Dibs privacy notice
Draft, updated 8 October 2026. Dibs is a test product run by one person.
What Dibs is
Dibs is an AI agent that you text. It finds things to do, helps you book them, and sends you alerts that you ask for.
What Dibs keeps
- Your phone number or Apple ID email, because that is how Dibs replies to you.
- The messages you send to Dibs and the replies.
- A location, if you give one (a suburb, a city or a shared pin).
- Your bookings and alerts, and the games you join in a group chat.
- Short notes about your preferences, for example your usual group size.
- Your name and email address, if Dibs makes a booking for you. Dibs asks for them one time.
- A login for a venue's website, if that venue takes bookings only from a person with an account. Dibs makes the account with your name and email and a password that Dibs makes, and the booking summary says so before you say YES. The password is stored locked. It is not sent to an AI model and it is never sent by text. It is your account: to use it yourself, press "forgot password" on the venue's site. Dibs never asks for a password of your own.
This is stored on the operator's computer, with a nightly safety copy that is kept for 14 days. It is not sold and it is not used for advertising.
Who else sees your information
- AI model companies: your messages go to an AI model to write the replies. Dibs sends them through OpenRouter to the company that runs the model. Dibs asks OpenRouter to use only companies that do not collect the content. The models are from DeepSeek, Z.ai, Google, Anthropic and OpenAI.
- Google (Gemini), the backup: if those models do not answer, Google's free plan writes the reply. On that plan Google may use the content to improve its products. Do not send Dibs anything sensitive.
- Stripe: if you save a card, Stripe stores it. Dibs never sees your card number.
- Venues: when Dibs makes a booking for you, the venue gets your name, your email address, your phone number, the time and the group size. The booking summary shows the name and email before you say YES. Dibs tells the venue to use your email for the booking only, unless you texted OFFERS YES. Dibs cannot control what a venue does with it after that.
- Map and event services (OpenStreetMap, Open-Meteo, Ticketmaster): Dibs sends them a place or coordinates to look up venues, a time zone and events. It does not send them your name or number.
- The operator: a person may read a conversation to complete a booking or fix a problem.
Your choices
- Text STOP and Dibs stops messaging you and cancels your alerts. Text START to come back.
- Text remove my card to delete your saved card from Stripe.
- Text my logins to see the venue sites where Dibs made an account for you. Dibs shows the names of the sites, never a password.
- Text OFFERS YES if venues that you book with may email you their offers. Text OFFERS NO to stop that. Without a YES from you, the answer is no.
- Text delete my data, then DELETE, and Dibs deletes your messages, saved details, notes, alerts, saved card and the venue logins that Dibs keeps for you. Two things stay: the record that a payment happened, without your number, and the copy of the thread in the Messages app on the operator's computer, which a person deletes by hand. Nightly safety copies are deleted after 14 days.
Payments
When you approve a booking, Dibs places a hold on your saved card for the exact total shown. You are charged only when the booking is confirmed. If it cannot be completed, the hold is released.
Refunds follow one rule. A booking that is not confirmed costs you nothing. If the venue cancels, you get all of your money back. If you cancel a confirmed booking, the venue's own refund rule applies, and Dibs gives back what the venue gives back. The booking summary tells you the venue's rule before you reply YES, when Dibs knows it.