Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how Seekkr handles your personal information and sets out the
rights and obligations that both you and Seekkr have
in relation to your personal information.
By accessing seekkr.com (the
"Site") you accept and agree to the terms and conditions of Seekkr’s user agreement ("User Agreement"), which
includes your consent to, and authorization of, the collection, use and
disclosure of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Note that under Seekkr's terms and conditions of use,
you must not use the Site if you are under 18 years old.
1.
Personal Information
Seekkr provides a unique, innovative, community based online
outsourcing platform for services. We need personal information to run this
platform, in case of failure by you to provide information requested by us may
mean that we are unable to provide some or all of our services.
Seekkr collects personal information when you register with and start
using the Seekkr as service provider, tasker or customer. This may include, but is not limited
to, your name, address, phone number, contact details, birth date, gender, location,
credit card and bank account details, occupation, interests, and application
details for verification services. We might also give you the option of
providing a photo or video to be associated with your Seekkr
account. If your personal info changes, it is your responsibility to update
your account with those changes, so that We can keep
our records up to date, complete and accurate.
You are not anonymous to us when you
log into the Site or post any content (including tasks, items to be supplied,
bids, comments or feedback) on the Site or any associated forum. To enable us
to improve our existing services and to create new service features, Seekkr may collect, and share with other users and service
providers on Seekkr, information about the way you
use our services, including (but not limited to) the transactions you enter
into on the Site, your feedback rating (including any references requested
using our 'Reference' feature), the bids/offers you make, the comments you
post, and the transactions you enter into with our valued affiliate service
providers.
When you:
- use the site to post a task or service to be supplied,
or make a offer bid, or comment on a bid, or
provide feedback on other users; or
- otherwise communicate in a public forum on the site,
Your user ID, Name, City, Country
and Location and all the material that you post is
visible to other Seekkr users and is also publicly
available to other internet users. We strongly encourage you to use caution and
discretion when posting. Seekkr does not in any way
control, and does not accept any responsibility or liability whatsoever for,
the disclosure or use of personal information which is voluntarily posted by
you in any publicly accessible area of the site or our apps.
Seekkr may also receive and record information from your internet
browser and computer, including IP addresses, city, country, latitude,
longitude, your currency info and exchange rates to improve the user experience
on the site, cookies (see section 2 below), software and hardware attributes
and your page requests.
In addition to data collected from
your submissions, we may also collect data on your internet behavior from
Facebook, other social media sites, and other services. If you use a location-
enabled Seekkr service, We
may collect and process information about your actual location (for example,
GPS signals sent by your mobile device). We may also use a range of different
technologies to confirm your location.
Seekkr may use the information collected by it to provide the Seekkr Services, including (but not limited to):
- User identification and authentication, login, social using
facebook, google etc;
- To protect Seekkr and the
users of the Site;
- To customize the content and any advertising displayed
on the Site;
- To provide, maintain, protect and improve our services;
- Providing your information to a user with whom you have
or had a contract facilitated by Seekkr;
- As required by law, an order of a court, tribunal or
regulator or if Seekkr reasonably believes that
the use or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary for
enforcement related activities;
- To develop new service features;
- To ensure that Seekkr
receives payment of the fees due to it;
- To contact you (for example, to inform you about
upcoming changes or improvements to our services);
- To conduct research;
- To permit content on the Site (such as postings or
third party advertisements) to be targeted, on an aggregate basis, to the
users for whom it is most likely to be relevant;
- To expand our user base;
- To develop our relationships with affiliate service
providers;
- To provide or arrange internal or external verification
services obtained by you via the website or our apps; and
- To generate data reports on an aggregated,
non-personally identifiable basis, for both internal and third party use,
but subject to any applicable laws (for example, We
may show advertisers or investors trends relating to the general use of Seekkr's services).
Your contact information may also be
used for accounting, invoicing and billing purposes, marketing purposes, by
third party service providers to Seekkr, and to
respond to any inquiry you make, in some cases information we collect is
transferred overseas. When you contact Seekkr, We may
keep a record of the communication(s) between you and Seekkr
to help resolve any issues you might have. If other user(s) of the Site already
have your user ID (or other information identifying you), and you have chosen
to upload a photo or other personal information to your Seekkr
account, We may show those user(s) that personal
information.
In certain circumstances, We will use your email address to administer our User
Agreement (for example, We may notify you of a breach, or action a request for
a Take Down Notice in response to a claim of copyright infringement).
If we collect, use or disclose any
information from you that is not personal information, but is sensitive
information (such as information relating to police checks conducted on users
of the Site), then we will seek consent directly from you each time we collect,
use or disclose your sensitive information, including for direct marketing
purposes. We will not use or disclose your sensitive information for any other
purpose unless the purpose is directly related to the primary purpose for which
your sensitive information was collected.
2.
Cookies and Anonymous Identifiers
If you have registered on the site
then your computer or device may store an identifying cookie or anonymous
identifier, which can save your time each time you re-visit the site, by
accessing your information when you sign-in to Seekkr.
Seekkr may use cookies and anonymous identifiers for a number of
purposes including to access your information when you sign in, keep track of
your preferences, direct specific content to you, report on Seekkr's
user base, and to improve Seekkr's services. We may
also use cookies or anonymous identifiers when you interact with our affiliate
service providers (for example, when you integrate your Seekkr
account with your Facebook profile).
