Recquest Privacy
Policy
This document provides information in relation to the privacy
and data protection related practices of Recquest. It applies to all users of
Recquest. Please ensure that you read the terms of the policy in full before continuing
to use our website. Please contact us at the address below in case you have any
questions or concerns in relation to any of the below.
Date of Revision: September 24, 2023
Preliminary
Recquest Media LLC ("Recquest," the
"Company," "we," "us," and "our,")
respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance
with this privacy policy. This policy describes:
·
the types of
information that we may collect from you when you access or use our websites,
applications and other online services (collectively, our
"Services"); and
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our practices for
collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.
Application of this Policy: This
policy applies only to information we collect through our Services, in email,
voice, call, text and other electronic communications sent through or in
connection with our Services.
What does this Policy not Apply to: This
policy DOES NOT apply to information that you provide to, or that is collected
by, any third-party, such as organizers, events, data providers and social
networks that you use in connection with our Services. We encourage you to
consult directly with such third-parties about their
privacy practices.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and
practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not
agree with our policies and practices, you have a choice not to use or
discontinue using our Services. By accessing or using our Services, you agree
to this privacy policy.
Updates to this Policy: This
policy may change from time to time, your continued use of our Services after
we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check
the policy periodically for updates.
I. The information we collect and how we use it
We collect several types of information from and about users of
our Services, including information:
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by which you may be
personally identified; and/or
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about your internet
connection, the equipment you use to access our Services and your usage details
which may include browsing history.
We collect this information:
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directly from you when
you provide it to us; and/or
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automatically as you
navigate through our Services (information collected automatically may include
usage details, IP addresses and information collected through cookies, web
beacons and other tracking technologies).
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We also collect contact
information if you choose to upload, sync or import it from a device (such as
an address book or contact list), which we use for making relevant suggestions
such as helping you and others find people you may know or events you might be
interested in. This is helpful with IntelliSense which is used to provide you
the best possible experience. This information can be used to improve the
recommendation for best practices for the user to avail a relevant set of event
suggestions and other similar purposes. We do not share or disclose such
information and can only be used for suggestions and marketing activities.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Services may
include:
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Your account information: Your full name, email address, postal code, password and other
information you may provide with your account, such as your gender, mobile
phone number and website. Your profile picture that will be publicly displayed
as part of your account profile. You may optionally provide us with this
information through third-party sign-in services such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Wechat and Google. In such cases, we fetch and store
whatever information is made available to us by you through these sign-in
services.
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Your preferences: Your preferences and settings such as time zone and language.
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Your content: Information you provide through our Services, including your
reviews, photographs, comments, lists, followers, the users/companies you
follow or connected, events you follow or attended or plan to attend, details
and history, favorites and bookmarks, networking preferences and associated
history, contact information of people you add to, invite/share or notify, your
event visits and bookings through our Services, names, and other information
you provide on our Services, and other information in your account profile.
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Your searches and other
activities: The search terms
you have looked up and results you selected.
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Your browsing
information: How long you used
our Services and which features you used; the ads you
clicked on.
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Your communications: Communications between you and other
users or companies through our Services; your participation in a survey, poll,
feedbacks; your request for certain features (e.g., newsletters, updates or
other products); your communication with us about employment opportunities posted
to the services.
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Your Public Posts: You also may provide information (such as ratings, reviews,
tips, photos, comments, likes, bookmarks, friends, lists, etc.) to be published
or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on publicly accessible areas of
our Services, or transmitted to other users of our Services or third-parties
(collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are
posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Please be aware that no
security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control
the actions of other users of our Services with whom you may choose to share
your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your
User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We may display
this information on the Services, share it with businesses, and further
distribute it to a wider audience through third party sites and services. You
should be careful about revealing any sensitive details about yourself in such
postings.
We use the information you provide to us to enhance the
functionality and improve the quality of our Services, and to personalize your
experience while using our Services. We also use this information to display
relevant advertising, provide support to you, communicate with you, and comply
with our legal obligations.
Information About Your Friends
You have the option to request / invite / share your friends or
contacts to join the Services by providing their contact information. If you
request a friend to join and connect with you on the Services, we will use your
friend’s contact information to process your request. Also
your friend list data is used to enhance the functionality and quality of
Services provided; some examples of such are by better mutual events, mutual
connections, better recommendation of events or connections, opportunity
recommendations as part of service.
