Tare Privacy Policy

Effective October 7, 2026

Tare is a seller fee calculator for iPhone, made by Alex Johnson. This page explains what happens to your information when you use it.

The short version: Tare doesn't ask for or keep personal data. There's no account, no ads, no analytics and no tracking.

What stays on your iPhone

The prices, costs, fee settings and items you save in Tare are stored only on your iPhone. Tare doesn't upload or sync them anywhere. If you back up your iPhone to iCloud or a computer, Apple's backup includes them the same way it includes any other app's data. Deleting Tare deletes them.

Category search

When you search for an eBay category and Tare can't find a match on your iPhone, it sends the words you typed to Tare's server (api.tarethis.com), which asks eBay which category they belong in.

• Only the search words are sent. They aren't linked to you, your device or anything else you've entered in Tare.
• The words travel inside the request, not in the web address. Like any website, Tare's hosting provider (Vercel) keeps standard request logs for a short time, which include your IP address, but the search words never appear in them.
• Tare's server passes the search to eBay. eBay sees the request as coming from Tare's server, not from your iPhone, so eBay never gets your IP address.
• Answers are cached for up to a week under a scrambled (hashed) version of the search, so a common search doesn't have to ask eBay again. The cache holds no readable search and nothing about who searched.
• Without an internet connection, Tare skips this step. Everything else still works.

On the App Store, this is listed as Search History, not linked to you and not used for tracking.

Sharing

When you share an item's breakdown, Tare hands it to the iOS share sheet. It goes only where you choose to send it.

What Tare doesn't do

• No account or sign-in
• No analytics, crash reporting services or ads
• No tracking across other apps or websites
• No selling or renting of your information, and nothing passed on except category search words, to eBay, as described above

If you've chosen to share analytics with app developers in your iPhone's settings, Apple may give me anonymous crash reports and usage totals. Apple handles those under Apple's privacy policy.

Children

Tare isn't aimed at children under 13, and it doesn't ask anyone for personal information.

eBay

Tare is an independent app. It isn't affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by eBay Inc. eBay is a trademark of eBay Inc.

Changes to this policy

If Tare ever starts handling information differently, I'll update this page and its effective date before that version of the app is released.

Contact

Questions about privacy: support@tarethis.com