Last Updated: August 4, 2023
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I. Introduction
When you use ChoreSnap, you trust us with your personal data. We’re committed to keeping that trust. That starts with helping you understand our privacy practices.
This notice describes the personal data (“data”) we collect, how it’s used and shared, and your choices regarding this data. We recommend that you read this along with our privacy overview, which highlights key points about our privacy practices.
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II. Overview
A. Scope
This notice applies to users of ChoreSnap’s services anywhere in the world, including users of ChoreSnap’s apps, websites, features, or other services.
This notice describes how ChoreSnap collects and uses data. This notice applies to all ChoreSnap users globally. This notice specifically applies to:
This notice also governs ChoreSnap’s other collections of data in connection with its services. For example, we may collect the contact information of owners or employees of merchants on the ChoreSnap platforms; the contact information of individuals that manage and use accounts owned by enterprise customers; or data of individuals who start but do not complete their applications to be snappers or delivery persons.
All those subject to this notice are referred to as “users” in this notice.
Our privacy practices are subject to applicable laws in the places in which we operate. This means that we engage in the practices described in this notice in a particular country or region only if permitted under the laws of those places. In addition, please note the following:
For users in the United States: Information regarding ChoreSnap’s privacy practices required under U.S. state privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act, is available below:
Laws in California and other states give users in the state the right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of their personal information. “Sale” refers to the disclosure of personal information to a third party in exchange for money or other value. “Share” refers to the disclosure of personal information to a third party for purposes of targeted advertising.
ChoreSnap discloses user personal information to third parties to enable personalised advertising on apps, websites or other properties owned by ChoreSnap or other companies. Such disclosures may be considered “sales” or “sharing” of personal information under the laws described above. Users in the United States may opt out of these by sending an email to privacy@choresnap.io.
If you opt out, ChoreSnap will not disclose your personal information to third parties for purposes of targeted advertising.
B. Data controller and transfer
ChoreSnap Inc is the data controller for the data collected in connection with use of ChoreSnap’s services.
ChoreSnap operates, and processes personal data, globally; wherever and whenever you travel, your data travels with you so we can offer you a seamless experience. We also respect your data protection rights whether you are in your home country or elsewhere.
This means that we may transfer personal data to countries other than your home country in order to provide our services in a different country at your request. We may also transfer personal data to another country if that is necessary to respond to a customer support request that you submitted outside your region. And chores histories may be accessed by users in another country after they have left the country where services were rendered. Because our services involve multiple users at the same time, limited personal data may be accessible to the other user in another country.
We do so in order to fulfill our agreements with all of our users, or based on users’ instructions or prior consent, adequacy decisions for the relevant countries, or other transfer mechanisms as may be available under applicable law, such as the Standard Contractual Clauses.
We may also transfer data to other countries in order to respond to a request for personal data from a law enforcement agency.Â
For your convenience, the exercise of your data protection rights can be directed to ChoreSnap via any of the designated channels mentioned above, and will be handled centrally on behalf of the relevant controller. Questions, comments, and complaints about ChoreSnap’s data practices can be submitted to privacy@choresnap.io.Â
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III. Data collections and uses
A. The data we collect
ChoreSnap collects data:Â
ChoreSnap collects the following data:
1. Data provided by users. This includes:
We may also infer demographic data from other data collected from users. For example, we may infer a user’s gender based on their first name to enable safety features or to display personalized ads for third party products or services. See the section titled “How we use personal data” below for more information.
2. Data created during use of our services. This includes:Â
Location data: We collect precise or approximate location data from users’ (including seekers; snappers’ and delivery persons’) mobile devices when the ChoreSnap app is running in the foreground (app open and on-screen) or background (app open but not on-screen).
ChoreSnap collects such data from the time a chore or order is requested until it is finished, and any time the app is running in the foreground (app open and on-screen).Â
Seekers, snappers and order recipients may use the ChoreSnap apps without enabling collection of location data from their mobile devices. However, this may affect certain features in the ChoreSnap apps.Â
In addition, precise location data collected from a snapper’s device during fulfillment of a chore is linked to the snapper’s account. This data is used for purposes such as receipt generation, customer support, fraud detection, insurance, and litigation.
3. Data from other sources. This include:
B. How we use personal data
ChoreSnap uses data to enable reliable and convenient chore fulfillment, delivery, and other products and services. We also use such data:
We use the data we collect:
1. To provide our services. ChoreSnap uses data to provide, personalize, maintain, and improve our services.
This includes using data to:
ChoreSnap performs the above activities on the grounds that they are necessary to fulfill the terms of our agreements with users, are compatible with such uses, or on the grounds that they are necessary for purposes of ChoreSnap’s and its users’ legitimate interests.
