[Revised on 20 December 2022]
1. Our Policy
Welcome to qoohoo ("Company", "We", "Us" or "Our"). By accessing qoohoo, through the mobile application ("App") or Our Website: www.qoohoo.in ("Site") for the services available on the App/site (“Services”), as a user (“User”, "You" or "Your") confirm that you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy and that You agree to abide by them. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and subject to the terms of use available at the App/Site.
We value the trust You place in Us. That is why We insist upon the highest standards for secure transactions and customer information privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to the personal data We collect on the App/Site. This Privacy Policy inter alia describes the types of personal data We collect on the App/Site, how We may use that information and with whom We may share it. We also tell You how You can reach Us to ask Us to update Your preferences regarding how We communicate with You or answer any questions You may have about Our privacy practices. Please read the following statement to learn about Our information gathering and dissemination practices.
Our privacy policy is subject to change at any time with notice. The same can be viewed on our App/Site. To make sure you are aware of any changes, please review this policy periodically.
When You access the App Site You accept, without limitation or qualification, this Privacy Policy and any additional terms of use set forth in the App/Site. This Privacy Policy constitutes a binding legal agreement between You and Us. If You do not agree to the Privacy Policy, You have no right to obtain information from or otherwise continue using the App/Site or the Services. Failure to access the App/Site in accordance with the Privacy Policy may subject You to civil and criminal penalties.
We have provided this Privacy Policy to familiarise You with the type of data or information that You share with or provide to Us and that We collect from You, the purpose for collection of such data or information from You, Our information security practices and policies and Our Privacy policy on controlling or processing Your data or information with third parties.
Upon amending / updating the Privacy Policy, We will accordingly amend the date above. We suggest that You regularly check this Privacy Policy to apprise Yourself of any updates. Your continued use of App/Site or provision of data or information thereafter will imply Your unconditional acceptance of such updates to this Privacy Policy.
The information (which shall also include data) provided by You to Us or collected from You by Us may consist of Personal Data and Non-Personal Data. "Personal Data" is the information You submit and that can be used to uniquely identify or contact You and "Non-Personal Data" is the de-identified and non-personally identifiable information collected from the App/Site.
2. Information We Collect
When You interact with us through the Services, We may collect Personal Data and other information from You, as further described below.
2.1 Personal Data That You Provide Through the Services
We collect Personal Data from You when You voluntarily provide such information, such as when You contact us with inquiries, respond to one of our surveys, register for access to the Services, or use certain Services. Wherever qoohoo collects Personal Data, we make an effort to provide a link to this Privacy Policy. As a User, You acknowledge that it is necessary for Us to have access to such Personal Data to provide You with the best experience on the App/Site and You expressly consent to Our access, use and processing of the same.
By voluntarily providing us with Your Personal Data, You are consenting to Our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If You provide Personal Data in connection with the Services, You acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred from Your current location to the offices and servers of qoohoo. Futhermore, We may be required to provide/share our Users' data to the government/ government bodies or authorities in order to comply with the law of the land.
You shall have the right to have any such Personal Data removed or corrected by notifying us of the same at contact@qoohoo.in. However, You acknowledge that any deletion of such collected Personal Data may negatively impact Our ability to provide You with the Services and also would impact Your whole experience on the Site/App.
3. Other Information
3.1 Non-Identifiable Data
When You interact with qoohoo through the Services, We receive and store certain Non-Personal Data. Such information, which is collected passively using various technologies such as tracking technologies, cannot presently be used to specifically identify You. qoohoo may store such information itself or such information may be included in databases owned and maintained by qoohoo affiliates, agents or service providers. We may use such information and pool it with other information to track, for example, the total number of visitors to the App/Site, the number of visitors to each page of the App/Site, and the domain names of our visitors' Internet service providers. It is important to note that any information collected through this process is purely incidental and no specific attempt is being made to collect such Personal Data in this process. You acknowledge and accept that it is necessary for qoohoo to have access to, use, process and store such Non-Personal Data to enrich the User experience on the App Site and You expressly consent to Our access, use, processing and storage of such Non-Personal Data. It is pertinent to note that all the Services and the integrated third party serivces use secure network connection.
In operating the Services, We may use a technology called "cookies." A cookie is a piece of information that the computer that hosts Our Services gives to Your browser when you access the Services. Our cookies help provide additional functionality to the Services and help us analyze Services usage more accurately. For instance, the App/Site may set a cookie on Your device that allows You to access the Services without needing to remember and then enter a password more than once during a visit to the App/Site. In all cases in which We use cookies, We will not collect Personal Data except with Your permission. On most Web browsers, You will find a "help" section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how to receive notification when You are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off. We recommend that you leave cookies turned on because they allow you to take advantage of some of the Service features. However, it is purely optional and completely at your discretion, depending on Your use. If You wish to disable Our ability to use cookies, You may do so by remotely disabling the same on Your electronic device.
