Privacy Policy
1. General
This privacy policy describes the policy of upsos Canada regarding the collection, use, storage, sharing and protection of your personal information ("Privacy Policy"). This Privacy Policy applies to the www.upsos.com website, applications, services and tools where reference is made to this policy ("Services"), regardless of how you access the Services, including access through mobile devices.
Scope and consent: By using upsos.com and related Services, you give explicit consent to Upsos for the collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information by us, as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.
Upsos may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We
advise you to read it regularly. The
amended Privacy Policy will be effective immediately after it is first posted
on our Website.
2. What personal information do we collect.
You can visit our Website without registering for an
account. When you decide to provide us with your personal information, you
agree that such information is sent to and stored on our servers. We collect
the following types of personal information:
Information we collect automatically: When you visit our
Website, use our Services and or reply to ads or other content, we
automatically collect the information sent to us by your computer, mobile
device or other equipment that provides access. This information includes, but
is not limited to:
information from your interaction with our Website and
Services, including, but not limited to, device ID, device type, geo-location
information, computer and connection information, statistics on page views, traffic
to and from www.upsos.com, referring URL, IP address and standard web log information;
and information we collect through cookies, web beacons and similar
technologies.
Information you provide to us: We collect and store any information
you enter on our Website or that you provide to us when you use our Services.
This information includes, but is not limited to:
information that you provide to us when you register for an
account or for the Services that you use;
additional information that you may provide to us through
social media sites or third party Services;
information provided in the context of dispute resolution,
correspondence through our Website or correspondence that is sent to us;
information about your location and the location of your
device, including your device’s unique identifier information if you have
enabled this service on your mobile device, and
your resume if you choose to submit it to us for
consideration through our careers page
Information from other sources: We may receive or collect additional
information about you from third parties and add this to our account
information. This information includes, but is not limited to: demographic
data, navigation data, additional contact data and additional data about you
from other sources, such as public authorities, to the extent permitted by law.
3. How we use your personal information
You agree that we may use your personal information for the
following purposes:
to provide you access to our Services and Customer Support
by means of e-mail or telephone;
to prevent, detect and investigate potentially prohibited or
illegal activities, fraud and security breaches and to enforce our Terms of
Use;
to personalize, measure and improve our Services, content and
ads;
to contact you, by e-mail, push notification, text message
(SMS) or by telephone, to inquire about our Services for the purpose of
targeted marketing activities, updates, and promotional offers based on your
message preferences (where applicable), or for any other purposes as set forth
in this Privacy Policy;
to provide you with other services that you have requested,
as described when we collected the information, and to consider you as a
potential candidate if you choose to upload your resume through our careers
page.
Sharing information with and registration on social media
sites: We may offer sign-on Services that enable you to access the Website or
related websites with your login credentials. We can also offer Services that
enable you to share information with third party social media websites.
If you provide us access to personal information stored on
third party websites, the scope of access to this personal information shall
vary per website and will be determined by both your own browser settings and
your consent. If you wish to connect your third party account to your Upsos
account and you consent to us accessing the information in these third party
accounts, you agree that we can collect, use and store information from this
third party website in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Transfer of your personal information to third parties: We
may disclose your personal information to third parties in accordance with this
Privacy Policy and applicable legislation and regulations. As further described
under Section 4, we will not disclose your personal information to third
parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent.
service providers with whom we have entered into an
agreement to help us provide our Services on the website, such as financial
service providers, marketing agencies and technical support. In such cases, the
personal information shall remain under the control of Upsos.
certain third parties (such as intellectual property rights
holders, supervisory authorities, tax authorities, police and other regulatory
authorities) if we are required to do so by law, or in accordance with our
Privacy Policy. We may share your personal information:
- to comply with legal obligations or a court order; or
- if this is necessary for the prevention, detection or
prosecution of criminal offenses, such as fraud, deceit or prosecution, or
- if it is necessary to maintain our policies or to protect
the rights and freedoms of others.
other third parties to whom you have given consent to share
your information via Upsos, e.g. in the framework of a cooperation;
companies that we intend to merge with in the context of a
re-organisation or that acquire us;
an intellectual property owner if the owner of an
intellectual property right or an intermediary in good faith believes that an
advertisement violates the rights of the owner. Before personal information is
provided, the IP owner will enter into an agreement that, inter alia,
stipulates that information is only provided on the strict condition that it
may only be used in the context of legal proceedings and/or obtaining legal
advice and/or to answer questions from the relevant advertiser
Without limitation to the foregoing, we shall moreover - in
our efforts to respect your privacy and to keep the website free of malicious
persons or parties – not disclose your personal information to third parties
without a court order or formal request from the government in accordance with
applicable law, unless we believe in good faith that such disclosure is
necessary to prevent impending injury or financial damages or to report alleged
illegal activities.
