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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 28 July 2026

Draft notice. This policy reflects how the product actually works, and the company and contact details below are complete. It has not yet been reviewed by a South African attorney, which should happen before the first paying customer — in particular the POPIA section 72 basis for transferring personal information to the European Union and the United Kingdom.

1. Who we are

Paperless Job Card is operated by PING NETWORKS (PTY) LTD, registration number 2025/399424/07, of 5 Drome Rd, Formain, Johannesburg, 2090, South Africa (“we”, “us”, “Paperless Job Card”). You can reach us at support@paperlessjobcard.com, or the company directly at info@pingnetworks.co.za.

2. What we collect

From your account: your name and email address.

From job cards created through the service: the client's name, phone number and site address; the client's email address if provided for sending a copy of the signed card; the device's location, captured only at the moment a signature is given or a photograph is attached, to evidence where the work was done and the card signed; photographs attached to the job; signatures, stored as vector path data rather than images; and an app-generated installation identifier (never a hardware identifier such as an IMEI or serial number).

3. Why we collect it

Solely to provide the job card service: creating and managing job cards, producing a signed PDF record of completed work, emailing that record to the client and to your company's own notification addresses when you turn that on, and applying your company's branding, tax and job-numbering configuration. We do not sell personal information, and we do not use it for advertising.

4. Our role under POPIA

If you use Paperless Job Card through a company account, that company is the responsible partyfor the personal information captured on its job cards (its clients' details), and we act as its operator— we process that information only on the company's instruction, and we maintain the security safeguards required by POPIA section 19. Our written commitments to each company as operator are set out in our Terms of Service.

5. Where your data is hosted

Your job card records, account details and authentication are held by Supabase in the European Union. The files attached to those records — photographs and company logos — are held separately, on servers operated by HostNS in the United Kingdom, reached through our own domain at files.paperlessjobcard.com.

Both involve transferring personal information out of South Africa, so our Terms of Service include your company's consent to that transfer, as POPIA section 72 requires. Whether either destination independently satisfies POPIA's adequacy requirement — rather than relying on consent alone — is one of the specific questions for attorney review noted above. Both the European Union and the United Kingdom have their own comprehensive data protection frameworks, but they are separate legal regimes and should be assessed separately rather than treated as one.

6. How long we keep it

Once both parties have signed a job card, it becomes an immutable business record. We retain signed job cards for five years, matching SARS's record-keeping requirement, even if the technician who created the card or the company that owns it later requests deletion — POPIA section 14(1) permits retention where required by law. Draft (unsigned) cards and accounts are deleted as described below.

7. Deleting your account

Every account has a Delete My Account option (Settings → Account in the mobile app, or Settings in the web console).

For a technician or supervisor: your access is revoked immediately and your name is removed from your profile. Job cards you already created or signed stay on your company's record, for the reason in section 6.

For a company admin: this begins deleting your entire company's account — all job cards, team members and settings — after a 30-day retention window, and revokes your own access immediately. Contact us within that window if you want to cancel the deletion.

8. Your rights

If your personal details appear on a job card as a client (not as an account holder), requests to access, correct or delete that information should go to the company that issued the job card — they are the responsible party for it. If you hold a Paperless Job Card account, use the deletion option above, or contact us directly at support@paperlessjobcard.com.

9. Security

All data in transit is encrypted (TLS). Job card records are scoped by Row Level Security policies enforced by the database itself, not just by application code — a company can only ever read its own records, regardless of what a client application requests.

Photographs and logos are held outside the database and are never publicly addressable. Each request for one is authorised on our server against the signed-in user's own company before a short-lived, single-file link is issued, and the storage host independently rejects any link whose contents do not belong to the company it was issued to. Guessing a file's address does not grant access to it.

10. Who else processes your data

Supabase (database and authentication), HostNS, engaged through our hosting provider DoxaHost (storage of photographs and company logos), and Resend (delivering the signed-card emails you or your company choose to send). Each processes data only as needed to provide their part of the service to us.

11. Children

Paperless Job Card is a business tool and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18.

12. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes materially, we'll update the date at the top and, for company admins, note it in the admin console.

13. Contact

Questions about this policy or a data subject request: support@paperlessjobcard.com.