Last updated October 19, 2026
Agent Privacy Policy
This policy explains how SpyRecruiter (operated by Undercover Shopper) handles personal information of mystery-shopping agents on spyrecruiter.com. We comply with PIPEDA and applicable provincial privacy law.
1. What we collect
- Name, email, mobile phone, and home postal code (for matching to nearby shops).
- Approximate latitude/longitude derived from your postal code.
- Mission reports you submit: structured responses, narrative text, photos with EXIF metadata (GPS, timestamp, camera make and model), reimbursement receipts, and field-level entry timestamps for fraud review.
- Stripe Connect onboarding data (legal name, government ID verification, bank routing) — held by Stripe under their privacy policy.
- Ratings you give us: the 1 to 5 score and any comment you add when we ask how working with us went.
- Standard server logs (IP, user-agent, timestamps).
2. How we use it
- To match you with nearby missions and notify you by SMS and email.
- To pay you out via Stripe Connect after a mission report clears QA.
- To meet our legal obligations — in particular, to report payments to the Canada Revenue Agency on a T4A slip when annual earnings warrant it.
- To maintain a quality-assurance trail (photo metadata, form timing) so we can investigate fraud or inaccuracy.
- To detect and prevent abuse of the platform.
- To publish the ratings you give us, as the rating page says before you submit: your score, your comment, the month, and your first name and last initial appear on spyrecruiter.com/reviews and our homepage. Ratings given before October 19, 2026 are shown without your name or comment. To have yours taken down, email us (section 9).
3. Who we share it with
- Stripe Inc. — Connect payouts.
- Resend, Twilio, Mapbox, Cloudflare, Turso, Vercel — the same service providers used to run the platform.
- Customers (business owners): only see the structured report and photos. They do not see your name, email, phone, or address.
- Canada Revenue Agency: when total annual payouts to you require us to issue a T4A.
- The public: the ratings you choose to give us, with your first name and last initial (section 2). Nothing else about you is published.
4. Retention
- Active agent records: while your account is active.
- Tax records (T4A obligation): we retain payout-related information — legal name, payout method, and transaction records — for six years from the end of the relevant tax year, as required by the CRA, even after you delete your account.
- Deleted accounts: name, email, and phone are scrubbed; a one-way salted hash is kept for fraud prevention. Mission report records are kept (anonymized to a deleted-shopper id) so customer archives remain consistent.
5. Photo metadata + fraud signals
Photos uploaded as evidence are automatically parsed for EXIF GPS, timestamp, and camera information. We compare the GPS to the shop location and flag mismatches for QA. Field-level timestamps and paste attempts in narrative answers are also retained as fraud-prevention telemetry.
6. Your rights
You may request access, correction, or deletion of your personal information at any time. Self-service deletion is available from your profile page. Some information must be retained for tax and audit reasons; we will tell you what is being kept and why.
7. Security
TLS in transit, hashed magic-link tokens, hashed session IDs, encryption at rest via our hosting providers, least-privilege access for our small team. Photos are stored in Cloudflare R2 with time-limited presigned URLs.
8. Cookies and analytics
A first-party session cookie keeps you signed in. We use Google Analytics 4 for aggregate traffic measurement, which sets its own cookies and processes pseudonymous identifiers. We do not run third-party advertising trackers. You can opt out of Google Analytics with the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
9. Contact
Privacy questions: privacy@spyrecruiter.com. Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: priv.gc.ca.