Privacy Policy
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This privacy policy describes how we collect, use, and share your personal information, including tracking data, and your choices regarding this information across our iOS, Android, and web platforms. Please read this privacy policy carefully before using our services.
In this privacy policy:
Services mean the Tijelabin mobile application (available on iOS and Android), the website at Tijelabin.com, and any other products, services, content, features, technologies, or functions, and all related websites, applications, and services offered by us.
Platform means the websites, mobile apps, mobile sites, or other online properties through which we offer our services.
CONTENTS
1. Who we are
2. The personal information we collect about you and where it comes from
3. The purposes for collecting your personal information
4. Sharing your personal information
5. Communication and marketing
6. Your rights
7. How long we store your data
8. Technical and organizational measures and processing security
9. Links to third-party websites
12. Changes to the privacy policy
13. Contact details
1. Who we are
Tijelabin is a platform that facilitates buying and selling through our mobile application (iOS and Android) and website. This policy applies to all users of our Services and Platform.
2. The personal information we collect about you and where it comes from
We collect information, including personal information, to provide the Services, operate our Platform, and engage in tracking for advertising purposes. On iOS, we use Apple’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) framework to request your permission before collecting data used for tracking. On Android, we request your consent for tracking via advertising ID permissions. On our website, we use a cookie consent mechanism to obtain your permission for tracking cookies. Tracking involves linking data collected from the app or website with third-party data for advertising purposes or sharing collected data with data brokers. Below, we outline the information we collect and how we collect it.
2.1 Information you provide to us through direct interactions with our Platform
Depending on the choices you make when registering for, or during the process of using our Services on iOS, Android, or web, you may be asked for and opt to provide the following personal information:
E-mail address;
Mobile telephone number;
Geographic location;
Profile picture;
User ID;
Facebook, Google, or Apple account details;
Driver’s license or other government ID; and
Any other information you choose to provide in connection with your account.
Please note that your username and profile picture will be made available to other users and the public when you use some of our Services. For example, when you post a product, some of your information will be available to Platform users, so you should exercise discretion when using the Services to post personal information.
While we protect the information you share with Tijelabin, we are not responsible for protecting such information that you choose to share with third parties through our Services and Platform (e.g., sending your telephone number or other information to another user through the Services).
2.2 Information we collect from you automatically when you use our Services
When you interact with our Platform or use our Services on iOS, Android, or web, we automatically collect the following information, some of which may be used for tracking purposes after obtaining your consent via ATT on iOS, advertising ID permissions on Android, or cookie consent on the web:
Device Information. We collect device-specific information such as operating system version, your device make and model, and the name of the mobile network that you are using (for iOS and Android users). We assign an internal identifier to your device and associate all of this information with your Tijelabin account. For web users, we collect browser type and version.
Location Information. If permitted by your device or browser settings and applicable consent mechanisms (ATT on iOS, advertising ID permissions on Android, or cookie consent on web), we automatically collect and process information about your actual location. We use various technologies to determine location, including IP address, GPS, Wi-Fi access points, and mobile towers. Your location data allows you to see user items near you and helps with listing items within your location, and may be used to personalize ads.
Client and Log Data. Technical details, including the Internet Protocol (IP) address of your device, time zone, and operating system. We will also store your login information (registration date, date of last password change, date of last successful login), type and version of your browser (for web users), or mobile app version (for iOS and Android users).
Usage Information. We collect information about your activity on our Platform, which includes a date and time stamp of each visit, advertisement banners or content that you clicked, click stream information, duration of your visit, and the order in which you visit the content on our Platform.
Cookies (Web Users). If you access the Services through a web browser, we use cookies to manage our users’ sessions, to store your preferences and language selection, and to deliver relevant advertisements. 'Cookies' are small text files transferred by a web server to the hard drive of your device. Cookies may be used to collect the date and time of your visit, your browsing history, your preferences, and your username. You can set your browser to refuse all or some cookies or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our Services/Platform may become inaccessible or not function properly. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Platforms. Please note that not all tracking will stop even if you delete cookies.
