Powpap privacy policy

1.Introduction/Overview/Our services


● We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our customers and website users.
● This Privacy Policy explains who we are, how we collect, share and use information about you and how you can exercise your privacy rights.
● Our Privacy Policy applies to all users of Powpap websites and services
● Our website incorporates privacy controls which affect how we will process your personal data.
● We use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.
● In this policy, "we", "us" and "our” refer to Powpap.

2.What does Powpap do?

Powpap is a software company that is a provider of software for social media marketing including market understandability, social media management, analytics, reporting and social media campaign tracking.

3.What information do we collect?

When using our services we collect information about you as reasonably necessary. These information include:

Account information:


● Your contact and profile/user information including your name, email address; your preferences such as language, time zone; and image (if you choose to provide this). We may also obtain this information if you choose to use a google login or social login service, such as Facebook Login, to create or access your account.
● Your business/organization information including organization name, sector, industry and sub-industry, website, social handles and address.
● Your products/services/cause information including product/service/cause name, price and target area.
● Billing and other payment information (if you sign up for a paid service or purchase a Third-Party Service), including payment method details, such as credit card number.
● The Services you have acquired from us, including the type of plan, number of team members, and transaction information related to the Services.

Google Sign-in account information

Powpap may request access to your Google account information (email address and name) when you choose to sign in or register using your Google credentials. This data is used for authentication and account management to enhance your experience. We securely store this data, employing robust security measures, and retain it only as necessary.

Content:


● Your social profile information for Social Networks you choose to connect to the Services. For example, your Facebook profile information may include your Facebook username and profile image.
● A specific location such as an address, a city, or a place (for example, a restaurant) if you choose to share this information.
● Your messages, posts, comments, images, advertising, and other material you curate on and upload to the Services; and information that is collected from the Social Networks that you choose to connect to and which is displayed on our Services.
● Content that you may send and receive through Social Networks may contain personal information that Powpap does not directly collect or process.

Logs, usage, and support data:


●Log data, which may include your IP address, the address of the web page you visited before using the Services, your browser type and settings, your device information (such as make, model, and OS), the date and time when you used the Services, information about your browser configuration, language preferences, unique identifiers, and cookies.
● Usage data and analytics, which may include the frequency of login, and the different types of activity undertaken by users.
● General Location information, such as IP address and the region in which you are located when you are logging in and using the Services.
● Customer support questions, issues, and general feedback that you choose to provide.

4.Purposes of processing and legal bases.

In this Section 4, we have set out the purposes for which we may process personal data and the legal bases of the processing.

Operations

We may process your personal data for the purposes of providing our services, generating invoices, bills and other payment-related documentation, and credit control. The legal basis for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us.

Relationships and communications

We may process contact data, account data, transaction data and/or communication data for the purposes of managing our relationships, communicating with you by email, SMS and/or telephone, providing support services and complaint handling. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely communications with our website visitors, service users, individual customers and customer personnel, the maintenance of relationships, and the proper administration of our website, services and business.

Relationships and communications

We may process contact data, account data, transaction data and/or communication data for the purposes of managing our relationships, communicating with you by email, SMS and/or telephone, providing support services and complaint handling. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely communications with our website visitors, service users, individual customers and customer personnel, the maintenance of relationships, and the proper administration of our website, services and business.

Direct marketing

We may process contact data, account data and/or transaction data for the purposes of creating, targeting and sending direct marketing communications by email and making contact by telephone for marketing-related purposes. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely promoting our business and communicating marketing messages and offers to our website visitors and service users.

Research and analysis

We may process usage data and/or transaction data for the purposes of researching and analysing the use of our website and services, as well as researching and analysing other interactions with our business. The legal basis for this processing is consent OR our legitimate interests, namely monitoring, supporting, improving and securing our website, services and business generally.

Record keeping

We may process your personal data for the purposes of creating and maintaining our databases, back-up copies of our databases and our business records generally. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely ensuring that we have access to all the information we need to properly and efficiently run our business in accordance with this policy.

Security

We may process your personal data for the purposes of security and the prevention of fraud and other criminal activity. The legal basis of this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection of our website, services and business, and the protection of others.

Insurance and risk management

We may process your personal data where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks and/or obtaining professional advice]. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely [the proper protection of our business against risks].

Legal claims

We may process your personal data where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others].

Legal compliance and vital interests

We may also process your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person

5.Who has access to your information?

Powpap does not rent or sell your information. We restrict access to your information to authorized employees and we do not share your information with third parties except in the circumstances explained below.

