Our Privacy Policy
In compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation and other legislation in force applicable to the protection of personal data, we have drawn up this privacy policy to provide you with information on the personal data compiled, how we use the data, and with which purpose.
The Balkan Botanical Garden of Kroussia mobile application is designed for providing information for the plants of the Garden along certain paths.
The Balkan Botanical Garden of Kroussia mobile application development is part of the implementation of the project entitled “Modernization of the ELGO guesthouse & innovative interventions along the trail to highlight the biodiversity of the area as part of the development of a gamified awareness-raising application awareness” (code OPSAA 0045934674), CLLD/LEADER within the framework of Sub-measure 19.2 of the RDP 2014-2020, implemented at the Institute of Genetic Improvement and Plant Genetic Resources, with OTS Code: 20.2247.201, CPV: 72262000-9. The mobile application is managed by the company, Kimatica Ltd.
Kimatica, is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. The below privacy policy explains how Kimatica ( we , us ) may collect, store, and process your data, for which purpose, and what are your data protection rights
Your privacy is considered to be of utmost importance to Kimatica, (the Company , we , or us ). Kimatica as a Data Controller, is committed to protecting the personal data you share with us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share and protect information about you. We also provide information regarding how you can access and update your information and make certain choices about how your information is used.
Our mobile application complies with the relevant Greek legislative framework and the General Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data ( GDPR Regulation ).
The Privacy Policy covers both our online (e.g., web and mobile services however accessed and/or used, whether via personal computers, mobile devices, or otherwise) and offline (e.g., collection of data through mailings, telephone, or in person) activities owned, operated, provided, or made available by the Company. Our online and offline activities are collectively referenced as the Services.
BY CONTINUING TO NAVIGATE THROUGH OUR MOBILE APPLICATION, BY USING OUR SERVICES OR BY OTHERWISE GIVING US YOUR INFORMATION, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY.
Please review the following carefully so that you understand our privacy practices. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, do not use any of our Services or give us any of your information. In addition, please review our Terms of Use, which may apply to your use of our websites and mobile applications. This Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference into the applicable Terms of Use.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@kimatica.com.
Important Definitions concerning the referrals to the GDPR Regulation:
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ( data subject ); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person; processing means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction; profiling means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements; controller means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law; processor means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller; third party means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorized to process personal data; consent of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her;
Information we collect and use of cookies
(a) Information You Provide to Us Personal Information. We may ask you to provide us with certain categories of information such as personal information, which is information that could reasonably be used to identify you personally, such as: i. Name, ii. E-mail address and iii. Mobile number ( Personal Information ). We may collect this information through various forms and in various places through the Services, including account registration, or when you otherwise interact with us or other users. When you sign up to use the Services, you create a user profile that may require you to provide: i. Name, ii. Phone number(s), iii. E-mail address, iv. Password, v. Postal code, vi. Credit card number, expiration date & security code, or information regarding your PayPal, Google Wallet, or other digital payment accounts. Information about your payment accounts is not held by the Company. We use a third-party payment processor to handle all contributions made through the Services. If you choose to upload photos when registering for our Services, the photos may be viewable by us and by other users. You may remove or update photos at any time by logging into your account. (b) Information We Collect as You Access and Use Our Services In addition to any Personal Information or other information that you choose to submit to us, we and our third-party service providers may use a variety of technologies that automatically (or passively) collect certain information whenever you visit or interact with the Services ( Usage Information ). This Usage Information may include the browser that you are using, the URL that referred you to our Services, all of the areas within our Services that you visit and the time of day, among other information. We may use Usage Information for a variety of purposes, including to enhance or otherwise improve the Services. In addition, we collect your IP address or other unique identifier ( Device Identifier ) for your computer, mobile or other device used to access the Services (any, a Device ). A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your Device used to access the Services and our computers identify your Device by its Device Identifier. Usage Information may be non-identifying or may be associated with you. Whenever we associate Usage Information or a Device Identifier with your Personal Information, we will treat it as Personal Information.
