Privacy Policy

ShopDuplin respects the privacy of visitors, merchants, and community members. This policy explains the kinds of information ShopDuplin may collect and how that information may be used.

Information You Provide

ShopDuplin may collect information that you voluntarily submit through merchant registration, comments, contact forms, password recovery, business updates, advertising requests, or other site forms.

This information may include items such as:

• Name or business name
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Business address and business details
• Comments, offers, events, photos, or other submitted content

Technical Information

ShopDuplin may automatically collect limited technical information such as IP address, browser type, device information, date and time of access, pages requested, and related server-log information.

This information may be used for site operation, security, abuse prevention, fraud detection, troubleshooting, traffic analysis, and improvement of ShopDuplin.

Merchant Accounts

Merchant account information is used to operate ShopDuplin merchant features, verify accounts, review business submissions, publish approved information, provide password recovery, and communicate about the merchant account.

Passwords are not stored in readable form. ShopDuplin uses password hashing and related security controls intended to protect merchant accounts.

Public Information

Some information submitted by merchants is intended for public display, including approved business listings, offers, events, photos, telephone numbers, website links, and other merchant-provided promotional information.

Information submitted through private contact or comment forms is not intended for public display unless the person submitting it is clearly told otherwise.

Cookies and Sessions

ShopDuplin may use cookies or server-side sessions for login security, account verification, form protection, preferences, and other necessary site functions.

Third-Party Services

ShopDuplin may use third-party services for functions such as payment processing, email delivery, phone verification, weather information, traffic measurement, or other site features. Those services may receive information necessary to perform the requested function and may have their own privacy policies.

External Links

ShopDuplin may link to merchant websites, social-media pages, payment providers, and other third-party websites. ShopDuplin is not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those outside websites.

Information Sharing

ShopDuplin does not intend to sell personal information to advertisers. Information may be disclosed when reasonably necessary to operate the service, prevent fraud or abuse, comply with legal obligations, protect ShopDuplin or its users, or work with service providers that support site operations.

Data Retention

Information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary for account administration, security, recordkeeping, fraud prevention, legal compliance, site operations, or legitimate business purposes.

Security

ShopDuplin uses reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect information. However, no website, network, or Internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Children

ShopDuplin is intended as a local business and community information service and is not designed to knowingly collect personal information from children through merchant-account features.

Policy Changes

This Privacy Policy may be updated as ShopDuplin changes or adds services. The version published on this page is the current version.