Privacy Policy

Baja AI LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company, operates Baja Amigo. This policy explains what we collect, why, who else sees it, and what you can ask us to do about it. The short version: most of what Baja Amigo knows about you never leaves your own browser, we do not sell your information to advertisers or data brokers, and you can use nearly the whole app without an account at all.

Information We Collect

• Information you provide: account email address, display name, messages you send us, and any information you submit through community, survey, or business-related features.
• Preferences and app data: language, city, saved items, vocabulary progress, dashboard settings, and similar preferences. Many of these remain only in your browser unless you choose a feature that syncs them to an account.
• Optional analytics: if you allow optional cookies, we may collect coarse location inferred from your connection, device and browser category, language, time zone, referring site, landing page, and campaign labels. We also store a randomly generated visitor identifier in a cookie for up to 400 days, so repeat visits from the same browser count as one visitor instead of several. That identifier is not tied to your name or email address, and it is deleted when you withdraw optional-cookie consent. We do not use optional analytics to retain precise GPS coordinates or raw IP addresses.
• Location: if you grant browser location permission for a feature, the feature uses it to provide local results. You can decline or revoke that permission in your browser settings.

How We Use Information

We use information to run and secure Baja Amigo, maintain accounts and preferences, respond to requests, improve features, prevent abuse, and meet legal obligations. We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising — using those two words as California law defines them, not as we might prefer to read them. A participating business pays us for a managed introduction only after you approve sharing your details with it, as described below.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Strictly necessary cookies and browser storage support security, sign-in, language, and core functionality. Optional analytics cookies are used only after you choose to allow them in the cookie banner. You can accept all cookies, reject optional cookies, or save custom settings. Rejecting optional cookies does not affect core use of Baja Amigo.

Separately from optional analytics, if you are signed in we record account-linked entries for core actions you take — completing a translation or unit conversion, saving a note, receiving a Nacho answer, contacting a business, redeeming a deal, or starting a checkout. We record these as necessary processing to operate your account, support billing and deal redemption, and prevent abuse, so they are kept whatever your optional-cookie choice is. They are not used to build advertising profiles and are not shared with advertisers. Signed-out visitors who reject optional cookies generate no such entries.

Deal redemption records also identify whether a pass was issued through a paid member entitlement or the one-time complimentary registered-user offer. This purpose marker does not add a new category of personal information; it helps enforce the one-time offer and investigate duplicate or fraudulent use.

Service Providers and Disclosures

We use service providers to host and operate Baja Amigo, provide authentication and data storage, and supply selected live features. Depending on the feature you use, this may include Vercel, Supabase, Google services, Google Maps, Open-Meteo, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection border-wait feed, and exchange-rate providers. These providers process information only as needed to provide their services or as described in their own policies.

If you submit a managed-service request, we use the information to review and respond to that request. We identify a proposed participating business and ask for your permission before sharing your contact details with it. The business pays Baja Amigo for a confirmed introduction and may use the information only to respond to that request.

Some outbound links on Baja Amigo are affiliate links, labeled as such where they appear. Following one takes you to that partner's own site, which will set its own cookies and apply its own privacy policy. We pass along a partner code identifying Baja Amigo as the referrer; we do not pass your name, email, or account details.

We may also disclose information when the law requires it, to protect the rights and safety of Baja AI or others, or as part of a business transaction such as a merger or asset sale.

Retention and Security

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to operate Baja Amigo, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards, but no online service can guarantee absolute security.

Consented anonymous analytics sessions and events are retained for no more than 13 months. Withdrawing optional-cookie consent stops this tracking immediately and queues deletion of the visitor identifier together with every anonymous session recorded under it and their events, not only the session you are in. We retry that deletion if the network or analytics service is temporarily unavailable. The account-linked action entries described under Cookies are not covered by that withdrawal, because they are necessary processing rather than consent-based analytics; you can request their deletion with your account data.

For the managed solar pilot, invalid or unshared requests are deleted after 90 days. Delivered-request and billing records are retained for one year and then contact details are removed, unless a legal obligation or active dispute requires longer retention.

For invited Risk-Free Start businesses, we retain the accepted program terms, outcome type, source record, verification or reversal status, and relevant dates so the business can review its progress and we can resolve disputes. Click and contact-button analytics are kept separate from this outcome ledger and cannot activate billing. The ledger does not claim or record the business's sale amount.

Your Choices and Rights

Write to us at hola@baja-amigo.com and you can ask us to show you the account-linked personal information we hold, correct it, or delete it. You can clear browser-stored preferences yourself in your browser settings, and change your cookie choices at any time with the controls above.

If you live in California, the CCPA gives you specific rights and we honor all of them: to know what we collect and why, to get a copy of it, to correct it, to delete it, to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, and to limit the use of sensitive personal information (we do not collect any). We will never charge you more or give you a worse service for exercising any of these. We answer within the 45 days the law allows, usually much sooner, and we may need to verify that the account is yours before we act. Residents of other states and countries may have comparable rights — ask and we will apply them.

We do not sell or share personal information for advertising, and we do not hand it to data brokers. There is one paid disclosure and we would rather be plain about it than hide it behind a blanket denial: when you accept a managed introduction, we pass your contact details to the business you approved, and that business pays us for the introduction. Because that disclosure happens only at your direction and only after you approve the specific business, we do not treat it as a sale or share you would need to opt out of. If you would rather we not make it, decline the introduction or write to us, and nothing gets passed along.

Children

Baja Amigo is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. Accounts require you to be 18 or older, as our Terms explain.

Changes and Contact

We may update this Privacy Policy as our practices or legal requirements change. The effective date above identifies the latest version.