Privacy policy
Last updated November 9, 2026
RoomLink is an early-stage project that helps people find roommates in San Francisco. This page explains what we collect when you join the SF Beta, what we do with it, and how to have it deleted. We’ve written it in plain language on purpose.
What we collect
When you join the SF Beta, you give us:
- your email address
- which of three situations fits you: you have a room and need a roommate, you need a room, or you want to apartment hunt together
- your answer to “What’s the most frustrating part of finding a roommate or room in San Francisco today?”
We also record:
- the date and time you signed up
- if you arrived through a link we tagged, where it came from (for example, which group or post), so we know which channels work
To count visits, we use Vercel Web Analytics, which reports page views and visitor numbers. Vercel describes it as working without cookies and without following you across other websites.
We don’t ask for your name, phone number, payment details, or location.
How we use your data
- To email you a confirmation and updates about the SF Beta, including when matching opens.
- To understand what makes finding a roommate hard, and which situations are most common, so we can decide what to build. We may summarize or quote answers, never with your email address.
- To reply when you write to us.
We don’t sell your information, and we don’t share it with advertisers.
Who else handles it
We use a few services to run the site. They handle your information on our behalf, under their own terms:
- Vercel hosts the website and provides visit counts.
- Google stores signups in a Google Sheet and sends emails through Gmail.
- Cloudflare manages the website’s domain name.
Keeping and deleting your information
We keep your signup while we run the SF Beta, or until you ask us to delete it. To see what we have, correct it, or have it deleted, email joinroomlink@gmail.com. You can also reply “unsubscribe” to any email from us and we’ll stop writing to you.
If you live in California, you have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you and to ask us to delete it. We don’t sell or share personal information.
Security
We take reasonable steps to protect your information, including keeping it in a private account. No system is perfectly secure, so please don’t put anything sensitive in the answer box.
Children
RoomLink is for adults. It isn’t meant for anyone under 18, and we don’t knowingly collect information from them.
Some people find RoomLink through Facebook groups. We aren’t affiliated with Facebook or Meta, and we don’t receive information about you from them.
Changes
If we change this policy, we’ll update this page and the date at the top.
Contact
Questions about this policy? Email joinroomlink@gmail.com.