Please ensure that you
have all the requisite permissions and authorizations to share any information
with us. It is your sole responsibility to ensure that you have obtained the
necessary consents in relation to any information which may relate to third
parties apart from yourself.
Information About Your Messages
If you exchange messages with others through the Services, we
may store them in order to process and deliver them, allow you to manage them,
and investigate possible violations of our Terms of Service and wrongdoing in connection with the Services.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection
Technologies
We may automatically collect certain information about the
computer or devices (including mobile devices) you use to access the Services,
and about your use of the Services, even if you use the Services without
registering or logging in.
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Usage information: Details of your use of our Services,
including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and
the resources that you access and use on or through our Services.
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Computer and device
information: Information about
your computer, Internet connection and mobile device, including your IP
address, operating systems, platforms, browser type, other browsing information
(connection, speed, connection type etc.), device type, device’s unique device
identifier, mobile network information and the device’s telephone number.
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Stored information and
files: Our applications also
may access metadata and other information associated with other files stored on
your mobile device. This may include, for example, photographs, audio and video
clips, personal contacts and address book information.
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Location information: Our applications collect real-time
information about the location of your device, as permitted by you.
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Last URL visited: The URL of the last web page you visited
before visiting our websites.
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Mobile device IDs : Unique mobile device identifier (e.g.
IDFA or other device IDs on Apple devices like the iPhone and iPad), if you’re
using our Services on a mobile device, we may use mobile device IDs (the unique
identifier assigned to a device by the manufacturer), instead of cookies, to
recognize you. We may do this to store your preferences and track your use of
our applications. Unlike cookies, mobile device IDs cannot be deleted.
Advertising companies may use device IDs to track your use of our applications,
track the number of advertisements displayed, measure advertising performance
and display advertisements that are more relevant to you. Analytics companies
may use mobile device IDs to track your usage of our applications.
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Your preferences: Your preferences and settings such as time
zone and language.
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Your activity on the
Services: Information about
your activity on the Services, such as your search queries, comments, domain
names, search results selected, number of clicks, pages viewed and the order of
those pages, how long you visited our Services, the date and time you used the
Services, error logs, and other similar information.
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Mobile status: For mobile application users, the online or
offline status of your application.
Precise Location Information and How to Opt
Out
When you use one of our location-enabled services (for example,
when you access Services from a mobile device), we may collect and process
information about your mobile device’s GPS location (including the latitude,
longitude or altitude of your mobile device) and the time the location
information is recorded to customize the Services with location-based
information and features (for example, to inform you about events in your
area). Some of these services require your personal data for the feature to
work and we may associate location data with your device ID and other
information we hold about you.
How Long Do we Keep this Data? We
keep this data for no longer than is reasonably necessary for providing
services to you. If you wish to use the particular feature,
you will be asked to consent to your data being used for this purpose. You can
withdraw your consent at any time by disabling the GPS or other
location-tracking functions on your device, provided your device allows you to
do this.
Cookies and Other Electronic Tools
Do we use Cookies? We, and third
parties with whom we partner, may use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, mobile
device IDs, “flash cookies” and similar files or technologies to collect and
store information in respect to your use of the Services and third party
websites.
What is a Cookie? A cookie is a
small text file that is stored on your computer that enables us to recognize
you (for example, as a registered user) when you visit our website, store your
preferences and settings, enhance your experience by delivering content and
advertising specific to your interests, perform research and analytics, track
your use of our Services, and assist with security and administrative
functions. Cookies may be persistent or stored only during an individual
session. A pixel tag (also called a web beacon or clear GIF) is a tiny graphic
with a unique identifier, embedded invisibly on a webpage (or an online ad or
email), and is used to count or track things like activity on a webpage or ad impressions
or clicks, as well as to access cookies stored on users’ computers. Recquest
uses pixel tags to measure the popularity of our various pages, features and
services. We also may include web beacons in e-mail messages or newsletters to
determine whether the message has been opened and for other analytics.
