Privacy Policy
Effective October 29, 2026
The short version
- Participants give a first name only, never a full name, and need no account. Some Rangles ask people to confirm an email so no one joins twice; we keep only a scrambled version, and organizers never see it. If you ask for updates by email, we keep that address apart from your chat.
- Organizers see who took part, never who said what. They get the group’s summary, which may include short quotes and comments without names, but never transcripts or per-person summaries.
- Your chat is processed by Anthropic’s Claude AI to run the interview and write summaries. We don’t sell your information or use it to train AI models.
- Chat transcripts are deleted 90 days after the Rangle (or its round) closes.
- No advertising cookies and no third-party trackers.
1. Who we are
Rangle (“Rangle”, “we”) runs getrangle.com and is responsible for the personal information described here. Contact us at hello@getrangle.com.
2. What we collect
If you take part in a Rangle
- Your first name, plus a last initial or nickname if your name is already taken in that Rangle. In a live session, no name at all. If an organizer invites you by name, they give us your first name (and a last initial if needed) to make your personal link.
- That you confirmed you’re old enough to join.
- What you write in your chat, and the interviewer’s replies (your transcript).
- A short private summary of your views, written by the AI from your chat. It may include a few of your exact words, and a note of whether you shared something sensitive about yourself, so that it’s never passed on to others. It’s kept after your transcript is deleted. We also keep which parts of the group results your views were counted in.
- Your reaction to the group summary, and any comment you add.
- In a plan, whether you offered to take on a task and agreed to be named next to it.
- In a live session, your answers to prompts and your questions for the speaker.
- When you joined, how far you got and when you finished.
If a Rangle asks you to confirm your email: some Rangles, such as larger or public ones, may ask you to confirm an email address with a one-time code or sign in with Google, so one person can’t join many times. We keep only a scrambled, one-way version of the address with your participation, to spot duplicates. The organizer never sees it.
If you ask for updates by email: if you tick “Email me updates”, we keep your email address to tell you when results are ready or a new round opens. It’s stored apart from your chat, the organizer never sees it, and every email has a link to stop them. We delete it when you unsubscribe, or 90 days after the Rangle’s last round closes.
If you tell us how the chat went: at the end of a chat we may ask “How was this chat?”. Your answer and any comment go to the Rangle team to improve Rangle. The organizer never sees them.
If you organize a Rangle
- Your email address, and the display name you choose (we suggest your first name). If you sign in with Google, Google shares your email, name and profile picture with our sign-in provider, which stores them with your account; Rangle doesn’t show them. Rangle shows only the display name you choose: your participants see it, and it appears in link previews and on your results pages, including to anyone if you make a Rangle public.
- What you write when setting up a Rangle, the setup you approve, and your settings. An unfinished setup is also kept in your own browser for up to a week, so you don’t lose it.
- Feedback you send us, your answer to “Did you use the results?”, whether you’re happy for us to email you about your experience, and the kind of page that brought you to set up your first Rangle (for example, a results page or a chat you took part in, never which one).
From everyone’s browser or device
- Your IP address, which we turn into a scrambled code for rate limits, kept for a few days. We don’t store the address itself in Rangle’s database, though our hosting, sign-in and bot-check providers see it when you connect. We also use it, at the moment you open a join page, to tell which country you’re in so we can show the right minimum age.
- A bot check from Cloudflare Turnstile on join pages, which looks at signals from your browser to tell people from scripts.
- On join pages, a cookie with a random code, so the organizer’s count of people who opened the link counts people, not page loads. It isn’t shared with anyone.
- Records of actions such as joining, sending a message or finishing an interview, without what you wrote.
- Error reports, which are set up to leave out your messages, cookies, request contents and chat link.
Apart from the email check and updates above, we don’t ask participants for their age, email, phone number, location or contacts, and we don’t buy information about you.
3. How we use it
- To run Rangle: hold your interview, write private and group summaries, show results, run follow-up rounds and live sessions.
- To keep Rangle safe: limit abuse, stop fake participants, cap AI costs, investigate reports and fix errors.
- To understand and improve Rangle, using counts and statistics that don’t identify anyone.
- To contact organizers about their account or Rangles, about important changes and, if they said it’s OK, about their experience with Rangle.
- To follow the law and enforce our terms.
4. Who sees what
| Who | What they see | What they never see |
|---|---|---|
| The organizer | Who took part and how far they got; the group summary, which may include short quotes without names; reactions to the summary and the words of any comment, without names | Your transcript or your private summary |
| A plan’s organizer and group | Your name next to a task, only if you offered to do it and said yes when the interviewer asked | Your name on any task you didn’t agree to |
| A live session’s facilitator | Groups of similar answers with counts, and a few short example answers without names from groups of three or more | Who wrote any answer |
| Other participants | The group summary; while you chat, if the organizer turned it on, a few views held by two or more people in the group, never who gave them and never as quotes. Anyone with the join link can find out whether a given first name has already joined, because two people can’t use the same name. | Anyone’s transcript or private summary |
| Anyone with a results link | The published results, including names next to tasks on a plan that isn’t public | Transcripts, private summaries |
| The public (public Rangles only) | Title, question, the organizer’s first name, number of people, dates and the published results. No participant names. | Transcripts, private summaries, names |
| Rangle | Everything needed to run and protect the service. We look at individual chats only to investigate abuse, a report, a security problem or a request from you. |
In a follow-up round, the interviewer is given your own earlier private summary so it can pick up where you left off. It’s never given anyone else’s.
