Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 2026
Who we are
Dropwatch is operated by Allen Hormoz, a sole proprietor in Canada. It is independent of AutoTrader.ca, AutoHebdo, and Trader Corporation. Contact: allenhormoz@gmail.com.
What we collect
- Your email address
- The AutoTrader.ca or AutoHebdo URL you submit (a listing or search for the $29 shopper watch; a dealer page or a listing from that lot for the monthly dealer watch)
- Price snapshots, vehicle fields we can read (YMM, VIN, photo), and check timestamps
- Payment confirmation from Stripe (session, subscription, and customer ids). We do not store card numbers.
Two products
- Shopper watch — $29 CAD, 90 days: one URL, listing or search. Emails go to the address you entered. You cancel from the private dashboard link.
- Dealer watch — $79 CAD per month: 1–3 competitor lots (dealer page or a listing from that lot). We enumerate units on those lots. Billed by Stripe. Email and billing stay on the private dealer hub.
How we use it
To snapshot asking prices, enumerate competitor lots you submit, send price-drop, listing-gone, and weekday digest emails, show your dashboard or dealer hub, process payment, and run the hourly recheck job. We do not sell your data. We only fetch the pages you submit and the listing cards on those inventory pages.
Third parties
- Stripe — payment processing
- Resend — transactional email
- Vercel — hosting
- Neon — production database
Data retention
A shopper watch is scheduled to stay active for 90 days. A dealer watch stays active for the paid Stripe period. When a watch is past due, our job sets its status to expired. Cancelled and gone/sold watches are marked the same way.
We do not currently delete watch or hub rows after expiry. The record — email, URL, price history, and Stripe ids — stays in the database while the watch is active, expired, cancelled, or gone, until a deletion job exists. There is no automated 90-day-plus-30-day wipe today.
You can cancel alerts anytime from your dashboard or dealer hub link. To stop a monthly charge, use the Stripe customer portal on the hub. Email allenhormoz@gmail.com if you want a record removed.
Contact
Questions or deletion requests: allenhormoz@gmail.com.