3.2 Aggregated Personal Data
In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Services, qoohoo often conducts research on its customer demographics, interests and behavior based on the Personal Data, and other information provided to us. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and qoohoo may share this aggregate data with its affiliates, agents, and business partners. This aggregate information does not identify You personally.
qoohoo may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe the Services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
3.3 Location Information
When we provide the Services and/or other offers, we may ask You for, access to, or track Your geo-location-based information from Your mobile or other electronic device while downloading or using our mobile app or functionality. If You choose to engage with Us, we will receive certain information about your location, which may include country, state, city, or more specific location information, in order to provide you with the requested Services including geographically relevant features, offers, applications, and application recommendations.
4. Our Use of Your Personal Data and Other Information
We are controllers of User data and may process such data as may be required. We store the
information collected from the App/Site, which is used to/for:
1. Improve the Services;
2. Enhance the User experience;
3. Communicate with the customers in relation to technical and other administrative matters
via emails and other modes of communication;
4. Personalisation of the product and the Services;
5. Product development;
6. Promoting relevant offers;
7. Reporting and Business operations;
8. Conduct and undertake research in order to develop and provide search, learning and
productivity tools and additional features to service better experience;
9. Consulting services;
10. Ensure that you are old enough to use our App/Site (as required by law); and
11. Research wherein We investigate and help prevent security issues and abuse.
qoohoo and its subsidiaries and affiliates (the "Related Companies") may also use Your Personal Data and other personally non-identifiable information collected through Your use of Services to help us improve the content and functionality of the App/ Site, to better understand the Users, and to improve the Services.
qoohoo and its affiliates may use this information to contact You in the future to tell You about Services We believe will be of interest to You. If We do so, each marketing communication We send You will contain instructions permitting You to "opt-out" of receiving future marketing communications. In addition, if at any time you wish not to receive any future marketing communications or You wish to have Your name deleted from our mailing lists, please contact us as indicated under paragraph 2.1 of this Privacy Policy.
4.1 Third-Party Advertising Partners
We use third-party service providers to serve advertisements (banners or links) on Our behalf across the Internet. These advertising service providers may collect non-identifiable information about Your visits to Our App/Site, and Your interactions with the Services. Such non-identifiable information does not include Your name, address, email addresses, or other personal data. The information is collected through the use of cookies and pixel tags (also known as action tags), which is the industry-standard technology used by most major websites. In addition to the information about Your visits to our App/Site, our service providers may also use the information about Your visits to other websites/mobile applications to target advertisements for classes available from qoohoo.
If qoohoo intends on using any Personal Data in any manner that is not consistent with this Privacy Policy, You will be informed of such anticipated use prior to or at the time at which the Personal Data is collected, unless such use is incidental or related to the purposes agreed to by You as per this Privacy Policy.
5. Our Disclosure of Your Personal Data and Other Information
qoohoo is not in the business of selling Your information. We consider this information to be a vital part of Our relationship with You. There are, however, certain circumstances in which We may share Your Personal Data with certain third parties without further notice to You, as set forth below:
1. To Our employees, in order to diagnose and resolve any problems or to provide support to
You.
2. To any other person, who may perform services on Our behalf, including billing, cashbacks, survey administration, reconciliation, complaint management, technical or customer support and provision of email and data analytics.
3. To the business partners, who can alert You about the new services. Upon receipt of any alert
if you desire to be removed from such an alert list, You may inform the sender or unsubscribe from the list as provided in each mail alert.
4. In the event that We engage in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganization,
sale of some or all of a part of Our assets or stock, financing, public offering of securities, acquisition of all or a portion of Our business, a similar transaction or proceeding, or steps in contemplation of such activities (such as due diligence), some or all other information may be
shared or transferred, subject to standard confidentiality arrangements.
5. To engage third party companies or individuals as service providers or business partners to
process other information and support Our business. These third parties may provide virtual
computing and storage services.
6. With Our corporate affiliates, parents and/or subsidiaries with respect to other information
provided by the customer;
7. To protect and defend the rights, property or safety of the Company or third parties, including
enforcing contracts or policies, or in connection with investigating and preventing fraud or
security issues.
8. If We are required to do so by law, regulation or legal process, such as a court order or in
response to legal requests by government agencies or any other authority under law or when We believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect national security and public interest or to prevent physical, financial or other harm, injury or loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual unlawful activity.
