Privacy Policy

Last updated 29th, January 2024

 

INTRODUCTION

Casward ("we" or "us" or "our") respects the privacy of our users ("user" or "you"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected (collectively, the "Site"). Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the "Last Updated" date of this Privacy Policy. Any changes or modifications will be effective immediately upon posting the updated Privacy Policy on the Site, and you waive the right to receive specific notice of each such change or modification.

You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates. You will be deemed to have been made aware of, will be subject to, and will be deemed to have accepted the changes in any revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of the Site after the date such revised Privacy Policy is posted.

 

COLLECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

 

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:

 

Personal data

Personally, identifiable information, such as your name, username, email address, telephone number, and demographic information. You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information of any kind, however your refusal to do so may prevent you from using certain features of the Site.

 

Derivative data

Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site.

 

Data from Google login

User information from Google including your name, your social network username, location, gender, birth date, email address, profile picture, and public data for contacts, if you connect your account to Google login.

 

Mobile device data

Device information, such as your mobile device ID, model, and manufacturer, and information about the location of your device, if you access the Site from a mobile device.

 

Technical functions

Only if further functions of the Casward app are to used in addition to basic functions, the following access is requested:

• Camera Access

The app requests access to your device’s camera for security purposes. To ensure that users do not create multiple accounts or use bots. We ask users to create an original face using the selfie functionality. This is facilitated through technology provided by OZforensics which help to verify the authenticity of accounts.

 

Data from contests, giveaways, and surveys

Personal and other information you may provide when entering contests or giveaways and/or responding to surveys.

 

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

Having accurate information about you permit us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:

1. Create and manage your account.
2. Assist law enforcement and respond to call.
3. Compile anonymous statistical data and analysis for use internally or with third parties.
4. Deliver targeted advertising, coupons, newsletters, and other information regarding promotions and the Site to you.
5. Enable user-to-user communications.
6. Increase the efficiency and operation of the Site.
7. Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Site.
8. Notify you of updates to the Site.
9. Prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft, and protect against criminal activity.
10. Process payments.
11. Resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems.
12. Send a newsletter.
13. Solicit support for the Site

 

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:

 

By law or to protect rights

If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. This includes exchanging information with other entities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

Third-Party service providers

We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.

 

Marketing communications

With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.

 

Interactions with other users

If you interact with other users of the site, those users may see your name, profile photo, and descriptions of your activities.

 

Third-Party advertisers

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Site. These companies may use information about your visits to the Site and other websites that are contained in web cookies to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

 

Affiliates

We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.

 

Business partners

We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.

 

Other third parties

We may share your information with advertisers and investors for the purpose of conducting general business analysis. We may also share your information with such third parties for marketing purposes.

 

COOKIE POLICY

 

Cookies are small files of letters and numbers stored on your browser or device that enable the cookie owner to recognize the device when it visits websites or uses online services. The website you visit may set cookies directly, known as first-party cookies, or may trigger cookies set by other domain names, known as third-party cookies. While we may automatically use some cookies that are strictly necessary to provide the services you request or enable communications, we request your consent for all our other cookie uses.

 

We may use the following types of cookies:

1. Strictly necessary cookies. Our website requires the use of these cookies to properly operate or provide necessary functions relating to the services you request. They include, for example, cookies enabling you to securely log into our website, or signing up for an account
2. Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies allow us and our third-party service providers to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us improve how our website works by, for example, ensuring that users can easily find what they need on our website. These cookies generate aggregate statistics that are not associated with an individualized profile.
3. Functionality cookies. These cookies enable helpful but non-essential website functions that improve your website experience. By recognizing you when you return to our website, they may, for example, allow us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, or remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
4. Advertising, tracking, or targeting cookies. These cookies enable different advertising related functions. They may allow us to record information about your visit to our website, such as pages visited, links followed, and videos viewed so we can make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests.
5. Third-party cookies. Our website may contain helpful but non-essential features or plug-ins enabling third party services that use cookies, such as social network connectors, maps, advertising networks, or web traffic analysis services. These cookies may enable visitor identification across websites and over time. We do not control the third party's use of those cookies, their duration, or their ability to share information with other third parties.

Cross-Border Data Transfers

The cookies we use may process, store, or transfer personal data in and to a country outside your own, with privacy laws that provide different, possibly lower, protections. You consent to this transfer, storing, or processing when you consent to our cookie use.

 

SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.

 

GDPR FOR EUROPEAN RESIDENTS

This GDPR Policy shall apply to the gathering, storing, using, and disclosing of personal information if you, your business, or your employer are situated in any of the nations that make up the European Union, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland (collectively, the "EEA"). If this GDPR Policy and our Privacy Policy conflict while this GDPR Policy applies to you, this GDPR Policy shall take precedence only to the degree necessary to resolve the disagreement.

In this GDPR Policy, the term "Personal Data" shall have the meaning ascribed to it by the GDPR. Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, on the protection of natural persons regarding the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (the "GDPR"), may apply to our collection of "Personal Data" from EEA citizens.

 

Consent

By using the Services, you agree that your Personal Data is processed in accordance with the following legal bases: your consent, our legitimate interests, and the performance of our contractual obligations to you (including, without limitation, the processing of sale and purchase transactions involving your account and the fulfillment of your requests), as well as the need to comply with the law (including, without limitation, domestic and international import/export laws and regulations).

 

Your rights regarding your personal data

Since the GDPR applies to your personal information, you have certain rights, which may include, as appropriate, the right to request that we delete your personal information, to restrict or object to our use of it, and certain rights to get a portable copy of it. For additional information on how to use such rights, send us an email at [email protected]

 

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

Every person who is in the state of California for a reason other than transient or transitory, as well as every person residing in the state of California who is traveling outside the state for a similar reason, are considered residents according to the California Code of Regulations.

The term "non-residents" refers to all other people. If you fall within this category of resident, we are required to uphold certain rights and duties regarding your personal information. You have the following rights, to the extent that they apply to you. On behalf of third parties and/or business partners, the Company also manages some personal data. To exercise any rights, you might have over the personal information; you should get in touch with these third parties and/or partners.

Residents of California can contact the Company to exercise the rights described below with respect to certain personal information that the Company holds about them, in accordance with the California Consumer Protection Act of 2018 ("CCPA"), and subject to certain exceptions and restrictions.

 

Right to withdraw consent

You have the right to access, request that we correct, or erase your personal data from our system, as well as the right to withdraw your permission at any time. By sending a written request to us, you can exercise this privilege.

 

CHILDREN POLICY

We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If you become aware of any data, we have collected from children under age 13, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

 

 

REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION

 

Account Information

You may at any time review or change the information in your account or terminate your account by:

• Logging into your account settings and updating your account
• Contacting us using the contact information provided below

Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use and/or comply with legal requirements.

 

CONTACT US

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected]