Effective as of 28 August 2018 idqr.me, ( “we” or “us” or “our”) have updated our Privacy Policy (“Policy”).
This Policy details our commitment to protecting the privacy of individuals who visit our website and who use our services (“Customers” or “You”, “Yours”, etc). For the purposes of this Policy, “website”, shall refer to idqr.me. Term “services” means service, provided through the web-service idqr.me with the appropriate functionality (the ability to create an “online business card”, the use of a widget with direct buttons to go into instant messengers, but not limited to this).
In this Policy, personal information means information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, and online identifier or to one or more factors specific to his/her physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity. The use of information collected through our website and service shall be limited to the purpose of providing the services for which the Customers has engaged.
Our services may contain links to other websites, services, and the information practices and the content of such other websites are governed by the privacy statements of such other websites. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of any such other websites to understand their information practices.
We ask for and may collect personal information about you such as your name, phone number, email address, instant messaging ID as well as certain related information like your company name and website name.
We ask for and may collect personal information from you when you submit web forms on our website or as you use interactive features of the website, including, participation in surveys or otherwise communicating with us.
We may use cookies and other information gathering technologies for a variety of purposes. These technologies may provide us with personal information, information about devices and networks you utilize to access our service, and other information regarding your interactions with our website.
We partner with third parties to either display advertising on the website or to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partners may also use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on our website and other sites in order to suggest advertisements based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interest-based ads, you may opt-out by sending us an email to [email protected]
Web beacons, tags, and scripts may be used on our website or in email or other electronic communications we send to you. These assist us in delivering cookies, counting visits to our website, understanding usage and campaign effectiveness and determining whether an email has been opened and acted upon. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by our third-party service providers on an individual and aggregated basis.
To store information and content preferences, we use such technologies as service / Web Workers, Local Storage, sessionStorage, Web SQL. We can use these technologies in the background mode of the web browser.
As is true with most websites and services delivered over the Internet, we gather certain information and store it in log files when you interact with our website and service. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses as well as browser type, internet service provider, URLs of referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, the information you search for, locale and language preferences, identification numbers associated with your devices, your mobile carrier, and system configuration information. Occasionally, we connect personal information to information gathered in our log files as necessary to improve our website and service. In such a case, we would treat the combined information in accordance with this Policy.
We collect analytics information when you use the website to help us improve them. We may also share anonymous data about your actions on our website with third-party service providers of analytics services. We do not link the information we store within the analytics software to any personally identifiable information.
The website includes social media features, such as the Facebook Like button, and widgets, such as the Share This button or interactive mini-programs that run on our website. These features may collect your Internet protocol address, which page you are visiting on the website, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on the website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy statement of the companies that provide them.
We may also obtain other information, including personal information, from third parties and combine that with information we collect through our website. For example, we may have access to certain information from a third party social media or authentication service if you log into our services through such a service or otherwise provide us with access to information from the service. Any access that we may have to such information from a third party social media or authentication service is in accordance with the authorization procedures determined by that service. By authorizing us to connect with a third party service, you authorize us to access and store your name, email address(es), current city, profile picture URL, and other personal information that the third party service makes available to us, and to use and disclose it in accordance with this Policy. You should check your privacy settings on these third-party services to understand and change the information sent to us through these services. For example, you can log in to the services using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect or Telegram provider, as further described below.
You can log into certain service using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect or Telegram provider. These services will authenticate your identity, provide you with the option to share certain personal information (such as your name and email address) with us, and pre-populate our sign up form. services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about your activities in the services to your profile page to share with others within your network.
We may use the information we collect about you (including personal information, to the extent applicable) for a variety of purposes, including to
We do not share personal information with third parties constantly. However, in some cases, we can do this solely to provide you with services and to ensure the security and safety of your information. We can share information, including personal information, with our third-party service providers that we use to provide hosting for and maintenance of our websites, application development, backup, storage, payment processing, analytics and other services for us. These third-party service providers may have access to or process your personal information for the purpose of providing these services for us. We do not permit our third-party service providers to use the personal information that we share with them for their marketing purposes or for any other purpose than in connection with the services they provide to us.
In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We may disclose personal information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We may also share such information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required by law.
We may also share personal information with third parties when we have your consent to do so.
We will retain your personal information for as long as is needed to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
Except for for the terms, set forth above in this Policy, you have the following privacy rights. Please read them carefully.
You have the right to object to:
The objection has to be based on grounds relating to your particular situation. You can send the objection online to our mail [email protected]
You have the right to access your personal data. The reason to access your personal data is so that you are aware of and can verify the lawfulness of the processing. We may verify the identity of the person making the request, using reasonable means. If the request is made electronically, we shall provide you with the information in a commonly used electronic format. You have the right to obtain:
This means the right to have inaccurate personal data rectified, or completed if it is incomplete. Personal data is inaccurate if it is incorrect or misleading as to any matter of fact. In certain circumstances, we can refuse a request for rectification.
You have the right to have your personal data erased. This is also known as the ‘right to be forgotten’. The right is not absolute and only applies in certain circumstances, for example:
When processing is restricted, we can store the personal data, but not use it. You can make a request for restriction. This is an alternative to requesting the erasure of your data. The personal information can be restricted by:
This right means that you can obtain your personal information from us and reuse it for your own purposes – to move, copy or transfer personal data easily from our site to another sites or services. We shall provide the personal information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable form. Machine-readable means that the information is structured so that software can extract specific elements of the data. This enables other organizations to use the data. If you want it, we may transmit the personal information directly to another organization (site or service) if this is technically feasible.
We don’t use automated decision making (making a decision solely by automated means without any human involvement) or profiling (automated processing of personal data to evaluate certain things about an individual) systems.
You can make the requests with regard to the rights set forth above, verbally or in writing. Requests will be handled within thirty (30) days. The period of compliance can be extended by a further two months where requests are complex or numerous. If this is the case, we shall inform you within one month of the receipt of the request and explain why the extension is necessary.
Where requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular, because they are repetitive, we may charge a reasonable fee taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or refuse to respond.
If we refuse to respond to a request, we will explain the reason of that and inform you of your right to complain to the supervisory authority and to a judicial remedy without undue delay and at the latest within one month. Anyway, we shall explain our decision and inform you of your rights.
The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received. If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, you can contact us via our mail [email protected]
We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any personal information through our website or service. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce this Policy by instructing their children never to provide personal information through the website or service without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided personal information to us through the website or service, please contact us via our mail [email protected], and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete that information.
If there are any material changes to this Policy, you will be notified by our posting of a prominent notice on the website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. Your continued use of the website or the service constitutes your agreement to be bound by such changes to this Policy. Your only remedy, if you do not accept the terms of this Policy, is to discontinue use of the website and the service.
If you have questions regarding this Policy or about the idqr.me privacy practices, please contact us by email via our mail [email protected]