How can Cookies be disabled? Most
browsers are set to automatically allow cookies. Please note it may be possible
to disable some (but not all) cookies through your device or browser settings
but doing so may interfere with certain functionality on the Services. Major
browsers provide users with various options when it comes to cookies. Users can
usually set their browsers to block all third-party cookies (which are those
set by third-party companies collecting information on websites operated by
other companies), block all cookies (including first-party cookies such as the
ones Recquest uses to collect search activity information about its users), or
block specific cookies. To modify your cookie settings, please visit your
browser’s help settings. You will need to opt out on each browser and each
device you use to access the Services. Flash cookies operate differently than
browser cookies and cannot be removed or blocked via web browser settings. By
using our Services with your browser set to accept cookies you are consenting
to our use of cookies.
Third parties whose products or services are accessible or
advertised through the Services, including social media services, may also use
cookies or similar tools, and we advise you to check their privacy policies for
information about their cookies and other practices. We do not control the practices
of such partners and their privacy policies govern their interactions with you.
Information from Third Parties
We may collect, process and store your user ID associated with
any social media account (such as your Facebook, LinkedIn and Google account)
that you use to sign into the Services or connect with or use with the
Services.
When you sign in to your account with your social media account
information, or otherwise connect to your social media account with the
Services, you consent to our collection, storage, and use, in accordance with
this Privacy Policy, of the information that you make available to us through
the social media interface. This could include, without limitation, any
information that you have made public through your social media account,
information that the social media service shares with us, or information that
is disclosed during the sign-in process. Please see your social media
provider’s privacy policy and help center for more information about how they
share information when you choose to connect your account.
We may also obtain information about you from third parties such
as partners, marketers, third-party websites, and researchers, and combine that
information with information which we collect from or about you.
Anonymous or De-Identified Data
We may anonymize and/or de-identify information collected from
you through the Services or via other means, including via the use of
third-party web analytic tools as described below. As a result, our use and
disclosure of aggregated and/or de-identified information is not restricted by
this Privacy Policy, and it may be used and disclosed to others without
limitation.
II. How we use the information we collect
We use the information we collect from and about you for a
variety of purposes, including to:
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Process and respond to
your queries
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Understand our users
(what they do on our Services, what features they like, how they use them,
etc.), improve the content and features of our Services (such as by
personalizing content to your interests), process and complete your actions,
and make special offerings
·
Administer our Services
and diagnose technical problems.
·
Send you communications
that you have requested or that may be of interest to you by way of emails, or
courier, or registered post, or telephone calls, or any other mode of
communication. We may also share your preferences or
the Services availed by you with your network followers on Recquest for
marketing and other promotional activities of our Services.
·
Enable us to show you
ads that are relevant to you.
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Generate and review
reports and data about, and to conduct research on, our user base and Service
usage patterns.
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Provide you with
customer support.
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Provide you with
notices about your account.
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Notify you about
changes to our Services.
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Allow you to
participate in interactive features offered through our Services.
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In any other way we may
describe when you provide the information.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own
and third-party goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do
not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box
located on the form on which we collect your data and/or adjust your user
preferences in your account profile.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable
us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though
we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your
consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the
advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
III. Legal Basis for Processing Your Information
We rely on the following legal grounds to process your personal
information:
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Consent. We may use your personal information as
described in this Policy subject to your consent. To withdraw your consent,
please contact us at help@recquest.com. You may also refrain from providing, or
withdraw, your consent for cookies. Please see our clause providing information
about user rights and choices below for more information on opt-outs.
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Performance of a
contract. We may need to
collect and use personal information of Recquest Members and Recquest Users, as
applicable, to perform our contractual obligations.
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Legitimate Interests. We may use your personal information for
our legitimate interests to provide our Platform and services and to improve
our services and the content on our Platform. We process information on behalf
of our customers who have legitimate interests in operating their businesses.
We may use technical information as described in this Policy and use personal
information for our marketing purposes consistent with our legitimate interests
and any choices that we offer or consents that may be required under applicable
law.
IV. How we share the information we collect
We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you
provide, as described in this privacy policy, in the following ways:
General Information Disclosures
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To contractors, service
providers and other third-parties whom we use to support our business (e.g.
ticketing providers, event organizers, event reservations) and who are bound by
contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it
only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
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To a buyer or other
successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization,
dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of Recquest assets,
whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar
proceeding, in which personal information held by Recquest about the users of
our Services are among the assets transferred.
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To third-parties
to market their products or services to you if you have consented to receive
promotional updates. We contractually require these third-parties
to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for
which we disclose it to them. You have the right to contact us to discontinue
these messages.
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To fulfill the purpose
for which you provide it.
