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Privacy Policy

Welcome to GoLoot! We’re happy to meet you.

At Goloot Inc. (referred to as “Goloot”, “we”, or “us”), we understand that you want transparency about your personal data. This Privacy Policy contains information about the manner in which we collect, use and disclose personal data.

Goloot develops and markets advertising solutions that connect advertising clients with websites and application owners and operators through authentic and rewarding advertising experiences. Our services allow:

  • Advertisers (brand owners and advertising agencies) to distribute advertisements such as offers, promotions, coupons, contests and sweepstakes across websites, apps, newsletters 
  • Websites, apps and newsletters (owners and operators) to monetize their properties with advertisements that compliment their user experience
  • For Goloot to conduct statistical performance analysis of advertisements that were presented to and interacted with by audiences
  • Goloot to collect personal information on their own behalf and/or the behalf of their clients in accordance to the purposes of processing stated in their consent forms or privacy polic

This Privacy Policy applies to your use of the Goloot’s advertising products (“Ad Products”), the Goloot website at www.goloot.io, (“Website”), interactions with you through our social media platforms, and other communications you may have with us from time to time (together, the “Services”). 

If you have any concerns or inquiries regarding the processing of your personal data, how our service providers (including our service providers located outside of your jurisdiction) treat your personal information, do not hesitate to reach out to us! You can e-mail our Privacy Officer at privacy@goloot.io, or you can write to us at: 

GoLoot Inc.
Privacy Officer
2285 chemin Cambridge
Mont-Royal, Quebec
H3R 2Y4, Canada

1. What do we mean by personal data?

This Privacy Policy applies to personal data that we collect, use and disclose about you in the course of providing our Services. Personal data means any information which allows us to identify you directly or indirectly, including “cookies” and other electronic data. Some information may not be personal on its own but may become personal data if associated with or if the sum of the information allows us to identify you.

2. When does this Privacy Policy not apply?

If you click through to links to third parties’ websites, applications, or services from our Services, this Privacy Policy does not apply to the processing of personal data by such external services. These linked websites and applications have separate and independent privacy policies, notices and terms of use. We do not have any control over such third parties’ websites and applications, and therefore we have no responsibility or liability for the manner in which the organizations that operate such linked websites and applications may collect, use or disclose, secure and otherwise treat personal data. It is always a good idea to read their privacy policies to understand what they do with your personal data!

For example, if you see an advertisement using our Ad Products while navigating a publisher website or application, the publisher may also collect personal data about you. When you interact with an advertisement in the form of an offer, coupon, contest or sweepstake for example, you may be redirected to the website or application of the Advertising Client offering the product, service or promotional offer. In these cases, we do not control the data collection and other privacy practices of these third parties. If you have questions about how they process your personal data, you should contact them directly.

3. What types of personal data do we collect and why?

We may collect your personal data to provide our Services, and conduct statistical performance analysis. Depending on how you use our Services and the features with which you interact, we may collect different categories of personal data. 

When visiting our Website or using our Ad Products, we will obtain your consent when needed prior to collecting, using and disclosing your personal information or as required or permitted by law. Your consent may be withdrawn at any time.

Below is a table containing the categories of personal data that we collect, along with the purpose for collection.

Category
Description
Purpose and Use

Electronic Data 

You can visit our Website or use our Ad Products without telling us who you are. However, when you visit our Website or use our Ad Products, we may collect certain information related to the device you use to access the Website or Ad Products, such as:

Internet Protocol you have used
Page requests
Browser type
Operating system
Device type
Approximate Location
Time zone information
Date and time using our Services
Links clicked from our Ad Products
Language preferences

This information is collected automatically through our Services and helps us deliver our Services and understand their usage, ensure our Services function effectively, fix bugs, ensure the security of our Services, and statistical performance analysis of the advertising presented and interacted by audiences.*

Communication

We may collect personal information about you such as an email address for our own behalf and/or the behalf of our Clients when you interact with our Ad Products and Website.

When interacting with an advertisement, you may be given the option to enter your email address or other required information. This allows us to send you a confirmation message about the advertisement (like a coupon, discount code or promotional offer) you have claimed by email or other means of communication you have provided.In other cases, certain advertisements may require your personal information such as your email address and name for example. This allows Goloot and/or its advertising or publisher clients to communicate with you for updates, promotions, or additional information.

Authentication

In certain cases, collecting your personal information may be done by the publisher through its website or application, on your behalf, when you are signed in to their services. For example, you may be authenticated to their website or application or have subscribed to their mailing list to receive newsletters.

The publisher may share your email address and a user id with us. This allows us to validate that you are the rightful user allowed to access and interact with offers that are only intended to authenticated or subscribed members of their services.

Customer Service Data

If you communicate with us (including when you subscribe to our newsletters or sign up for a demo) by email, on social media, by using the form on our Website, or by any other means, we collect the personal data that you share with us, such as:

Name
Company name
Social media profile information
Email address
Content of your message 

We collect the information you provide in order to provide you with a response to your query. We may retain this information to assist you in the future and to improve our customer service and service offerings.

Financial Information

We may collect payment information from clients such as advertisers, agencies and publishers to allow our third-party payment processor to process payments. Such information may include:

Name
Billing address
Credit card number, expiry date, CVV number

Our third-party payment processor may use your  Financial Information you provide to conduct verifications to prevent fraud, money-laundering and other bad stuff!