Analytics. We use Google Analytics, which uses cookies (web) and similar technologies (mobile apps) to collect and analyze information about the use of the Services and report on activities and trends. This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps, and online resources. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to their website. You can opt out of certain Google Analytics data collection practices by downloading the Google Analytics Browser Disabling Add-on, available here (for web users) or by adjusting settings in the mobile app (for iOS and Android users).
2.3 Information from third-party sources
We may also collect personal information from third parties across all platforms (iOS, Android, web). For example, we use third-party machine learning software to analyze all communications through our chat feature for fraud prevention and to promote safety by blocking spam or abusive messages that may have been sent to you by any other user. This software compares attributes of the message, user, or profile against its proprietary database to assess the probability that a message is spam or abusive.
2.4 Information we collect from Postings and Chat Messages
Anything you write in a chat message to another user is stored in our systems as a chat message. This may include your name, your address, the name of a meetup location, and any other information you choose to voluntarily share with another user or with the Tijelabin community.
We do not mine user chat messages for information or pull any such information (such as if you provide another user your address) and store it separately. For example, if you chat with another user about your age or educational history, we do not store this data or use it for any purpose, except that we store your chat history as described in this policy.
3. The purposes for collecting your personal information
We will only use your personal information as set out in this privacy policy, including tracking data for advertising purposes after obtaining your consent via ATT on iOS, advertising ID permissions on Android, or cookie consent on the web. We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collect for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you with notice.
3.1 Providing access and delivering Services through our Platform
If you log in using your email ID, we use your user ID or your e-mail address to identify you as a user and provide access to our Platform (such as your settings and your history, etc.).
If you log in using your Google, Apple, or Facebook account, we use your first name and last name from your Google, Apple, or Facebook profile and the e-mail address to identify you as a user on our Platform and to provide you with access to our Platform.
We use your e-mail address to make suggestions and recommendations to you about our Services that may be of interest to you.
3.2 Improving your experience on the Platform
We use the information you provide, including tracking data (with consent via ATT on iOS, advertising ID on Android, or cookies on web), to improve your experience on the Platform. For example:
We use click stream data to:
Offer you tailored content, such as giving you more relevant search results when using our Services.
Determine how much time you spend on our Platform and in what manner you navigate through our Platform to understand your interests and to improve our Services based on this data. For example, we may provide you with suggestions on content that you can visit based on the contents you have clicked.
Monitor and report the effectiveness of the campaign delivery to our business partners and for internal business analysis.
Prevent repeatedly displaying the same items to the same user.
We use your location data for the following purposes:
Compile anonymous and aggregated information about the characteristics and behavior of Tijelabin users, including for the purposes of business analysis, segmentation, and development of anonymous profiles.
Enhance the performance of our Services and personalize the content we direct towards you. For example, with the help of location data, we display ad listings that are in your vicinity to improve your buying experience.
Measure and monitor your interaction with the third-party advertisements and banners we place on our Platform.
3.3 Providing you with a safe and secure Platform
We use your email address and unique device identifiers (or browser identifiers for web users) to administer and protect our Platform (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, fraud prevention, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data).
We use third-party machine learning software to analyze all communications through our chat feature for fraud prevention and to promote safety by blocking spam or abusive messages that may have been sent to you by any other user.
If you provide us with your telephone number, we may use that information to SMS verify your telephone number and increase the trust and safety of our Platform.
In addition, we may aggregate and/or de-identify data about visitors to our Platforms and use it for any purpose, including product and service development and improvement activities.
4. Sharing your personal information
We may share your personal information, including tracking data (with consent via ATT on iOS, advertising ID on Android, or cookies on web), with the parties set out below for the purposes set out above.
Corporate affiliates: We may share your data with other Tijelabin corporate affiliates. Employees around the Company frequently analyze data for different purposes and to improve the Services.
