Effective Date: July 1, 2026

Welcome to Taste Bus ("Taste Bus," "we," "our," or "us"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect information when you use Taste Bus and connect your accounts or upload content.

1. Information We Collect

Depending on how you use Taste Bus, we may collect the following information:

Information You Provide

• Account information, such as your name and email address.

• Content you voluntarily upload, including images, documents, notes, or exported inspiration libraries.

• Feedback and communications you send to us.

Pinterest Data

If you choose to connect your Pinterest account, Taste Bus may access Pinterest data that you explicitly authorize through Pinterest's developer platform or data you provide through exports.

Depending on the permissions granted, this may include:

• Boards

• Saved Pins

• Pin metadata

• Images made available through authorized Pinterest access or user-provided exports

• Other information permitted by Pinterest's platform and your authorization

Use of Pinterest-sourced data is subject to applicable Pinterest Platform Terms, permissions granted by the user, and applicable law.

Automatically Collected Information

We may automatically collect limited technical information, including:

• Device information

• Browser type

• Operating system

• Log files

• Error reports

• IP address

• Usage statistics necessary to operate and secure the service

2. How We Use Information

Taste Bus uses collected information to:

• Import and organize your inspiration library.

• Search and index your creative references.

• Generate derived metadata, including captions, OCR text, dominant colors, design classifications, semantic tags, embeddings, and other organizational information.

• Provide AI-powered search, recommendations, and creative insights.

• Maintain, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the functionality and reliability of the service.

• Respond to customer support requests.

• Comply with applicable legal obligations.

Taste Bus does not use Pinterest-sourced data to advertise to users or sell advertising.

3. AI Processing

Taste Bus may process your uploaded content using artificial intelligence models to generate organization, search capabilities, summaries, classifications, and creative insights.

Generated information may include:

• Image descriptions

• OCR text

• Object detection

• Style analysis

• Color extraction

• Semantic embeddings

• Similarity relationships

• Other derived metadata used to improve your personal library

Unless explicitly disclosed and authorized, your Pinterest-sourced content is not used to train public or shared artificial intelligence models.

4. Data Storage and Security

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect your information.

Depending on system configuration:

• Metadata may be stored in secure databases.

• Images may be stored locally or in private cloud storage.

• Communications are encrypted in transit where supported.

• Credentials, authentication tokens, and secrets are stored securely and are never hardcoded into application source code.

No method of electronic storage or transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

5. Sharing of Information

Taste Bus does not sell your personal information.

We may share information only:

• With service providers that help operate Taste Bus.

• When required by law.

• To protect the rights, safety, or security of Taste Bus, our users, or others.

• During a merger, acquisition, or transfer of assets.

Service providers may only process information on our behalf for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

6. Data Retention

We retain your information only for as long as necessary to:

• Provide the service.

• Comply with legal obligations.

• Resolve disputes.

• Enforce agreements.

You may request deletion of your imported content at any time, subject to applicable legal requirements.

7. Your Choices

You may:

• Disconnect your Pinterest account.

• Delete imported data.

• Request a copy of your stored data.

• Update your account information.

• Request closure of your account.

Where required by applicable law, you may also have rights to access, correct, restrict, object to, or request deletion of your personal information.

8. Children's Privacy

Taste Bus is not directed to children under the age of 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child in violation of applicable law, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.

9. International Users

If you access Taste Bus from outside the country in which our servers are located, your information may be transferred to and processed in another jurisdiction. By using Taste Bus, you acknowledge that such transfers may occur, subject to applicable law.

10. Pinterest Platform Compliance

Taste Bus accesses Pinterest data only with the user's authorization.

Taste Bus processes Pinterest-sourced data in accordance with applicable Pinterest Platform Terms, user permissions, and applicable privacy laws.

If Pinterest changes its platform requirements or permissions, Taste Bus may modify or discontinue related functionality to remain compliant.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

If material changes are made, we will update the Effective Date and provide notice where required by applicable law.

12. Contact

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or your information, please contact:

Taste Bus

Email: 0100110101001100@protonmail.com