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Privacy Policy
1. GENERAL
1.1. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, consult or process any personal information provided through the Website or through our Services. This Privacy Policy is intended to inform the Merchant(s) how we gather, define, and use the information that is provided to us when using our Services. Please take a moment to read this Privacy Policy carefully.
1.2. Shopflo may change or amend this Privacy Policy from time to time to incorporate necessary future changes. Shopflo’s use of the Merchant(s) Data shall be in adherence with the provisions of the relevant privacy policy under which the information was collected, regardless of new or conflicting provisions in an updated Privacy Policy.
1.3. Shopflo terms require all account owners to be at least eighteen (18) years of age (or have the permission and supervision of a responsible parent or legal guardian), therefore this policy does not discuss the use of our Services by minors.
1.4. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
1.4.1. If you are using our Services of Shopflo to design and/or improve your website services and improve the experience of your customers; and/or have created a Shopflo account, you shall be classified as a Merchant;
1.5. Please read through this Privacy Policy to better understand what data we use and how we use your data for each of the above classifications.
2. COLLECTION OF THE MERCHANT(S) DATA
2.1. In the course of providing the Services to you, Shopflo collects the following information that you shall provide to us through (a) forms and emails; or (b) entering data into the content management system; (c) Shopflo’s sales team (“Merchant Data”):
2.1.1. Contact details (for instance, last name, first name, telephone number, email)
2.1.2. Details about the business (Pan Card, TAN card, GST details, bank account information)
2.1.3. Details about the business (Pan Card, TAN card, GST details, bank account information)
2.2 We may automatically collect some information about your hardware devices when you access Shopflo. For example, when you utilize our Services, through a third party service such as Google Analytics we may collect your internet protocol (“IP”) and the type of device you use, as well as your geographic location. We may combine this automatically gathered information with other information, including other Merchant Data we have collected about you;
2.3. We may receive and store certain types of information known as “cookies” when you access one of our websites. A website may contain links to third-party trackers on their individual websites, such data shall be governed by the individual website’s policies and not through this Privacy Policy
2.4. We may receive information from third parties (including, for example business partners, providers of technical, payment and delivery services, social media service providers, advertising networks, analytics providers, and search information providers) about your usage trends;
2.5. If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails, we may collate such information into a file specific to you.
3. USE OF THE MERCHANT DATA
3.1. In order to request a demo from Shopflo or send an enquiry to us, you may provide us with some information, such as your name, hotel name, business email, and phone number. When you provide this information to us, we will use it to enable you to obtain your online demo. In this case, the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is your consent and the performance of a contract with you, or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract. When you (on behalf of your organisation) proceed to request, purchase and/or use the right to use any of our products and/or services, further information may be requested from you (such as bank account, payment gateway information, and other information for invoicing and payment) and processed accordingly, based on the same legal grounds. In addition, invoices are stored to comply with legal (tax) obligations. These invoices for compliance purposes if requested might be shared with authorities.
3.2. We use your Merchant Data and other information we obtain from your current and past activities through your use of our Services to: resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; collect fees owed; measure consumer interest in the services and features provided by us, inform you about our offers, products, services, and updates; customize your experience; detect and protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity.
3.3. We or our group companies, may collect, hold and use information you share with us in order to provide our Services and products to you.
3.4. Shopflo uses this data to deliver the Services to you upon request, to customize the Services to your interests, to measure traffic within our Services and provide insight to third-parties as to the distribution of the users of Services . You agree that we may use your Merchant Data to contact you and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests. Such portion of the Merchant Data provided by you to Shopflo that may be personal or sensitive in nature, will not be provided to third parties without previous consent of the user concerned. Merchant Data of a general nature may however be revealed to external parties.
3.5. We use or may use the data collected through cookies, log file, device identifiers, location data and information to:
(a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the site;
(b) provide custom, personalized content and information;
(c) provide and monitor the effectiveness of our Services;
(d) monitor aggregate metrics and demographic patterns; and
(e) diagnose or fix technology problems.
3.6. We may use third parties that we refer to as internal service providers to facilitate or outsource one or more aspects of the business, product and service operations that we provide to through our Services and therefore we may provide some of the Merchant Data directly to these internal service providers. These internal service providers are subject to confidentiality agreements with us and other legal restrictions that prohibit their use of the information we provide them for any other purpose except to facilitate the specific outsourced Website related operation, unless you have explicitly agreed or given your prior permission to them for additional uses. If you provide additional information to an internal service provider directly, then their use of your Merchant Data is governed by their applicable privacy policy.
3.7. In the event you choose to make use of our services and make payments via net banking, credit/debit card or online wallets, you shall be required to provide information, which may include payment instrument number (e.g., credit card), name and billing address, the security code associated with the payment instrument, etc (“Payment Data”). We may use your Merchant Data to contact you in regard to payment related issues. We use Payment Data to, amongst other things, complete transactions, as well as to detect and prevent fraud. When you provide Payment Data, you acknowledge that such payment gateway may collect your payment information, but such information is not stored on our servers.
