Privacy policy

SeatPlan is a free tool for making seating charts. This page explains, in plain language, what we store, why, and what you can do about it.

What we store

• Without an account, your seating chart, including any guest names you type in, is kept only in your own browser. It never reaches our servers.
• With an account, we store your name, email address and profile photo (if you sign in with Google), and the seating charts you save, including their guest lists.
• Templates you publish contain only the room layout: tables, seats and room items. Guest names, groups, dietary notes, seating, table notes and floor-plan images are always removed, and you see exactly what will be shared before you confirm.
• Likes and reports are recorded against your account so each person can only like or report a template once.

Who can see it

• Your seating charts are private to you.
• If you turn on a share link, anyone who has that link can view the chart. You choose whether it shows guest names, and you can turn the link off at any time.
• Published templates and your display name as their author are public.

Where it is stored

Accounts and saved charts are stored with Google Firebase in the United States. The website itself is hosted by Vercel.

Cookies and advertising

SeatPlan needs a small amount of browser storage to work: to keep you signed in, to remember your draft chart, and to remember your theme and cookie choices.

SeatPlan is free because it shows ads. Ads are provided by Google AdSense and only load after you agree. Google and its partners may then use cookies to show ads based on your visits to this and other sites. You can read how Google uses information from sites that use its services and change your ad preferences in Google's ad settings. You can change your choice at any time with “Cookie settings” at the bottom of every page. Ads never appear inside the editor.

Students and children

SeatPlan is not directed at children under 13, and children should not create accounts. Teachers using it for classrooms should enter only what a seating chart needs, such as a student's name.

Your choices

• You can edit or delete any of your seating charts at any time.
• You can unpublish a template at any time.
• You can ask us for a copy of your data, or to delete your account and everything in it.

Changes

If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top of this page.