Overview

This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by Bittle or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies. In addition, where more detailed information is needed to explain our privacy practices, we post supplementary privacy notices to describe how particular services process personal information.

Information we collect and how we use them

We understand that in the course of delivering our numerous products/ services to you via the internet, we will come across certain personal or classified information pertaining to you which due to the existing relationship between us, you shall be required to either fill or divulge same in order to be linked to our site. Bittle will handle the information in this manner:

Information consumers provide

When you sign up for any Bittle Service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password). For certain services, such as our payment services, we require your bank account information. We typically maintain the data in encrypted form on secure servers.

We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.

Log Information

When you access Bittle, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website.

User communications

When you send email or other communications to Bittle, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.

Other sites

This Privacy Policy applies to Bittle only. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed or linked from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you. Bittle processes personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy and/or the supplementary privacy notices for specific services. In addition to the above, such purposes include:

• Providing our services to users, including the display of customized content.
• Auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services.
• Ensuring the technical functioning of our network.
• Developing new services.

Data policy

Bittle’s Data Protection Policy refers to our commitment to treat information of employees, customers, stakeholders and other interested parties with the utmost care and confidentiality. With this policy, we ensure that we gather, store and handle data fairly, transparently and with respect towards individual rights.

Scope

This policy refers to all parties (employees, customers, suppliers, Merchants etc.) who provide any amount of information to us. Who is covered under the Data Protection Policy? Employees of our company must follow this policy. Contractors, consultants, partners and any other external entity are also covered. Generally, our policy refers to anyone we collaborate with or acts on our behalf and may need occasional access to data.

Policy elements

As part of our operations, we need to obtain and process information. This information includes any offline or online data that makes a person identifiable such as names, addresses, usernames and passwords, digital footprints, photographs, social security numbers, financial data etc. Our company collects this information in a transparent way and only with the full cooperation and knowledge of interested parties. Once this information is available to us, the following rules apply.

Our data will be:

• Accurate and kept up-to-date.
• Collected fairly and for lawful purposes only.
• Processed by the company within its legal and moral boundaries.
• Protected against any unauthorized or illegal access by internal or external parties.

Our data will not be:

• Communicated informally.
• Stored for more than a specified amount of time.
• Transferred to organizations, states or countries that do not have adequate data protection policies.
• Distributed to any party other than the ones agreed upon by the data’s owner (exempting legitimate requests from law enforcement authorities).

In addition to ways of handling the data the company has direct obligations towards people to whom the data belongs. Specifically, we must:

• Let people know which of their data is collected.
• Inform people about how we’ll process their data.
• Inform people about who has access to their information.
• Have provisions in cases of lost, corrupted or compromised data.
• Allow people to request that we modify, erase, reduce or correct data contained in our databases.

Action

To exercise data protection, we’re committed to:

• Restrict and monitor access to sensitive data.
• Develop transparent data collection procedures.
• Train employees in online privacy and security measures.
• Build secure networks to protect online data from cyberattacks.
• Establish clear procedures for reporting privacy breaches or data misuse.
• Include contract clauses or communicate statements on how we handle data.
• Establish data protection practices (document shredding, secure locks, data encryption, frequent backups, access authorization etc.)