Privacy policy
Whatabout LLC. (“Company” or “we") makes available shopping programs through mobile applications (“Services”). This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, share and protect information in connection with the mobile application and any other Services that refer or link to this Privacy Policy.
1. Collection of Information
We collect, process and use your information when you:
Register for our Services or sign in to an existing account
Visit our website(s)
Access our application(s)
Connect to our Services using third-party accounts, such as your email, social media or payment account(s)
Contact us for support
Participate in our shopping or influencer programs
Further, we and our service providers automatically collect certain information about you through:
Interaction with our Services
Cookies and other tracking technologies
Location-identifying technologies
Monitoring and analyzing trends, usage and activities
The types of information you provide may include personal information. “Personal information” means information that can be used to identify you (whether alone or in combination). The personal information you may provide to us includes:
First and last name
Email address
Mailing, billing and/or shipping address
Phone number
Payment information (such as payment account name, payment account number, payment card expiration date and billing address)
The product or service requested or purchased
How you connect to our Services, such as your IP address, unique device identifiers, device or session IDs and information regarding the network and connected hardware (e.g., computer or mobile device)
Browsing, shopping and purchase history
Your geolocation
Click-stream data (the page-by-page paths you take as you browse through our Services)
2. Use of Information We Collect
We may use information about you in the following ways.
Manage Your Account
If you provide us with personal information, we may use it to: (i) process your registration with our Services, including verifying whether your email address is active and valid and enrolling you into our programs; (ii) facilitate and manage your purchase transactions; (iii) track your shopping, deliver you rewards or payments and identify opportunities for rewards and/or offers; (iv) send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and administrative messages; (v) provide you member services regarding your account and reply to your questions, comments and requests; and (vi) comply with legal and regulatory provisions in force and with the competent judicial authorities in each geographical jurisdiction that the Company operates in. We may also use your information to assess risk and prevent fraud.
Improve Our Services
We may process information through analyzing and monitoring usages and trends and performing statistical analyses to improve our Services and the websites, applications, marketing efforts and the products and services of our affiliates to provide a better service to you in the future. We may also use this information to adapt Service content to be more likely to be of interest to you. With the exception of Email Data, we may also share information with our affiliates for those affiliates to analyze and monitor usage and trends to improve their services and websites.
Provide You Marketing Information
With the exception of Email Data, Company may use information to provide you more personalized offers and/or special offers, discounts and similar information. Company may send you newsletters, rewards, discounts, promotion codes, events and general information about the service if you consent. You can manage these communications in accordance with Section 4 (Your Choices) below. To match your profile and interest, we may use your information to create a profile of your preferences and provide you content and features. We may use your information (excluding Email Data) to provide you advertisements.
3. Sharing of Information
We may share the information we collect, including your personal information, under the following circumstances.
Service Providers and Business Partners
We may share your Personal Information with third party service providers (which may include Company affiliates) to operate our Services. We may share your Personal Information with our service providers that provide member support, process payments, and perform other business operations on our behalf, under our instructions and in compliance with appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your data. For example, we may partner with other companies to provide you support services, authentication services, prevent fraud on our Services, administer our promotions, referral programs, sweepstakes, and surveys, perform analytics, maintain the accuracy of our databases, facilitate your travel reservations, fulfill your product purchases, and administer your rewards or payments. We will not sell your Personal Information, Email Data or your payment information, but we may rent, sell, and share other information that cannot be used to identify you with merchant partners, third parties, or affiliates.
Protection of Rights and Other Legal Purposes
We may share the information we collect, including personal information, to the extent permitted by applicable law, (i) in response to subpoenas or other legal processes or if in our good faith opinion such disclosure is required or permitted by law; (ii) at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation; (iii) to defend our terms and conditions or other policies applicable to our Services; and (iv) to protect the rights, property, life, health, security and safety of Company or any third party.
Business Transfers
We may share the information we collect, including personal information, with any third party in connection with, or during negotiations of, any proposed or actual merger, purchase, sale (including a liquidation, realization, foreclosure or repossession) or any other type of acquisition of all or any portion of Company assets, conveyance or transfer of all or a portion of our business to another company.
