Western Boot World Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 6, 2026

Overview

Western Boot World is a community marketplace for western boots. Browsing is open to everyone; posting and profile features require a member account, and members must be 18 or older. This policy explains what we collect and why, in plain English.

Information We Collect

When you sign in with Google, Facebook, email, or another supported provider, we receive basic account information such as your name, email address, profile image, and provider account identifier. We also store what you choose to create here: listings (photos, video, descriptions, prices), your profile (username, bio, policies, fun fact, avatar), and drafts. Listings and public profiles are visible to everyone. If you turn on your public seller profile and add contact methods (Facebook, Reddit, phone, email), those contact details are published so buyers can reach you; leave any of them blank to keep them private.

How We Use Information

We use account information to operate member profiles, protect community accountability, enable posting and listing features, reduce abuse, and help members manage their own activity. We do not sell personal information.

Fraud Prevention & Security Signals

To keep the community trustworthy and enforce one account per person, we collect limited security signals when you sign in or create a listing: a device fingerprint (a hashed identifier derived from your browser and device characteristics), your network IP address, and your email domain. Sellers may also be asked to verify a phone number. We use these signals only to detect and prevent duplicate accounts, fraud, and abuse — never for advertising, and we store IP addresses and verified phone numbers in salted, hashed form rather than as raw values. This processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest in protecting the platform and its members.

Third-Party Login Providers

If you sign in through a third-party provider such as Facebook or Google, that provider may process your information under its own privacy policy. Western Boot World uses these providers only for authentication and basic profile setup.

Facebook Data

Facebook Login is used only to identify members and create a profile session. We do not scrape Facebook, import Facebook group content, or use bots to collect Facebook data.

Service Providers & AI Features

We run on a small set of service providers, and your data goes to them only as needed to operate a feature: Supabase (database, authentication, and media storage), Vercel (site hosting), Twilio (sending the one-time SMS code for seller phone verification), Resend (delivering account emails), and OpenAI (automated content moderation of listing text and images, the optional screenshot-import feature, and our help chatbot). Messages you type to the chatbot and screenshots you submit for import are processed by OpenAI to generate the response; don't include sensitive personal information in them. We do not sell personal information to anyone, and we use no advertising trackers.

Data Deletion

You can request deletion of your account data by following the instructions on our data deletion page.

Contact

For privacy questions, contact nolen.nerren@cstg.ai.