Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 2026
Cartiro respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, how we share it, and the choices you have.
This Privacy Policy applies to Cartiro, including our website, mobile app, web app, and related services.
Agreement to This Policy
By using Cartiro, creating a cart, joining a cart, or continuing to use the app, you agree to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. If you do not agree, you should not use Cartiro.
Information You Provide
When you use Cartiro, you may choose to provide information such as:
- Your email address
- Your first name, nickname, or display name
- Household or shared-cart information, such as household members, cart users, or shopping roles
- Store names, store preferences, shopping notes, item details, item quantities, item photos, and cart history
- Shopping and spending information you choose to enter, such as estimated cart totals, receipt information, weekly spending, or shopping history
- Messages, feedback, support requests, or other information you choose to submit through the app, website, or contact form
- Any other information you voluntarily provide through Cartiro or future Cartiro features
This information is used only to operate, personalize, support, protect, and improve Cartiro.
Cartiro does not use shopping or spending information for credit decisions, lending decisions, financial eligibility, insurance, employment, background checks, or any other financial decision-making purpose.
Information We Collect Automatically
When you use Cartiro, we may automatically collect basic technical and usage information, such as:
- Device type
- Browser type
- App version
- App interactions
- Performance data
- Error logs
- General usage activity, such as features used, trip duration, and completed shopping trips
We use this information to operate the app, improve performance, fix bugs, protect security, and understand general app usage.
Information We Do Not Collect
Cartiro does not collect:
- Payment card numbers
- Bank account information
- Credit reports or credit scores
- Government ID numbers
- Precise location data
- Contact lists, unless you choose to share contact information manually
- Advertising profile data
- Sensitive personal information unless you voluntarily provide it in a cart item, note, message, support request, contact form, or other app feature
Please avoid entering sensitive personal information into Cartiro unless it is necessary for your own use of the app.
How We Use Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Provide and operate Cartiro
- Create, join, and share carts
- Send invite codes and app-related messages
- Sync shopping lists between users
- Personalize the app experience based on information you choose to provide
- Save cart history, store preferences, shopping history, household settings, and spending history if those features are used
- Show store-specific offers, promotions, or ads if you select a store for a shopping trip
- Improve app features, performance, reliability, and security
- Understand general app usage in aggregated or de-identified form
- Respond to support requests, feedback, contact form submissions, or user messages
- Protect the app from misuse, fraud, technical problems, or security issues
- Comply with legal obligations when required
We use shopping and spending information only for app-related purposes, such as saving your cart history, showing estimated spending, improving app features, troubleshooting issues, and understanding app usage in aggregated or de-identified form.
Store-Specific Offers, Promotions, and Ads
If you choose to select a store for a shopping trip, Cartiro may show offers, promotions, or ads related to that store or shopping trip.
For example, if you select a specific store, we may show an offer or promotion connected to that store while you are using Cartiro.
These offers may be based on information you choose to enter in the app, such as the store selected for the current shopping trip.
We do not sell your personal information to advertisers. We do not share your email address, household information, cart details, item details, shopping history, or spending history with advertisers unless we clearly tell you and, where required, get your consent.
Cartiro does not use third-party advertising networks to track you across other apps or websites. Cartiro does not use shopping or spending information for credit, lending, insurance, employment, or other financial decision-making purposes.
If we add third-party advertising networks, retargeting, advertising cookies, pixels, advertising IDs, or similar tracking technologies in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy and provide any required notices or choices.
Service Providers
We use trusted third-party service providers to help operate Cartiro.
These may include:
- Firebase / Google, used for app infrastructure, authentication, database storage, hosting, performance, analytics, security, and related services
- Resend, used to send invite codes, account-related emails, support messages, and other app-related emails
- Contact form providers or related tools used to receive and respond to user messages, privacy requests, account requests, support requests, advertiser messages, or other inquiries
These providers may process limited personal information only as needed to provide services to Cartiro, protect the app, comply with legal obligations, or perform services on our behalf.