6. Exclusions
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any Personal Data collected by qoohoo other than Personal Data collected through the Services. This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any unsolicited information You provide to qoohoo through the Services or through any other means, or information that is generally available publicly This includes, but is not limited to, information posted to any public areas of the Services, such as forums, any ideas for new products or modifications to existing products, and other unsolicited submissions (collectively, "Unsolicited Information"). All Unsolicited Information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and qoohoo shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute such Unsolicited Information to others without limitation or attribution.
7. Children
qoohoo does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 18. If You are under the age of 18, please do not submit any Personal Data through the Services. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children's Internet usage and to help enforce the Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Data on the Services without their permission. If You have reason to believe that a child under the age of 18 has provided Personal Data to qoohoo through the Services, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.
8. About end-to-end encryption
Privacy and security are our priority, which is why We built end-to-end encryption into Our App. When end-to-end encrypted, your messages, photos, videos, voice messages, documents, status updates and calls are secured from falling into the wrong hands. End-to-end encryption ensures only You and the person you're communicating with can read or listen to what is sent, and nobody in between, not even qoohoo.
9. Integrating Social Networking Services
One of the special features of the Service is that it allows You to enable or log in to the Services via various social networking services like Facebook or Twitter (“Social Networking Service(s)"). By directly integrating these services, We make Your online experiences richer and more personalized. To take advantage of this feature, We will ask you to log into or grant us permission via the relevant Social Networking Service. When You add a Social Networking Services account to the Service or log into the Service using Your Social Networking Services account, We will collect relevant information necessary to enable the Service to access that Social Networking Service and Your data contained within that Social Networking Service. As part of such integration, the Social Networking Service will provide us with access to certain information that you have provided to the Social Networking Service, and We will use, store, and disclose such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. However, please remember that the manner in which Social Networking Services use, store, and disclose Your information is governed by the policies of such third parties, and qoohoo shall have no liability or responsibility for the privacy practices or other actions of any Social Networking Services that may be enabled within the Service.
You may also have the option of posting Your Services activities to Social Networking Services when You access content through the Services (for example, You may post to Facebook that you performed an activity on the App/ Site); You acknowledge that if you choose to use this feature, Your friends, followers and subscribers on any Social Networking Services You have enabled will be able to view such activity.
10. Security
qoohoo takes reasonable steps to protect the Personal Data provided via the Services from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, You acknowledge that no Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, email sent to or from the Services may not be secure. Therefore, You should take special care in deciding what information You send to us via email. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Data to qoohoo using Your internet devices.
11. Changes to Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update, modify and amend any of the terms of Our Privacy Policy, at any time without prior intimation to You. We shall not be liable for any failure or negligence on Your part to review the updated Privacy Policy before accessing or using the App Site. Your continued use of the App Site, following changes to the Privacy Policy, will constitute Your acceptance of those changes.
In the event of a change in the law applicable to data protection in India, You hereby expressly consent to Our continued use, storage, collection and disclosure of Your Data including Personal Data to the fullest extent permitted under such applicable law. We may reach out to You for obtaining additional consents and approvals as required under the amended law and You will be required to comply with such requests. Should You choose to not provide Us with such additional consents and approvals, We may have to discontinue Your access to the App/Site.
You may choose to not provide Us with or withdraw any or all information included under Personal Data, but in the event that You do so, We may be unable to allow you to access the App/Site or otherwise avail services for the provision of which Your information is being collected or processed.
12. Grievance Redressal Officer
In accordance with the IT Act, 2000 and rules made there under, the name and contact details of the Grievance Redressal Officer are provided below:
Name: Vimal Kumar Singh
Email id: contact@qoohoo.in
We collect Personal Data from You when You voluntarily provide such information, such as when You contact us with inquiries, respond to one of our surveys, register for access to the Services, or use certain Services. Wherever qoohoo collects Personal Data, we make an effort to provide a link to this Privacy Policy. As a User, You acknowledge that it is necessary for Us to have access to such Personal Data to provide You with the best experience on the App/Site and You expressly consent to Our access, use and processing of the same.
By voluntarily providing us with Your Personal Data, You are consenting to Our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If You provide Personal Data in connection with the Services, You acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred from Your current location to the offices and servers of qoohoo. Futhermore, We may be required to provide/share our Users' data to the government/ government bodies or authorities in order to comply with the law of the land.
You shall have the right to have any such Personal Data removed or corrected by notifying us of the same at contact@qoohoo.in. However, You acknowledge that any deletion of such collected Personal Data may negatively impact Our ability to provide You with the Services and also would impact Your whole experience on the Site/App.