Privacy Policy

Beanhunter Pty Ltd Terms of Use.

Beanhunter Pty Ltd Privacy Policy Updated as of May 25th 2018

The Beanhunter Pty Ltd Privacy Policy (otherwise referred to as "Beanhunter" or the "Owner") describes how Beanhunter treat personal information when you use Beanhunter services, including information provided when you use the Beanhunter site. In addition, the following describes privacy practices specific to Beanhunter. To understand how we treat the information you give us as you use Beanhunter, you should read this privacy policy. Non-Account Activity.

You can browse cafe reviews, photos and articles without having a Beanhunter Account. You can also contact us about a Beanhunter particular review, photograph or article without having a Beanhunter Account. Account-Related Activity.

Certain other activities on Beanhunter—like uploading photos, posting comments, submitting reviews, require you to have a Beanhunter Account. We ask for some personal information when you create a Beanhunter Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access. A Beanhunter Account allows you to access many of our services that require registration.

Usage Information

About your usage, such as We may record information when you use Beanhunter, reviews you write, favorites you flag, the contacts you communicate with, and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on in Beanhunter (including UI elements, settings, and other information). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. “Web Beacons”) in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.

Content Uploaded to Site

Any personal information, reviews or photographic content that you voluntarily disclose online (on café reviews, in messages and chat areas, within your profile pages, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by other users. If you submit personally identifiable information to us through the Beanhunter Site, we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the general and personalized features and functionality of the Beanhunter Site, and to process any flagging activity or correspondence you send to us. Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you upload reviews, photos or send messages through the Beanhunter Site and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any reviews or photographs that you submit to the Beanhunter Site may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.

We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major Beanhunter Site changes or for customer service purposes). We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Beanhunter Site and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, analyzing, and processing user preferences and trends, as well as user activity and communications. We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Beanhunter Site; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.

Information that is Public Available

When you create an account on the site, some information about your account and your account activity will be provided to other users of the site. This may include the date you opened your account, the date you last logged into your account, your age (if you choose to make it public), the country and the number of reviews or photos you have posted. Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other users when you engage in certain activity on the site, such as you upload photos or send messages through the Beanhunter Site. Other users can contact you through messages and comments. You may also choose to add personal information that will visible to other Users on your profile page (which is the public facing page for your account on the site). This may include a profile picture, you name, gender, relationship status, or other details. If you choose to add certain features to your profile page, then these features and your activity associated with these features will be displayed to other Users and may be aggregated and shared with your confirmed friends or other Users. Such shared activity may include what cafes you favorite, what cafes you rated and what reviews and photographs you have submitted. Any reviews and photographs that you submit to the Beanhunter Site may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.

Methods of processing

The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.

The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of this Application (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.

Cookie Policy

This Application uses Cookies. To learn more and for a detailed cookie notice, the User may consult the Cookie Policy (https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/66770475/cookie-policy).

Types of Data collected

Among the types of Personal Data that this Application collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: Cookies, Usage Data, email address, various types of Data, first name, last name, gender, date of birth, phone number, address, country and profession.

Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection.

Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using this Application.

Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by this Application is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide its services. In cases where this Application specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service.

Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner.

Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by this Application or by the owners of third-party services used by this Application serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the Cookie Policy, if available.

Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through this Application and confirm that they have the third partys consent to provide the Data to the Owner.

Legal basis of processing

The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:

- Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes. Note: Under some legislations the Owner may be allowed to process Personal Data until the User objects to such processing (“opt-out”), without having to rely on consent or any other of the following legal bases. This, however, does not apply, whenever the processing of Personal Data is subject to European data protection law;

- provision of Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;

- processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject;

- processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Owner;

- processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party.

In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Details about the right to object to processing

Where Personal Data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in the Owner or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, Users may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection.

Users must know that, however, should their Personal Data be processed for direct marketing purposes, they can object to that processing at any time without providing any justification. To learn, whether the Owner is processing Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, Users may refer to the relevant sections of this document.

How to exercise these rights

Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner through the contact details provided in this document. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by the Owner as early as possible and always within one month.

Your Choices

You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Beanhunter Site, in which case you can still read reviews and explore the Beanhunter Site, but Beanhunter may not be able to provide certain services to you. Some advanced Beanhunter features may, for authentication purposes, require you to sign up for other Beanhunter services. You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page. You may control the information that is available to other users and your confirmed friends at any time by editing your account and the features that are included on your profile page.

Retention time

Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.

Therefore:

- Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the Owner and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.

- Personal Data collected for the purposes of the Owner’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the Owner.

The Owner may be allowed to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.

The rights of Users

Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data processed by the Owner.

In particular, Users have the right to do the following:

- Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their Personal Data.

- Object to processing of their Data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their Data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent. Further details are provided in the dedicated section below.

- Access their Data. Users have the right to learn if Data is being processed by the Owner, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the Data undergoing processing.

- Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their Data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.

- Restrict the processing of their Data. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of their Data. In this case, the Owner will not process their Data for any purpose other than storing it.

- Have their Personal Data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their Data from the Owner.

- Receive their Data and have it transferred to another controller. Users have the right to receive their Data in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that the Data is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on the User\'s consent, on a contract which the User is part of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.

- Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority.

Details about the right to object to processing

Where Personal Data is processed for a public interest, in the exercise of an official authority vested in the Owner or for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner, Users may object to such processing by providing a ground related to their particular situation to justify the objection.

Users must know that, however, should their Personal Data be processed for direct marketing purposes, they can object to that processing at any time without providing any justification. To learn, whether the Owner is processing Personal Data for direct marketing purposes, Users may refer to the relevant sections of this document.

How to exercise these rights

Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Owner through the contact details provided in this document. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by the Owner as early as possible and always within one month.

The purposes of processing

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Services, as well as for the following purposes: Analytics, Tag Management, User database management, Managing contacts and sending messages, Infrastructure monitoring and Hosting and backend infrastructure.

Users can find further detailed information about such purposes of processing and about the specific Personal Data used for each purpose in the respective sections of this document.

Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites

Beanhunter allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the Beanhunter Sites. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the Beanhunter Site. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.

Beanhunter does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. However, please note that if an advertiser asks Beanhunter to show an advertisement to a certain audience (for example, men ages 18-34) or audience segment (for example, men ages 18-24 who have viewed certain channels of content) and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The advertiser may also use information regarding your use of the Beanhunter Site, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information), to determine which ads to deliver to you.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks (see links below) for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. Beanhunter’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites. Any data obtained by third-party ad servers subsequently shared with Beanhunter is maintained and dealt with by Beanhunter in accordance with this privacy policy.

Currently, Beanhunter has relationships with the following third-party ad servers or ad networks:

Google DFP
http://www.google.com.au/doubleclick/publishers/small-business/policies.html

For questions concerning the product or your account, please email us at privacy@beanhunter.com.