Privacy Policy

Welcome to Paydego Privacy Policy. Thank you for taking the time to read it.

1. Where This Privacy Policy Applies

This Privacy Policy applies to websites, apps, events, and other services we operate under the Paydego brand.

2. Information We Collect

We collect information about your use of our services such as when you log in & access logs. When you create an account, you provide us with at least your phone number and email address, as well as some basic details necessary for the service to work, such as your gender and date of birth. When you complete your profile, you can share with us additional information, such as photos. To add certain content, like pictures & videos, you may allow us to access your camera or photo album. When you subscribe to a paid service, fund your wallet, make a transfer or make a purchase directly from us, you provide us with other physical or financial information. When you participate in surveys, focus groups or market studies, you give us your insights into our products and services, responses to our questions and testimonials. When you choose to participate in our promotions, events or contests, we collect the information that you use to register or enter. If you contact our customer care team, we collect the information you give us during the interaction. If you share with us information about other people (for example, if you use contact details of a friend for a given feature), we process this information on your behalf in order to complete your request. Of course, we also process your chats with other members as well as the content you publish, as necessary for the operation of the services.

Information collected when you use our services

When you use our services, this generates technical data about which features you’ve used, how you’ve used them and the devices you use to access our services. See below for more details:

  • Usage Information: Using the services generates data about your activity on our services, for instance how you use them (e.g., when you logged in, features you’ve been using, actions taken, information shown to you, referring webpages address and ads that you interacted with) and your interactions with other members (e.g., members you connect and interact with).
  • Device information: We collect information from and about the device(s) you use to access our services, including hardware and software information such as IP address, device ID and type, apps settings and characteristics, app crashes, advertising IDs (which are randomly generated numbers that you can reset by going into your device’ settings), identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify a device or browser.
  • Other information with your consent: If you give us permission, we can collect your precise geolocation (latitude and longitude). The collection of your geolocation may occur in the background even when you aren’t using the services if the permission you gave us expressly permits such collection. The geolocation data collected is used to support advertising. If you decline permission for us to collect your precise geolocation, we will not collect it and some features of the app may not work correctly. Similarly, if you consent, we may collect photos and videos for profile pictures and verification purposes only.

3. How We Use Information

The main reason we use your information is to deliver and improve our services. Additionally, we use your information to help keep you safe, and to provide you with advertising that may be of interest to you. The various reasons for which we use your information:

A. To administer your account and provide our services to you:

  • Create and manage your account
  • Provide you with customer support and respond to your requests
  • Complete your transactions
  • Communicate with you about our services

B. To help you connect with other users:

C. To provide new Paydego services to you:

  • Register you and display your profile on new Paydego features and apps
  • Administer your account on these new features and apps

D. To operate advertising and marketing campaigns:

  • Perform and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns on our services and marketing campaigns promoting Paydego
  • Communicate with you about products or services that we believe may interest you

E. To improve our services and develop new ones:

  • Administer focus groups, market studies, and surveys
  • Review interactions with customer care teams to improve our quality of service
  • Understand how members typically use the services to improve them (for instance, we may decide to change the look and feel or even substantially modify a given feature based on how members react to it)
  • Develop new features and services (for example, we may decide to build a new interests-based feature further to requests received from members)

F. To prevent, detect and fight fraud and other illegal or unauthorized activities:

  • Find and address ongoing, suspected or alleged violations of our Terms of Use, notably through the review of reports and interactions between members
  • Better understand and design countermeasures against violations of our Terms of Use
  • Retain data related to violations of our Terms of Use to prevent against recurrences
  • Enforce or exercise our rights, for example, our Terms of Use
  • Communicate to individuals who submit a report, what we’ve done as a result of their submission

G. To ensure legal compliance:

  • Comply with legal requirements
  • Assist law enforcement
  • Provide our service to you: The reason we process your information for purposes A, B, and C above is to perform the contract that you have with us.
  • Legitimate interests:We process your information for purposes D, E and F above, based on our legitimate interest. For instance, we analyze users’ behavior on our services to continuously improve our offerings, we suggest offers we think might interest you and promote our own services, we process information to help keep our members safe and we process data where necessary to enforce our rights, assist law enforcement and enable us to defend ourselves in the event of a legal action.
  • Comply with applicable laws and regulations: We process your information for purpose G above where it is necessary for us to comply with applicable laws and regulations and evidence our compliance with applicable laws and regulations. For example, we retain traffic data and data about transactions in line with our accounting, tax and other statutory data retention obligations and to be able to respond to valid access requests from law enforcement.

4. How We Share Information

We share some members’ information with service providers and partners who assist us in operating the services, with other companies for specified reasons as laid out below, and, in some cases, legal authorities.

With other members: You share information with other members when you voluntarily disclose information on the service (including your public profile). Please be careful with your information and make sure that the content you share is stuff that you're comfortable being visible. If you choose to limit the audience for all or part of your profile or for certain content or information about you, then it will be visible according to your settings. If someone submits a report involving you (such as a claim you violated our Terms of Use), We may communicate to the reporter actions, if any, we took as a result of their report.

