Privacy Policy

BargainBay ("we", "us", "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal information when you use our Platform.

By using BargainBay, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. We encourage you to read this policy carefully to understand our practices.

Account Data: When you create an account, we collect your name, email address, and authentication credentials. If you sign up through a third-party provider (e.g., Google), we receive basic profile information from that provider.

Transaction Data: When you purchase credits or products, we collect transaction details including purchase amount, items, and timestamps. Payment card information is processed and stored exclusively by Stripe; we do not have access to your full card details.

Usage Data: We collect information about how you interact with the Platform, including pages visited, products viewed, price reveals, reveal activity, and timestamps of actions.

Device Data: We automatically collect technical information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, and device identifiers.

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve the Platform
• Process transactions, manage credits, and fulfill purchases
• Calculate and display community discount statistics and reveal activity
• Send you account-related communications (purchase confirmations, credit balance updates, security alerts)
• Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and violations of our Terms of Service
• Analyze usage patterns to improve user experience and platform performance

BargainBay's credit system generates specific data that we handle with care:

• Credit balance and history: We maintain records of your credit balance, purchases, expenditures, and bonus credits.
• Reveal activity: When you reveal a price, we record the action to calculate community discounts. This data is aggregated and displayed publicly (e.g., "15 reveals") but your individual activity is not publicly identifiable.
• Purchase windows: We track exclusive purchase window timestamps to enforce the 10-second window server-side.

We share your information with the following parties:

• Stripe: Our payment processor, which handles all financial transactions. Stripe's privacy policy governs its use of your payment data.
• Analytics providers: We may use analytics services to understand how users interact with the Platform. This data is aggregated and does not personally identify you.
• Law enforcement: We may disclose your information if required by law, court order, or governmental regulation, or if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights or the safety of others.

We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We do not share your information with advertisers.

We use essential cookies to maintain your session and authentication state. These are strictly necessary for the Platform to function.

We may use analytics cookies to understand how users interact with the Platform. You can control cookie preferences through your browser settings. Disabling essential cookies may prevent you from using certain features.

We implement industry-standard security measures to protect your data, including encryption in transit (TLS/SSL), encrypted data at rest, and secure authentication mechanisms.

While we strive to protect your information, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee the absolute security of your data.

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Correction: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Deletion: Request deletion of your account and associated data. We will process deletion requests within 30 days.
• Portability: Request an export of your data in a machine-readable format.
• Objection: Object to the processing of your data for specific purposes.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at privacy@svenskpixel.com.

BargainBay is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected data from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete that information promptly.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the updated policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@svenskpixel.com or visit our Contact page.