PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 3 July 2018. This Privacy Policy explains how Global POS Development Limited and its related companies (collectively, “Global POS Development”, “us”, “we” or “our”) collect, use, disclose, transfer, protect, store and otherwise process your information. It also explains your rights and options around our use of your personal information and how you can exercise these choices. Scope of privacy policy

Global POS Development is committed to protecting the privacy of the individuals on Global POS Development’s websites, mobile applications, products and services, (collectively, "Services") that include a link to this Privacy Policy. For the purposes of this Policy, “Subscriber”, as the term is used here, refers to an individual or an entity that registers to use our Services. In this Privacy Policy, personal information means information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number or to one or more factors specific to his/her physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity. By registering for or using Services you acknowledge the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure and other uses of your information, as described in this Privacy Policy.

Customer Information, being personal information relating to individuals with whom our subscribers interact (such as customers of their stores). Subscribers to our Services are solely responsible for establishing policies for and ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, as well as all privacy policies, agreements or other obligations, relating to the collection of personal information in connection with the use of our Services by individuals with whom our Subscribers interact. We collect information under the direction of our subscribers, and have no direct relationship with individuals whose personal information we process in connection with the use of our Services. If you are a Subscriber providing information (including personal information) about someone else, you must have the legal ability to do so and, if necessary, inform them about how their personal information will be used (as described in this Privacy Policy). If you are an individual who interacts with a Subscriber using our Services - for instance if you’re an employee or customer of a retail store – that Subscriber is the controller of your information and you should contact them directly (e.g. - the owner or manager of the retail store) – for assistance with any requests or questions relating to your personal information.