A few of the methods that may be used to collect Usage Information include, without limitation, the following (and subsequent technology and methods hereafter developed): Cookies. A cookie is a data file placed on a Device when it is used to access the Services. A Flash cookie is a data file placed on a Device via the Adobe Flash plug-in that may be built-in to or downloaded by you to your Device. Cookies and Flash Cookies may be used for many purposes, including, without limitation, remembering you and your preferences and tracking your visits to our web pages. Cookies work by assigning a number to the user that has no meaning outside of the assigning mobile application/website. If you do not want information to be collected through the use of cookies, your browser allows you to deny or accept the use of cookies. Cookies can be disabled or controlled by setting a preference within your web browser or on your Device. If you choose to disable cookies or Flash cookies on your Device, some features of the Services may not function properly or may not be able to customize the delivery of information to you. You should be aware that the Company cannot control the use of cookies (or the resulting information) by third-parties and use of third party cookies is not covered by our Privacy Policy. Web Beacons. Small graphic images or other web programming code called web beacons (also known as 1×1 GIFs or clear GIFs ) may be included in our web and mobile pages and messages. The web beacons are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored in a user s computer hard drive, web beacons are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Web beacons or similar technologies help us better manage content on our Services by informing us what content is effective, count users of the Services, monitor how users navigate the Services, count how many e-mails that we send were actually opened or to count how many particular articles or links were actually viewed. We do not tie the information gathered by web beacons to your personal information. Embedded Scripts. An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Services, such as the links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your Device from our web server or a third party service provider, is active only while you are connected to the Services and is deactivated or deleted thereafter. (c) Information Third Parties Provide About You We may, from time to time, supplement the information we collect about you through the Services with outside records from third parties in order to enhance our ability to serve you, to tailor our content to you and to offer you incentives and opportunities to purchase products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We may combine the information we receive from those sources with information we collect through the Services. In those cases, we will apply this Privacy Policy to any Personal Information received, unless we have disclosed otherwise. (d) Information You Provide About a Third Party If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our Services, we will ask you for your friend s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the Services. We store this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the success of our referral program and do not use this information for any other marketing purpose unless we obtain consent from that person or we explicitly say otherwise. Please be aware that when you use this functionality through our Services, your e-mail address may be included in the communication sent to your friend.
Legitimate basis for the processing of your personal data (for EU citizens)
Kimatica collects only the personal data that are necessary to meet your requests. Whenever additional, optional information is sought, you will be notified when this data is collected and your prior consent for processing may be required. The GDPR Regulation allows us to process personal data only if we have the legal basis for doing so. We also need to let you know the reasons for this. Therefore, when processing your personal data, we rely on one of the following processing bases: Consent: Your consent may occasionally be requested in order to process some of your personal data. Your data will be processed in this way only if you explicitly agree to this (Article 6 (1a) of the GDPR Regulation). Execution of a contract: Where processing of your personal data is necessary to fulfil our obligations arising out of a contract (Article 6 (1b) of the GDPR Regulation). Legal obligation: This is the case where we are obliged to process your personal data in order to comply with a legal obligation, such as, but not limited to: (a) keeping records for tax purposes, (b) providing information to a public body, (c) (Article 6 (1c) of the GDPR Regulation) comply with the requirements of a legislative or regulatory provision. Protecting your vital interests: This is the case when processing your personal data is necessary to protect your vital interests (Article 6 (1d) of the GDPR Regulation). Fulfilment of a duty performed in the public interest: This is the case when the processing of your personal data is necessary for the performance of a duty performed for the public interest (Article 6 (1e) of the GDPR Regulation). Legitimate interest: We may process your personal data in cases where this processing is a legitimate interest of our company in performing a legitimate activity in order to ensure the continuity of this activity. This processing, of course, will not go beyond your interests, freedoms and fundamental rights (Article 6 (1f) of the GDPR Regulation). Kimatica collects special categories of personal data as defined in Article 9 of the GDPR Regulation when the natural persons themselves, without our own claim, provide us with such data or when the data are required or their collection is permitted by law. The concept of “special category” personal data includes personal data relating to a person’s race, nationality, political beliefs, participation in trade unions, his religious beliefs, his philosophical beliefs, his physical or mental health, sex and orientation, data on criminal convictions and offenses. We ve assessed that the legal bases for using your personal information as set out in this notice are as follows: a. Contract our use of your personal information is necessary to perform our obligations under any contract we have with you; or b. Legal Obligations our use of your personal information is necessary for complying with our legal obligations; or c. Our Legitimate Interests to: i. Run, grow and develop our business; ii. Detect and prevent fraud; iii. Enhance the security of our network and information systems; iv. Ensure that our own processes, procedures and systems are as efficient as possible; v. Better understand how people interact with our mobile application; vi. Analyse and enhance the information that we collect; vii. Determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and advertising; and viii. Enhance, modify, personalize or otherwise improve our services and communications for the benefit of our donors. d. Consent We rely on your consent to use your personal information to send you marketing information and newsletters by email or SMS.
