Your Privacy Matters

Privacy Policy

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data

Last Updated: September 28, 2026

Introduction

Welcome to ArtizanSquare. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and use our services, and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Information We Collect

We collect several types of information from and about users of our website and services, including:

Personal identifiers: name, email, phone, location (including device GPS coordinates at the moments described under Security & Fraud Log)
Profile info: username, password, profile picture
Service info: skills, services, pricing
Transaction info: requests, payments, reviews
Technical data: IP, browser, device, cookies
Usage data: interactions with our platform

How We Collect Your Information

We use different methods to collect data from and about you:

1

Direct Interactions

When you create an account, fill out forms, or communicate with us

2

Automated Technologies

Through cookies and similar technologies as you interact with our website

3

Third Parties

From payment processors, analytics providers, and social media platforms

How We Use Your Information

  • Create and manage your account
  • Provide and improve our services
  • Connect customers with Artizans
  • Process payments and transactions
  • Communicate with you about our services
  • Personalize your experience
  • Ensure platform security and integrity
  • Comply with legal obligations

Security & Fraud-Prevention Log

To protect you, the people you book and the businesses you work with from fraud and account takeover, we keep a record of where certain important actions happen. We do this only at these moments: signing up, signing in, changing your password or email, submitting identity or business verification (KYC), creating a booking, requesting a payout, and deleting your account.

At each of those moments we record:

  • the date and time, and which action it was;
  • your IP address and the country or city it points to;
  • your device's latitude and longitude (GPS), read once at that moment — only if you allow location access in your browser or phone;
  • your browser or app version and a random identifier for your device.

We do not track you continuously or in the background.Your location is not read between these actions. If you refuse location access, you can still use every feature — we record only that location was not shared.

We do this because we have a legitimate interest in preventing fraud, and because we must keep a trustworthy record to meet our legal obligations. We keep these records for 12 months and then delete them automatically. The only exception is a record that is part of an open fraud investigation or legal proceedings; we keep that until the matter is closed. If you delete your account, these records are kept until their 12 months run out, so that fraud cannot be hidden by deleting an account.

We share these records with police or other authorities only when we receive a valid legal request, such as a court order, warrant or formal written request. We log every such disclosure. You can ask for a copy of your own records at any time — see Your Privacy Rights below.

AI Assistants & Automation

ArtizanSquare uses artificial intelligence to answer customer questions, recommend Artizans, help close sales, take bookings and collect payment inside chats on WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger and our website, and to power search and business-facing automations such as reminders and review requests. When you message a business on ArtizanSquare, the reply you receive may be generated by this AI rather than typed by a person.

  • Your messages, booking details and business catalogue information may be processed by our AI systems and their third-party model providers to generate replies and recommendations.
  • A business can disable AI automation for its account and take over any conversation at any time; sensitive actions can be configured to require a person's approval before they happen.
  • AI-assisted messages are not reviewed by a human before sending in real time, though businesses can review conversation history afterward.
  • We do not use your conversations to train third-party foundation models beyond what is necessary to generate the response you requested.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We may share your personal information with:

Other Users

As necessary to provide services (connecting customers with Artizans)

Service Providers

Who perform services on our behalf

Business Partners

With whom we jointly offer products or services

Legal Authorities

Only on a valid legal request (court order, warrant or formal written request), or to protect our rights. Every disclosure is logged.

Business Transfers

In connection with mergers, acquisitions, or sale of assets

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information:

Access your personal information
Correct inaccurate or incomplete information
Delete your personal information
Restrict or object to processing
Data portability
Withdraw consent

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the details provided below.

Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way.

We limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Social message history

When you connect WhatsApp, Facebook or Instagram, we import a limited amount of your existing conversation history so your inbox is not empty on day one. This imported history, including any images or files attached to it, is deleted from our servers after 14 days. Files larger than 5 MB are never copied to our servers at all.

Deleting imported history does not delete your conversations — WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram remain the permanent home of your messages, and older conversations are always available in those apps. Messages sent or received through ArtizanSquare after you connect are part of your business records and are kept for as long as your account is active.

Children's Privacy

Our services are not intended for children under 18 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18.

If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18, we will delete that information immediately.

Cookies & Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and store certain information.

Essential

Required for basic site functionality

Analytics

Help us understand how visitors interact

Marketing

Used to deliver relevant advertisements

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by:

  • Posting updated policy on our website
  • Updating the "Last Updated" date

Your continued use of our Services after changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us: