Privacy Policy

Gappeo (a product of Uprise Labs Private Limited), herewith referred to as ‘Gappeo,’ respects your rights regarding your privacy and information, and this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) is to help you understand how we collect, use, share, store and disclose information. This Privacy Policy applies when you use our products or services, describing your choices regarding using your account and how to update and correct your information.

THIS IS A LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND GAPPEO, AND BY USING THE SERVICES, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE TERMS OF SERVICE. You should review this Privacy Policy in conjunction with our terms of service and any other agreement or policy that governs your use of Gappeo’s products or services.

You should not use the services if you disagree with this Privacy Policy, Our Terms of Use, and any other agreement or policy that governs your use of the product or services.

Gappeo and its products continually strive to comply with all data protection requirements. We proceed according to legal provisions for all data processing activities (such as collection, processing, and transmission). The following information should give you an overview of the type of data Gappeo collects, saves, and processes when you use our websites and our apps and how this protection of your rights and privacy is guaranteed. All personal data collected, processed, and used by Gappeo and its products, are governed exclusively in accordance with this privacy policy. Should you require further information or have questions about privacy, you should contact customer support.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• Account means a unique account created for you to access our product, service or parts of our service.
• Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
• Device means any device that can access the service, such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• Service refers to the Gapper product and services.
• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the company to facilitate the service, to provide the service on behalf of the company to perform services related to the Service or to assist the company in analyzing how the service is used.
• Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the service.
• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
• Website refers to Gappeo, accessible from gappeo.com
• You mean the individual accessing or using the product or service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the product or service, as applicable.

General Information about Privacy and Purpose of Storage

We collect data so that we can continually improve the products and services that we offer you.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our product or service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
• Company Name
• Your username and password when you create an account with us
• IP address
• Test assigned or taken
• Test scores and reports
• Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data has collected automatically when using the Gappeo product or service.

Usage Data may include information such as your device’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 the service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device’s 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.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our service or when You access the service by or through a mobile device.

Please note that Gappeo or its products are not responsible for how third parties use publicly available information or are otherwise accessible to others who have access to the Services.

The Gappeo user’s account and information are password-protected so that only the registered user can access this personal information. The user can edit this member profile at any time. We strongly recommend that you do not give your password to any third parties, and Gappeo will never ask you for your password in unexpected or unsolicited emails. Remember to log out of your Gappeo member account and close your browser window after you end your session. This ensures that no one else can access your personal information and your correspondence if you share a computer with multiple people or you use a computer in public areas like internet cafes or university computing centers.

Information from Third-Party Social Media Services

Gappeo allows you to create an account and log in to use the product or service

through the following Third-party Social Media Services:

• Google
• Facebook
• Twitter
• LinkedIn

If You decide to register through or otherwise grant us access to a Third-Party Social Media Service, we may collect personal data that is already associated with your Third-Party Social Media Service account, such as your name, your email address, your activities, or your contact list associated with that account.

You may also have the option of sharing additional information with the Gappeo through your Third-Party Social Media Service account. If you choose to provide such information and Personal Data during registration or otherwise, You are giving Gappeo permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our product and service and store certain information. Tracking technologies are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and improve and analyze our products and services. The technologies we use may include:

• Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. 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 parts of our service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our service may use Cookies.
• Web Beacons. Certain sections of our service and our emails may contain small electronic files are known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a specific section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.

We use both Sessions and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services you have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to offer you those services.

Functionality Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember the choices You make when You use the website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the website.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our privacy Policy.

Advertising

Gappeo and its products use various third-party advertising tools and technologies that allow for the delivery of advertising about our Services on other websites. These advertisements may be based on multiple factors, such as the content of the page you are visiting, the information you enter, such as your age and gender, your searches, demographic data, user-generated content, and other information we collect from You. These ads may be based on your current activity or activity over time across different websites and online services and may be tailored to Your interests.

We use third parties analytical tools to help deliver these tailored advertising on other websites and mobile applications. These third parties may place cookies or other tracking technologies on your computer, mobile phone, or another device to collect information about your use of the Services as discussed above. They may access these cookies or other tracking technologies on Your computer, mobile phone, or another device You use to access the Services to serve these tailored advertisements. We also may share a hashed version of Your email address with third party advertisers that is anonymized and cannot be used to identify you, solely in non-human readable form and content that You share publicly when using the services (e.g., user-generated content) for purposes of delivering tailored advertising.

Use of Your Personal Data

Gappeo and its products may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our service, including monitoring the usage of our product or service.
• To manage your account: to manage your registration as a service user. The personal data you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the service that are available to you as a registered user.
• For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and the undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services You have purchased any other agreement with us through the service.
• To contact you: To contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contract services, including security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
• 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.
• To manage your requests: To attend and manage your requests to us.
• For business transfers: We may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by us about our product or service users is among the assets transferred.
• For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving our products and services, products, services, marketing, and your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service to contact you.
• For business transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• With Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, requiring those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
• Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or companies that we control or are under common control.
• With business partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
• With other users: when you share personal information or otherwise interact in public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If you interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures, and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users can view depictions of Your activity, communicate with You, and view Your profile.
• With Your consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent
• Your scores and report: We will share your test and other information with the Gappeo users who sent or invited you to the test.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The company will retain your 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.

The company will also retain usage data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, 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 a longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at Gappeo’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdictions where the data protection laws may differ then those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by your submission of such information, represents your agreement to that transfer.

The company will take all 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 organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that we assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

You may update, amend, or delete your information at any time by signing in to your account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact us at info@gappeo.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information you have provided.

Please note, however, that we may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis for doing so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If Gappeo is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, Gappeo may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

Gappeo may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the company
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal 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.

Children's Privacy

Our service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. Suppose we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent. In that case, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent; we may require your parent’s consent before we collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our service may contain links to other websites not operated by us, and you will be directed to that third party’s site if you click on a third-party link. 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.

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 the “Last updated” 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.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

• By email: info@gappeo.com
• By visiting this page on our website: www.gappeo.com