Staymies helps a group compare holiday houses and vote on them. It doesn’t book anything or take payments, and it has no advertising or analytics trackers.
Who runs Staymies
Staymies is run by Evert Van den Bruel, who is responsible for the information described here. Questions go to hello@staymies.com.
What we store
- Trips: the name, destination, dates, group size, currency and budget the organizer enters.
- Houses: the listing links and details the organizer types in. Staymies never scrapes listings.
- Names, votes and notes: the name you choose when joining a trip (or that the organizer adds for you), your yes/maybe/no votes, and any notes you add.
- If you sign in with Google: your email address, your name, and Google’s account identifier. We don’t get your password, Gmail or contacts.
- If you sign in with email: your email address. Sign-in codes are stored only as a scrambled value and stop working after 10 minutes.
- If you ask for the final choice by email: your email address and when you confirmed it.
- A session cookie that remembers your chosen name, whether you’re signed in, and an unfinished trip. It’s needed for the site to work; we use no other cookies.
- Server logs: your IP address and the pages you requested, for troubleshooting and security. Logs are capped in size, so older entries are removed automatically.
Who can see it
Anyone with a trip’s link can join it and see its houses, the names in the group, and notes with their author’s name. Once someone has rated every house, they see the group’s vote totals for each house, but never who voted what. Email addresses are never shown to the group, and organizers don’t see participants’ email addresses either.
Emails we send
Sign-in codes you ask for, a link to confirm your address if you ask for the final choice, and that one email when the organizer chooses a house. We won’t use your address for anything else, such as a newsletter, unless you sign up for it separately. Each trip email has a link to stop them.
Services we rely on
- Google, if you choose “Continue with Google”, to confirm your account.
- An email delivery provider, to send the emails above.
- Hetzner, a hosting company based in Germany, where the app and its database run.
- Google Fonts and the websites hosting listing photos, which your browser loads directly and which can see your IP address.
Google may process your sign-in outside the EU, under its own safeguards. We don’t sell or share your information for any other purpose.
Why we use it
To run the trip you created or joined, and to let you back in when you sign in. We send the final-choice email only because you asked for it, and you can withdraw that at any time.
How long we keep it
Trips, their houses, names, votes and notes are kept until the organizer asks us to delete the trip. Accounts are kept until you ask us to delete yours. Stopping emails removes your address from that trip straight away, including our record of emails sent to it; your votes stay. Sign-in codes, and the address they were sent to, are deleted within a day.
Your choices
You can use Staymies without an account, stop trip emails at any time, and disconnect Google from a trip under “Email & sign-in settings”. To see, correct or delete what we hold about you, or to delete a trip you organize, email hello@staymies.com. You can also complain to your data protection authority.