* Applicable laws may require that some technological functions of our Services be deactivated by default to the extent they enable us to conduct profiling, identify you and/or know your location. In such case, Goloot or its Client will request your opt-in consent to activate them

4. Who do you share my personal data with?

We do not sell or disclose your personal data to third parties without your consent, except as set forth below or as required or permitted by law.

In the table below, we provide more information on the third parties we may share your personal data with.

Category
Description

Clients

When you interact with our Ad Products and Website, we may be required to share your personal information with the publisher or the advertising clients, subject to your opt-in consent on our Website and Ad Products, and subject to applicable laws.

Advertising client : Certain advertisements in the form of an offer, promotion, coupon, contest or sweepstake for example, may ask that you provide your personal information (this can be your email address) that would be shared with such Client for it to communicate with you in regard or for additional promotion, offers or updates.

Publisher client : Certain publishers may ask that you subscribe to their services to benefit from offers and promotions on their website or platforms. For example, you may be asked to subscribe to a publisher’s newsletter by providing your email address.

Service Providers

Your personal information will be transferred (or otherwise made available) to certain third parties that provide services on our behalf. We use service providers to provide services such as hosting the Website and Services, tracking affiliate transactions and conversions, sending offers users have requested by email and processing client payments. Our service providers are only provided with the information they need to perform their designated functions and are not authorized to use or disclose personal data for their own marketing or other purposes. Our service providers may be located in the U.S., Canada or other foreign jurisdictions. Some of our service providers may transfer or store your data outside of the province in which you reside (which may include transfer outside of Quebec for Quebec residents) or outside of Canada.

Legal and Compliance

We and our Canadian, US and other foreign service providers may provide your personal information in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry, order, request, or to another organization for the purposes of investigating a breach of an agreement or contravention of law or detecting, suppressing or preventing fraud, or as otherwise may be required or permitted by applicable Canadian, U.S. or other law or legal process, which may include lawful access by US or foreign courts, law enforcement or other government authorities. Your personal information may also be disclosed where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims and to investigate or prevent actual or suspected loss or harm to persons or property. Where permitted by law, we will advise you of such access. We will only share what is strictly required.

Sale of Business

We may transfer your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any proposed or completed merger, sale of assets, financing, or acquisition (including transfers made as part of insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings) of all or a portion of our business by another entity or investors or as part of a corporate reorganization or other change in corporate control. We will only share what we are required to share for these specific purposes.

5. What cookies and other electronic data do you use and why?

Our Website and Ad Products use technologies called "cookies" and "local storage". These technologies involve tiny elements of data that our Website and Ad Products store in a user’s browser, which may then be stored on the user’s hard drive. This allows us to recognize the user’s computer or device when they return. We use cookies and local storage for our Services to function as intended, to measure the performance of the ads we serve and to ensure that our Services are secure. Cookies are also useful to identify bugs and errors.

You may set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to not accept certain cookies and/or access to local storage. However, if you decide not to accept cookies and/or access to local storage from our Services, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the features.

We collect essential and analytics information in both cookies and local storage. These are installed by us and third parties and are classified in each of these categories:

Type of information
Description

Essential

Essential cookies and electronic data are necessary to operate the core functions of our Services. These include login, session ID, language as well as security data. We are not required to obtain your consent for storing these cookies and electronic data.

Analytics

Analytics cookies and electronic data are used to conduct statistical performance analysis of our Website and our Ad Products.

On our Website, this allows us to count visits and traffic sources to measure and improve the performance of our Website.

When our Ad Products are seen and interacted with, the information about the advertisements presented to and interacted by users can be used to determine how effective an advertisement has been for you or other users and whether the advertising objectives have been achieved.

All the information collected by these cookies and electronic data is aggregated and thus anonymized.

6. Do you use Analytics?

We may use a third party such as Google Analytics on our Website to view key metrics such as how many visitors view the website, peak hours of traffic, and other information relating to the Website’s performance. These third parties may use cookies and other tracking technologies.

For more information on Google Analytics, including how to opt out from certain data collection, or to prevent the storage and processing of this data (including your IP address) by Google, you can download and install the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

You can also obtain additional information on Google Analytics’ data privacy and security at the following links:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites  
https://support.google.com/analytics/topic/2919631

7. How long do you retain my personal data?

We retain personal data for as long as necessary to provide you with the Services or as required by applicable laws, whichever is longer.

8. How do you keep my personal data secure?

We have implemented reasonable physical, technical, and administrative measures designed to secure your personal information from loss, theft, and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We store all information you provide to us behind firewalls on our secure servers that are located in the United States.

However, securing your personal information takes teamwork. You also need to do your part, such as by keeping your credentials confidential and using secure networks.

9. What are my rights regarding my personal data?

Subject to applicable law, you have the right to access, update, correct inaccuracies and withdraw consent to the processing of personal information in our custody or control. You may request access, updating and correction of inaccuracies in your personal information in our custody or control by emailing our Privacy Officer at privacy@goloot.io. We may request certain personal information for the purpose of verifying the identity of the individual seeking access to his or her personal information records.

10. Children’s privacy

We restrict the use of our Services to individuals aged 14 and above. We do not knowingly collect or retain Information from our Services from children under the age of 14. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 14, we will delete that information.

11. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage you to periodically review this page to ensure you are familiar with those changes. We will indicate at the top of this Privacy Policy when it was most recently updated. If required by applicable law, we will provide you with notice if there are any material changes made to this Privacy Policy.