Privacy Policy

Effective date: Sep 1, 2020

Privacy Policy

[Local Street.] (“we” or “us” or“our”) respects the privacy of our users (“user” or “you”). This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS THE APPLICATION.

By continuing to our Mobile App in any manner, use the Product, you manifest your continuing asset to this Privacy Policy. You further acknowledge, agree and accept that no transmission of information or data via the internet is always completely secure, no matter what steps are taken. You acknowledge, agree and accept that we do not guarantee or warrant the security of any information that you provide to us,and that you transmit such information at your own risk.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason.  

We will alert you about any changes by updating the “Last updated” date of this Privacy Policy.  You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, will be subject to, and will be deemed to have accepted the changes in any revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of the Application after the date such revised Privacy Policy is posted.  

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the third-party online/mobile store from which you install the Application or make payments, including any in-app virtual items, which may also collect and use data about you.  We are not responsible for any of the data collected by any such third party.

This policy may change from time to time, your continued use of Local Street's Services after it makes any change is deemed to be acceptance of those changes.

 

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US

The information we collect on or through our Services may include:

1.    Upon registration: 1.     You,as a user of the Mobile App, may be asked to register in order to use theMobile App or to purchase the Services available for sale. During the processof your registration, we will collect some of the following Personal Data fromyou through your voluntary disclosure:

a)     Name

b)     Surname

c)     Profilepic

d)     GPS location,

e)     Rating & Reviews

f)      Shop form including, GPS address, cover photo, group photo, category, subcategory, member offer

g)     Shop form may also include your GST detail or PAN details  or Adhaar detail or all three of them . We do not save  your GST/PAN/Adhaar details

h)     Contact number

i)      Catalogue

j)      PreferredLanguage

k)     Other information in shop form

 

2.    Your content: Information you provide through our Services,including your reviews, photographs, comments, member, the shops you are memberof, current and prior shops membership joining details, ordering details and history, favourite shops, special shops requests, names, joined groups, number of members in particular group  and other information you provide on our Services, and other information in your account profile, group post comment , one to one chat with creator/Eshop owner

3.    Your searches and other activities: The search terms you've got searched and results you choose.

4.    Your browsing information: How long you used our Services and which features you used; the ads you clicked on.

5.    Your Public Posts:1.    you furthermore may provide information (such as ratings, reviews, photos, comments, likes, members, 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 remember that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable (see "Security" section below). Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of our Services with whom you'll prefer to share your User Contributions. Therefore,we cannot and don't guarantee that your User Contributions won't 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 take care about revealing any sensitive details about yourself in such postings.

6.    Personal Data: It may be asked for in relation to Interaction with our representatives in any way

7.    Content Interaction: Our Mobile App may allow you to comment on the content that we provide or the content that other users provide, such as blogs, multimedia, or forum posts. If so, we may collect some Personal Data from you at that time, such as, but not limited to,username or contact number.

8.    Combined or Aggregated Information:We may combine or aggregate some of your Personal Data in order to better serve you and to better enhance and update our Mobile App for your and other consumers' use.

9.     Tech based Listing Platform: Local street is a tech platform with presence of multiple vendors with their listed pages through which goods and/or services are sold. To avail benefit of such goods and/or services being offered, the user is required to join respective group created on this app or the Vendor/Retailer may add them in their group. The user rests with the right to leave the group anytime. By becoming member of a group, you agree and acknowledge to share your contact number, name, profile picture (all auto saved in Vendor/Group creator group). Even post exiting the group, the information provided by the user shall remain with the group admin/vendor. Use of your personal data by retailers/Group creators/Vendors is not covered under the privacy policy.

  1. Subscription Fees/ Uses Fees : LocalStreet reserve the right to introduce subscription fees or uses fees in future to the user or Group creator/Eshop owner or both.

 

We use the knowledge you provide to us to reinforce the functionality and improve the standard 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 suit our legal obligations.

 

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT

Local Street ("Local Street", "we,""us," and "our”) collects several sorts of information from and about users of our Services, including:

Your Personal Information("PI")- Personal Information is that information which will be related to a selected person and will be worthy to identify that specific person, Information about your internet connection, the equipment you employ to access our Services and your usage details.

