Privacy Policy

Who we are

ShoppedOut is a grocery savings app for shoppers across Canada. Enter your postal code and it prices your whole grocery list at stores within your chosen radius (15–200 km), then tells you where one trip costs the least — compared per gram, millilitre or unit, same brand and size, including sale and flyer prices.

Who this policy covers

ShoppedOut is a Canada-only service. It is intended for shoppers located in Canada, and store, flyer and price data covers Canadian grocery stores only. If you use the app from outside Canada, you do so understanding that your information is handled under Canadian privacy law (PIPEDA and, in Quebec, Law 25), not the privacy laws of other countries.

What we collect

• Account details: your email address and sign-in identifier, so you can log in and keep your lists. If you change your email, we store the new one.
• Location: your postal code (required) and the approximate coordinates we derive from it, plus your chosen search radius. We never use precise GPS.
• Shopping preferences: your search mode, store-brand and category choices, stores you have excluded from results, plan status and display settings.
• Your lists: the items you add, quantities, and any lists shared with you by invite code.
• Price reports: prices you report in store. These are shown to other shoppers anonymously — your identity is never published.

We do not collect precise GPS location, contacts, or photos.

How we use it

Only to run the app: to sign you in, save your lists, compare store prices within your selected radius anywhere in Canada, apply your store and brand preferences, share lists with people you invite, and keep reported prices trustworthy. We do not sell your information.

Where prices come from

Store and flyer prices are gathered from publicly available, free flyer listings from grocery stores across Canada. Prices can change and may differ in store; always check the shelf price at checkout.

Storage and security

Your data is stored with Lovable Cloud, our managed database and hosting provider, which runs on Supabase and Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, with the website itself served through Cloudflare. These providers process your data only to host and operate the app on our behalf. Access is controlled by row-level rules, so each account can only reach its own lists and settings. Traffic is encrypted in transit. Lists are also cached on your own device so they survive closing the app; clearing your browser data removes that local copy.

Cookies and analytics

We use one essential item: a sign-in session stored in your browser (as a cookie or local storage) that keeps you logged in between visits. It is required for the app to work and is not used to track you. Advertising cookies are described in the next section. We may look at aggregate, de-identified usage counts (for example, how many searches happened this week) to run and improve the service.

Our own visit counts: to understand how many people use ShoppedOut, we keep simple first-party analytics. If you are not signed in, your browser stores a random visitor ID (in local storage) that is not linked to your name, email or any other personal details. We record the pages you view on ShoppedOut, the date, the website or campaign that referred you, and an approximate province and city based on your connection. If you are signed in, key steps (such as starting a list or viewing results) are linked to your account so we can improve the service.

We do not store IP addresses for analytics, do not follow you on other websites, and do not sell or share this analytics data with data brokers. It is stored with our hosting provider and used only to run and improve ShoppedOut. To reset your visitor ID, clear this site's data in your browser settings.

Advertising and cookies

ShoppedOut shows ads served by Google AdSense. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.

Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to ShoppedOut and/or other sites on the Internet.

You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at www.aboutads.info. Learn more about how Google uses information from sites that use its services.

Quebec residents (Law 25)

Your choices

• Update your email, postal code, radius and preferences any time in Settings.
• Exclude stores or hide store brands from Settings.
• Reset a list invite code or remove members to stop sharing.
• Ask us to delete your account and everything attached to it — we action deletion requests within 30 days.

Children

ShoppedOut is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Contact

Questions or a deletion request? Email ShoppedOutAdmin@gmail.com.