This Privacy Policy for G C G TECHNOLOGIES. (referred to as “G C G TECHNOLOGIES” “we” ”us” or “our”), describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our service (“Services”).
If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at admin@gcgtechnologies.online.
1.WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal Information Provided by You. We collect personal information that
you provide to us when you register on the Services, express an interest
in obtaining information about us or our product and Services, when you
participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact
us.
The personal information we collect may include the following:
Phone numbers
Email address
Usernames
Passwords
Birthday
Gender
Information we receive from others. The other users may provide
information about you as they use our Services, such as they interact with
you or if they submit a report involving you. Sensitive Information. We do
not process sensitive information Social Media Login Data. We may provide
you with the option to register with us using your existing social media
account details, like your Facebook, TikTok, or other social media
account. If you choose to register in this way, we will collect the
information described in the section called “HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL
LOGINS” below. Application Data. If you use our application, we also may
collect the following information if you choose to provide us with the
access or permission. If you wish to change our access or permissions, you
may do so in your device’s settings.
Geolocation Information. We may
request access or permission to track location-based information from your
mobile device, either continuously or while you are using our mobile
application, to provide certain location-based services.
Mobile
Device Access. We may request access or permission to certain features
from your mobile device, including your mobile device’s camera,
microphone, and other features.
Mobile Device Data. We automatically
collect device information (such as your mobile device ID, model, and
manufacturer), operating systems, version information and system
configuration information, device and application identification numbers,
browser type and version, hardware model internet service providers and/or
mobile carrier, and Internet Protocol (IP) address.
Push
Notifications. We may request to send you push notifications regarding
your account or certain features of the application. This information is
primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our
application, for troubleshooting, and for our internal analytics and
reporting purposes. All personal information that you provide to us must
be true, complete and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to
such personal information. Automated technologies or interactions. See
“Cookie Policy” for details of how we may automatically collect your
personal data.
2.HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
We will only use your personal data when the applicable local law allows
us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following
circumstances:
For purposes of providing the services, customer management, and
functionality and security as is necessary to perform the services
provided to you under our terms of use and any other contract that you
have with us.
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or
those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not
override those interests.
Where we need to comply with a legal or
regulatory obligation.
Where you declare your valid consent to use
it. Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful
ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.
We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending
on how you interact with our Services, including:
Provision of
Services: To facilitate account creations and otherwise manage your
account. To present our Services and their contents to you, including any
interactive features on our Services, and to provide you with information,
products, or services that you request from us; we also collect and use
Personal Information to verify your eligibility and deliver prizes in
connection with promotion activities and games;
Customer Management:
to provide customer support and notices to you about your account or
subscription, and respond to your requests, questions, and feedback;
Communication: to communicate and interact with you directly, such
as that we may send notifications to you, notify you about updates,
security alerts, promotion activities, or improvements to our Services or
contact you regarding any content that you have posted to or downloaded
from the Services. We may send you marketing and promotional
communications. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time.
Functionality and Security: to diagnose or fix technology problems,
and to detect, prevent, and respond to actual or potential fraud, illegal
activities, or intellectual property infringement. We may retain data
related to violations of our Terms of Use to against recurrences.
Compliance: to enforce our Terms of Use and to comply with our legal
obligations;
Others: to provide you information which we may
describe when your consent is provided separately from this privacy
policy.
3.HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We may need to share your personal information in the following
situations:
Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in
connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company
assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to
another company.
Affiliates. We may share information with our
affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this
privacy policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any
subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control
or that are under common control with us.
Service providers,
contractors, and other third parties 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. These services may include
fulfilling orders, processing payments, customization of content,
analytics, security, supporting our Services functionality, and other
features offered through our Services. These service providers may have
access to Personal Information needed to perform their functions but are
not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes.
This may also include sharing your account information (such as your
account information, purchase orders, purchase history, and your device
ID) with third-party payment channels for the purpose of processing
refunds.
Other Users. When you share personal information (for
example, by posting comments, posts, or other content to the Services) or
otherwise interact with public areas of the Services, such personal
information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly made available
outside the Services in perpetuity. If you interact with other users of
our Services and register for our Services through a social network (such
as TikTok), your contacts on the social network will see your name,
profile photo, and descriptions of your activity. Similarly, other users
will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with you
within our Services, and view your profile.
Legal Authority. We
access, preserve and share your Personal Information with regulators, law
enforcement or others where we reasonably believe such disclosure is
needed to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or
governmental request, (b) enforce applicable terms of use, including
investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or
otherwise address illegal or suspected illegal activities, security or
technical issues, (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or
safety of our company, our users, our employees, or others; or (e) to
maintain and protect the security and integrity of our Website or
infrastructure. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection
or right available to us, at our sole discretion.
With Your
Consent/At Your Request. We may ask for your consent to share your
information with third parties. In any such case, we will make it clear
why we want to share the information.
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information
that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We also may
share aggregated information with third parties for conducting general
business analysis. This information does not contain any Personal
Information and may be used to develop content and services that we hope
you and other users will find of interest.
