User privacy notice

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User privacy notice

Personal information we collect

What is personal information?

Personal Information is information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

We do not consider personal information to include information that has been anonymized or aggregated so that it can no longer be used to identify a specific natural person, whether in combination with other information or otherwise.

We collect personal information from you and any devices (including mobile devices) you use when you use our Services, register for an account with us, provide us information on a web form, update or add information to your account, visit pages on our platform.

Some of this personal information, such as a way to identify you, is necessary to enter into our User Agreement. The provision of all other personal information is voluntary, but may be necessary in order to use our Services, such as the bidding, searching, following a shop, buying or selling information needed to conclude a transaction.

We may also collect personal information from other sources, as described below.

Personal information you give us when you use our Services or register for an account with us

·         Identifying information such as your name, addresses, telephone numbers or email addresses as well as preferred categories when you register for an account with us

·         Bidding, buying, or selling information you provide during a transaction, or other transaction-based content that you generate or that is connected to your account as a result of a transaction you are involved in

·         Other content that you generate, or that is connected to your account (such as adding items to your cart, adding items to your interests, creating a site,searching products by distance and following other sites and sellers)

• it should well be noted that your passwords are not made visible to the platform administrators and third parties

·         In some instances, when you use our Services, you may provide extra information which is as well manipulated to optimize user experience as well facilitate customer care

·         You may also provide us other information through a web form, by updating or adding information to your account, through your participation in communications with agents, member-to-member communications, chats, or when you otherwise communicate with us regarding our Services

·         Additional information we are required or authorized by applicable national laws to collect and process in order to authenticate or identify you or to verify the information we have collected

Personal information we collect automatically when you use our Services or register for an account with us

·         We collect information about your interaction with our Services, your advertising preferences, and your communications with us. This is information we receive from devices (including mobile devices) you use when you access our Services. This information could include the following: Device ID or unique identifier, device type, ID for advertising, and unique device token

·         Location information, including location information from your mobile device. Keep in mind that most mobile devices allow you to control or disable the use of location services by any application on your mobile device in the device's settings menu. The location is obtained upon shops visits, product search (most especially using the distance mechanism)

·         Computer and connection information such as statistics on your page views, traffic to and from the sites, referral URL, ad data, your IP address, your browsing history, and your web log information

·         Personal information we collect using cookies and similar technologies

·         We use cookies, unique identifiers, and similar technologies to collect information about the pages you view, the links you click, and other actions you take when using our Services, within our advertising or email content

Personal information collected from other sources

·         We supplement the personal information we collect directly with information collected from third parties and add it to your account information. For example, we collect and use demographic and other information that is publically available in an applicable jurisdiction, additional contact information and mobile payment check information, as allowed by applicable national laws

·         Social Media: We allow you to share information with social media sites. This could be information on products, shops, as your well as your own personal account and interest information.

·         If you give us personal information about someone else, you must do so only with that person’s authorization. You should inform them how we collect, use, disclose, and retain their personal information according to our privacy notice

Cookies and similar technologies on our websites and our mobile applications allow us to track your browsing behavior, links clicked, items purchased, your device type, and to collect various data, including analytics, about how you use and interact with our Services. This allows us to provide you with more relevant product offerings, a better experience on our sites and mobile applications, and to collect, analyze and improve the performance of our Services. We may also collect your location (IP address) so that we can personalize our Services. For additional information, and to learn how to manage the technologies we utilize, please visit our Cookie Policy.  

How we use your personal information

We use the personal information we collect from you for a range of different business purposes and according to different legal bases of processing. The following is a summary of how and according to which legal bases we use your personal information.

We use your personal information to fulfill a contract with you and provide you with our Services, to comply with our legal obligation, protect your vital interest, or as may be required for the public good. This includes:

·         To provide payment processing and account management, operate, measure and improve our Services, keep our Services safe, secure and operational, and customize site content that includes items and services that you may like in response to actions that you take

·         To contact you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account as well as enhance you customer service experience

·         When contacting you for such purposes as outlined above, we may contact you via email, telephone, SMS/text messages, and via mobile/web push notifications

·         When contacting you via telephone, to ensure efficiency, we may use autodialed or pre-recorded calls and text messages as described in our User Agreement and as authorized by applicable law. Message and data rates may apply

·         To provide other services requested by you as described when we collect the information

·         We use general location information to provide you with location based services (such as advertising, search results, and other personalized content)

·         To prevent, detect, mitigate, and investigate fraud, security breaches or other potentially prohibited or illegal activities

·         To enforce our User Agreement, this privacy notice, or other policies, and to monitor restrictions on offers to buy or sell outside of Shoppy and member-to-member communications for violations of our policies or applicable laws

We use your personal information to pursue our legitimate interests where your rights and freedoms do not outweigh these interests. We have implemented controls to balance our interests with your rights. This includes to:

·         Improve our Services, for example by reviewing information associated with stalled or crashed pages experienced by users allowing us to identify and fix problems and give you a better experience

·         Personalize, measure, and improve our advertising based on your advertising customization preferences

·         Contact you via email/phone/whatsapp/messenger in order to offer you coupons, discounts and special promotions, poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires and inform you about our Services, as authorized by applicable law

·         Contact you about public policy matters, or other current events, related to your ability to use our Services. This could include an invitation to join a petition, letter writing, call or other sort of public policy related campaigns

·         Deliver targeted marketing, service updates, and promotional offers based on your communication preferences

·         Measure the performance of our email marketing campaigns (e.g. by analyzing open and click rates)

·         Measure sellers' performance (e.g. by using interest rates in their products)

·         Monitor and improve the information security of our site and mobile applications

With your consent, we may use your personal information to:

·         Provide you with marketing via telephone calls, SMS or text

·         Provide you with marketing from other Shoppy corporate family members

·         Customize third party advertising you might see on third party websites

·         Use your precise geolocation to provide location based services

·         Use your sensitive personal information to facilitate transactions in certain categories

You have the right to withdraw your consent in most scenarios.