We don't consider personal information to incorporate information that has been made anonymous or aggregated in order that it cannot be worthy to identify a selected person, whether in combination with other information or otherwise.

We collect this information:

1.    directly from you once you provide it to us; and/or

2.    automatically as you navigate through our Services (information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses and knowledge collected through cookies,web beacons and other tracking technologies).

Although our policy is to maintain the privacy of your Personal Data as described herein, we may disclose your Personal Data if we believe that it is reasonable to do so in certain cases, in our sole and exclusive discretion. Such cases may include, but are not limited to:

                                                   i.     To satisfy any local, state, or Federal laws or regulations

                                                 ii.     To respond to requests, such discovery,criminal, civil, or administrative                                                           process, subpoenas, court orders, or writs from law enforcement or other                                                           governmental or legal bodies

                                               iii.     To bring legal action against a user who has violated the law or violated                                                           the terms of use of our Mobile App

                                               iv.     As may be necessary for the operation of our Mobile App

                                                 v.     To generally cooperate with any lawful investigation about our users

                                               vi.     If we suspect any fraudulent activity on our Mobile App or if we have                                                          noticed any activity which may violate our terms or other applicable rules

 

INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES

We may automatically collect certain information about the pc or devices (including mobile devices) you employ to access the Services,and about your use of the Services, albeit you use the Services without registering or logging in.

a)    Usage information: Details of your use of our Services,including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and therefore the resources that you simply access and use on or through our Services.

b)    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 therefore the device's phone number.

c)    Location information: Our applications collect real-time information about the location of your device, as permitted by you

d)    Mobile device IDs: Unique mobile device identifier (e.g.,IDFA or other device IDs on Apple devices just 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 tool by the manufacturer), rather than cookies,to acknowledge you. We may do that 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 trace your use of our applications,track the amount of advertisements displayed, measure advertising performance and display advertisements that are more relevant to you. Analytics companies may use mobile device IDs to trace your usage of our applications.

e)    Your preferences: Your preferences and settings like zone and language.

f)     Your activity on the Services: Information about your activity on the Services, like your search queries, comments, domain names, search results selected, number of clicks, pages viewed and therefore the order of these pages, how long you visited our Services, the date and time you used the Services, error logs, and other similar information.

g)    Mobile status: For mobile application users, the web or offline status of your application.

 

TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AND COOKIES

 

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse Our Service. The technologies we use may include:

·      Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept Cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.

·      Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Service may use local stored objects (or Flash Cookies) to collect and store information about Your preferences or Your activity on our Service. Flash Cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as those used for Browser Cookies.

·      Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example,to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be "Persistent" or"Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

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 Local Street 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 in the manner described in this section. For more information please read our Cookie Policy.

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.

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We use the information we collect from and about you for a variety of purposes, including to:

a)    Process and respond to your queries

b)    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 transactions, and make special offers.

c)    Administer our Services and diagnose technical problems.

d)    Send you communications that you have requested or that may be of interest to you byway 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 Eshop Owners/Group Creator on the local Street for marketing and other promotional activities of our Services.

e)    Enable us to show you ads that are relevant to you.

f)     Generate and review reports and data about, and to conduct research on, our user base and Service usage patterns.

g)    Provide you with customer support.

h)    Provide you with policies about your account.

i)     Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.

j)     Notify you about changes to our Services.

k)    Allow you to participate in interactive features offered through our Services.

l)     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.

We may use the information we have collected from youto enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers'/service providers' 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.

 

HOW WE SHARE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

·       We may utilize third-party service providers ("Third-Party Service Providers"), from time to time or all the time, to help us with our Mobile App, and to help serve you better.

·       We may use Third-Party Service Providers to assist with information storage (such as cloud storage).

·       We may provide some of your Personal Data to Third-Party Service Providers in order to help us track usage data, such as referral websites,dates and times of page requests, etc. We use this information to understand patterns of usage of, and to improve, the Mobile App.

·      To contractors, advertisers/service providers and other third-parties whom we use to support our business 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.

·      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 Local Street's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Local Street about the users of our Services are among the assets transferred.

·       We may use Third-Party Service Providers to host the Mobile App,to implement push notification feature, OTP services, to arrange the cybersecurity and comprehensive security of mobile app. In this instance, the Third-Party Service Provider will have access to your Personal Data.