Other purposes for processing personal data
We do not process your personal data for any other purpose than we ve described here. As we develop our activities and services, we might add new data processes that use your personal information. Should we decide that we want to develop a new processing purpose, we will contact you to let you know what we intend to do, the lawful basis we will use, and your rights over our intended new processing.
How we use collected information
Our primary goal in collecting your Personal information or Usage Information is to provide you with an enhanced experience when using the Services. Based upon the Personal Information you provide us when registering for an account, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email, telephone, or SMS or text message, in accordance with your wishes. We use your information to closely monitor which features of the Services are used most, to allow you to view your campaign or contribution history, view any incentives that may currently be available and to determine which features we need to focus on improving, including usage patterns and geographic locations to determine where we should offer or focus services, features and resources. We use your Internet Protocol (IP) address to help diagnose problems with our computer server and to administer our web site(s). Your IP address is used to help identify you, but contains no personal information about you. We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our Services are temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account. In addition, we may use your Personal Information or Usage Information that we collect about you: i. To provide you with information or services or process transactions that you have requested or agreed to receive including to send you electronic newsletters, or to provide you with special offers or promotional materials on behalf of us or third parties. ii. To process your registration with the Services, including verifying your information is active and valid. iii. To improve the Services or our services, to customize your experience with the Services, or to serve you specific content that is most relevant to you. iv. To enable you to participate in a variety of the Services features such as online or mobile entry sweepstakes, contests or other promotions. v. To contact you with regard to your use of the Services and, in our discretion, changes to the Services and/or the Services policies. vi. For internal business purposes. vii. For inclusion in our data analytics. viii. For purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information or as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy. Please note that information submitted to the Services via a contact us or other similar function may not receive a response.
How we protect your personal data
The personal data processing is conducted in a way that ensures its confidentiality. Specifically, the processing is only carried out exclusively by authorized for this purpose personnel, while taking all appropriate organizational and technical measures for data security and protect them against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access and all other form of illicit processing.
Confidentiality
All staff shall be subject to an obligation of confidentiality, all processors of personal data on behalf of Kimatica and processing contractors are required to sign a data processing agreement and compliance with the GDPR Regulation. We currently don t have any third party acting as a data processor. When authorized personnel have access to personal data, this access is possible only through an encrypted connection. When accessing data in a database, the IP address of the person who has access to the data must also be authorized. Devices that temporarily store personal data are always, except when not used or transferred, locked in a safe place. Personal data is never stored on mobile media like USB stick, CD and DVD.
Integrity
To ensure integrity, all data passages are encrypted to align with best practices to protect confidentiality and data integrity. The information is encrypted through the application of appropriate security measures (Secure Socket Layer) and then encrypted in the database maintained by Kimatica to be accessible to those who have authorized access to such systems and are required to keep confidential information.
Availability
Information systems are designed to offer the high availability of the services provided to Kimatica. High Availability (HA) is a feature of a system that aims to ensure a high level of business performance. Availability refers to the ability of the user community to acquire a service or good quality access to the system, either to submit new data, update or change existing variables or to collect the results of previous actions.
