TalaBenta Privacy Policy
This policy explains what the TalaBenta app (Android package
ph.talabenta.inventory) and this website collect, why, where the data is
kept and how you can delete it. TalaBenta is a point-of-sale and inventory app for
small stores, used by a store's Admin (the business owner) and Cashiers the Admin invites.
Who is responsible
TalaBenta is developed and provided by Kaizer Kurt Baguidudol ("we", "us"). Privacy contact: baguidudolkaizer@gmail.com. A store that uses TalaBenta decides what products and sales it records; the store's Admin controls that business data for their store.
Data we collect
| Data | Details | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Account details | Email address, the name you enter, your account ID (Firebase user ID), your role (Admin or Cashier) and your store. | To create and secure your account and give you access to your store. |
| Sign-in data | Your password is handled by Firebase Authentication; TalaBenta never stores it in readable form. On your phone, a scrambled (hashed) copy is kept so you can sign in offline. | Sign-in and offline access. |
| Google sign-in (optional) | If you choose Google, Google shares your email address, name and profile picture link with Firebase Authentication. TalaBenta uses your email address and the name you enter. | Sign-in. |
| Consent record | The versions of these documents you accepted and when. | To show that you agreed when you registered. |
| Invitations | The email address and name an Admin enters to invite a Cashier, and the invitation status. | To let invited Cashiers join a store. |
| Store business data | Store name; products, prices, categories and stock; sales (items, amounts, cash received, change, date) and stock changes. Each sale and stock change records the name, account ID and role of the person who made it. | To run the point-of-sale and inventory features and keep an audit trail for the store. |
| Device security check | Firebase App Check uses Google Play Integrity to confirm requests come from the genuine app on a genuine device. | To protect accounts and store data from abuse. |
TalaBenta does not include advertising, analytics or crash-reporting tools, does not sell personal data, and does not access your contacts, location, camera or files.
Where your data is kept
- On your phone: products, sales and the accounts that have signed in on that phone, in a separate local database for each store. It stays on the phone until you uninstall TalaBenta or clear its data.
- In the cloud: account and store data is stored with Google Firebase (Firebase Authentication and Cloud Firestore). The Firestore database is located in Google Cloud's Singapore region (asia-southeast1). Google acts as our service provider. Data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS).
Who can see your data
- Your store's Admin can see the Cashiers of the store, pending invitations, and the store's products, stock and sales, including who recorded each sale.
- Cashiers can see their own store's products and sales features. People from other stores cannot see your store's data; this is enforced by our server-side security rules.
- Google, as the provider of Firebase, processes the data to run the service.
- We may disclose data when required by law.
Offline use
TalaBenta works without internet. To protect stores, a device may be used offline for at most 7 days after your last online sign-in; then it must reconnect to confirm you are still a member of the store. If your access is removed while a phone is offline, the change takes effect on that phone when it next connects or when those 7 days end.
Remember me
If you turn on "Remember me", the app stores your email, account ID and an expiry time (7 or 30 days, as you choose) in Android's secure storage. It never stores your password. Logging out clears it.
Deleting your account and data
You can delete your account in the app (Account → Delete account) or on the account deletion page, without reinstalling the app.
- You confirm your identity (password or Google) and confirm the deletion yourself. No approval by the developer is needed.
- Your TalaBenta profile (name, email, role, store and consent record) and your accepted invitation are deleted immediately, which ends your access to all cloud data. Your Firebase sign-in account is deleted at the same time. If the app or website is interrupted before that last step, TalaBenta's automatic cleanup, which runs several times a day, deletes the sign-in account.
- Until then, a short deletion record holds only your account ID, role and store ID (no name or email); it is removed when the deletion is finished.
- If you are a Cashier: sales and stock changes you recorded remain part of your store's business records, including your name and account ID on those records, so the store keeps an accurate history.
- If you are the store Admin: the store is closed, its pending invitations are deleted and every Cashier of the store loses access immediately. The closed store's products, sales and stock records, its remaining invitations, and the profiles and sign-in accounts of its former Cashiers (a Cashier account belongs to one store only) are kept for 7 days after closure, during which no TalaBenta account can access them. They are then permanently erased by the automatic cleanup, normally within one day after the 7 days end. Your business may have its own legal duty to keep sales records, so keep your own copies before deleting your account.
- Erased data may remain in Google's systems for a short time as part of Google's normal deletion process. The cleanup keeps run logs with counts only (no names or emails).
- Data on a phone (its local database) is not erased remotely. Uninstalling TalaBenta or clearing its storage removes it from that phone.
Children
TalaBenta is intended for store owners and their staff and is not directed at children.
Your choices and rights
You can see your name, email and role on the Account screen of the app, and you can delete your account at any time as described above. Depending on where you live, you may have further rights under data protection law. Send privacy questions and requests to baguidudolkaizer@gmail.com.
Contact
Kaizer Kurt Baguidudol, developer of TalaBenta · baguidudolkaizer@gmail.com
Changes
If we change this policy, we will publish the new version on this page with a new version date.