We ask that you read this privacy notice carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use, and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information, and how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
Purpose
Qataloog and its operating divisions, subsidiaries, affiliates, and branches are sensitive to privacy issues, and it is important to us to protect the information provided to us. Accordingly, Qataloog provides this privacy and information practices policy to inform you about our online information practices, the kinds of information we may collect, how we intend to use and share that information, and how you can correct or change such information (“Privacy Policy”).By using the Qataloog.com or the Qataloog mobile app, you expressly consent to the information handling practices described in this notice.
Scope
This Privacy Policy applies to Personal Information that is Processed by Qataloog in the course of our business, including on the Qataloog.com website (the “Site”) and the Qataloog mobile application (the “App”). All individuals whose responsibilities include the Processing of Personal Information on behalf of Qataloog are expected to protect that data by adherence to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is intended to meet requirements globally, including those in Africa, America, Europe, Asia, and other jurisdictions.
Your use of Qataloog and any Personal Information you provide through Qataloog are subject at all times to this Privacy Policy and the General Terms of Use. Terms for “Qataloog” apply to any site or mobile application owned and operated by Qataloog, Inc.
What Personal Information We Collect and How We Use It
In the course of running the Qataloog service, we collect the following personal information, either when it's provided to us by you, or where we derive it from your use of the service:
- Contact details : We use this to communicate with you; to authenticate you when you log in to the service; help facilitate payments; to manage your referral plan account; and to help resolve account and technical issues experienced using Qataloog. If you sign up to Qataloog and don't complete a subscription, we'll use it to encourage you to take out a subscription.
- Summaries of conversations: We use this to help resolve account and technical issues experienced using Qataloog.
- Details of your subscription to Qataloog. We use this to provide you with the Qataloog service and to inform how we communicate with you, and to calculate payments to our publisher partners.
- Your geographical region and IP address: We use this to determine whether we have to charge you VAT; to help resolve technical and account issues; to determine whether we can give you access to the service or to certain books; and to record, and report to our publisher partners.
- Payment Information: We use this to determine whether you have paid to access the service or a book, and to check if you are entitled to a free subscription when you apply for one. We use, Flutterwave, Stripe or any other as our payment processor.
- Marketing preferences: We use this to determine whether and how we communicate with you to promote Qataloog.
- We gather certain technical information from your use of our website by means of cookies and similar technologies.
- Additionally, we use the information for the purposes of research we undertake to understand how people use our service, and the books on it, in order to identify improvements we can make to the service, how we promote it, and the range of books we offer. The research we produce is on an aggregated basis and does not identify you personally. We use it internally, and may also provide it to others. We also use some of the information for the purposes of keeping Qataloog and our communications with you secure from unauthorised access and attacks, and for reporting any unlawful activity. We may need to process your information for the purposes of enforcing our terms of use. The types of Personal Information we may collect (directly from you or from Third Party-sources) and our privacy practices depend on the nature of the relationship you have with Qataloog and the requirements of applicable law. We endeavour to collect information only relevant for the purposes of Processing. Below are the legal bases and some of the ways we collect information and how we use it
Information collected by us
The data we collect from or about current, prospective and former Employees, customers, visitors and guests (collectively “Individuals”) includes information that may be deemed Personal Information, such as title, name, address, phone number, email address, user name, Internet Protocol address, and credit card and other financial information related to payments for services or goods. Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
- Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed address
- require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
- require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations (please note that this is different from using the 'Delete Account') option in Account Settings on the service. The 'Delete Account' option does not delete the entirety of the data we hold about you, only that which relates directly to your active Qataloog account subscription
- receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations
- object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing
- object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you
- object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information
- otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
How Qataloog collects Personal information
Some of the ways that Qataloog may collect your Personal Information include:
- Qataloog may collect Personal Information from you through various channels, including the Site, the App, in surveys, during business or marketing events, and when delivering programs and services to you.
- When you use the Site and the App, Qataloog may provide you with opportunities to sign up to receive specific information or services and may ask for your contact information (e.g. name, e-mail address or personal email address), so that we can send you specific information about our products, services and specific health conditions, with your consent.
- As you navigate Qataloog, certain passive information may also be collected, including Internet Protocol addresses, cookies, navigational data, the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet, the browser software you use and your operating system, the date and time you access Qataloog, and the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to Qataloog. This type of information is used for the purposes of gathering data to provide improved administration of Qataloog, and to improve the quality of your experience when interacting with Qataloog.