Buyers' Privacy Policy 

1.0 Introduction

When you create a Buyer Account on Buyiral, regardless of whether or not you make any purchases, we collect and use your personal information to provide you with the use of our Platform and its services, and generally to help personalize and optimize your shopping experience on our Platform.

Additionally, please review our overall Privacy Policy that applies to everyone whose information we process.

2.0 The data we collect about you

We collect your personal data to provide and continually improve our products and services. We may collect, use, store and transfer the following different categories of personal data about you:

Category 1: Information you provide to us

We receive and store the information you provide, including your identity, contact, delivery address, and financial data.

Category 2: Information on your use of our website and/or mobile applications

We automatically collect and store certain types of information regarding your use of the Buyiral marketplace, including information about your searches, views, downloads, and purchases.

Category 3: Information from third parties and publicly available sources

We may receive information about you from third parties, including our carriers, payment service providers; merchants/brands; and advertising service providers.

3.0 Cookies and How We Use Them

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website and when providing our services. Cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our website and Services, which helps us to provide you with an enhanced browsing experience. For example, we use cookies for the following purposes:

  • Recognising and counting the number of visitors and seeing how visitors move around the site when they are using it (this helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users can find what they are looking for).
  • Identifying your preferences and subscriptions, e.g., language settings, saved items, items stored in your cart; and
  • Sending you newsletters and commercial/advertising messages tailored to your interests.

Our approved third parties may also set cookies when you use our marketplace. Third parties include search engines, measurement and analytics services providers, social media networks, and advertising companies.

For more information about how we use these technologies, including a list of other companies that place cookies on our sites, a list of cookies that we place when we power a merchant's store, and an explanation of how you can opt-out of certain types of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.

4.0 How We Use Your Personal Data

We use your personal data to operate, provide, develop and improve the products and services that we offer, including the following:

  • Registering you as a new customer.
  • Processing and delivering your orders.
  • Managing your relationship with us.
  • Enabling you to participate in promotions, competitions, and surveys.
  • Improving our website, products, and services.
  • Recommending/advertising products or services that may be of interest to you.
  • Complying with our legal obligations, including verifying your identity where necessary.
  • Detecting fraud.

5.0 How We Share Your Personal Data

We may need to share your personal data with third parties for the following purposes:

  • Sale of products and services: In order to deliver your products and services purchased on our marketplace from third parties, we may be required to provide your personal data to such third parties.
  • Working with third-party service providers: We engage third parties to perform certain functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders for products or services, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing payments, transmitting content, assessing and managing credit risk, and providing customer service.
  • Business transfers: As we continue to develop our business, we might sell or buy other businesses or services, and customer information may be transferred with other business assets in such transactions.
  • Detecting fraud and abuse: We release accounts and other personal data to other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction and to comply with the law.

When we share your personal data with third parties we:

  • Require them to agree to use your data per the terms of this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Service, and in accordance with the law; and
  • Only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and per our instructions. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes.

6.0 International Transfers

We may transfer your personal data to locations in another country if this is permissible under applicable laws in your location. There are inherent risks in such transfers.

In the event of international transfers of your personal data, we shall put in place measures necessary to protect your data, and we shall continue to respect your legal rights pursuant to the terms of this Privacy Policy and applicable laws in your location.

7.0 Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed.

In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need-to-know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have established procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

8.0 Your Legal Rights

The personal data we hold about you must be accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws concerning your personal data, including the right to access, correct, or erase your personal data, object to or restrict processing of your personal data, and unsubscribe from our emails and newsletters.

9.0 Further Details

If you are looking for more information on how we process your personal data, or you wish to exercise your legal rights in respect of your personal data, please contact us at buyiralhq@buyiral.com