TABLE OF CONTENTS
A. INFORMATION PROVIDED BY YOU
B. INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM THIRD PARTIES
C. INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY
Welcome to Greelance Inc. Website/Application/Job Platform. Greelance Inc. (“Greelance Inc.”, “we”, “us”, and/or “our”) operates this Website/Application/Job Platform to provide our Users (“you” and “your”) with information about Greelance Inc. and its Platform.
Greelance Inc. is used by Clients, Freelancers or Agencies. The word “Freelancer” is being used in general terms as it means in the English Dictionary which means an individual doing particular pieces of work for different organizations, rather than working all the time for a single organization.
Freelancers/Agencies offer their services to Clients that need their services in this process, we receive the personal information/data from Freelancers/Agencies and Clients. The Personal data that we receive from the Freelancers/Agencies/Clients and how we handle it is explained below.
This Privacy Policy describes our policy guide and procedures regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information when you use the Services. Including the explanation of your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
We use your Personal data/information to provide and improve the Services provided to you. By using the Services of Greelance Inc., you agree to the collection and usage of information as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
A. INFORMATION PROVIDED BY YOU;
While using our Services as a Freelancer, Client, or Agency, you may provide us with specific personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. The personal information may include, but is not limited to the following:
In addition to the above, we may record your chat, video/ phone calls done at the Greelance Inc. Platform among Clients, Freelancers and Agencies.
When you use our Services, we will collect the information that you share with us. We will use the Personal Data of the Freelancer/Agency to enable them to create a profile that will get displayed within the services, this profile is searchable and may be viewed by Clients seeking Freelancers.
The data collected from Clients is also displayed at the site where they post their jobs. Agencies may also provide us with information about Freelancers associated with them.
You do not have a statutory obligation to provide us with your personal information, but due to your contractual obligation, you may have to provide us the same and if you do not provide us with your information, then we will not be able to provide our Services to you.
B. INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM THIRD PARTIES;
Some third parties may also give us information about you. If you interact with a third-party service when using our Services, or if you share content from our Services through such third party service, the applicable third party service will send us your certain Personal Data (specifically first name, ID, token, and profile picture URL) if the third party service and the setting of your account allow such sharing.
Specifically, this Personal Data allows us to create, manage User-profiles and sync your progress when you connect to a third party application through the Services. The Personal Data which we receive will depend on the policies and the settings of your account with the applicable third-party service. We process this Personal Data/information on the basis of our legitimate interest of personalizing the business and optimizing the Services to improve the User’s experience.
We receive information from some of our service providers about you to help us with the marketing or promotional services related to how you interact with our websites, applications, products, services, advertisements, or communications. We process this Personal Data based on our genuine business interest in providing direct marketing about our products and services.
We may supplement the information that we collected from you with additional information about you. We will treat that combined information as described in this Privacy Policy.
C. INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY;
When you interact with Greelance Inc. through the Site or Services, certain information we collect automatically. We use these technologies to analyze how people use the Service, improve how our Site functions and save your log-in information for further future sessions.
Greelance and our third party service providers (analytics and third party content providers) may automatically collect some information from you whenever you use or interact with the Service. We may combine the log information collected automatically and other information we collect about you. We do this to improve the Services which we offer you, and also to improve the marketing, analytics, and functionality of the Site.
This information may be about the browser and operating system you are using, the URL or advertisement which referred you to the Service, the search terms you entered into a search engine that took you to the Service, areas that you visited within the Service, which links you clicked on and checked, which pages or material you viewed and for how much time, other similar information and data on your interactions, such as content response time, download issues, length of visits to some of the pages and widely shared information when browsers communicate with websites.
When you access our Services, we also collect the information about the Internet Protocol (“IP”) address or other unique device identifiers for any device which may be a computer, mobile phone, or laptop which is used to access our Services. A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned or connected to the device which you use to access the Service, and your device is identified by our servers by its Device Identifier.
Some mobile service providers may also provide us or our third-party service providers the information about the physical location of the device used to access the Service.
