Last updated: 2 September 2026. This policy covers the Trade Post app for
Reddit. It is not Reddit’s privacy policy. Reddit’s own policies apply to your
Reddit account and to everything you post publicly, and are separate from this.
Summary
Trade Post is a private workspace inside a subreddit. It holds a list of the things you have to trade, and the offers and trades you are in. Four things are true of all of it:- Storage is per subreddit. Trade Post’s storage is separate in every community it is installed in. Saving something in one subreddit does not carry it to another, and moderators of one subreddit cannot see another’s data.
- Almost everything has a deletion clock. Records expire automatically. The table below says when.
- Nothing is sold, shared with advertisers, or used to train anything.
- Trade Post does not store shipping addresses, payment handles, or phone numbers. There is nowhere in the app to save one. Traders exchange them in Reddit messages, which Trade Post never sees.
Who runs this
Trade Post is built and operated by Collin Makohon as an independent Reddit developer. It is not operated by Reddit. For a privacy question, a data request, or anything else in this policy, message u/cmakohon on Reddit.What Trade Post stores
Inventory
Photos are uploaded to Reddit’s own media hosting and Trade Post stores the resulting links. Items you have marked as traded may be removed sooner, depending on your subreddit’s settings.Listings, offers and trades
When you publish a listing or make an offer, that is a real Reddit post or comment, made under your own account. It is public, it is yours, and it is governed by Reddit’s policies rather than this one. Delete it on Reddit in the normal way. What Trade Post keeps alongside it is a working copy, so the app can render the list and run the trade.Negative records
Where a trade ends badly, because somebody backs out or goes silent, the app may keep a record of that single resolution, including the reason given. Moderators of that subreddit can see it. Whether these records are kept at all is a per-subreddit setting, and moderators can switch it off.Monthly wiki log
Trade Post writes a monthly summary of resolved trades to a moderators-only wiki page in the subreddit, so a community’s trade counts survive the app’s own storage expiring. It has no expiry, because it exists to outlast everything else, and it lives in the subreddit’s own wiki rather than in the app.Shipping and payment details
Trade Post does not store them. There is no field for a shipping address, a PayPal email, a Venmo or Zelle handle, or a phone number anywhere in the app. Traders exchange them directly. Message on a trade card opens Reddit’s own message composer, addressed to the other trader, with the listing title and a link to the negotiation thread already filled in. You write the rest and you send it from your own account. The message is an ordinary Reddit private message: it lives in your Reddit inbox, Reddit’s policies govern it, and Trade Post neither sees it nor keeps a copy of anything in it. Do not put card numbers, bank or routing numbers, or national ID numbers into Trade Post. There is nowhere in the app they would be used.An earlier version stored these
Until 2 September 2026, Trade Post let you save a shipping address and four payment handles and show them to one counterparty on a trade. That feature was removed after Reddit’s app review flagged it, and nothing in the app can read those records any more. Records saved before the removal delete themselves. Each carries a 90-day clock from the last time it was saved or shared, nothing restarts that clock now, and the storage Trade Post uses cannot be searched, so there is no list of them to work from. The last of them is gone 90 days after the removal. Deleting a Reddit account still erases any record belonging to it straight away.Technical records
Small operational records: whether a user is a moderator, where a background cleanup job has reached, locks that stop two jobs running at once.Reports
Reporting a listing or an offer stores nothing. The report is handed straight to Reddit and lands in the subreddit’s modqueue. It is filed by the Trade Post app account rather than as you, because Reddit gives an app no way to report on somebody’s behalf. Your username is not on the report and is not recorded anywhere, so the moderators who read it and the trader you reported cannot learn who sent it from Trade Post. The reason you picked is one of five fixed options and carries no text you wrote. A count of how many reports were filed, and whether each was for a post or a comment, goes into the app’s own logs. Neither carries a user ID.What Trade Post does not do
- No cookies, trackers, analytics, or advertising SDKs.
- No data sent to any third party. The app makes no outbound network requests at all; it talks only to Reddit.
- No reading of your Reddit activity outside the subreddits it is installed in, your private messages, your email address, or your location.
- No selling, licensing or sharing of data, and no use of it to train machine learning or AI models.
- No profiles and no inferences about you.
Your rights
Trade Post stores what it stores in order to provide the app you are choosing to use, and nothing beyond that. At any time you can:- See what is held about you. Your inventory and want list are visible in the app.
- Correct it. The same screens edit it.
- Delete it. Items and want lists are deleted in the app, and deleting your Reddit account triggers an automatic cleanup.
- Ask. Message u/cmakohon and a request will be answered within 30 days.
If you delete your Reddit account
Trade Post checks periodically for accounts that no longer exist and erases what it holds for them: your items and their index, your trade count, your want list, your negative records, your offer and trade indexes, and any details record left over from the removed feature described above. Two things survive:- Records of trades you were in. A trade and an offer name two people, and erasing one destroys the other person’s record of a commitment they made with you, including the evidence a moderator would need if it went wrong. These carry your Reddit user ID and no content of yours. They expire on their own, at 45 and 30 days.
- Lines in the monthly wiki log. They record that a trade happened and how it ended, and they live in the subreddit’s wiki rather than in the app.