Your Privacy Matters

When you use BuyersMarket, we collect:

Account Information

• Email address and name when you create an account
• Profile photo (optional)

Shopping Data

• Products you search for and add to lists
• Price comparisons you view
• Stores you interact with

Device Information

• Device type and operating system
• App version
• General location (parish/area) for finding nearby stores

Usage Data

• How you interact with the app
• Features you use most frequently
• Crash reports to improve stability

What We Collect from Receipts: When you voluntarily upload a receipt, we extract:

• Store name and location
• Product names and prices
• Purchase date and time

What We Immediately Delete:

• Payment card numbers (full or partial)
• Cardholder names
• Loyalty card numbers
• Cashier names or IDs
• Any other personal identifiers

Your Receipt Images: Original receipt images are automatically deleted within 48 hours after processing. We retain only the extracted pricing data, which cannot identify you personally.

Purpose: Receipt data helps us maintain accurate, crowdsourced pricing information for all users. By uploading receipts, you're contributing to Jamaica's grocery price transparency.

Under the Jamaica Data Protection Act, we process your personal data based on:

Consent

• Creating and maintaining your account
• Sending promotional emails and push notifications
• Processing uploaded receipts for price verification
• Sharing anonymized data for research purposes

Contractual Necessity

• Providing price comparison services
• Maintaining your shopping lists and preferences
• Delivering price alerts you've configured
• Processing your subscription payments

Legitimate Interests

• Improving our services and user experience
• Fraud prevention and platform security
• Analytics to understand usage patterns
• Customer support and communication

Legal Obligation

• Responding to legal requests
• Complying with tax and financial reporting requirements
• Maintaining records as required by law

You have the right to withdraw consent at any time where we rely on consent as the legal basis.

We use your information to:

Provide Services

• Show personalized price alerts
• Calculate A-B-C ratings based on your watchlist
• Optimize shopping lists across stores
• Remember your preferences

Improve the App

• Analyze usage patterns to add helpful features
• Fix bugs and improve performance
• Develop new features Jamaicans actually need

Communicate

• Send price drop alerts you've requested
• Weekly digest emails (if opted in)
• Important service announcements

We DO NOT sell your personal data.

We may share information with:

Service Providers

• Cloud hosting (Google Cloud Platform) for secure data storage
• Analytics tools to improve the app
• Payment processors for Premium subscriptions

Legal Requirements

• When required by Jamaican law
• To protect our rights and safety
• With your explicit consent

Aggregated Data

• Anonymous price trends may be shared publicly
• No individual user can be identified

Business Intelligence Services: We provide aggregated, anonymized market insights to retailers, manufacturers, and researchers. This data cannot identify you personally.

Examples of anonymized insights:

• "Average price of rice across Kingston metro increased 5% in Q1"
• "30% of shoppers purchase milk and bread together"
• "Peak shopping times are Saturday mornings 9-11am"

Anonymization Standard: Data is only considered anonymized when:

• It's aggregated across at least 1,000 users
• No individual shopping patterns can be reverse-engineered
• It complies with statistical disclosure control standards

Your Rights: You cannot opt out of anonymized data use because it no longer identifies you. However, you can always delete your account, which stops any future data collection.

We protect your data with:

• Encryption: All data is encrypted in transit and at rest
• Secure Servers: Hosted on Google Cloud Platform with enterprise security
• Access Controls: Only authorized team members can access data
• Regular Audits: We review our security practices regularly

Your Role

• Use a strong, unique password
• Don't share your login credentials
• Log out on shared devices

We retain your personal data for the following periods:

Deletion: You can request early deletion of your data at any time by contacting save@buyersmarket.app or using the in-app account deletion feature.

Anonymized Data: Price data that has been fully anonymized (cannot identify you) may be retained indefinitely for research, product improvement, and public benefit purposes.

You have the right to:

Access

• View all data we have about you
• Export your data at any time

Correct

• Update your profile information
• Fix any inaccuracies

Delete

• Delete your account and all associated data
• Remove specific shopping lists or alerts

Opt Out

• Disable notifications
• Turn off location services
• Opt out of analytics

Our mobile app uses:

• Local Storage: To remember your preferences
• Session Data: To keep you logged in
• Analytics: To understand how the app is used

We do not use third-party advertising cookies.

BuyersMarket is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us immediately.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any significant changes through:

• In-app notifications
• Email to your registered address
• Prominent notice in the app

Continued use of the app after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or your data:

Contact Us - Use our secure contact form BuyersMarket, Inc. 131 Continental Dr, Suite 305 Newark, DE 19713, USA

Operations: Kingston, Jamaica

We aim to respond to all privacy inquiries within 48 hours.