Effective date: 08/04/2022
1. Introduction Welcome to WAMessager Inc (“us”, “we”, or
“our”) operates https://wamessager.com (hereinafter referred to as “Service”). Our Privacy
Policy governs your visit to https://wamessager.com,
and explains how we collect, safeguard and disclose information that results from your use of
our Service. We use your data to provide and improve Service. By using Service, you agree to the
collection and use of information in
accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in
this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions. Our Terms and
Conditions (“Terms”) govern all use of our
Service and together with the Privacy Policy constitutes your agreement with us (“agreement”).
2. Definitions SERVICE means the https://wamessager.com website operated by WAMessager
Inc PERSONAL DATA means data about a
living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information
either in our possession or likely to come into our possession). USAGE DATA is data collected
automatically either generated by the use
of Service or from Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
COOKIES are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device). DATA CONTROLLER means
a natural or legal person who (either
alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the
manner in which any personal data are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy
Policy, we are a Data Controller of your
data. DATA PROCESSORS (OR SERVICE PROVIDERS) means any natural or legal person who processes the
data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in
order to process your data more effectively.
DATA SUBJECT is any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data. THE USER is the
individual using our Service. The User corresponds to the Data Subject, who is the subject of
Personal Data.
3. Information Collection
and Use 2 We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and
improve our Service to you.
4. Types of Data Collected Personal Data While using our
Service, we may ask you to provide us
with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you
(“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: (a)
Email address (b) First name and last name
(c) Phone number (d) Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City (e) Cookies and Usage Data
We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional
materials and other information that may be
of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by
following the unsubscribe link. Usage Data We may also collect information that your browser
sends whenever you visit our Service
or when you access Service by or through a mobile device (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may
include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address),
browser type, browser version, the pages
of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages,
unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. When you access Service with a mobile
device, this Usage Data may include information
such as the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your
mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique
device identifiers and other diagnostic
data. Location Data We may use and store information about your location if you give us
permission to do so (“Location Data”). We use this data to provide features of our Service, to
improve and customize our Service. You can enable
or disable location services when you use our Service at any time by way of your device
settings. Tracking Cookies Data We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the
activity on our Service and we hold certain information.
3 Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique
identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Other
tracking technologies are also used such as beacons,
tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. 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 portions of our Service. Examples of Cookies we use: (a) Session
Cookies: We use Session Cookies to operate our Service. (b) Preference Cookies: We use
Preference Cookies to remember your preferences
and various settings. (c) Security Cookies: We use Security Cookies for security purposes. (d)
Advertising Cookies: Advertising Cookies are used to serve you with advertisements that may be
relevant to you and your interests. Other
Data While using our Service, we may also collect the following information: sex, age, date of
birth, place of birth, passport details, citizenship, registration at place of residence and
actual address, telephone number (work,
mobile), details of documents on education, qualification, professional training, employment
agreements, non-disclosure agreements, information on bonuses and compensation, information on
marital status, family members, social
security (or other taxpayer identification) number, office location and other data.
5.
Use of Data WAMessager Inc uses the collected data for various purposes: (a) to provide and
maintain our Service; (b) to notify you
about changes to our Service; (c) to allow you to participate in interactive features of our
Service when you choose to do so; (d) to provide customer support; (e) to gather analysis or
valuable information so that we can improve
our Service; (f) to monitor the usage of our Service; (g) to detect, prevent and address
technical issues; (h) to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it; 4 (i) to carry out
our obligations and enforce our rights arising
from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection; (j) to
provide you with notices about your account and/or subscription, including expiration and
renewal notices, email-instructions, etc.;
(k) to provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services
and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired
about unless you have opted not to
receive such information; (l) in any other way we may describe when you provide the information;
(m) for any other purpose with your consent.
