PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: April 11, 2021

Our Privacy Commitment

DoUTip (“Company,” “us” or “we”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. 

Applicability of Privacy Policy

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from your or that you may provide when you visit our Website or use our mobile application and/or service, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect (i) on our website at [insert] (“Website”), (ii) through our mobile application and Service , (iii) in e-mail, text and other electronic or offline communication between you and us.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using our mobile application, services or Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy ). Your continued use of our mobile application, services or Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 18

Our mobile application, service and Website are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on our mobile application, services or Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information to or using our mobile application, services or Website or on or through any of their features or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at privacy@doutip.com.

Information We Collect

When you visit our Website or use one of our mobile applications or other service, we collect your IP address, and standard web log information, such as your browser type and the pages you accessed on our website. We also may collect Geolocation Information (defined below). If you do not agree to our collection of this information, you may not be able to use our service.


If you open a DoUTip account, we collect the following information from you:

• Account Information.  Text-enabled cellular/wireless telephone number, machine or mobile device ID and other similar information.

• Identification Information.  Your name, street address, email address, date of birth, and SSN (or other governmental issued verification numbers).

• Device Information.  Information about you: (i) from your mobile device or computer such as your device type, machine or mobile device identification number, Geolocation Information, time zone, language setting, browser type, and IP address, and (ii) from third parties for purposes of transaction processing, identity verification, fraud detection or prevention and other similar purposes. For fraud prevention purposes, we also may link your machine ID with the machines of others who use your same payment cards.

• Social Web Information.  This information includes, without limitation, your Facebook Connect credentials and email account information. If you authorize Facebook Connect, the plug in allows us access to your email address, Facebook friends list, and public profile (including profile picture). We also allow you to import data from other social web services, including but not limited to Twitter, FourSquare, and email service providers. Social and e-mail contact information helps you connect to friends and contacts for invitation and payment transmission purposes (as well as helping us improve the Services and fight fraud). Additionally, another DoUTip user may mention you in a transaction to which you are not a party by “tagging” your username in a transaction note or comment. When you are mentioned in a transaction note or comment into which you have visibility (e.g., a public transaction, a “friends only” transaction by one of your Do UTip friends, or a comment on either such transaction), a link to your DoUTipprofile will appear in the transaction note or comment and, if your push notifications are turned on, you will receive a push notification about the mentions. You may manage certain contact preferences and notifications in your account settings.

• Financial Information.  Bank account online login information, bank account and routing numbers and credit cards linked to your DoUTip account. DoUTip does not share financial information with third party social networking services such as those listed in the prior bullet. 

How We Collect Information

We collect information directly from you when you provide it to us.  The information we collect directly from you may include personal information.

We and certain business partners and vendors may automatically collect information as you navigate through or interact with our mobile application, Service or Website through automatic data collection technologies such as Cookies, Web Beacons, [insert other], and from third parties, for example our business partners.  The information we collect automatically is [statistical data and does not] include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect directly from you. 

Certain features are only available through the use of Cookies and other automatic data collection technologies, so if you choose to disable or decline Cookies or automatic data collection technologes, you may be unable to access certain features of our Website, mobile application and/or Service.

Do Not Track: Do Not Track (“DNT”) is an optional browser setting that allows you to express your preferences regarding tracking by advertisers and other third parties.  We do not respond to DNT signals.

Cookies

Certain features of our Service, mobile application or Website may use electronically stored objects called “Cookies” to collect and store information about your use of our Service, mobile application and/or Website.

How We Use Information We Collect

Our primary purpose in collecting information is to deliver a better more personalized service.  We may use information we collect to:

• provide the services and customer support you request;

• process transactions and send notices about your transactions or your network activity;

• resolve disputes, collect fees, and troubleshoot problems;

• prevent potentially fraudulent, prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our User Agreement through the use of our risk and fraud tools which may include use of Account Information, Identification Information, Financial Information, Device Information, Social Web Information and Geolocation Information;

• create an account connection between your DoUTip account and a third-party account or platform;

• customize, personalize, measure, and improve our services and the content and layout of our website;

• send you updates about new products and services that we are offering to customers;

• compare information for accuracy and verify it with third parties;

• perform other duties as required by law; and

• if you elect to share your Geolocation Information, we will use this information to enhance the security of the Services and we may use this information to provide you with location-specific options, functionality, offers, advertising, search results, or other location-specific content. 

How We Share Personal Information

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide:

• to our subsidiaries and affiliates;

• to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;

• to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of DoUTip’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by DoUTip about our users is among the assets transferred.

• to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;

• for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and/or

• with your consent. 

We may also disclose personal information that we collect or you provide:

• to comply with an court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;

• to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes; and

• if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our customers or others.  This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purpose of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide us.  We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• Automatic Tracking Technologies.  You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent

• Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising.  We do not disclose information to third-party advertisers.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices.  Please see  California Privacy Rights  for more information.

Accessing, Correcting and Deleting Your Personal Information

You can review and change your personal information by contacting us at privacy@doutip.com.  We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. 

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information.  To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit Privacy Notice to California Residents

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. [All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions and   social security numbers will be encrypted [using SSL technology].]

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, Service and/or mobile application, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website, Service and/or mobile application. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website, mobile application or Service. 

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