Terms of Service
Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at Mzdad
Marketplace (“Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”).
We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to
privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy, or our
practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us
at info@mzdad.com.
When you visit our website https://mzdad.com or the mobile
application, and use our services, you trust us with your personal
information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy policy,
we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we
collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you
take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If there are
any terms in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please
discontinue use of our Site or Apps and our services.
This privacy policy applies to all information
collected through our website (https://mzdad.com), mobile
application, ("Apps"), and/or any related services,
sales, marketing or events (we refer to them collectively in this privacy
policy as the "Services").
Please read this terms of service & privacy policy carefully as it
will help you make informed decisions about sharing your personal information
with us.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
4. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
5. DO WE USE GOOGLE MAPS?
6. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
7. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
8. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
9. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
10. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?
12. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
In Short: We collect personal
information that you provide to us such as name, address, contact information,
passwords and security data, and payment information.
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide
to us when registering at
the Services or Apps, expressing an interest in obtaining
information about us or our products and services, when participating in activities
on the Services or Apps or otherwise contacting us.
The personal information that we collect depends on the
context of your interactions with us and the Services or Apps,
the choices you make and the products and features you use. The personal
information we collect
can
include the following:
Publicly Available Personal Information. We
collect phone numbers, email addresses, business
email, business phone number, social media, and other similar
data.
Credentials. We collect passwords, password
hints, and similar security information used for authentication and account
access.
All personal information that you provide to us must be
true, complete and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such
personal information.
Information automatically collected
In Short: Some information – such as
IP address and/or browser and device characteristics – is collected
automatically when you visit our Services or Apps.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit,
use or navigate the Services or Apps. This information does not
reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may
include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and
device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs,
device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services or Apps and
other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain
the security and operation of our Services or Apps, and for our
internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Like many businesses, we also collect information through
cookies and similar technologies.
Information collected through our Apps
In Short: We may collect
information regarding your geo-location, mobile device, push
notifications, when you use our apps.
If you use our Apps, we may also collect the following
information:
- Geo-Location
Information. We may request access or permission to and track
location-based information from your mobile device, either continuously or
while you are using our mobile application, to provide location-based
services. If you wish to change our access or permissions, you may do so
in your device’s settings.
- Mobile
Device Access. We may request access or permission to certain
features from your mobile device, including your mobile
device’s storage, and other features. If you wish to change our
access or permissions, you may do so in your device’s settings.
- Push
Notifications. We may request to send you push notifications
regarding your account or the mobile application. If you wish to opt-out
from receiving these types of communications, you may turn them off in
your device’s settings.
2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We process your
information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the
fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations,
and/or your consent.
We use personal information collected via
our Services or Apps for a variety of business purposes
described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in
reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or
perform a contract with you, with your consent,
and/or for compliance with our
legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next
to each purpose listed below.
We use the information we collect or receive:
- To
facilitate account creation and logon process. If you choose to
link your account with us to a third party account (such as your Google
or Facebook account), we use the information you allowed us to collect
from those third parties to facilitate account creation and logon process
for the performance of the contract.
- To
send you marketing and promotional communications. We and/or our
third party marketing partners may use the personal information you send
to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your
marketing preferences. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any
time (see the "WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS"
below).
- Fulfill
and manage your orders. We may use your information to fulfill
and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through
the Services or Apps.
- Deliver
targeted advertising to you. We may use your information to
develop and display content and advertising (and work with third parties
who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its
effectiveness.
- Request
Feedback. We may use your information to request feedback and to
contact you about your use of
our Services or Apps.
- To
protect our Services. We may use your information as part of our
efforts to keep our Services or Apps safe and secure
(for example, for fraud monitoring and
prevention).
- To
enable user-to-user communications. We may use your information
in order to enable user-to-user communications with each user's
consent.
- To
enforce our terms, conditions and policies for Business Purposes, Legal
Reasons and Contractual.
- To
respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a
subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold
to determine how to
respond.
- To
deliver services to the user. We may use your information to
provide you with the requested
service.
- To
respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may use
your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential
issues you might have with the use of our Services.
- For
other Business Purposes. We may use your information for other
Business Purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends,
determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate
and improve our Services or Apps, products, marketing and
your experience. We may use and store this information in aggregated
and anonymized form so that it is not associated with individual end
users and does not include personal information. We will not use
identifiable personal information without your
consent.
3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
In Short: We only share
information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with
services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.
