Privacy Notice

1. Introduction

In compliance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 and its regulations, this notice is issued to all our valued clients and/or prospective clients. This Notice will inform you of your rights with regards to your personal data that has been and/ or will be, collected and processed by OKAYPAL, its subsidiaries or its associated companies (hereinafter to be referred to as “OKAYPAL”, “we”, “us”).

2. Collection of Personal Data

We have collected and will collect your personal data to be processed by us and/ or on your behalf in the course of your present or future dealings with OKAYPAL, its subsidiaries, its associated companies. Your personal data enables us to achieve the “purposes” herein that is in connection with our business.

3. Description of Personal Data

The personal data we will collect inclusive of but not limited to name, identification number and/or passport number, gender, occupation, email address, residential address, mobile phone number, IP address, images, photos, videos, content, your credit card and billing information, sensitive personal data and any personally identifiable information.

4. Purposes for Collection of Personal Data

OKAYPAL will use client’s personal data for the following purposes including but not limited to:
 
  • Enabling us to verify your identity and process your application for membership;
  • Enabling us to provide services to you (including creating your publicly viewable profile, allowing members to search for suitable members and providing mechanisms for communication between members);
  • Enabling us to keep you and all members safe and secure while using our Service;
  • Enabling us to forward to you other information or material which we believe may be of interest to you;
  • Enabling a payment processor to process payments that you make to us;
  • Our internal research and statistical purposes (including market segmentation, customer value analysis and improvision of Services);
  • Enabling us to comply with applicable law, to establish, to exercise and/ or to defend legal claims & rights;
  • Any other purpose specified in our Website Terms of Use available on our website.

5. Sharing of Personal Data

OKAYPAL may share client’s personal data to other members when you voluntarily disclose information on the Service for others to view. We also share data with vendors and partners who help us to operate, promote and improve our Service. We may also publish ads about third-party advertiser’s products and services on our Service and publish ads promoting our own service on third-party sites and apps by sharing certain information about you and/ or allowing collection of such data of you to improve these ads. We may also disclose your date in order to comply with legal process such as a court order, a subpoena or search warrant upon government and/ or law enforcement investigation. This is to assist in the prevention of crime, to protect the safety of any person and to establish or to exercise or to defend any legal claims.

6. Disclosure of Personal Data

We may disclose client’s personal data to our subsidiaries and/ or associated companies. These subsidiaries will treat client’s personal data as confidential, in accordance with this Privacy Policy and with all applicable data protection legislation and will process such personal data only for the purposes and within the terms set out herein, we are responsible for the personal data under our control, including personal data disclosed by us to a vendor. We take every measure to provide a comparable level of protection for personal data should the information be processed by a vendor, OKAYPAL is committed to complying with the Personal Data Protection Act 2010, in particular its policies as well as corresponding guidelines and orders.

7. Security of Personal Data

OKAYPAL uses strict procedures and security features to prevent unauthorized access wherever possible. Personal data provided to OKAYPAL via our website or via any application, online credit card transactions are protected when personal data is stored by OKAYPAL. Data stored in cloud services is in encrypted form including when we utilize third-party storage, the level of security of personal data which kept in a non-electronic environment are also treated with strict procedures and means.

8. Use of Cookies

The cookies used by the website are solely associated to anonymous users and their computers and do no provide personal data on users. Some cookies are used by third parties to provide OKAYPAL with data on the effectiveness of its engagements and promotions. The cookies used by the website not in any way collect personal data that could be used to identify a specific user. In addition, cookies are of a temporary nature, used solely to improve the efficiency of the last transmission. Users may configure their browser to notify them of the reception of cookies and to prevent their installation on their computer.

9. Marketing and Promotional Purposes

The cookies used by the website are solely associated to anonymous users and their computers and do no provide personal data on users. Some cookies are used by third parties to provide OKAYPAL with data on the effectiveness of its engagements and promotions. The cookies used by the website not in any way collect personal data that could be used to identify a specific user. In addition, cookies are of a temporary nature, used solely to improve the efficiency of the last transmission. Users may configure their browser to notify them of the reception of cookies and to prevent their installation on their computer.

10. Data Subjects’ Obligations

It is necessary for OKAYPAL to collect and to retain clients’ personal data. Therefore, it is also obligatory for clients to supply personal data to us in the most accurate manner. If clients do not provide us with personal data, OKAYPAL are unable to process personal data on clients’ behalf for the purpose stated in clause 4 herein, or effectively render our services to clients, and all relationships created or to be created between us shall then be terminated and ceased to be in effect immediately.

11. The Rights of Data Subject

You have the rights to request for correction and/ or update of your personal data that is inaccurate, incomplete or outdated.
 
You are entitled to limit our processing of personal data by expressly withdrawing the consent given previously, in each case, including for direct marketing purposes subject to any applicable legal restrictions, contractual conditions and within a reasonable time period.

12. Changes to Privacy Policy

OKAYPAL reserves the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time without prior notice. We advise that you check our website for this Privacy Policy on a regular basis.

13. Acknowledgment and Consent

You have read this Privacy Notice and understand the reasons for the collection of your personal data and the ways the data may be used and disclosed.
 
You are aware that you can access and correct your personal data on request and if necessary. However, you understand that if, in exceptional circumstances, access is denied for legitimate purposes, that the reasons for this and possible remedies will be made available to you.
 
You have read the above information and by accepting this Service, you expressly agree and consent to the use, processing, disclosure and transfer of your personal data by OKAYPAL as described in this Notice.
 
Should there be a need to retract your consent on processing personal data, you shall write a notice to OKAYPAL to cease the processing of the personal data.

14. Inquiries and Complaints

If you believe that we have used or disclosed your Personal Data in a manner which is contrary to this Privacy Notice or otherwise breaches any applicable law, you can email us at support@okaypal.com