Transparency
Kimatica will inform you at any time about changes to privacy and security procedures, including company practices and policies. You can always ask for information about where and how your data is stored, how it is secured, and how it is used. Ability to intervene Kimatica provides subjects with access rights, deletions, objections and oppositions. The overall responsibility for the security of the data lies on the administration staff of Kimatica, who educate and inform all personnel of the company, on data security measures as stated in this Privacy Policy. Grading Access to personal data is blocked by default, using a zero privilege policy. Access to personal data is restricted to authorized personnel. Tracking Kimatica uses security reports to monitor access patterns and to identify and limit possible threats. Administrative functions, including access to the system, are recorded to provide the necessary control to record unauthorized or accidental changes. The performance and availability of the system are monitored by both internal and external monitoring services. Notification of violation of personal data If your data is violated, Kimatica will notify you, and the competent Data Protection Authority within 72 hours via e-mail or other appropriate means, would provide information about the extent of and the affected data. It is furthermore clear that it will take any action necessary to limit any harmful consequences for the data subjects.
Location of collection and processing of personal data
The Personal Data of the subjects collected by Kimatica are collected, stored and processed at the headquarters of the company at D. Glinou 5, Halkida, 34100, Greece, as well as the Microsoft Azure Information Systems Hosting Services provider on the servers (servers) to be transmitted only for the purpose of storing data collected from Kimaticas mobile application. Additionally, platforms are used by newsletter delivery service providers.
Disclosure or share of information to third parties
We may share non-personally identifiable information, such as aggregated user statistics and log data, with third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling, to deliver targeted advertising about other products or services, or for other business purposes. We do not sell, share, rent, or trade the information we have collected about you, including Personal Information, other than as disclosed within this Privacy Policy or at the time you provide your information. We do not share your Personal Information with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes unless you consent to such sharing at the time you provide your Personal Information. To opt out of receiving marketing messages, or to object to our use of profiling for direct marketing purposes, contact us at any time at support@kimatica.com.
(a) When You Agree to Receive Information from Third Parties. You may be presented with an opportunity to receive incentives, information, or marketing offers directly from third parties. If you do agree to have your Personal Information shared, your Personal Information will be disclosed to such third parties and all information you disclose will be subject to the privacy policy and practices of such third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of such third parties and, therefore, you should review the privacy policies and practices of such third parties prior to agreeing to receive such information from them. If you later decide that you no longer want to receive communication from a third party, you will need to contact that third party directly.
(b) Third Parties Providing Services on Our Behalf. We use third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Services, provide or perform certain aspects of the Services on our behalf – such as drivers and companies they work for to provide the Services and other third-parties to host the Services, design or operate the Services features, track the Services analytics, process payments, engage in anti-fraud and security measures, provide support, enable us to send you special offers, host our job application form, perform technical services, or perform other administrative services. We may provide these vendors with access to user information, including Personal Information, this information sharing is limited to only the information needed by the vendor to carry out the services they are performing for you or us. Each of these vendors is obligated not to disclose or use Personal Information for any other purpose. While we may use third-party analytics service providers to evaluate and provide us with information about the use of the Services and viewing of our content, we do not share Personal Information with these analytics service providers. Still, they may set and access their cookies, web beacons and embedded scripts on your Device. They may otherwise collect or have access to information about you, including non-personally identifiable information. We use a third-party hosting provider who hosts the support section of our mobile application. Information collected within this section of our mobile application is governed by our Privacy Policy.
(c) Sweepstakes, Contests and Promotions. We may offer sweepstakes, contests and other promotions (any, Promotion ) through the Services that may require registration. By participating in a Promotion, you are agreeing to official rules that govern that Promotion, which may contain specific requirements of you, including, allowing the sponsor of the Promotion to use your name, voice and/or likeness in advertising or marketing associated with the Promotion. If you choose to enter a Promotion, Personal Information may be disclosed to third parties or the public in connection with the administration of such Promotion, including, in connection with winner selection, prize fulfilment and as required by law or permitted by the Promotion s official rules, such as on a winners list.
