Charity Sausage — Privacy Policy Charity Sausage — Privacy PolicyLast updated: 24 August 2026
Charity Sausage is an app that connects charity sausage-sizzle operators, venues, and the community. It is operated by Charity Sausage Pty Ltd (ACN 701 009 583, ABN 42 701 009 583), referred to below as "we" or "us". This policy explains what information we collect, why, and what we do with it. We aim to collect the minimum we need to run the service.
Account details: your email address and password (stored as a secure hash — we never see your password), and the role you choose (consumer, operator, or venue).
Profile details you choose to add: display or organisation name, phone number, profile photo, venue address, ABN, and contact name.
Location: with your permission, and only while you're using the app. Two different things happen with it, and only one is written down.
Not stored — when you browse the map or look for sizzles near you, your position is used at that moment to sort venues by distance. It isn't recorded.
Stored — if you tap Check In at a sizzle, we save the coordinates your device reported, along with the sizzle and the time. We do this because checking in earns karma and counts toward a venue's impact figures, and it would mean nothing if anyone could claim one from home. Your check-in coordinates are visible only to you — operators and venues see a count ("12 people checked in"), never where anyone was. The app never asks for your location in the background.
Activity in the app: bookings, events, event check-ins, volunteer interest you submit, and the karma and badges you earn.
Reports: if you report someone for spam or bad behaviour, we record who reported whom and the reason, so we can act on it.
Payments: card payments are processed by Stripe. Card numbers never touch our systems — we store only transaction records (amount, time, event, payment method, and the items sold). Operators receiving payouts provide their details directly to Stripe.
Today, a purchase is linked to you only when you scan the receipt QR code. If we introduce automatic matching so you don't have to scan every time, it will work from an anonymised identifier supplied by Stripe — never your card number — and there will always be a switch in your profile to turn it off and unlink your cards, no questions asked.
Your data is processed by a small set of providers on our behalf: Supabase (database and authentication), Stripe (payments), Google (address search via Google Places), Resend (transactional email such as account confirmations), and Sentry (crash reports, configured to exclude personal information).
Some of these providers store or process data outside Australia.
We keep your information while your account is active. Transaction records may be retained as required for financial record-keeping.
You can delete your account any time from the Profile screen in the app (Profile → Delete my account). This is a real deletion, not a hidden flag: it removes your profile, your sizzles or venue, bookings, check-ins, claimed receipts and karma, any photos you uploaded, and the data the app stored on your own phone. For operators it also disconnects the payment account we hold a reference to.
The one thing that can survive is a completed sale. Those are the community group's financial records as much as yours, and where we have to keep them they are kept without your details attached. You can also email us at the address below and we'll do the deletion for you.
We handle personal information in accordance with the Australian Privacy Principles under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). You can ask us what information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or complain about how we've handled it — contact us below. If you're not satisfied with our response, you can contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (oaic.gov.au).
If we change this policy, we'll update this page and the date above.
Charity Sausage Pty Ltd (ACN 701 009 583, ABN 42 701 009 583)
Questions or requests: hello@charitysausage.com.au