This Privacy Policy (v3.1) replaces our previous Privacy Policy v3.0, which was effective until December 5, 2025. Previous versions are available upon request at support@nomadtable.app.
1. Introduction
Welcome to Nomadtable ("we," "our," or "us"), where you can find friends while traveling solo. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our mobile application, website, and services that connect solo travelers for shared activities worldwide. Undefined terms in this Privacy Policy will have the same definition as in our Terms of Service.
2. Information We Collect
Some of the information we collect is necessary for you to create and maintain a Nomadtable account, and some voluntary. However, if you don't provide necessary information when requested, then we may not be able to provide you with access to the App or fulfill our obligations to you (such as providing services you request).
Information You Provide
- Contact information (e.g., name, email).
- Profile details (e.g., age, gender, home country, languages spoken, interests).
- Content you submit (e.g., messages, activities created, future trips).
- Profile pictures, images, and locations you send as chat messages.
- Verification images.
- Referral information (e.g., how you heard about Nomadtable).
Verification images you choose to submit are retained only temporarily to allow comparison between your profile image and your submitted verification image. After verification, they are deleted within 7 days unless we must retain them longer to comply with law or to investigate fraud/security incidents.
All photos and images you upload—including profile pictures, additional profile images, and images shared in activities or chats—are automatically analyzed using AI-powered tools (AWS Rekognition) to detect explicit, violent, or otherwise prohibited content. This helps maintain a safe community and uphold our Community Guidelines. In some cases, flagged images may be reviewed by trained human moderators under confidentiality obligations. We do not use these images to train external or internal AI models, and analysis is limited to safety and policy-enforcement purposes.
Information We Collect Automatically
- Location Information: We collect location information through your device. You can limit this collection via your device controls.
- App Usage: We collect information about when and how you use our Products, including what profiles and events you view.
- Log Data and Device Information: We automatically collect certain technical information when you use Nomadtable to ensure proper functionality and improve performance. This may include your device model, operating system version, app version, language, time zone, IP address, and diagnostic data related to log-ins, crashes, or errors.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the personal information we collect mainly to provide our Products to you and to improve them. Specifically, we may use the data we collect to:
- Provide the Products you requested.
- Register your account, verify your identity, and verify the accuracy of your information.
- Develop, operate, improve, maintain, and protect our Products.
- Manage and administer your subscription.
- Personalize our Products, including to show nearby activities, nearby AI activity suggestions, nearby travelers, and to show your distance from other users on the platform (which you can disable at any time by toggling the "Hide my distance away from others" option in your app settings).
- Provide engagement insights, such as profile-view notifications and analytics (e.g., showing premium users nearby travelers who have viewed their profile).
- Verify and enhance the safety and security of our Products.
- Verify and analyze user engagement, trends, and usage.
- Handle and record user rights requests, including opt-ins and opt-outs.
- Prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity.
- Enforce, investigate, and report conduct violating our Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, or other policies.
- Respond to requests from law enforcement agencies or other government agencies, and comply with legal or regulatory requirements.
- Provide aggregated engagement analytics to partners offering Sponsored Activities (e.g., total views or clicks), without sharing personal or identifiable user information.
Location Data: We collect your location to show nearby travelers, display relevant activities in your area, and generate personalized AI-based activity recommendations. We also use approximate location data to show your distance from other users, and to power profile-view insights for nearby users (premium users can see how far away you were when you viewed their profile, if you have allowed the app to show your distance away). You can disable distance visibility at any time by toggling "Hide my distance away from others" in your app settings.
Verification Data: If we need to verify that your identity matches the identity presented in your profile, we may ask you to submit images for facial verification. This data is used solely for identity verification.
Automated Decision-Making: Nomadtable does not make decisions with significant legal or similar effects based solely on automated processing. AI-based systems are used only to assist with moderation, recommendations, and safety features, under human oversight.
4. How We Share Information
We may share Personal Information we collect about you:
- With other Nomadtable users, according to your account preferences and consistent with our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines.
- With service providers who help us operate the platform (for example, for hosting, analytics, messaging, verification, or customer support). These providers only access the information necessary to perform their services and are bound by confidentiality and data protection obligations.
- For legal, safety, and protection purposes, including to comply with law enforcement requests, subpoenas, or court orders, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of Nomadtable, our users, or the public.
- To enforce our rights, including investigating or preventing potential violations of our Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, or applicable law.
- In connection with a corporate transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets. In such cases, any successor entity will be required to treat your information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
We do not sell your personal information and we do not share your personal information with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Other Users and Travelers Here List
When you are in a given area, your public profile (including name, profile photo, home country, and age) may appear in the "Travelers Here" list visible to other users in that area. Your exact location is never shown to other users. Instead, your location is associated with a map grid, with the most precise level being approximately 8 km × 8 km. Depending on zoom level, the grid may be larger (less precise).
Users can freely move the map to view other cities or countries, but doing so does not reveal your exact location; it only loads public traveler data for the selected area. In less populated or remote areas, even grid-based visibility may still allow others to infer your general region. By using the platform, you acknowledge and accept this potential.
