PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: May 1, 2026
Last Updated: August 11, 2026


This Privacy Policy describes how Grinbuck Technologies Inc. ("Grinbuck," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, discloses, and protects the personal information of users ("you" or "your") of 'tabMonk' (the "Service"), available at tabmonk.com.

Grinbuck is incorporated and operates in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. This Privacy Policy is designed primarily to comply with the Personal Information Protection Act (British Columbia) ("BC PIPA"), the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (Canada) ("PIPEDA"), and other applicable Canadian privacy laws. The Service accepts users from countries outside Canada. Where the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") or the UK GDPR applies to our processing of your personal information, Section 10 describes our current practices for those users. We do not claim compliance with privacy regimes that do not currently apply to Grinbuck based on revenue or other statutory thresholds (for example, the California Consumer Privacy Act).


1. ACCOUNTABILITY

Grinbuck Technologies Inc. is responsible for the personal information under its control. The person with overall accountability for Grinbuck's compliance with this Privacy Policy and applicable privacy legislation is:

Privacy Officer
Grinbuck Technologies Inc.
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Email: legal@tabmonk.com

Questions, concerns, access requests, and complaints regarding personal information should be directed to the Privacy Officer at the contact information above.


2. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We collect the following categories of personal information:

2.1 ACCOUNT INFORMATION

  • Full name and email address (obtained from your Google account upon sign-in via Google OAuth)
  • Profile photo URL (obtained from your Google account, optional)

2.2 BUSINESS AND PROFILE INFORMATION

  • Business or individual legal name and incorporation or registration number (where applicable)
  • Entity kind and, for businesses, entity type
  • Country of operation or residence
  • Province or territory (for Canadian profiles) or state, region, or subdivision (for profiles outside Canada), where provided
  • Currency selected or defaulted for recording financial activity in the Service
  • Timezone (detected from your browser where available)
  • Incorporation or registration date (where applicable)
  • Fiscal year end date
  • GST/HST or GST registration status, registration number, and reporting period (if provided; offered for Canada and certain other countries where GST settings appear in the Service)
  • PST registration status and PST number (if provided; Canadian businesses)
  • CRA business number (if provided; Canadian businesses)
  • Business address, phone number, website, and contact email (if provided)

2.3 FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL DATA

  • Expense records including date, amount, vendor, category, and optional notes
  • Receipt images uploaded by you (stored in Supabase Storage, Canada region)
  • Income records including date, amount, source, category, and optional notes, and any income attachments you upload
  • Invoice and quotation data including line items, amounts, tax lines, and status
  • Client records including name, email, phone, address, and notes
  • Filing status records you create or update within the Service
  • Dates and timestamps of your interactions with the Service

2.4 PAYMENT INFORMATION

  • Subscription plan and billing status
  • Stripe customer ID and subscription ID
  • We do not store credit card numbers or full payment card details. Payment processing is handled entirely by Stripe, Inc.

2.5 CLIENT DATA YOU ENTER

  • When you add clients to the Service, you provide us with personal information about those individuals or businesses (name, email, phone, address). You are responsible for ensuring you have the appropriate authority or consent to enter that information into the Service.

2.6 TECHNICAL DATA

  • IP address and browser information (collected by our hosting provider, Vercel)
  • Cookies and session tokens necessary to maintain your authenticated session

We collect only the minimum personal information necessary to provide the Service.


3. HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect personal information:

  • Directly from you when you create an account, complete the onboarding process (including country, currency, and regional information), log expenses or income, create invoices or quotes, or add clients
  • Automatically through your use of the Service (session data, technical data)
  • From Google, via OAuth authentication, at the time of sign-in
  • From OrgBook BC, a publicly available provincial registry, when you search for your business during onboarding (BC businesses only). You may also choose to enter business details manually.

4. PURPOSES FOR COLLECTION, USE, AND DISCLOSURE

We collect, use, and disclose your personal information only for the following purposes:

4.1 To provide the Service, including invoicing and quotations, expense and income tracking, client management, subscription management, and, where applicable, computing and displaying estimated filing deadline dates.

