Your location and privacy

What this covers

What an address you give EZHomesteading is used for, and who can see it: specifically, the difference between your search area and an address you give for a delivery order.

Your search area

Your search area is the home address or region you set to find nearby sellers. See Set up your search area. It only ranks and filters the market for you: which stores show up, and how close they are shown to be. A seller never sees this address. If you add a regular route to your search area, our server sends Google your home point and the places you add, so Google can draw the route. A seller cannot look up how many buyers are near them by address either: the most a seller can see is a count of buyers whose search area reaches their store, with no names or locations attached.

Your saved addresses

Addresses saved to your address book (see Your addresses) work the same way by default: they are yours, used to set your search area or to start a pickup route, and are not shared with anyone until you use one for something that requires it.

Delivery orders are different

Placing a delivery order requires an actual place to deliver to. The address you choose at checkout for a delivery order is stored with that order, separately from your search area, and is available to the seller fulfilling that specific order, because they need it to complete the delivery. It is not shared with any other seller, and it is not added to your search area or used to rank anything.

A pickup order works the other way around: you go to the seller's own location, which is already public, so no address of yours is attached to a pickup order at all.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated as the marketplace changes. The date at the top is when it was last revised.