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Privacy Policy

BONSHINE OU (“BONSHINE”, “Company“, “our” or “we“) respect the privacy of its users (“User” or “you“) and are committed to protect the User’s information. We believe that you have a right to know our practices regarding the information we may collect and use when you use our proprietary geo-location-based application (the “App” or the “Services“). Terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to them in the Terms of Use (“TOU“), available at: https://bonshine.com/legal/.

1. Your consent (important, please read carefully!)

By installing the App, accessing and/or using the Services, and/or any part thereof, you agree to the terms and conditions set forth in this Privacy Policy, including to the collection and processing of your Personal Information (as defined below).

PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL THE APP, ENTER, CONNECT TO, ACCESS, OR USE THE APP AND/OR THE SERVICES IN ANY MANNER AND PROMPTLY ERASE THE APP AND ANY PART THEREOF, FROM YOUR MOBILE DEVICE AND DO NOT USE IT IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER.

2. Which information we may collect on our Users?

We may collect two types of data and information on our Users:

A. Non-identifiable and anonymous information (“Non-personal Information”). We are not aware of the identity of the User from which we have collected the Non-personal Information. Non-Personal Information we may collect includes any unconcealed information which does not enable identification of an individual User, and which is available to us when such User installs or uses the App. Non-personal Information which is being gathered consists of technical information, and may contain, among other things, phone type, token and locale.

B. Personal Information. This information may identify an individual or may be of a private and/or sensitive nature (“Personal Information”). Personal Information we may collect includes:
- Any personal details consciously and voluntarily provided by the User. Users interested in accessing the App or Services may be requested to provide the following details directly, via the registration form or via certain service providers (such as Google Play, your Android Account etc.) (“Publishers”): the Users’ full name, age, address, e-mail address, phone number, geo-location, User’s car details (license number, manufacturer, model, and type).
- User Generated Content that you voluntarily submit using the Services.

We may link any Non personal Information to any Personal Information. Any Non-Personal Information connected or linked to any Personal Information shall be deemed as Personal Information as long as such connection or linkage exists.

We do not collect any Personal Information from you or related to you without your approval, which is obtained, inter alia, through your acceptance of the Terms and the Privacy Policy.

3. How do we collect information on our Users?

There are two main methods we use:

We collect information through your installation and use of the App and/or the Services:

A. We collect information while you access or use the Services. In other words, when you access or use the Services we are aware of your usage of the Services, and may gather, collect and record the information relating to such usage (such as non-personal detailed above, your phone token and locale.
B. We collect information which you may, at your discretion, provide us voluntarily. We collect Personal Information during the registration process when you register and open an account.

4. What are the purposes of the collection of information?

We collect Non-personal Information and Personal Information in order to provide the Services.

A.  Non-personal Information is collected in order to:
- Enhance the User’s experience on the Services (e.g. by determining the screen resolutions).
B. Personal Information is collected in order to:
- Enable the overall operation of the Services.
- Personalize your experience on the Services.
- Determine geo-location information from which the User’s mobile device is connected to the Internet in order for us to supply the Service to the client.
- Be able to contact Users for the purpose of providing them with technical assistance and support and collect feedback regarding the Services as well as to notify Users of new features.
- Be able to inform you regarding our products and services which may interest you, and to engage in other direct marketing activities, transmitted to you through the contact information you provided us.
- Allow you to register for special offers, contests or premium services.
- Send push notifications to the User’s device after the User agreed to accept push notifications from The Company’s Users can deactivate push notifications by changing the notification settings in accordance with the instructions of the operating system running on the User’s device.
- Verify the User’s identity when he/she signs in to the App or Services, as well as verifying User’s identity for the purpose of dealing with inappropriate interactions of User and/or unauthorized use of the App and/or the Services.

5. Sharing Information with Third Parties

The Company may share personal information in the following cases: (a) to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, subpoena or governmental request; (b) to enforce this Privacy Policy and/or the TOU, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (c) to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (d) to respond to claims that contact information (e.g. name, e-mail address, etc.) of a third-party has been posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form of harassment; (e) to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of the Company, its Users or the general public; (f) by virtue of undergoing any change in control, including by means of merger, acquisition or purchase of all or substantially all of the assets of Company, so long as such acquirer maintains the same privacy terms hereunder; or (g) pursuant to your explicit approval prior to the disclosure, inter alia, to the extent that you request us an assistance in completing forms and other materials you would like to submit to applicable entities (for example, governmental or public authorities) based on the Personal Information (in which case, we will share your relevant Personal Information with the applicable entity in order to provide you with the requested Services). Note, that we collect, hold and/or manage your Personal Information through the Company’s authorized third parties vendors of certain products or services (such as hosting cloud services) (including, as applicable, their affiliates) solely and limited to providing us with such requested Services, and not for any other purposes. Such vendors may be located in a country that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction.

For avoidance of doubt, the Company may transfer and disclose Non-personal Information to third parties at its own discretion.

6. Third party service providers

In order to provide you with the Services via the App and/or components of the Services, we may use third party service providers who may collect, store and/or process the information detailed herein, Amazon cloud services which privacy policy can be found at: http://aws.amazon.com/privacy and GatewayAPI for SMS services which privacy policy can be found at: https://gatewayapi.com/tos/en-2017 ; and Twispay for payment services which privacy policy can be found at: https://www.twispay.com/terms-and-conditions BONSHINE uses commercially reasonable efforts to engage with third parties that post a privacy policy governing their collection, retention, processing and use of non-personal and personal information. We do not control such third party service providers. Please read their terms of use and privacy policies to better understand their privacy practices.