4.CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER
Please note, that WaKa is managed by G C G TECHNOLOGIES., registered in
Singapore, so your data may be stored, processed, transferred between, and
accessed to the company in Singapore, or in any other country where WaKa
or its affiliates, subsidiaries, partners, or service providers are
located or maintain facilities. You explicitly consent and agree to such
transfer, storing, and/or processing of your information outside the
country in which you reside. Nevertheless, we will handle information from
or about you in accordance with this policy and applicable law regardless
of where that information is stored.
5.HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?
If you choose to register or log in to our services using a social media
account, we may have access to certain profile information about you. It
may include your name, email address, friends list, and profile picture,
as well as other information you choose to make public on such a social
media platform. We do not control and are not responsible for, other uses
of your personal information by your third-party social media provider. We
recommend that you review their privacy policy to understand how they
collect, use and share your personal information, and how you can set your
privacy preference on their sites and apps.
6.DATA RETENTION AND DELETION
We keep your personal information only as long as we need it for legal
basis and as permitted by applicable law.
If you want to delete your account, you may submit your request via the
following method:
In-App request: you may go to WaKa, click on
“Settings” - “Account” - “Delete Account” We will make sure that your
account is no longer viewable in WaKa once your account is successfully
deleted. It will take 7 days for us to delete your personal information.
Your request will be deemed as canceled if you log-in your account during
the 7 days.
When your account is deleted we will delete all of your
personal information unless:
(1)For the purpose of compliance with
applicable law: for example your payment information. If you make purchase
within WaKa, certain personal data may be kept for our tax and accounting
purposes. If you would like to delete your information in the third party
payment service provider, you should contact them directly.
(2)If
there is an ongoing matter, such as outstanding issues, investigations,
claims or disputes, that require resolution, we may need to retain the
relevant information including but not limited to your phone number, email
address and your geographic information.
(3)Legitimate business
interests: To prevent fraud and enhance user safety and security, we may
need to retain information. For example, the device ID may be kept to
prevent a user who has been banned for unsafe behavior or security
incidents from opening a new account.
Please note that even if you
remove certain information from your profile or delete your Account, it's
possible that others may still be able to view or access that information.
This could be due to the fact that the information was previously shared
with others, or it may have been copied or stored by others.
Unfortunately, we have no control over this and cannot be held liable for
any such occurrences.
7.HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and
organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any
personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and
efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the
internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100%
secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or
other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security
and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information.
Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, the
transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your
own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.
8.YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES
We strive to provide you with rights and choices regarding your personal
information, including the right to close your account and delete your
personal information. You can choose not to provide us with certain
Personal Information, but that may result in you being unable to use
certain features of our Website because such information may be required
in order for you to register as a member, or purchase products or
services, or promotion, or survey, or ask a question. For other requests
to review, update, or otherwise limit our use of information that you have
provided directly to us, you may contact admin@gcgtechnologies.online. In
your request, please include your email address, name, address, and
telephone number and specify all relevant background. To protect your
privacy and security, we may take steps to verify your identity before
granting you access or making corrections to your information. You are
responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and
account information at all times. If the request if unlawful or invalid,
or if it may infringe on trade secrets or intellectual property or the
privacy or other rights of someone else, we may reject your request. You
can stop all information collection by an app by uninstalling it using the
standard uninstall process for your device. Remember that uninstalling an
app does NOT close your account. To close your account, please use the
corresponding functionality on the service. If you reside in European
Economic Area and the United Kingdom, you have a right to lodge a
complaint with the appropriate data protection authority if you have
concerns about how we process your personal information.
9.CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We may modify or revise our privacy policy from time to time. Although we
may attempt to notify you when major changes are made to this privacy
policy, you are expected to periodically review the most up-to-date
version found at our website or within the Services so you are aware of
any changes, as they are binding on you. If we change anything in our
privacy policy, the date of change will be reflected in the “last modified
date”. You agree that you will periodically review this privacy policy and
refresh the page when doing so. You agree to note the date of the last
revision to our privacy policy. If the “last modified” date is unchanged
from the last time you reviewed our privacy policy, then it is unchanged.
On the other hand, if the date has changed, then there have been changes,
and you agree to re-review our privacy policy, and you agree to the new
ones. In all cases, your continued use of the Services after the posting
of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the terms of
the modified Privacy Policy.
10.NO RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES
This privacy policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties or
require disclosure of any Personal Information relating to users of the
Services.
11.OUR POLICY TOWARDS MINORS
Our Services is not directed to persons under the age of 13. If you
suspect that a user is under the age of 13, please use the reporting
mechanism available on the service.
12.NO ERROR FREE PERFORMANCE
We do not guarantee error-free performance under this privacy policy. We
will use reasonable efforts to comply with this privacy policy and will
take prompt corrective action when we learn of any failure to comply with
our privacy policy. We shall not be liable for any incidental,
consequential or punitive damages relating to this privacy policy.
13.HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US?
If you have questions or comments about this Policy, you may email us at
admin@gcgtechnologies.online, or by post to: G C G TECHNOLOGIES., office
605, barsha business square, Al Barsha Dubai, UAE.