Privacy policy

Effective November 14, 2026. Tradewinds is run by The Tradewinds App, LLC (“we”).

Tradewinds is an independent shift-trading service and is not affiliated with or endorsed by United Airlines. Trades are processed by United's schedulers. This policy covers the Tradewinds website and app only, not United's own systems.

What we collect

• Your profile: name, work email, employee number, fleet, qual, extra quals and an optional mobile number. You type these in yourself.
• Your schedule: the events on the bid award PDF you upload (date, event, times and the sim or room printed on it). We read the PDF and keep only that list. We don't keep the PDF, and we skip the employee number and seniority printed on it.
• Trading activity: the days you offer, the requests you send and receive, and whether they were accepted, declined or cancelled.
• Sign-in: your email address and the sign-in codes we send to it.

We don't log into any company system, and we don't collect your location, contacts or device data. There are no ads and no analytics trackers.

Who can see it

• Other members can see your name, email, employee number, fleet, quals and schedule. That is how the app finds who can legally take a day, and it matches what coworkers can already see on the company schedule.
• Your mobile number, if you add one, is shown only to members you've agreed a trade with.
• The person you trade with sees both sides' details laid out for the official trade form.
• Anyone with your calendar link can see your schedule. Keep it private, and use Reset link on the Account tab if it gets out.
• Our service providers store and send data for us and may not use it for anything else: Supabase (database and sign-in, US), Vercel (hosting, US), Stripe (payments, US) and our email provider (request and sign-in emails).

We never sell your data or share it with United or any other employer. We would only disclose it if the law required us to.

Cookies and storage

We use a sign-in cookie to keep you signed in. Your light or dark theme choice is saved in your browser. That's all.

How long we keep it

Your schedule for a bid period is kept until you upload a new one for that period, which replaces it. Everything else is kept while your account is open. When you ask us to delete your account, we delete your profile, schedules, offers, trades and calendar link within 30 days.

Your choices

• Edit your profile or upload a new schedule at any time.
• Delete your account yourself with Delete account on the Account tab.
• To get a copy of your data, or if you can't sign in to delete your account, email justin@thetradewinds.app.

Payments

Payments are processed by Stripe. You enter your card details with Stripe, and we never see or store your full card number. We keep your plan, whether it's paid up, and the Stripe reference that links your payments to your account. Stripe's own privacy policy covers the payment details it handles.

Who it's for

Tradewinds is for adult airline training-centre staff. It isn't meant for anyone under 18.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update the date above and tell members by email before a significant change takes effect.

Contact

Questions: justin@thetradewinds.app.