AISuggest Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, “AISuggest”, “we” or “us”) are engaged in the business of providing web-based solutions to facilitate connections between clients seeking specific services and freelancers offering these services, as well as providing a platform for buying and selling software, and offering news, insights, success stories, and podcasts. This Policy outlines our practices in relation to the collection, storage, usage, processing, and disclosure of personal data that you have consented to share with us when you access, use, or otherwise interact with our website available at https://marketplace.daedaltech.online/ or mobile application ‘AISuggest’ (collectively, “Platform”) or avail products or services that AISuggest offers you on or through the Platform (collectively, the “Services”).
At AISuggest, we are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy. In order to provide you with access to the Services, we have to collect and otherwise process certain data about you. This Policy explains how we process and use personal data about you.
Please note that unless specifically defined in this Policy, capitalised terms shall have the same meaning ascribed to them in our Terms and Conditions, available at https://marketplace.daedaltech.online/terms-of-use (“Terms”). Please read this Policy in consonance with the Terms.
By using the Services, you confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by this Policy and consent to the processing activities described under this Policy.
Please refer to Section 1 to understand how the terms of this Policy apply to you.
1. BACKGROUND AND KEY INFORMATION
(a) How this Policy applies:
This Policy applies to individuals who access or use the Services. For the avoidance of doubt, references to “you” across this Policy are to an end user that uses the Platform.
By using the Platform, you consent to the collection, storage, usage, and disclosure of your personal data, as described in and collected by us in accordance with this Policy.
(b) Review and Updates:
We regularly review and update our Privacy Policy, and we request you to regularly review this Policy. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please let us know if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
(c) Third-Party Services:
The Platform may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, services, and applications (“Third-Party Services”). Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We neither control nor endorse these Third-Party Services and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave the Platform or access third-party links through the Platform, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of such third-party service providers.
2. PERSONAL DATA THAT WE COLLECT
(a) We collect different types of personal data about you. This includes, but is not limited to:
(i) Contact Data, such as your mailing or home address, location, email addresses, and mobile numbers.
(ii) Identity and Profile Data, such as your name, username or similar identifiers, photographs, and gender.
(iii) Marketing and Communications Data, such as your address, email address, information posted in service requests, offers, wants, feedback, comments, pictures and discussions in our blog and chat boxes, responses to user surveys and polls, your preferences in receiving marketing communications from us and our third parties, and your communication preferences. We also collect your chat and call records when you communicate with service professionals through the Platform.
(iv) Technical Data, which includes your IP address, browser type, internet service provider, details of operating system, access time, page views, device ID, device type, frequency of visiting our website and use of the Platform, website and mobile application activity, clicks, date and time stamps, location data, and other technology on the devices that you use to access the Platform.
(v) Transaction Data, such as details of the Services you have availed, a limited portion of your credit or debit card details for tracking transactions that are provided to us by payment processors, and UPI IDs for processing payments.
(vi) Usage Data, which includes information about how you use the Services, your activity on the Platform, booking history, user taps and clicks, user interests, time spent on the Platform, details about user journey on the mobile application, and page views.
(b) We also collect, use, and share aggregated data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data under law as it does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. However, if we combine or connect aggregated data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this Policy.
(c) What happens if I refuse to provide my personal data?
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract (such as the Terms), and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract (for example, to provide you with the Services). In this case, we may have to cancel or limit your access to the Services.
3. HOW DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA?
We use different methods to collect personal data from and about you including through:
(a) Direct Interactions. You provide us your personal data when you interact with us. This includes personal data you provide when you:
(i) create an account or profile with us;
(ii) use our Services or carry out other activities in connection with the Services;
(iii) enter a promotion, user poll, or online surveys;
(iv) request marketing communications to be sent to you; or
(v) report a problem with the Platform and/or our Services, give us feedback or contact us.
(b) Automated technologies or interactions. Each time you visit the Platform or use the Services, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, server logs, and other similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites or apps that employ our cookies.
(c) Third parties or publicly available sources. We will receive personal data about you from various third parties:
(i) Technical data from analytics providers such as Facebook and advertising networks;
(ii) Identity and profile-related Data and Contact Data from service professionals, publicly available sources, etc.;
(iii) Personal data about you from our affiliate entities.
4. HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
(a) We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data where we need to provide you with the Services or where we need to comply with a legal obligation. We use your personal data for the following purposes:
(i) to verify your identity to register you as a user, and create your user account with us on the Platform;
(ii) to provide the Services to you;
(iii) to monitor trends and personalise your experience;
(iv) to improve the functionality of our Services based on the information and feedback we receive from you;
(v) to improve customer service to effectively respond to your Service requests and support needs;
(vi) to track transactions and process payments;
(vii) to send periodic notifications to manage our relationship with you including to notify you of changes to the Services, send you information and updates pertaining to the Services you have availed, and to receive occasional company news and updates related to us or the Services;
(viii) to assist with the facilitation of the Services offered to you, including to send you information and updates about the Services you have availed;
(ix) to market and advertise the Services to you;
(x) to comply with legal obligations;
(xi) to administer and protect our business and the Services, including for troubleshooting, data analysis, system testing, and performing internal operations;
(xii) to improve our business and delivery models;
(xiii) to perform our obligations that arise out of the arrangement we are about to enter or have entered with you;
(xiv) to enforce our Terms; and
(xv) to respond to court orders, establish or exercise our legal rights, or defend ourselves against legal claims.
(b) You agree and acknowledge that by using our Services and creating an account with us on the Platform, you authorise us, our service professionals, associate partners, and affiliates to contact you via email, phone, or otherwise. This is to provide the Services to you and ensure that you are aware of all the features of the Services and for related purposes.
(c) You agree and acknowledge that any and all information pertaining to you, whether or not you directly provide it to us (via the Services or otherwise), including but not limited to personal correspondence such as emails, instructions from you, etc., may be collected, compiled, and shared by us in order to render the Services to you. This may include but not be limited to service professionals who provide or seek to provide you with Services, vendors, social media companies, third-party service providers, storage providers, data analytics providers, consultants, lawyers, and auditors. We may also share this information with other entities in the AISuggest group in connection with the above-mentioned purposes.
(d) You agree and acknowledge that we may share data without your consent, when it is required by law or by any court or government agency or authority to disclose such information. Such disclosures are made in good faith and belief that it is reasonably necessary to do so for enforcing this Policy or the Terms, or in order to comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
5. COOKIES
(a) Cookies are small files that a
site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers’ systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
(b) We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits, compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
(c) You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. Like most websites, if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly. However, you can still place orders by contacting customer service.
6. DATA SECURITY
(a) We implement appropriate security measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that our security measures will prevent every unauthorized attempt to access, use, or disclose personal data. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage, and disclosure of your personal data.
(b) We restrict 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 they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
(c) We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
7. DATA RETENTION
(a) We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal