Privacy policy

Borne Labs Ltd runs owecrew.com and the Owecrew apps, and is the data controller for the personal data described here. For anything to do with your data, email support@owecrew.com.

We don't ask for your phone number, contacts, location, or bank details. Owecrew works out who owes who, but you pay each other outside the app.

Anyone with a crew's link or QR code can open it, see its members, bills and balances, and add to it. That's how guests join without an account. So only share the link with the people you're splitting with, and don't put anything in a crew (like a bill title) that you wouldn't want them to see.

When you scan a receipt, the photo is sent to an AI model that reads the items and prices, and the result comes back to your crew. The model runs on Cloudflare (Workers AI). For Premium double-checks and the bill assistant, the photo or bill text goes through Cloudflare's AI Gateway to Google's Gemini API.

We don't save the photo. It's used for the one request and then discarded. We use these providers on paid terms under which they don't use your content to train their models. If AI isn't available, your phone reads the receipt itself and nothing is sent.

The bill assistant and table round work the same way: what you type or say is sent along with the bill, and the reply comes back as changes you can see. We keep the changes, not the conversation.

If you speak to the assistant instead of typing, your phone or browser turns your voice into text using its own speech recognition (for example Apple's or Google's), under their privacy terms. We only receive the text.

• Contract: to run the service you asked for: crews, bills, scanning, sign-in and Premium.
• Legitimate interests: to keep Owecrew secure, prevent abuse, enforce fair use, and understand in aggregate which features get used, so we can improve them.
• Legal obligation: to keep purchase records for tax and accounting.

We use a small number of providers to run Owecrew. They process data for us, only to provide their service:

Some of these providers are based in or use servers in the US. Where your data leaves the UK, it's covered by the UK–US data bridge or the UK's standard contractual clauses.

We don't sell or rent your data, and we don't share it with advertisers. We'd only disclose it if the law required us to.

We don't use advertising or tracking cookies, so there's no cookie banner. We do use:

These are needed for Owecrew to work, and clearing them just signs you out or forgets your crews on that device.

• Crews and everything in them: until the host deletes the crew, or you ask us to. We may delete crews that haven't been used for two years.
• Receipt photos: not kept.
• Accounts: until you ask us to delete yours.
• Sign-in links: they expire within minutes and only work once.
• Purchase records: six years, as UK tax law requires.

You can ask to see, correct, delete or get a copy of your personal data, and you can object to or ask us to restrict how we use it. Email support@owecrew.com and we'll respond within a month. A crew's host can also delete the whole crew and everything in it from the app.

If you're unhappy with how we've handled your data, please tell us first. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Owecrew isn't aimed at children, and you need to be at least 13 to use it. Buying Premium needs someone aged 18 or over.

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. If a change is significant, we'll say so in the app or email account holders before it takes effect.