We do not sell your personal information.
Sharing of Information
We may share limited information in the following situations:
- With service providers who help us operate Cartiro, including Firebase / Google, Resend, and contact form providers
- When needed to provide app functionality, such as sharing a cart between users who join the same cart
- When required by law, legal process, or government request
- When necessary to protect the rights, safety, or security of Cartiro, our users, or others
- In connection with a business transfer, such as a merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction
We do not sell your personal information.
We do not share your personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising unless we clearly tell you and, where required, get your consent.
Cart Sharing
Cartiro is designed for shared shopping. If you create or join a shared cart, other users connected to that cart may see information added to that cart, such as items, notes, quantities, store names, photos, checked-off items, reactions, and shopping progress.
Only share a cart with people you trust.
Data Retention
We keep your information for as long as needed to provide Cartiro, maintain your account or cart, improve the app, protect security, and comply with legal obligations.
If you request deletion, we will delete or de-identify your personal information unless we need to keep limited information for legal, security, fraud-prevention, backup, or operational reasons.
Data Security
We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information.
However, no online service, app, database, or cloud system can guarantee complete security. You use Cartiro at your own risk.
Your Choices and Rights
You can choose not to provide optional information, but some features may not work fully without it.
You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of your account information by contacting us.
You may stop using Cartiro at any time.
Depending on where you live, you may have additional privacy rights under applicable law, such as the right to know what personal information we collect, the right to request deletion, the right to correct information, or the right to opt out of certain uses of personal information.
Account and Data Deletion
You may request deletion of your account and data by contacting us.
After receiving a deletion request, we may need to verify your request before deleting information. Some information may remain in backups or records for a limited period where reasonably necessary for security, legal, or operational reasons.
Children’s Privacy
Cartiro is not intended for children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we collected personal information from a child under 13, we will delete it.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.
If we make material changes, we may notify you by updating the date at the top of this page, posting a notice in the app or website, or using another reasonable method.
Your continued use of Cartiro after changes are posted means you accept the updated Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to request access, correction, or deletion of your account or data, or need help with a privacy-related issue, please contact us through the form below ↓
Terms of Use
Last updated: June 2026
Welcome to Cartiro. These Terms of Use explain the rules for using Cartiro, including our website, mobile app, web app, and related services.
By using Cartiro, creating a cart, joining a cart, or continuing to use the app, you agree to these Terms of Use and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you should not use Cartiro.
What Cartiro Does
Cartiro is a shared grocery and shopping list app. It is designed to help users create carts, share shopping lists, coordinate shopping trips, check off items, save shopping information, and communicate shopping progress.
Cartiro is provided for convenience only.
User Responsibility
You are responsible for reviewing your cart, items, quantities, notes, prices, offers, substitutions, and purchases before checkout.
Cartiro may help organize shopping information, but it does not replace your own review, judgment, or decision-making.
You are responsible for what you buy, where you buy it, and how much you spend.
No Guarantee of Accuracy
Cartiro does not guarantee that:
- Shopping lists will always be accurate, complete, or current
- Items will be available at any store
- Prices, offers, promotions, or ads will be accurate or current
- App syncing will always happen instantly
- Notifications, reactions, or updates will always be delivered
- Photos, notes, categories, store names, or item details will always display correctly
- The app will always be available, secure, uninterrupted, or error-free
You should confirm all important details before checkout.
Store-Specific Offers, Promotions, and Ads
Cartiro may show store-specific offers, promotions, or ads based on information you choose to enter, such as the store selected for a shopping trip.
These offers are provided for convenience and informational purposes only.
Cartiro does not guarantee that any offer, promotion, price, product, store availability, discount, or advertiser claim is accurate, available, or suitable for you.
You are responsible for reviewing any offer before relying on it or making a purchase.