Greelance Inc. uses cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movement around the website, and collect demographic information about the user base of our Site as a whole. The following technologies may be used to automatically collect information from Greelance Inc.Users:
COOKIES: Like many websites, we and our marketing partners, affiliates, analytics, and service providers use “Cookies” to track the activity on our service and collect certain information.
A Cookie is a small file that is downloaded to your computer and allows our Site to work properly. Cookies will help us to identify your device and also secure your access to the Site. Cookies also allow the Site to remember the information about your browsing on the Site for a while and to recognize you the next time when you visit the Site.
All the information enables us to provide you with a more comfortable Site experience and to make the Site even more user-friendly. Each time you visit our Site, the long-term i.e. persistent cookies may be created, which stay in your browser even after you sign-up and they will be read by us when you return to our Site again and would not be destroyed once you have finished browsing our Site, and session cookies, which are short-term cookies, which expire or are deleted after you finish browsing our Site or they last during the current visit to our Site only.
Many web browsers have been set so that they could automatically accept all cookies. You can refuse or make a preference on cookies in our Cookie Consent Banner which you allow by choosing them. Further, all the cookies will be accepted if you accept them all by clicking “Accept All” on our Cookie Consent Banner.
Visitors can, at their discretion manage, block or delete cookies if the settings of their browser allow them to do so. If you refuse or block cookies or other same technologies, some functions of the Site may not operate properly or be inaccessible to you. We would like to draw your attention that some cookies are necessary cookies and are critical for the functioning of our Site, and on your objections, some features of the Site may not at all work or not work properly.
You can request us to delete all the data about you which has been collected and processed with the help of the cookies, by contacting us at our email address compliance@greelance.com. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit Greelance Inc. Site.
WEB BEACONS: A Web Beacon is made up of a clear file, usually a 1×1 pixel, that can track Users similar to a cookie. A web beacon is a technique that is used on web pages and emails to unobtrusively check that a User has seen or accessed some content. It is used to help the owner of the website to track the journey of the User who is navigating through the website or through a series of websites. They can be sent through a web browser or in an email.
Beacons can be used with cookies to understand the User, their behavior, and their interaction with the content on the website.
Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons or tracking tags to count Users who have visited those pages or accessed the email and statistics of other related websites (for example, collecting the information about the popularity of a particular section, verifying the system and server integrity).
EMBEDDED SCRIPTS: We and our marketing partners, affiliates, analytics, and service providers may also use software technology known as Embedded Script. It is a programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Service, such as the links you click on. This programming code is temporarily downloaded onto your computer or other devices such as a mobile phone or laptop and when you disconnect from the Service, it is deactivated or deleted.
We may use a variety of other technologies that can collect similar information for security and fraud detection purposes and we may also use third parties to perform these services on our behalf.
We may use the data/information we obtain about you to :
We may share your personal data/information in the following situations:
When an account is terminated, Personal Data/Information collected will be deleted according to the requirements of applicable law.
Greelance Inc. will keep your Personal Data/information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will keep and use your Personal Data to the extent required to comply with as per applicable laws, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
Greelance Inc. will also keep Personal Data for internal analysis purposes. Personal Data is generally kept for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen or improve the security and functionality of our Service, or we are legally bound to keep this data for longer periods.
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Greelance Inc.’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. This means that your personal data/information may be transferred and maintained on computers, that are located outside of your state/province or country, or other governmental jurisdiction whose data protection laws may be different than those from your state/province/country.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer of personal data/information.
The Greelance Inc. will take all reasonable steps necessary to ensure that your data is treated safely, securely and according to 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 safety and security of your data and other personal information.
If the Greelance Inc. is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your Personal Data/information may be transferred. However, we will provide notice before your Personal Data/information is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Under certain circumstances or conditions, the Greelance Inc. may be required to disclose your Personal Data/information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
The Greelance Inc. may disclose your Personal Data/information in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
The security of your Personal Data/information is important to us, but please remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure/safe. While we try to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data/information, however, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
The Service Providers may have access to your Personal Data/Information. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer data/information about your activity on our Services in accordance with their Privacy Policies.
We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and do the analysis of the use of our Services.
We may use your Personal Data/Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you. You may, if you wish, opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.
