Privacy Policy

Who we are

SameShift is operated by Pathfinders Ventures LLC. SameShift helps people 16 and older find part-time work with friends and helps local shops hire crews.

Questions or requests: privacy@sameshift.me.

Who this is for

SameShift is for high school students, college students, and other workers who are 16 or older, and for employers who hire them. We do not allow accounts for people under 16.

Information we collect

When you create an account or use SameShift, we may collect:

• Name
• Email address
• Account, authentication-provider, organization and customer identifiers
• Manager or street-lead phone numbers when someone enters them
• Profile images supplied by a chosen social sign-in provider and job listing images
• ZIP, city, job market, and business or job-site address
• Confirmation that you are 16 or older
• Availability and job preferences
• Crew membership and the in-app work-relationship graph
• Applications
• Messages
• Safety reports, support details, and relevant reported-message context
• Employer details and job listings
• Employer plan, subscription status, and renewal date (not full payment-card details)
• Product activity such as invites, applications, reads, interviews, and hiring
• Session IP address and browser or app user-agent used for authentication and account security
• Other content you choose to post, such as notes on an application or a job post

SameShift does not request precise GPS or device location for a worker profile. A shop can provide its physical business or job-site address so applicants know where the job is located. SameShift does not receive full card or bank-account details entered in Stripe's hosted checkout.

How we use it

We use this information to:

• Sign you in and keep the account secure
• Match crews to nearby jobs
• Personalize what you see
• Submit and review applications
• Support messaging, interviews, and hiring tools
• Measure product activity and the effectiveness of tagged SameShift campaigns
• Answer support requests
• Prevent spam, fraud, and abuse
• Diagnose errors and operate a reliable, scalable service

Campaign links

When you visit through a tagged campaign link, we may keep its source, medium, campaign, creative, and keyword label, plus the referring site (host and path only) and the page you landed on, in a first-party cookie for up to 30 days. If you subscribe, these labels are included with your Stripe checkout and subscription so we can measure which campaigns lead to paying customers. These labels can identify the SameShift campaign or paid-social creative that brought you to the service, so we disclose them to Apple as Advertising Data with the purposes Analytics and Developer's Advertising or Marketing. We do not put your application text, contact details, third-party advertising click identifiers, or a separate ad-impression log in this cookie.

If you create an account after visiting through a tagged link, we also save the first and the most recent source, medium, campaign and creative labels from those cookies with your profile, so we can see which campaigns bring in new members. The same first-touch and last-touch labels are saved on each application you send. We also store counts of job views, apply starts, the account step, and sent applications. Those counts are not stored with your name or email. We do not combine these labels with third-party advertising data.

To count visits and page views on sameshift.me, we use Google Analytics. It collects page views, approximate location, device and browser, and the campaign tag on the link that brought you here. We do not sell this information. Google ad personalization and advertising signals are turned off. Sign-in, payment, and admin pages are left out.

Service diagnostics

Our hosting provider, Vercel, temporarily retains runtime information used to secure, debug, and operate SameShift. This can include the requested path and search parameters, request method, response status, error level, request or session identifier, IP address, user-agent, processing region, function duration, and memory use. We use this information for app functionality and technical diagnostics, not for cross-app or cross-site tracking.

App Store categories

For Apple’s nutrition-label disclosure, SameShift currently collects the following, linked to your identity and not used for tracking:

• Name — account, profile, employer-contact and crew names used to provide the service
• Email Address — sign-in, account communication and employer-contact email addresses
• Phone Number — manager or street-lead contact numbers when someone enters them
• Physical Address — business and job-site addresses entered for employer listings
• Coarse Location — ZIP, city and job market used to show nearby work
• Contacts — the in-app crew and work-relationship graph, not the iPhone address book
• Emails or Text Messages — messages sent through SameShift conversations
• Photos or Videos — profile images supplied by a sign-in provider and uploaded job photos
• Customer Support — safety reports, support details and the bounded context retained for review
• Other User Content — availability, preferences, applications, listings and other submitted content
• User ID — account, authentication-provider, organization and customer identifiers
• Device ID — session IP address and browser or app user-agent retained for account security
• Purchase History — employer plan, subscription status and renewal state
• Product Interaction — invites, crew joins, applications, reads, interviews and hiring activity
• Advertising Data — source, medium, campaign, creative and keyword labels from tagged links, plus referring site and landing path, used for Analytics and Developer's Advertising or Marketing
• Performance Data — hosting-function timing and memory data used to operate and improve the service
• Other Diagnostic Data — request, response, error and session diagnostics retained by the hosting provider
• Other Data Types — the confirmation that an account holder is 16 or older

Advertising Data above refers to SameShift's first-party campaign and creative attribution from tagged links, including paid-social links. SameShift does not use an advertising identifier, show third-party advertising, sell personal information, or link this information with third-party data for cross-app or cross-site tracking.

What stays on your iPhone

Some features exist only on the device: the in-app tracker, the native availability planner, and local reminders. That information stays on your iPhone. Nothing is sent to SameShift automatically; an availability summary leaves the app only when you explicitly choose a destination in Apple's share sheet.

Sharing

Crew members and employers see the information needed to apply, interview, and hire — such as a name, availability, a message, or a job listing. We use service providers to host and store the product, authenticate accounts, process employer billing, and send email. Authentication providers may include Google Identity and Sign in with Apple when you choose those options. If you choose an email code, we send a 6-digit code to that address. We do not text a code. We do not sell your personal information. We may disclose information if required by law or to protect people using SameShift.

Safety reports

When you report a message, we keep a copy with your report so it can be reviewed even if the original conversation is deleted. Authorized reviewers see reported content first and can open nearby messages when needed for context. We record review actions and who performed them. We do not routinely have a person read every conversation. Safety-alert emails link to the private queue without including message text. Report records may be kept after account deletion when needed to investigate abuse and protect people using SameShift. Contact us with questions about these records.

Retention and deletion

We keep account data while your account is open and as needed for security, hiring records, and legal obligations. You can permanently delete your account in the iPhone app under Settings → Delete account. Deletion removes the login, sessions, profile, blocks, and verification records; removes or irreversibly de-identifies associated crew, application, message, employer, and event records; erases message text authored by the deleted account; and cancels an employer subscription owned by that account before deletion completes. A job photo can remain with its employer listing, but its uploader identifier is removed. For retained safety and entitlement decision history, SameShift replaces the deleting actor's identifier with an irreversible tombstone. When a usable direct Apple or Google authorization token is available, SameShift also asks that provider to revoke the linked authorization before deleting its local credential record. Safety reports and decision history may retain de-identified evidence when needed to investigate abuse, protect people, or meet legal obligations. The native app also erases its local availability and tracker entries after online deletion succeeds. After deletion, Apple may still list SameShift. If you used Sign in with Apple, check Settings → your name → Sign in with Apple → SameShift. If it appears, tap Delete, then confirm Stop Using. You can also email privacy@sameshift.me for help.

Children

SameShift is not directed to children under 16. If we learn that we have collected personal information from someone under 16, we will delete the account.

Changes

If this policy changes in a material way, we will update this page and the “Last updated” date.

Contact

Pathfinders Ventures LLC, operating SameShift
privacy@sameshift.me
support@sameshift.me

We do not publish a street address on this page. Mail sent to the privacy email is the way to reach us.