Privacy Policy

Who this covers

bettafishid-lite is a web auction platform. This policy describes the data bettafishid-lite collects and how it is used when you create an account, list an item, bid, or otherwise use the site.

Account sign-in

bettafishid-lite does not use passwords. You sign in with a third-party account instead. Today, sign-in is available via Google and Facebook. Sign-in via TikTok is planned but not yet available — it is pending TikTok's own Login Kit app review and a separate technical prerequisite, and is not offered on the site today.

Whichever provider you use, bettafishid-lite receives a unique identifier for your account with that provider, and typically a display name and profile picture. Email addresses are not guaranteed: Google and Facebook usually provide one, but bettafishid-lite does not require it, and when TikTok sign-in is enabled it will never provide an email address at all, under any permission TikTok grants for this kind of login. bettafishid-lite treats a missing email as a normal case, not an error — see Notifications, below, for what that means in practice.

What we store and use

• Auction and bid activity — auctions you create, and bids you place, including their amounts and timestamps, as needed to run English, sealed-bid, and Dutch auctions. In a sealed-bid auction, your bid amount is not shown to other bidders before the auction closes.
• Uploaded media — images, video, and documents you upload for your own auction listings (e.g. item photos, condition documentation). If you embed a third-party video (for example, from YouTube), bettafishid-lite stores only the provider name and the video's ID, and renders its own embed from that — it does not store or run embed code you paste in.
• Notification read state — which notifications you've seen and when, so the notification panel described below can show you accurate read/unread status.

Notifications

bettafishid-lite notifies you about things like an auction closing soon, winning an auction, being outbid, and account suspension changes, through up to three channels:

• In-app notification panel — the primary, authoritative record. Every notification is stored as a row you can view, with a read/unread state, regardless of whether the other channels below succeed.
• Live in-app notice — a brief, auto-dismissing on-screen notice shown only to you, while you are using the site, for new notifications. It is personal to your own account — bettafishid-lite does not show a public feed of other users' bidding activity.
• Email — best-effort and secondary, sent only if you have a verified email address on file. Not every account has one (see Account sign-in, above); if yours doesn't, you still receive notifications through the in-app panel.

Payment

bettafishid-lite does not process payments. When an auction ends, bettafishid-lite records the winner and the final price only. Payment and delivery are arranged directly between the winning bidder and the seller, off-platform. bettafishid-lite does not collect or store payment card, bank, or other financial account details.

Account suspension

A bettafishid-lite administrator can suspend specific permissions on an account (for example, bidding or listing new auctions) for a set period or indefinitely, as part of platform moderation. If your account is suspended, bettafishid-lite shows you the reason and, when applicable, when the suspension ends.

Who else sees this data

bettafishid-lite runs on a small set of infrastructure providers that process data on bettafishid-lite's behalf to operate the site: Supabase (accounts, sign-in, the database, and storage for uploaded images), Vercel (site hosting), Cloudflare R2 (storage for larger uploaded video and document files), and Resend (sending the best-effort emails described above). bettafishid-lite does not sell user data.

Data access and deletion requests

To ask what data bettafishid-lite has about you, or to request deletion, contact privacy@aucfree.example (placeholder address — to be replaced with a real, monitored contact before this platform launches publicly).

Changes to this policy

This page may change as bettafishid-lite's features change. Since this document has not yet had legal review, treat it as a description of current behavior during development, not a binding commitment.