Privacy policy

What rebiddate collects about you, why, who handles it and where, how long we keep it, and how to see it or have it deleted.

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The short version

  • We use PostHog, in its EU cloud, to see how people use the site and the app, including session recordings.
  • Recordings include what you type into our forms, like a ZIP code, an email address or a note. The sign-in code field is left out.
  • Card details go to Stripe's own checkout page and never reach our servers.
  • Ask and we'll show you what we have, fix it or delete it.

Who is responsible

rebiddate is run by Helios One Oy, business ID 3596623-5, a limited company (osakeyhtiö) in Finland. Helios One Oy decides what is collected and why, so the EU's data protection law (GDPR) covers what we keep about you, wherever you are. Sources: Finnish Trade Register (YTJ) ; EU General Data Protection Regulation, Art. 3, 12, 15–17

US mailing address: 3075 Clay St, San Francisco, CA 94115. Email: hello@rebiddate.com

What we keep, why and for how long

What rebiddate keeps about you, why, and for how long
What Why How long
Your email address To send the Monday email, sign you in with a one-time code, and answer you. While your account is open.
Your metro and what you search for (ZIP, city or company) To build your feed and to see which areas people want next. While your account is open. Searches are also kept as analytics events.
How you found us: the campaign tags on the link (UTM), the site you came from, the page you landed on (with any ad click ID in its address) and when To know which messages are worth sending. Kept in two cookies on your browser and on your account. Cookies: 400 days. On your account: while it's open.
How you use the site, the app and the email: pages, clicks, what you type into our forms, opens and clicks of the Monday email, and session recordings To see where people get stuck and fix it. Recordings: deleted after 30 days. Other events: no set end date.
Your IP address and browser type To tell people from bots and link scanners, and to estimate your city. Kept with the analytics events.
Wrong-record reports, feedback (with any screenshot you attach) and call requests So we can check the record, fix it, and get back to you. Until you ask us to delete them.
If you subscribe: your plan, its status and Stripe's customer and subscription IDs To know what you've paid for. Your card, billing address and invoices stay with Stripe. While your account is open. Stripe keeps its payment records under its own rules.

Analytics

The site and the app send analytics to PostHog, through our own address (/ingest) to PostHog's EU cloud at eu.i.posthog.com. The data sits in PostHog projects that belong to Helios One Oy. Source: PostHog data storage

What is recorded:

  • Each page you view and leave, the links and buttons you click, clicks that do nothing, page errors, and where on a page people click (heatmaps).
  • Named steps: what you search for and what we show, the sample, the download and Monday-email offers (shown, closed, email given), downloads, Wrong record? reports, call requests, the trial, sign-in, checkout, and opens and clicks of the Monday email. Our servers send the same steps too, so they are counted even when a browser blocks analytics.
  • On every event: which part of rebiddate it came from, and whether it looks like a person, a bot or link scanner, or our own team. Bots are tagged, not dropped. PostHog adds the page address, the site you came from, your browser, device and screen size, your IP address and the city and country it estimates from it. We don't shorten or hide IP addresses.
  • About you as a visitor: a random ID, and how you found us, first and latest: the campaign tags on the link (UTM source, medium, campaign, term and content), the site you came from, the page you landed on (with any ad click ID in its address) and when.
  • Once you give us your email (to download a file, start a trial or sign in), we attach it to that random ID, so your earlier visits on the site and in the app count as you.

Session recordings

On this site and in the app, PostHog records what happens on the screen: the pages, what was shown, where you moved, clicked and scrolled, and what you typed into our forms. That includes a ZIP code or company you look up, your email address, and anything you write in a Wrong record? report, a call request or feedback. Typed text isn't hidden.

