PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) explains how “IT TRAVEL LP” (“Octripus”, “we”, or “us”) collects, uses, and discloses information about you. This Privacy Policy applies when you use our websites, mobile applications, and other online products and services that link to the Policy (the “Services”), contact our customer service team, engage with us on social media, or otherwise interact with us.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this policy and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our website or providing you with a notification). We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.
Legal basis for personal data processing
We process your personal data for the following legal purposes:
- (A) To perform our responsibilities under our contract with you.
- (B) To provide, maintain, and improve our products and services, conduct data analytics, and communicate with you.
- (C) To comply with our legal obligations.
We process your personal data based on your consent to do so. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
Collection of Information
Information that you provide to us
We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, you share information directly with us when you create an account, fill out a form, submit or post content through our Services, purchase a subscription, communicate with us via third-party platforms, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us. The types of personal information we may collect include your name, display name, username, bio, email address, business information, your content, including your avatar image, photos, posts, responses, and series published by you, and any other information you choose to provide. processor.
We do not collect payment information through our Services. We rely on third parties to process payments in connection with our Services. Any information you provide to facilitate such a payment is subject to the third-party payment processor’s privacy policy, and we encourage you to review this policy before you provide any information to the payment.
Information that we collect automatically when you interact with us
In some cases, we automatically collect certain information, including:
- (A)Activity Information
We collect information about your activity on our Services, such as your reading history and when you share links, follow users, highlight posts, and like posts.
- (B)Transactional Information
When you purchase a membership, we collect information about the transaction, such as subscription details, purchase price, and the date of the transaction.
- (C)Device and Usage Information
We collect information about how you access our Services, including data about the device and network you use, such as your hardware model, operating system version, mobile network, IP address, unique device identifiers, browser type, and app version. We also collect information about your activity on our Services, such as access times, pages viewed, links clicked, and the page you visited before navigating to our Services.
- (D)Information Collected by Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies
We use cookies to collect information about you. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Services and your experience, see which areas and features of our Services are popular, and count visits.
We also work with third party analytics providers who use cookies to collect information about your use of our Services and other websites and applications, including your IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in mobile apps, and links clicked.
This information may be used by Octripus and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver content targeted to your interests on our Services, and better understand your online activity. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, see Your Choices below.
Information that we collect from other sources
We obtain information from third-party sources. For example, we may collect information about you from social networks, accounting services providers and data analytics providers. Additionally, if you create or log into your Octripus account through a third party platform (such as Apple, Facebook, Google, or Twitter), we will have access to certain information from that platform, such as your name, lists of friends or followers, birthday, and profile picture, in accordance with the authorization procedures determined by such platform.
Use of information
We use the information that we collect to provide, maintain, and improve our Services, which includes publishing and distributing user-generated content, personalizing the posts you see and operating our metered paywall. We also use the information we collect to:
- (A)
Create and maintain your Octripus account.
- (B)
Process transactions and send related information, such as confirmations, receipts, and user experience surveys.
- (C)
Send you technical notices, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
- (D)
Respond to your comments and questions and provide customer service.
- (E)
Communicate with you about new content, products, services, and features offered by Octripus and provide other news that we think will be interesting for you.
- (F)
Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services.
- (G)
Detect, investigate, and prevent security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity and protect the rights and property of Octripus and others.
- (H)
Debug to identify and repair errors in our Services.
- (I)
Comply with our legal and financial obligations.
- (J)
Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.
Sharing of information
We share personal information for the following purposes:
- (A)
We share personal information with other users of the Services. For example, if you use our Services to publish content, post comments or send private notes, certain information about you will be visible to others, such as your name, photo, bio, other account information you may provide, and information about your activities on our Services (e.g., your followers and who you follow, recent posts, claps, highlights, and responses).
- (B)
We share personal information with vendors, service providers, and consultants that need access to personal information to perform services for us, such as companies that assist us with web hosting, storage, and other infrastructure, analytics, payment processing, fraud prevention and security, customer service, communications, and marketing.
- (C)
We may disclose personal information if we believe that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
- (D)
We may share personal information if we believe that your actions do not comply with our Terms and Conditions.
- (E)
We share personal with our consultants (including legal) where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our interests.
- (F)
We may share personal information in connection with, or during negotiations concerning, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.
- (G)
We share personal information with your consent or at your direction.
Third-party embeds
We are not responsible for the information that is collected by other service providers on our platform (the “Embed”), if the content is hosted by a third party. Octripus does not control what information third parties collect through Embeds. The Policy is not applied to information collected through Embeds.
Your choices
Account information
You may access, correct, delete, and export your account information at any time by logging into the Services and navigating to the Settings page
Cookies
You may remove or reject browser cookies. As a default rule most browsers provide accepting cookies by default.
Communications Preferences
You may opt out of receiving certain communications from us, such as digests, newsletters, and activity notifications, by following the instructions in those communications or by through the setting page.
Mobile Push Notifications
With your consent, we may send push notifications to your mobile device. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your mobile device.
Data Retention
We store personal data for as long as your account remains active. If you delete your account, we will delete your account data within 14 days. We store other personal data as long as necessary to carry out the purposes for which we originally collected it and for other legitimate business purposes, including to meet our legal, regulatory, or other compliance obligations.
Data Subject Requests
You have the right to request to the personal data we hold about you and to receive your data in a portable format, the right to ask that your personal data be corrected or erased, and the right to object to, or request that we restrict, certain processing.
If you have the requests or objections to the use of your personal data, please send them to us at the following address: “Development@octripus.com”. If you wish to correct your personal data, you may do it in settings of your account.
Questions or Complaints
If you are concerned about our processing of your personal data that we are not able to resolve, you have the right to file a complaint with the Data Protection Authority where you reside. Contact details for your Data Protection Authority where you reside. Contact details for your Data Protection Authority can be found using the links below.
- (A)
For individuals in the EEA: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en
- (B)
For individuals in the UK: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
- (C)
For individuals in Switzerland: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home/the-fdpic/contact.html
Contact us
If you have any questions about the Policy, please contact us at “Development@octripus.com”.