Information Collected and How We Collect It
In visiting the Site and using our Services or mobile apps, there are several ways that we may collect personal information from you, whether explicitly by asking you for it first, or automatically.
First, we may ask you to provide personal information as part of providing you with the requested Services or when corresponding with you. This may include the following instances:
When you register to use the Services, we collect certain member information. This includes your business' name, email address, physical address, phone number ("Contact Information") and password created in order to be able to contact you, verify your account and allow you to log in to your account in future instances.
As part of the Services, you will also be required to add additional User Content as part of the creation of commercial Promotions to be sent to End-Users. We only regard such information as personal until it has been published or distributed by you via the Services.
The technology powering the Services collects the transaction information from your End-Users (including phone number, transaction date and time, and related Service activity) for reporting purposes. You undertake that any related collection, access, use and disclosure of such End-User information by you shall comply with all applicable foreign, federal, state, and local laws, rules and regulations. Similarly, if you are the End-User, please be aware that by subscribing to and using the various Promotions, your personal information may be collected by the relevant merchant from whom such Promotion originated, and subject to their privacy policy.
When you contact us with questions, comments or for purposes of customer/technical support, we collect the information contained in your message, which may your Contact Information and any other personal information you provide. We will also collect such information when you ask to be included in our mailing lists or express an interest in hearing more about the Services, in order to send you information in the future regarding the Services, 121Mobile partners, related services, promotions or events
We may collect your Contact Information through surveys we may conduct from time to time in respect of the Services. Participation and providing information in surveys is optional.
Second, when you download, access and use our mobile apps (the "Apps") as an End-User, we will collect the contact information you provide, such as [your name, phone number and email address], as well as any information you choose to share as part of your usage of an App. We will also collect your geographic location in order to be able to provide you with certain features of the App. This information will also be provided to third party merchants running the various Promotions that you subscribe to via the Apps. Additionally, we may also collect general behavioral user information recorded during user sessions from the App, as well as technical data and related information, including but not limited to technical information about your device, system and application software, and peripherals, that is gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, product support and other services to you (if any) related to the App. The technical information is collected aggregately, cannot be linked to a specific user in any way and is done to help us improve our products and offerings.
In addition to the above, we may collect further information from you automatically. Whenever you visit our Site, our web server automatically collects and aggregates information in respect of your visit through the use of "cookies" and otherwise. This information may include referring websites, browser type, browser language, operating system, the pages that you access, your Internet Protocol ("IP") address, and the actions you take on our site.
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