How Altai Ventures LLC ("Altai") handles information across this website, its homes, and its apps. Questions go to hello@altaiventures.co.
1. General & website
This policy covers altaiventures.co and the homes, apps, and systems described on it. Altai Ventures LLC is the company behind all of it.
What the website collects
When a message is sent through /contact/ or a similar form, Altai receives what's provided — typically a name, an email address, and the content of the message — and uses it only to respond to that inquiry.
No sale of personal data
Altai does not sell personal data, and does not run third-party advertising or behavioral tracking on this website.
Third parties
Where a service is used to run part of the site — payment processing for a stay, or email delivery for a reply — that provider handles the data needed to perform that specific job, under its own privacy terms.
Retention
Information is kept only as long as it's needed to respond to an inquiry, run a stay, or meet accounting and tax recordkeeping obligations.
Children
This website is not directed at children. The one Altai product built for children, Bee Buddy, is addressed on its own below.
Changes
This page shows the version currently in effect. When it changes in a material way, the effective date above is updated.
Governing law
This policy is governed by the laws of the State of California, consistent with the terms at /terms/.
2. Stays
Some homes, like 769 Santa Ray, offer direct booking through this website. Others are long-term rentals and take inquiries through /contact/ instead.
Direct booking & payment
When a stay is booked directly, payment is processed by Stripe. Stripe collects and handles the payment details under its own privacy policy; Altai does not store full card numbers.
Guest information
Name, contact details, stay dates, and anything else provided for a reservation are used only to manage that stay — confirmations, check-in details, and communication before, during, and after — and to meet recordkeeping requirements.
Inquiries about a home
A message about availability for a long-term home is used only to respond to that question. It does not create a lease, a reservation, or a guarantee of availability.
House rules
Every stay is also subject to the house rules provided at booking or check-in for that property. Those rules set expectations for the stay itself; they don't change how personal data is handled.
Guest data is never sold, and is shared only with the service providers needed to run the stay, or when required by law.
3. Apps
Altai builds five iOS apps: LandlordHours, LensWords, Bee Buddy: Spelling Bee, NeuRest, and Pocket Hold'em.
Built to stay on-device
Altai designs its apps to work on-device. The data an app generates — logged hours, captured words, spelling progress, sound preferences, hands played — stays on that device unless a feature plainly says otherwise, such as an iCloud sync a person turns on themselves.
No ads, no data sales
None of Altai's apps carry third-party advertising, and none sell personal data.
App by app
- LandlordHours — hours and notes logged against a property stay on-device (and in a personal iCloud account, if sync is enabled). Altai does not receive or store those property records on its own servers.
- LensWords — a captured image is processed to produce the word and its examples, and is not kept by Altai once that processing finishes.
- NeuRest — sound settings, and any optional Apple Health signal a person chooses to share, stay on-device and are used only to shape that person's own sessions.
- Pocket Hold'em — play history and stats are stored on-device to track personal progress against the bots.
- Bee Buddy: Spelling Bee — built for children, with no accounts required to play. Altai does not knowingly collect personal information from children, does not track a child's activity across other apps or sites, and shows no third-party ads inside the app.