We may use technologies considered automated decision making or profiling. We will not make automated-decisions about you that would significantly affect you, unless such a decision is necessary as part of a contract we have with you, we have your consent, or we are required by law to use such technology.

Ways you can access, control, and correct your personal information

We respect your right to access, correct, request deletion or request restriction of our usage of your personal information as required by applicable law. We also take steps to ensure that the personal information we collect is accurate and up to date.

·         You have the right to know what personal information we maintain about you

·         We will provide you with a copy of your personal information in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format on request

·         If your personal information is incorrect or incomplete, you have the right to ask us to update it

·         You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information

·         You can also ask us to delete or restrict how we use your personal information, but this right is determined by applicable law and may impact your access to some of our Services

Access, correction, and deletion of your personal information

You can see, review and change most of your personal information by signing in to your account. Please, update your personal information immediately if it changes or is inaccurate. Keep in mind, once you make a public posting, you may not be able to change or remove it.

We will honor any statutory right you might have to access, modify or erase your personal information. To request access and to find out whether any fees may apply, if permitted by applicable national laws, please contact us following the instructions in the Contact Us. Where you have a statutory right to request access or request the modification or erasure of your personal information, we can still withhold that access or decline to modify or erase your personal information in some cases in accordance with applicable national laws.

If you request that we stop processing some or all of your personal information, or you withdraw (where applicable) your consent for our use, or disclosure of your personal information for purposes set out in this privacy notice, we might not be able to provide you all of the Services and customer support offered to our users and authorized under this privacy notice and our User Agreement.

Upon your request, we will close your account and remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably possible, based on your account activity and in accordance with applicable national laws.

Your choices about how we use your personal information

You have choices about how we use your personal information to communicate with you, to send you marketing information, how we provide you with customized and relevant advertising, and whether you want to stay signed into your account.

How we might share your personal information

We may disclose your personal information to the following parties for the following purposes:

Shoppy shops, members, promoters, administrators as well as partners who may use it to :

·         Provide joint content and services (like registration, transactions, and customer support)

·     Help detect, investigate, mitigate and prevent potentially fraudulent and illegal acts, violations of our User Agreement, and data security breaches

·         Provide you personalized advertising

·     Improve their products, sites, applications, services, tools, and marketing communications

·         Members of our Shoppy family will use your personal information to send you marketing communications only if you have consented to receive such communications from them or if otherwise permitted by the law

Service Providers and financial institutions partners as follows:

·         Third party service providers who help us to provide our Services, payment processing services, assist us in providing customize advertising, to assist us with the prevention, detection, mitigation, and investigation of potentially illegal acts, violations of our User Agreement, fraud and/or security breaches, bill collection, affiliate and rewards programs, co-branded credit cards and other business operations

·         Third party financial institutions with whom we partner to offer financial products to you, for them to provide joint content and services (such as, registration, transactions and customer support). These third party financial institution partners will use your personal information to send you marketing communications only if you have requested their services

·         Third party providers of websites, applications, services and tools that we cooperate with so that they can publish or advertise your listings and their content on their websites or in their applications, services and tools. If we transfer personal information along with the content of your listings to third party providers, this will be solely on the basis of an agreement limiting use by the third party provider of such personal information to processing necessary to fulfil their contract with us, and obligating the third party provider to take security measures with regard to such data. Third party providers are not permitted to sell, lease or in any other way transfer the personal information included in your listings to third parties

Law enforcement, legal proceedings, and as authorized by law

·         To comply with our legal requirements, enforce our User Agreement, respond to claims that a listing or other content violates the rights of others, or protect anyone's rights, property or safety

·         To law enforcement or governmental agencies, or authorized third-parties, in response to a verified request or legal process relating to a criminal investigation or alleged or suspected illegal activity or any other activity that exposes us, you, or any other of our users to legal liability. We will only disclose information we deem relevant to the investigation or inquiry, such as name, city, state, postcode, telephone number, email address, User ID history, IP address, fraud complaints, bidding and listing history

·         To credit agencies or bureaus as authorized by applicable national laws (e.g. information on late or missed payments or other defaults on your account that may be reflected in your credit report or file)

·         To third parties involved in a legal proceeding, if they provide us with a subpoena, court order or substantially similar legal basis, or we otherwise believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss or to report suspected illegal activity

Other Shoppy users as authorized by you or your use of our Services

·         When transacting with another user, the other user may request that we provide him/her with information about you necessary to complete the transaction, such as your name, account ID, email address, contact details, shipping and billing address, or other information from you needed to promote the reliability and security of the transaction

·         If a transaction fails, it is invalidated, we may also provide the other user with details of the unsuccessful transaction

·         The other user receiving your information should only use it for purposes related to the transaction. Unless you have consented to receive marketing from them, they should not contact you for marketing purposes

·         Contacting users with unwanted or threatening messages is a violation of our User Agreement

Change of ownership

If we are subject to a merger or acquisition with/by another company, we may share information with them in accordance with our global privacy standards. Should such an event occur, we will require that the new combined entity follow this privacy notice with respect to your personal information. If we intend to handle your personal information for any purposes not covered in this privacy notice, you will receive prior notification of the processing of your personal information for the new purposes.