Privacy Policy

When you use NearTreat, we may collect the following types of information: • Personal Information: Name, email address, phone number, and business details (for business owners) that you provide when creating an account or signing up for early access. • Location Data: With your permission, we collect your approximate location to show nearby businesses, offers, and deals relevant to your area. • Usage Data: We collect information about how you interact with our app, including offers viewed, claimed, and redeemed, businesses visited, and features used. • Device Information: Device type, operating system, browser type, and unique device identifiers for app functionality and security. • Transaction Data: Records of offer claims, QR code redemptions, visit streaks, and reward activity within the platform.

We use the information we collect to: • Provide and improve our services, including showing you relevant nearby businesses and offers. • Process offer claims, QR code redemptions, and visit streak rewards. • Enable business partnerships, joint offers, and cross-promotions between local businesses. • Send you notifications about new offers, deals, and rewards near your location (with your consent). • Generate analytics and insights for business owners, including offer performance, redemption rates, and customer trends — all in aggregate form. • Communicate with you about your account, updates, and customer support inquiries. • Detect and prevent fraud, abuse, and security issues on our platform.

We do not sell your personal information to third parties. We may share your data in the following limited circumstances: • With Business Partners: When you claim or redeem an offer, the relevant business receives only the information necessary to fulfill the offer (e.g., your first name and redemption status). They do not receive your email, phone number, or location history. • With Service Providers: We work with trusted third-party providers for hosting, analytics, email delivery, and payment processing. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your data. • For Legal Compliance: We may disclose information if required by law, legal process, or government request. • Aggregated & Anonymized Data: We may share aggregated, non-identifiable data with business partners for analytics purposes (e.g., "47 customers redeemed offers in your area this week").

We retain your personal information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you with our services. • Account Data: Retained for the duration of your account. If you delete your account, we will remove your personal data within 30 days, except where we are required to retain it for legal or regulatory purposes. • Usage & Transaction Data: Retained for up to 24 months for analytics and service improvement, then anonymized. • Business Data: Business profiles and offer history are retained for 12 months after account closure for audit purposes. You can request deletion of your data at any time by contacting us at admin@buildstory.studio.

You have the following rights regarding your personal data: • Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you. • Correction: You can update or correct inaccurate information through your account settings or by contacting us. • Deletion: You can request deletion of your account and personal data at any time. • Opt-Out: You can opt out of marketing notifications and promotional emails at any time through your app settings or by clicking "unsubscribe" in any email. • Data Portability: You can request a machine-readable export of your data. • Location Permissions: You can revoke location access at any time through your device settings. Some features may be limited without location access. To exercise any of these rights, contact us at admin@buildstory.studio.

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us: • Email: admin@buildstory.studio • Address: NearTreat Technologies, Bangalore, India We will respond to your inquiry within 30 business days.