Unless clearly stated otherwise, Cartiro is not responsible for third-party offers, stores, advertisers, products, services, websites, or promotions.
User Content
You may add items, notes, photos, store names, household information, shopping history, spending information, messages, feedback, and other content through Cartiro.
You are responsible for the content you add.
Do not upload or submit content that is illegal, harmful, abusive, misleading, invasive of someone’s privacy, or that you do not have the right to share.
By adding content to Cartiro, you give Cartiro permission to store, process, display, and use that content as needed to operate, support, protect, and improve the app.
Shared Carts
Cartiro is designed for shared use. If you create or join a shared cart, other users connected to that cart may see information added to the cart, such as items, notes, quantities, store names, photos, checked-off items, reactions, and shopping progress.
Only share carts with people you trust.
Cartiro is not responsible for disputes between users, household members, cart participants, shoppers, advertisers, stores, or other third parties.
Account and Access
You may need to provide an email address or other information to create or use certain Cartiro features.
You are responsible for keeping access to your email, device, cart, and invite code secure.
You should not access another person’s cart or account without permission.
We may suspend, limit, or terminate access to Cartiro if we believe someone is misusing the app, violating these Terms, creating security risks, or harming other users or the app.
Acceptable Use
You agree not to:
- Use Cartiro for illegal, harmful, abusive, deceptive, or unauthorized purposes
- Attempt to break, overload, reverse engineer, scrape, copy, or interfere with the app
- Access data, carts, accounts, or systems without permission
- Upload harmful code, spam, or malicious content
- Misrepresent your identity or relationship to another person
- Use Cartiro in a way that violates someone else’s rights or privacy
App Changes and Availability
Cartiro may change, pause, remove, or discontinue features at any time.
We may update the app, fix issues, add features, remove features, or change how certain features work.
We are not required to continue offering any specific feature, version, design, service, promotion, or integration.
Third-Party Services
Cartiro may use third-party service providers to operate the app, including Firebase / Google, Resend, contact form providers, hosting providers, database providers, analytics tools, performance tools, security tools, or other service providers.
Cartiro may also contain links, offers, promotions, ads, or references to third-party stores, advertisers, products, or services.
We are not responsible for third-party websites, services, products, offers, pricing, availability, claims, terms, or privacy practices.
No Financial, Credit, or Professional Advice
Cartiro is not a financial, credit, lending, insurance, employment, or professional advisory service.
Shopping and spending information in Cartiro is for household shopping convenience only.
Cartiro does not use shopping or spending information for credit decisions, lending decisions, financial eligibility, insurance, employment, background checks, or any other financial decision-making purpose.
Disclaimer
Cartiro is provided “as is” and “as available.”
To the fullest extent allowed by law, Cartiro makes no warranties or guarantees of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory, including warranties of accuracy, reliability, availability, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.
Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent allowed by law, Cartiro and its owners, operators, employees, contractors, service providers, and partners will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, or for lost profits, lost data, lost savings, missed purchases, incorrect purchases, store issues, offer issues, app errors, sync delays, outages, or other losses related to your use of Cartiro.
Your use of Cartiro is at your own risk.
Indemnification
You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless Cartiro and its owners, operators, employees, contractors, service providers, and partners from claims, damages, liabilities, costs, and expenses arising from your use of Cartiro, your content, your violation of these Terms, or your violation of someone else’s rights.
Privacy
Your use of Cartiro is also governed by our Privacy Policy.
Please review the Privacy Policy to understand how we collect, use, share, and protect information.
Data Deletion and Support Requests
We may need to verify your request before taking action.
Changes to These Terms
We may update these Terms of Use from time to time.
If we make material changes, we may notify you by updating the date at the top of this page, posting a notice in the app or website, or using another reasonable method.
Your continued use of Cartiro after changes are posted means you accept the updated Terms.
Contact Us
If you have questions about these Terms of Use, please contact us through the form below ↓