Privacy Policy
The information we collect and how we use it
Golala Limited ("Golala," the "Company,"
"we," "us," and "our”) collects
several types of information from and about users of our Services, including:
- Your
Personal Information("PI") - Personal Information is the
information that can be associated with a specific person and could be
used to identify that specific person whether from that data, or from the
data and other information that we have, or is likely to have access to.
We do not consider personal information to include information that has
been made anonymous or aggregated so that it can no longer be used to
identify a specific person, whether in combination with other information
or otherwise.
- Information
about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our
Services and your usage details.
We collect this information:
- directly
from you when you provide it to us; and/or
- automatically
as you navigate through our Services (information collected automatically
may include usage details, IP addresses and information collected through
cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies).
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Services may
include:
- Your
account information: Your full name, email address, postal code,
password and other information you may provide with your account, such as
your gender, mobile phone number and website. Your profile picture that
will be publicly displayed as part of your account profile. You may
optionally provide us with this information through third-party sign-in
services such as Facebook and Google Plus. In such cases, we fetch and
store whatever information is made available to us by you through these
sign-in services.
- Your
preferences: Your preferences and settings such as time zone and
language.
- Your
content: Information you provide through our Services, including
your reviews, photographs, comments, lists, followers, the users you
follow, current and prior restaurant reservation details, food ordering
details and history, favorite restaurants, special restaurant requests,
contact information of people you add to, or notify of, your restaurant
reservations through our Services, names, and other information you
provide on our Services, and other information in your account profile.
- Your
searches and other activities: The search terms you have looked
up and results you selected.
- Your
browsing information: How long you used our Services and which
features you used; the ads you clicked on.
- Your
communications: Communications between you and other users or
merchants through our Services; your participation in a survey, poll,
sweepstakes, contest or promotion scheme; your request for certain
features (e.g., newsletters, updates or other products); your communication
with us about employment opportunities posted to the services.
- Your
transactional information: If you make reservations or purchases
through our Services, we may collect and store information about you to
process your requests and automatically complete forms for future
transactions, including (but not limited to) your phone number, address,
email, billing information and credit or payment card information. This
information may be shared with third-parties which assist in processing
and fulfilling your requests, including PCI compliant payment gateway
processors. When you submit credit or payment card information, we encrypt
the information using industry standard technologies, as further described
below under "Payment Card Information." If you write reviews
about businesses with which you conduct transactions through our Services,
we may publicly display information that you transacted with those
businesses.
- Your
Public Posts: You also may provide information (such as ratings,
reviews, tips, photos, comments, likes, bookmarks, friends, 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. Although we limit access to certain pages, you may set certain
privacy settings for such information by logging into your account
profile. Please be aware 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
may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do
not guarantee that your User Contributions will not 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 be careful about
revealing any sensitive details about yourself in such postings.
We use the information you provide to us to enhance the
functionality and improve the quality 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 comply
with our legal obligations.
Information from Third Parties
We may collect, process and store your user ID associated with any social media account (such as your Facebook and Google account) that you use to sign into the Services or connect with or use with the Services. When you sign in to your account with your social media account information, or otherwise connect to your social media account with the Services, you consent to our collection, storage, and use, in accordance with this Privacy Policy, of the information that you make available to us through the social media interface. This could include, without limitation, any information that you have made public through your social media account, information that the social media service shares with us, or information that is disclosed during the sign-in process. Please see your social media provider's privacy policy and help center for more information about how they share information when you choose to connect your account.
We may also obtain information about you from third parties such as partners, marketers, third-party websites, and researchers, and combine that information with information which we collect from or about you.
How we use the information we collect
How we use the information we collect
- We use
the information we collect from and about you for a variety of purposes,
including to:
- Process
and respond to your queries
- 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.
- Administer
our Services and diagnose technical problems.
- Send
you communications that you have requested or that may be of interest to
you by way 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 your network followers on Golala for
marketing and other promotional activities of our Services.
- Send
you questions from other users that you may be able to answer if you have
registered with Golala.
- Enable
us to show you ads that are relevant to you.
- Generate
and review reports and data about, and to conduct research on, our user
base and Service usage patterns.
- Administer
contests and sweepstakes.
- Provide
you with customer support.
- Provide
you with policies about your account.
- Carry
out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts
entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
- Notify
you about changes to our Services.
- Allow
you to participate in interactive features offered through our Services.
- In any
other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For
any other purpose with your consent.
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. If you
do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant
box located on the form on which we collect your data and/or adjust your user
preferences in your account profile.
We may use the information we have collected from you to
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 disclose personal information that we collect or you
provide, as described in this privacy policy, in the following ways:
General Information Disclosures
- To our
subsidiaries and affiliates, which are entities under common ownership or
control of our ultimate parent company Golala Limited.
- To
contractors, advertisers/service providers 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 Golala's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of
bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal
information held by Golala about the users of our Services are among the
assets transferred.
- To
third-parties to market their products or services to you if you have
consented to receive the promotional updates. We contractually require
these third-parties to keep personal information confidential and use it
only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- To
fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- For
any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- Service
Providers. We may share your information with outside 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 analyze 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 Golala,
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.
- Social
Networks. If you interact with social media features on our
Services, such as the Facebook Like button, or use your social media
credentials to log-in or post content, these features may collect
information about your use of the Services, as well as post information
about your activities on the social media service. Your interactions with
social media companies are governed by their privacy policies.
- 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 Golala, our customers or others. This includes
exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the
purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
- Consent. We
may share your information in any other circumstances where we have your
consent.
Payment Card Information
To use certain of our Services, such as to make reservations at certain restaurants and to make payments to certain restaurants, we may require credit or debit card account information. By submitting your credit or debit card account information through our Services, you expressly consent to the sharing of your information with restaurants, third-party payment processors, and other third-party service providers (including but not limited to vendors who provide fraud detection services to us and other third parties), and you further agree to the following terms:
- When you use a credit or debit card to secure a reservation through our Sites, we provide your credit or debit card account information (including card number and expiration date) to our third-party payment service providers and the applicable restaurant.
- When you initially provide your credit or debit card account information through our Services in order to use our restaurant payment services, we provide your credit or debit card account information to our third-party payment service providers. As explained in our Terms of Use, these third parties may store your credit or debit card account information so you can use our restaurant payment services through our Services in the future.
- For information about the security of your credit or debit card account information, see the "Security" section below.
Analytics and tailored advertising
To help us better understand your use of the Services, we may use third-party web analytics on our Services, such as Google Analytics. These service providers use the sort of technology described in the "Automatically-Collected Information" Section above. The information collected by this technology will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers, who use the information to evaluate our users' use of the Services. We also use Google Analytics as described in the following section. To prevent Google Analytics from collecting or using your information, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser add-on.