Last updated September 2026
Data Privacy & Security Overview
Draft for review by King & Jurgens LLC. Final wording will be confirmed by counsel before launch.
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Data Privacy & Security Overview Architecture, Controls & Regulatory Position
LABAU Holdings, Inc. A Delaware Corporation
For investors, partners and counsel · Confidential · September 2026
Why This Document Exists LABAU serves approximately one thousand of the most privacy-sensitive individuals in New York City. Several are recognisable. For many of them, discretion is not a feature of the service — it is the reason they joined. That makes privacy an architectural requirement rather than a compliance exercise. The controls in this document were designed into the platform before it was built, and several of them constrain what LABAU is permitted to do commercially. STATUS LABAU is pre-launch. The controls described here are specified in the Platform
Technical Specification and are requirements on the build, not audited findings. Where a control is planned rather than implemented, this document says so.
The Four Principles P R I NCI P LE
WHAT IT MEANS I N P RA CTICE
Collect the minimum
LABAU holds member payment credentials for membership billing only. It never receives retail cardholder data, because members pay merchants directly on merchant systems.
Expose the minimum
A store associate sees a first name and a membership number. A driver sees the member’s name and destination but no telephone number, email, order history or profile — and is bound never to say the name aloud. A partner never sees a member’s profile.
Retain the minimum
Hotel guest data is deleted within 24 hours of checkout. Merchant devices cache nothing. Delivery addresses are decrypted only during an active delivery window.
Never monetise member data
LABAU runs no advertising and sells no data. Revenue is membership and partnership fees only. There is no commercial incentive to hold more than the service requires.
1 — What LABAU Holds DATA CATEGORY
HELD?
DETAIL
Member identity
Yes
Name, email, phone, delivery addresses, membership number
Member preferences
Yes
Style profile, sizes, favourite stores, pet profile, purchase and browse history
Membership payment
Tokenised
Card tokenised by the payment processor. LABAU stores a token, never
credential
only
a card number.
Retail payment data
No
Members pay merchants on merchant systems. No cardholder data for retail purchases ever reaches LABAU.
Private calendar events
Driver biometric data
Yes —
My Events entries are encrypted and are not accessible to LABAU staff
encrypted
or any partner.
No
Verification uses the device’s native biometric API. LABAU stores the verification result and metadata, never a biometric template or image.
Driver location
Yes
GPS at each chain-of-custody event, and live during an active delivery only.
Hotel guest data
Delivery photographs
Yes — 24
First name, room number, checkout time from the hotel PMS. Deleted
hours
within 24 hours of checkout.
Yes
Timestamped, GPS-stamped images at collection and delivery, forming the chain of custody record.
The single most important line above is retail payment data. Because members pay merchants directly, LABAU is never merchant of record for a retail sale and no retail cardholder data enters its systems. This materially reduces PCI scope, breach exposure and regulatory surface relative to any marketplace that custodies funds.
2 — Technical Controls 2.1 Encryption · TLS 1.3 in transit across all interfaces, API calls and device communication · AES-256 at rest for all stored member and partner data · Member delivery addresses encrypted at rest and decrypted only during an active delivery window · My Events entries encrypted with no staff or partner access path
2.2 Payment Security · All membership payment data tokenised by the payment processor. No raw card data on LABAU servers. · PCI DSS Level 1 compliance targeted across the platform, with a formal scope assessment forming part of the specialist payment engagement · 3D Secure required on all international cards; fraud detection configured for high-value transactions · Token portability required by design so processors can be changed without members re-entering payment information
2.3 Authentication & Access · Two-factor authentication required on the operations admin panel · Thirty-minute session timeout on administrative sessions · Role-based access control — CEO, Operations Manager and Read Only · Immutable audit log recording every administrative action permanently
2.4 Device Security · Every LABAU-managed device — merchant kiosk iPhones, in-room iPads — enrolled in Apple Business Manager and supervised before deployment · Single-app mode via mobile device management. Devices cannot reach any other application, browser or the internet. · Geo-lock on in-room iPads — non-functional outside the property · No member data cached on merchant devices. Kiosk authentication is always a live API call and the session auto-resets sixty seconds after dispatch.
· Merchant devices fail closed on loss of connectivity — no queued authentication, no cached records · Remote lock and wipe on any device from the admin panel; online and offline status visible in real time
2.5 Chain of Custody Every delivery creates a timestamped, GPS-stamped, photographically evidenced record from collection to delivery, with biometric driver verification at three moments. This is a security control as much as an operational one: it establishes who held an item at every point and makes unattributed handling impossible.
