PRIVACY POLICY

PRIVACY POLICY

Introduction

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This policy describes:

-The types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you:

• Visit, access or use our websites or online applications that run on smart phones, tablets and other devices which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and our websites (“apps").
• Communicate with us electronically and through other means.
• View or click on our ads or other online content; and Interact with us through social media websites and other websites and apps.
• Our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is to refrain from using our websites or apps. By accessing or using our websites or apps, you agree to this privacy policy.

Since we may change this privacy policy, we recommend that you check the current version available from time to time. If we make changes to this statement, we will update the “Last Modified" date at the top of this page.

Our websites and apps are not intended for use by persons under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on our websites or apps. We do not knowingly collect personal information from persons under 18 if such information is provided. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on our websites or apps, or on or through any of their features register on the websites or apps, make any purchases through our websites or apps, use any of the interactive or public comment features of our websites or apps or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name or user name you may use . If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a person under 18, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a person under 18, please contact us.

Information we collect

Depending on which of our services you use and how you interact with our websites and apps, we collect different kinds of information from or about you, including the below information. ​

 

Account information:

• Contact information that allows us to communicate with you. We obtain this information when you order or register for our products or services or our apps. This may include information such as your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and other identifiers by which you may be contacted online or offline.
• Payment information related to your financial relationship with us, such as the services and products we provide to you, your payment information, such as credit and debit card information (we do not store credit and debit card information on our system) and your payment history.
• Profile information such as your date of birth, gender, profession, income, hobbies, Facebook profile picture (if you sign-in via Facebook and authorize us to use your Facebook profile picture), marital status, number of children and nationality.
• Shared information such as photos shared with other user of our websites and apps.
• Product/Service usage information related to the products and services we provide to you, including: Information about your redemption of our offers; and how you use your devices to access our websites and apps, including the screens you visit and searches you make.
• Third party partner information related to how you use our third-party partners, such as your reviews of our merchant partners.
• Your communications with us by social media, e-mail, electronic messages and other electronic and non-electronic communications.
• Your Networks and Connections made available to us, depending on the permissions you have granted, from your mobile and desktop devices' address book contacts, Facebook friends list, and other social media.
• Device and Settings Information from or about the computers, phones or other devices where you install or access our products or services, depending on the permissions you have granted us. We collect your device attributes such as:
• The make and model (mobile phones only).
• The operating system, hardware version, device settings, file and software names and types, and device identifiers.
• Device locations, such as through GPS, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi signals.
• Connection information such as the name of your mobile operator or ISP, browser type, language and time zone, mobile phone number and IP address.
• Eating habits of users as gauged by various interactions with the app- this is done in order to gauge meal-time, cuisine and budget preferences of users to tailor our offers to them
• Basic profile information from Facebook sign up

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How we use the information we collect:

 

We use the information that you provide to us or that we collect about you to:

• Present our websites, apps and their contents to you, and provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.
• Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• Provide, improve and develop our products and services to help you get the most value out of the products you purchase, including maximizing the savings you achieve from using the products.
• Communicate with you about our products and services and respond to you when you contact us.
• Display and measure our advertisements and services so we can show you relevant advertisements and measure the effectiveness of our advertisements and reach of our products and services.
• Promote security by using the information collected to verify accounts and activity to promote security on our websites and apps.
• The usage information we collect helps us to improve our websites and apps and to deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:
• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns in order to better manage the demands on our network infrastructure.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our websites and apps according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you use our websites and apps 

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We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please adjust your user preferences in your account profile. For more information, see Your choices about our collection, use and disclosure of your information below.

 

How we collect the information

You provide information to us when you:

• Fill-in forms on our websites and apps, including forms to register to use our websites or apps, make purchases, request further services or post material on our websites.
• Correspond with us (including e-mail addresses and phone numbers), if you contact us.
• Respond to surveys we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Perform search queries on our websites or apps.
• Use the app

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You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted") on public areas of our websites or transmitted to other users of our websites or apps or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of our websites or apps with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

We may automatically collect information through automatic data collection and tracking technologies when you use our products or services, or interact with our websites or apps, or certain of our partners' websites or apps.

 

 

The technologies we use for automatic information collection may include:

• Cookies: We automatically capture some information using cookies. A cookie is a small file that is placed onto your desktop or mobile device when you visit our websites in order to enable certain features and functionality of our websites and apps. Our cookies can be categorized into four types, each of which is outlined below:
• Category 1: Strictly necessary cookies. These cookies are essential for enabling our websites and apps to provide certain of your requested services such as retaining your shopping bag items.
• Category 2: Performance cookies. Performance cookies collect anonymous information on the users of our websites and apps to enable us to improve the operation of our websites and apps. For example, we utilize cookies to help us understand how customers arrive at and browse or use our websites, and highlight improvement areas such as navigation, shopping experience and marketing. The data stored by these cookies does not include personal details from which an individual's identity can be established.
• Category 3: Functionality cookies. These cookies retain choices you make such as member ID, email ID and other preferences in order to help you avoid having to re-enter the information as you navigate through our websites, including the shopping cart.
• Category 4: Targeting or advertising cookies. These cookies collect information about your browsing habits to allow us to provide advertising relevant to you and your interests. The cookies retain information about the websites you have visited. This information is shared with other parties such as advertisers on an anonymous basis. Your personally identifiable information such as your name and address are not shared with such third parties. For example, we use third party companies to provide you with more personalized advertisements when you visit certain third-party websites.
• Web beacons: Pages of our websites, apps and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an e-mail and collect other related website and app statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain app content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

