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ATOM Interstate · Effective October 28, 2026 · What changed

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We rewrote parts of this policy so it matches exactly what ATOM does. In plain words:

Who We Are

ATOM Interstate ("ATOM", "we", "us", or "our") is a software application designed for the touring music industry. We provide tools for tour management, accounting, logistics, and operations. Our contact email for anything about your data is atom@atominterstate.app.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you use ATOM at atominterstate.app.

If You Are in the UK, the EU, the EEA or Switzerland

The UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018, the EU GDPR, the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection, and the UK and EU rules on cookies and electronic marketing (PECR and the ePrivacy rules) apply to your data. This section explains how ATOM meets them. The rest of this policy gives the detail.

Who is responsible for your data

Why we are allowed to use your data (legal bases)

Health, dietary, religious and union details

A tour may record allergies, medical notes, meal needs (which can reveal religion) or union membership for its crew so it can feed, insure, pay and look after them. These are special categories of data. The tour's owner decides whether to record them and needs a lawful reason, usually the person's explicit consent or employment law. ATOM keeps passport, date of birth, home address, emergency contacts, allergies, medical, dietary and gender details encrypted at rest (AES-256), shows them only to the people the tour allows, and never uses them for anything else.

ATOM Fit activity (steps, distance, stairs, exercise minutes) can count as health data. ATOM collects it only after you tick the consent box and turn ATOM Fit on (your explicit consent), and you can withdraw it any time by turning ATOM Fit off, which deletes it. See ATOM Fit.

Where your data is stored, and transfers

ATOM's database and files are hosted by Supabase in the United States (Virginia; the Manager product in Oregon), and the app by Netlify, also in the US. Some of the providers listed under Third-Party Processors are in the US too. When your data leaves the UK, EU, EEA or Switzerland, we rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses with the UK International Data Transfer Addendum (and their Swiss equivalent), included in each provider's data processing terms, or on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and its UK and Swiss extensions where the provider is certified. Ask us for a copy of the relevant terms.

Analytics and storage on your device

ATOM sets no advertising or tracking cookies. In the UK, EU, EEA and Switzerland, the record of which screens you use stays off until you say yes. Plausible page counts store nothing on your device and hold no personal data. ATOM's public pages count visits without storing anything on your device. See Cookies and Local Storage.

Complaints

You can complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk), to the data protection authority where you live or work in the EU or EEA, or to the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner. We would like the chance to sort it out first: write to atom@atominterstate.app.

Data We Collect

We collect only what is necessary to operate the service:

Email opens. Emails the ATOM founders send you may include a small image that tells us whether the email was opened. We use it only to know whether a message reached you. It is never sold and never used for ads.

We do not collect payment card data directly. We do not use advertising trackers or cookies that follow you around the web. We do not sell your data to any third party.

How we count visitors. Inside the app we use Plausible Analytics, a privacy-friendly service, to count page visits. Plausible sets no cookies, does not collect personal information, and does not follow you across other websites. On our public pages (the homepage, the free tools, the Mac download page) ATOM counts visits on its own servers: only the page and what was done there (opened, used, printed). No cookies, no IP address, no account, and never anything you type into a tool. Neither count is used for advertising or sold.

How We Use Your Data

AI Chat Assistant

ATOM includes an AI chat assistant powered by Anthropic's Claude API. When you use this feature, a snapshot of your current tour data (shows, expenses, crew) is sent to Anthropic's API to generate a response. This data is used solely to answer your question and is not used to train Anthropic's models under our API agreement.

Do not share sensitive personal data (e.g. social security numbers, banking credentials) in the chat interface.

We do not keep your chat

We do not store the messages you type into the assistant, with one exception: a question it could not answer (next section). Our AI usage records hold token counts and cost only, so that we can monitor spend. They never contain the content of your messages. Your conversation history is kept in your own browser's local storage on your device, not on our servers.

Questions ATOM could not answer

When the assistant, or the free ATOM 101 tutor at atominterstate.app/101, cannot answer a touring or how-to question, ATOM keeps the text of that one question so the missing answer can be written into ATOM 101.