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Service Providers. We may share your information with
outside vendors that we use for a variety of purposes, such as to send you
emails and messages on behalf of other Recquest members, push notifications to
your mobile device on our behalf, provide voice recognition services to process
your spoken queries and questions, help us analyze use of our Services, and
process and collect payments. Some of our products, services and databases are
hosted by third party hosting services providers. We may share information
about you with these vendors only to enable them to perform their services.
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Legal Purposes. We may share your information when we
believe in good faith that such sharing is reasonably necessary in order to
investigate, prevent, or take action regarding
possible illegal activities or to comply with legal process. We may also share
your information to investigate and address threats or potential threats to the
physical safety of any person, to investigate and address violations of this
Privacy Policy or the Terms of
Service, or to investigate and address violations
of the rights of third parties and/or to protect the rights, property and
safety of Recquest, our employees, users, or the public. This may involve the
sharing of your information with law enforcement, government agencies, courts,
and/or other organizations on account of legal request such as subpoena, court
order or government demand to comply with the law. You understand that we may
not be able to notify you of such disclosure if we are not permitted to do so
under applicable law.
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Social Networks. If you interact with social media
features on our Services, such as the Facebook Like button, or use your social
media credentials to log-in or post content, these features may collect
information about your use of the Services, as well as post information about
your activities on the social media service. Your interactions with social
media companies are governed by their privacy policies.
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Consent. We may share your information in any
other circumstances where we have your consent.
V. Choices about how we use and disclose your information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal
information you provide to us. You can set your browser or mobile device to
refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being
sent.
If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of
our Services may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
VI. Communications choices
When you sign up for an account, you are opting in to receive
emails, texts, calls, notifications from other Recquest users, businesses, and Recquest
itself. You can log in to manage your email preferences and you can follow the
“unsubscribe” instructions in commercial email messages but note that you
cannot opt out of receiving certain administrative notices, service notices, or
legal notices from Recquest.
VII. User Rights and Reviewing, changing or deleting information
Account .
In order to keep your personal information accurate and complete, you can log
in to review and update your account information via your account settings
page. You may also contact us to request information about the personal data we
have collected from you and to request the correction, modification or deletion
of such personal information. We will do our best to honor your requests
subject to any legal and contractual obligations. If you would like to make a
request, cancel your account or request we delete or no longer use your account
information to provide you Services, contact us at help@recquest.com or the address set
forth at the end of this Policy. Subject to applicable law, we will retain and
use your account information only as necessary to comply with our legal
obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
If you delete your User Contributions from our websites, copies
of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or
might have been copied or stored by other users of our websites. Proper access
and use of information provided on our websites, including User Contributions,
is governed by our Terms of Use
E-mail: As described above, if you do not wish to
receive promotional emails from us, you may opt out at any time by following
the opt-out link contained in the email itself. Please note that it may take up
to ten (10) days to process your request. Please also note that if you opt out
of receiving marketing communications from us, we may continue to send to you
service-related emails which are not available for opt-out. If you do not wish
to receive any service-related emails from us, you have the option to deactivate
your account.
Cookies: You may also refrain
from providing, or withdraw, your consent for cookies. Your browser’s help
function should contain instructions on how to set your computer to accept all
cookies, to notify you when a cookie is issued, or to not receive cookies at
any time.
Third Party Analytics Services:
Some of the services used provide the ability to opt-out. You may do so using
Opt-Out Features on their respective websites.
VIII. Accessing & correcting your personal information
We will take reasonable steps to accurately record the personal
information that you provide to us and any subsequent updates.
We encourage you to review, update, and correct the personal
information that we maintain about you, and you may request that we delete personal
information about you that is inaccurate, incomplete, or irrelevant for
legitimate purposes, or are being processed in a way which infringes any
applicable legal requirement.
Your right to review, update, correct, and delete your personal
information may be limited, subject to the applicable law of your jurisdiction:
(i) if your requests are abusive or unreasonably
excessive, (ii) where the rights or safety of another person or persons would
be encroached upon, or (iii) if the information or material you request relates
to existing or anticipated legal proceedings between you and us, or providing
access to you would prejudice negotiations between us or an investigation of
possible unlawful activity. Your right to review, update, correct, and delete your
information is subject to our records retention policies and applicable law,
including any statutory retention requirements.
