Privacy

August 2026

What we collect, and why

Two things. Your email — whether you type it into the early-access form or into the box that opens when you follow a deal to a store — so we can tell you when tara opens in your country and send you each week's best deals and promotions. And how you shop on tara — the deals, brands and categories you tap — kept under a random visitor ID and joined to your email once you share it, so your weekly edit can be curated to what you actually like. We use PostHog for site analytics. We never sell or rent any of it.

Leaving an email is optional — deal links work either way, and if we ask, you can always skip straight to the store. Every email we send has an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing never takes your deals away.

Where it lives

In a database on Cloudflare's infrastructure, accessible only to the people building tara. It stays there until launch, or until you ask us to delete it, whichever comes first.

The browser extension

The tara extension is allowed to run on any website, and it has to be: a price check is only useful if it works on whatever shop you happen to be on, and we can't know that list in advance. What matters is what it does with that reach, so here it is exactly.

On each page it looks for one thing — a product, in the structured data most shops already publish for search engines. On a page where it doesn't find one, which is nearly every page you'll ever open, it does nothing and shows nothing. It does not read your messages, your documents, your email or the forms you fill in, and it never touches what you type.

Nothing leaves your machine until you tap the tara pill. Finding a product on a page is not enough to send anything anywhere — the pill just appears, and if you ignore it, no request is ever made. Tap it and the extension sends that one product — its title, brand, price and currency, the image, any barcode or model number the shop publishes, and the address of that product page — to our API to look up the same item elsewhere. That's the whole request, and it's tied to no name, email, account or advertising ID, because the extension never asks you for one.

Two things stay on your machine and are never sent anywhere: the list of products you looked at recently, which is what lets tara say "you saw this cheaper at another store", and a short-lived cache of results so revisiting a page doesn't re-run the search. Both live in your browser's session storage and your browser erases them when you quit it.

We don't sell or rent any of it, we don't build advertising profiles, and there is no analytics or tracking code in the extension — the only two addresses it ever contacts are our own price-lookup and link-resolving endpoints. Your browsing history stays yours; we only ever see the one product page you're actually asking us to price-check.

Your choices

Want it gone? Message us on @tara.deals and we'll delete it. Every email we send will include a way to opt out.

For the extension there's nothing to delete — we store no account and keep nothing that points back to you. Removing it from your browser removes everything it kept, and the price checks stop the moment you do.

Product-link search

When you paste a product link into the shopping assistant on tara.deals, we use that link once to identify the product and compare it with listings from other stores. Our matching diagnostics may retain the product title, brand, category, price, store domain, search terms and candidate outcomes so we can improve accuracy. They do not contain the pasted page address, your IP address, an advertising identifier or your browsing history.