Last update: April 18, 2018
Privacy Policy
Parqyt, Inc. (“we”, “us”, or “Parqyt”) is concerned about privacy
issues and want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose
information. This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection
with information that we collect through the Parqyt application (the
“App”), our website, our social media pages, as
well as
1.Acceptance of terms. Your use of the Platform, signifies that you agree with all the terms of this Privacy Policy, so please do not use the Platform, if you disagree with any part of this
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2.Personal Information. We automatically track
certain basic information about our users and their
●your email;
●your first and last name;
●your telephone number;
●gender;
●birth date;
●additional information shared by you;
●a password selected by you;
●credit/debit card information;
Your credit or debit card information will be transferred to a third party credit or debit card processor that processes payments for us. To keep your credit/debit card information safe and secure, we do not store full credit/debit card information on our servers.
If you decide to sign up for a User Account using your Facebook account, we may also obtain basic information from your Facebook profile such as your name, gender, profile photo, and Facebook friends.
3.Other Information. We may collect additional information. This may include:
●location information;
●contacts from your device’s phonebook (with your consent);
●images and details from your device’s camera and photos (with your consent);
●any message(s) you send to us;
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●information we receive from other members or third parties regarding your activities or postings on or through the Platform;
●information we receive from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms; from people with whom you are connected on social media platforms; or information from other third parties.
4.Third Party Partners. We currently contract with online partners to help manage and optimize our business and communications. For example, we use the services of App analytics partners to help us measure the effectiveness of our advertising, and how visitors use the App. We may receive additional information about you, such as demographic data, payment information, or fraud detection information, from third party partners and we may combine this data with other information that we have obtained about you.
5.Use of personal information. We use the information we collect about you:
●To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests;
●To keep a record of your contact information and correspondence, and use it to respond to you, if you contact us through the Platform;
●To send administrative information, such as information regarding the Platform and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies;
●To allow you to send
●For our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, enhancing, improving or modifying our Platform, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and operating and expanding our business activities;
●As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce Platform’s Terms of Use; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain;
●To create a better, more personalized experience for you based on your individual usage habits, improve our marketing and promotional efforts, analyze Platform usage, and customize our Platform's content and layout in order to better meet your needs;
●To use for promotional, sales or any use that we consider appropriate, your correspondence with us, or photographs submitted for publication on or through the Platform;
●To send you text messages and push notifications;
●Facilitate transactions and payments.
6.Disclosure of personal information. We may disclose the information we collect about you:
●To our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, consistent with our goal of providing the highest level of service;
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●To our
●To identify you to anyone to whom you send messages through the Platform;
●To complete the registration process and create or maintain your account. This may include information posted by you on the Platform or provided by you through registration process. Please note that any information you post or disclose through the Platform will become public information, and may be available to us, to users of the Platform, and to the general public. We urge you to be careful when deciding to disclose your personal and other information on the Platform;
●To a third party (whether affiliated or unaffiliated with us) in the event of a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or membership interest (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings);
●As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce the Platform’s Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others;
(g)to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we
may sustain; and (h) to respond to claims that any posting or other
content on our Platform violates the rights of third parties,
including without limitation providing information necessary to
satisfy the notice and
●To a third party to facilitate payment and settlement of transactions.
7.Collection of personal information and Other Information. We and our third party service providers may collect information about you in a variety of ways, including:
●Through your browser or device: Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type, screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, Internet browser type and version, and the name and version of the Platform you are using. We use this information to ensure that the Platform functions properly;
●Cookies: Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the device that you are using. We may use cookies in connection with the Platform to enhance the performance of the App on your device, and from time to time for other purposes;
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●Pixel tags and other similar technologies: Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used in connection with the Platform to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Platform (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about usage of the Platform and response rates;
●IP Address: your "IP Address" is a number that is automatically assigned to the device that you are using by your Internet Service Provider (ISP). An IP Address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user accesses the Platform, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. Collecting IP Addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many websites and applications. We use IP Address for purposes such as calculating usage levels of the Platform, helping diagnose server problems, and administering the Platform;
●Voluntary information provided by you: information that you voluntarily provide, such as your location and preferred means of communication. Unless combined with personal information, this information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Platform;
●Aggregated information: we may aggregate your information with information of other users. Aggregated personal information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Platform;
8.Use and Disclosure of Other Information. Please note that we may use and disclose other information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. If we are required to treat other information as personal information under applicable law, then we may use it as described in Section 5, as well as for all the purposes for which we use and disclose personal information. In some instances, we may combine personal information and other information (such as combining your name with your geographical location). If we combine any personal information and other information, the combined information will be treated by us as personal information as long as it is combined. We use and disclose your location to match drivers and riders, to determine pick up and drop off locations, and to help protect the User or a member of the public.
9.Sharing information between Riders and Drivers. Riders and Drivers are able to see basic information about each
other, such as names, photo, ratings, and any information they have
added to their profiles. Riders and Drivers who connect their User
accounts to Facebook will also be able to see their mutual Facebook
friends during the ride. Drivers see the
10.Location information. While you can prevent your device from sharing location information at any time through your Device’s operating system settings, Rider and Driver location is core to the Platform and without it we cannot provide our Services to you.
11.Payment information. All payments are
facilitated through a
12.Third party services. This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party
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operating any site, application or service to which the Platform link. The inclusion of a link on the Platform does not imply endorsement of the linked site, application or service by us or by our affiliates. Please note that we are not responsible for the collection, usage, and disclosure policies or practices (including the data security practices) of other organizations, including without limitation any application provider, social media platform, or wireless service provider, nor are we responsible for any personal information that you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with the Platform.
13.Security. We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect your personal information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your account has been compromised or that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance with the Section 24 of this Privacy Policy.
14.Your choice regarding our use of your personal information for
marketing purposes. If you no longer want to receive
15.How you can change or suppress your personal information. You may request to correct, update, suppress, or otherwise modify any of your personal information that you have previously provided to us through the Platform, or object to the use or processing of such personal information by us. In your request, please make clear what personal information you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have your personal information that you have provided to us suppressed from our database or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of your personal information that you have provided to us. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the personal information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes, and there may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which will not be removed.
16.Retention period. We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. We will retain in our files information you may have requested us to remove if, in our discretion, retention of the information is necessary to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems or to enforce the Terms of Use. Furthermore, your information is never completely removed from our databases due to technical and legal constraints (for example, we will not remove your information from our back up storage).
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17.Use of electronic communication by minors. The Platform is not directed to individuals under the age of thirteen (18), and we request that these individuals not provide personal information through the Platform. We restrict Platform to persons 18 years or older.
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19.Sensitive information. We ask you not to send, and not to disclose, to us any sensitive personal information (e.g., Social Security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Platform or otherwise.
20.Updates to this privacy policy. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time and in our sole discretion. We recommend that you review this Privacy Policy from periodically and note the "Last Updated" date included at the top of this Privacy Policy so that you are aware when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Platform. Your use of the Platform following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.
21.Dispute Resolution. Any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to this Privacy Policy or any previous Privacy Policy statements shall be resolved through negotiation, mediation, and arbitration as provided under our Terms of Use.
22.Entire agreement. This Privacy Policy hereby incorporates by this reference any additional terms that we post in the App (including, without limitation, our Terms of Use) and, except as otherwise expressly stated herein, this Privacy Policy is the entire agreement between you and us relating to the subject matter herein and supersedes any and all prior or contemporaneous written or oral agreements or understandings between you and us relating to such subject matter.
23.Contacting us. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at [email protected]
All materials © 2018 Parqyt, Inc. unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.
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