4. COLLECTION OF END-USER DATA
4.1. In the course of using the Website, Shopflo collects the following information that you provide to us through the use of the websites designed and created by us (“End User Data”):
4.2. We may automatically collect some information about your hardware devices when you access the websites. For example, when you utilize the website designed by us, hosted on third party services, we may collect your internet protocol (“IP”) address and the type of device you use, as well as your geographic location. We may combine this automatically gathered information with other information, including other End User Data we have collected about you;-Contact details (for instance, last name, first name, telephone number, email)-Details about the business (Pan Card, TAN card, GST details, bank account information)-Details about mode of payment including payment gateway used and associated patent gateway keys, etc., to place order
4.3. We may receive and store certain types of information known as “cookies” when you access one of our websites. A website may contain links to third-party trackers on their individual websites, such data shall be governed by the individual website’s policies and not through this Privacy Policy
4.4. We may receive information from third parties (including, for example business partners, providers of technical, payment and delivery services, social media service providers, advertising networks, analytics providers, and search information providers) about your usage trends;
4.5. We may receive information when you fill up forms on websites designed by Shopflo, this data provided on those websites shall be stored on our systems. All such data shall be provided to the Merchant via email. The Merchant’s use of such data shall be governed by their individual privacy policies.
4.6. If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or fill out forms, we may collate such information into a file or a system specific to you. Shopflo does not collect any payment information from you, and your disclosure of such information will be bound by the data collection/privacy policy of the relevant payment gateway.
4.7. Shopflo may retain certain records of the information collected about you for a period of five (5) years after termination of your account. However, Shopflo reserves the right to delete and destroy all of the information collected about you upon termination of your account unless you request otherwise.
4.8. Not withstanding the above, you have the right to request the deletion of your data. You acknowledge that we cannot continue to provide our Service to you if you request the deletion of your data.
5. USE OF END-USER DATA
5.1. We use End User Data and other information we obtain from your current and past activities on the website designed by us to: resolve disputes; troubleshoot problems; collect fees owed; measure consumer interest in the services and features provided by us, inform you about our offers, products, services, and updates; customize experiences and to safeguard ourselves. Such End User Data shall also be used to provide analytics data to the Merchant.
5.2. We or our group companies or affiliates, may collect, hold and use information you share on the websites designed by us in order to provide our services and products to users.
5.3. IIn addition to this Privacy Policy, End Users shall also be governed by the individual policies of the relevant Merchant. The End User Data of a general nature may however be revealed to third parties and Shopflo.
5.4. We use or may use the data collected through cookies, log file, device identifiers, location data and clear gifs information to: (a) remember information so that an End User will not have to re-enter it during the next time they visit the Merchant’s platform; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information and offers of behalf of the Merchant; (c) provide and monitor the effectiveness of our services; (d) monitor aggregate metrics and demographic patterns; and (e) diagnose or fix technology problems.
5.5. We may use third parties that we refer to as internal service providers to facilitate or outsource one or more aspects of the business, product and service operations that we provide to you on the Merchant website and therefore we may provide some of the End User Data directly to these internal service providers. These internal service providers are subject to confidentiality agreements with us and other legal restrictions that prohibit their use of the information we provide them for any other purpose except to facilitate the specific outsourced Merchant-related operation.
6. SHARING YOUR MERCHANT OR USER DATA
6.1. We do not sell, otherwise disclose, or share the Merchant or End User Data that we collect and hold, except as described in this Privacy Policy.
6.2. We may share the Merchant or End User Data and your information (including but not limited to, information from cookies, log files, device identifiers, location data, and usage data) with businesses that are legally affiliated with Shopflo or that become part of that group (“Affiliates”). Affiliates may utilize this information to help provide, understand, and improve the Service.
6.3. We may remove parts of data that can identify you and share anonymized data with other parties. We may also combine your information with other information in a way that it is no longer associated with you and share that aggregated information.
6.4. When you use our Services, we will process some personal data (of your customers and/or potential customers) for or on behalf of your organisation. This means we operate as a ‘processer’ for your organisation, while your organisation is a ‘controller’, in accordance with EU privacy laws and regulations. Your organisation is responsible to ensure that you process (personal) data in accordance with applicable (privacy) laws and regulations, and that a valid legal basis applies for your processing of personal data using our systems.
6.5. We use or may use Merchant or End User to send out automated metrics mailers, analytics and any end user data that might have been collected on the Website. All of our Merchant or End User is stored on servers which may be located outside India, and might be processed outside the country. Some of our 3rd parties may track your IP address to provide you content from a server close to you in order to give you a fast experience. In such cases, your IP address may be in servers across the world.
6.6. In developing our products and services, we keep the following primary purpose in mind: to increase transactions on your website by helping your organisation improve its transaction process and customer experience and personalise offers and interactions with potential customers.
