PRIVACY POLICY

 

This Overall Privacy Statement discloses the privacy practices for the entire Adeeb Online portal including Mobile Applications and Web Site. Privacy policy explains how we treat your personal data and protect your privacy when you use our Services. You are requested to kindly go through it carefully. By using our Services, you agree that we can collect, retain and use such data in accordance with our privacy policy.

 

1.      GENERAL

1.1.   We Yellow Stone Technologies E-Commerce LTD. process your personal data when you use our product "Adeeb Online" or website www.adeeb-online.com .

1.2.   In this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") we want to provide you with information about us, the nature, scope and purposes of the data collection and use, giving you insights into the processing of your personal data.

 

2.      CONTROLLER

2.1.   The controller of data processing is Yellow Stone Technologies E-Commerce LTD. Should you have any questions regarding the processing of your personal data, please do not hesitate to contact at contact-center@adeebonline.com .

 

3.      WHICH DATA WE COLLECT AND PROCESS

3.1.   In General, Yellow Stone Technologies E-Commerce LTD. processes personal data that you as a user of the Product make available to us, for example by using our Product, and that others provide to us ("Data").

3.2.   Data You Provide to Us includes but not limited to the following:

3.2.1.    Registration information - both mandatory as well as optional information - including but not limited to email address, phone number, first and last name, gender, birthdate.

3.2.2.    Friends you have under your profile, the friend requests you have sent and received, and the books that you have recommended to other or other have recommended to you

3.2.3.    Books you marked as favorite, the bookmarks you have placed, and the reading history for your profile

3.2.4.    Books you have requested

3.2.5.    Feedback you have provided

3.2.6.    Payment and Subscription Information: We use payment providers (e.g. Apple, Google) to process payments. Although we do not store any credit card information ourselves, we store a payment ID number that is given out by the respective provider and can be allocated to a person by that payment provider, as well as duration of your subscription, price, currency, VAT (based on country info), and payment provider.

3.2.7.    Phone Book Contact List: If you explicitly allow us to access your phone book, we will compare the email addresses of your contacts with email addresses from registered users of "Adeeb Online" and send you a list with friend suggestions. We do not store this information in any way.

 

3.3.   Data from Others:

3.3.1.    Registration via Facebook or Google: If you register an account with "Adeeb Online" via social login, we will receive the following information:

3.3.2.    Facebook Inc. (1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA, "Facebook"): First and last name, email address, gender, birthdate, profile picture;

3.3.3.    Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, "Google"): First and last name, email address, gender, birthdate; and profile picture.

3.3.4.    Facebook Friend List: We will receive information about your friends on Facebook if you explicitly allow us to access it. We will use this information to make friend suggestions in the Product, but do not store it.

 

4.      COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

4.1.   What Are Cookies. The Website uses 'cookies' – small text files that are placed on your computer, mobile device and/or stored by the browser. The basis for the processing of Data via cookies are our legitimate interests.

4.2.  Note that Cookies are only applicable when the Web Interface of "Adeeb Online" mobile App will be available. Accordingly a separate "Cookies Policy" will be made available for our Web Site users.

4.3.   Plug-Ins: The Yellow Stone Technologies Product includes social media plug-ins, such as (i) Facebook; (ii) Google +, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043. Such plug-ins can recognize a user’s IP address and the page visited on "Adeeb Online" platform and, possibly, store cookies, so that the services offered by Yellow Stone Technologies work properly. Some Apps may use functions of third parties (e.g. Facebook) through the third party’s SDK (Software Development Kit), which may process general device data (e.g. device ID, etc.). Social media plug-ins and widgets are hosted either by third-party providers or directly by us. Your interactions with these plugins are subject to this Privacy Policy or the privacy policy of any third party that offers such feature. The basis for the processing of Data via plug-ins are our legitimate interests.

4.4.  YELLOW STONE TECHNOLOGIES E-COMMERCE LTD. IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE USE OF, OR GUIDELINES REGARDING THE USE OF, PERSONAL DATA BY THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS.

4.5.  Users may recognize the respective plug-ins of third parties, e.g. by the respective logo or other characteristics typical for the respective social media platform on our Website. You can find an overview of Facebook plug-ins at http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/ . You can find an overview of Google+ plug-ins at https://developers.google.com/+/web/ .

4.6.   If a user interacts with the plug-ins, e.g. by clicking on the Facebook "Like" button or entering a comment, while being logged in to said user's Social Media account on Facebook or Google+, a user links the contents of the Yellow Stone Technologies Website to his/her respective social media profile. Thereby, Facebook/Google+ can associate a user's visit or use of the Products with said user's social media account. Yellow Stone Technologies, as the provider of the Products, does not have any knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its usage by Facebook or Google+. Users can find more information on the issue of data transmission in the privacy policy of the respective social media platform:

4.6.1.      Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/

4.6.2.      Google+: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/

4.7.   If users do not want to have the respective social media platform associate their visits to our Website with their social media account, users must log out from their social media account.

4.8.   Do Not Track Signals: The Product does not recognize or respond to browser-initiated Do Not Track signals. To learn more about Do Not Track signals, you can visit https://allaboutdnt.com .

 

5.      DEVICE AND LOCATION INFORMATION

5.1.   When you download and use our application "Adeeb Online", we receive following information from device.

5.2.   Web browser (including language and version of the browser software) and add-ons.

5.3.   Device identifier, to send push notifications to registered users.

6.      WHY WE PROCESS DATA ("PURPOSES")

6.1.   Operating the Product: We process your Data to be able to provide you with a seamless user experience when using the Product.

6.2.   Providing Services: To operate the Product and provide the services, including but not limited to authenticate your access to an account

6.3.   Customer Support. To investigate, respond to your requests, and resolve complaints and service issues, e.g. to contact you about a question you submitted to our customer service team

6.4.   Performance: We process Data to monitor, analyze and improve the use of our Product, as well as protect the security or integrity of the Product, and their performance and functionality. For example, we analyze user behavior and perform research about the way you use our Product.

6.5.   Research and Development: We process Data, including public feedback, to conduct research for the further development of our Product, in order to provide you and others with a better, more intuitive and personalized experience, and drive user growth and engagement in our Product.

6.6.   Compliance: We process your Data to comply with our obligations and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

6.7.   Enforcement: We process your Data, if we think it's necessary for security purposes or to investigate possible fraud or other violations of our Terms & Conditions or this Privacy Policy and/or attempts to harm our members or visitors.

6.8.   Advertising: We target and measure the performance of ads to registered users and visitors directly or through a third-party software using your data

7.      SHARING OF PERSONAL DATA

7.1.   We share Data with third parties if this is necessary, for the Purposes, due to a request from a national authority, due to a court ruling, if required by law, if necessary to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, to exercise or protect the rights and safety of Yellow Stone Technologies, our members, personnel, or if you have (explicitly) consented beforehand.

7.2.   We attempt to notify you about legal demands for your Data when we think it is appropriate, unless prohibited by law or court order, or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe that the requests are overbroad, vague or lack proper authority.

7.3.   Your profile may fully be visible to your friends on "Adeeb Online" by default. This means, as soon as you add friends, those people will be able to see your profile and other details.

7.4.   Service Providers: We may share your information to others, who help us provide and improve our Product (e.g. maintenance, analysis, audit, payments, fraud detection, marketing and development). Service providers will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf, and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes.

 

8.      HOW LONG WE STORE DATA

8.1.   Storage Period: We store your Data as long as you are a registered user of the Product. Beyond that, we only store Data, if it is legally necessary (because of warranty, limitation or retention periods) or otherwise required.

8.2.   Account Deletion: In the case that users want to request their account and associated data deletion, they can send us a formal request at our customer service email address (i.e. customer-service@adeebonline.com).

 

9.      FURTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

9.1.   Legal Bases: Data protection laws regulate that we are only allowed to collect and process your Data, if we have lawful bases for processing.

9.2.   Our legitimate interests include protecting you, Yellow Stone Technologies, or others from security threats or fraud, complying with all applicable laws, managing and improving our business (e.g. customer service, reporting) including possible corporate transactions.

9.3.   Security Measures: We are committed to protecting your Data and implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect it against any unauthorized or unlawful processing and against any accidental loss, destruction, or damage. Those security measures are constantly revised to comply with the latest technological developments.

9.4.   Right to Rectification: You have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate Data concerning you from us. In case the Data processed by us is not correct, we will rectify these without undue delay and inform you of this rectification. Please note that (i) you can rectify much of your information in the settings and (ii) it is not technically possible for us to rectify all kinds of data in our Product.

9.5.   Right to Erasure: You have the right to delete Data we store about you. Should you decide to do so, please contact us via the Email Address mentioned in clause 9.1 above. As a safety measure, we will send you an email in order for you to confirm this deletion. We will delete your Data after this confirmation. Please note that your phone may still have Data stored on it after deletion of your account.

9.6.   Right to Restriction of Processing: You have the right to obtain a restriction of processing of your Data from us in the following cases: you make an inquiry pursuant para. 9.4, if you so request; you are of the opinion that the processing of your Data is unlawful, but are opposed to an erasure of Data; you still require the Data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; or you have objected to the processing pursuant para. 9.8.

9.7.   Right to Data Portability: You have the right to (i) receive a copy of your Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and (ii) transmit those Data to another controller without hindrance from us.

9.8.   Right to Object: You have the right to object at any time to the processing of Data for which our legitimate interests are the legal basis, including profiling based on those provisions. You also have the right to object to processing of Data for direct marketing purposes.

9.9.   Right to File a Complaint: You have the right to file a complaint with your local supervisory authority, if you think that the processing of Data infringes applicable law.

 

10.   FURTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

10.1.   Legal Bases: Data protection laws regulate that we are only allowed to collect and process your Data, if we have lawful bases for processing. The lawfulness of processing of Data stems from: your (explicit) consent in cases where you have given (explicit) consent to the processing; the necessity for the performance of your user contract, e.g. where Data is needed for a satisfactory use of the Product; or legitimate interests pursued by Yellow Stone Technologies or a third party, e.g. our use of cookies, plug-ins, or targeted advertising.

10.2.   Our legitimate interests include protecting you, Yellow Stone Technologies, or others from security threats or fraud, complying with all applicable laws, managing and improving our business (e.g. customer service, reporting) including possible corporate transactions (e.g. M&A)

10.3.   Security Measures: We are committed to protecting your Data and implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect it against any unauthorized or unlawful processing and against any accidental loss, destruction, or damage. Those security measures are constantly revised to comply with the latest technological developments.

 

11.   CONTACT US

11.1.   Please contact us for any questions you might have with regards to our Privacy Policy at contact-center@adeebonline.com .

 

 

 


COOKIES POLICY

 

Yellow Stone Technologies E-Commerce Limited will publish its Cookies Policy once the Web Interface of our digital library application "Adeeb Online" will be available to use by our registered users and visitors.