    Your Information In using our Services, you provide us with the following information which we store securely:
  • ACCOUNT AND PROFILE INFORMATION
    Contact information such as name, email address, mailing address, phone number and country Profile information such as a username, profile photo, and job role Preferences information such as notification and marketing preferences
  • OPERATIONAL DATA
    We also store information you upload to or send through our Services, including: Information about products and services the Subscriber sells (including inventory, pricing, sale, transaction, tax, and other data) Information about the Subscriber or the Subscriber’s business (employee, customer, and contact data)
  • OTHER SUBMISSIONS
    We ask for and collect personal information from you when you submit web forms on our websites or when you participate in any interactive features of our Services, participate in a survey, competition, promotion, activity or event, apply for a job, request customer support, download content, communicate with us via third party social media sites, or otherwise communicate with us. What other information do we collect?
  • ACCESS LOGS
    Like with most websites and services delivered over the Internet, we gather certain information and store it in log files when you interact with our websites and Services. This information includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses as well as browser type, URLs of referring/exit pages, operating system, language and location preferences, time/date stamp, search history, device identification numbers and system configuration information. Occasionally, we connect personal information to information gathered in our log files as is necessary to improve our Services. If we do this, we would treat the combined information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
  • ANALYTICS INFORMATION
    We collect analytics information when you use our Services to help us improve our products and services. We are always aiming to make Global POS Development a better experience for retailers and customers alike, and your information really helps us to do this! This analytics information consists of the function and feature of the Global POS Development Service being used, and the Subscriber's Global POS Development subdomain name (or similar), the username and IP address of the individual who is using the function or feature (which will include any personal information incorporated into the username), and other information needed to detail the operation of the function and the parts of the Services that are being affected.
  • ANALYTICS INFORMATION DERIVED FROM OPERATIONAL DATA
    Analytics information also consists of data we collect as a result of running queries against Operational Data across our user base for the purposes of generating Usage Data. "Usage Data" is aggregated data about a category or group of features, services, or users that is not of itself personal information. It is also data about our Subscribers and their business. We may incidentally come across sensitive or personal information when we compile Usage Data.
  • COOKIES, WEB BEACONS AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
    Cookies, web beacons and other technologies are used by Global POS Development and our third party partners (for example, our advertising and analytics partners) to collect information. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your hard drive or in device memory for record keeping purposes. We use cookies to give you a better and more personalized use of the Services, to save you logging in every time and to count the number of visits. Global POS Development and our third party partners also collect information using web beacons. Web beacons are objects embedded in our Services or in emails that assist us to check that Content has been accessed for web analytics. You may be able to opt out of receiving personalized advertisements as described below under How you can protect Your information.
  • INFORMATION FROM THIRD PARTY SERVICES
    We may also receive personal information from third parties such as social media, data enrichment or authentication services when, for example, you sign up to our Services, fill in forms on our Services or log onto our Services through such services. Any access we may have to such information is governed by the authorization procedures of that service. By authorizing us to connect with a third party service, you authorize us to access and store your name, email address(es), locale, profile picture URL, and other personal information that the third party service makes available to us, and to use and disclose it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Check your privacy settings on these third party services to learn and modify the information these services send to us.
    How Global POS Development uses your information
    We are continually striving to improve Global POS Development. Being able to identify how retailers are using our product plays a big part in helping us to make our software better. We may use information about you for purposes such as:
    Enabling you to access and use our Services
    Displaying historical sale information
    Sending you marketing, advertising, educational content and promotional messages and other information that may be of interest to you, including information about us, our Services, or general promotions for business partner campaigns and services. You can unsubscribe or opt-out from receiving these communications described below under "How You Can Protect Your Information"
    To administer referral programs, rewards, surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or other promotional activities or events sponsored or managed by us or our business partners In the case of retail stores, to share the name of the retail store with potential customers to encourage them to use our Services
    Measuring, customizing and improving the Services and developing new products
    Sending to you service, support and administrative messages, reminders, technical notices, updates, security alerts and information requested by you Investigating and preventing fraudulent transactions, unauthorized access to Services, and other illegal activities
    Where we need your personal information for any other purposes, it will be obvious from the circumstances as to the purposes for which we require that personal information from you. Sharing & disclosure of your information When you use the Services, we may share your information only as described below:
  • GLOBAL POS DEVELOPMENT BLOGS, FORUMS AND WIKIS Our websites offer publicly accessible community services such as blogs, forums, and wikis. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. Your posts may remain even after you cancel your account. To request removal of your personal information from a Global POS Development community service, please contact us using the information listed below. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to and why.
  • SERVICE PROVIDERS, BUSINESS PARTNERS AND OTHERS We use and work with third party service providers and our trusted Business Partners to provide application development, hosting, website, infrastructure, maintenance, backup, payment processing, customer relationship management, marketing, accounting, human resources, business intelligence and analytics, data enrichment, customer support and other services for us. These service providers may have access to or process your information for the purpose of providing those services for us. Some of our pages use white-labelling techniques to serve content from our service providers while providing the look and feel of our site. Please note that you are providing your information to these third parties acting on behalf of Global POS Development. These third parties are located in countries which may be outside of your location. We also share your contact information with select trusted Business Partners, such as our partners who integrate with Global POS Development services, to enable them to contact you about their services (as they relate to your Global POS Development Services). We also obtain contact information from select Business Partners to better understand your preferences and to deliver you more personalised marketing.
  • THIRD PARTIES YOU AUTHORISE You can give third parties access to your and your end users’ information on the Services. For example, you may wish to integrate Global POS Development with a third party appointment scheduling service that requires access to the email addresses you collect from your end users, in order for that appointment service to send reminder emails on your behalf and at your direction. Just be aware that such third party’s use of this information will be governed by the terms and privacy policies of the third party.
  • LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES Our Services may contain links to other sites. We have no control over, and take no responsibility for, the privacy practices or content on other sites. You are responsible for checking the privacy policy of any such sites so that you can be informed of how they handle personal information.
  • SOCIAL MEDIA WIDGETS Our Services may include social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button and widgets, and the “Share” button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
  • COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS AND PROTECTION OF RIGHTS In certain situations, we may be required to use and disclose your information (including personal information) to a third party if we believe the disclosure is reasonably necessary: To comply with any applicable law, legal process (for example, subpoenas and warrants) or governmental request To enforce and administer our agreements, policies and terms of use To protect the property, rights, and safety of Global POS Development, our Subscribers or the public from harm or illegal activities For fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation, customer support, product development or debugging purposes To protect the rights, property or personal safety of Global POS Development, its users or members of the public To establish or exercise our legal rights or defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations
  • NON-IDENTIFYING OR AGGREGATED DATA We may share aggregated or other non-personal information that does not directly identify you with third parties in order to improve our Services. Your Choices and Privacy Rights Updating your Personal Information via the Services: You may access, change, or correct information about you by logging into your Global POS Development account at any time or by making a request to us using the contact details below, in which case we may need to verify your identity before granting access or otherwise changing or correcting your information.
  • ACCOUNT INFORMATION AND DEACTIVATING YOUR ACCOUNT If you wish to deactivate your Global POS Development account, you may do so by logging into your Global POS Development account and following these instructions or by emailing us using the contact details provided below.
  • OPTING OUT OF PROMOTIONAL COMMUNICATIONS You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from Global POS Development by using the unsubscribe link within each email or contacting us via our home page or sales team. Even after you opt out from receiving promotional messages from us, you will continue to receive transactional messages from us regarding Services (e.g., account verification, purchase and billing confirmations and reminders, technical and security notices).
  • YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS California law permits residents of California to request certain details about information we disclose to third parties for direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and would like to request this information, please contact us at the address listed below.
    You can request to exercise these rights by emailing support@gposdev.com
    Children’s use of the services
    Services are not directed to individuals under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at the address listed below.
    Security
    We have adopted technical, administrative and physical procedures to collect, manage, maintain and store information in a manner designed to help protect your information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, and alteration. Unfortunately, no security system is impenetrable and due to the inherent nature of the Internet as an open global communications vehicle, we cannot guarantee that information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, will be absolutely safe from intrusion by others, such as hackers.
    Where data is transferred over the Internet as part of the Services, the data is encrypted using industry standard TLS (HTTPS).
    For more information about our security practices, please visit www.Global POS Developmenthq.com/security.
    Our global operations (including transfers of data from your home country to another) To bring you Services, we operate globally. In order to do so, your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in countries other than the country you live in, outside of your home country, including to Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and the United States. These countries may have laws different to what you’re used to. Rest assured, where we disclose personal data to a third party in another country, we put safeguards in place to ensure your personal data remains protected. Specifically, Global POS Development hosts data with Azure Stack Services in the United States. If you are a non-US resident, this means that your personal information will be transferred to the US. The servers on which personal information is stored are kept in a controlled environment.
  • Information retention Where we process your Subscriber Information, we retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (in connection with the purposes set out above. For Information about how long any of our Subscribers retain your personal information, please contact that Subscriber.
    When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
    Updates to our privacy policy
    Global POS Development reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time, and if we do we will post any changes on this page. Global POS Development will make every effort to communicate any significant changes to you directly. Your continued use of the Services will be deemed acceptance of any updated policy.

Do You Have Questions?
Thanks for reading! If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or Global POS Development’s privacy practices, please contact us at support@gposdev.com or at our mailing address below:
Global POS Development LLC
4500 Satellite Blvd. Ste #2180
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United States of America


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