This privacy policy (this "Privacy Policy") explains how personal information is collected, used, stored, and disclosed by GoFree Global Incorporated, ("GoFree," "we," "us," and "our"). The provisions contained in this Privacy Policy supersede all previous notices and statements regarding our privacy practices with respect to our services.
This Privacy Policy applies to use of our websites, applications, other online services and/or any related services, sales, marketing, promotional or events, and social media activities (collectively, our "Services"). For our Users, this Privacy Policy is part of our Terms of Use.
This Privacy Policy applies to your use of (regardless of means of access) our Services. You may access or use our Services through a desktop, laptop, mobile phone, tablet, or other consumer electronic device (each, a "Device"). This Privacy Policy also applies to offline interactions with GoFree.
By accessing or using our Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
The types of information we receive and collect depend on how you use our Services. We require certain information to deliver our Services and without this we will not be able to provide our Services to you. For example, you must provide your profile name, mobile phone number and email address to create an account to use our Services. You can choose to add other information to your account, such as may be necessary.
Our Services have optional features which, if used by you, require us to collect additional information to provide such features. You will be notified of such collection, as appropriate. If you choose not to provide the information needed to use a feature, you will be unable to use the feature. For example, you cannot share your location with your contacts if you do not permit us to collect your location data from your device.
Undelivered Messages. If a message cannot be delivered immediately (for example, if the recipient is offline), we keep it in encrypted form on our servers for up to 30 days as we try to deliver it. If a message is still undelivered after 30 days, we delete it.
Media Forwarding. When a user forwards media within a message, we store that media temporarily in encrypted form on our servers to aid in more efficient delivery of additional forwards.
We offer end-to-end encryption for our Services. End-to-end encryption means that your messages are encrypted to protect against us and third parties from reading them.
Information that we automatically collect in connection with your access or use of our Services may include:
Device Information: We may collect Device-specific information (such as hardware model, operating system version, unique Device identifiers, and mobile network Information, including your mobile phone number). We may associate your Device identifiers or mobile phone number with your GoFree account.
Log Information: We may record or log information from your Devices, their software, and your activity accessing or using our Services. This information may include:
The Device's Internet Protocol ("IP") address Identification numbers associated with your Devices Device event information, such as crashes, system activity, and hardware settings Location preferences Date and time stamps of transactions System configuration information Other interactions with our Services
User Reports. Just as you can report other users, other users or third parties may also choose to report to us your interactions and your messages with them or others on our Services; for example, to report possible violations of our Terms or policies. When a report is made, we collect information on both the reporting user and reported user.
Third-Party Service Providers. We work with third-party service providers to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services. For example, we work with them to distribute our apps; provide our technical and physical infrastructure, delivery, and other systems; provide engineering support, cybersecurity support, and operational support; supply location, map, and places information; process payments; help us understand how people use our Services; market our Services; help you connect with businesses using our Services; conduct surveys and research for us; ensure safety, security, and integrity; and help with customer service. These companies may provide us with information about you in certain circumstances; for example, app stores may provide us with reports to help us diagnose and fix service issues.
Session cookies: Session cookies are temporary cookies that expire and are automatically erased whenever you close your browser window. We use session cookies to grant users access to content and to enable actions they must be logged into their GoFree account to perform.
Persistent cookies: Persistent cookies usually have an expiration date in the distant future and remain in your browser until they expire or you manually delete them. We use persistent cookies to better understand usage patterns so we can improve our Services. For example, we may use a persistent cookie to associate you with your GoFree account or to remember your choices for our Services.
Third-party cookies: We permit certain third parties to place cookies through our Services to provide us with better insights into the use of our Services and user demographics and to advertise our Services to you. These third parties may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you access or use our Services. For example, we utilize Google Analytics to analyze usage patterns for our Services. Google Analytics generates a cookie to capture information about your use of our Services, which Google uses to compile reports on website activity for us and to provide other related services. Google may use a portion of your IP address to identify its cookie, but this will not be associated with any other data held by Google. We may also permit third-party service providers to place cookies for our Services, as indicated above, to perform analytic or marketing functions where you are notified of them and you have consented to the usage. We do not control the use of such third-party cookies or the resulting information, and we are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties. By accessing or using our Services, you consent to the placement of cookies on your Devices as described in this Privacy Policy. If you prefer not to receive cookies through our Services, you may control how your browser responds to cookies by adjusting the privacy and security settings of your web browser. Unless you set your browser settings to refuse all cookies, our system may issue cookies when you access or use our Services. If you set your browser settings to refuse all cookies, the performance of certain features of our Services may be limited or not work at all.
