Privacy Policy
Last updated: July 2026
1. Who we are
expatriates.ai ("we," "us") runs this website of free tools and reference information for people moving and living abroad. This policy explains what personal information we collect through the site and how we handle it. For our terms of use, see our Terms of Service.
2. What we collect
- Your email address — only if you submit it to get country guides, rule-change alerts, or launch news. We store it together with the page or channel you signed up from.
- Usage events — first-party measurements of which pages and tools are used (e.g. a page view, a tool start, an email submitted), coarse, non-identifying tool measurements (such as which situation you picked, which country you checked, and how many programs matched — never the figures you entered), a random per-session id that resets each visit, and any campaign tag in the link you arrived from. These events carry no name, are never linked to a third-party advertising profile, and are not used to build a profile of you; if you ask us to delete your email, we delete your signup event too. If you copy a results share-link, your inputs are encoded in that link — share it only with people you trust.
- Information you enter into a tool — the finder and the tax tools run on what you type (income, funds, heritage, or tax inputs — and, for the streamlined tax tool, your name and the narrative answers you type, which we process only to draft your form and do not store) to generate your results. This is used to produce your on-screen output. It is not sold, not used for advertising, and not shared for marketing, and we place no third-party analytics or advertising trackers on the tax pages.
- Standard server logs — like most websites, our hosting keeps basic technical logs (e.g. IP address, browser type) for security and reliability.
3. How we use it
We use the information above only to:
- send you the guides, alerts, and updates you asked for (you can unsubscribe from any email at any time);
- generate your results in the tools;
- understand which content and tools are useful, so we can improve them; and
- keep the site secure and working.
4. Legal bases (GDPR)
If you are in the EU/EEA or UK, we rely on your consent to send you marketing emails (you may withdraw it any time), and on our legitimate interests in running a secure, useful site for our privacy-safe first-party analytics. You can object to the latter at any time.
5. Sharing — and what we never do
We never sell your personal data, and we do not share it for anyone else's advertising. We use a small number of service providers (for example, website hosting and email delivery) that process data only on our instructions under contract. We may disclose information if required by law. That's it.
6. Cookies and tracking
We do not use third-party advertising or analytics cookies or pixels. Our measurement is first-party only and uses a temporary session identifier stored in your browser that resets each session. Nothing tracks you across other sites.
7. How long we keep it
We keep your email until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it. Usage events are kept as individual non-identifying records that we analyze in aggregate, and raw events are deleted after at most 24 months. Information you enter into a tool is processed in memory to generate your result and is not stored by us at all.
8. Your rights
Wherever you live, you can ask us to show you the personal data we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it, and you can unsubscribe from emails at any time. If you are in the EU/EEA or UK, you also have the right to data portability, to restrict or object to processing, to withdraw consent, and to complain to your local data-protection authority. If you are in California, you have the right to know, delete, and opt out of the "sale" or "sharing" of personal information (we do neither) and not to be discriminated against for exercising your rights.
To exercise any of these, email privacy@expatriates.ai.
9. International transfers
We operate from, and process data primarily in, the United States. If you contact us or sign up from outside the US, your information may be transferred to and processed there, with appropriate safeguards where required. Copies may also exist temporarily in encrypted or replicated backups on our own systems, including in other countries; backup copies are overwritten or expire on a fixed schedule, so deletions reach them automatically over time.
10. Children
The site is for adults and is not directed to children. Please don't use it if you are under 18.
11. Changes and contact
We may update this policy as the site evolves; the date above shows the current version. Questions or requests? Email privacy@expatriates.ai.
This is a plain-language privacy notice for an information service and is not legal advice.