Third-Party Vendors and Service Providers: We share your data with third-party vendors and other service providers that help us deliver certain aspects of our Services. For example, we use cloud storage facilities to store our data, we use customer support software providers to administer and respond to user inquiries, and we use third-party software to monitor for fraud within the Platform. We need to share your data with these third parties, otherwise we will not be able to provide the Service.
Advertisers: We partner with demand-side platforms who buy our ad placements through auctions such as DoubleClick, etc. We share your information with them in a de-identified and aggregated form for monitoring and reporting the effectiveness of the campaign delivery to our business partners and for internal business analysis.
Analytics Providers: In order to improve our Services, we will sometimes share your non-identifiable information with analytics providers that help us analyze how people are using our Services. For example, we use common industry-wide analytics software to understand how people use our app or website, so we can improve the Services and increase engagement.
Law enforcement authorities, regulators, grand juries, courts and tribunals, governmental or public bodies, and others: We may disclose your data, including your personal information, to law enforcement authorities, regulators, grand juries, courts and tribunals, governmental or public bodies, and other relevant third parties as we believe necessary or appropriate to protect people or property, to protect our Services, rights or property, to comply with legal or regulatory requirements, and to respond to legal process, law enforcement requests, and requests from other public and government authorities.
Business Transfer or Reorganization: We reserve the right to transfer the information we maintain in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets. If we engage in such a sale or transfer, we will make reasonable efforts to direct the recipient to use your personal information in a manner that is consistent with this privacy policy. After such a sale or transfer, you may contact the recipient with any inquiries concerning the recipient’s privacy practices.
Publicly available information: When you use certain aspects of our Services, the information is visible to other Tijelabin users (all Tijelabin users, in the case of a posted item, and the user you are chatting with in the case of a chat message). This includes any information you post or chat, such as your name, your email address, your location, and your contact number. Please note, any information you provide to other users can always be shared by them with others, so please exercise discretion in this respect.
5. Communication and marketing
We may communicate with you by email or in-app notification (on iOS and Android) or via web notifications in connection with our Services/Platform to confirm your registration, to inform you in case your product listing has become live/expired, and for other transactional messages in relation to our Services. With your consent (via ATT on iOS, advertising ID on Android, or cookie consent on web for tracking-related marketing), we or our service providers and advertising partners may send you direct marketing communications and information about our Services that we consider may be of interest to you. We will provide an option to unsubscribe or opt-out of further communication on any electronic marketing communication sent to you, or you may opt out by contacting us as set out in the “Contact details” section below.
If you opt out of receiving marketing or commercial communications, we retain the right to send you non-marketing communications such as correspondence about your relationship with us, information about transactions, or notifying you of updates to our Privacy Notices or Terms of Use. Please note that we also carry out digital advertising campaigns from time to time that do not rely on your personal information.
6. Your rights
You may have rights under local data protection laws in relation to your personal information. For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. As a part of our commitment to our users, we are extending the following rights, including certain CCPA rights, to all of our users across iOS, Android, and web platforms.
These rights are not absolute and are subject to certain exceptions. For instance, we cannot disclose or permit access to specific pieces of personal information if the disclosure or access would present a certain level of risk to the security of the personal information, your account with us, or the security of the business’s systems or networks.
6.1 Deletion Request Rights
You have the right to request that we delete personal information that we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions. You can request to delete your personal information by logging into your account settings on www.tijelabin.com and submitting a delete request.
Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Deletion Rights below), we will delete your personal information from our records. Under certain circumstances, as allowed by law, we may delay or deny your request. Tijelabin reserves the right to retain portions of your personal information for a limited time, as permitted by law. For example, for Trust and Safety purposes or to respond to a law enforcement request.
6.2 Exercising Deletion Rights
In addition to the methods described above for exercising your delete rights, you may also submit a verifiable consumer request to us by sending an email inquiry to info@tijelabin.com.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or the authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. We reserve the right to verify your identity in connection with any requests regarding personal information to help ensure that we provide the information we maintain to the individual to whom it pertains, and allow only that individual or their authorized representatives to exercise rights with respect to that information.
Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. However, we do consider requests made through your password-protected account sufficiently verified when the request relates to the personal information associated with that specific account.
