Privacy Policy

We only collect what the product needs to work:

• Account details — your email address, and your name or profile photo if you sign in with Google or Apple.
• Financial profile — the income, essential expenses, savings, safety cushion and goals you choose to enter.
• Purchase details — the product name, price, store and any screenshots you upload for analysis.
• Reports and saved items — the Smart Buy Reports you generate and anything you add to your watchlist.
• Billing information — handled entirely by Stripe. We store only your subscription status, never your card number.
• Basic technical data — the logs and error reports our hosting provider generates so we can keep the service running.

• To calculate your Smart Buy Score, recommendation and financial impact analysis.
• To prefill future analyses from your saved financial profile so you don't retype the same numbers.
• To keep your report history and watchlist available when you sign in on another device.
• To manage your account, subscription and any gift codes you redeem.
• To reply when you contact us, and to fix bugs and improve the product.

Screenshots you upload are sent to our AI provider solely to read the product details on the image. They are not used to advertise to you.

Your data lives in a managed Postgres database with row-level security, which means each account can only ever read its own rows. Traffic between your device and our servers is encrypted in transit with HTTPS, and data is encrypted at rest by our hosting provider. Financial figures you enter are treated as sensitive and are never displayed publicly or shared with other users.

Access to production data is limited to the operator of BeforeYouBuy and used only to keep the service working or to answer a support request from you.

We do not sell, rent or trade your personal financial information. We do not share it with advertisers or data brokers. The only third parties involved are the service providers that make the product function: our hosting and database provider, our AI provider for reading screenshots and generating written insights, and Stripe for payments. Each receives only what is needed for that specific task.

You can permanently delete your account at any time from your Financial Profile page. Deleting removes your profile, your saved financial figures and your reports. If you'd rather we do it for you, email beforegobuy@gmail.com from your account address and we'll take care of it.

Some records, such as payment history, may be retained by Stripe where they are required for accounting purposes.

There's no minimum age requirement — BeforeYouBuy is open to anyone who wants help making a smarter purchase decision.

If this policy changes in a meaningful way we'll update the effective date at the top of this page.

Email beforegobuy@gmail.com with any privacy question or request. We typically respond within 24–48 hours.