The short version. You can browse every sale on WeekendHaul without an account, and we don't run display ads or sell your data to anyone. If you list a sale, the address you give us is published on a public page — that's the entire point of the service, and you control how precisely it appears. If your sale was added by us from another site and you want it gone, tell us here and we'll remove it.
1. Who we are
WeekendHaul operates WeekendHaul, a map for finding local secondhand sales. You can reach us at privacy@weekendhaul.com or by mail at 1620 16th Avenue South; Nashville, TN 37212.
2. Browsing without an account
You never need an account to search, browse, or use the map. If you're just browsing, we don't ask for your name, email, or address. Your browser sends us a session cookie so the site works, and our servers log ordinary request data (IP address, browser type, pages requested) for security and troubleshooting. Google Analytics also counts your visit and sets a cookie with a random id in it — section 9 explains what that covers and how to opt out.
3. What we collect, and why
| What | When | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Name and email address | You create an account | To identify your account and contact you about it |
| Password (hashed) | You choose one | To sign you in. If you use Google or Apple, we store no password at all |
| Sign-in provider ID and profile photo | You use Google, Apple, or Facebook sign-in | To match you to your account on return visits and show your avatar |
| Sale details: address, dates, times, description, photos, categories | You publish a sale | To display your sale publicly — this is the service |
| Your home location and travel radius | You save them in My Settings | To centre your map, filter by distance, and plan routes. Never shown publicly |
| Saved sales ("your Haul") | You save a sale | To show you your list. Private to you |
| View and save counts on listings | Anyone views a sale | Aggregate totals shown to the seller. Not tied to individual viewers |
| Your saved search alerts — keywords, categories, and the area you watch | You create an alert | To email you when a matching sale appears. We use them for nothing else, and deleting an alert deletes them |
| What you tell us when you report a listing | You report a sale | To review it. Reporting needs no account and we do not store your IP address — a rate limit handles abuse instead |
| The email address of someone you invite to help manage your sale | You share a sale with a co-manager | To send them one invitation and to record who may edit that listing. We do not use it for anything else, and it is deleted when you remove their access |
| A device name you choose, and a sign-in token for it | You sign in on the mobile app | To keep you signed in on that device and let you sign out of one device without affecting the others |
| Routes you plan — which sales, in what order, on what date | You build a route | To show you the plan, warn you when a stop will be shut by the time you arrive, and hand the whole thing to your map app. Private to you unless you create a share link. Deleting the route deletes it |
| Which organizers you follow | You follow an organizer | To email you when they post a sale, and to show you your list. The organizer sees how many people follow them, never who — unfollowing deletes the record |
| Counts of what happens on the site — a sale viewed, a listing published, an email clicked — with the city it happened in | You use the site, or click a link in one of our emails | To see whether features work and which areas are active. Recorded on our own servers. We record no IP address, browser, or session with these, so they cannot be assembled into a profile of you |
| Which pages you view, roughly where you are, and how you arrived — sent to Google Analytics, along with a random id kept in a cookie | You use the site | To see which pages people actually find, which searches bring them here, and where the site is failing them. The id is random: it is not your name or email. We have turned off the setting that would let Google merge this into the advertising profile it keeps about you, and we never use it to target ads — how to opt out |
| IP address and timestamp on a listing claim | You claim a listing | Fraud prevention — claims transfer ownership of a listing |
Routes and share links
A route says where you plan to be and when, which is more revealing than any single thing you save. So: routes are private by default, we never show them to anyone else, and we do not use them to build a profile of you or sell them to anybody.
If you create a share link, anyone with that link can see the route — the stops, the times, and your first name. That is the point of it, but it does mean treating the link like the address list it is. Turning sharing off issues nothing and revokes the old link immediately, so a link you already sent stops working. Shared routes are marked so search engines do not index them, and turning sharing back on creates a brand new link rather than reviving the old one.
Sensitive location data
If you save a street address as your home base, that is precise geolocation, which some state laws treat as sensitive personal information. We use it for exactly three things: centring your map, measuring your travel radius, and starting a planned route at your own door. We do not use it to profile you, we do not sell it, and we do not share it. You can save a city or ZIP instead of a street address, or clear it entirely, in My Settings.
4. Sales we add ourselves
Some listings on WeekendHaul were not created by the person holding the sale. To make the map useful from day one, we add sales from public sources and from organisers who ask us to. If that's your sale and you didn't put it here, you can have it removed immediately, no account required.
When we add a listing this way, it shows where it came from, and it carries a "claim this sale" link so the real seller can take ownership and edit or delete it. We only publish information that was already public: the sale's address, dates, times, and description. We do not copy personal contact details, and we never take listings from Facebook or other Meta services.
We also keep private research notes about sales we might contact for permission. Those notes are internal, are never published, and are deleted on request.
5. Publishing addresses
A sale listing is a public page. When you publish a sale, the address, dates, and times you enter are visible to anyone, including search engines, and appear on our map. Please only list an address you have the right to list.