With our service providers and partners: We use third parties to help us operate and improve our services. These third parties assist us with various tasks, including data hosting and maintenance, analytics, customer care, marketing, advertising, payment processing, and security operations. We also share information with partners who distribute and assist us in advertising our services. For instance, we may share limited information on you in hashed, non-human-readable form to advertising partners. We follow a strict vetting process prior to engaging any service provider or working with any partner. Our service providers and partners must agree to strict confidentiality obligations.

With other companies: We may share information with other companies for other legitimate business purposes, including corporate audit, analysis and consolidated reporting, where and as allowed under applicable law.

For corporate transactions: We may transfer your information if we are involved, whether in whole or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy, or other change of ownership or control.

With law enforcement/when required by law: We may disclose your information if reasonably necessary: (i) to comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena, or search warrant, government/law enforcement investigation or other legal requirements; (ii) to assist in the prevention or detection of crime (subject in each case to applicable law); or (iii) to protect the safety of any person.

To enforce legal rights: We may also share information: (i) if disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit; (ii) as necessary to protect our legal rights and legal rights of our members, business partners or other interested parties; (iii) to enforce our agreements with you; and (iv) to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.

With your consent or 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 use and share non-personal information (meaning information that, by itself, does not identify who you are such as device information, general demographics, general behavioral data, geolocation in de-identified form), as well as personal information in hashed, non-human-readable form, under any of the above circumstances. We may also share this information with other companies and third parties (notably advertisers) to develop and deliver targeted advertising on our services and on websites or applications of third parties, and to analyze and report on advertising you see. We may combine this information with additional non-personal information or personal information in hashed, non-human-readable form collected from other sources.

5. Your Rights.

Tools in account settings can help you access, rectify or remove information that you provided to us and that’s associated with your account directly within the service.

Device permissions: Mobile platforms can have permission systems for specific types of device data and notifications, such as phone contacts, pictures, location services, push notifications, and advertising identifiers. You can change your settings on your device to either consent or oppose the collection or processing of the corresponding information or the display of the corresponding notifications. Of course, if you do that, certain services may lose functionality.

Uninstall: 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.

Account closure: You can close your account by using the corresponding functionality directly on the service. We also want you to be aware of your privacy rights. Here are a few key points to remember:

Reviewing your information: Applicable privacy laws may give you the right to review the personal information we keep about you (depending on the jurisdiction, this may be called right of access, right of portability, right to know or variations of those terms).

Updating your information: If you believe that the information we hold about you is inaccurate or that we are no longer entitled to use it and want to request its rectification, deletion, object to or restrict its processing, please contact us. For your protection and the protection of all of our members, we may ask you to provide proof of identity before we can answer the above requests. Keep in mind, we may reject requests, including if we are unable to authenticate you, if the request is 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 also ask them to provide proof of identity before we can answer the request. Also, we may not be able to accommodate certain requests to object to or restrict the processing of personal information, notably where such requests would not allow us to provide our service to you anymore. For instance, we cannot provide our service if we do not have your date of birth and thus cannot ensure that you are 18 years of age or older.

6. How Long We Retain Your Information

We keep your personal information only as long as we need it for legitimate business purposes and as permitted by applicable law. If you decide to stop using our services, you can close your account and your profile will stop being visible to other members. After your account is closed, we will delete your personal information, as laid out below:

To protect the safety and security of our members, we implement a safety retention window of three months following account closure, or one year following an account ban. During this period, we keep your information in the event that it might be necessary to investigate unlawful or harmful conduct. The retention of information during this safety retention window is based on our legitimate interest as well as that of potential third-party victims.

Once the safety retention window elapses, we delete your data and only keep limited information for specified purposes, as laid out below:

  1. We maintain limited data to comply with legal data retention obligations: in particular, we keep transaction data for 10 years to comply with tax and accounting legal requirements, credit card information for the duration the user may challenge the transaction, and "traffic data"/logs for one year to comply with legal data retention obligations. We also keep records of consents members give us for five years to evidence our compliance with applicable law.
  2. We maintain limited information on the basis of our legitimate interest: we keep customer care records and supporting data as well as imprecise location of download/purchase for five years to support our customer care decisions, enforce our rights, and enable us to defend ourselves in the event of a claim, information on the existence of past accounts and subscriptions, which we delete three years after the closure of your last account to ensure proper and accurate financial forecasting and reporting, profile data for one year in anticipation of potential litigation, for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, and data necessary to prevent members who were banned from opening a new account, for as long as necessary to ensure the safety and vital interests of our members.
  3. Finally, We maintain information on the basis of our legitimate interest where there is an outstanding or potential issue, claim, or dispute requiring us to keep information (in particular if we receive a valid legal subpoena or request asking us to preserve data, in which case we would need to keep the data to comply with our legal obligations, or if data would otherwise be necessary as part of legal proceedings).

7. Children's Privacy

Our services are restricted to individuals who are 18 years of age or older. We do not permit individuals under the age of 18 on our platform.

8. Privacy Policy Changes

Because we’re always looking for new and innovative ways to improve our services & keep our data practices up-to-date, this policy may change over time. Any change is of immediate effect once posted to the website www.Paydego.com.