2. Safety and security. We use data to help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our services and users. This includes:
• verifying users' identity and eligibility to provide fulfillment services or deliveries, including through reviews of background checks, to help prevent use of our services by unsafe snappers.
In certain regions, this includes ChoreSnap’s Real-Time ID Check feature, which prompts snappers and delivery persons to share a selfie before going online to help ensure that the snapper or delivery person using the app matches the ChoreSnap account we have on file. We may also use this feature for other verification purposes such as verifying change of bank account information or regaining account access.
In addition, we may use facial recognition technology to process user profile photographs, identification photographs, or other user-submitted photographs to prevent identity-borrowing or use of our services by unauthorized Snappers or delivery people.
We may also use selfies to verify that users are wearing masks, helmets or other safety gear through the use of object verification technology.
Order recipients may be required to provide their age and an image of their government issued identification to verify their eligibility to order and receive certain chores.Â
3. Customer support. ChoreSnap uses the information we collect (which may include call recordings) to provide customer support, including to investigate and address user concerns and to monitor and improve our customer support responses and processes.
ChoreSnap performs the above activities on the grounds that they are necessary to fulfill the terms of our agreements with users or for purposes of ChoreSnap’s legitimate interest in monitoring and improving its customer support services.
4. Research and development. We use data for testing, research, analysis, product development, and machine learning to improve the user experience. This helps us make our services more convenient and easy-to-use, enhance the safety and security of our services, and develop new services and features.Â
ChoreSnap performs the above activities on the grounds that they are necessary for purposes of ChoreSnap’s legitimate interests in improving and developing new services and features.
5. Enabling communications between users. For example, a snapper may message or call a seeker to confirm a location, a seeker may call a snapper, or delivery person may contact an order recipient with information about their order.
ChoreSnap performs the above activities on the grounds that they are necessary to fulfill the terms of our agreements with users.
6. Marketing and Advertising. ChoreSnap uses data (other than Guest Users’ data) to market its services, and those of ChoreSnap partners. This may include:
This may include using location and order history, device data and usage data to send marketing communications that are personalized based on users’ observed or inferred interests and characteristics. For example, we may send push notifications suggesting a user’s favorite snappers or merchants, or in-app messages offering discounts or promo for products or merchants similar to those a user has previously ordered.Â
This includes ads for merchants that are available on ChoreSnap’s apps. These ads include recommendations that are personalized based on users’ location and order histories.
This also includes ads for other third party products or services that are personalized based on users’ observed or inferred interests and characteristics, which we determine using data such as approximate location, order history, usage data, demographic data (which may include inferred gender), and device or user identifiers.Â
This also includes ads that are personalized based on data about the current delivery request, including time of request and services requested.
ChoreSnap performs the above activities on the grounds that they are necessary for purposes of ChoreSnap’s legitimate interests in informing users about ChoreSnap services and features or those offered by ChoreSnap partners.Â
7. Non-marketing communications. ChoreSnap may use data to send surveys and other communications that are not for the purpose of marketing the services or products of ChoreSnap or its partners. We may also send users communications regarding elections, ballots, referenda, and other political processes that relate to our services. For example, ChoreSnap has notified some users by email of ballot measures or pending legislation relating to ChoreSnap’s services in those users’ areas.
ChoreSnap performs the above activities on the grounds that they are necessary to fulfill the terms of our agreements with users, or for purposes of ChoreSnap’s and its users’ legitimate interests in informing users about events that may have an impact on their use of ChoreSnap services.
8. Legal proceedings and requirements. We use data to investigate or address claims or disputes relating to use of ChoreSnap’s services, to satisfy requirements under applicable laws, regulations, or operating licenses or agreements, or pursuant to legal process or governmental request, including from law enforcement.
ChoreSnap performs the above activities on the grounds that they are necessary for purposes of ChoreSnap’s legitimate interests in investigating and responding to claims and disputes relating to use of ChoreSnap’s services and features, and/or necessary for compliance with applicable legal requirements.
C. Cookies and third-party technologies
ChoreSnap and its partners use cookies and other identification technologies on our apps, websites, emails, and online ads for purposes described in this notice.
Cookies are small text files that are stored on browsers or devices by websites, apps, online media, and advertisements. ChoreSnap uses cookies and similar technologies for purposes such as:
We may also allow others to provide audience measurement and analytics services for us, to serve advertisements on our behalf across the internet, and to track and report on the performance of those advertisements. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, SDKs, and other technologies to identify the devices used by visitors to our websites, as well as when they visit other online sites and services.
D. Data sharing and disclosure
Some of ChoreSnap’s services and features require that we share data with other users or at a user’s request. We may also share such data with our affiliates, subsidiaries, and partners, for legal reasons or in connection with claims or disputes.
