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Privacy Policy

How KarDo collects, uses, shares, and protects your information.

Privacy Policy v1.0 · Effective 2 July 2026

These documents are provided for transparency and operational clarity. They are not a substitute for independent legal advice.

This Privacy Policy explains how KarDo (“we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses, shares, stores, and protects personal information when you use the KarDo website, mobile apps, and related services in Pakistan and through our service providers.

1. Introduction

KarDo is a marketplace platform for cab rides, city-to-city seats, quick tasks, grocery pickup, medicine pickup, repairs, and related services. This policy applies to customers, workers, drivers, and visitors who interact with our Platform.

By using KarDo, you acknowledge this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Platform.

2. Data we collect

We collect information you provide directly, information generated through your use of the Platform, information from your device, and information from verification and support processes.

3. Account information

This may include your name, phone number, email (if provided), account role (customer or worker), city and area, profile details, verification status, suspension or ban flags, and authentication records managed through our auth provider.

4. Customer job, order, and ride data

When you post or book services, we collect descriptions, budgets or fares, pickup and drop-off text and coordinates, passenger counts, vehicle preferences, promo or reward attachments, voice notes, repair quote details, grocery or medicine cart contents, pharmacy or store selections, prescription flags, and order status history.

5. Worker and driver verification data

Workers and drivers may submit CNIC details, licence information, vehicle registration details, selfies, shop photos, skill verification materials, and related metadata extracted during review.

We may store document images in secure private storage and record reviewer decisions, rejection reasons, and timestamps.

6. Location data

We collect location when you search places, set pickup or drop-off points, show nearby workers or stores, or share live progress during active services.

Location may come from device GPS, map selections, or address text converted through mapping services.

7. Background location data

On the mobile app, workers and drivers may enable background location only during an active job, cab ride, or supported city-seats trip so customers can track progress if the app is in the background.

We do not use background location for general browsing, advertising profiles, or inactive accounts. When the active service ends, background updates should stop subject to device and OS behavior.

8. Photos, documents, and uploaded files

Uploads may include CNIC images, licences, vehicle documents, selfies, shop proof, dispute evidence, grocery or medicine-related images, and short job voice notes.

Authorized KarDo staff or automated review tools may access these files for verification, fraud prevention, dispute handling, and safety investigations.

9. Payment, wallet, and rewards data

We process wallet balances, commission transactions, top-up requests, payment provider references, promo and voucher usage, customer reward ledger entries, KarDo Credits entries, and related metadata.

Payment card or wallet credentials are handled by payment partners where applicable; KarDo generally receives status and reconciliation data rather than full card numbers.

10. Device, log, and technical data

We may collect device type, operating system, app version, push notification tokens, locale, timezone, IP address, request logs, error reports, and diagnostic events.

This helps us secure accounts, debug failures, measure performance, and deliver notifications.

11. How we use data

We use personal information to:

  • Create and secure accounts and sessions
  • Match customers with workers, drivers, stores, and pharmacies
  • Show nearby open jobs, rides, and catalog results
  • Provide live tracking during active services
  • Process offers, bids, acceptances, completions, and cancellations
  • Operate wallet, commission, credits, and rewards programs
  • Review verification documents and investigate abuse
  • Send transactional and optional promotional notifications
  • Handle support, disputes, and legal compliance requests
  • Improve reliability, safety, and product quality

12. How location tracking works

Customers may see worker or driver live location only for accepted or active services according to in-app rules. Workers and drivers see customer pickup and drop-off details needed to complete the job.

Map previews and routing may use third-party mapping providers. Approximate location may be used for city-to-city progress displays where exact GPS is unavailable or stale.

13. When data is shared with other users

After relevant acceptance steps, customers and workers/drivers may see names, phone contact methods, job or ride details, addresses or coordinates, offer amounts, and live tracking during active services.

Before acceptance, contact details may be masked or hidden to reduce spam and harassment.

14. When data is shared with stores, pharmacies, or repair providers

For grocery, medicine, or repair flows, we share only the information reasonably needed to fulfill the request, such as item lists, pickup instructions, customer contact methods after acceptance, and delivery location.

KarDo does not control independent stores, pharmacies, or repair providers and is not responsible for their separate handling of information outside the Platform.

15. Third-party service providers

We use trusted infrastructure and service providers to operate KarDo. Depending on configuration, these may include:

  • Supabase (authentication, database, storage, realtime, edge functions)
  • Amazon Web Services (hosting, logging, and related cloud infrastructure)
  • Redis / ElastiCache (rate limiting and caching where enabled)
  • Google Maps / Places (maps, autocomplete, routing, and geocoding)
  • OpenStreetMap Nominatim (fallback geocoding in some flows)
  • Expo / EAS (mobile builds, updates, and push delivery)
  • PayFast (wallet top-up payment processing where enabled)
  • Sentry (error monitoring)
  • Resend or similar email providers (verification and admin notifications)
  • AI/OCR providers used for document checks or grocery assistance where enabled

17. Data retention

We keep information for as long as needed to provide services, resolve disputes, meet accounting and tax obligations, prevent fraud, and comply with law.

Some verification, wallet, reward, and dispute records may be kept longer than general profile data. Rejected verification documents may be deleted after review periods described in internal retention practices. Audio notes and logs may be purged on rolling schedules.

18. Security

We use access controls, authenticated APIs, private storage for sensitive documents, rate limits, monitoring, and administrative review processes. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure.

You are responsible for protecting your phone, OTP codes, and device permissions.

19. User choices and rights

You can update parts of your profile in the app, manage notification preferences, control device location permissions, and choose whether to enable push notifications.

Depending on applicable law, you may request access, correction, or deletion of certain personal information by contacting support.

20. Deleting your account and data deletion requests

You may request account closure or data deletion by contacting support@kardo.pk with your registered phone number and request details.

We may retain limited records where necessary for fraud prevention, unresolved disputes, commission accounting, legal compliance, or safety investigations even after account deletion.

21. Children and minors

KarDo is not directed to children under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided data, contact us to request deletion.

22. International storage and processing

KarDo is operated for users in Pakistan, but our cloud providers and partners may process data in Pakistan and in other countries where their servers are located, including the United States and other regions used by Supabase, AWS, Google, Expo, or similar vendors.

By using KarDo, you understand that data may be transferred to jurisdictions with different data protection laws, subject to contractual and security safeguards used by our providers.

23. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The version and effective date at the top of the document will change when we do. Continued use after an update means you accept the revised policy where permitted by law.

24. Contact information

Privacy questions and data requests: use the contact details shown at the bottom of this page.

25. Effective date and version

This Privacy Policy version 1.0 is effective from the date shown at the top of this document unless a newer version is published.

Contact: support@kardo.pk · Sialkot, Pakistan