Effective as of 1st of April 2021
AYOlingo takes data protection very seriously, and we are committed to protecting your personal information. This privacy policy governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.
This policy explains what information we gather about you, what we use that information for, and who we give that information to. It also sets out your rights in relation to your information, how long we keep it and who you can contact for more information. Additionally, it will explain the use of cookies or software, advertising or commercial sponsorship from third parties and the download of any documents, files or software made available to you (if any) on our website (https://ayolingo.org/).
It is our policy to collect only the minimum information required from you. If you believe we have collected excessive information about you, please contact us info@ayolingo.org to raise any concerns you may have.
Although you do not have to provide any of your personal information to us, if we ask you to do so and you refuse, we may be unable to provide you with the information, goods or services you want from us.
Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through AYOlingo app and confirm that they have the third party’s consent to provide the Data to us.
What is Personal Information?
Personal information is anything that enables you to be identified or identifiable, such as your:
· First and last names
· Postal and email addresses
· Telephone numbers
· Contact information
Your personal information is sometimes called personal data. We collectively refer to handling, collecting, protecting or storing your personal information as ‘processing’.
Collecting Personal Information
Below are just some examples of how you may provide personal information to us:
·· Searching, browsing and entering information on our website or application.
· Downloading guides or content
· Subscribing to our newsletters
· Opening a Support Ticket
· Accessing our online publications
· Entering our surveys
· Uploading personal data to the AYOlingo service
Purpose of Using Personal Information
When you provide personal information to us, we may use it for any of the purposes described below or as stated at the point we collect it from you (or as may obvious to you from the context of collection), including:
Personal information can be used for research and development. We analyze use of the Service to improve the Service and to develop new products and services, including by studying user demographics and use of the Service.
It can also be used to send you marketing and promotional communications. We may send you AYOlingo - related marketing communications as permitted by law. You will have the ability to opt-out of our marketing and promotional communications as described in the Opt out of marketing section below.
To comply with law, we use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.
Personal information can be processed for compliance, fraud prevention, and safety. We may use your personal information and disclose it to law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties as we believe necessary or appropriate to: (a) protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims); (b) enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Service; and (c) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.
In some cases we may specifically ask for your consent to collect, use or share your personal information, such as when required by law.
We may create anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous, aggregated or de-identified data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and promote our business.
Legal Grounds For Processing Personal Information
We may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:
In any case, we will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Security Of Personal Information
We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction.
Only authorised persons are provided access to personally identifiable information we have collected, and such individuals have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of this information.
Although we use appropriate security measures once we have received your personal data, the transmission of data over the internet (including by e-mail) is never completely secure.
We endeavour to protect personal data, but we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to or by us.
Sharing Personal Information
We do not share your personal information with third parties without your consent, except in the following circumstances or as described in this Privacy Policy:
Affiliates - We may share your personal information with our affiliates, for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Service providers - We may share your personal information with third party companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Service (such as customer support, hosting, analytics, email delivery, marketing, payment processing and database management services). These third parties may use your personal information only as directed or authorised by us and in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy, and are prohibited from using or disclosing your information for any other purpose.
Third-party platforms and social media networks - If you have enabled features or functionality that connect the Service to a third-party platform or social media network (such as by logging in to the Service using your account with the third-party, providing your API key or similar access token for the Service to a third-party, or otherwise linking your account with the Service to a third-party’s services), we may disclose the personal information that you authorized us to share. We do not control the third party’s use of your personal information.
Other Users of the Service and the Public - We may provide functionality that enables you to disclose personal information to other users of the Service or the public. You may also be able to submit content to the Service (such as comments, reviews, surveys, blogs, photos, and videos which you may display using our digital signage software). We may make available settings through the Account management page that enables you to exercise choice regarding certain information that is displayed publicly or to other users. We do not control how other users or third parties use any personal information that you make available to other users or the public.
Professional advisors - We may disclose your personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
Business transfers - We may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of our business or assets, including your personal information, in connection with a business transaction (or potential business transaction) such as a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy or dissolution.
Other Disclosures
We may also disclose personal information to third parties under the following circumstances:
· When explicitly requested by you
· When required to deliver goods or services requested by you
· When required to facilitate our conferences or events that you have asked to attend which are hosted by a third party
· As otherwise set out in this privacy policy.