(d) Administrative and Legal Reasons. We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. Thus, we may access, use, preserve, transfer and disclose your information (including Personal Information), including disclosure to third parties such as government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we reasonably determine is necessary and appropriate:
i. To satisfy any applicable law, regulation, subpoenas, governmental requests or legal process.
ii. To protect and/or defend the Terms of Use, including investigation of potential violations thereof.
iii. To protect the safety, rights, property or security of the Company, our Services or any third party.
iv. To protect the safety of the public for any reason.
v. To detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
vi. To prevent or stop activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, an illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity.
Further, we may use IP address or other Device Identifiers, to identify users and may do so in cooperation with third parties such as copyright owners, internet service providers, wireless service providers and/or law enforcement agencies, including disclosing such information to third parties, all in our discretion. Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to you.
(e) Business Transfer. We may share your information, including your Personal Information and Usage Information with our parent, subsidiaries and affiliates for internal reasons. We also reserve the right to disclose and transfer all such information:
i. To a subsequent owner, co-owner or operator of the Services or applicable database.
ii. In connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, restructuring, the sale of substantially all of our membership interests and/or assets or other corporate change, including, during the course of any due diligence process.
Finally, we may also share personal information with third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our enterprise or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other companies or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
Your rights under the GDPR regulation (for eu citizens)
The GDPR Regulation gives you the following rights regarding the processing of your personal data:
Right of Access: You may request access to your personal data. This gives you the opportunity to receive a copy of your personal data maintained by Kimatica.
Right of Correction: You may request a correction of your personal data. This allows you to correct any incomplete or inaccurate data you have with Kimatica. In this case, we will need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide us.
Delete Right: You can request the deletion of your personal information. This allows you to ask us to delete or remove personal data if there is no reason to continue processing it. Please note, however, that your entitlement may in certain circumstances not be possible for specific legal reasons to be communicated to you, as appropriate, at the time of your request.
Right to Limitation of Processing: You may request a limitation of the processing of your personal data. In particular, you may ask us to stop processing your personal data in the following cases:
(a) If you want to redefine the accuracy of your personal data,
(b) when you believe that the use of your data is abusive, but you do not want to delete your data and
(c) when we need to keep your data, even if we do not require it from you anymore, in order to be able to use it in the event of a potential exercise of your rights.
Opposition: You may oppose the processing of your personal data at any time in cases where the processing of your data is based on the fulfillment of a duty performed in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority (Article 6 (1) of the GDPR), or if the processing fulfills the legitimate interests of Kimatica or a third party (Article 6 (1) (f) of the GDPR). However, Kimatica may not satisfy your right to do so if it demonstrates imperative and legitimate processing grounds that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the foundation, exercise or support of legal claims.
Portability: You may request the transfer of your personal data to you or to third parties. We will provide you with your personal data in a widely used, electronically-readable form. Please note that this right applies only to automated information that you originally provided us with your consent to use or whenever we used this information to perform a contract with you.
Right of Withdrawal of Consent: You may withdraw your consent at any time in cases where you have already given your consent to the processing of your personal data. However, this will not affect the legitimacy of any processing that took place before the withdrawal of your consent. If you withdraw your consent, Kimatica may not be able to offer you certain products or services. You will be informed about this at the time of your request.
Manual decision-making: Automatic decision-making takes place when an electronic system uses personal data to decide without human intervention. In this case, you have the right not to make decisions taken solely through automated processing including profile training that produces legal effects affecting you or that significantly affect you in a similar way unless you give us your consent or is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between you or otherwise permitted by law. You also have the right to challenge decisions taken in connection with you through the above procedure.
If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us at support@kimatica.com. Furthermore, we inform you that you have the right to file a complaint before the competent Data Protection Authority, if you believe that your rights have been violated by the processing of your personal data by Kimatica.
