Privacy Policy

• Account identifiers from Clerk, including email address, authentication identifier, and profile information.
• Profile and marketplace content, including username, biography, interests, listings, images, comments, likes, follows, watchlist activity, blocks, and reports.
• Transaction information, including order amounts, status, delivery address, tracking information, refund reasons, and dispute history.
• Stripe references and seller-onboarding status. Collectors Circle does not store complete payment-card numbers.
• Security and technical information produced by hosting, authentication, database, and payment providers, such as timestamps, IP-derived logs, device/browser data, and request diagnostics.

• Provide authentication, profiles, social features, listings, Checkout, fulfilment, payouts, refunds, and support.
• Prevent fraud, enforce policies, investigate reports, secure accounts, and reconcile missed payment events.
• Communicate transactional and moderation updates.
• Debug, maintain, and improve marketplace reliability.
• Comply with legal, tax, sanctions, accounting, and recordkeeping obligations.

Information is disclosed to service providers that operate the marketplace, including Clerk, Stripe, Neon, Vercel, and email-forwarding providers. Transaction participants receive information needed to complete an order; for example, a seller receives the buyer's shipping details.

Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to comply with law, protect users, investigate abuse, enforce agreements, or complete a business reorganization. Collectors Circle does not currently sell personal information or use it for cross-context behavioral advertising.

The current application uses technologies necessary for authentication, security, sessions, payments, and basic service operation. It does not currently run an advertising network. This section must be updated before adding nonessential analytics, advertising, or targeting technologies.

Information is kept for as long as reasonably needed to provide the service and meet fraud-prevention, dispute, accounting, tax, legal, and safety obligations. Different records have different retention needs. No system is perfectly secure; Collectors Circle uses access controls and third-party infrastructure but cannot promise absolute security.

You may update available profile fields in account settings. Until automated export and deletion tools are implemented, access, correction, deletion, or privacy requests may be sent to legal@joincollectorscircle.com. Requests may require identity verification, and some records may be retained where legally permitted or required.

Collectors Circle is intended only for people aged 18 or older in the United States. It is not directed to children. The service and its providers may process information in the United States and other locations where they operate.

Material changes will be posted with an updated date and additional notice where legally required. Privacy questions may be sent to legal@joincollectorscircle.com; general support questions may be sent to support@joincollectorscircle.com.