Privacy Policy

MarketSpace is the online stall inquiry system of Julian Pastor Memorial Market (the Bagong Palengke), Barangay Cuta, Batangas City, Batangas. The market administration decides how the information described here is used.

The system was built as a capstone project for BS Information Technology at STI College Batangas and is operated for the market administration.

We collect only what the market office already keeps in order to let and manage stalls. Nothing here is gathered for advertising, and nothing is sold or shared for marketing.

• Your account. Email address, the display name you choose, and a password held by Google Firebase Authentication. We never see or store your password.
• Your stallholder record. Your Client ID, registered name, mobile number and email as entered by the market office, along with which stall you rent.
• Payment records. Official Receipt numbers, amounts, and the rent period each covers, recorded by a clerk after you pay.
• Online payment reports you submit. The amount, rent period, method, reference number, any note you write, and — if you choose to attach one — a screenshot of your transfer receipt.
• Messages. The subject and full text of inquiries you send to the market office, and their replies.

MarketSpace has no payment gateway and never handles money. We do not collect card numbers, bank account details or e-wallet credentials.

Rent is paid at the market office, or sent directly to the market’s own account. When you report an online payment here, you are telling the office it happened so a clerk can check it against the market’s own records — the transfer itself never passes through this system, and your report is not proof of payment until the office verifies it.

Stall availability is public on purpose. Anyone can see which stalls are vacant, occupied, and what the rate is — that is the whole reason this system exists, so an applicant does not have to travel to the office to ask.

Your identity is not part of that. Stallholder names, contact numbers and payment history are never shown publicly and are never attached to the stall information a visitor can see. A visitor looking at an occupied stall is told it is taken and nothing more — not even another stallholder can see who rents it.

Your own records are visible to you when signed in, and to the market administration. These limits are enforced on Google’s servers, not merely hidden in the page.

We use service providers to run the system. They process information on our instructions only:

• Google Firebase — authentication, database and website hosting. Records are stored in Google’s Southeast Asia region (Singapore).
• Cloudflare and Resend — used only to deliver invitation and password emails when the office sets up an account for you.

We do not use advertising or analytics trackers, and the site sets no advertising cookies. Signing in stores a session on your device so you stay signed in; clearing your browser data removes it.

Stallholder records and payment history are kept for as long as the market needs them as a record of tenancy and rent. When a vendor leaves, their record is archived rather than deleted, because the payment history is the market’s audit trail.

Messages cannot be edited or deleted once sent, by you or by the office. That is deliberate — it is what makes a conversation about a stall or a payment something both sides can rely on later.

We tell you this plainly because it limits what we can do with a request to erase your information, and you should know that before you ask rather than after.

Republic Act No. 10173, the Data Privacy Act of 2012, gives you the right to:

• be told what personal information we hold about you, and why;
• access it and be given a copy;
• have anything inaccurate corrected;
• object to how it is used, or ask that it be blocked or erased — subject to the record-keeping duties described above;
• be told if your information is ever compromised; and
• be compensated for damage caused by its misuse.

You can correct your own display name and mobile number yourself from the Settings page of your account. For anything else, ask the market office.

If you believe your rights have been violated, you may complain to the National Privacy Commission.

Accounts are protected by passwords held by Google Firebase Authentication, and every record in the system is protected by rules enforced on Google’s servers that decide what each signed-in person may read and write. Administrator access is limited to the market office.

Please keep your own password to yourself. If you think someone else knows it, change it from Settings and tell the market office.

MarketSpace is for stallholders and applicants doing business with the market. It is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

If how we handle your information changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top is updated. Continuing to use MarketSpace after a change means the current version applies to you.

Send a message through Chat Us and it goes straight to the market administration, or visit the market office in person at Julian Pastor Memorial Market, Barangay Cuta, Batangas City, Batangas.

See also our Terms & Conditions.