Information you share on www.upsos.com: Our Website allows
users to share advertisements and other information with other users, thereby
making this shared information accessible to other users. Since our Website
also enables you to directly contact a buyer or seller, we recommend that you
consider how you share your personal information with others. You are solely
responsible for the personal information you share through our Website and
therefore we cannot guarantee the privacy or security of the information shared
by you with other users.
In case you visit our Website from a shared computer or a
computer in an internet café, we strongly recommend that you log off after each
session. If you do not want the shared computer to remember you and/or your
credentials, you will need to remove cookies and/or the history of your website
visits.
Your data controller may transfer data to other members of our corporate family as described in this Privacy Policy who may process and keep your personal information on servers in the European Union, United States and our data centers in other parts of the world.
4. Marketing Purposes
You agree that we may use the information collected by us to
send you offers, whether personalised or not, or to contact you by telephone
regarding products or Services offered by Upsos.
We will not sell or rent your personal information to third
parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We may
combine your information with information we collect from other companies and
use it to improve and personalize our Services and functionalities.
When you no longer wish to receive marketing communications
from us, you can, where applicable, change your preferences in your account, or
follow the unsubscribe link in the marketing communication you received.
5. Advertising
If you do not wish to participate in our advertising
personalization using your identified personal information or
re-targeting/tracking programs, you can opt-out by following the directions
provided within the applicable advertisement.
The effect of an opt-out will be to stop personalized advertising, but
it will still allow the collection of information for certain purposes such as
usage, research, analytics and internal online services operation purposes).
You may still see non-personalized advertisements, including ads based on
general geographic region. In addition to that, we do not allow third parties
to track or collect your personal information on our sites for their own
advertising purposes without your explicit consent.
6. Cookies
When you use our Services, we and our service providers may
place cookies (data files on your phone or mobile device’s drive) or web
beacons (electronic images that are placed in a web page’s code) or similar
technologies. We use cookies to help us identify you as a user, to provide you
a better experience on our Website, to measure promotional effectiveness and to
ensure trust and safety on our Website. For more detailed information about our
use of these technologies, we refer you to our Policy on Cookies, Web beacons
and Similar Technologies.
7. Accessing,
Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information
We cannot modify your personal information or account
information. You can modify your own information by logging into your Upsos
account. If you want to close your
account (where applicable) with us, please send us a request to us here. We
will process your request within a reasonable period of time and process your
personal information in accordance with applicable law.
If your information is factually incorrect or incomplete or irrelevant for the purposes for which we process your information, you can request us to modify or delete your information. Such requests will be handled in accordance with applicable law. If you have any questions, please contact us with the subject line ‘Request Privacy Policy’ via the Contact Form;
8. Protection and retention of your personal information
We protect your information by using technical and
administrative security measures (such as firewalls, data encryption, and
physical and administrative access controls to the data and servers) that limit
the risk of loss, abuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, and alteration.
Nevertheless, if you believe your account has been abused, please contact us
through the Contact Form.
We retain personal information no longer than is legally
permissible and delete personal information when it is no longer necessary for
the purposes as described above.
9. Other information
Abuse and unsolicited commercial communications
("spam"): We do not tolerate abuse of our Website. You do not have
permission to add other Upsos users to your mailing list (e-mail or postal) for
commercial purposes, even if a user has purchased something from you, unless
the user has given his explicit consent. If you notice that someone is abusing
our Website (spam or spoof emails), please notify us here.
It is not allowed to use our member-to-member communication
resources to send spam or content that violates our Terms of Use in any other
way. For your security, we may scan messages automatically and check for spam,
viruses, phishing and other malicious activity or illegal or prohibited
content. We do not permanently store messages sent through these resources.
Third Parties: Unless explicitly provided otherwise in this
Privacy Policy, this Privacy Policy applies only to the use and transfer of
information we collect from you. When we work with third parties or use third
party tools to provide certain services, we will explicitly indicate which
privacy policy applies to you. We therefore encourage you to ask questions
before you disclose your personal information to others.
Contact: If you have any questions about our Website please
contact us.