IX. Security: How we protect your information
We have implemented industry-standard appropriate physical,
electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent
unauthorized access to your information and to maintain data security.
These safeguards take into account the
sensitivity of the information that we collect, process and store and the
current state of technology. We follow generally accepted industry standards to
protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and
once we receive it.
However, no method of transmission over the Internet or via
mobile device, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore,
while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal
information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security and thereby usage in a
manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
We assume no liability or responsibility for disclosure of your
information due to errors in transmission, unauthorized third-party access, or
other causes beyond our control. You play an important role in keeping your
personal information secure. You should not share your username, password, or
other security information for your Recquest account with anyone. If we receive
instructions using your username and password, we will consider that you have
authorized the instructions.
In case you would like to know more about how we keep your
information secure, please feel free to reach out to us at help@recquest.com with your
specific queries.
X. Children Under 13
Recquest strongly believes in protecting the privacy of
children. In line with this belief, we do not knowingly collect or maintain
Personally Identifiable Information on our Site from persons under 13 years of
age, and no part of our Site is directed to persons under 13 years of age. If
you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use or access our services at
any time or in any manner. We will take appropriate steps to delete any
Personally Identifiable Information of persons less than 13 years of age that has
been collected on our Site without verified parental consent upon learning of
the existence of such Personally Identifiable Information.
If we become aware that a person submitting personal information
is under 13, we will delete the account and all related information as soon as possible.
If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13,
please contact us at help@recquest.com
XI. Third-Party Links
Our Platform may contain links to third-party websites and
applications. Subject to your opt-out preferences (see
Choices about how we use and disclose your information), we may also use
third-party advertisers, ad networks, and other advertising, marketing, and
promotional companies, to serve advertisements on our websites. Any access to
and use of such linked websites and applications is not governed by this Policy
but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those third parties. We do
not endorse these parties, their content, or any products and services they
offer, and we are not responsible for the information practices of such
third-party websites or applications.
XII. Compliance with data protection regulations and Data
Transfers
The information we obtain from or about you may be processed and
stored in India, USA and our other various servers located across the globe,
which may provide for different data protection rules than the country in which
you reside.
Personal Information that we collect may be transferred to, and
stored at, any of our affiliates, partners or service providers which may be
inside or outside the country you reside in / economic area your country is
part of. By submitting your personal data, you agree to such transfers. Your
Personal Information may be transferred to countries that do not have the same
data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the
information. When we transfer or disclose your Personal Information to other
countries, we will protect that information as described in this Privacy
Policy. We will ensure appropriate contractual safeguards to ensure that your
information is processed with the highest standards of transparency and
fairness.
We comply with generally accepted industry standard regulations
regarding the collection, use, and retention of data. Each location may provide
for different data protection rules than the country in which you reside. If
you have any questions relating to your personal data, please write to us
on help@recquest.com
Grievance Officer. In accordance
with the applicable laws, the name and contact details of the Grievance Officer
are provided below:
Mr. Owen White
Email ID: help@recquest.com
XIII. Data retention and account termination
Ordinarily, we will retain your information for as long as
necessary to provide you with our Services. The length of time we retain
Personally Identifiable Information for depends on the purposes for which we
collect and use it and/or as required to comply with applicable laws and to
establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.
You can close your account by visiting your profile settings
page on our website or by writing to us at help@recquest.com. We will remove your
public posts from view and/or dissociate them from your account profile, but we
may retain information about you for the purposes authorized under this Privacy
Policy unless prohibited by law.
Thereafter, within a reasonable period (generally not exceeding
90 days), we will either delete your personal information or de-identify it so
that it is anonymous and not attributed to your identity. For example, we may
retain certain information to prevent, investigate, or identify possible
wrongdoing in connection with the Service or to comply with legal obligations.
XV. Changes to this privacy policy
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to
time to reflect changes in the law, our data collection and use practices, the
features of our services, or advances in technology. Please check this page
periodically for changes. Use of information we collect is subject to the
Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make any
material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the changes here. Please
review the changes carefully. Your continued use of the Services following the
posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will constitute your consent and
acceptance of those changes.
XVI. Contact us
If you have any queries or grievances relating to the
processing/usage of information provided by you or Recquest Privacy Policy, you
may email our Grievance Redressal Team at help@recquest.com or
write at the following address:
1851 Grey Falcon Cir SW
Vero Beach, Florida 32962
USA