We may provide paid products, tokens and/or services within the Greelance Inc. Service Platform. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).
We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
We may process your Personal Data/Information under the following conditions :
In any case, the Greelance Inc. will happily help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular, whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory requirement or contractual requirement, or a requirement that is necessary to enter into a contract.
Our Services do not address anyone who is under the age of 18. We are very sensitive about children’s information and Our Users must be at least eighteen (18) years of age to use our Services.
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from Children under the age of 18. If you are a parent or a guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data/Information, please email us at compliance@greelance.com. We will delete/erase such Personal Information from our files within a commercially reasonable time, but no later than the period required under the applicable law relating to the child’s country of residence.
NOTICE FOR THE RESIDENTS OF CALIFORNIA;
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) gives consumers more control over the personal information that the businesses collect about them and the CCPA regulations provide guidance on how to implement the law. Privacy rights for California consumers are as under :
If you are a resident of California and you have questions or queries about our practices with respect to sharing information with third parties, please contact us using the contact information below. You must write “Your California Privacy Rights” in the subject of your email or in your letter. We will send a reply to you at your mailing address or your email address.
You can also designate/depute an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. However, to do so, you must provide us with the authority letter or a power of attorney, duly signed by you, for the agent who shall act on your behalf.
Some information may be exempt from such types of requests under applicable law. If you will ask us to delete it, you will not be able to access or use the Service. Further, we state that CCPA sets forth certain obligations for businesses that “sell” personal information. We wish to state that we do not sell the personal information of our Freelancers, Clients, or Agencies.
NOTICE FOR NEVADA RESIDENTS;
The Nevada law allows the persons to opt-out of the sale of certain personal information (called “covered information”) to the third parties. This includes information viz. name, address, social security number, and online service activity by an individual. Greelance Inc. does not sell this information to third parties, thus no opt-out is required.
A person can sign up anytime to be notified if Greelance Inc. decides to sell this information in the future by submitting their name and email address to compliance@greelance.com . We will contact these persons if our plans change, and at that time these persons can complete their opt-out. They should keep us updated with their email address since that will be our only method to notify them.
You are entitled (under the conditions, and subject to the exceptions, set out in applicable/governing law) to: Request for Access to the personal information we process about you. You can do this by contacting us at our compliance team at compliance@greelance.com . We will provide you with a copy of the data we process about you.
Upon receipt of your request and comply with it, we may ask you to verify your identity with us. We will perform as per your request and send your copy electronically. In case you send us subsequent access requests, we will charge you an administrative fee.
Request a rectification/correction of your personal data: If you believe that the information we have collected is incorrect or incomplete, you may contact us so that we can update it and keep your data accurate. Objection to the processing of your personal data: In case you have any objection, you may request that we no longer process your personal data.
Request to delete your personal data: you may request the deletion of your personal data, including where such personal data would no longer be essential to achieve the purposes for which it was collected. To delete/erase information about you, you may contact us at compliance@greelance.com .
Request for the restriction of the processing of your personal data: you may also request that Greelance Inc. processes your personal data in limited circumstances only and that too with your consent.
Our Services may contain links to other websites which are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link or links, you will be directed to the site of the third party. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site that you visit.
We neither have control over the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services nor do we assume any responsibility for the same.
The profile that you create on our Site will be publicly accessible unless otherwise indicated. You may change or modify the privacy settings of your profile through your account portal.
Phishing websites imitate or copy legitimate websites in order to obtain the personal or financial information of the users.
If you believe you have received an email or had a similar interaction with a third party pretending to be Greelance Inc. please report the same to us at compliance@greelance.com. For more information about phishing, please visit the website of the Federal Trade Commission at http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0003-phishing.
We may update or make changes to our Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy, we will provide notice to you. We will bring to your notice any changes made in the Privacy Policy by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know either through an email or will place the same at a prominent place on our Site, before the change becomes effective and shall update the date at the top page of this Privacy Policy.
You are hereby advised to review this Privacy Policy from time to time for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy shall take effect when they are posted by us on this page.
If you have any queries or questions about this Privacy Policy, you can please contact us: