We at Bonito Tech are committed to protect our users’ privacy, and to be transparent in our practices. In line with this, we have outlined below our information practices, and have ensured that a link to this policy is present in the footer of all pages of our website.
Scope
This policy governs site visitors and those who may submit their information to Bonito Tech via the contact form. As such, this is a general policy based on initial contact, and data privacy in services contracted with the company may be negotiated separately.
Children’s privacy
Those legally considered minors, or those under the age of 18, are not eligible to use our services. As such, we request that minors do not submit any personal information to us, via our contact form or or any other point of contact. We request that minors be supervised by their parents when looking through our company’s services, and only attempt to get in touch with us under the direct supervision of their parents or guardians.
Definitions
- Company: (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Bonito Tech
- User: a visitor to our website, whether they submit personal data or not
- Personal data: personally identifiable information, meaning information that identifies, relates to, describes or is capable of being reasonably linked to a specific user, such as names, email addresses, and phone numbers
Information Gathered
Personal Data
To use our services, we may ask users to provide us with personal data. Personal data is only collected voluntarily, through our contact form, as well as other means of direct contact such as email and social media.
The personal data, or personally identifiable information, that we may collect include but are not limited to:
- Name
- Email address
- Contact number
- Usage data
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using our website.
Usage Data may include information such as the user’s device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our website the user visits, the time and date of visits, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When users access the website through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device used, the mobile device unique ID, the IP address of the mobile device, the mobile operating system, the type of mobile internet browser used, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that a user’s browser sends, whenever a user visits our website through a mobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our services. The technologies We use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file within a user’s device. Users can instruct their browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if a user does not accept Cookies, they may not be able to use some parts of our website. Unless a user has adjusted their browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our website may use Cookies.
- Web Beacons. Certain sections of our website and our emails may contain small electronic files 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 certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on a user’s personal computer or mobile device when the user goes offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as a user closes their web browser.
We use both Session 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 users with services available through the website and to enable the user to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that users have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these Cookies to provide users with those services.
- Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the website.
- Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices users make when they use the website, such as remembering login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide users with a more personal experience and to avoid users having to re-enter their preferences every time they use the website.
- Tracking and Performance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Third-Parties
Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the website and how users use the website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify a user as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device used to access the website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the website to see how our users react to them.
Use, Processing, and Disclosure of Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our website, including to monitor the usage of our website.
- To contact user: To contact users 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 contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- To manage user requests: To attend and manage user requests to us.
- For other purposes: We may use user information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our website, products, services, marketing and the user’s experience.
We may share or disclose personal information in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: We may share a user’s personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our services, for payment processing, or to contact users.
- For business transfers: We may share or transfer users’ 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 users’ information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
- With business partners: We may share users’ information with our business partners to offer certain products, services or promotions.
- With other users: when users share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
In addition, we may also use, process or disclose a users’ Personal Data under the following conditions:
- Consent: When a user has given their consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific purposes.
- Performance of a contract: When the use or sharing of a users’ Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the user and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
- Legal obligations: When the disclosure or processing of a user’s Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.
- Vital interests: When processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect users ’vital interests, or the vital interests of another natural person.
- Public interests: When processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Company.
Retention of Personal Data
The Company will retain Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain user 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 services, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Personal Data
User information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’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 a user’s province, state, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from their jurisdiction.
A user’s consent to this Privacy Policy followed by their submission of such information represents their agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that user data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Personal Data will take place to any other organization or country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of user data and other personal information.
Security of Personal Data
The security of Personal Data is important to the Company. However, no method of transmission over the internet, nor any method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. We commit to protecting users’ personal data, and shall employ any reasonable measures to do so, but we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. When users click this link, they will be directed to a third party’s site. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Updates to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time, through this page.
This privacy policy was last updated on 2024 March 06.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, feel free to send us a message through our contact form below.