4.2 To send you email reminders before estimated filing deadlines and invoice due dates (Pro subscribers only, and only where those features apply to your account).

4.3 To deliver invoices and quotations to your clients on your behalf via email, using the client email addresses you provide.

4.4 To send you owner copies of invoices and quotations you send through the Service.

4.5 To process and manage your subscription and payments through Stripe, including any tax calculation Stripe performs as part of checkout.

4.6 To communicate with you regarding your account, changes to the Service, or updates to these policies.

4.7 To maintain the security and integrity of the Service.

4.8 To comply with applicable legal obligations.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties. We do not use your personal information for advertising or marketing purposes beyond communicating about your own account and the Service you use.


5. DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES

We disclose personal information only to the following categories of third parties, and only to the extent necessary to provide the Service:

5.1 SUPABASE INC. — Our database, authentication, and file storage infrastructure provider. Your data, including uploaded receipt and income attachment images and generated PDF files, is stored in a Supabase-managed PostgreSQL database and Supabase Storage in the Canada (Central) region (ca-central-1). Supabase acts as a data processor on our behalf. Data stored with Supabase remains within Canada.

5.2 VERCEL INC. — Our hosting and deployment provider. Your requests to the Service are processed through Vercel's infrastructure. Vercel may process certain technical data (including IP addresses) in the United States. Vercel maintains SOC 2 Type II certification and appropriate data processing agreements.

5.3 STRIPE INC. — Our payment processor. When you subscribe to a paid plan, your payment information is processed by Stripe. Stripe may also calculate tax as part of checkout. Stripe processes data in the United States. Stripe maintains PCI DSS Level 1 certification. We share your email address and a Stripe customer identifier with Stripe solely for payment processing and related tax calculation purposes.

5.4 RESEND INC. — Our transactional email provider. Your email address, and the email addresses of clients you add to the Service, are shared with Resend for the purpose of delivering transactional emails. These include: filing deadline reminders (Pro subscribers only, where applicable), invoice and quotation emails sent to your clients, owner copies of sent documents, and account notifications. Resend processes data in the United States.

5.5 GOOGLE LLC — Authentication is handled via Google OAuth. We do not control Google's data practices. Your use of Google Sign-In is subject to Google's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

5.6 LAW ENFORCEMENT AND LEGAL PROCESS. We may disclose your personal information only when required to do so by applicable law, or in response to a valid court order, warrant, or other legally binding process. We will not disclose personal information based solely on our own judgment that disclosure would be useful or appropriate.

We do not disclose personal information to any other third parties.


6. CROSS-BORDER TRANSFERS

Grinbuck is established in Canada and may collect and hold personal information of users located in Canada and in other countries. Your personal information is primarily stored in Canada with Supabase. Some of our third-party service providers (including Vercel, Stripe, and Resend) process personal information outside Canada, primarily in the United States.

When personal information is transferred outside Canada, or when we hold personal information of individuals located outside Canada, we take steps to ensure that it receives a comparable level of protection through contractual safeguards with our service providers and through the technical and organizational measures described in this Policy. We do not claim to have implemented formal EU Standard Contractual Clauses or to have appointed an EU or UK representative unless and until we do so and update this Policy.

By using the Service, you acknowledge that your personal information may be transferred to, stored in, and processed in Canada and in other countries (including the United States), which may have privacy laws different from those in your country of residence.


7. DATA RETENTION

We retain your personal information for as long as your account remains active and as necessary to provide the Service. If you close your account:

  • Your personal information will be deleted or anonymized within 90 days of account closure, subject to any legal obligations requiring longer retention.
  • Business profiles, expense and income records, invoice and quotation data, client records, receipt and attachment images, and filing records will be deleted as part of account closure.
  • We may retain certain information for longer periods where required by applicable law (for example, payment transaction records).

You may request deletion of your personal information at any time by contacting our Privacy Officer at legal@tabmonk.com.