·       Local Street is a tech platform where, there is presence of multiple retailers/Groups whom you may become member by joining their group or they adding you in their group. It is done by Group creator or you joining their group voluntarily with a choice to leave the group. By becoming their member, you agree and acknowledge to share your contact number, name, profile pic which is auto saved in their group. Even after leaving the group/Eshop , your personal information remain saved with the group creator/Eshop owner. Use of your personal data by retailers/Group creators does not cover under this privacy policy.

·       We may allow third parties to advertise on the Mobile App, many of which are targeted based on information about You. For example,using information collected through cookies, groups you have joined, and other sources, we may use demographic data or information about your online activities or interests to display targeted advertising that may be relevant to your preferences

·       Some of our Third-Party Service Providers may be located outside India and may not be subject to Indian laws.

·       Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Privacy Policy, we may provide your Personal Data to a third party or to third parties in order to protect the rights, property or safety, of us, our customers or third parties,or as otherwise required by law.

·      Service Providers. We may share your information without side vendors that we use for a variety of purposes, such as to send you communications via emails, messages or tele-call to inform you about our products that may be of interest to you, push notifications to your mobile device on our behalf, provide voice recognition services to process your spoken queries and questions, help us analyse 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 also may use vendors for other projects, such as conducting surveys or organizing sweepstakes for us. We may share information about you with these vendors only to enable them to perform their services.

·      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 Local Street, 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.

·      To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

·      If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights,property, or safety of Local Street, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

COOKIES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC TOOLS

We, and third parties with whom we partner, may use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, mobiledevice 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. 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.

To improve the responsiveness of the Site for our Users, we may use "cookies", or similar electronic tools to collect information to assign each visitor aunique, random number as a User Identification (User ID) to understand the User's individual interests using the identified computer. By continuing to visit the App/Site, you are agreeing to the use of cookies and similar technologies for the purposes we describe in this Policy. If you prefer not to receive cookies or web beacons, then you should stop using Services, or consult your browsing and third-party cookie settings. We use cookies and other technologies for analysing and optimising our websites as well as for marketing purposes. Our partners may also assign their own cookies to your browser, a process that we do not control.

Customer Information: If you are Group creator/ retailer, this is to inform that we store the contact information of your customers.

Demographic and Related Information: We may reference other sources of demographic and other information in order to provide you with more targeted communications and promotions. We use Google Analytics, among others, to track the User behaviour on Site.

Our Servers automatically collect limited Information about your device's connection to the internet, including your IP address, when you visit our Site or use the App. We automatically receive and log Information from the App and/or your browser including but not limited to IP address, your device or computer's name, and your operating system, We may also collect log Information from your device,including but not limited to your location, IP address, your device's name,device's serial number or unique identification number (e.g. UDID on your iOS device, Android ID or ADID on your Android Device), your device operating system, browser type and version, CPU speed, and connection speed etc.Information about your activity on the Services, like your search queries,comments, domain names, search results selected, number of clicks, pages viewed and therefore the order of these pages, how long you visited our Services, the date and time you used the Services, error logs, and other similar information

THIRD PARTY LINKS AND SERVICES

The Services may contain links to third-party websites. Your use of these features may result in the collection,processing or sharing of information about you, depending on the feature.Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites or services which may be linked on our services. Wedo not endorse or make any representations about third-party websites or services. Our Privacy Policy does not cover the information you choose to provide to or that is collected by these third parties. We strongly encourage you to read such third parties' privacy policies.

ACCEPTANCE OF RISK

·      By providing any Personal Data to us, or by using our Mobile App in any manner, you have created a commercial relationship with us. As such, you agree that any mail/notification sent from us or third-party affiliates, even unsolicited email, shall specifically not be considered SPAM, as that term is legally defined.

·      Customer Information: If you are Group creator/ retailer, detail of your customers are stored on Local Street server

·      Demographic and Related Information: We may reference other sources of demographic and other information in order to provide you with more targeted communications and promotions. We use Google Analytics, among others,to track the User behaviour on Site

 

CONTACT US

If you have any queries relating to the processing/ usage of information provided by you or Local Street’s Privacy Policy, you may contact us at:

Address– C-1104, delta tower, sector 8, ULWE, Navi Mumbai – 410206

Emailcontact@thelocalstreet.com