Publicly disclosed information
(a) User Generated Content and Public Information. The Services may offer publicly accessible blogs or community forums or other ways to permit you to submit ideas, photographs, user profiles, writings, music, video, audio recordings, computer graphics, pictures, data, questions, comments, suggestions or other content, including Personal Information (collectively, User Content ). We or others may reproduce, publish, distribute or otherwise use User Content online or offline in any media or format (currently existing or hereafter developed). Others may have access to this User Content and may have the ability to share it with third parties across the Internet. You should be aware that any User Content you provide in these areas may be read, collected and use by others who access them. Thus, please think carefully before deciding what information you share, including Personal Information, in connection with your User Content. Please note that Company does not control who will have access to the information that you choose to make public and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such publicly available information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information that you disclose publicly, share with others or otherwise upload, whether through the Services or otherwise. We are not responsible for the accuracy, use, or misuse of any content or information that you disclose or receive through the Services. To request removal of your User Content from our Services, you may contact us. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your User content, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why. (b) Name and Likeness. We may also publish your name, voice, likeness and other Personal Information that is part of your User Content and we may use the content, or any portion of the content, for advertising, marketing, publicity and promotional activities. For full terms and conditions regarding User Content you submit to the Services, please review our Terms of Use.
Third-party content and links to third-party services
The Services may contain content that is supplied by a third party and those third parties may collect mobile application usage information and your Device Identifier when web pages from any online Services are served to your browser. In addition, when you are using the Services, you may be directed to other sites or applications that are operated and controlled by third parties that we do not control. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by any of these third parties. These other Mobile applications/websites may send their own cookies to you, independently collect data or solicit Personal Information and may or may not have their own published privacy policies. We encourage you to note when you leave our Services and to read the privacy statements of all third-party web sites or applications before submitting any Personal Information to third parties.
Social media features
Our online and mobile Services may include social media features, such as the Facebook Like button and widgets such as a Share This button, or interactive mini-programs that run on our online and mobile Services. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our online or mobile Services and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our online Services. Your interactions with these features and widgets are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing them.
Changing my information and cancelling my account
You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of the information you submit to us, such as your contact information provided as part of account registration. If your Personal Information changes, or if you no longer desire our Services, you may correct, delete inaccuracies, or amend information by making the change on our member information page or by contacting us through t.uber.com/support. We will make good faith efforts to make requested changes in our then active databases as soon as reasonably practicable. You may also cancel or modify the communications that you have elected to receive from the Services by following the instructions contained within an e-mail or by logging into your user account and changing your communication preferences. We will retain your Personal Information and Usage Information (including geo-location) for as long as your account with the Services is active and as needed to provide you services. Even after your account is terminated, we will retain your Personal Information and Usage Information (including geo-location, trip history, credit card information, and transaction history) as needed to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes, conclude any activities related to the cancellation of an account (such as addressing chargebacks from your credit card companies), investigate or prevent fraud and other inappropriate activity, to enforce our agreements and for other business reason. After a period of time, your data may be anonymized and aggregated and then may be held by us as long as necessary for us to provide our Services effectively, but our use of the anonymized data will be solely for analytic purposes.
Parents and children
Because our Services are not directed toward minors, no one under 18 is allowed to register with or use the Services. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18. If we discover that we have collected personal information from a person under 18, we will delete that information immediately. If you are a parent or guardian of a minor under the age of 18 and believe he or she has disclosed Personal Information to us, please contact us. Concerning EU citizens and complying with the GDPR Regulation, we note that minors under fifteen (15) years of age are prohibited from disclosing their personal data to Kimatica without the prior consent of their guardian. We ask those persons not to submit information to us. In the event that users of the site fall under the above category and continue to disclose personal data to us through our mobile application, it will be considered by Kimatica that such persons have obtained the prior consent of their guardian.
Retention and deletion
We will not retain data for a longer period of time than is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected or as required by the applicable legal framework. In some cases, certain personal information may be retained beyond that time, due to possible legal obligations, legitimate interests of Kimatica. Such cases are, for example, those related to every branch of law (tax, civil, criminal, etc.).
Changes to the privacy policy
We strive to review and keep up-to-date with this Privacy Policy in order to comply with legal and regulatory requirements, while at the same time providing optimal protection for your personal information. From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our information practices. Any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on the Services prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
