Privacy

Soon helps you make plans with people you know. This page explains what Soon collects, why, and how you stay in control. The short version: Soon uses the least it can, never sells your data, and never reads what your calendar events are.

What Soon collects

• Your account. When you sign in with Google, Soon receives your name, email address and profile photo. Nothing else from your Google account.
• What you tell Soon. Plans, groups, the people you add, neighborhoods, availability and preferences (for example “dinner after 7:30” or a dietary need).
• What Soon learns from your plans. Patterns like a group’s usual budget or neighborhood. You can see, correct or delete every one of these on your Me page and on each group page, and you can turn learning off.
• Invited friends. People you invite can answer through a private link without an account. Soon stores their name, their answers, and, if they share it, the neighborhood they’re coming from and how far they’ll travel.

Google Calendar (optional)

Connecting Google Calendar is optional and separate from signing in. If you connect it, Soon reads only your free/busy times (whether you’re busy, never what the event is) to find times that work, and, if you leave it on, adds plans you book to your calendar. You can turn off writing or disconnect at any time from your Me page; disconnecting revokes Soon’s access. Soon’s use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

How Soon uses it

• To suggest a time and place that works for everyone, and to explain why.
• To show your group who’s in, and to send you the plan.
• To work out travel times. Your exact address is never collected; neighborhoods are enough.

Soon uses Anthropic’s Claude to read plan requests you type (like “dinner with the college crew next week”) and turn them into plan details. Venue details and photos come from Google Maps. These providers process data only to provide those features to Soon.

What Soon never does

• Sell or rent your data, or use it for advertising.
• Read calendar event titles, descriptions or attendees.
• Show your neighborhood to your groups unless you turn that on.
• Book anything without your OK.

Your choices

You can edit or delete anything Soon has learned, turn learning off, disconnect your calendar, or sign out at any time. To delete your account and its data, email privacy@howsoon.us.

Security

Data is stored in a managed Postgres database with access restricted to Soon’s servers. Calendar access tokens are encrypted at rest.

Contact

Questions: privacy@howsoon.us