BUZZYTOWN PRIVACY POLICY
Buzzytown.in, Buzzytown ("we" and "us") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our Terms of Use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
‘Personal data’ is any information relating to a living individual who can be identified, either directly or indirectly, from that information. This could include your name, email address, postal address or telephone number, or information collected online and used to identify you.
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site buzzytown.in (our site) and also various Buzzytown whatsapp and Facebook communities. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, while joining our whatsapp networks and groups and while filling any forms (including Google forms) to complete your profile, subscribe to our services, posting material, information on our platforms and groups or while requesting further services.
We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our site or when you contact us.
Our site will use the postcode that you provide to us at the time of registration to record your given location which is held privately. Your Buzzytown profile (name and biography if added) can be seen by people viewing the website. It may also be seen by those who are part of Buzzytown whatsapp groups that you choose to join, especially if they are already in other common groups with you or if they already have your information stored in their devices.
Making your profile private on the website will hide your image from any other users. Your name may appear as your first name and the first letter of your last name along with the name of your building. Your contact information is not made available to the public but may be shared with a charity/community/ student group leader who is running a volunteer event or activity for our community.
Sometimes people unknowingly share sensitive information as ‘special category data’, which requires additional protection e.g. information relating to health, ethnic origin and religious beliefs. We will not ask you to provide any special category data to us when you register with our site and we strongly urge you to not share such information with anyone.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your orders.
Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, site browsing patterns, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is to predict your preferences and to show you information that is most likely to be of interest to you, or required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
IP addresses
We may collect information about your computer (and/or mobile device or tablet), including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our partners. This is fully anonymised statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our cookies policy.
Where we store your personal data
The Buzzytown website is stored in our website server which is hosted on Shopify as a CMS. We will occasionally process your data outside of this (for example when using certain third party services such as Mailchimp) but will only do so if appropriate safeguards are in place.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Uses made of the information
How your information will be used:
Any personal information that you include in your profile may be available to other users of our site. A message sent via the private message function will be shared with the recipient of that message but not be readily available to any other users.
Making your profile private will hide your image and biography from any other users. Your name will appear as your first name and the first letter of your last name. We do not offer this function at the moment, but this is applicable for whenever the function is launched.
By providing us with your personal information, including any special category data you choose to share with us, you consent to our processing of your personal information for the purposes of providing the services on our site.
To provide you with the main services on our site, for administration and accounting and to ensure that the content and services that we offer are tailored to your needs and interests.
To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you.
To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
To notify you about changes to our service.
We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that any third parties may use on their websites, and the information practices of these third party websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy. You will need to check the relevant privacy policies of these third parties and ensure you are happy with them.
If you do not want us to use your data in this way, you can ask us to delete your profile by contacting us via email. We will endeavor to delete your profile within 30 days of the request.
Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
Who are service providers to Buzzytown.
In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
If Buzzytown or a substantial set of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms and conditions and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Buzzytown.in and its parent company, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Legal basis for processing your data
We may process your data because:
- we are legally obliged to e.g. to confirm your identity;
- the processing is necessary for the performance of the contract with you to provide our services; or
- it is in our legitimate business interests to do so.
In some instances, we will rely on your consent to process personal data and where we do this, it will be flagged to you at the time.
How long do we keep your personal information?
We keep your personal information for as long as we need to for the purposes for which it was collected or (if longer) for any period for which we are required to keep personal information to comply with our legal and regulatory requirements.
Your rights
You are responsible for ensuring that information you provide to us is accurate, complete and up-to-date. You can review and change your information by logging into the site and visiting your profile page.
You have a number of rights in relation to your personal data, these include the right to:
- find out how we process your data;
- request that your personal data is corrected if you believe it is incorrect or inaccurate - or correct it yourself via your profile;
- request that your data is deleted (within 30 days) to the best of our ability;
- obtain restriction on our, or object to, processing of your personal data;
- if we are relying on consent, you can choose to withhold your consent to our processing of your personal data (including any direct marketing):
- if we are relying on legitimate interests for direct marketing, you can object to receiving such direct marketing;
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and can be submitted to us via email.