Privacy Policy

Last Updated: August 4, 2026

[As of August 2026]

This Privacy Policy explains how ShoppeMate LLC (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and safeguards your information when you use our mobile application and services. We are completely community-funded and committed to absolute transparency regarding your data.

1. Information We Collect

We collect only the bare minimum information required to securely calculate your grocery comparisons, process rewards, and automate your curbside carts.

Data Category	Purpose and Usage Description
First Name	We use your first name to personalize your application experience and dashboard.
Email Address	Your email address serves as your unique user identity for account access, security verifications, and essential transactional receipts.
Password	A unique alphanumeric string securely encrypted to protect and restrict access to your user account.
ZIP Code / Location	We use your regional location data strictly to locate, display, and map local grocery store inventory in your immediate neighborhood.
Device Type	Technical configuration data used strictly to optimize performance, layout rendering, and security updates across iOS and Android ecosystems.
Retailer Credentials	With your explicit permission, we securely store tokenized login credentials for your local grocery retailers to automate the cross-store curbside cart creation process. We never store raw passwords for third-party platforms.
Payment Card Information	We do not store or process your credit card numbers. All subscription transactions are securely handled directly by major external billing networks.

2. How We Use Your Information

The information we collect is processed exclusively to deliver our core services, including to:

• Operate, maintain, and calibrate our proprietary cost-per-ounce unit price engines.
• Securely push optimized items from your in-app shopping list into your third-party grocery store pickup accounts.
• Track your legitimate price updates (such as updating red-highlighted outdated prices) to accurately distribute your $0.01 micro-rewards.
• Calculate and distribute multi-tiered referral network payouts to your verified payment endpoints.
• Monitor our network integrity to prevent automated bot scraping, fraud, or spam manipulation.

3. Data Sharing and Third-Party API Transmissions

To facilitate automated curbside ordering, our platform securely transmits your shopping selections to the local retailers you select (e.g., Walmart, Target, BJ's). We have no control over, and assume no liability for, the individual privacy practices or internal data management protocols of these independent third-party retailers once your data is sent to their checkout queues.

4. Security Controls

We implement industry-standard electronic, managerial, and physical security safeguards to protect your personal information against unauthorized exposure, theft, alteration, or access. All sensitive account actions and external connections utilize industry-accepted data encryption frameworks.

4.2 Zero Payment Card Storage: To maximize your financial security, our systems are built so that we never collect, store, or process your credit card numbers, CVVs, or expiration dates. All payments, subscription transactions, and billing details are processed through encrypted pathways directly by highly secure, third-party payment gateways (such as Apple App Store Billing, Google Play Billing, or Stripe). These platforms handle your sensitive financial data entirely outside of our application ecosystem.

5. Contact Information

If you have any questions, compliance concerns, or formal data inquiries regarding this Privacy Policy, please reach out to us at: drichards@shoppemate.com