8. SAFEGUARDS

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction, including:

  • All data transmitted to and from the Service is encrypted in transit using TLS
  • Data at rest in our database and file storage is encrypted by our database and storage provider (Supabase) using their default infrastructure encryption
  • Authentication is handled via Google OAuth — we do not store passwords
  • Access to production database credentials is restricted to authorized personnel only
  • Row-Level Security (RLS) is enforced at the database level so that authenticated users can only access data they are authorized to access for their account
  • Receipt images, income attachments, and PDF files are stored in private storage buckets. Direct bucket access is restricted by storage policies to the uploading account owner. Invoice and quotation PDFs may additionally be accessed by intended recipients through time-limited signed links or client view links that you send
  • Subscription and payment data is written only by server-side processes using restricted access keys

No security measures are perfect. In the event of a security breach that creates a real risk of significant harm to you, we will notify you and the applicable privacy regulator as required by law.


9. YOUR RIGHTS

Under BC PIPA and PIPEDA, and as a matter of practice for all users regardless of location, you have the following rights with respect to your personal information:

9.1 RIGHT OF ACCESS. You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you. We will respond to access requests within 30 days.

9.2 RIGHT TO CORRECTION. You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you.

9.3 RIGHT TO WITHDRAW CONSENT. You may withdraw your consent to our collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information at any time, subject to legal and contractual restrictions. Withdrawal of consent may result in termination of your ability to use the Service.

9.4 RIGHT TO DELETION. You may request deletion of your personal information as described in Section 7.

9.5 RIGHT TO COMPLAIN. You have the right to file a complaint with the applicable privacy regulator:

  • British Columbia: Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for BC (oipc.bc.ca)
  • Federal (Canada): Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (priv.gc.ca)

Users in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom should also see Section 10 regarding additional information under the GDPR and UK GDPR.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact our Privacy Officer at legal@tabmonk.com. We will acknowledge your request promptly and respond within 30 days.


10. INTERNATIONAL USERS — EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA AND UNITED KINGDOM

Grinbuck is not established in the European Union, the European Economic Area ("EEA"), or the United Kingdom. The Service is nonetheless available to users located in those regions. Where the GDPR or the UK GDPR applies to our processing of personal information of individuals in the EEA or UK (for example, because we offer the Service to such individuals), the following additional information applies.

Legal bases. We process personal information as necessary to perform our contract with you (to provide the Service you request), and, where we rely on consent (for example, for certain optional communications or settings), on the basis of that consent. You may withdraw consent where processing is consent-based without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.

Your rights in practice. We extend the same core rights described in Section 9 — access, correction, deletion, and withdrawal of consent — to EEA and UK users. To exercise these rights, contact legal@tabmonk.com.

Complaints. Subject to applicable law, you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in the EEA Member State or UK country where you live, work, or where an alleged infringement occurred.

Scope of this section. This section describes our current practices for international users. Grinbuck has not appointed an EU or UK representative, does not operate a dedicated EU market program, and does not claim a full GDPR compliance program (such as formal DPIAs or Standard Contractual Clauses) beyond the practices described in this Policy. If our practices change, we will update this Policy.


11. COOKIES AND SESSION TOKENS

The Service uses cookies and session tokens solely to maintain your authenticated session. We do not use tracking cookies, advertising cookies, or analytics cookies. We do not use third-party advertising networks.

The session cookies used by the Service are necessary for the Service to function. By using the Service, you consent to the use of these essential cookies.

The Service may also store small amounts of data in your browser's local storage to remember functional preferences (for example, which business profile is active and certain UI display preferences). We do not use local storage for advertising or cross-site tracking.


12. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

The Service is not directed at individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors. If we become aware that personal information has been collected from a minor, we will delete it promptly.


13. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable law. Updated policies will be posted to the Service with a revised "Last Updated" date. Your continued use of the Service after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy. We will make reasonable efforts to notify you of material changes by email.


14. CONTACT US

For questions, concerns, access requests, or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact:

Privacy Officer
Grinbuck Technologies Inc.
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Email: legal@tabmonk.com

We will acknowledge your inquiry promptly and respond within 30 days.