Our Services. We use information we have to operate and provide our Services, including providing customer support; completing purchases or transactions; improving, fixing, and customizing our Services that you may use. We also use information we have to understand how people use our Services; evaluate and improve our Services; research, develop, and test new services and features; and conduct troubleshooting activities. We also use your information to respond to you when you contact us. Safety, Security, And Integrity. Safety, security, and integrity are an integral part of our Services. We use information we have to verify accounts and activity; combat harmful conduct; protect users against bad experiences and spam; and promote safety, security, and integrity on and off our Services, such as by investigating suspicious activity or violations of our Terms and policies, and to ensure our Services are being used legally. Business Interactions. We enable you and third parties, like businesses, to communicate and interact with each other using our Services, such as Catalogs for businesses on GoFree through which you can browse products and services and place orders. Businesses may send you transaction, appointment, and shipping notifications; product and service updates; and marketing. Emails. We may use your email address to respond to your inquiries and to provide information about our Services. You may elect not to receive promotional emails from us either by "unsubscribing" to an email you receive from us or by contacting us as indicated below. As a User, if you unsubscribe from receiving emails from us, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as emails about your account or our ongoing business relations, unless you withdraw your consent to receive electronic communications as provided in our Terms of Use.
We may disclose Analytics with third parties as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy and for our commercial purposes.
You can delete your account at any time (including if you want to revoke your consent to our use of your information pursuant to applicable law).
Request Correction to your Personal Information. If you are a User, you can change some of your Personal Information by updating your account profile through our Services. Changes to wallet details will require you to contact us directly.
Request Access to your Personal Information.
You reserve the right to ask whether we are storing your Personal Information and you can ask to receive a copy of that Personal Information. We will ask you to provide proof of your identity before such request is approved and we will responds as soon as practicable.
Information You Share Socially
Our Services allow you to connect and share your actions, comments, content, and information publicly or with friends. GoFree is not responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any information you share publicly or with friends.
Protecting Children's Privacy
Our Services are not directed or intended to be attractive, to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13.
Security and Storage of Data
We have suitable security measures in place to prevent your data from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorised way by a third party. When your wallet information is transmitted through our Services, they are protected by blockchain encryption technology.
In addition, we limit access to your data to ONLY required and authorized employees, agents, contractors and other third parties. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
Application of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies generally to the business of GoFree and serves to set out our approach to personal data, inclusive of personal data of our consumer users ("Users"). This Privacy Policy applies to systems, operations and processes of GoFree that involve the collection, use, storage, and disclosure etc. of personal information.This Privacy Policy applies to use of our websites, applications, other online services and/or any related services, sales, marketing, promotional or events, and social media activities (collectively, our "Services"). For our Users, this Privacy Policy is part of our Terms of Use.
This Privacy Policy applies to your use of (regardless of means of access) our Services. You may access or use our Services through a desktop, laptop, mobile phone, tablet, or other consumer electronic device (each, a "Device"). This Privacy Policy also applies to offline interactions with GoFree.
By accessing or using our Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect
GoFree must receive or collect some information to operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services, including when you install, access, or use our Services.The types of information we receive and collect depend on how you use our Services. We require certain information to deliver our Services and without this we will not be able to provide our Services to you. For example, you must provide your profile name, mobile phone number and email address to create an account to use our Services. You can choose to add other information to your account, such as may be necessary.
Our Services have optional features which, if used by you, require us to collect additional information to provide such features. You will be notified of such collection, as appropriate. If you choose not to provide the information needed to use a feature, you will be unable to use the feature. For example, you cannot share your location with your contacts if you do not permit us to collect your location data from your device.