3 — Privacy by Design Several LABAU controls exist purely to protect member discretion, and they constrain the product rather than enable it.
CO NT ROL
PURPOSE
Member name never spoken at
A driver uses a room or unit number. Nothing identifies the member aloud in a
delivery
lobby or corridor.
First name only to store
A merchant kiosk shows a first name, a membership number and an active
associates
status. No address, no phone, no order history.
Double-bag protocol
Merchant packaging inside an unbranded LABAU bag. A delivery does not announce what it is or where it came from.
No price visible on gifts
Gift orders carry no pricing of any kind to the recipient.
Name never spoken aloud
A driver sees the member’s name in the app so they know who they are delivering to. It is never spoken aloud in a lobby, a corridor or at the door, and never disclosed to anyone.
Encrypted private calendar
My Events is inaccessible to LABAU staff. The AI acts on it; no person reads it.
Hotel guest deletion
All guest data purged within 24 hours of checkout, regardless of stay length.
No advertising, ever
LABAU has no ad platform, no tracking pixels for advertisers, and no commercial reason to profile members for third parties.
LABAU does not sell, rent, license or share member data with third parties for their own purposes. Member preference data is never shared with retail partners — a merchant learns that an order was placed, not who the member is or what else they buy. This is a permanent commitment and is reflected in the member-facing Privacy Policy.
4 — Regulatory Position The following are the regimes LABAU expects to engage with. Each should be confirmed in writing with King & Jurgens before launch; this section states the Company’s working position, not a legal opinion.
REGIME
LABAU POSITION
STATUS
New York biometric
Driver verification uses the device’s native biometric API. No
Confirm with counsel
privacy law
biometric template or image is transmitted to or stored on LABAU systems — only a pass or fail result and its metadata. Written driver consent is obtained at onboarding.
PCI DSS
Level 1 targeted. Because no retail cardholder data enters LABAU
In scope of specialist
systems, scope is limited to membership billing and driver gratuity.
work
A formal scope assessment is a deliverable of the specialist payment engagement. Money transmission
LABAU never receives, holds or disburses retail funds and is never
Written confirmation
merchant of record for a retail sale. The only funds handled are its
requested from counsel
own membership revenue and gratuity paid through payroll to drivers. State consumer privacy
LABAU operates in New York only through Year 5, but members
Confirm applicability
laws
may be residents of other states. The Privacy Policy is drafted to
with counsel
support access, deletion and opt-out rights regardless of residence. GDPR / UK GDPR
Not currently in scope — LABAU does not offer services in the EU
Out of scope through
or UK and does not monitor behaviour there. Would become
Year 5
material only on any expansion to London. Breach notification
New York requires notification of affected individuals and the
Plan to be written
Attorney General following a breach of private information. An incident response plan is required before launch.
5 — Third Parties & Open Items 5.1 Third-Party Processors Each of the following receives member or driver data in the course of providing its service. All operate under their own security programmes; LABAU should hold a current data processing agreement with each before launch.
PROVIDER
ROLE
DATA RECEIVED
Stripe
Membership billing, invoicing, driver
Payment credentials (tokenised), billing identity,
gratuity payouts
payout details
AWS
Platform hosting
All platform data, encrypted at rest
Apple Business Manager
Device management
Device identifiers and status; no member data
Starboard via Hire Society
Driver placement and screening
Driver identity and screening records
Ruby Receptionist
Member support line
Member contact details and enquiry content
Pilot
Payroll and bookkeeping
Employee payroll data (including drivers)
Hotel PMS vendors
Guest pass provisioning
Guest first name, room number, checkout time
5.2 Open Items Before Launch · Incident response and breach notification plan — to be written, with counsel · Data processing agreements executed with each processor listed above · PCI DSS scope assessment and Level 1 validation — within the specialist payment engagement · Written counsel confirmation on biometric consent, money transmission and state privacy law applicability · Data retention schedule formalised per data category, beyond the hotel guest 24-hour rule · Member-facing Privacy Policy and Terms of Service finalised by counsel and published before the first member joins · Third-party and open-source component register maintained from the first commit, per the CIIA · Penetration testing and UAT completed in the pre-launch hardening phase
Nothing in this document is a legal opinion or a compliance certification. It describes the architecture LABAU has specified and the positions it intends to take. Each should be confirmed by King & Jurgens LLC, and the security controls validated by testing, before the
platform handles live member data.
LABAU Holdings, Inc. · kristina@labauholdings.com · Confidential