Sending a question so ATOM can learn (optional, per question)

When the assistant cannot answer a question about how ATOM works, it may offer to send that one question to the ATOM team so we can write the missing answer into the product. This is entirely optional and is asked separately every single time. Nothing is sent or stored unless you choose to send it.

If you choose to send it:

Because a submission is not linked to your account, we have no way to identify it as yours, which also means it cannot be withdrawn after sending. If you choose "No thanks", nothing more is sent. (A question the assistant could not answer may already be kept without your name, as described above.)

Please do not include personal details, financial figures, or anyone's name when sending a question. The editable box is there so you can remove them first.

Totals across ATOM tours (ATOM 101)

ATOM 101 may show anonymous totals worked out from the tours on ATOM, for example the median per diem paid per day, the median venue cut on merch, or the usual overage split on guarantee versus percentage deals.

ATOM Fit (Apple Health and Health Connect)

ATOM Fit is optional and off until you turn it on.

Reading Your Documents with AI

Much of ATOM's value is that you can drop in a contract, settlement, receipt or rider and ATOM fills in the dates, money and contacts for you. To do that, ATOM sends the document to an AI service that reads it and hands the details back. Here is exactly how that works.

When it happens

Who reads it

Neither service may use your documents to train its AI models under the business terms we use. Under Anthropic's published policy, what we send through its API is deleted within 30 days, and kept longer only if it is flagged for a violation of Anthropic's usage policy. We do not use your documents to train any AI either.

What is sent

The document or the part of it needed to find the details: its text, or an image of its pages if it is a photo or scan. For email scans, the email text and its attachments that look relevant. Where it helps match things up, a few details from your tour go with it (for example the show date and venue). Your other account data is not sent.

What is kept

The details you keep (a show, an expense, a contact) are saved in your account like anything you type. If you uploaded the file itself, it is kept in private storage so you can open it later. Results of longer document reads are saved to your account so the app can pick them up when they finish. All of it is removed when you delete your account.

Your controls

Documents that belong partly to someone else

Contracts, offers and settlements often include another party's information (an agency, a promoter, a venue), and many say their terms are confidential. ATOM handles them only on your behalf, the same way your email or cloud storage does: to show them back to you and the people you choose to share your tour with. We never share them with anyone else, never use them for advertising, and never use them to train AI. You are responsible for being allowed to upload what you upload; if a contract forbids it, do not upload it, or enter the details by hand.

Connecting ATOM to Your Own AI Assistant (Claude, ChatGPT)

You can connect ATOM to an AI assistant you already use, such as Claude (by Anthropic) or ChatGPT (by OpenAI), and ask it about your tour. This is your choice. Nothing is connected unless you set it up yourself and tap Allow on ATOM's approval screen.

What the assistant can see

It signs in as you, with your own ATOM login, and sees exactly what the YO ATOM assistant sees for you: your tours, shows and day sheets, the contacts your role can see, and money only if your role can see money. ATOM applies the same permission checks it applies everywhere else, on our servers, before anything is sent. Crew never see money. It can suggest a change to a day (a note, schedule rows, a hotel), but it shows you exactly what will change and nothing is saved until you say yes, and only if your role can edit that day in ATOM. It cannot change money. Each change it saves is noted in your tour's activity log.

Where your questions go

When you ask the assistant something, your question and the part of your ATOM data needed to answer it are sent to that assistant's company (for example Anthropic or OpenAI). That company handles them under its own terms and privacy settings, which you agreed to when you signed up with them, including whether your chats are kept or used to improve their models. Those companies act for you here, not for ATOM, so they are not listed in our processors below. ATOM sends data only when you ask, and only what your role can see.

If you use Email Scan, the entries ATOM created from your Gmail (such as an expense from a receipt, or a hotel or flight from a confirmation) are part of your tour data, and the assistant can see them like any other entry. The emails themselves are never sent to a connected assistant. ATOM does not keep them (see Google API Services User Data).

What ATOM keeps

We keep a record that an assistant is connected (its name, when it connected and when it was last used) so you can see and remove it, and a note in your tour's activity log when one is connected or disconnected. We store sign-in tokens only in scrambled (hashed) form. We do not keep the questions you ask through the assistant.

