Effective Date: December 25, 2022
This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, protect, and share information about you that we obtain when you access and use www.swapmyride.com, including when you register for an account, outside of the Website, including by e-mail, telephone, through our social media channels, and otherwise.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand how we will treat your information before you start to use our Website or communicate with us outside the Website. This Privacy Policy also is intended to explain the conditions under which Swapmyride uses and discloses that information, and your rights in relation to that information. Changes to this Privacy Policy are discussed at the end of this document.
By accessing or using the Website or the Services or communicating with us outside the Website, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy, which may be updated and amended from time to time. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website or Services otherwise communicate with us.
1. General
This privacy policy describes the policy of Swapmyride regarding the collection, use, storage, sharing and protection of your personal information ("Privacy Policy"). ller.
Scope and consent: By using Swapmyride and related Services, you give explicit consent to Swapmyride for the collection, use, disclosure and retention of your personal information by us, as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.
Swapmyride may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We advise you to read it regularly. Substantial changes to our Privacy Policy will be announced 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 ad post 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.swapmyride.com, referring URL, ad data, 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:
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 and the services of companiesIf 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 Swapmyride 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. We may share your personal information with:
companies of the Classifieds Group to provide joint content and services (such as registration and customer support), to prevent, detect and investigate possible illegal activities, violations of our policy, fraud and/or data security breaches, and to support decision making on products, websites, applications, services, tools and communication. The Classifieds Group companies will only use this information to send you marketing messages when you yourself have requested their services, and they will use your personal information in accordance with their respective privacy policy. service providers with whom we have entered into an agreement to help us provide our Services on the website, such as financial service providers, your listing or business address may be displayed on a map in your ads
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:
other third parties to whom you have given consent to share your information via Swapmyride, 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.
Our Website allows users to share ad post 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.We may use cookies, beacons, and similar technologies, now or in the future, to support the functionality of our Website.
This provides a better experience when you visit our Website and allows us to improve our Website. Our service providers may use cookies and beacons to collect and share Non-Personally Identifiable Information about your activities both on our Website and on other websites. In addition, third parties that are unaffiliated with us may also collect information about you, including tracking your browsing history, when you use our Website. We do not have control over these third party collection practices. If you wish to minimize these third-party collections, and you can adjust the settings of your browsers or install plug-ins and add-ins.
5. Advertising
If you do not wish to participate in our advertising personalization using your personal information or retargeting/tracking programs, you can opt-out by following the directions provided within the applicable advertisement, or directly at the AdChoices website provided by the DAAC, and use the opt-out mechanism. This does not necessarily mean that no advertisements will be shown to you. It simply means that these advertisements will not be personalized for you by means of cookies, web beacons or similar technologies.
- via the Contact Form;
6. 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.
7. Other information
Abuse and unsolicited commercial communications ("spam"): We do not tolerate abuse of our Website. You do not have permission to add other Swapmyride 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.