Last updated: 30. September 2024.
The following terminology applies to these privacy statement: “Client”, “You” and “Your” refers to you, the person log on this website or using our apps and compliant to the company’s terms and conditions. “The Company”, “Ourselves”, “We”, “The Developer”, “Our” and “Us”, refers to our Company – PiccmaQ. “Party”, “Parties”, or “Us”, refers to the website, the app, the client, our products as listed on our portfolio page. ‘Our Services’ refers to products that we offer e.g apps and websites. Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalization and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to same.
At PiccMaQ, we provide services through apps and websites, accessible from this website, on our subsidiary websites or via apps downloadable from stores such as the Google Playstore as listed here, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors.
This privacy policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by PiccMaQ through ourApps and Websites and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our privacy policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
This privacy policy applies only to our apps and websiteslisted on our products pages that link to this page as their privacy policy url and is valid for visitors to those websites with regards to the information that we collect through those apps and websites.
Consent
By using our website and/or our apps, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms. For our terms and conditions, please visit the Terms & Conditions page.
Information we collect
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will in most cases be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you register for an account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our services and products
- Improve, personalize, and expand our services and products
- Understand and analyze how you use our services and products
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails and messages for marketing or other contact purposes
- Find and prevent fraud
Log Files
PiccMaQ Apps and Websites follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These may be linked to information that is personally identifiable like the IP Address. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website and apps, we use ‘cookies‘. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information can be used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
We have a post on cookies, please read “About Cookies“.
For more general information on cookies, please read “What Are Cookies”.
- Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our websitse or apps.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
- You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can also opt out of most third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)
Google DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to our products and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Third Party Sign In Providers
We may provide you the possibility to sign in via a third party like Facebook or Google. This is done in assumption that you own an account at one of the aforementioned third party sign in providers and to enable quick sign in. This involves loading files that are stored on the server of the third-party sign in provider.
Third-party ad servers or ad networks and sign in providers use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on our websites and apps, which are sent directly to users’ browser or devices. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies may be used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that we and our products have little or no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers and sign in providers.
Advertisement and sign in providers Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the privacy policy for each of the advertising and sign in provider that we use.
Link to the privacy policy of third-party Ad/Sign in service providers used by the app
Embedded Youtube Images and Videos
In some cases we rely on Youtube for the delivery of some contents like videos and contents thumbnails or images. This means that when you use our products, you also use services provided by Youtube and are bounded by their terms of service and their privacy policy.
Emails and Newsletters
We may employ the use of external email service provider for sending emails to e-mail addresses. Some of these providers include Google’s and Twilio Sendgrid. The use of external providers ensures email delivery and security.
When we send emails through these providers, they are provided with your email address, your name and the entire content of the email that we sent to you.
Link to the privacy policy of email service providers used by the app
Disclosure or sharing of personal information
We may disclose (or provide access to) personal information to the following categories of recipients:
- Other platform users where necessary in connection with the facilitation of purchases and communications made between you and the other Users.
- Our group companies and affiliates and/or their designated service providers that work with us to provide processing services such as software, tools, systems and messaging services for purposes described in this privacy policy.
- Third party business partners and service providers engaged by us or working with us to assist us to provide services to you or who otherwise process personal information for purposes described in this privacy policy or notified to you when we collect your personal information.
Categories of these partners or service providers include:- our business partners that offer supplementary services to those provided by us, such as partners that resell our products and services, to the extent you consent to such sharing (where required by applicable law);
- marketing and advertising platforms, such as Google, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and providers of analytics services relating to Users’ behaviour, in order to tailor the content you see when visiting our platforms or use our products. These platforms may combine information they collect on our platform or through our products with data on their platforms and data they collect from other websites or through other sources in order to conduct targeted advertising. Some of this information may be collected using cookies and similar tracking technology, as explained further under the section “Cookie” on this page. The processing activities of these third-party marketing platforms are governed by their own privacy policies, not this privacy policy;
- due diligence and verification service providers, who collect and process personal information to perform due diligence and business verification services;
- payment service providers who collect and process personal information to assist with settling the payments for transactions or process withdrawal requests for us or other sellers. The activities of payment service providers are governed by their own privacy policies, not this privacy policy;
- credit risk assessment providers to conduct risk assessment on users to determine whether a user can be permitted to make a fund withdrawal;
- logistics partners for providing delivery services for users, including return and exchange of products, and warehousing services for service providers;
- custom agents for customs clearances purposes;
- cloud computing service providers to provide cloud storage services;
- instant messaging service providers for enabling communications between you and us or our partners via the Platform;
- software development kit (“SDK”) service providers to provide SDK services;
- customer service providers to provide after-sale services;
- risk control service providers to assess the security of Users’ accounts and transaction risks; and
- third party rating / reviewing service providers to carry out reviews of our services with Users who participate in reviewing or rating our products and/or services;
- External professional advisers, law enforcement agencies, insurers, government and regulators and other organizations where it is necessary to comply with applicable laws or to exercise, establish or defend our legal rights or protect your vital interests or those of any other person, we may also disclose and transfer your personal information or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable laws.
- Actual or potential business acquirers (and its agents and advisers) in connection with any actual or proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the acquirer that it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this privacy policy.
We may provide anonymized data to some third parties, but when we do so, the information we share is in a de-identified format that does not personally identify you. We have established relationships with third parties and websites to offer you products and services which we do not offer. We offer you access to these other parties and their websites either through the use of hyperlinks to these sites from our platform, products or through offering co-branded sites in which both we and other parties share the same uniform resource locator (URL), domain name or pages within a domain name on the Internet. In some cases, you may be required to submit personal information to register or apply for products or services provided by such third parties or co-branded partners. This privacy policy does not apply to these third-party sites or co-branded sites. The privacy policies of those other parties may differ from ours, and we have no control over the information that you submit to those third parties. You should read the relevant privacy policy for those third-party sites and co-branded sites before responding to any offers, products or services advertised by those parties.
Third Party Privacy Policies
This privacy policy does not apply to other advertisers or external websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service based on the means with which the information is provided.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Children’s Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
We do not knowingly collect any personal identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our privacy policy from time to time. While we will try to notify you about such updates to our privacy policy, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes.
Shortlink and QR Code Services provided by Qr-Man.com
Shortlinks created on QR-Man are NOT anonymous. When you create a shortlink we save your IP Address and associate it with the link. This is saved until the link is deleted. We do this to ensure our services are not being exploited.
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