Privacy Policy

tty.bio (“we,” “our”) is a terminal-style profile page for humans andtheir AI agents. This policy explains what we collect, why, and — because a good chunk of what we store is deliberately made queryable by automated agents — exactly which parts of your profile that applies to.

1. Information we collect

Account data. When you sign up via GitHub, Google, or email, we receive your email address and, for OAuth sign-ins, your provider-supplied name/avatar. We never see or store your password for GitHub/Google sign-in.

Profile content. Anything you type into your profile — display name, tagline, stats, links, contact details — plus any photo you upload, which we convert into an ASCII-art avatar (the original photo is used only to generate that render).

Query logs. We log which endpoint was hit for your profile (human web page, curl/ANSI, llms.txt, MCP tool call), a coarse user-agent string, and whether the request looked like an automated agent. This is how we (and eventually you, in your own dashboard) see “an AI agent looked up your booking link 6 times this week.”

2. Visibility tiers — the core privacy control

Every piece of profile data you add carries one of three visibility levels, which you set and can change at any time:

• Public — shown on your human-facing web page and returned to any automated query.
• Agents only — hidden from the public web page, but returned to automated queries (curl, llms.txt, MCP) — useful for things you want an AI assistant to be able to relay (like a booking link) without putting it on the page a stranger might screenshot.
• Private — visible only to you, never returned to any query, human or automated.

3. How AI agents query your data

tty.bio is built around agents being a first-class visitor, not a scraper to block. Automated clients can read your public and agents-only fields via a handful of documented, deliberately narrow interfaces: curl tty.bio/you, your llms.txt, and a single MCP tool (get_profile).

We do not, and will not, offer a way to list or enumerate every profile on the site. Every query is scoped to the single handle it asks for, and query volume is subject to rate limiting to prevent abuse.

4. Who we share data with

We use a small number of infrastructure and service providers to run tty.bio, each only touching what they need to do their job:

• Database & authentication provider — securely stores your account and profile data and manages sign-in.
• Hosting provider — runs the application and serves your profile page.
• Email delivery provider — sends sign-in and account-related emails on our behalf.
• Network & security provider — provides DNS and protects the service from abusive traffic.
• Sign-in providers — if you choose to sign in with a third-party account (e.g. GitHub or Google), we receive basic profile/email scopes from them, nothing else.

These providers are bound by their own privacy and security obligations and may only use your data to provide their service to us. We do not sell your data, and we do not run third-party ad tracking on this site.

5. Your rights and controls

• Edit, hide, or delete any field on your profile at any time.
• Change any field's visibility tier at any time — changes take effect immediately.
• Unpublish your profile (hides it from public view without deleting anything) or permanently delete your account and all associated data from your settings page.
• Request an export of your data by emailing us (below).

6. Data retention

When you delete your account, your profile content, uploaded photo, and query logs are deleted. One exception: a minimal handle-history record (which handle, which rough time window — no profile content) is retained, because agents can cache identity across time and this is how we answer “who held this handle when that query happened.”

7. Children's privacy

tty.bio is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect data from them.

8. International users

Data is stored and processed in the United States. By using tty.bio, you consent to this transfer and processing.

9. Changes to this policy

If we make material changes, we'll update the date at the top of this page.

10. Contact

Questions about this policy or your data: [email protected].