Privacy Policy
Effective November 11, 2026
Giftara is a gift concierge app made by Ron Brand (RBrand Customs LLC) in New Jersey. This page explains what information the app, its website and its browser demo handle, where it goes, and what's stored only on your phone.
In short: Giftara has no accounts and no ads, and it doesn't track you. The people you keep in The Book, your conversations and your saved gifts are stored on your phone. When you ask the concierge something, your message and what The Book holds about the person you're asking about go through Giftara's server to Google's Gemini to write the reply, and Giftara's server doesn't keep them.
What's stored on your phone
- The Book: the people you buy for and what you've noted about them (tastes, sizes, dates, budgets, gifts given).
- Your conversations with the concierge, your reserved gifts, the cards you write and your settings.
This is saved on your phone, not encrypted, and Giftara's server doesn't keep a copy. When you ask the concierge something, the parts it needs go through the server to write the reply (below). It stays on your phone until you delete it, clear your conversations in Settings, or uninstall the app. If your phone backs up its apps to your Google account, as Android phones can, that backup may include Giftara's data, and a reinstall can bring it back. A backup you make in Settings is a file you save wherever you choose; it isn't sent to us.
When you talk to the concierge
To write each reply, Giftara sends your message, the earlier messages in that conversation, and what The Book holds about the person you're asking about through Giftara's server to Google's Gemini service. The same happens when you ask the app to write a card.
- Giftara's server (run on Cloudflare) passes the request to Google and the reply back. It doesn't store your messages.
- Google uses the request to produce the reply. Under the terms for Google's paid Gemini service, Google doesn't use it to improve its products, and keeps it only for a limited time to check for misuse. See Google's Gemini API terms.
Please don't share anything in a conversation you wouldn't want sent this way, such as passwords or financial details.
A random install ID
When you first open Giftara, it makes a random ID for that install. It isn't tied to your name, email or phone number. The app sends it with each request so the server can count how many concierge chats that install has used each month and whether it has Premium. For that ID the server keeps those counts; its Premium status and RevenueCat's latest answer about it; whether the install is a genuine copy (below); a review code, if one was entered in the app; and, when one Google Play subscription is restored onto more than one phone, which install IDs share it.
Checking it's a genuine copy
On Android, Giftara asks Google Play once, through Google's Play Integrity service, to confirm it's a genuine copy installed from Google Play. Google returns a verdict about the app and the device, which Giftara's server checks and then keeps only as "genuine" for your install ID. This keeps people from running up the concierge's costs with fake copies. Google handles the check under Google's privacy policy.
Gift photos from eBay
To show a photo of a suggested gift, Giftara's server asks eBay for listings using only the gift's maker and name. The photo then loads directly from eBay, which, like any website, sees your device's internet address. Tapping a photo opens its eBay listing. Photos are never sent to Google's Gemini.
Premium purchases
Premium is bought through Google Play. Google handles the payment; Giftara never sees your card or bank details. Giftara uses RevenueCat to check and manage the subscription: RevenueCat receives your install ID, your purchase records from Google Play, and basic details about your device, such as its system and app version, its country and its internet address. See RevenueCat's privacy policy and Google's privacy policy.
Shops and links
"Where to buy" and shop links open other websites, such as a store or a search page. What you do there is covered by those sites' own policies. A link you share into Giftara from a shop is kept on your phone.
Reminders
Occasion reminders are scheduled on your phone by the phone itself. No reminder information is sent to us.
This website and the browser demo
giftara.net uses no cookies, no analytics and no tracking. Its fonts load from Google Fonts, which, like any website, sees your device's internet address.
The demo at try.giftara.net runs the app in your browser with sample people. Nothing you do there is saved: it's kept only while the page is open, and refreshing or leaving starts it over. Its questions go to the concierge exactly as the app's do (above), except:
- Before your first question, Cloudflare's Turnstile checks that you're a person, usually without asking you anything. See Cloudflare's Turnstile privacy notice.
- To keep to five questions a day, Giftara's server counts each visitor's questions by internet address, and the whole site's, for the day; the counts start over each day at midnight UTC.
- The demo shows no eBay photos.
What we don't do
- No accounts, so we don't collect your name, email or phone number.
- No advertising and no advertising IDs.
- No analytics or tracking tools.
- We don't sell or share your information for marketing.
Children
Giftara is meant for adults and isn't directed at children under 13.
Deleting your information
Everything you keep in Giftara is stored on your phone: clear your conversations in Settings, delete people or gifts in the app, or uninstall Giftara to remove it. What the server keeps (above) is tied only to a random install ID, not to your name, email or phone number, so we can't look it up by who you are. A new install gets a new ID. Questions about it: email us.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and its effective date.
Contact
Questions about privacy: hello@giftara.net