You agree that if you change the
settings on your internet browser to block or restrict cookies (including
cookies associated with Seekkr's services), or to
indicate when a cookie is being set by Seekkr, the Seekkr Services may not work as intended. You should
remember that, while you may still be able to use the Site if your cookies are
disabled, our services may not function properly on your device and you may not
be able to take advantage of certain Seekkr features.
3.
Protecting & Maintaining Personal Information
Your account is protected by a
password for your privacy and security. We will take all reasonable steps to
protect the information. We hold about you from unauthorized access, use, and
disclosure, however, We cannot guarantee the absolute security of that
information, or that our systems will be completely free from third party
interception or are incorruptible from viruses. We cannot and do not guarantee
that information you send from your computer to us over the Internet will be
protected by any form of encryption (encoding software). In light of this, We cannot and do not ensure or warrant the security or
privacy of your personal information, including payment and account details.
You transmit your personal information to us at your own risk.
You are entirely responsible for
maintaining the security of your passwords and/or account information.
4.
Third Parties
The Site may contain links to third
party websites including the networks of our valued affiliate service
providers, advertisers, and Payment gateways, or make available services
obtained from third parties, including verification services by third-party
verification providers. If you follow a link to any of these websites, for
instance using any third party payment system, or use any services obtained
from third-party service providers via the Site that requires you to provide
personal information (including sensitive information if relevant) directly to
such third parties (for instance third party verification providers), note that
they have their own privacy policies. If you use our Site to link to another
site, or use a service obtained from a third party service provider via the
Site, you will be subject to that site's or third party's terms and conditions
of use, privacy policy and security statement. We strongly encourage you to
view these before disclosing any of your personal information on such sites.
Seekkr does not control, and does not accept any responsibility or
liability for, the privacy policy of, and use of personal information by, any
party other than Seekkr, including any user of the
Site, the operators of any website to which the Site links, or third party
service providers to whom you directly provide your personal information
(including sensitive information if relevant) to.
If Seekkr is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale. We will give affected users of the Site notice before their
personal information is transferred to another entity or becomes subject to a
different privacy policy.
Third-party vendors, including
Google, may show Seekkr ads on sites across the
Internet. The Seekkr website and Mobile Apps make use
of the Google Maps API to assist with location based information. More
information about the Google Maps API and the related privacy policy can be
found here http://www.google.com/privacy.html
For the avoidance of doubt, if you
use any verification services made available by Seekkr
via its Site, that is not performed by Seekkr but a
third party verification provider, then any personal information (including
sensitive information if relevant) that you provide as required by that third
party in order to perform its verification services, will be collected directly
by the relevant third party verification provider and will not be collected,
handled, stored or otherwise used by Seekkr. Seekkr will only receive your verification status from the
third party verification provider (for example, 'granted' or 'not granted' or
such other like status) in order to issue any relevant Verification Badge on
the Site. The use and handling of personal information (including sensitive
information if relevant) remain the responsibility of the third party verification
provider under its own privacy policy.
5.
Marketing
When you register on the site you
may get various emails and SMS about our latest services, news, and special
offers, and those of our valued affiliate service providers ("Marketing
Material"), via your Seekkr account, personal
e-mail address, post or telephone. If you conclude a transaction on the Site,
you may also receive Marketing Material from Seekkr
and our valued affiliate service providers.
For our promotional emails, you can opt-out
our emails anytime by simply clicking on to the unsubscribe button beneath the
email body that you have received.
Seekkr may contact you as the result of a referral by another user
of the Site who has provided us with contact information, such as your name and
email address. The use of contact information received in connection with a
referral will be governed by this Privacy Policy.
Seekkr uses Remarketing with Google Analytics to advertise online.
Using the Ads Settings in a personal Google account, visitors can opt-out of
Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network
ads.
Marketing Seekkr
and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the
Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick
cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on someone's past
visits to the Seekkr website.
Using the Ads Settings in a personal
Google account, visitors can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display
Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads.
6.
Administrative Communications
Seekkr reserves the right to send you administrative and
account-related messages that you may not opt-out of. To cease all
communications to you from Seekkr you must close down
your Seekkr account.
7.
Accessing Personal Information
We will allow you, at any time, to
access, edit, update and/ or delete the personal
information that We hold about you, unless:
We are legally permitted or required
to deny you access to, and/ or to retain, the information; or you make
request(s) that are unreasonably repetitive, require Seekkr
to make a disproportionate technical effort (for example, to develop an
entirely new system), risk the privacy of others, or would be highly
impractical to comply with.
If you wish to access the personal
information We hold about you, or to delete your Seekkr account, you should contact us here.
We need to prevent information in
our systems from being accidentally or maliciously destroyed. This means that,
where you delete information from our services, residual copies of that
information on our active servers, as well as any corresponding information on
our back-up systems, may not be immediately deleted.
8.
Privacy Concerns
If you have concerns about how we
handle your personal information or require further information, please email Seekkr using the contact form provided on the Site. If you
make a formal written complaint in relation to our compliance with this Privacy
Policy, We will contact you to follow up on that complaint. Other than material
that you voluntarily choose to post on the Site (such as sender postings, bids
and comments on other users), the only information about you that We will post publicly is your Seekkr
public profile.
9: Privacy Policy Updates
Seekkr may, from time to time, modify this Privacy Policy (and
update the web page on which it is displayed). Seekkr
will send notification of any such modification to your Seekkr
account and/or your registered email address.
You should check that account
regularly.