Privacy policy

This policy explains what Airfare Beacon collects when you use this site, why we collect it, and what you can do about it. The short version: we collect what we need to send you flight deals and run your account, we do not sell it, and we do not run ads or trackers.

Who we are

Airfare Beacon runs this site. You can reach us at deals@airfarebeacon.com.

What we collect

• Your account details. Your email address, your name if you give one, your home airport or airports, and your alert settings: the regions and destinations you want, your price limit, and how you want to be told about deals.
• Your password. We keep only a scrambled (hashed) version. We cannot read your password.
• Your phone number or Telegram account, only if you turn on text alerts or connect Telegram.
• Payment details. Payments are handled by Stripe. We never see or store your card number. We keep a reference to your Stripe customer and subscription, which plan you are on, and whether it is active.
• Activity and technical information. Your IP address, sign-ins and failed sign-in attempts, changes to your profile, the pages requested, and clicks on deal links. This log is kept for 90 days.
• Messages you send us, such as support emails.

Cookies and tracking

We set one cookie, airfarebeacon_session, which keeps you signed in for up to 14 days. It is needed for the site to work. We use no advertising or analytics cookies, and our emails contain no tracking pixels. Links to deals pass through this site so that we can count how often a deal is opened.

How we use it

• To send you flight deals from your home airport, in the ways you chose.
• To run your account and, if you have one, your Premium subscription.
• To send service messages: confirming your email address, resetting your password, and billing notices.
• To keep the service secure: limiting repeated sign-in attempts, spotting abuse and investigating problems.
• To see which deals people find useful, using counts rather than profiles of individuals.

We do not sell or rent your personal information, and we do not use it for advertising.

Who we share it with

We use a small number of companies to run the service. They handle your information only to do that job for us:

• Stripe processes payments.
• Resend delivers our emails.
• Twilio delivers text alerts, only if you turn them on.
• Telegram delivers alerts there, only if you connect it.
• Railway hosts this site and its database in the United States.
• Google Workspace provides our support mailbox.
• Tailwind's content network serves a styling file our pages load, so it sees your IP address as any site your browser loads from does.

Flight prices come from a fare-data provider; none of your personal information is sent to it. We may also disclose information when the law requires it, to protect our rights or the safety of our users, or to a successor if the business is sold, who would be bound by this policy.

How long we keep it

• Your account details are kept while your account is open.
• The activity log is deleted automatically after 90 days.
• Unsubscribing stops our messages but keeps your account, so you can come back. To have the account removed, write to us and we will delete it within 30 days, apart from records we are required to keep, such as payment records.

Your choices and rights

• Change your details and alert settings at any time in your profile.
• Stop our emails with the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every one.
• Cancel Premium in your profile, under Manage billing.
• Ask us for a copy of your information, to correct it, or to delete it, by writing to deals@airfarebeacon.com. We answer within 30 days.

Depending on where you live, for example in California, the European Union or the United Kingdom, the law may give you further rights, including the right to complain to your data protection authority. We honor these requests wherever you live.

Children

Airfare Beacon is not meant for children under 16, and you must be 18 or older to buy Premium. If you believe a child has given us information, tell us and we will delete it.

Security

The site is served only over an encrypted connection, passwords are stored hashed, and access to the data is limited to the people who run the service. No system is perfectly secure. If a breach affects your information we will tell you as the law requires.

Where your information is processed

We operate from the United States, and your information is stored and processed there. If you use the service from another country, your information will be transferred to the United States.

Changes to this policy

When we change this policy we update this page and the date at the top. If a change is significant we will also email you before it takes effect.

Contact

Questions or requests: deals@airfarebeacon.com.