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Privacy Policy

Policy Version: 1.0 | Effective Date: October 18, 2026

Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how ShoppingSuru collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects personal information when you use our website, marketplace, account services, ordering system, delivery services, and other related features.

Privacy at ShoppingSuru

We collect information that is reasonably necessary to operate the marketplace, process orders, provide customer support, arrange delivery, process payments and refunds, maintain records, improve the platform, prevent fraud, and comply with applicable law.


1. Who This Policy Applies To

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through ShoppingSuru from:

  • Customers and website visitors.
  • Registered users.
  • Vendors and vendor representatives.
  • People who contact ShoppingSuru for customer support.
  • People who interact with ShoppingSuru through other supported marketplace features.

2. Information We Collect

The specific information collected may depend on how you use ShoppingSuru.

Account Information

Name, username, email address, telephone number, password-related account information, and profile information you choose to provide.

Order Information

Products ordered, order ID, quantities, prices, discounts, delivery information, order status, returns, exchanges and refund information.

Delivery Information

Delivery address, locality, contact number, delivery instructions, selected delivery date, and selected delivery time slot where applicable.

Payment Information

Payment method, payment status, transaction reference, refund status, and other information necessary to verify and manage a transaction.

Vendor Information

Business or store information, contact details, registration information, PAN/VAT information where applicable, payout information, and marketplace performance information.

Technical Information

IP address, browser type, device information, operating-system information, pages visited, approximate usage information, logs, cookies, and similar technical data.

3. Information You Provide Voluntarily

You may provide additional information when you:

  • Create or update an account.
  • Place an order.
  • Submit a return or exchange request.
  • Contact customer support.
  • Submit a review or rating.
  • Contact a vendor through supported ShoppingSuru features.
  • Register as a vendor.
  • Participate in promotions or other optional activities.

4. How We Use Your Information

ShoppingSuru may use personal information for purposes including:

  • Creating and managing user accounts.
  • Processing and managing orders.
  • Processing payments, refunds, cancellations and exchanges.
  • Arranging and tracking product delivery.
  • Providing customer service and responding to complaints.
  • Communicating order, account and service updates.
  • Preventing fraud, abuse and unauthorized activity.
  • Maintaining marketplace and transaction records.
  • Improving website functionality and user experience.
  • Monitoring platform performance and security.
  • Managing vendor relationships.
  • Sending permitted promotional communications where applicable.
  • Complying with legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other lawful obligations.

5. Customer Order Information Shared With Vendors

ShoppingSuru operates as a multi-vendor marketplace. When you purchase a product from a vendor, ShoppingSuru may provide the vendor with information reasonably necessary to fulfil the order.

This may include:

  • Customer name.
  • Relevant product and order information.
  • Delivery address.
  • Reachable contact number.
  • Delivery instructions where necessary.
  • Return, exchange or complaint information relevant to the order.
Vendor data-use restriction: Vendors may use customer information received through ShoppingSuru only for legitimate order fulfilment, delivery coordination and permitted customer-service purposes. Vendors must not sell, misuse, publish, or use the information for unrelated marketing or to deliberately bypass ShoppingSuru.

6. Information Shared With Delivery Partners

To arrange delivery, ShoppingSuru may share relevant customer information with a delivery or courier partner.

Information may include:

  • Customer name.
  • Delivery address.
  • Phone number.
  • Order or package reference.
  • Delivery date and time slot.
  • Reasonably necessary delivery instructions.

Delivery partners should use such information for delivery and related service purposes.

7. Payment Information

ShoppingSuru may use third-party payment service providers to process digital transactions.

Depending on the payment method and provider, payment information may be submitted directly to the relevant payment provider rather than being stored by ShoppingSuru in full.

ShoppingSuru may receive transaction-related information such as payment status, transaction reference, payment method, refund status, and other information required to manage the order.

Important: The exact payment information retained by ShoppingSuru depends on the payment gateway and technical implementation used. This Policy should be updated if ShoppingSuru changes its payment integrations.

8. Legal and Regulatory Disclosure

ShoppingSuru may disclose personal information where reasonably necessary to:

  • Comply with applicable Nepalese law or legal obligations.
  • Respond to lawful requests from government or regulatory authorities.
  • Investigate suspected fraud or unlawful activity.
  • Protect the safety, rights, property, and security of ShoppingSuru or others.
  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims where appropriate.

9. Service Providers

ShoppingSuru may use third-party service providers to support marketplace operations, including:

  • Payment providers.
  • Delivery and logistics providers.
  • Website hosting providers.
  • Email/SMS/communication providers.
  • Security and fraud-prevention providers.
  • Analytics and performance providers.
  • Technical maintenance and infrastructure providers.

Such providers may access information only to the extent reasonably necessary to provide the relevant service, subject to applicable contractual and legal requirements.

10. Vendor Information

Vendors may be required to provide additional business information before they can sell through ShoppingSuru.

Such information may include:

  • Legal or business name.
  • Business address.
  • Owner or authorized representative information.
  • Business registration information.
  • PAN/VAT information where applicable.
  • Contact information.
  • Store information.
  • Bank or permitted payout information.
  • Documents reasonably necessary for vendor verification.