Your controls

Google API Services User Data

If you choose to connect your Gmail account to ATOM (Money → Settings → ATOM Automation, or the email scan buttons in Tour Book, Travel, Advance and Merch), the following terms apply specifically to your Google data. ATOM's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

What we request and why

We request a single Google API scope:

We use this scope only to find touring paperwork in your inbox that ATOM can turn into entries for you: receipts, hotel folios, airline and travel confirmations, settlement statements, credit card statements, show advance emails, merch reports and tech packs. This saves you typing each one by hand. We never use Gmail data for any other purpose.

What we do with your Gmail data

How your Google data is stored

How to revoke access

You can disconnect ATOM from your Gmail account at any time:

Revoking access does not delete the parsed expense rows that were already imported — those are your data and remain in your ATOM account. To delete those as well, edit them individually or delete your ATOM account using the controls in Settings → Privacy & Your Data.

Data sub-processors for Gmail data

When a scan reads a message, its text and attachments go to Anthropic (Claude) to pull out the details, and scanned attachments with no readable text may go to Google Cloud Vision to be turned into text first. Neither may use your Gmail data to train its models. Under Anthropic's published policy, API inputs are deleted within 30 days unless flagged for a usage-policy violation. No other third party receives Gmail content.

Third-Party Processors

We use the following outside services to operate ATOM. Each receives only what it needs to do its job, only processes it on our behalf, and is not allowed to sell it or use it for advertising. The services marked "only if" receive nothing unless you use that feature.

If you connect ATOM to your own AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT or another), that assistant's company is chosen by you and acts for you, not for us. See Connecting ATOM to Your Own AI Assistant.

Data Retention

Your data is retained for as long as your account is active. When you delete your account it is erased within 15 minutes, and our backups roll off within 30 days. IP-based rate-limit counters expire within a day and are never kept longer than 90 days.

Results of longer document reads, saved so the app can collect them, are kept with your account and deleted with it. Overnight email copies are kept until you review or dismiss them. AI providers keep what we send them only as described in Reading your documents with AI.

Deleting Your Account & Your Data

You can delete your account at any time: your picture (top right) → Account → Danger zone, or → Security & Legal → Delete My Account. You confirm with a code sent to your email. When you do, you are signed out everywhere at once, and within 15 minutes:

Your Rights (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have the following rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and applicable local law:

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at atom@atominterstate.app. We will respond within 30 days.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority (e.g. the ICO in the UK, or your national DPA in the EU).

You can download a copy of your data yourself: your picture → Security & Legal → Download My Data. The legal bases we rely on are listed in If You Are in the UK, the EU, the EEA or Switzerland.

Cookies and Local Storage

ATOM uses browser storage on your device (not advertising cookies) for things the app needs: your sign-in, your settings and a copy of your tour so ATOM works offline. No advertising or third-party tracking cookies are set. ATOM's own record of which screens you use is tied to your account only with your yes in the UK, the EU, the EEA and Switzerland (elsewhere it is on by default and can be turned off in Settings). Plausible page counts store nothing on your device. See our Cookie Policy for full details.

Security

All data is transmitted over HTTPS (SSL/TLS), provisioned automatically by Netlify via Let's Encrypt. Passwords are hashed using PBKDF2 (600,000 rounds) before storage and are never transmitted or stored in plain text. Access to your data requires a valid session token.

Staff Access to Your Data

In the ordinary course of business, ATOM personnel do not access the contents of your tour data. Your settlements, deals, expenses, crew information, and uploaded files are not read by our team as part of our daily operations.

There are three narrow exceptions where a staff member may view your data:

Confidentiality Commitment

When an ATOM staff member does access your account under any of the circumstances above, we are bound to the following:

We will not:

We may:

We must:

All staff access is logged with the administrator's identity, the target account, the grant ID (where applicable), a timestamp, and the section(s) viewed. These audit logs are retained for the life of the service. You can view your own audit log at any time inside the app.

Internal misuse of staff access is a termination offense under our employment policies.

Support Access Process

When we need to look at your account to help you — whether you've reported a bug, we're observing how beta users interact with a new feature, or we're otherwise working on your behalf — we use a consent flow with the following guarantees:

Children's Privacy

ATOM is not directed at children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 16.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy as the product evolves. When we do, we'll update the effective date at the top. For significant changes, we'll notify active users by email.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data? Email us at atom@atominterstate.app.