Last Updated: September 2, 2026
InStore Group, LLC (“InStore Group,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide through InStoreVendor.com.
InStoreVendor.com helps individuals learn about and apply for independent merchandising and other retail-service opportunities with InStore Group. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect personal information when you visit the website, submit an application or intake form, communicate with us, complete onboarding, accept assignments, or otherwise participate in our vendor recruiting and management processes.
1. Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following categories of personal information.
Information You Provide
You may provide information directly to us, including:
- Name, email address, telephone number, and mailing address
- Date of birth and other identity-verification information
- Work history, experience, skills, qualifications, and availability
- Geographic location, preferred work area, and willingness to travel
- Driver’s license, vehicle, insurance, or transportation information when relevant to an opportunity
- Information provided during recruiting, screening, qualification, onboarding, scheduling, and assignment administration
- Tax identification, payment, and banking information needed to establish and pay approved vendors
- Information submitted through applications, DocuSign forms, and other onboarding documents
- Photographs, work documentation, project reports, and related assignment information
- Communications, questions, requests, feedback, and other information you choose to provide
- Consent and communication preferences, including whether you agree to receive SMS messages
Please provide sensitive personal information only when requested through an authorized and secure InStore Group process.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit InStoreVendor.com, we and our service providers may automatically collect information such as:
- IP address
- Browser and device type
- Operating system
- Referring and exit pages
- Pages viewed and links selected
- Date, time, and duration of visits
- General geographic location
- Cookie identifiers and similar technical information
We may collect this information through cookies, pixels, analytics tools, and similar technologies.
Information From Other Sources
We may receive information from recruiting and referral platforms, including platforms through which you apply for or learn about vendor opportunities. We may also receive information from clients, business partners, screening or verification providers, publicly available sources, and other third parties as permitted by law.
2. How We Use Information
We may use personal information to:
- Operate, maintain, secure, and improve InStoreVendor.com
- Receive and review vendor applications
- Connect individuals with potential merchandising and other retail-service opportunities
- Evaluate qualifications, experience, availability, geographic location, and suitability for vendor opportunities
- Conduct screening, verification, and onboarding
- Communicate about vendor opportunities, applications, onboarding, scheduling, projects, and assignments
- Match qualified vendors with available assignments
- Administer projects and confirm completion of assigned work
- Process payments and maintain tax and business records
- Provide vendor support
- Maintain records of consent and communication preferences
- Send administrative, operational, or vendor-related communications
- Improve our vendor recruiting, onboarding, and support services
- Detect and prevent fraud, misuse, security incidents, or unlawful activity
- Enforce our agreements and policies
- Comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal proceedings, and governmental requests
- Protect the rights, safety, and property of InStore Group, our clients, and others
- Carry out another purpose disclosed when the information is collected or with your consent
Submitting information or completing an application does not guarantee qualification, onboarding, engagement, or assignment of work.
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We and our service providers may use cookies, pixels, analytics tools, and similar technologies to:
- Operate and secure the website
- Remember user preferences
- Understand how visitors use the website
- Evaluate website and recruiting performance
- Improve the vendor application experience
You may adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Disabling cookies may affect the operation or availability of certain website features.
4. How We Disclose Information
We may disclose personal information to:
- InStore Group personnel who support vendor recruiting, qualification, onboarding, scheduling, project administration, payment, and vendor support
- Recruiting and referral platforms through which you apply for or learn about vendor opportunities
- Website hosting, electronic-signature, communications, screening, payment, analytics, project-management, and other technology service providers
- InStore Group clients when reasonably necessary to evaluate, coordinate, administer, document, or verify an assignment
- Professional advisers, including attorneys, accountants, auditors, and insurers
- Government agencies, regulators, courts, law-enforcement authorities, or other parties when required or permitted by law
- A buyer, successor, or other party involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar business transaction
- Other parties at your direction or with your consent
Service providers may access personal information only as reasonably necessary to provide services to InStore Group and are expected to handle that information appropriately.
We may also disclose aggregated or deidentified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
We do not sell personal information for money. We do not sell or share mobile numbers or SMS consent information with third parties or affiliates for their own marketing or promotional purposes.
5. Your Choices and Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights concerning your personal information, including the right to:
- Request access to personal information we maintain about you
- Request correction of inaccurate personal information
- Request deletion of certain personal information
- Obtain a portable copy of certain information
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Opt out of certain communications or uses of your information
- Appeal a decision concerning a privacy request
These rights may be subject to exceptions and limitations under applicable law.
To submit a privacy request, contact us at chat@instorevendor.com. We may need to verify your identity before completing the request. We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right.
Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by law, subject to identity and authorization verification.
Email Communications
You may unsubscribe from nonessential email communications by using the unsubscribe instructions included in the message. You may continue to receive necessary administrative, onboarding, assignment, payment, or other vendor-related communications.
Cookies
You may control cookies through your browser settings and any cookie-preference tools made available on the website.
6. SMS Communications
If you provide your mobile number and consent to receive SMS messages from InStore Group, we may send text messages related to job and independent vendor opportunities, applications, qualification, interviews, onboarding, scheduling, assignments, project updates, and other employment- or vendor-related communications.
Message frequency may vary. Message and data rates may apply. You can reply STOP to opt out or HELP for assistance.
We do not sell or share your mobile number or SMS consent information with third parties or affiliates for their own marketing or promotional purposes. SMS consent is optional and is not a condition of applying for or accepting employment or an independent vendor opportunity.
We may use communications service providers to transmit and administer SMS messages on our behalf. These providers may process mobile numbers, message content, and related technical information as necessary to deliver messages, maintain security, prevent fraud or abuse, and comply with applicable requirements.
After you submit an opt-out request, you may receive a final message confirming that you have been unsubscribed. If you later wish to receive SMS messages again, you must provide new consent.
7. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Evaluate and administer vendor applications
- Maintain vendor and assignment records
- Process and document payments
- Meet tax, accounting, contractual, and legal obligations
- Resolve disputes
- Enforce our agreements and policies
- Support other legitimate business needs
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.
8. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information.
However, no website, electronic transmission, or storage system is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. You are responsible for keeping your account credentials, links, and access information confidential.
9. Third-Party Websites and Services
The website and vendor process may include links to or integrations with independently operated third-party services, such as recruiting platforms, DocuSign, or other screening, verification, payment, and project-management providers.
This Privacy Policy does not govern independently operated third-party services. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before submitting personal information.
10. Children’s Privacy
InStoreVendor.com is intended for adults and is not directed to children under 18. We do not knowingly use this website to recruit or collect vendor applications from children.
If you believe a child has submitted personal information through the website, please contact us so we can review and address the matter.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. When changes are made, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
Material changes may also be communicated through the website or another appropriate method.
12. Contact Us
Questions or requests concerning this Privacy Policy may be directed to:
InStore Group, LLC
11325 N Community House Road, Suite 525
Charlotte, NC 28277
Phone: (877) 578-2170
Email: chat@instorevendor.com