7. Modifications to, or Deletion of Personal Information

A. If for any reason you wish to modify or delete your Personal Information, you may send us e-mail to : [email protected]. The Company shall remove Personal Information in a reasonable amount of time, in accordance with applicable privacy laws, once you have removed the App from your device. You can also modify or delete certain Personal Information from the Services (e.g. phone number, e-mail address, car details, credit card number). Even after information is deleted from the servers used by the Company, that same data may remain in backup for a limited period of time. The Company may, receive requests from law enforcement requiring it by law to suspend its server deletion practices for specific information. In addition, there may be ways to access information while still in temporary storage on the recipient’s device or, forensically, even after they deleted it.

B. We may retain and use your Personal Information for a reasonable time after termination as necessary to comply with our legal or business requirements or obligations (including as required by applicable law), to resolve disputes and/or to enforce our Terms, all as permitted under any applicable privacy laws. Aggregated and/or anonymous data derived from your account may remain on the servers we use indefinitely. The Company cannot ensure that third parties who gained access to the Personal Information deleted your Personal Information and cannot monitor their use of such information.

8. How we protect your information

We take a great care in implementing and maintaining the security of the Services and our User’s Personal Information. The Personal Information is hosted on the Amazon Cloud servers which provide advanced security features. The Company uses generally accepted industry standard technologies and internal procedures, including through the use of tokens and encryption mechanisms to secure our Users’ Personal Information (e.g. SSL). However, we cannot and do not guarantee that unauthorized access will never occur.

9. International Data Transfer

We may transfer information collected about you, including Personal Information, to affiliated entities, or to other third party service provides (as provided herein) across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. Please note that we may transfer such information to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction, and you consent to such transfer of information.

10. Cookies and local storage

When you access or use the App, we and/or our third party service providers may use industry-wide technologies such as “cookies” and local storage (or other similar technologies), which store certain local information on your device or on the Site (“Local Storage”) which may enable, automatic activation of certain features and make the User’s App experience and usage simpler, more relevant, convenient and effortless. Such information is locally stored in the User’s device. BONSHINE and/or our authorized third party service providers may access such information. BONSHINE and/or our authorized third party service providers may use persistent cookies (which stay on the User’s device until he/she deletes them). Such Local Storage used by the App and/or Site may store non-personal information (such as the different pages viewed by a User within the App and/or Site) as well as User persistent identifier, which will be collected in accordance with the terms specified herein. It is easy to prohibit and/or delete the Local Storage, via uninstalling the App from your mobile device and/or through the Settings option of your device. Most platforms will allow you to erase cookies from a device, block acceptance of cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. In order to erase or disable the Local Storage option you may use the settings option of your device or according to the specific instructions provided by the third party service provider’s privacy policy and terms of use. However, if you block or erase cookies, or change the settings of your device, your App and/or Site experience may be affected and may be limited.

11. Payment

The payment mechanism and tools (“Payment Mechanism”) which enables Users to perform any payment action as part of the use of the Sites and/or the Services are being provided to us by certain third parties such as Twispay (“Third Party Payment Processor”). Within the framework of the Payment Mechanism, you will be required to enter your credit card and/or debit card details (“Payment Details”) directly into the platform of the Third Party Payment Processor, following which, we will receive: a. a unique identifiable key (Token); b. the 4 last digits; and c. transaction number, which will enable us to cross-reference the User’s records with the billing information. In no event shall we retain any of your Payment Details and/or use your Payment Details for any purpose other than for providing you with the required Services. You hereby acknowledge that we have no control over such third parties, nor shall we be liable for any error, problem or malfunction with regard to such Payment Mechanism. We urge you to review such third parties terms and conditions and data security standard prior to providing them with any of your payment method details (such as credit card and/or debit card details).

12. Minors

The App is intended for Users over the age of thirteen (13). The Company does not intend and does not knowingly collect Personal Information from minors under the age of thirteen (13) and does not wish to do so. We reserve the right to request proof of age at any stage so that we can verify that minors under the age of thirteen (13) are not using the App. If we learn that we collected Personal Information from minors under the age of thirteen (13), we will delete that information as quickly as possible. Please contact the Company at: [email protected]. If you have reasons to suspect that the Company collected Personal Information from minors under the age of thirteen (13) and we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

13. Changes to the Privacy Policy

The terms of this Privacy Policy will govern the use of the App and any information collected therein. The Company reserves the right to change this policy at any time, so please re-visit this page frequently. We will provide notice of substantial changes of this policy on the App and/or we will send you an e-mail regarding such changes to the e-mail address that you provided in the registration form. Such substantial changes will take effect seven (7) days after such notice was provided on the App or sent by email: [email protected]. Otherwise, all other changes to this Privacy Policy are effective as of the stated “Last Revised” date and your continued use of the App after the Last Revised date will constitute acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes.

14. Got any Questions?

If you have any questions (or comments) concerning this Privacy Policy, you are most welcomed to send us an email to the following address: [email protected] and we will make an effort to reply within a reasonable timeframe.

Last Revised: January 24, 2020

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