We may process or share data based on the following legal
basis:
- Consent: We
may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your
personal information in a specific purpose.
- Legitimate
Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably
necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
- Performance
of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you,
we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our
contract.
- Legal
Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are
legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law,
governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal
process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in
response to public authorities to meet national security or law
enforcement requirements).
- Vital
Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it
is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential
violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving
potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or
as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
More specifically, we may need to process your data or share
your personal information in the following situations:
- Vendors,
Consultants and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We may
share your data with third party vendors, service providers, contractors
or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access
to such information to do that work. Examples include: payment
processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer
service and marketing efforts. We may allow selected third parties to use
tracking technology on the Services or Apps, which will
enable them to collect data about how you interact with
the Services or Apps over time. This information may
be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the
popularity of certain content and better understand online activity.
Unless described in this Policy, we do not share, sell, rent or trade any
of your information with third parties for their promotional purposes.
- Business
Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection
with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets,
financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another
company.
- Third-Party
Advertisers. We may use third-party advertising companies to
serve ads when you visit the Services or Apps. These
companies may use information about your visits to our Website(s) and
other websites that are contained in web cookies and other tracking
technologies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services
of interest to you.
- Affiliates. We
may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will
require those affiliates to honor this privacy policy. Affiliates
include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners
or other companies that we control or that are under common control with
us.
- Business
Partners. We may share your information with our business
partners to offer you certain products, services or
promotions.
4. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING
TECHNOLOGIES?
In Short: We may use cookies and
other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like
web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. Specific information
about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is
set out in our Cookie Policy.
5. DO WE USE GOOGLE MAPS?
In Short: Yes, we use Google
Maps for the purpose of providing better service.
This website, mobile application, or Facebook application
uses Google Maps APIs. You may find the Google Maps APIs Terms of Service here. To
better understand Google’s Privacy Policy, please refer to this link.
By using our Maps API Implementation, you agree to be bound
by Google’s Terms of Service. By using our implementation of the Google
Maps APIs, you agree to allow us to gain access to information about you
including personally identifiable information (such as usernames) and
non-personally identifiable information (such as location). We will be
collecting the following information:
·
Location
For a full list of what we use information for, please see
the previous section titled "HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?"
and “WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?” You agree to allow
us to obtain or cache your location. You may revoke your consent at any time.
The Maps APIs that we use store and access cookies and other
information on your devices.
6. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We keep your information for
as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy
policy unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as
it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a
longer retention period is
required or permitted by law (such as tax,
accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this policy will require
us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in
which users have an account with us.
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.
7. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
In Short: We aim to protect your
personal information through a system of organizational and technical security
measures.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational
security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information
we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the
internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your
personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services or Apps is
at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure
environment.
8. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
In Short: We do not knowingly
collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children
under 18 years of age. By using the Services or Apps, you
represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of
such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services or Apps.
If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has
been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to
promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we
have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at info@mzdad.com.
9. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: You may review,
change, or terminate your account at any time.
Account Information
If you would at any time like to review or change the
information in your account or terminate your account, you can:
■
Log into your account settings and update
your user account.
■
Contact us using the contact information
provided.
Upon your request to terminate your account, we will
deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases.
However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud,
troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use
and/or comply with legal requirements.
Cookies and similar technologies: Most
Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can
usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If
you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain
features or services of our Services or Apps.
Opting out of email marketing: You can
unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any time by clicking on the
unsubscribe link in the emails that we send or by contacting us using the
details provided below. You will then be removed from the marketing email list
– however, we will still need to send you service-related emails that are
necessary for the administration and use of your account. To otherwise opt-out,
you may:
■
Access your account settings and update
preferences.
■
Contact us using the contact information
provided.
■
Note your preferences when you register an
account with the site.
10. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and
mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can
activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online
browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for
recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not
currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that
automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard
for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will
inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy
policy.
11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?
In Short: Yes, we will update
this policy as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy policy from time to
time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and
the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make
material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by
prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a
notification. We encourage you to review this privacy
policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your
information.
12. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?
If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at info@mzdad.com or by post to:
Mzdad Marketplace
#13-1st Floor Tanuf Building
Al Ghubra, Muscat
Oman
HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT
FROM YOU?
Based on the laws of some countries, you may have the right
to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that
information, or delete it in some circumstances. To request to review, update,
or delete your personal information, please email us at info@mzdad.com. We will
respond to your request within 30 days.
