Privacy Policy

Last updated: 20 August 2026 · العربية

B3 complies with the Saudi Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL). Your data is never sold and never shared with a third party for marketing. You may request an export of your data or delete your account at any time. This page explains what we collect and why, what other people can see, and how your data is erased.

1. What we collect

• Account details: the name and email from your Apple account at sign-in, the account name you choose, and a profile photo if you add one.
• Phone number: if you add one. Used for contact inside deals only.
• City: we ask for a city only to show you items near you. We do not collect coordinates or precise addresses.
• Gender (optional): collected to understand the app's audience and direct advertising campaigns. It is never shown to any other user, and it never affects any decision the system makes.
• Item photos and videos: what you upload to your listings.
• Your interests: we keep a simple numeric summary of your interest in each section (a leaning towards watches, say) to suggest auctions. We do not store your search words or a history of the auctions you opened, and the scores fade on their own over time.

2. What we never reach at all

• Face ID: if you lock the app with Face ID, your face data stays inside your device. We never see it, never keep it, and it never reaches our servers.
• Your precise location: we neither track it nor ask for it.
• Where your photos were taken: phone photos usually carry the coordinates of the place they were shot. Every photo you upload is stripped of its location and camera data (EXIF) before it is published, so the place a photo was taken reaches nobody, neither user nor visitor. What happens to the original before stripping is explained in section 5.

3. What other users can see

• Your account name, its photo, your city, and your verification state.
• Your user code — a short public identifier shown with your account so people know it is you, like @b3_A7K2. It is not derived from your email or your phone, and reveals nothing about either.
• Your phone number and email are never shown publicly, and are disclosed only to the other party inside the deal room, and only after a deal is struck.
• Users cannot be searched for by email or phone number.

4. ID photos at verification

Verifying an account is optional and requires valid ID. ID photos are stored in an encrypted space, separate from all other files, are used for review only, and are deleted the moment review completes.

5. Your listing photos, and the original

The photo you publish in a listing is shown to everyone after its location and camera data are stripped. The original as it left your device — the copy that may carry coordinates — reaches our servers for the moment of processing alone and is then deleted automatically as soon as it finishes.

6. Share links and preview cards

When you share a link to an item, an auction, a garage or an invitation, our servers draw a small preview image that appears inside the messaging app you shared it in. That image carries only what any visitor already sees in the app: the item's name, its price and its photo, or the garage's name. An invitation card carries the inviter's name, because the invitation is from them.

7. Reporting and blocking

• When you report an item, an account or a message, we keep who reported, what was reported, the reason from a fixed list, and any detail you wrote. Only our team reads the report, and the person reported is never told who reported them.
• No penalty is ever automatic. A report goes to our team to judge, and their decision is recorded.
• When you block someone, we keep that you blocked them and when, so each of you is hidden from the other. They are not told they were blocked.
• Your reports and block lists are erased with your account when you delete it.

8. How we use your data

• Running auctions, deals, contracts and notifications.
• Suggesting auctions that suit your interests.
• Reviewing listings and keeping the market safe.
• Aggregate analytics that identify nobody.

We do not sell your data, and we do not share it with any third party for marketing. We use operational service providers only — Apple for processing in-app purchases, and cloud services for storage — and all of them are bound to protect your data.

9. Deleting your account

You can delete your account from inside the app at any time. The deletion is real: your data is erased from our systems immediately — name, email, phone, photos, balance and trust points — it does not appear in the app afterwards, and it is not restored if you return later. The one exception is contracts completed through the platform, which are documents between two parties and stay as they are.

• An irreversible encrypted fingerprint of your Apple identifier is kept, for one purpose only: preventing re-registration for six months.
• Contracts are neither deleted nor anonymised. A contract is a document between two parties and a transaction that genuinely happened; erasing your name from it strips the other party of their proof. The contract stays in your name, with your phone number, for as long as the platform exists. It is the only exception to deletion.
• Past conversations and bids remain, for the integrity of the auction record, with your identity hidden.
• An account cannot be deleted while a deal is open, until it closes.

10. Your rights

• Export your data: ask through the contact form on the site, and we prepare a full copy of your data and send it to your email within 30 days.
• Deletion: from inside the app directly, as in section 9.
• Correction: edit your account details from the app. Some edits pass through review, to protect accounts.

11. Notifications

App notifications are optional and you manage them from your device settings or the app's settings. You can switch off any kind of them without it affecting your account.

To send them we keep the device token Apple gives us for that purpose alone. The token belongs to the app's copy on your device rather than to you, reveals neither your number nor your identity, is used for nothing but notifications, and is erased with your account when you delete it.

12. Children's privacy

The app is intended for those over 18, and we do not knowingly collect data from minors.

13. Updates to this policy

This policy may be updated from time to time. We will tell you inside the app about any material change, and the date of the last update always appears at the top of this page.

14. Contact us

For any question about your privacy, or to exercise any of your rights, write to us through the contact form on the site.