1. Overview
TierraNav is committed to being transparent about how we handle your information. This Privacy Policy explains what data we collect, how we use it, and your rights regarding that data. The short version: we do not sell your personal information — ever — and the businesses listed in our resource directory have no access to your data whatsoever.
Our mission is to make your move less overwhelming. That mission only works if you can trust us with your information. We take that responsibility seriously.
2. Information We Collect
Account Information
TierraNav uses Replit Authentication (OIDC) for login. When you sign in, we receive basic profile information from your Replit account, including your name, email address, and profile image (if provided). We store this to identify your account and personalize your experience.
Move Project Data
When you use TierraNav, we store the information you provide during the intake process, including:
- Your current location (city, state, and optional ZIP code)
- Household composition (number of adults, children, and pets)
- Budget range, housing type preference, and move timeline
- Lifestyle preferences selected during the swipe card intake
- Destination cities and neighborhoods you select
- Your home address (if you choose to pin it on the map)
- Checklist items and completion status
Terra AI Conversations
When you interact with our Terra AI assistant, your messages and Terra's responses are processed through OpenAI's API. We may store questions and AI-generated answers that you explicitly save (e.g., by giving a thumbs up) to improve our FAQ knowledge base. We do not store full conversation logs on our servers beyond the active session.
Usage Data
We collect basic server logs (request paths, timestamps, and response codes) for debugging and security purposes. We do not use third-party analytics trackers.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use your information to:
- Generate personalized destination recommendations and moving checklists
- Surface relevant local resource information for your selected destination
- Enable collaborative checklist sharing (if you choose to share)
- Improve the accuracy and relevance of Terra's guidance
- Maintain and secure your account
We do not use your data for advertising, profiling for third parties, or any purpose beyond operating and improving TierraNav. Your move research stays yours.
4. Technology Services We Use
TierraNav uses the following technology services to operate the platform:
- Replit — Authentication and hosting infrastructure
- OpenAI — AI-powered recommendations, checklists, resource generation, and the Terra assistant. Your move data is sent to OpenAI solely to generate your results. OpenAI's Privacy Policy applies to their processing of that data.
- Nominatim / OpenStreetMap — Used to geocode addresses for map display. No personally identifying information is sent.
These technology services are the only external parties that receive any portion of your data, and only to the extent necessary to deliver TierraNav's features to you.
5. Listed Businesses and Your Data — Our Default Firewall
By default, the businesses in TierraNav's resource directory have absolutely no access to your personal information. Simply browsing or viewing a listing shares nothing.
- We do not sell your data to listed businesses. Not your name, not your email, not your location, not your budget — nothing, automatically.
- We do not share your data with listed businesses without your explicit request. They have no knowledge that you viewed their listing.
- We do not pass your information to referral networks, lead brokers, or data aggregators that could then sell or distribute it.
- We do not send your contact information to any third or fourth party for unsolicited marketing or sales outreach.
- Listed businesses do not pay to be included (unless explicitly marked as sponsored) and receive no user data simply by appearing in our directory.
Exception — User-Initiated Contact: You may voluntarily choose to send your information to a specific business you've found on TierraNav. This is always your explicit decision and is covered in detail in Section 6 below.
6. User-Initiated Contact Sharing
TierraNav may offer you the ability to voluntarily submit your contact and move information directly to a specific business you've found through our platform — such as a real estate agent, moving company, financial advisor, or other service provider. This feature is designed to let you decide, on your terms, when you're ready to connect.
How It Works
When you choose to contact a business through TierraNav, you will be presented with a clear confirmation step that shows exactly what information will be sent. You must actively confirm before any data is transmitted. No information is ever sent automatically.
What May Be Shared (Only What You Approve)
Depending on the type of business and your selections, the information shared with your approval may include:
- Your name and email address
- Your phone number (if you have provided one and choose to include it)
- Your budget range for housing or services
- Your destination city, neighborhood, or ZIP code of interest
- Your move timeline
- Any additional context you choose to include in a message
You will always see exactly what is being sent before you confirm. You may remove or exclude individual fields before submitting.
Your Rights and Protections
- Consent is per-business and per-submission. Choosing to contact one business does not authorize TierraNav to share your information with any other business.
- You are not obligated to respond to any business that contacts you after receiving your information.
- Once information is sent, TierraNav cannot recall it from the recipient business. The business's own privacy policy governs how they handle your information from that point forward. We strongly encourage you to review the business's privacy practices before sharing.
- TierraNav is the conduit, not the initiator. Your submission goes directly through TierraNav to the specific business you selected. We do not retain copies of your submitted contact details for future use beyond what is needed to deliver the message.
- You may revoke general permission for TierraNav to facilitate future contact submissions at any time through your account settings. This does not affect contact information already submitted.
No Secondary Distribution
When you choose to share your information with a business through TierraNav, that business is the sole intended recipient. TierraNav does not simultaneously share your information with other businesses, networks, or aggregators as a result of your submission. Your information goes to the one business you selected — not to a pipeline of third and fourth parties.
7. Unsolicited Data Sharing — What We Never Do
Regardless of what you do or don't do on TierraNav, the following will never happen without your explicit per-instance consent:
- Selling your personal information to any business or data broker
- Sharing your information with businesses you haven't specifically chosen to contact
- Enrolling you in marketing lists or contact databases
- Passing your information to referral networks that distribute it to multiple parties
8. Collaborative Checklist Sharing
If you choose to share your checklist using TierraNav's shareable link feature, anyone with that link can view and interact with your checklist. You can disable sharing at any time from your dashboard. Shared links do not expose your account information, email, or personal details — only the checklist content. If you have pinned a home address on the map, share your link thoughtfully.
9. Data Retention
Your move project data is retained as long as your account is active. If you delete a move project, all associated data (recommendations, checklist items, and resources) is permanently deleted. You may request deletion of your account and all associated data at any time.
10. Security
We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your data, including encrypted connections (HTTPS), session-based authentication, and access controls. No system is 100% secure, and we encourage you to use a strong, unique password for your Replit account.
11. Children's Privacy
TierraNav is not intended for children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.
12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will update the effective date at the top of this page when changes are made. Continued use of TierraNav after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
13. Contact
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your data is handled, please reach out through the TierraNav platform.