Your Messages
We do not retain your messages in the ordinary course of providing our Services to you. Instead, your messages are stored on your device and not typically stored on our servers. Once your messages are delivered, they are deleted from our servers. The following scenarios describe circumstances where we may store your messages in the course of delivering them:Undelivered Messages. If a message cannot be delivered immediately (for example, if the recipient is offline), we keep it in encrypted form on our servers for up to 30 days as we try to deliver it. If a message is still undelivered after 30 days, we delete it.
Media Forwarding. When a user forwards media within a message, we store that media temporarily in encrypted form on our servers to aid in more efficient delivery of additional forwards.
We offer end-to-end encryption for our Services. End-to-end encryption means that your messages are encrypted to protect against us and third parties from reading them.
Information About Your Transactions
We collect Personal Information about your transactions with us and others.Your Connections
You can use the contact upload feature and provide us, if permitted by applicable laws, with the phone numbers in your address book on a regular basis, including those of users of our Services and your other contacts. If any of your contacts aren’t yet using our Services, we’ll manage this information for you in a way that ensures those contacts cannot be identified by us. You can create, join, or get added to groups and broadcast lists, and such groups and lists get associated with your account information. You give your groups a name. You can provide a group profile picture or description.Status Information
You may provide us your status if you choose to include one on your account.Transactions And Payments Data
If you use our payments services, or use our Services meant for purchases or other financial transactions, we process additional information about you, including payment account and transaction information. Payment account and transaction information includes information needed to complete the transaction (for example, information about your payment method, shipping details and transaction amount). If you use our payments services available in your country or territory, our privacy practices are described in the applicable payments privacy policy.Customer Support And Other Communications
When you contact us for customer support or otherwise communicate with us, you may provide us with information related to your use of our Services, including copies of your messages, any other information you deem helpful, and how to contact you (e.g., an email address). For example, you may send us an email with information relating to app performance or other issues.Information Automatically Collected
We (or our service providers acting on our behalf) may collect information about your use of our Services. This information may include Personal Information as well as statistical information that does not identify you ("Analytics"). Some Analytics may be correlated with Personal Information. When Analytics are, directly or indirectly, associated or combined with Personal Information, such Analytics will be considered Personal Information for purposes of this Privacy Policy.Information that we automatically collect in connection with your access or use of our Services may include:
Device Information: We may collect Device-specific information (such as hardware model, operating system version, unique Device identifiers, and mobile network Information, including your mobile phone number). We may associate your Device identifiers or mobile phone number with your GoFree account.
Log Information: We may record or log information from your Devices, their software, and your activity accessing or using our Services. This information may include:
Information From Third Parties
We also collect Personal Information about you from other companies. For instance, we may receive Personal Information about you from a consumer reporting agency or we may collect Personal Information from your employer where your employer is providing a service to GoFree. We may collect your Personal Information from a User where your Personal Information is filled in a Next-of-Kin form.User Reports. Just as you can report other users, other users or third parties may also choose to report to us your interactions and your messages with them or others on our Services; for example, to report possible violations of our Terms or policies. When a report is made, we collect information on both the reporting user and reported user.
Third-Party Service Providers. We work with third-party service providers to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services. For example, we work with them to distribute our apps; provide our technical and physical infrastructure, delivery, and other systems; provide engineering support, cybersecurity support, and operational support; supply location, map, and places information; process payments; help us understand how people use our Services; market our Services; help you connect with businesses using our Services; conduct surveys and research for us; ensure safety, security, and integrity; and help with customer service. These companies may provide us with information about you in certain circumstances; for example, app stores may provide us with reports to help us diagnose and fix service issues.
Information Collected Through Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies to personalize our Services for you and to collect aggregate information about the usage of our Services. A cookie is a text file or other local storage identifier provided by your browser or associated applications. We use cookies for record-keeping purposes and to enhance the quality of your use of our Services. The cookies assign random, unique numbers to your Devices to enable our systems to recognize your Devices and to allow us to see how you use our Services. Additional general information about cookies and how they work is available at www.allaboutcookies.org. The cookies we use in connection with our Services include:Session cookies: Session cookies are temporary cookies that expire and are automatically erased whenever you close your browser window. We use session cookies to grant users access to content and to enable actions they must be logged into their GoFree account to perform.
