Effective Date: December 3, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how 1980 Market ("we," "us," or "our"), a mobile application providing a peer-to-peer or business-to-consumer marketplace service, collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you use our app ("1980 Market App" or "Service").
By using the 1980 Market App, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with you ("Personal Data"). The types of data collected depend on how you use the Service, and generally fall into three categories:
This is information you knowingly and actively provide to us when you register an account, list items, make purchases, or contact customer support.
Account and Identity Data: We collect your Name, email address, username, password, and profile picture. This data is used to create and manage your user account, authenticate your identity, and provide access to the Service's features.
Transaction Data: When you make a purchase or sale, we collect your shipping address, billing address, details of items purchased/sold, and transaction history. We do not store full payment card details. This information is essential to process payments, fulfill orders, facilitate shipping, and manage returns and refunds.
Seller and Listing Data: If you list items for sale, we collect information related to your listings, such as product descriptions, pricing, inventory quantity, store name, and business registration details (if applicable). This enables you to list and sell products on the Service.
Communication Data: We collect records of your communications with our Customer Support team, messages sent between sellers and buyers, and user feedback. This data is used to respond to inquiries, provide support, and resolve disputes.
When you access and use the Service, certain information is automatically transmitted by your device.
Usage Data: We automatically log data about your activity in the app, including time spent, features used, pages viewed, search queries, app version, and interaction sequences. We use this data to monitor and analyze Service usage, diagnose technical problems, and continually improve the app's performance and features.
Device Data: We collect technical information such as your IP address, device model, operating system version, unique device identifiers, and crash data. This is necessary to maintain the security and operational integrity of the Service and for fraud prevention.
Location Data: We collect coarse (non-precise) location data, typically derived from your IP address, for analytics and to customize your experience (e.g., showing relevant local listings). Precise location data is only collected if you explicitly grant permission (e.g., to find local sellers or shipping quotes) and you can revoke this permission at any time through your device settings.
We may receive data from third-party services integrated into our app.
Payment Processors: When you complete a purchase, our payment processor (e.g., Stripe, PayPal) provides us with information about the transaction, such as the last four digits of the payment method and the transaction ID, but never your full card number.
Authentication Providers: If you choose to log in using third-party services (e.g., "Sign in with Google" or "Sign in with Apple"), they may share your name and email address with us to create and secure your account.
We use the collected data for the following legitimate business purposes:
To Provide and Maintain the Service: To operate the marketplace, process transactions, facilitate communication between buyers and sellers, and deliver the goods or services you purchase.
Account Management: To manage your registration, authenticate you, and allow you to access various functionalities of the Service.
Improvement and Development: To understand how users interact with the app, test new features, perform data analysis, and continually improve the user experience.
Security and Fraud Prevention: To detect, prevent, and respond to potential fraud, abuse, security threats, and illegal activity.
Marketing and Communication: To send you updates, special offers, relevant product recommendations, and informative communications (where permitted by law and based on your preferences).
Legal Compliance: To comply with legal obligations, enforce our Terms of Service, and resolve any disputes.
We may share your Personal Data with third parties only in the ways described below:
Service Providers: We share information with third-party vendors, consultants, and service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf. This includes payment processors, data hosting services, analytics providers, and professional advisors. These parties are contractually obligated to protect your data.
Other Users (Marketplace Functionality): If you are a buyer, your shipping address and contact information are shared with the seller to fulfill your order. If you are a seller, your public profile information (username, store name, ratings) is visible to all users.
Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your Personal Data in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law, in response to a subpoena or court order, or if we believe such action is necessary to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement.
With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your explicit consent.
Depending on your jurisdiction (e.g., GDPR in the EU, CCPA in California), you may have the following rights regarding your Personal Data:
Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of the Personal Data we hold about you.
Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You have the right to request the deletion of your Personal Data, subject to certain legal exceptions (e.g., required retention for financial records).
Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your Personal Data under certain conditions.
Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
Right to Object: You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data, particularly in cases of direct marketing or processing based on legitimate interests.
Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your privacy rights.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in Section 7.
We implement reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any Personal Data we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. You should take responsibility for safeguarding your account credentials.
The 1980 Market App is not intended for use by children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to exercise your rights, please contact the Data Protection Officer for 1980 Market:
Company Name:
1980
Contact Email: support@1980marketapp.com