Privacy Policy

We are committed to giving you transparency of our privacy practices and control over your data in connection with PataKitu Services (as defined in PataKitu Terms Of Service). This Privacy Policy covers PataKitu's treatment of personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) and other data that PataKitu gathers when you are accessing PataKitu Services.

Personal Information

Personal Information You Provide to Us:- We receive and store any information you enter on our Services or provide to us in any other way. The types of Personal Information collected may include your name, email address, phone number, birthday, use information regarding your use of our Service.

We automatically receive your location when you use the Services. We use various technologies to determine location, such as location services of the applicable operating system or browser and sensor data from your device that may, for example, provide information on nearby Wi-Fi-access points and cell towers.

The Personal Information you provide is used for such purposes as allowing you to set up a user account and profile that can be used to interact with other users through the Services, improving the content of the Services, customizing the advertising and content you and your friends see (including PataKitu or third-party advertising or content), and communicating with you about specials and new features.

Your Services account will be associated with your email (and optionally a phone number) and this account will be used for all our Services that you use. Information you provide to one of our Services may be used with other Services you or your friends use. For example, location information we receive in connection with your use of one of our apps may be used to customize the content you and your friends see in another of our apps. We may also draw upon this Personal Information to adapt the Services of our community to your needs, to research the effectiveness of our network and Services, and to develop new tools for the community.
Information Collected Automatically:- When you use the Services, PataKitu automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your mobile platform, including your location, IP address, operating information, mobile carrier, device and application IDs, cookie information, and the page you requested. We treat this data as non-Personal Information, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. Unless otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, PataKitu only uses this data in aggregate form. We may provide aggregate information to our partners about how our users, collectively, use our Services, so that our partners may also understand how often people use their services and our Services.
Personal Information about our users:- It is an integral part of our business. We neither rent nor sell your Personal Information to anyone, though your publicly-available information is available to third parties, and we may provide it to third parties, by license or otherwise. Together with information on how to change the default user settings or how to generally remove information, where applicable, PataKitu may share your Personal Information only as described in this Privacy Policy and related documents.
Businesses, Locations, Events and Brands:- One of the key purposes of the Services is to help users learn about businesses, locations, events, and brands (for example, a TV show, a TV personality, newspaper, or a consumer good that manages a page on the Service) that are relevant to them, and for these entities to provide information about themselves, their locations, and events to users, as well as to reward users when they visit their location or event through offers and specials. When you check-in to a particular location that is a ‘claimed location,’ your check-ins are shared with that location to better provide services to you.
Publicly Available Information, the PataKitu API, and Apps:- When you use the Services, certain information is public, such as your public user profile information, tips, likes, public photos, lists that you create and lists of friends, and may be searchable by search engines and be shared with or disclosed to third parties, including through our API to a wide range of users and services.

In addition, the use of third-party apps developed using our API is subject to the terms of use and privacy policies of such third-party developers. Certain Personal Information may be made available to third-party developers if you or your “friends” use these third-party apps. You should review the policies of third-party apps and websites to ensure that you are comfortable with the ways in which they use and disclose the information you share with them. We do not guarantee that they will follow our rules or our Privacy Policy.

Services Features

The Services include several features that may allow you to share your information with others. For each of these and our other features, the information available to friends and others, our default user settings, and how to alter the default settings, is available in the Privacy FAQs. Please review them carefully. Please remember that if you choose to provide personal information using certain features of the Services, that information may be available to the wider Services community, or may be published on our Sites, which is subject to indexing by third-party search engines.

Sharing with Partners, in connection with business transfers, and for the protection of PataKitu and others:

Our Partners:- In addition to the data sharing described above, we enter into relationships with a variety of businesses and work closely with them. In certain situations, these businesses provide services to you, sell items, or provide promotions to you through the Services. In other situations, PataKitu provides services or sells items jointly with these businesses. You can easily recognize when one of these businesses is associated with your transaction, and we will share your Personal Information that is related to such transactions with that business.
Business Transfers:- If PataKitu or substantially all of its assets are acquired, or in the unlikely event that PataKitu goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party.
Protection of PataKitu and Others:- We may release Personal Information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with the law, including laws outside your country of residence; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of PataKitu, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations (including outside of your country of residence) for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We and our agents use technologies like cookies, pixels, and local storage (like on your browser or device, which is similar to a cookie but holds more information) on our website, in our emails, and identifiers supplied by app platform companies within our apps to provide you with a range of products and services. You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools. By continuing to use our Services through your computer or mobile device, you consent to our use of cookies, pixels and local storage in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We may work with advertisers or other partners and advertising service providers to serve ads or services to computers, mobile phones or other devices, which may use a cookie, pixel or other similar technology placed by PataKitu or the third party (although we would not share any other information that identifies you with an advertiser). This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by PataKitu and its service providers.

Account Security

Your PataKitu account Personal Information is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You need to prevent unauthorized access to your account and Personal Information by selecting and protecting your password appropriately, and limiting access to your computer and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your account.

PataKitu endeavors to safeguard user information to ensure that user account information is kept private. However, PataKitu cannot guarantee the security of user account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware and other factors, may compromise the security of user information at any time.

External Links

The Services may contain links to other sites. PataKitu is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site, you should read the privacy policy stated on that site. This Privacy Policy only governs information collected on the Services.

Access to Your Information

PataKitu allows you to access the following information about you for the purpose of viewing, and in certain situations, updating that information and ensuring that it is accurate and complete. This list will change as our Service changes.

Password
Phone number
Email address
Other User profile information (for example, home city, photo)
Usage information (for example, check-in history)

Information Removal

Even after you remove information from your account or profile, copies of that information may remain viewable elsewhere, to the extent it has been shared with others, it was otherwise distributed pursuant to your privacy settings, or it was copied or stored by other users. Removed and deleted information may remain on backup media for up to ninety (90) days prior to being deleted from our servers.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

PataKitu may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make material changes in the way we use Personal Information, we will notify you by posting an announcement on our Services or sending you an email. Users are bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when they use the Services after such changes have been first posted.