Taqseem
Privacy
Last updated 13 November 2026
Taqseem keeps only what it takes to split a bill, deletes it on a schedule, and never sells it, shows ads, or touches your money.
The short version.
- Guests have no account. A bill and everything on it deletes itself 90 days after it is shared, or 30 days after the host closes it.
- A host’s account stays until they delete it, which they can do in the app at any time.
- No ads, and no selling or sharing your data. We count how many phones open each link, so its host knows who has seen it; the count goes with the bill. Money goes straight from guest to host, never through Taqseem.
What we keep
If you open a link as a guest:
- The name you go by at the table: a seat the host named, or the name you type.
- What you picked, and which shared plates you joined.
- If you say you have paid: how, how much and when. If the host confirms it: how much arrived.
- A random code your phone or browser makes for that one bill, so the link remembers you. We store only a hashed form of it.
- That your phone opened the link: when, how many times, and what kind of device it is (iPhone, Android or computer). Your browser also makes one random number of its own the first time it opens any Taqseem link, and keeps it for the next; we store only a hashed form of it. It lets us tell one phone from another and see when the same phone opens another bill. It is not your phone number and says nothing about you.
We don’t ask guests for a phone number, an email address or an account.
If you host:
- Your name and your CliQ alias. Your guests see both, so they can pay you.
- How you sign in: your email address and a password we store only as a slow hash, or your WhatsApp number, or the identifier Google or Apple gives us for your account.
- The currency of your last bill, so the next one starts in it.
- Your bills: the items, prices and totals, and everything listed above for your guests.
- Receipt photos you scan go to Google Cloud Vision to be read. The photo is kept with the bill, so everyone on its link can see the receipt the bill came from; you can leave a photo out before you send the link.
- To stop abuse: sign-in codes, kept only as a hash; a count of wrong passwords; and how many receipts you read today.
- On your phone, not our server: a summary of each bill you close — where, when, the total and your share, with nobody’s name in it — so your history and spending outlast the bill. Your groups stay there too. Deleting your account removes both.
Who sees what
- Everyone on a bill sees the names at the table and what each person picked.
- Everyone on a bill can open its receipt photo.
- A payment — a guest’s "I sent it" and the host’s confirmation — is seen only by the host and that guest.
- How many phones opened the link is seen only by the host.
- Nobody else. A bill is reached only by its link, a 10-character code; there is no search and no public list.
Who handles it for us
| Service | What it does | What it sees |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Runs our server and stores the data | Everything above, and your device’s IP address when you connect |
| Google Cloud Vision | Reads receipt photos | The photo |
| Google, Apple | Sign in with Google or Apple | That you are signing in to Taqseem |
| Meta (WhatsApp) | Sends sign-in codes by WhatsApp | Your number and the code |
| Resend | Sends sign-in codes by email | Your email address and the code |
Exchange rates are fetched by our server from ExchangeRate-API; nothing about you goes with the request.
How long we keep it
- A bill and everything in it, its receipt photos and the record of which phones opened it included: 90 days after it is shared, or 30 days after the host closes it, whichever comes first. Then it is gone, from the host’s list too.
- A host’s account: until you delete it. Deleting it deletes every bill you host, at once.
- Signed-in sessions: 180 days.
- Sign-in codes work for 10 minutes and are deleted soon after. Wrong-password counts reset after 15 minutes and receipt counts after the day they count; both are deleted within a day.
- Cloudflare’s request logs: a few days.
Money
Taqseem never holds, moves or sees your money. Guests pay the host in their own bank or wallet app, or in cash. Taqseem only records what people say they sent and what the host confirms arrived.
Your choices
- Delete your account at any time: in the app, under Your details, or as described on Delete your account.
- Ask for a copy of what we hold about you, or for a correction, by writing to hello@taqseemjo.com.
- A guest who wants their name off a bill sooner can ask the host, or write to us with the bill’s link.
Children
Taqseem isn’t made for children under 13, and we don’t knowingly keep their data.
Changes
If this policy changes, this page changes with it, and so does the date at the top.