We may also disclose your personal information to law enforcement, regulatory and other government agencies and to professional bodies and other third parties, as required by and/or in accordance with applicable law or regulation.
Choices You Have
Users of our services can choose to:
Update Your Information. If you have registered for an account with us, you may review and update certain personal information in your account profile by logging into the account.
Opt out of marketing communications. You may opt out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email. You may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.
Cookies & Browser Web Storage. We may allow service providers and other third parties to use cookies and similar technologies to track your browsing activity over time and across the Service and third party websites (see cookie policy below).
Targeted online advertising. Some of the business partners that collect information about users’ activities on or through the Service may be members of organizations or programs that provide choices to individuals regarding the use of their browsing behavior or mobile application usage for purposes of targeted advertising.
In addition, your mobile device settings may provide functionality to limit our, or our partners’, ability to engage in ad tracking or targeted advertising using the Google Advertising ID or Apple ID for Advertising associated with your mobile device.
If you choose to opt-out of targeted advertisements, you will still see advertisements online but they may not be relevant to you. Even if you do choose to opt out, not all companies that serve online behavioral advertising are included in this list, so you may still receive some cookies and tailored advertisements from companies that are not listed.
Third-party platforms or social media networks. If you choose to connect to the Service via a third-party platform, you may have the ability to limit the information that we may obtain from the third-party at the time you login to the Service using the third-party’s authentication service or otherwise connect your account. Subsequently, you may be able to control your settings through the third-party’s platform or service.
Retention Of Personal Information
We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for fraud prevention purposes.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
Marketing
Where we are legally required to obtain your consent to provide you with marketing materials, we will only provide you with such marketing materials if you have provided consent for us to do so.
If you opt into any subscriptions you will receive emails known as newsletters. If you want to unsubscribe from any subscriptions, you should look for and follow the instructions we will provide in the relevant communications to you.
If you choose to unsubscribe from any or all mailings, we may retain information sufficient to identify you so that we can honor your request.
Cookie Policy
Our website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. As required by legislation, where applicable this website uses a cookie control system, allowing the user to give explicit permission or to deny the use of /saving of cookies on their computer / device.
What are cookies? Cookies are small files saved to the user's computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website. Our Site may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or mobile device until you delete them).
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors or use the cookie control system if available upon their first visit. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, the Sites may not work properly.
For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your computer or mobile device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our Sites. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device and you may need to log in every time you visit our Sites.
Rights In Relation To Your Information
You have certain rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you. In particular, you have the right to:
· Request a copy of personal information we hold about you;
· Ask that we update the personal information we hold about you, or correct such personal information that you think is incorrect or incomplete;
· Ask that we delete personal information that we hold about you, or restrict the way in which we use such personal information;
· Object to our processing of your personal information; and/or
· Withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information (to the extent such processing is based on consent and consent is the only permissible basis for processing).
You may submit these requests by email to support@domain.com. We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and process your request. Applicable law may require or permit us to decline your request. If we decline your request, we will tell you why, subject to legal restrictions. If you would like to submit a complaint about our use of your personal information or our response to your requests regarding your personal information, you may contact us or submit a complaint to the data protection regulator in your jurisdiction.
Automated Decision Making
We will not use your personal information for automated decision-making or profiling.
Children & Minors
We understand the importance of protecting children's privacy, and we never knowingly collect personal information about individuals under the age of 16. We adhere to laws regarding marketing to children.
Our Website and Application
Our Website and Application may link to third-party sites not controlled by us and which do not operate under our privacy practices. When you link to third-party sites or apps, our privacy practices no longer apply. We encourage you to review each third-party site's and app’s privacy policy before disclosing any personally identifiable information.
We do not intend to collect special category (also known as sensitive) personal information through our website or application (unless we are legally required to do so). Examples of special category information are: ethnic origin; political opinions; religious or philosophical beliefs; trade union membership; physical or mental health; genetic data; biometric data; sexual life or sexual orientation; and criminal records.
We ask that you do not provide us with special category personal information when using our website or application.
Changes to this privacy policy
AYOlingo reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on our webpage page and possibly sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to us. It is strongly recommended checking this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom.
Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting the new terms and/or upon implementation of the new changes on the Service (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your continued use of the Service after the posting of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the terms of the modified Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or complaints about the way your personal information is processed by us, or would like to exercise one of your rights set out above, please contact us at info@ayolingo.com.