Employees and Authorized Contractors

Our employees and authorized contractors may need to access information about you when they require this to perform their job. For example, a customer support representative would need access to your account to validate your identity and respond to your question or request; our email communications team would need access to your contact information to ensure this information is sent correctly and any unsubscribe requests are properly managed; and our security staff would need to review information to investigate attempted denial of service attacks, fraudulent account activity, or other attempts to compromise the Services. All our employees and contractors are required to agree to maintain the confidentiality and protect the privacy of your information.

Service Providers, Authorized Resellers, and Partners

We will share limited information about you to authorized service providers we use for marketing services, communicating with you, managing our customer database, the provision of professional services, and providing and managing the Services (including hosting data centres, securing our Services, and payment processing). We limit the number of service providers who are permitted to process your Content for the purpose of assisting us in delivering the Services. Where you have purchased a service from an authorized reseller or partner, we may provide information about you to (and may receive information about you from) the reseller or partner as necessary to support your use of the service you purchased. When sharing your information with any of these service providers, resellers and partners, we ensure they agree to obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures, and only use your information to carry out the Services and your requests.

Social Networks and Third-Party Services

Where you are using our Services and have chosen to connect your Social Networks to the Services, or if you authorize a Third-Party Service to access your account, you are agreeing to provide information about you to the Social Networks and the Third-Party Services under their respective terms and privacy policies.

Customer Organizations

Where your employer or an entity has purchased Services on your behalf, we may disclose information about you such as your name and email address, and some usage information including whether a user has logged in to the Service, frequency of login, time spent using the Services to assist your employer or the entity in managing its use and getting the most of the services.

Entities seeking acquisition, purchase or merger

We may share information with a potential buyer (and its agents, investors, and/or advisors) in connection with any proposed or actual purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy;

Law Enforcement, Government Agencies, and Professional Advisors

We may need to disclose information about you where we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law or regulation, or if we are otherwise legally required to do so, such as in response to a court order or legal process, or to establish, protect, or exercise our legal rights or to defend against legal claims or demands. In addition, we may be required to disclose information about you if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action: (a) against illegal activities, fraud, situations involving potential threats to our rights or property (or to the rights or property of those who use our Services), or to protect the personal safety of any person; or (b) regarding situations that involve the security of our Services, abuse of the Services infrastructure, or the Internet in general (such as voluminous spamming, or denial of service attacks).

6.How do we safeguard your information?

Powpap maintains industry standard security measures to protect your information. This includes ensuring our employees receive appropriate security and privacy training and guidance so they are aware of the measures they need to implement to protect your information.

We encrypt data where appropriate to ensure that your information is kept private. We undertake vendor security and privacy reviews to ensure that vendors follow our stringent requirements to safeguard your information, and we also enter into data protection agreements with our vendors. All payment information is fully encrypted and handled only by PCI certified organizations.

Various controls are in place so as to ensure access to your information and data is limited to those who need it to perform their jobs. We have put in place company policies so as to ensure individuals who are permitted to handle your information adhere to confidentiality obligations.

7.Retaining and deleting personal data

Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes. After it is no longer necessary for us to retain data or information about you, we will dispose of it in a secure manner. contact data will be retained where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, in the provision of a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).

8.Your rights

Your principal rights under data protection law are:

(a) the right to access - you can ask for copies of your personal data;
(b) the right to rectification - you can ask us to rectify inaccurate personal data and to complete incomplete personal data;
(c) the right to erasure - you can ask us to erase your personal data;
(d) the right to restrict processing - you can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data;
(e) the right to object to processing - you can object to the processing of your personal data;
(f) the right to data portability - you can ask that we transfer your personal data to another organisation or to you;
(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority - you can complain about our processing of your personal data; and
(h) the right to withdraw consent - to the extent that the legal basis of our processing of your personal data is consent, you can withdraw that consent.

These rights are subject to certain limitations and exceptions. You can learn more about the rights of data subjects by visiting Individual Rights | ICO. You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us, using the contact details set out in this privacy policy.

9.About cookies

● A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
● Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
● Cookies may not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

10.Cookies that we use.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

● authentication and status - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website, and to help us determine if you are logged into our website;
● personalisation - we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise our website for you;
● security - we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally;
● analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services;
● cookie consent - we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.
● advertising - we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you;

11.Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy. We may OR will notify you of changes OR significant changes to this policy by email.

12.How to contact us.

If you have any questions, concerns or feedback, please email our Privacy team and Privacy Officer/Data Protection Officer; Email: support@powpap.com