SlipTap helps you keep your shopping receipts digitally instead of on paper. We take your privacy seriously — it's the foundation of the product. This policy explains what personal information we collect, why, and the rights you have under the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
SlipTap is operated by SlipTap (Pty) Ltd (registration number 2026/593880/07), a company registered in South Africa. We are the "responsible party" for your personal information under POPIA. You can reach our Information Officer, Nathan Kleyn, at admin@sliptap.co.za.
Linking a card is optional. If you choose to, we ask only for the first 6 and last 4 digits of the card and its type — the same digits printed on your till slip — and use them only to match receipts from that card to your account. We never ask for or store your full card number, expiry date or CVV, we cannot charge your card, and linking has nothing to do with making a payment. Payments always stay between you, the merchant and their payment provider.
To give you the core service — saving your receipts and making them searchable, and the features built on top, like spending insights. We only use your information for the purposes you've agreed to.
We use anonymised, aggregated information — receipt data stripped of anything that could identify you and combined across many users — to understand shopping trends and improve SlipTap. Because this data can no longer be linked back to you, it is not personal information under POPIA and does not require separate consent. These insights never reveal any individual's activity, and we never share information that identifies you.
When you create your account you consent to us processing your personal information to provide the core service. That consent is specific — agreeing to the core service is not agreement to any future marketing, or to any use of information that identifies you for other purposes. If we ever introduce those, we'll ask for separate, clear consent, and you can decline without losing the core service. (This is separate from the anonymous, aggregated insights described above, which are not personal information.) We keep a record of what you agreed to and when.
Receipts can be valid tax records, so we retain them for up to 5 years in line with SARS requirements. Beyond that legal minimum, you can ask us to delete or de-identify your information at any time (see your rights below).
We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with the trusted service providers needed to run SlipTap, under appropriate safeguards. These providers process your information only on our instructions, under written data-processing agreements:
SlipTap is a South African company, but like most modern software we run on international cloud infrastructure. That means your personal information is stored and processed outside South Africa:
POPIA allows this where the information is protected by a binding agreement that upholds standards substantially similar to POPIA's. Each of our providers is bound by a written data-processing agreement including Standard Contractual Clauses to that effect, and the transfer is necessary for us to perform the service you signed up for. Your rights below apply to your information wherever it is held.
You can delete your account and personal information at any time — in the app under You → Delete account, or at sliptap.co.za/delete-account.
For any privacy request or question, contact our Information Officer at admin@sliptap.co.za. You may also lodge a complaint with the Information Regulator of South Africa (inforegulator.org.za).