Privacy Policy

Effective November 7, 2026. Last updated November 7, 2026.

This Privacy Policy explains what personal information Defender Nation, Inc. ("WeedWayz", "we") collects through the WeedWayz website and apps, how we use and disclose it, and the choices and rights you have. WeedWayz is for adults 21+ in the United States.

1. Information we collect

Information you give us

Shopper account: email, password (stored only as a salted hash), and optional name, phone and state; your confirmation that you are 21+.
Business and advertiser accounts: name, company, email, phone, listings you manage, state license numbers, claim documents you upload, invoices and payments, and the bank or Zelle remittance details you add (stored encrypted). We do not store card numbers.
What you send: messages to businesses, reviews, reports, support requests and business inquiries.
Helper chats: what you ask the WeedWayz helper. Chats are kept on your account only if you turn on "Helper memory".

Information collected when you use WeedWayz

Activity: searches (the words, city/state and category, and how many results came back), stores you save, follow or add to your shortlist, check-ins (we keep only the store and the day), and buttons you tap on listings and ads. If you are signed in and personalization is on, your searches are linked to your account; otherwise they are not.
Usage analytics: event records (for example "viewed listing", "tapped call") with the listing, category, city/state and app platform. These are pseudonymous: instead of your name, email or IP address we store a one-way, salted code made from your account ID (or, if you are not signed in, from your IP address and browser type). Analytics events are deleted after 25 months.
Device and log data: IP address, browser or device type, and pages requested, kept in our hosting provider's security logs to keep the Service secure.
Cookies and local storage: used for the age check, staying signed in, remembering your city or ZIP, closing the banner, and remembering that you chose to share your location. We don't use third-party advertising cookies.

Location

We use your device's location only after you tap "Use my location", "Near me" or "Check in" and allow it on your device. On the website, coordinates for nearby results are rounded to about half a mile before they are sent; for a check-in, and in the apps, the device location is sent for that one request. We use it to show nearby businesses or confirm a check-in, and we do not save those coordinates on your account. You can always type a city or ZIP instead, and you can turn location off in your device settings.

Information from other sources: public state license records and OpenStreetMap for listings; information businesses publish on their own websites and social pages; and, if you choose "Sign in with Google" or "Sign in with Apple", your name and email from that provider.

Sensitive information: we don't ask for health conditions, diagnoses or medical card numbers, and please don't put them in reviews, messages or helper chats. Precise location is used only as described above.

2. How we use information

To provide the Service: show listings and maps, run accounts, deliver your messages to the business you chose, moderate reviews, and provide support.
To personalize: "Picked for you", helper suggestions and sponsored picks based on your saved stores, shortlist and helper searches. You agree to this in the Terms when you create an account and can turn it off anytime (Washington, Nevada and Connecticut residents, and anyone who doesn't give a state, are asked separately first). With personalization off, or with Global Privacy Control on, sponsored picks are contextual: chosen only from what you are searching for right now.
To show ads: shoppers 21+ see a small number of ads, always labeled Sponsored, only where that advertising is legal. When personalization is off (you turned it off or tapped "Deny data use", your state needs an opt-in you have not given, or your browser sends Global Privacy Control), ads are contextual: chosen only from what you are searching for right now (state, city, category) and our own listing data, never from your history or profile.
To improve WeedWayz: understand in aggregate how people use it, fix problems, and find businesses people search for that aren't listed yet, so we can invite them to join (we use the search words, not who searched).
To market: email shoppers about deals and news only if you opt in, and contact businesses about WeedWayz plans and services.
To bill business customers, prevent fraud and abuse, keep the Service secure, and meet legal obligations.
To give businesses and advertisers aggregate counts (views, taps, impressions). They never receive your name, email or phone from us unless you send it to them yourself.

3. How we disclose information

Businesses you contact: messages go only to the business you chose.
Service providers that process data for us under contract: cloud hosting and database (DigitalOcean, United States), email delivery (Resend), AI text generation for the helper and business tools (Cloudflare Workers AI; email addresses and phone numbers are removed before text is sent), map tiles (OpenStreetMap, which receives your IP address), and, for business billing, the bank or payment processor the business pays through.
Legal and safety: when required by law or to protect rights, safety and the Service.
Business transfer: if WeedWayz is involved in a merger, acquisition or sale of assets, subject to this policy.
With your direction or consent.

