Privacy & Location Policy

·When you post a dress find, you share: a photo, price, size, color, condition, source type, store or location name, and an address or general area.

·You can optionally add a designer name, retail price, silhouette, and a description or notes.

·Your display name is not shown on the pin publicly — only the store name and location are shown to other users.

·Location is used to place a pin on the map so other brides can find the dress.

·For public businesses (shops, boutiques, thrift stores), the exact address is shown on the map and in the listing. This is the same information the business makes publicly available.

·For private sellers, we never show the exact address to other users. Instead, we display a general area or neighborhood.

·We use coordinates only to position your pin on the map. We do not track your movements or sell location data.

·If you are selling a dress from your home or another private address, selecting "Private Seller" means your exact coordinates are randomly shifted by up to 0.5 miles before being shown on the map.

·This means other users can see the general area — like a neighborhood — but cannot determine your exact home address.

·The address you type into the location field is stored privately and is never shown to other users for private listings.

·Dress finds are visible to all GownScout users — including logged-out visitors who browse the map.

·Your email address and account details are never shown to other users.

·If you post a find at a public business, the business name and address are shown as you entered them.

·If you post a private listing, only an approximate area is shown — not your exact location or address.

·You can delete any dress find you posted by going to the listing's detail page and selecting "Delete" from the options.

·Once deleted, the listing is removed from the map immediately and cannot be recovered.

·If you want to remove a listing but prefer to keep it hidden temporarily, you can contact an admin to have it hidden instead of deleted.

·To delete your account entirely, contact us through the profile page.

·Any user can report a listing that appears fake, misleading, inaccurate, or inappropriate using the "Report" button on the listing.

·Listings that receive 3 or more "Sold / Gone" reports from different users are automatically marked as sold and hidden from the map.

·Listings with multiple other reports are hidden from regular browsing and placed in an admin review queue.

·Admins review all reports and may remove, hide, or restore listings based on community reports.