We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request. If you designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, you may have to submit information confirming such designation.
For instructions on exercising sale opt-out rights, see Personal Information Sales Opt-Out Rights below.
6.3 Response Timing and Format
We endeavor to respond promptly to verifiable consumer requests, and in any case no longer than forty-five (45) days from the date of such request. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
The response we provide will also explain, if applicable, any reasons we are not able to comply with all or any portion of such request.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
6.4 Right to request correction
You have the right to request the correction of the personal information we have about you, although we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us. In order to request the correction of your personal information, please email info@tijelabin.com.
6.5 Personal Information Sales Opt-Out Rights
The CCPA defines the term “sale” much more broadly than the common interpretation of the term. For example, sharing user IP addresses with advertising platforms in order to show relevant advertising is now considered a “sale” under CCPA. As part of our commitment to our users, we are extending the CCPA’s Do Not Sell My Personal Information rights to all of our users across iOS, Android, and web platforms.
In order to exercise your right to opt-out of the “sale” of your personal information as defined by the CCPA, please email info@tijelabin.com.
You do not need to create an account with us to exercise your opt-out rights. We will only use personal information provided in an opt-out request to review and comply with the request.
7. How long do we store your data?
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Please note that we often need to retain certain data for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion.
8. Technical and organizational measures and processing security
We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or use. For example, all the information you provide for us is stored on our secure servers.
The safety and security of your information also depend on you. Where you have a password to access certain parts of our Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Please note, despite the measures we have implemented to protect your data, the transfer of data through the Internet or other open networks is never completely secure and there is a risk that your personal information may be accessed by unauthorized third parties.
9. Links to third-party websites
Our Platform may contain links to third-party websites or apps. If you click on one of these links, please note that each one will have its own privacy policy. We do not control these websites/apps and are not responsible for those policies. When you leave our Platform, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
10. User-submitted content
Some features of the Services allow you to post content on our Platform or social media pages, such as photos. We do not have control over how other users who have access to the Platform will use any content you post publicly or send to them privately. We urge you to exercise discretion when sharing personal information with other users.
We may also use any ad you post on Tijelabin, including the uploaded photo or image of the product as well as other data (including username and location) associated with the ad, for our own advertising purposes, including social media, Facebook ads, newsletters, and ads for any media.
To help protect your privacy, we allow only limited access to other users’ contact information as necessary to fulfill your transactions and collect payments. However, when users are involved in a transaction, they may have access to each other’s name, user ID, email address, and other contact information.
11. State privacy rights
In the preceding 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information: identifiers (such as name, contact information, device identifiers, and state-issued ID numbers); internet or other electronic network activity information (such as usage data); demographic information (such as age); commercial information (such as products purchased or sold); geolocation data; inferences (such as approximate location); visual or similar information (such as photographs of yourself); and other information that relates to or is reasonably capable of being associated with you and that does not fit neatly into one of the other categories (such as personal information contained in reviews, comments, and communications with us). For more details about the personal information we collect, including the categories of sources, please see the Collection of Information section above.
We collect personal information for the business and commercial purposes listed in the Use of Information section above. We share the personal information we collect with the categories of third parties listed in the Sharing of Information section above.
Subject to certain limitations, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides California residents with the right to:
Request to delete any personal information about you that we have collected;
Request to correct inaccurate personal information about you;
Not to be discriminated against for exercising these rights.
To submit a request to delete or correct, please send an email to info@tijelabin.com. In all cases, we will verify your request by asking you to provide information that matches the information we have on file about you. You may designate another person as your authorized agent to act on your behalf with regard to CCPA requests. If you have designated an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf, we will require proof that the person is authorized to act on your behalf and may also still ask you to verify your identity with us directly.
12. Changes to the privacy policy
We may update this policy and will notify you of material changes via email, in-app notifications (for iOS and Android users), or web notifications (for web users). Continued use of our Services after changes constitutes acceptance.
13. Contact details
For questions or to exercise your rights, contact us at info@tijelabin.com.