Persistent cookies: Persistent cookies usually have an expiration date in the distant future and remain in your browser until they expire or you manually delete them. We use persistent cookies to better understand usage patterns so we can improve our Services. For example, we may use a persistent cookie to associate you with your GoFree account or to remember your choices for our Services.
Third-party cookies: We permit certain third parties to place cookies through our Services to provide us with better insights into the use of our Services and user demographics and to advertise our Services to you. These third parties may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you access or use our Services. For example, we utilize Google Analytics to analyze usage patterns for our Services. Google Analytics generates a cookie to capture information about your use of our Services, which Google uses to compile reports on website activity for us and to provide other related services. Google may use a portion of your IP address to identify its cookie, but this will not be associated with any other data held by Google. We may also permit third-party service providers to place cookies for our Services, as indicated above, to perform analytic or marketing functions where you are notified of them and you have consented to the usage. We do not control the use of such third-party cookies or the resulting information, and we are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties. By accessing or using our Services, you consent to the placement of cookies on your Devices as described in this Privacy Policy. If you prefer not to receive cookies through our Services, you may control how your browser responds to cookies by adjusting the privacy and security settings of your web browser. Unless you set your browser settings to refuse all cookies, our system may issue cookies when you access or use our Services. If you set your browser settings to refuse all cookies, the performance of certain features of our Services may be limited or not work at all.
How We Use Information
We use information we have (subject to choices you make and applicable law) to operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services. How We Share Information
We do not share your Personal Information with: Other financial companies for joint marketing purposes; Affiliated companies for their everyday business purposes; or Any third parties so they can market to you. We may share your Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties:- If you request or authorize it; e.g. to you contacts, businesses you associate with or other interested party approved by you
- If the information is provided to help you complete a transaction;
- If the information is provided to: (a) comply with applicable laws, rules, regulations, governmental and quasi-governmental requests, court orders, or subpoenas; (b) enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements; or (c) protect our rights, property, or safety or the rights, property, or safety of our users or others (e.g., to a consumer reporting agency for fraud protection, etc.);
- If the information is provided to our third-party service providers to perform functions on our behalf (e.g., analysing data, providing marketing assistance, providing customer service, processing orders, etc.);
- In the event that we are involved in a merger, acquisition, restructuring, bankruptcy, or sale of all or some of our assets, we will share your information with the successor entities or new owners in connection with the transaction in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
- For our everyday decision making solely for business purposes;
- For publication of our events on digital and print media.
- We share your Personal Information with delivery companies as permitted by applicable law or otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
We may disclose Analytics with third parties as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy and for our commercial purposes.
Managing your Data
Services Settings. You can change your Services settings to manage certain information available to other users. You can manage your contacts, groups, and broadcast lists, or use our “block” feature to manage the users with whom you communicate.You can delete your account at any time (including if you want to revoke your consent to our use of your information pursuant to applicable law).
Request Correction to your Personal Information. If you are a User, you can change some of your Personal Information by updating your account profile through our Services. Changes to wallet details will require you to contact us directly.
Request Access to your Personal Information.
You reserve the right to ask whether we are storing your Personal Information and you can ask to receive a copy of that Personal Information. We will ask you to provide proof of your identity before such request is approved and we will responds as soon as practicable.
Information You Share Socially
Our Services allow you to connect and share your actions, comments, content, and information publicly or with friends. GoFree is not responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of any information you share publicly or with friends.
Protecting Children's Privacy
Our Services are not directed or intended to be attractive, to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13.
Security and Storage of Data
We have suitable security measures in place to prevent your data from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorised way by a third party. When your wallet information is transmitted through our Services, they are protected by blockchain encryption technology.
In addition, we limit access to your data to ONLY required and authorized employees, agents, contractors and other third parties. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
Updates To Our Policy
We may amend or update our Privacy Policy. We will provide you notice of amendments to this Privacy Policy, as appropriate, and update the “Last modified” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy from time to time.