Users can enable "Snooze Mode" at any time to hide themselves from the "Travelers Here" List.
Third-Party Service Providers
We use third-party providers to enable essential app functions, such as analytics and messaging. Service Providers will have access to your Personal Information needed to perform their business functions, but may not use or share that Personal Information for purposes outside the scope of their functions related to the App:
- Firebase (Google LLC) – Usage analytics and crash reporting, authentication, database, backend functions, storage.
- Stream Chat (GetStream.io, Inc.) – Chat functionality.
- OpenAI API (OpenAI, Inc.) – AI-generated recommendations.
- AWS Rekognition (Amazon Web Services, Inc.) – AI-powered image moderation and identity verification.
- Independent Moderators and Reviewers – In limited cases, we may engage independent contractors to assist with human review for identity verification and content moderation. These contractors are bound by confidentiality agreements and data protection obligations.
Legal Compliance
We may share your information when required by law, including in response to law enforcement requests, subpoenas, or court orders; legal obligations related to fraud prevention, financial regulations, or national security; and compliance with applicable data protection laws, including GDPR and CCPA/CPRA.
Sponsored Activities & Partner Insights
Nomadtable may display sponsored or paid activity listings ("Sponsored Activities") created by third-party partners. When you view or interact with a Sponsored Activity, we may share aggregated or anonymized performance metrics with the partner—for example, total views, clicks, or general engagement trends. We do not share personal information, account details, location data, or identity information with partners unless required by law or with your explicit consent.
5. Third-Party Services
Parts of Nomadtable may link to or integrate with third-party services. Nomadtable does not own or control these third parties, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to their data practices. When you interact with these services or choose to link your Nomadtable account (for example, with a social network), you are providing your information directly to that third party. Please review their privacy policies before sharing any information.
6. Data Security
While no organization can guarantee perfect security, we are continuously implementing and updating administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your information against unlawful or unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration. Access to personal data is restricted to authorized personnel and service providers under strict contractual and technical safeguards, and data is encrypted in transit and at rest where applicable.
7. Your Privacy Rights and Choices
You can control your experience on the App via the settings in the Nomadtable App, options on our other surfaces, or your device controls — for instance, by updating your contact information, unsubscribing from marketing emails, turning off push notifications, or restricting sharing of your location.
Depending on your location, you may have additional rights under local privacy laws:
- Access and Portability. You may request certain copies of your personal information held by us. In certain instances, you also have the right to request copies of personal information that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and/or request us to transmit this information to another service provider (where technically feasible).
- Rectification. You may ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information about you (and which you cannot update yourself within your Nomadtable account).
- Erasure. We generally retain your personal information for as long as is necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us, to comply with our legal obligations, and as permitted by applicable law. You may ask us to delete your personal information, subject to certain limitations and restrictions.
- Withdrawing Consent. If we are processing your personal information based on your consent you can withdraw your consent at any time by changing your account settings or by emailing support@nomadtable.app.
- Restriction of Processing. You may ask us to limit the ways in which we use your personal information.
- Objection to Processing. You may contact us to tell us that you object to the processing of your personal information based on grounds specific to your situation.
Opting Out of Personalized Advertising: We do not show personalized ads in the Nomadtable app and we do not sell or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
8. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as needed or as permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and further processed and consistent with applicable law. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include the length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you, what activities you engage in on the platform, whether there is a legal obligation, and whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position.
9. International Data Transfers
As a global platform, we may transfer, store, and process your information with partners and service providers based in Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America, including the United States. Where necessary, measures have been taken pursuant to applicable data protection law, such as standard contractual clauses. When we transfer personal data from the EEA/UK to countries without an adequacy decision (e.g., the U.S.), we rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses (and the UK IDTA/Addendum, as applicable).
10. California "Shine the Light" Law
California residents may request information about whether we disclose personal data to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Nomadtable does not sell or share personal data with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If you have questions about how we handle your data, contact us at support@nomadtable.app.
11. Children's Privacy
Our service is not intended for users under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If we become aware of such collection, we will delete the information promptly.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time in accordance with applicable law. When we do, we will post the revised version within the app and on our website and update the "Last Updated" date at the top. For material changes, we may also notify you by email, in-app message, or other reasonable means. Your continued use of Nomadtable after the updated version is posted constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.
13. Contact Information
If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal information, please contact us:
Email: support@nomadtable.app
Mailing Address:
Nomadtable Inc.
2108 N St Ste N,
Sacramento, CA 95816
United States of America
For users in the EU/EEA: Nomadtable Inc. is the data controller responsible for your personal data. We do not yet have an appointed EU representative under Article 27 GDPR but are in the process of designating one. Until then, EU users may contact us directly at support@nomadtable.app for any privacy-related questions or to exercise their data rights. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.
This Privacy Policy is designed to be transparent about our data practices while ensuring compliance with global privacy regulations. We encourage you to read it carefully and contact us with any questions.