Privacy Policy

Last Updated: November 30, 2025

Welcome to GoPayDutch ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our website, gopaydutch.com (the "Site"). Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.

Collection of Your Information

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:

  • Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your name, username, email address, that you voluntarily give to us when you register with the Site.
  • Financial Data: Data related to the expenses you input, such as receipt details, amounts, and participants. This data is essential for the core functionality of our service and is linked to your account.

Use of Your Information

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:

  • Create and manage your account.
  • Calculate and display shared expenses and balances between you and other users.
  • Email you regarding your account or password recovery.
  • Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Site.

Disclosure of Your Information

We do not share, sell, rent, or trade your personal information with any third parties for their promotional purposes.

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:

  • By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
  • Other Users: Users within a shared account that you are a member of will be able to see your name, username, and the expense details you are involved in within that specific account.

Security of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

Storage and Deletion of Receipt Images

When you upload a receipt image to GoPayDutch, we temporarily store it on our servers to facilitate processing and expense tracking. Our policy for retaining these images varies based on the type of receipt and its processing status:

  • Quick Receipts: Images associated with Quick Receipts are designed for temporary use. They are automatically deleted from our servers immediately if the OCR processing fails, or once all participants have confirmed their claims for that receipt. If a Quick Receipt is manually deleted by its creator, the associated image is also permanently removed.
  • Standard Account Receipts: Images uploaded for standard account receipts are used for OCR processing and are deleted from our servers immediately after the receipt is successfully created and saved to the database.
  • General Cleanup: An automated system runs periodically to identify and delete any image files that are older than 24 hours and are no longer linked to any active receipt record in our database. This ensures that no unreferenced or outdated image data persists on our servers.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we use cookies to enhance your experience. A cookie is a small text file stored on your computer or mobile device by a website's server.

  • Third-Party Cookies for Advertising: We use third-party advertising companies, including Google AdSense, to serve ads when you visit our Site. These companies may use cookies, such as the Google DoubleClick DART cookie, to collect information about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide relevant advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you.
  • Opting Out: You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google ad settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies for interest-based advertising by visiting aboutads.info.

Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the email address provided on our Contact Us page.

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