ReceipTap Wallet Privacy Policy
This page explains what happens to your personal information once you create a ReceipTap Wallet account — the account behind the wallet login/signup pages and account Settings. It's published by J.A.C. GLOBAL APPROACH LTD. (), and is governed by the laws of Ontario, Canada. Tapping a puck and viewing a receipt without saving anything doesn't create an account and isn't covered here — see our general Privacy Policy for that, and for how a business using ReceipTap handles its own account data.
What we collect, and why
- Your email address — to identify your account and let you log in.
- A password — stored securely hashed, never in plain text, if you sign up with email and password rather than Google, Apple, or Microsoft.
- Your name — only if you sign in with Google, Apple, or Microsoft, and only if that provider gives it to us. Signing up with just an email and password doesn't ask for a name.
- The receipts you save from a tap — which business, what you bought, how much, and when — so we can show them to you in one place.
- Receipt photos you scan or upload — see "Scanning a receipt" below for exactly how these are used.
- The IP address your device connects from — only at the moment you tap a consent checkbox (like agreeing to receive marketing emails from a business at the tap screen). This is kept as proof of that specific choice, not to track you.
We use this to build your receipt wallet, automatically sort your purchases into spending categories, and let you download a copy whenever you need one.
Scanning a receipt
When you photograph or upload a receipt, the actual image is sent to Anthropic, an AI company, so it can read the store name, date, total, and item list off of it. This is different from how we categorize a receipt that arrives through a tap: for a tap receipt, we only ever send Anthropic the store name and a short item list, never an image — scanning a receipt yourself is the one case where a photo you provide is sent to a third party.
The extracted details are shown to you to review and correct — nothing is saved to your wallet automatically. Once you confirm it, the photo itself is kept (so you can still view the original later), along with the details you confirmed.
Receipt photos are held in object storage (Supabase Storage, on infrastructure in the United States) rather than on the server that runs the app, so a photo survives the app being updated or restarted. Each is stored under a long random filename, and deleting a receipt deletes its photo as well.
One limit worth being straight about: a photo is served from a public web address, so anyone who has that exact address can open it. The address is unguessable, and it is never shown to anyone but you — but it is not password-protected, and for a short period after you delete a receipt a cached copy may still be reachable at it.
The business gets your email too, for a tap receipt
When you save a receipt from a tap, the business you bought from receives your email address as well. They collected it through ReceipTap, but once they have it, it's theirs to use — not ours. Whether they email you about sales, loyalty offers, or anything else is their decision, and following the law when they do is their responsibility. If you'd rather a specific business not have your email, contact them directly, or see "Deleting your data" below.
This doesn't apply to a receipt you scan or upload yourself — there's no business on the other end of that one to receive your email.
How long we keep your data
Our policy is to keep your saved tap receipts, and your account itself, for 7 years, and then delete them. We keep them that long on purpose: the Canada Revenue Agency expects business records to be kept for six years after the end of the tax year they belong to, and US limitation periods can run to seven. Deleting sooner would take your receipts away while you might still need them.
A receipt you scan or upload yourself doesn't age out on that same automatic schedule — it's kept for as long as your account exists.
Getting a copy or deleting your data
- Get a copy: log into your wallet and export your receipts anytime.
- Delete your account: go to Settings and choose Delete account. This is immediate and self-serve — it removes your saved and scanned receipts, your consent records, and your account itself right away, without needing to email us or wait for us to act on a request.
- Ask a specific business to delete your data with them: contact that business directly — they can look you up by email and remove your data from their own records, separate from your wallet account.
Where your data is stored
Your ReceipTap Wallet data is stored in Canada. A few features briefly send part of it outside Canada: Google, Apple, or Microsoft, to confirm your identity if you sign in with one of them; Anthropic, for AI category suggestions and receipt scanning, as described above; and Resend, if you ever request a password-reset email from us.