Instawork: Be your own boss

"Depending on the Services You use and Your mobile application settings or device permissions, Instawork may collect Your precise or approximate location information, as determined through data such as GPS, IP address, and WiFi. Instawork collects location information when the mobile application is running in the foreground of Your device. Instawork may collect this information when the mobile application is running in the background of Your device if this collection is enabled through Your application settings or device permissions."

Instawork collects precise location data through GPS, IP, and WiFi, including background collection when enabled, and classifies precise geolocation as sensitive personal information that has been collected.

"If You permit Instawork or the Services to access the address book or contacts on Your device, we may collect names and contact information (including phone numbers, phone labels, email addresses, mailing addresses and birthdays) from Your address book to facilitate interactions through our Services. If You permit the Services to access the calendar on Your device, we may collect calendar information such as event title and description, Your response, date and time, location, and number of attendees."

Instawork requests access to the user's full address book and calendar, collecting third-party contact details and calendar event data that go well beyond what a shift-matching platform requires.

"We work with third-party partners to help us better advertise our Services. These partners collect personal information via cookies and similar technologies placed on our Services that allow them to deliver ads that are more relevant to You and analyze Your interactions with those ads. These cookies may be considered to be a "sale" of personal information or "sharing" or "processing" of personal information for "targeted advertising" purposes under state privacy laws."

Third-party advertising partners collect user data directly through cookies and similar technologies embedded in Instawork's services, enabling cross-context targeted advertising.

"Instawork reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time by posting such changes to this page. When any significant or material changes are made to this Privacy Policy, users will receive a notice on or through the Services for thirty (30) days before such changes take effect. If You continue to use the Services after the effective date of changes to this Privacy Policy, You will be considered to have agreed to and accepted the changes."

While Instawork provides 30-day notice for material changes, continued use of the service is treated as acceptance of the new terms, with the only alternative being to close your account or stop using the service.

"Please note that in certain circumstances, Instawork may not be able to completely remove all personal information about a particular user from its systems. For example, Instawork may retain personal information about a user for legitimate business purposes, if it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, for account recovery purposes, if required by law, or as retained in Instawork's data backup systems or cached or archived pages."

Instawork reserves broad rights to retain personal information even after a user requests deletion, including in backups, caches, and for vaguely defined 'legitimate business purposes' with no clear deletion timeline.

"We may use services provided by third-party platforms (such as social media and other websites) to serve targeted advertisements on such platforms to You or others, and we may provide a hashed version of Your email address or other information to the platform provider for such purposes. ... providers of third-party tools, services, APIs, SDKs and widgets, and advertisements, sponsorships and promotions in the Services may utilize cookies, web beacons and other mechanisms to collect information from You about Your use of the Services and other websites."

Instawork shares hashed email addresses with social media platforms for cross-platform ad targeting and allows third-party SDKs to track users across websites and services.

"Upon Your written request, Instawork will remove any of Your personal information in its possession and will cease using such personal information, subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the Terms. You may request access to and removal of such personal information by emailing us at privacy@instawork.com. Please note that in certain circumstances, Instawork may not be able to completely remove all personal information about a particular user from its systems."

Account and data deletion requires emailing support rather than a self-service option, and Instawork explicitly warns it may not fully delete all personal information even after a request.