About Fare Radar

Fare Radar is a small, independent site that watches round-trip fares out of Seattle (SEA) and Portland (PDX) around the clock and lists the cheap ones. It started as a tool for a couple of friends who travel a lot. Anyone can browse the deals for free; members get alerts, their own rules and route search.

No ads, no affiliate links, no commissions. We don't earn anything when you book a flight.

Questions

Privacy policy

Effective November 11, 2026

The short version: we collect as little as we can. No analytics, no ads, no tracking cookies, and we never sell or share your personal information.

What we collect

• Your account. Your email address, the name you give (if any), your password (only as a one-way hash), whether you signed in with Google or Apple, and when you created the account and last signed in.
• Your settings. Your home airports, whether alerts are on, the places you want alerts for, nonstop-only, your own deal rules, and which deals we've emailed you about, so we never send the same one twice.
• Membership. Your Stripe customer number and your membership status and renewal date. Stripe holds the payment details.
• Contact form. Your name if you give it, your email and your message. It's delivered to us by email and isn't stored on the site.
• Owners' booking details. Only the site's owners can book. The traveler details they save for that (names, dates of birth, contact details, passport details) are stored encrypted and used only to book their flights.
• Abuse protection. To limit sign-ups, sign-ins, searches and messages per visitor, we keep a scrambled (hashed) version of your IP address, never the address itself. These records are deleted after 7 days.

Route searches you run on the site are saved without anything that identifies you, and help us learn each route's usual price.

What we don't do

• No analytics or tracking scripts, and no advertising.
• No selling or sharing of personal information, as "sell" and "share" are defined by California law (CCPA/CPRA). There's nothing to opt out of.
• No marketing email. You only get the alerts you asked for.

Cookies

The site sets a sign-in cookie, __Host-fr_session, only when you sign in. It keeps you signed in for up to 30 days (or until 14 days of not visiting) and is used for nothing else. When you choose "Continue with Google" or "Continue with Apple", a second cookie lasts 10 minutes to check the sign-in comes back to the same browser. Visitors who don't sign in get no cookies, which is why there's no cookie banner.

Services that handle data for us

• Cloudflare hosts the site and its database. Like any web host, it sees visitors' IP addresses to deliver pages.
• Stripe handles membership payments. It receives your email and the card details you enter on Stripe's own checkout page; we never see your card number.
• Google or Apple, only if you choose to sign in with them. They tell us your email address and name, and we never get your password for those services.
• Resend sends our emails.
• Duffel and the airline receive traveler details when an owner books a flight.
• SerpApi and Ignav answer our fare searches. They never receive any of your personal information.

Links to Google Flights and airline sites are covered by those companies' own privacy policies.

How we protect it

• Your email address and name are encrypted in our database (AES-256). We find your account with a keyed, one-way fingerprint of your email, not the address itself.
• Passwords are never stored. We keep only a salted, slow hash (PBKDF2 with 100,000 rounds plus a server-side secret), so even we can't see your password.
• Sign-in sessions are random 256-bit values; the database holds only a fingerprint of each, and you can end them all from your Account page. Repeated wrong passwords lock the account for a while.
• The whole site runs over HTTPS and loads no third-party scripts.

How long we keep it

Your account, rules and alert history stay until you delete your account on the Account page, which removes them right away and cancels your membership. Stripe keeps payment records as the law requires. Sign-in sessions end after 30 days and password-reset links after 30 minutes. Owners' traveler details stay until they delete them.

Your choices and rights

You can see, download, correct or delete the information we hold about you, wherever you live. That includes rights under California, Washington and EU/UK law. Most of it you can do yourself on the Account page. For anything else, contact us and we'll respond within 30 days. You can stop alerts any time with the link in every email.

Children

The site isn't meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. If a change affects how we use your email, we'll tell subscribers first.

Terms of use

Effective November 11, 2026

By using Fare Radar you agree to these terms. They're written to be read, so please do.

What the site is

Fare Radar shows airfares we found from third-party sources and emails alerts to people who ask for them. We're not an airline, a travel agency or a ticket seller. Fares shown here are information, not offers.

Prices can be wrong or change

Fares come from other services and change constantly. A fare may be gone, higher, or have different rules by the time you see it. Always check the price, dates, baggage rules and fare conditions with the airline or booking site before you pay. We aren't responsible for differences.

Booking

You book with the airline or the site you're sent to, under their terms. Booking on Fare Radar itself is limited to the site's owners. Those bookings go through Duffel and the airline. Changes, cancellations and refunds follow the airline's fare rules.

Accounts

Keep your password to yourself and use one you don't use elsewhere. You're responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us right away if you think someone else got in. One account per person.

Membership and billing

Browsing the deals is free. Deal alerts, your own logic and route search are part of a membership, which costs $8 per month (plus any sales tax) and renews automatically each month until you cancel. Stripe processes payments; we never see or store your card number.

Free trial. Your first membership starts with a 7-day free trial. You enter a card at the start, and nothing is charged during the trial. We email you 3 days before it ends. If you cancel before the trial ends, you pay nothing; otherwise the first $8 charge happens when it ends. One free trial per person.

Cancel any time in Manage billing on your Account page. Your membership then runs to the end of the month you've paid for and doesn't renew. Payments aren't refunded for partial months, except where the law requires it. If a renewal payment fails, we keep your access for a short grace period while Stripe retries. If we change the price, we'll email members at least 30 days before it applies, and you can cancel before then.

Alerts are best effort. We may miss a deal, send one late, or change or stop the service. If we stop it, we'll refund any unused part of your current month.

Fair use

Please don't scrape the site, get around its search limits, try to break in, or use it to send spam. We may block anyone who does.

No commissions

We don't run ads or use affiliate links, and we don't earn money when you book.

No warranty, limited liability

The site is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind. To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for any loss from using it or relying on its fares, including missed deals, price changes, travel disruptions or bookings made elsewhere.

Changes and law

We may update these terms and will change the date above when we do. Washington State law governs them. Questions? Contact us.

Accessibility

We want everyone to be able to find and use a cheap fare here, including people who use screen readers, keyboards, zoom or other assistive technology.

What we aim for

We aim for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2, level AA.

• Every control works with a keyboard and shows a visible focus ring.
• Text keeps strong contrast over the background photo, which is decorative only.
• Forms have labels, and errors and results are announced to screen readers.
• Animation is minimal and turns off when your device asks for reduced motion.
• The layout works from small phones to large screens and at 200% zoom.

Known limits

• The month price calendar in "Check a route" is a dense grid. Screen readers read each day as a list item.
• Fares link to Google Flights and airline sites, which we don't control.

Tell us about a problem

If something on the site doesn't work for you, tell us what you were trying to do and what you use (browser, screen reader, device). We'll reply within a few days and fix what we can.

Last reviewed November 10, 2026.