ChoreSnap may share data:
1. With other users
This includes sharing:
2. At the user’s request
This includes sharing data with:
3. With the general publicÂ
Questions or comments from users submitted through public forums such as ChoreSnap blogs and ChoreSnap social media pages may be viewable by the public, including any data included in the questions or comments submitted by a user.
4. With the ChoreSnap account owner
If a user receives services through an account owned by another party, we may share their order information, including location data, with the owner of that account.Â
In addition, if a user creates an account using an email address affiliated with ChoreSnap for business account owner (i.e., their employer), we may use, and share their profile data (such as name and email address) with such account owner, to help that user expense orders to that ChoreSnap for business account.Â
5. With ChoreSnap service providers and business partners
These include:
This includes advertising intermediaries, such as Google, that enable ChoreSnap to display and measure the effectiveness of personalized ads for third party products that are displayed in ChoreSnap’s apps. We share data such as advertising or device identifier, hashed email address, approximate location, and current trip or order information, and the intermediaries use this data to provide their services and such other purposes are disclosed in their privacy notices. Users may opt out from ad personalization in the ChoreSnap app here and in the ChoreSnap Eats app here. For more information regarding these intermediaries’ privacy practices, including how to submit requests to them relating to their handling of personal data, please see their privacy notices linked above.
6. For legal reasons or in the event of a dispute
ChoreSnap may share users’ data if we believe it’s required by applicable law, regulation, operating license or agreement, legal process or governmental request, or where the disclosure is otherwise appropriate due to safety or similar concerns.Â
This includes sharing data with law enforcement officials, public health officials, other government authorities, or other third parties as necessary to enforce our Terms of Service, user agreements, or other policies; to protect ChoreSnap’s rights or property or the rights, safety, or property of others; or in the event of a claim or dispute relating to the use of our services. In the event of a dispute relating to use of another person’s credit card, we may be required by law to share your data, including trip or order information, with the owner of that credit card.
This also includes sharing data with others in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, consolidation or restructuring, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by or into another company.
7. With consent
ChoreSnap may share a user’s data other than as described in this notice if we notify the user and they consent to the sharing.
E. Data retention and deletion
ChoreSnap retains user data for as long as necessary for the purposes described above, including to provide its services and comply with legal obligations.
ChoreSnap retains user data for as long as necessary for the purposes described above. The period for which we retain user data is determined by the type of data, the category of user to whom the data relates, and the purposes for which we collected the data.
The length for which ChoreSnap retains user data may further be determined by legal and regulatory requirements, purposes of safety, security, and fraud prevention, or by issues relating to the user’s account such as an outstanding credit or an unresolved claim or dispute.
For example, we retain data:
Users may request deletion of their accounts at any time. ChoreSnap may retain user data after a deletion request due to legal or regulatory requirements or for reasons stated in this policy.
Following an account deletion request, ChoreSnap deletes the user’s account and data, unless they must be retained due to legal or regulatory requirements, for purposes of safety, security, and fraud prevention, or because of an issue relating to the user’s account such as an outstanding credit or an unresolved claim or dispute. Because we are subject to legal and regulatory requirements relating to snappers and delivery persons, this generally means that we retain their account and data for the applicable statutory retention period after a deletion request.
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IV. Choice and transparency
ChoreSnap enables users to access and/or control data that ChoreSnap collects, including through:Â
ChoreSnap also enables users to request access to or copies of their data, make changes or updates to their accounts, request deletion of their accounts, or request that ChoreSnap restrict its processing of user data.
B. Device permissions
Most mobile device platforms (iOS, Android, etc.) have defined certain types of device data that apps cannot access without the device owner’s permission, and these platforms have different methods for how that permission can be obtained. Please check the available settings on your device or check with your provider.
C. In-app ratings pages
After completion of every chore, snappers and seekers are able to rate each other on a scale from 1 to 5. An average of those ratings is associated with a user’s account and is displayed to other users for whom they provide or receive services. For example, seekers ratings are available to snappers from whom they request chores, and snapper ratings are available to their seekers.Â
This 2-way system holds everyone accountable for their behavior. Accountability helps create a respectful, safe environment for snappers and seekers.Â
D. Marketing and advertising choices
ChoreSnap provides users with the following choices regarding how their data is used for purposes of marketing and advertising:
E. User data requests
ChoreSnap provides users with a variety of ways to learn about, control, and submit questions and comments about ChoreSnap’s handling of their data.
V. Updates to this notice
We may occasionally update this notice. If we make significant changes, we will notify users in advance of the changes through the ChoreSnap apps or through other means, such as email. We encourage users to periodically review this notice for the latest information on our privacy practices.
Use of our services after an update constitutes consent to the updated notice to the extent permitted by law.
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