Privacy Policy

Gam Market · Last updated: 3 November 2026

This policy explains what information Gam Market collects, why, and what control you have. We keep it simple: we only collect what the marketplace needs, and we never sell your information.

1. What we collect

• Account details: your name, phone number, your password (stored scrambled, so nobody can read it), and your town in The Gambia. Your phone number is checked with a one-time code sent by SMS.
• Your ads: titles, descriptions, prices, locations and the photos you upload.
• Messages: chats you have with other users in the app, including photos and voice messages you send in a chat, and messages and screenshots you send to the Gam Market team under Help & Support. The app only uses your microphone while you record a voice message.
• Activity: ads you save, searches you save as alerts, people you follow, ratings you give, reports you send, people you block, when you last used the app, and the number of views an ad gets.
• Notifications: if you allow notifications, a code from Apple or Google that lets us send them to your phone.
• Technical data: your internet (IP) address, kept for a short time to protect against abuse, for example repeated wrong passwords.

We do not use advertising trackers, and we do not track you across other apps or websites. The app does not collect your exact GPS location.

2. How we use it

• To run the marketplace: show your ads, let buyers and sellers chat, and keep you logged in
• To keep the app safe: review reports, stop scams and abuse, and ban accounts that break our Terms
• To contact you about your account if needed

3. Who can see your information

• Everyone in the app can see your ads, your name, your town and when you joined, the star ratings others gave you, and how many people follow you and how many you follow (but not who).
• Your phone number is never shown to other users. Buyers and sellers talk through the app's private messages.
• When you or someone else shares a link to an ad, anyone with the link can see that ad's photo, title, price, town and description (never your name or phone number), even without the app.
• Your chats (including photos and voice messages) are private between you and the other person. If a user reports a chat, the Gam Market team may read that chat to check what happened.
• The Gam Market team (admins) can see account details to keep the app safe.
• We use trusted service providers for hosting, SMS codes and notifications. They may only use your information to provide that service.

4. How long we keep it

Ads go offline after 60 days unless you keep them online; offline ads are only visible to you until you put them back online or delete them. We keep your information while you have an account. When you delete your account, we delete your profile, ads, photos and chats. A copy may stay in backups for a short time before it is overwritten. If an account is banned for abuse, we may keep the phone number so it can't be used to sign up again.

5. Your choices and rights

• Change your details at any time under Me → ⚙️ Settings.
• Delete your account and data in the app under Me → ⚙️ Settings → Delete my account.
• Block anyone so they can no longer contact you.
• Ask us what information we hold about you, or ask us to correct or delete it, using the contact below.

6. Security

Passwords are stored scrambled, and the app talks to our server over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). No system is perfectly safe, so please use a password you don't use anywhere else.

7. Children

Gam Market is not meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their information.

8. Changes

We may update this policy. If the changes are important, we will tell you in the app.

9. Contact

Privacy questions or requests: write to us in the app under Me → ⚙️ Settings → Help & Support.