6. Retention of Data We will retain your
Personal Data only for as long as is
necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal
Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are
required to retain your data to comply with
applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. We will also
retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter
period, except when this data is used
to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally
obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
7. Transfer of Data Your
information, including Personal Data, may be
transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country
or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your
jurisdiction. If you are located outside
United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data,
including Personal Data, to United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy
Policy followed by your submission of such
information represents your agreement to that transfer. WAMessager Inc will take all the steps
reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this
Privacy Policy and no transfer of your
Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls
in place including the security of your data and other personal information. 8. Disclosure of
Data We may disclose personal information
that we collect, or you provide: (a) Disclosure for Law Enforcement. 5 Under certain
circumstances, we may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or
in response to valid requests by public authorities.
(b) Business Transaction. If we or our subsidiaries are involved in a merger, acquisition or
asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. (c) Other cases. We may disclose your
information also: (i) to our subsidiaries and
affiliates;
9. Security of Data The security of your data is important to us but
remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is
100% secure. While we strive to use commercially
acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
10. Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) If you
are a resident of the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain
data protection rights, covered by GDPR.
– See more at https://eur- lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj We aim to take reasonable steps to
allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data. If you wish to be
informed what Personal Data we hold
about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please email us at
[email protected]. In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
(a) the right to access, update or to delete the information
we have on you; (b) the right of rectification. You have the right to have your information
rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete; (c) the right to object. You have the
right to object to our processing of your
Personal Data; (d) the right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the
processing of your personal information; (e) the right to data portability. You have the right
to be provided with a copy of your Personal
Data in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format; (f) the right to withdraw
consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on your
consent to process your personal information;
Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.
Please note, we may not able to provide Service without some necessary data. 6 You have the
right to complain to a Data Protection Authority
about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your
local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA). 11. Your Data Protection
Rights under the California Privacy Protection
Act (CalOPPA) CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and
online services to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to
require a person or company in the United
States (and conceivable the world) that operates websites collecting personally identifiable
information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website
stating exactly the information being collected
and those individuals with whom it is being shared, and to comply with this policy. – See more
at: https://consumercal.org/about-cfc/cfc-education-foundation/california-online-privacy-
protection-act-caloppa-3/ According to CalOPPA
we agree to the following: (a) users can visit our site anonymously; (b) our Privacy Policy link
includes the word “Privacy”, and can easily be found on the page specified above on the home
page of our website; (c) users will be
notified of any privacy policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page; (d) users are able to change
their personal information by emailing us at [email protected]. Our Policy on “Do Not Track”
Signals: We honor Do Not Track signals
and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track browser mechanism is in
place. Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you
do not want to be tracked. You can
enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.
12. Your Data Protection Rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) If you
are a California resident, you are
entitled to learn what data we collect about you, ask to delete your data and not to sell
(share) it. To exercise your data protection rights, you can make certain requests and ask us:
(a) What personal information we have about
you. If you make this request, we will return to you: (i) The categories of personal information
we have collected about you. (ii) The categories of sources from which we collect your personal
information. (iii) The business or
commercial purpose for collecting or selling your personal information. 7 (iv) The categories of
third parties with whom we share personal information. (v) The specific pieces of personal
information we have collected about you.
(vi) A list of categories of personal information that we have sold, along with the category of
any other company we sold it to. If we have not sold your personal information, we will inform
you of that fact. (vii) A list of categories
of personal information that we have disclosed for a business purpose, along with the category
of any other company we shared it with. Please note, you are entitled to ask us to provide you
with this information up to two times
in a rolling twelve-month period. When you make this request, the information provided may be
limited to the personal information we collected about you in the previous 12 months. (b) To
delete your personal information. If you
make this request, we will delete the personal information we hold about you as of the date of
your request from our records and direct any service providers to do the same. In some cases,
deletion may be accomplished through de-identification
of the information. If you choose to delete your personal information, you may not be able to
use certain functions that require your personal information to operate. (c) To stop selling
your personal information. If you submit
a request to stop selling your personal information, we will stop selling it. If you are a
California resident, to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, click “Do Not Sell My
Personal Information” at the bottom of our
home page to submit your request. Please note, if you ask us to delete or stop selling your
data, it may impact your experience with us, and you may not be able to participate in certain
programs or membership services which require
the usage of your personal information to function. But in no circumstances, we will
discriminate against you for exercising your rights. To exercise your California data protection
rights described above, please send your request(s)
by one of the following means: By email: [email protected] Your data protection rights,
described above, are covered by the CCPA, short for the California Consumer Privacy Act. To find
out more, visit the official California
Legislative Information website. The CCPA took effect on 01/01/2020.