4. Your Choices
You may in some cases have the option to decline providing us information. However, your choice not to provide information may impact your use of certain features or services. We encourage you to maintain the accuracy of the information you submit to us, such as the information you provide to register for your account. The Services may allow you to access, review, correct, update and remove or make inaccessible personal information you have provided through your account settings. You may provide account updates and changes by logging into your account and changing settings. You can prospectively stop all collection of information by the application by uninstalling the application. You may at any time opt out from further allowing us to have access to your location data by adjusting the permissions in your mobile device. We will make good-faith efforts to make requested changes in our then-active databases as soon as reasonably practicable.
5. Data Security and Retention
We take reasonable measures to protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. We use a secure, encrypted connection (using a TLS protocol) on all pages where you access or transmit personal information. Although Company uses reasonable efforts to help protect your information, transmission via the Internet is not completely secure and Company cannot guarantee the security of your information collected through our Services. Except as otherwise set forth under applicable law, we assume no liability or responsibility for disclosure of your information due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third-party access or other causes beyond our control. We retain the information collected via our Services until you choose to close your account. After that time, we may aggregate the data and retain it for analytical purposes. We may also retain your information on backup media to comply with applicable law, to support financial audits, to resolve disputes, to maintain compliance efforts and for other legitimate business reasons.
6. Electronic Communications
By signing up for an account, you may receive periodic emails from Company. If you consented to receiving promotional email communications, you can opt out of receiving such communications from us at any time by (i) following the instructions provided in those communications; (ii) modifying your Email Preferences in the Account Settings of your account; or (iii) contacting us through the Services. Please note that even if you opt out of receiving promotional communications, we may continue to send you non-promotional emails and other types of communications, as permitted by law, such as service emails relating to our ongoing business relationship. Service emails contain service-related announcements that affect your account, such as product order confirmations, reward or payment updates, and responses to your comments and feedback submitted to us. Company mobile applications may send you notifications, such as alerts, sounds and icon badges. Push notifications or in-app messages may include both operational messages and promotional messages regarding products, services and offers that may be of interest to you. When using mobile applications, push notifications and other mobile alerts can be configured in the settings of your mobile device. As with emails, even if you opt out of receiving promotional communications, we may continue to send you non-promotional push notifications, such as those about your use of the applications or our ongoing business relations. If you provide us a mobile number, we may use it to contact you when you make account updates or for account recovery purposes. You may opt out of such messages by removing your mobile number in your account preferences or replying STOP to any incoming messages.
7. Cookie Policy
We and our partners use cookies and similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website and gather demographic information about our user base. We use cookies for many purposes, including, without limitation, authentication and tracking user preferences or web pages visited while using our Services. You may control the use of cookies at the browser level. If you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on the Service.
8. Analytics, Targeting, Tracking
We, and third parties with which we partner, may also use cookies, pixels and other technologies to automatically collect information about your use of the Services, such as your click-stream data, browsing history, IP address, web browser, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked and conversion information. Data collected from a browser or device may be used with another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device on which such data was collected (also known as cross-linking). We may also work with third parties to serve ads to you as part of a customized campaign on other websites or platforms. These third parties may also collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you use our Services to help predict your preferences and to display (and to enable other third parties to display) ads to be more likely to be of interest to you. Some third-party service providers that we engage (including third-party advertisers) may also place their own cookies on your browser. Note that this Privacy Policy covers only our use of cookies and does not include use of cookies by such third parties.
9. Third-Party Websites
The Services contain hyperlinks to websites of merchants, retailers and other websites or locations that we do not control and are operated and controlled by third parties (“Third-Party Websites”). Our Privacy Policy does not apply to these Third-Party Websites and we make no representations regarding the policies or business practices of any such Third-Party Websites. We encourage you to review, and if necessary, adjust, your privacy settings on the applicable Third Party Websites.
10. Referral Programs
Company offers features that allow you to inform an individual about our Services. If you choose to use our referral features, we will ask for your referral’s phone number or email address to send them an electronic communication inviting them to join our Services. Company will store this information for the sole purpose of sending this email and tracking the success of our referral program. If you choose to participate in our referral programs, you represent and warrant that you have a personal relationship with your referral and that you are authorized to share their information with Company for the purpose of sending this communication to invite them to join the Services. If you believe that one of your contacts has provided us with your personal information and you would like to request that it be removed from our database, please contact us at hello@whatabout.io.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy is current as of the effective date set forth below. Company reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time consistent with applicable privacy laws and principles. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by revising the date on this Privacy Policy. In some cases, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to the homepages of our Services or sending you an email notification).
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us by email at hello@whatabout.io.
Updated: December 10, 2019