6.7. We advise your organisation to provide all required information about its processing of personal data, including our processing of personal data for or on behalf of your organisation. For this purpose, we offer a standard explanation suggested by us, under the express condition that your organisation acknowledges and agrees that it remains solely responsible for any information provided or not provided by your organisation about its processing of personal data, including its use of our product and services and its own particular purpose it may have with them.
6.8. Shopflo does not collect, retain, or share data regarding a particular user’s activity across multiple websites or applications that are not owned by/affiliated to Shopflo.
6.9. Shopflo may share your sensitive information with any third party without obtaining your prior consent in the following limited circumstances:
6.9.1. When it is requested or required by law or by any court or governmental agency or authority to disclose, for the purpose of verification of identity, or for the prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, or for prosecution and punishment of offences. These disclosures are made in good faith and belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary for enforcing the terms, this Privacy Policy, or for complying with the applicable laws and regulations.
6.9.2. Shopflo proposes to share such information within its group companies and officers and employees of such group companies for the purpose of processing Merchant or End User on its behalf. Shopflo also ensures that the recipients of such information agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
7. COMMUNICATION AND MARKETING
7.1. When you create an account and/or obtain access to our Services, you will be able to receive promotional emails regarding latest offers and discounts from us.
7.2. Please note that in case you don’t wish to receive such e-mail, you have the full liberty to opt-out of such communication at any time.
7.3. To unsubscribe from our email list, you can send us the email at [contact@shopflo.com]
7.4. Please note, that should you opt-out of our emailing list, as described here, we will not be able to remove your information from the databases of affiliates, franchisees or business partners with which we have already shared your Data, prior to the date of your opt-out request.
8. RIGHTS UNDER THE EU PRIVACY LAW
8.1. If you are in the EU, in addition to the above-mentioned rights the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) grants you specific rights, summarized below, which you can in principle exercise free of charge, subject to statutory exceptions, regarding your data. To exercise any of your rights, you can file a request via email at [contact@shopflo.com]
8.1.1. Right to withdraw consent: Wherever we rely on your consent, you will be able to withdraw that consent at any time you choose and at your own initiative by contacting us at [contact@shopflo.com]. While you will not be able to withdraw consent for any transaction-based emails, you will be able to opt out of product update related communication.
8.1.2. Right to access and rectify your data: You have the right to access, review, and rectify your information. You may be entitled to ask us for a copy of your information, to review or correct it if you wish to rectify any information like your name, email address, passwords and/or any other preferences.
8.1.3. Right to erasure: You may request that we erase your information in certain circumstances, such as where we collected your information on the basis of your consent, and you withdraw your consent.
8.1.4. Right to restriction of processing: Under certain circumstances described in EU Privacy Law, you may ask us to restrict the processing of your information.
8.1.5. Right to data portability: You may request that we provide a copy of your information to you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format in certain circumstances.
9. SUB-PROCESSORS
9.1. To support delivery of our Services, Shopflo may engage and use data processors with access to certain Customer Data (each, a “Subprocessor”). This section provides important information about the identity, location and role of each Subprocessor.
9.2. All our processors and sub-processors are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information in line with our policies. We do not allow our processors and sub-processors to use your personal data for their own purposes. We only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
9.3. As our business grows and evolves, the Subprocessors we engage may also change. We will endeavour to provide the owner of Customer's account with notice of any new Subprocessors to the extent required under the Agreement, along with posting such updates here. Please check back frequently for updates.
10. SECURITY
10.1. The security of your personal information is important to us. Your Shopflo account information is protected by a password. It is important that you protect against unauthorized access of your account and information by exercising caution in selecting your password carefully and ensuring the security of your password and computer secure by signing out after using our services.
10.2. We have implemented procedures to help in protection of information provided by you. Nevertheless, no method of electronic data transmission or storage is entirely impervious to security breaches, and we cannot guarantee that such information will never be accessed, used, or released in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy. You agree and acknowledge that we may engage third-party service providers for the provision of cloud service storage solutions, and Shopflo is not responsible for any lapse in security on the part of such service providers. We expressly disclaim any representation or warranty, whether express or implied, regarding the assurance, guarantee, or promise of absolute security concerning your Information. YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE SECRECY OF YOUR ACCOUNT INFORMATION AT ALL TIMES.
10.3. You shall be solely responsible for all activities performed by you through your Shopflo account. Shopflo assumes no responsibility or liability for the improper use of information relating to usage of credit cards and/or debit cards by you, whether online or off-line.
10.4. To protect your privacy and security, we will verify your identity prior to granting access or making changes to your personally identifying information. Upon your registrationwith Shopflo, your Shopflo ID and Password are required to access your profile information.
11. CONTACT US
11.1. Questions, comments, remarks, requests or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy are welcome and should be addressed by the Merchant(s) to [contact@shopflo.com].
