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Privacy policy

The short version: your seating charts stay in your own browser. We never receive the names, lists, rules or seats you enter.

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Summary

  • The editor (app.seatingplangenerator.com) stores charts only in your browser, on your device. They are never sent to us or to anyone else.
  • The editor loads no advertising, analytics, session recording, remote fonts or other third-party services.
  • The public pages (seatingplangenerator.com) are separate. They currently use no analytics. If advertising is added later, it will appear only on public pages, with a consent choice where the law requires one, and this policy will be updated first.
  • No accounts, no sign-up, no email collection.

Who we are

This policy covers the website seatingplangenerator.com and the seating chart editor at app.seatingplangenerator.com, operated by the owner of Seating Plan Generator (“we”). You can reach us through the contact page.

The editor: your charts

Everything you put into a chart — names, short names, groups, seats, tables, rules, versions and settings — is stored in your browser’s IndexedDB database on your device. It is not uploaded, synchronized or backed up by us. We cannot see it, recover it or delete it for you.

  • Automatic arrangement runs inside your browser. No chart data is sent anywhere to compute it.
  • Exports (print, PDF via your browser, PNG, CSV and backups) are created in your browser and saved to your device.
  • Interface language preference is stored in your browser’s local storage.
  • No chart content in addresses. Links from public pages into the editor carry at most a chart type or template name, never personal data.

Local storage is not encryption. Anyone with access to the same browser profile can open your charts. Clearing site data deletes them. Download backups to keep copies, and treat backup files like the original lists.

The editor is served from a separate web address precisely so that pages which might one day carry advertising cannot access the editor’s storage.

The public pages

  • Hosting. Pages are delivered by Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes technical data such as IP addresses and request details to deliver pages and protect against abuse. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy.
  • Translation (optional). If you choose a language from “Translate this page,” the page loads Google Translate, which sends the page’s text to Google to translate it and sets a cookie (googtrans) remembering your choice. Nothing loads unless you choose a language. See Google’s privacy policy. Choose “English” to remove the choice.
  • Interactive samples on public pages use fictitious names and save nothing.
  • Analytics. None at present. If we add privacy-respecting measurement of public pages, it will never include names, chart titles or anything typed into the editor, and we will update this policy first.

Advertising

We may show advertising on public reading pages (guides and template pages) in the future to keep the tool free. If we do:

  • Ads will never appear in the editor, in print views or in anything you export.
  • Where the law requires consent (for example in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland), a consent message from a Google-certified consent management platform will let you accept, refuse or withdraw consent at any time. Refusing will not stop the tool from working.
  • Advertising partners such as Google may use cookies to serve and measure ads, as described in How Google uses information from sites that use its services.

This section will be updated with specific details before any advertising is enabled.

Messages you send us

If you email us, we receive your email address and message and use them only to reply. Please don’t include rosters, guest lists or backup files.

Children

The tool is designed for adults — teachers, organizers, couples and directors. It doesn’t ask for or store information about the people in a chart beyond the names and labels you type, which stay on your device. It isn’t directed at children and offers no accounts.

Your choices and rights

Because chart data stays on your device, you control it directly: edit it, export it, or delete one chart or all charts from My charts. Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal data we hold about you (for example, an email you sent us). Contact us to exercise them.

Changes to this policy

We will update this page before any change in how data is handled, and change the “last updated” date above.