13. Service
Providers We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service
(“Service Providers”), provide Service on our behalf,
perform Service-related services or assist us in analysing how our Service is used. These third
parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are
obligated not to disclose or use it for
any other purpose.
14. Analytics We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor
and analyze the use of our Service. Google Analytics Google Analytics is a web analytics service
offered by Google that tracks and reports
website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service.
This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to
contextualise and personalise the ads of its own
advertising network. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the
Google Privacy Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en We also encourage you
to review the Google's policy for
safeguarding your data: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245. Firebase Firebase
is analytics service provided by Google Inc. You may opt-out of certain Firebase features
through your mobile device settings, such
as your device advertising settings or by following the instructions provided by Google in their
Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en For more information on what type of
information Firebase collects, please
visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en Fathom
Analytics Fathom Analytics is analytics service provided by Conva Ventures Inc. You can find
their Privacy Policy here: https://usefathom.com/privacy/
Piwik / Matomo Piwik or Matomo is a web analytics service. You can visit their Privacy Policy
page here: https://matomo.org/privacy-policy Clicky Clicky is a web analytics service. Read the
Privacy Policy for Clicky here: https://clicky.com/terms
Cloudflare analytics Cloudflare analytics is a web analytics service operated by Cloudflare Inc.
Read the Privacy Policy here: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/ Segment.io Segment.io is
a web traffic analysis tool. You
can read the Privacy Policy for Segment.io here: https://segment.com/legal/privacy/. Statcounter
Statcounter is a web traffic analysis tool. You can read the Privacy Policy for Statcounter
here: https://statcounter.com/about/legal/
9 Flurry Analytics Flurry Analytics service is provided by Yahoo! Inc. You can opt-out from
Flurry Analytics service to prevent Flurry Analytics from using and sharing your information by
visiting the Flurry's Opt-out page:
https://dev.flurry.com/secure/optOut.do For more information on the privacy practices and
policies of Yahoo!, please visit their Privacy Policy page:
https://policies.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/privacy/policy/index.htm Mixpanel Mixpanel
is provided by Mixpanel Inc. You can prevent Mixpanel from using your information for analytics
purposes by opting-out. To opt-out of Mixpanel service, please visit this page:
https://mixpanel.com/optout/ For more information on
what type of information Mixpanel collects, please visit the Terms of Use page of Mixpanel:
https://mixpanel.com/terms/ Unity Analytics Unity Analytics is provided by Unity Technologies.
For more information on what type of information
Unity Analytics collects, please visit their Privacy Policy page:
https://unity3d.com/legal/privacy-policy Ackee Ackee is a web traffic analysis tool. For more
information on what type of information Ackee collects, please visit
their Terms of Service page: https://electerious.com/terms_of_service.html Simple Analytics
Simple Analytics is a web-based analysis tool For more information on what type of information
Ackee collects, please visit their Privacy
Policy page: https://simpleanalytics.com/privacy-policy PostHog PostHog is a product analytics
platform built for the modern enterprise, with the differentiators of being open source and
having a broader view of the tools needed
to make a product successful. For more information about PostHog, please visit their Privacy
Policy: https://posthog.com/privacy Yodo1 Yodo1 is a service provided by Yodo1, Ltd. For more
information on what type of information
Yodo1 collects, please visit their Privacy Policy page: https://www.yodo1.com/privacy 10 Weblate
For more information on what type of information Weblate collects, please visit their Privacy
Policy page: https://weblate.org/en/terms/
15. CI/CD tools We may use third-party Service Providers to automate the development
process of our Service. GitHub GitHub is provided by GitHub, Inc. GitHub is a development
platform to host and review code, manage projects,
and build software. For more information on what data GitHub collects for what purpose and how
the protection of the data is ensured, please visit GitHub Privacy Policy page:
https://help.github.com/en/articles/github-privacy-statement.
