under the "Data Retention" section. Following these periods, we shall ensure that the information is not accessed, except in extraordinary events such as legal disputes.
Categories of personal information we collect and process and their sources
Below are the categories of personal information we have collected and processed over the past 12 months, and the source of that information.
| Categories of personal information | Details of the personal information that was collected | Sources of information |
|---|---|---|
| Identifiers | Name, email address, third-party platform user account, IP address | Directly from you. Through the device you use to access the Platform. |
| Other information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual | Trip preferences, trip itineraries, your messages with our AI chatbot, your chat conversations with other users, your inquiries | Directly from you and through Platform use. |
| Geolocation data | Your location (if you enabled access to it) | Through your device permissions and usage. |
| Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information | Your profile picture, audio and video content | Directly from you. |
| Internet or other electronic network activity information | Data collected by cookies, analytics | Through your interaction with the Platform. |
| Sensitive information | Account credentials | Directly from you. |
Business purposes for the collection of personal information
| Categories of personal information (per the table above) | Business purposes |
|---|---|
| Identifiers; Other information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual; Geolocation data; Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information; Internet or other electronic network activity information; Sensitive information | Providing services through the Platform. Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality. Detecting and preventing security incidents. Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of the Platform and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the Platform. |
Disclosures to third parties
Below are the categories of personal information we shared with third parties over the past 12 months and the categories of third-party entities with whom we shared them.
| Categories of personal information (per the table above) | Categories of entities we give the information to, and why |
|---|---|
| Identifiers; Other information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, a particular individual; Geolocation data; Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information; Internet or other electronic network activity information; Sensitive information | Our service providers, who will use it only as necessary to assist us in the internal operations of our business and the Platform, and not for their own promotional purposes. Other users of the Platform, in accordance with your connection settings. Competent authorities, legal counsel, and advisors, if you abuse your rights to use the Platform or violate any applicable law while engaging with us. A judicial, governmental, or regulatory authority, if it requires us to disclose your information. The target entity of a merger or acquisition, legal counsel, and advisors, if the operation of the Platform or our business, is organized within a different framework, or through another legal structure or entity. |
Your rights
- The Right to Know. You have the right to know whether we are processing your personal information. If we are, you have the right to know the following information, which we will provide to you after we receive your request and verify your identity: The categories of personal information we collected about you. The categories of sources from which the personal information was collected. The purposes for which we collect personal information. The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information. The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.
- The Right to Obtain a Copy of Your Personal Information. If your data is available in a digital format, you have the right to obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you in a portable and readable format (to the extent this is technically feasible).
- The Right to Delete Your Personal Information. In some cases, state privacy laws provide for the right to request the deletion of your personal information.
- The Right to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information. Once we receive a request from you to correct your data and verify your identity, we will examine the veracity of the corrected information you provided, consider your request to correct, and inform you of our decision. To establish the veracity of the personal information as per your request, we will consider all circumstances pertaining to the personal information for which correction is requested. We may also require you to provide documentation in support of your request to correct your personal information.
- The Right to Opt Out of Processing for Solely Automated Profiling. You have the right to opt out of solely automated processing of your personal information to evaluate, analyze, or predict your personal aspects related to your economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements, where that processing is done in furtherance of a decision that produces a legal or similarly significant effect on you.
- The Right to Non-Discrimination as a Result of Exercising Your Rights. You have the right not to be discriminated against by us for exercising the rights granted to you under applicable law. If you exercise your rights, we cannot: deny you services; charge different prices or fees for services, including through discounts, benefits, or fines; provide you with a different level or quality of services; propose that you receive different prices or tariffs for services. Please note that we may charge a different fee or provide a different level or quality of services if the difference is reasonably related to the value we gain from your personal information.
Filing Requests
Should you wish to exercise your rights under applicable laws as specified above, please contact us by email at info@tbud.app.
To verify your identity, we will ask you to provide additional information through a verification process in which you will be asked to provide us with two items of information known to you and to us.
Note: you may appoint an authorized agent to file requests to exercise your rights on your behalf. To this end, you must provide your authorized agent with written approval to do so. The authorized agent will have to present us with proof attesting that you authorized them to act on your behalf. Furthermore, we will require verification of your identity, as explained above.
Our Response to Your Requests
We will respond to your requests within 45 days (or within 90 days, where the law permits and we determine it necessary considering the complexity and number of the requests you have filed). If we take longer than 45 days, we will inform you of the extension within the initial 45-day response period, together with the reason for the extension.
We may deny your request in the following cases:
- If we believe in good faith, based on reasons that are documented in writing, that your request is fraudulent or an abuse of your rights under applicable law.
- If we conclude that the request is irrelevant, based on all the circumstances at issue (e.g., if you requested to correct your personal information, and we find that it is likely to be accurate).
- If it is contrary to federal or state law.
- Due to a discrepancy in the required documentation.
- If the fulfillment of your request turns out to be impossible or involves disproportionate effort.
We will provide you with a detailed explanation including sufficient facts to enable you to meaningfully understand why we cannot fulfill your request.
You may appeal our decision to deny your request by submitting a written appeal to us at info@tbud.app.