• Log files: We may use log files to capture your activities on our apps as they interact with our websites. Information captured in such log files may include the types of content you view or engage with and the frequency or duration of your activities.
• We obtain information from outside sources like our business partners, and marketing mailing lists.

 

• Third-party information collection

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on our websites and apps are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers. When you use our websites or apps or their content, certain third parties may use automatic information collection technologies to collect information about you or your device. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our websites or apps. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps and other online services websites. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Your choices about our collection, use and disclosure of your information below.

 

 

How we share the information we collect

 

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our websites or apps users is among the assets transferred.
• To fulfil the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an e-mail address to use the “e-mail a friend" feature of our websites or apps, we will transmit the contents of that e-mail and your e-mail address to the recipients.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.
• To other users of our websites and apps, limited to the following information:
  • Your first name.
  • Your total savings from purchasing our products to date in the current year.
  • Your rank in the savings leaderboard of your product location.
  • Your Facebook profile picture, if you signed in via Facebook and authorized your profile picture to be used in this way (only your Facebook friends and your invited mobile device address book contacts will be allowed access).
  • Your profile description (only your Facebook friends and your invited mobile device address book contacts will be allowed access).
  • Your savings level, badges and total lifetime savings achieved from purchasing our products (only your Facebook friends and your invited mobile device address book contacts will be allowed access).
  • How long you have been a customer and the products you have purchased (only your Facebook friends and your invited mobile device address book contacts will be allowed access).
  • The identity of any of your Facebook friends who is a user of our apps and a Facebook friend of the viewer of your profile (only your Facebook friends and your invited mobile device address book contacts will be allowed access).
  • Photos you have submitted (only your Facebook friends and your invited mobile device address book contacts will be allowed access).

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

Your choices about our collection, use and disclosure of your information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Tracking technologies and advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our websites or apps may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Location information. You can choose whether or not to allow our apps to collect and use real-time information about your device's location through the device's privacy settings. If you block the use of location information, some parts of our apps may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Promotional offers from the Company: If you do not wish to have your contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or at any other time by logging into our websites or apps and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an e-mail stating your request to byekids@support.com . If we have sent you a promotional e-mail, you may send us a return e-mail asking to be omitted from future e-mail distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product or service purchase, product service experience or other transactions.

 

Information Collected from Restaurants, Shops, and coffee shops Users on the Website Dashboard

Data collected from the restaurants is strictly data that they input into the website dashboard. Any data they enter, including GPS location and phone numbers, they do so with the express understanding that this data will be shared through official ByeKids channels such as the app and website only for their marketing purposes. Restaurant Users hold ByeKids App free from liability or indemnification or Intellectual property claims for sharing any of this information.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. If we make material changes to our privacy policy, we will post the updated privacy policy on this page and may notify you by e-mail and/or text message to the primary e-mail address and/or phone number specified in your account.

The effective date of the privacy policy is the “Last Modified" date identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable e-mail address and/or phone number for you and for periodically visiting this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: byekids@support.com.

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Considerations for privacy policy:

1. End-users’ locations are detected and used to bring them offers, their locations are neither recorded/saved nor shared with any of our clients and third parties
2. Restaurant’s GPS locations are set by the restaurants and saved in our system where they are used to target end-users with content
3. End-users eating preferences are collected and saved: meal-time, approximate budget and cuisine preferences. This personal information is used to target offers to the end-user through our app but is not shared with any third party
4. Very basic personal information is collected from end-users including name, email ID, age and if they choose a personal photo. All this information except age is saved on our databases but is not shared with any third party. Age is saved and shared but without identifying any individuals.
5. Data collected from the restaurants is strictly data that they input into a website dashboard. Every piece of data they enter except for Name of personnel, email ID and corporate phone number is entered with the express understanding that this data will be shared through official ByeKids App channels such as the app and website only for their marketing purposes. ByeKids App is not liable for sharing any of this information in the manner above-mentioned.
6. We make an effort as a company to preserve your privacy by not saving anything that we do not need - this includes primarily end-user’s location data which we do not save. We also conduct due diligence to avoid any data leak but in the event of hacking or similar data leak we will not be held liable for the loss of data that you have decided to share with us.