16. Advertising We may use third-party Service Providers to show advertisements to you to help
support and maintain our Service. Google AdSense DoubleClick Cookie Google, as a third party
vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our
Service. Google's use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to
our users based on their visit to our Service or other websites on the Internet. You may opt out
of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie
for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page:
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
17. Behavioral Remarketing WAMessager Inc uses
remarketing services to advertise on third party websites
to you after you visited our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform,
optimise and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service. Google Ads (AdWords) Google Ads
(AdWords) remarketing service is provided
by Google Inc. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the
Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page:
http://www.google.com/settings/ads Google also recommends installing
the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for
your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to
prevent their data from being collected
and used by Google Analytics. 11 For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please
visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en 18. Payments
We may provide paid products and/or
services within Service. In that case, we use third- party services for payment processing (e.g.
payment processors). We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is
provided directly to our third-party
payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy.
These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security
Standards Council, which is a joint effort
of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure
the secure handling of payment information. The payment processors we work with are: PayPal or
Braintree: Their Privacy Policy can
be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full FastSpring: Their Privacy Policy
can be viewed at http://fastspring.com/privacy/ Apple Store In-App Payments: Their Privacy
Policy can be viewed at: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/
/ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203027 Google Play In-App Payments: Their Privacy Policy can
be viewed at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=us /
https://payments.google.com/payments/apis-
secure/u/0/get_legal_document?ldo=0&ldt=privacynotice&ldl=en
Stripe: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at: https://stripe.com/us/privacy 2Checkout: Their
Privacy Policy can be viewed at: https://www.2checkout.com/legal/privacy/ Adyen: Their Terms and
conditions can be viewed at https://www.adyen.com/legal/terms-and-
conditions. Alipay: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at:
https://render.alipay.com/p/f/agreementpages/alipayglobalprivacypolicy.html Authorize.net: Their
Privacy Policy can be viewed at: https://www.authorize.net/about-us/privacy/
Elavon: 12 Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at: https://www.elavon.com/privacy-pledge.html
First Data: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at: https://www.firstdata.com/en_us/privacy.html
Go Cardless: Their Privacy Policy can
be viewed at: https://gocardless.com/legal/privacy Klarna: Their Services Terms, Privacy Policy
and Buyer Protection Policy can be viewed at https://www.klarna.com/us/legal/. Moneris: Their
Privacy Policy can be viewed at: https://www.moneris.com/legal/privacy-policy
Plaid: Their End User Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy and Privacy Statement can be viewed at
https://plaid.com/legal/. Sage Pay: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at:
https://www.sagepay.co.uk/policies/privacy-policy Square: Their
Privacy Policy can be viewed at: https://squareup.com/us/en/legal/general/privacy Verifone:
Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at: https://www.verifone.com/en/privacy WePay: Their Privacy
Policy can be viewed at: https://go.wepay.com/privacy-policy
WorldPay: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at: https://online.worldpay.com/terms/privacy
WeChat: Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at: https://www.wechat.com/en/privacy_policy.html 19.
Links to Other Sites Our Service may contain
links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third party link, you will be
directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of
every site you visit. We have no control
over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third
party sites or services.
20. Children's Privacy Our Services are not intended for
use by children under the age of 13 (“Children”).
13 We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from Children under 13. If
you become aware that a Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we
become aware that we have collected Personal
Data from Children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that
information from our servers.
21. Changes to This Privacy Policy We may update our
Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify
you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via
email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and
update “effective date” at the top of this Privacy
Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to
this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
22. Contact Us If
you have any questions about this Privacy
Policy, please contact us: By email: [email protected].