You choose how precisely your address appears. You can show the exact address, or hide the street number until the morning of the sale so only the neighbourhood is visible in advance. When your sale ends, the page stays up for about 30 days so people who saved it aren't left with a dead link, and then it is removed. You can delete your listing at any time.
6. Who we share data with
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not run display advertising. We share data only with services that operate WeekendHaul on our behalf:
- Map tiles and geocoding — when you search an address, the text you type is sent to our geocoding provider to turn it into coordinates. Map tiles are loaded from a tile provider, which receives your IP address as part of any ordinary web request.
- Google Analytics — which pages you visit here, the approximate location your internet connection reports, and the site or search that sent you. Google processes this as our service provider so we can see what works. We have switched off Google Signals, the setting that would let Google join these visits to the advertising profile it holds about you. See section 9 to opt out.
- Sign-in providers — Google, Apple, or Facebook, if you choose to sign in with them. They tell us your name, email, and profile photo; we tell them nothing about your activity.
- Links to Amazon — the supply suggestions on the promote page are ordinary outbound links. We do not send Amazon anything about you; if you follow one, Amazon sees the visit and applies its own privacy policy and cookies, exactly as if you had typed the address yourself. Where those links earn us a commission, we say so on the page.
- Hosting, storage, and email — our hosting provider, photo storage, and the service that sends account email.
- Payment processing — if we introduce paid features, a payment processor will handle card details. We never see or store full card numbers.
We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to investigate fraud, abuse, or a threat to someone's safety.
7. Sharing a sale with someone else
You can invite another person — usually a partner or family member — to help manage one of your sales. We use the address you give us to send a single invitation and nothing else: no marketing, no follow-ups, and we never add them to a mailing list. If they accept, they can edit that one listing; they cannot see anything else about your account. Only you can take the listing down or change who has access, and removing someone deletes their invitation and their email with it.
Please only invite people who are expecting it and who you are happy to share the sale's address with.
8. Email
We send account email you'd expect: verification, password resets, and sale invitations someone sent you. Those are part of having an account and cannot be switched off — burying a password reset behind a preference is how people get locked out.
Everything else is optional and on by default: the weekly roundup, saved-search alerts, reminders about your own sale, and updates from companies you follow. You control each one separately in your notification settings, and every optional email carries a one-click unsubscribe link and our mailing address. Your mail app's own unsubscribe button works too. Unsubscribing from one kind never stops the others, and never stops account email.
9. Cookies
We use a session cookie to keep you signed in and a security cookie to protect forms against cross-site request forgery. Your browser also stores your map view and radius preferences locally on your device. We do not use advertising cookies.
We also use Google Analytics, which sets its own cookies holding a random id — not your name or email — so it can tell a first visit from a returning one. It tells us which pages people find, which searches bring them here, and where things break. Google keeps this data for 14 months. We have turned off Google Signals, the setting that would let Google merge these visits into the advertising profile it keeps about you, and we do not use Analytics to advertise to you anywhere.
If you would rather not be counted, install Google's opt-out browser add-on, turn on your browser's tracking protection, or block cookies for this site. All three work, and none of them break anything here — the site behaves exactly the same either way, and you never need an account to browse.
Separately, we count some events on our own servers — how many sale pages were viewed, how many listings were published, how many people clicked through from an email. Those counts set no cookie and record nothing that identifies your browser. Our emails contain no tracking pixel, so we cannot tell whether you opened one; links back to the site carry a plain ?ref= tag so we can count that someone clicked, and nothing more. We delete these counts after about thirteen months, which is long enough to compare one yard-sale season against the last.
10. How long we keep things
- Ended sales — about 30 days after the final date, then removed.
- Your account — until you delete it. You can delete it yourself from your settings on the web or from inside the mobile app; deleting it removes your listings, saved sales, home location, and every device sign-in token.
- Server and security logs — a short rolling window, then discarded.
11. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to see the personal information we hold about you, correct it, delete it, get a copy of it, or object to how we use it. Some states also give you the right not to be discriminated against for exercising those rights, and the right to limit how sensitive information like precise location is used.
You can do most of this yourself: edit or delete listings from your dashboard, change or clear your home location in My Settings, and delete your entire account from your profile settings. For anything else, email privacy@weekendhaul.com and we'll respond within the time your state's law allows. We will never charge you for making a request or give you a worse service for making one.
We do not sell or share personal information for targeted advertising, so there is nothing to opt out of — but if you'd like that confirmed in writing, ask and we'll confirm it.
12. Children
WeekendHaul is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has given us personal information, email us and we'll delete it.
13. Security
Passwords are stored hashed, never in plain text. Traffic is encrypted in transit. No service can promise perfect security, but we try to collect as little as possible in the first place — which is why browsing needs no account and why your home address is optional.
14. Changes
If we change this policy materially, we'll update the effective date above and, for anything significant, tell account holders by email before it takes effect.
15. Contact
Privacy questions and data requests: privacy@weekendhaul.com
Anything else: hello@weekendhaul.com
Mail: 1620 16th Avenue South; Nashville, TN 37212