Privacy Policy
Version 2026-08g
Safqatna operates a consumer-to-consumer marketplace with managed delivery in the Kingdom of Bahrain. This policy explains what personal data we hold, why, on what lawful basis, and for how long, under Bahrain's Personal Data Protection Law (Law No. 30 of 2018).
Version 2026-08g
Your rights
You can use any of them at any time, without penalty. All of these are free of charge, and using them costs you nothing beyond asking. We answer within 10 working days.
- See your data — a copy of everything we hold about you, downloadable instantly from your privacy settings.
- Correct it — if something we hold is wrong, ask and we fix it.
- Erase it — delete your account from your privacy settings; "What erasure keeps" below explains the little the law requires us to keep.
- Object to processing — tell us to stop using your data for something, and we stop or explain why we lawfully cannot.
- Take it with you — a machine-readable copy rides along with every data export.
- Withdraw consent — anything that runs on your consent, like promotional notifications, switches off in notification settings with one tap, as easily as it switched on.
If we refuse a request and you disagree, you may complain to the Personal Data Protection Authority. The reason for any refusal is recorded and shown to you.
What erasure keeps
Erasing your account anonymises you rather than deleting history the law requires us to keep: order and payment records are retained under financial record-keeping obligations with your identity removed, and our tamper-evident security log is retained as a safeguard — new entries store masked contact details only. Everything else leaves the live service the moment we act on your request. Two kinds of copy outlast that moment, and neither is reachable from the site: your photographs, which are withdrawn immediately and then destroyed within thirty days, and our nightly backups, which are never rewritten — editing a backup would defeat its purpose — and instead expire on their own schedule. No copy survives more than thirty-one days.
Cookies
We set: a sign-in session cookie (required), a language preference cookie (1 year), a random view-counting identifier (6 months) used only to avoid double-counting listing views and never stored with your account, and short-lived passkey sign-in cookies (5 minutes).
What we hold, and why
Account
Identity and sign-in: your email and phone (login identifiers), display name, optional photo and bio, language, and security settings.
Basis: Contract · Kept: Life of the account; anonymised on erasure
Addresses
Pickup and delivery locations for your orders and listings, including optional access notes.
Basis: Contract · Kept: Deleted on erasure unless attached to an order record; notes and labels are removed either way
Listings
What you sell: titles, descriptions, photos, an optional condition video, and questionnaire answers.
Basis: Contract; the optional video is consent · Kept: Until removed; on erasure, never-sold listings lose their photos and every video goes — files leave the site at once and are destroyed within 30 days
Browsing
Which listings you viewed — powers your recently-viewed strip and gives sellers anonymous view counts only.
Basis: Legitimate interest (aggregate statistics); your history is deleted on request · Kept: 180 days rolling; deleted on erasure
Orders and delivery
The transaction record: amounts, fees, delivery and inspection photos, payout state, offers.
Basis: Contract and legal obligation (financial records) · Kept: Retained after erasure as financial records, with the parties anonymised
Messages
Conversations with buyers and sellers about listings and orders (contact details auto-redacted).
Basis: Contract · Kept: Kept as the other party's record; your identity is removed on erasure
Reviews
Ratings and comments you write and receive.
Basis: Contract · Kept: Kept with the transaction; your identity is removed on erasure
Favourites and cart
Listings you saved and items in your cart.
Basis: Contract · Kept: Deleted on erasure
Reports and moderation
Reports you file, moderation decisions about your content, and seller-approval history.
Basis: Legitimate interest (platform safety) · Kept: Kept as safety records
Disputes
Dispute claims, statements from both sides, and evidence photos.
Basis: Contract and legal obligation · Kept: Retained with the order record
Notifications
Your in-app inbox and its read state.
Basis: Contract · Kept: Deleted on erasure
Security records
Passkeys, verification-code delivery history, and a tamper-evident log of security events including IP address and browser.
Basis: Legitimate interest (security) · Kept: Dead codes are swept after 30 days; the sealed security log is retained — new entries carry masked contact values only
Payment details
Saved card details for checkout (never the full number or CVV) and your payout IBAN.
Basis: Contract · Kept: Until you remove them; deleted on erasure
Consent and requests
Your terms acceptances, data-protection requests, and breach records.
Basis: Legal obligation · Kept: Retained as compliance evidence, including after erasure
Third parties
Your data is processed by the providers named here, all in the European Union: Railway (application hosting and the database, Amsterdam), Cloudflare R2 (photos, delivery evidence, and the nightly backup of the whole database, EU jurisdiction), and Sentry (error reports, EU data region). Error reports carry a technical description of the failure and your account identifier — never your name, email address, phone number or bank details. Codes and notices are still not delivered externally and payment capture is simulated, so no messaging or payment provider receives your data. If you sign in with Google or Apple, that provider processes the sign-in under its own policy. Before any payment gateway, SMS or email provider is engaged, this policy and our processing register will name it.
Exercising your rights
Download a copy of your data, file a request, or ask for erasure from your privacy settings: Privacy and data
Where data is stored
Safqatna does not run its own servers: the providers named above hold everything, and all of it — including the nightly backup of the whole database — sits on infrastructure inside the European Union. The European Union was chosen because Bahrain's Personal Data Protection Law provides for transfers to approved jurisdictions and the European Union was understood to qualify; whether that is the basis we ultimately rely on is [to be settled with counsel before launch]. All of those companies are incorporated in the United States, so personal data leaving Bahrain is a cross-border transfer under that law.
The factual sections of this page are generated from Safqatna's live data map. Wording will be finalised with counsel before launch.