In a small group, people who know each other may still guess who said something. The AI is told not to quote anything that would identify someone, but think about that before you share something very personal.
5. AI processing
Rangle uses Anthropic’s Claude models through Anthropic’s API to run interviews and write summaries. Your chat and first name, the organizer’s setup and display name, per-person summaries, and comments on a published summary are sent to Anthropic for this. For a group summary, all participants’ chats go together, with names removed. Under Anthropic’s commercial terms, Anthropic doesn’t use this information to train its models, and keeps it only for a limited time for safety and abuse monitoring. The interviewer is an AI, and we tell you so before you start.
6. Service providers
We share personal information only with providers that help us run Rangle, under terms that limit what they can do with it:
| Provider | What for |
|---|---|
| Anthropic | AI interviews and summaries |
| Supabase | Database, sign-in and email confirmation |
| Vercel | Hosting, and your country for the age check |
| Cloudflare | Bot check on join pages |
| Sentry | Error reports (no message content) |
| Sign in with Google, and our own email | |
| Our email delivery provider | Sending sign-in, confirmation and update emails |
We may also share information if the law requires it, to protect someone’s safety, or as part of a merger or sale of Rangle (and we’d tell you). We don’t sell personal information or share it for advertising.
7. How long we keep it
| Information | How long |
|---|---|
| Chat transcripts and live answers | Deleted 90 days after the Rangle, or that round, closes, and from backups shortly after |
| Private per-person summaries, where your views were counted, your reactions, your answer to “How was this chat?”, and the shared group views used while people chat | As long as the Rangle exists |
| Group summaries and results | As long as the Rangle exists |
| Your first name, participation record and scrambled email (if you confirmed one) | As long as the Rangle exists |
| A name an organizer gave for an invite nobody accepted | Deleted 90 days after the Rangle closes |
| An email you gave for updates | Until you unsubscribe, or 90 days after the Rangle’s last round closes |
| Organizer accounts and Rangles, with the feedback you send us and your contact choice | Until you ask us to delete them |
| Rate-limit codes made from IP addresses | A few days |
| The join-page visitor cookie | 12 months in your browser |
| Records of what people did (joining, sending a message, opening a link) | 12 months |
| Error reports | Up to 90 days |
| Hosting logs | A few days |
8. Your choices and rights
You can ask us to see, correct or delete your information, or object to how we use it, by emailing hello@getrangle.com. Participants: tell us the Rangle’s name and the first name you used. Because we don’t know who you are, we may ask you to confirm the request from the browser you joined with. We’ll answer within 30 days.
Deleting your input removes your name, transcript, private summary, reactions and where you were counted. Group results that were already published don’t change, because they don’t say who said what.
Depending on where you live (for example the EU, the UK or California), you may have more rights, including the right to complain to your data protection authority. We’ll honor them. We don’t sell or share personal information as California law defines those terms.
9. Legal bases (EU and UK)
- Running the service you asked to use (contract): interviews, summaries, results, organizer accounts.
- Legitimate interests: security, preventing abuse, fixing errors, improving Rangle with statistics.
- Your choice to share: anything sensitive you decide to say in your chat (for example about health, religion or politics). You don’t have to share it.
- Legal obligations: when the law requires us to keep or disclose information.
10. Children
Rangle isn’t for children under 13, or under the higher age that applies in some countries (shown on the join page). We don’t knowingly collect information from younger children. If we learn that one has joined, we’ll delete their information. Parents can contact hello@getrangle.com. Because participants can be as young as 13, our interviewer is told to take extra care with everyone.
11. Security
Organizers can’t read transcripts or private summaries: our database blocks it, not just our app. Chat links are long random codes, and a chat opens only in the browser that joined. Data is encrypted in transit. No system is perfectly secure, so we can’t promise that nothing will ever go wrong, but we’ll tell affected people and authorities when the law requires it.
12. Where your information is processed
Rangle and its providers are based in the United States. If you use Rangle from elsewhere, your information is transferred to the US, under safeguards such as the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses where required.
13. Cookies
Rangle sets a cookie that keeps an organizer signed in, one that keeps a participant’s chat private to their browser, and one on join pages with a random code so the organizer’s “opened the link” count counts people, not page loads. If a link on a Rangle page brings you to the setup page, your browser keeps a note of the kind of page it was (such as a results page) for up to 30 days. Cloudflare’s bot check may also set its own. We don’t use advertising cookies or third-party analytics.
14. Changes
We’ll post any update here with a new effective date, and email organizers about material changes before they take effect.
15. Contact
Email hello@getrangle.com.