Vendor information may be used for verification, payouts, marketplace administration, customer transactions, legal compliance, fraud prevention, accounting and other legitimate business purposes.

11. Transaction and Order Records

ShoppingSuru may retain records relating to marketplace transactions, including:

  • Order date and time.
  • Customer and vendor information.
  • Products purchased.
  • Prices and discounts.
  • Delivery charges.
  • Selected delivery date and time slot.
  • Payment status.
  • Return/exchange/refund records.
  • Customer complaints.
  • Relevant marketplace communications.

Such records may be retained for the periods required or reasonably necessary for legal, tax, accounting, dispute-resolution, security, fraud-prevention, and operational purposes.

12. Cookies and Similar Technologies

ShoppingSuru may use cookies and similar technologies to support:

  • Login and session management.
  • Shopping cart functionality.
  • Website security.
  • User preferences.
  • Analytics and performance measurement.
  • Improving website functionality.

You may configure your browser to restrict or refuse cookies. However, some ShoppingSuru features may not function properly without certain cookies.

13. Promotional Communications

ShoppingSuru may send service-related communications concerning:

  • Orders.
  • Delivery.
  • Returns and refunds.
  • Account security.
  • Important service announcements.

Promotional messages may be sent where permitted and, where required, after obtaining appropriate consent.

Customers may request to stop receiving promotional communications through the available unsubscribe or contact mechanism.

14. Reviews, Messages and User-Submitted Content

If you submit reviews, ratings, questions, messages, photographs, feedback or other content to ShoppingSuru, that information may be stored and processed for marketplace operation and moderation.

Do not submit unnecessary personal information belonging to yourself or another person through a public review or other publicly visible feature.

15. Account and Password Security

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials.

ShoppingSuru will use reasonable security measures to protect account and personal information.

However, no internet transmission, website, database, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

16. Data Security Incident

If ShoppingSuru becomes aware of a security incident affecting personal information, we may investigate the incident and take reasonable steps to contain, remedy, and address it in accordance with applicable law and operational procedures.

Where notification is required under applicable law, ShoppingSuru will follow the applicable notification requirements.

17. Data Retention

ShoppingSuru does not necessarily keep personal information permanently.

Information may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including:

  • Operating customer and vendor accounts.
  • Completing transactions.
  • Handling returns, refunds and disputes.
  • Preventing fraud and abuse.
  • Maintaining business and transaction records.
  • Meeting tax, accounting and legal requirements.
  • Protecting ShoppingSuru's legal rights.

When personal information is no longer reasonably required and there is no applicable retention obligation, ShoppingSuru may delete, anonymize, or otherwise securely dispose of it.

18. User Requests Regarding Personal Information

Subject to applicable law and legitimate retention requirements, users may contact ShoppingSuru regarding personal information that they believe is inaccurate, incomplete, or requires correction.

Requests should be sent to:

privacy@shoppingsuru.com

ShoppingSuru may need to verify the identity of the requester before processing certain requests.

19. Account Deletion

Customers may contact ShoppingSuru to request account closure or deletion where the feature is not available directly through the account settings.

Account deletion may not result in immediate deletion of information that ShoppingSuru must retain for legal, accounting, tax, security, fraud-prevention, transaction-record, dispute-resolution, or other legitimate purposes.

20. Children's Privacy

ShoppingSuru is a general online marketplace and is not specifically designed to collect unnecessary personal information from children.

Users should not provide personal information belonging to another person, including a child, without appropriate authority.

Where ShoppingSuru becomes aware that personal information has been collected in a manner that is not permitted by applicable law, we may take reasonable steps to address the issue.

21. Third-Party Websites and Services

ShoppingSuru may contain links to third-party websites, payment providers, social-media platforms, delivery services, or other external services.

ShoppingSuru is not responsible for the privacy practices of third-party websites or services that it does not control.

Customers should review the privacy policies of those services before providing information to them.

22. Changes to This Privacy Policy

ShoppingSuru may update this Privacy Policy when its technology, marketplace operations, data practices, service providers, legal obligations, or other relevant circumstances change.

The latest version will be published on this page together with the applicable policy version and effective date.

Where applicable law requires additional notice for a material change, ShoppingSuru will provide such notice through an appropriate channel.

23. Relationship With Other ShoppingSuru Policies

This Privacy Policy should be read together with:

24. Contact Us About Privacy

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal information, please contact:

Privacy Contact
Email: privacy@shoppingsuru.com
Phone: [INSERT PRIVACY CONTACT NUMBER]
Address: [INSERT REGISTERED BUSINESS ADDRESS]

Legal review: This Privacy Policy is designed for ShoppingSuru's multi-vendor e-commerce marketplace. Before launch, the final wording and actual data practices should be reviewed by a Nepal-qualified legal professional against the Privacy Act, 2075, Electronic Commerce Act, 2081, Electronic Commerce Directive, 2082, applicable consumer-protection requirements, and ShoppingSuru's actual technology, payment, hosting, analytics, delivery, and vendor systems.

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