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Privacy Policy

Last updated August 2026

We collect as little as the product needs to work. Here is all of it.

Listing information

When you claim a spot we store the destination link or handle, the display name, the one-line description, the chosen city, and the amount paid. All of this is public by design — it is the listing.

Payments

Payments are processed by our payment provider, which acts as the merchant of record. We never see or store your card details, UPI ID, or bank credentials. We store only the provider's payment identifier, the amount, and the status, so that we can settle your spot and honour refunds.

Clicks

When someone clicks a listing we record the listing, a timestamp, the referring page, and a salted one-way hash of the IP address. The hash exists solely to stop the same visitor inflating a counter within a short window. We do not store raw IP addresses, we do not build visitor profiles, and we do not run third-party advertising or analytics trackers.

Cookies

One cookie, holding the city board you last chose, so the site opens on the right board. No advertising or tracking cookies.

Retention and sharing

Listing and payment records are kept as long as required for accounting and dispute handling. Click records are aggregated into the public counter and detailed rows are pruned periodically. We do not sell data, and we share it only with our payment provider and hosting/database infrastructure, or where the law requires it.

Your rights

Write to us and we will correct or remove your listing details. Note that removing a live listing does not automatically entitle you to a refund — see the refund policy.