4. Advertising and privacy

WeedWayz does not currently sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. Before changing this practice, we will update this notice and provide any notices, choices and consent required by law. We do not use third-party advertising or analytics trackers. Privacy Choices lets you opt out of sale, sharing and targeted advertising, including future sales.

AI: We use large language models to generate helper answers and business drafts. We do not collect, use or sell personal information to train large language models ourselves. Prompts are processed by the AI service provider described in section 3 for generation; do not include private health or identifying details.

5. Your choices

Personalization: on or off anytime in Account → Privacy & consent.
Deny data use: one tap turns off personalization and helper memory, erases what the helper remembers, and records a privacy opt-out. We keep only what is needed to run your account (sign-in, age check, security and legal records).
Opt out: use Privacy Choices in every page footer, with or without an account, to opt out of sale, sharing or targeted advertising. No account or email is needed for a browser-only choice.
Global Privacy Control: if your browser sends GPC, we treat it as an opt-out of personalization for that visit and of any sale or sharing.
Marketing email: off unless you opt in; every email has a one-click unsubscribe link.
Location: only when you tap and allow it; you can type a city or ZIP instead.
Delete: Account → Delete my account (also in the app), or Delete my data without an account. Business owners: Dashboard → Account → Delete my account; listings return to free, unowned listings, and invoices are kept only as long as tax law requires.

6. Your privacy rights

Depending on where you live (including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and other states with privacy laws), you may have the right to: know and access the personal information we have about you and get a copy; correct it; delete it; opt out of sale, sharing, targeted advertising and profiling; and limit the use of sensitive information. You can use most of these yourself in your account. For anything else, email support@weedwayz.com with the subject "Privacy request". We verify access, correction and deletion requests where required (usually by confirming control of your account email); browser opt-outs do not require account verification. We will respond within 45 days. You may use an authorized agent where your state allows it. We will not discriminate against you for using your rights. If we deny your request, you can appeal by replying to our answer with the subject "Privacy appeal"; we will respond within the time your state's law requires, and if you are not satisfied you may contact your state attorney general.

7. Consumer health data (Washington, Nevada and Connecticut)

Some state laws treat information that could reveal health-related choices as "consumer health data". On WeedWayz, the searches, saved stores and check-ins described above could be read that way (for example, searches for medical dispensaries). We collect this only to provide the feature you asked for, and we use it for personalization only after you give a separate yes. We do not sell it, and we share it only with the service providers listed above. You can access, delete or withdraw consent at any time as described in sections 5 and 6. See our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy.

8. California notice

In the past 12 months we collected these categories: identifiers (name, email, phone, account ID, IP address); customer records (business billing records); commercial information (plans and ads bought by businesses); internet activity (searches, pages and taps on WeedWayz); geolocation (only when you allow it, not stored); inferences (the store categories you seem to prefer, used for personalization); and professional information (business role and license numbers for business accounts). We use them for the purposes in section 2 and disclose them only as in section 3. We do not sell or share them, and we do not use sensitive personal information to infer characteristics about you. We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing (California "Shine the Light").

9. Keeping your information

We keep account information until you delete the account, analytics events for up to 25 months, billing and tax records as long as the law requires, and security logs for a short period set by our hosting provider. When information is no longer needed we delete or de-identify it.

10. Security

We use encryption in transit, hashed passwords, encrypted payment remittance details, role-based staff access (two-step sign-in available for staff), and logged staff exports. No method is perfectly secure, so please use a strong, unique password.

11. Age limit

WeedWayz is only for adults 21 and older. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 21; if we learn we have, we delete it.

12. Changes

We will post any change here with a new date. If a change is material (for example, if we ever want to offer sharing with partners), we will tell account holders by email or in the app before it takes effect and ask for consent where the law requires it.

13. Contact

support@weedwayz.com · Defender Nation, Inc., 2376 E Sooner Road, Blanchard, OK 73010