Privacy and data use

Privacy Policy

Effective September 26, 2026

Curèpe uses the information families provide to coordinate carpools, protect participants, and deliver requested account, ride, and schedule communications. We do not sell personal information.

1. Who we are

Curèpe is a carpool coordination service operated by Marescaux Technologies, Inc. This policy explains how Curèpe collects, uses, discloses, and protects information when you use the Curèpe website, application, and messaging services.

2. Information we collect

Depending on how you use Curèpe, we may collect:

• Account information, such as your name, email address, verified mobile number, and the families and carpools your account is authorized to access.
• Carpool information, such as rider first names, guardian and driver information, vehicle capacity and description, availability, ride assignments, pickup and drop-off information, and participation acknowledgments.
• Schedule and communication information, including weekly attendance, ride needs, scheduling instructions, consent records, and messages you exchange with Curèpe, including texts you send to the Schedule Assistant.
• Technical and security information, such as browser and device details, approximate network information, sign-in and security events, diagnostic records, and product usage events.

3. How we use information

We use information to:

• authenticate users and administer family and carpool access;
• create schedules, assign drivers and riders, identify coverage needs, and coordinate active rides;
• send requested account notices, ride updates, schedule information, and other operational communications;
• prevent misuse, investigate security events, maintain audit records, and comply with applicable obligations; and
• measure and improve Curèpe using aggregated or appropriately limited product analytics.

4. How information is disclosed

Curèpe limits disclosure to what is reasonably necessary for carpool coordination and service operation:

• Authorized carpool participants. Limited information may be visible to authenticated members of the same carpool. An authenticated adult member may request another participating family’s designated, verified cellphone number to call or text that family, or request the current designated numbers of the other participating families to start a group message in the device’s native messaging app. Numbers are returned only after an explicit contact action and are not included in the rendered directory, Rider Access, bootstrap data, analytics, or ordinary logs. During the active window for a current confirmed ride, a rider’s authenticated guardians may also contact the exact assigned adult driver. Home addresses are limited to assigned drivers when needed to coordinate a ride.
• Route grouping. Curèpe may send a structured home address—without names, rider details, schedules, or contact information—to a geocoding provider solely to derive coordinates for grouping nearby riders. Coordinates and failed-attempt timestamps are cached privately, are never included in analytics, and are not exposed as part of the ride plan.
• Service providers. Infrastructure, authentication, communications, security, and support vendors may process information for Curèpe under instructions and restrictions that prohibit using it for their own marketing.
• AI processing for the Schedule Assistant. If you connect the optional Schedule Assistant, third-party AI models process the messages you send it, as described in section 6, only to understand and complete your request. Your messages are not used to train those models.
• Optional payment processing. If you choose to support Curèpe, our payment processor collects payment credentials on its hosted checkout and provides Curèpe limited transaction records needed to confirm the payment, issue or reconcile refunds, account for fees and payouts, and prevent duplicate records. Curèpe does not receive or store complete card numbers, bank credentials, or security codes. We send an opaque internal reference, a support-feature marker, and a coarse amount band, and never include rider names, schedules, addresses, or phone numbers in checkout metadata.
• Safety and legal needs. We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to protect users, investigate misuse, comply with law, or respond to valid legal process.
• Business changes. Information may be transferred as part of a merger, financing, acquisition, or sale of assets, subject to appropriate confidentiality and data-protection safeguards.

5. SMS messaging

Curèpe automated SMS programs are optional. Message frequency varies based on your requests, ride activity, and schedule changes. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out of an automated messaging program or HELP for help. The Schedule Assistant described in section 6 is one of these programs. Opting out does not prevent use of the core application. Separately, Carpool Contact may open your device’s call or messaging app with one or more carpool-scoped adult contacts; Curèpe does not receive or store the resulting call or conversation. See the Curèpe Terms of Service for details.

6. Schedule Assistant texting

The Curèpe Schedule Assistant is an optional texting program. A verified adult in a family can text it to check rides and to update the family’s weekly attendance, ride needs, and driving availability. It may not be available to every family.

• Turning it on. You connect a verified cellphone from your Curèpe Profile by checking a consent box that is unchecked by default. You then reply YES to the text Curèpe sends to that number. The assistant does not act on your messages until you reply YES. A connection lasts 90 days; after that, you reconnect from your Profile.
• What is processed. When you text the assistant, Curèpe receives your message, the sending number, and delivery details from our communications provider. Before a message is interpreted, Curèpe replaces the first names of riders on your family’s roster with placeholders. It declines messages that appear to include a street address. Your message, including any other names you type, is then processed by third-party AI models, along with the limited schedule details needed to interpret it. This is done only to understand and complete your request. Your messages are not used to train those models.
• Handled without AI. Questions about who is driving or riding, requests to call or text a driver, and YES, STOP, and HELP replies are handled by Curèpe directly from your family’s Ride Plan and settings. They are not sent to an AI model.
• Changes need your YES. Every change is shown to you as a preview first. It is saved to your family’s week only when you reply YES. Drivers affected by a saved change are notified in Curèpe, as they are for changes made in the app.
• Driver phone numbers. If you ask to call or text your rider’s driver, the assistant shares that driver’s number only near ride time and only under the same rules as Ride Contact.
• Driving reminders. While you are connected, if you or your family is down to drive in a confirmed Ride Plan, the assistant texts you one reminder between 6 and 8 PM Eastern Time the evening before. It lists each practice, its time, the direction of each drive, and how many riders you are taking. It does not include rider names or addresses. Reminders are written by Curèpe directly, not by an AI model. To send each reminder only once, Curèpe keeps a record of which connection was reminded for which date and whether the text was sent, without your phone number or the message text. That record is deleted 30 days after the date of the drive.
• What is kept. Curèpe does not keep a transcript of your texts. While a request is still in progress, Curèpe keeps it for up to 10 minutes, with rider names already replaced. A log of each message is kept for 90 days to prevent misuse and resolve delivery problems. The log records a one-way hash of the sending number, the kind of message, the time, and the outcome, but not the message text. Changes you save become part of your family’s schedule, like changes made in the app.
• Turning it off. Reply STOP at any time, or choose Disconnect in your Profile. Either one ends the connection immediately. If a family is removed from Curèpe, its assistant connections and in-progress requests are deleted. Message and data rates may apply, and message frequency varies with your requests.

7. Data retention

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide Curèpe, maintain safety and audit records, resolve disputes, and satisfy legal or operational requirements. Retention periods vary by data type and context. Information may be deleted, de-identified, or aggregated when it is no longer needed.

8. Security

Curèpe uses administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information, including access controls, encryption in transit, limited role- and ride-based access, and security event monitoring. No system can guarantee absolute security.

9. Riders and children

Adult parents or guardians manage family and rider information. Curèpe is not intended for a child to create an independent general-purpose account.

10. Your choices

You may update profile information and optional messaging choices from Curèpe. You may also request access, correction, or deletion where applicable. Some records may be retained when required for security, compliance, or dispute resolution.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as Curèpe changes. We will revise the effective date and provide additional notice when appropriate. Material changes to an optional messaging program may require renewed consent.

12. Contact us

For privacy questions or requests, use the Feedback option in Curèpe or email support@curepe.app.