One field is left out: the box where you type a sign-in code. It carries PostHog's ph-no-capture class, so recordings never show it. Card numbers are typed only on Stripe's own Checkout page, which isn't part of our site, so we never record them. Source: PostHog session replay privacy controls

A recording also keeps the browser console and the page's requests to our servers, with what was sent and what came back, such as the search you ran. Sources: PostHog network recording ; PostHog console log recording

Recordings are deleted after 30 days, the setting on our analytics account.

Cookies and browser storage

  • rb_ft and rb_lt (cookies): where your first and latest visits came from. They last 400 days and are shared between rebiddate.com and app.rebiddate.com. A copy sits in your browser's local storage.
  • Analytics (PostHog): a random ID, kept in a cookie and in your browser's local storage, that ties your visits together, so a search on the site and a sign-up in the app count as one person. Until PostHog loads, the site keeps its own random ID (rb_anon) in local storage.
  • Download email: if you give your email to download a file, your browser remembers it in local storage, so we don't ask again.
  • Sign-in (app only): after you enter your code, the app keeps you signed in with a token in local storage.
  • rb_internal: set only on our own team's browsers, so our visits are marked as ours.

Email

Resend sends our emails: sign-in codes, invites, the Monday email and the account emails (welcome, a day-7 check-in, "fixed what you reported" and trial ending). It tells us whether each one was delivered or bounced. A hard bounce or a spam complaint stops all our email to that address. Source: Resend regions and data storage

The Monday email counts its own opens and clicks: it loads a tiny image from our server, and its links pass through our server on the way to the page. Replies to any of these emails go to a co-founder's inbox.

The Monday email and the emails we send on our own, like the welcome email and the reminder before your trial ends, have an unsubscribe link at the foot: it opens a page where one press unsubscribes you. Sign-in codes go out only when you ask for one, and an invite only when a teammate adds you, so those two don't have one.

Payments

When you subscribe, you pay on Stripe's own Checkout page, and you change your card, see invoices or cancel on Stripe's billing page. Stripe collects your card details and, when it needs it, your billing address. Card data never touches our servers. We keep your plan, its status and Stripe's IDs for your customer record and subscription. Sources: Stripe Checkout ; Stripe privacy policy

Who handles your data, and where

These companies run parts of rebiddate for us. Several keep data in the United States. The same list, with how we protect it, is on Security.

If we emailed you first

We find grounds, tree and snow firms in public sources: state and local license files, agency and association lists, and the firm's own website. From them we keep the firm's name, the name and role of the person who runs it, their work email and the area the firm works in, so we can send one email about the public contracts near them.

If you'd rather not hear from us, reply "no" to that email, or write to hello@rebiddate.com.

See it, fix it, delete it

You can ask for a copy of what we keep about you, ask us to correct it or delete it, or object to analytics about you. Email hello@rebiddate.com from the address on your account, and we answer within one month. Source: EU General Data Protection Regulation, Art. 3, 12, 15–17

Deleting removes your account, your metro and searches, your reports and requests, your recordings and the analytics events tied to you.

We use your data to give you the service you signed up for (your account, sign-in, the Monday email and billing), and because we have a legitimate interest in seeing how rebiddate is used, keeping it working and free of abuse, and telling firms about the public contracts near them.

If you think we've got it wrong, you can also complain to Finland's data protection authority. Source: Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman (Finland)

The rules for using rebiddate are in the Terms.

Where should we send it?

The file downloads now. Your email starts a free 14-day trial for this metro, so next Monday's update comes to you too. No password, no card.

How we use your email: Privacy policy

Take the Montgomery County list with you

The 13 county grounds and snow contracts with an end date by 31 Oct 2027 (13 open to bid: 2 open, 11 LSBRP). Who holds each one, every bid on the tab, and a link to the county record. One CSV.

The file downloads now. Your email starts a free 14-day trial for this metro, so next Monday's update comes to you too. No card. Unsubscribe anytime.

How we use your email: Privacy policy

Wrong record?

Tell us what doesn't match the government record. Every report is emailed to a co-founder, with the line it's about.

Only if you want a reply about this record.