Hikinjo manages the information that we collect from you in accordance with applicable privacy legislation. This Privacy Policy describes how Hikinjo collects, uses, shares and handles your personal data, and sets out the rights and obligations that both you and Hikinjo have in relation to your personal data. By accessing www.hikinjo.com or our mobile application (together, the "Services") you accept and agree to the Terms and Conditions of Hikinjo’s user agreement ("User Agreement"), and acknowledge that your personal data may be collected, used and disclosed in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Except for any terms that are defined in this Privacy Policy then all other defined terms shall have the same meaning as that defined in the User Agreement. Note that under Hikinjo’s Terms and Conditions, you must not provide any sort of paid services if you are under 16 years old. You can consume as many services you want but can only provide free services.
Hikinjo may, from time to time, modify this Privacy Policy (and update the web page on which it is displayed). If we materially change the ways in which Hikinjo uses or shares your personal data previously collected from you through the Services, Hikinjo will notify you through your Hikinjo account, your registered email address or other communication. You should check that account regularly.
Hikinjo collects personal information when a user pre-registers with Hikinjo. This includes your name, email address and location. If the following information is not provided, we may not be able to provide services to you and may not be able to fulfil our contractual obligations towards you.
Hikinjo collects personal data when you register with Hikinjo. This includes:
We also give you the option of providing a photo to be associated with your Hikinjo user ID. If your personal details change, it is your responsibility to update your Hikinjo account with those changes, so that we can keep our records complete, accurate and up to date.
To enable us to improve our existing services, create new service features, and provide you and others with targeted marketing communications, Hikinjo collects information about how you use the Service, including the transactions you make on the Service, your feedback rating (including any referrals required using our "Referrals" feature), the reviews you post and the transactions you make with our valuable affiliated service providers. You can apply through our application form provided by a third party service provider. If you do so, we collect the information you make available to us through your application submission, such as your resume, links to other online profiles, and other information you choose to provide.
Hikinjo may also receive and record the following information from your Internet browser and computer, including through cookies and similar technologies, when you use the Service:
Hikinjo collects personal data when you register with Hikinjo. This includes:
If you use a location-enabled Hikinjo service, if you allow us, we receive and process information about your exact location (for example, through GPS signals sent by your mobile device). We may also collect the exact location of your device when the app is running in the background o or when the app is closed. We may also use a variety of different technologies to confirm your location. When you use the Service, we also infer the general location of your device and the geographic regions to which our users are located. For example, your IP address may indicate your general geographic area.
For more information about how we use cookies and other similar tracking technologies, please see the Cookies and Similar Technologies section below.
In addition to data collected from the content you submit, we also receive data from certain third parties, such as the social media sites you connect to your account (including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and any other sites you activate from time to time) as well as from identity verification service providers.
We work with third-party verification service providers to perform police or vendor background checks, and receive publicly available information such as court decisions.
We may also receive additional information about you from third parties such as data or marketing partners and combine it with other information we have about you.
You are not anonymous to us when you log into the Service or post content (including tasks, products, offers, comments or feedback) on the Service or any related forum.
When you:
Your user ID and all the material that you post is visible and searchable to us and other Hikinjo users. We strongly encourage you to exercise caution and discretion when posting and to give careful consideration on what to post or how you identify yourself on the Service.
Hikinjo does not in any way control, and does not accept any responsibility or liability whatsoever for, the disclosure or use of personal data which is voluntarily posted by you in a publicly accessible area of the Services.
Hikinjo may use the information we collect for the following purposes:
Identification and authentication
Legal ground(s) for use: We need to make this functionality available for you to access the Service.
To protect Hikinjo and the users of the Services
Legal ground(s) for use: It is in our (and users) legitimate interests to ensure that the Services are secure.
To personalize content and any advertising displayed on the Services and permit content on the Services (such as postings, marketing or third party advertisements) to be targeted, on an aggregate basis, to the users for whom it is most likely to be relevant
Legal ground(s) for use: It is in our legitimate interest to provide you with content and advertisements tailored to your interests.
To improve the Services and develop new service features
Legal ground(s) for use: We need some of your personal data in order to provide the services to you; it is in our legitimate interests to provide you the best possible services.
Provide, maintain, and protect the Service and verify the identity of authorized users of the Service
Legal ground(s) for use: We need to perform this function in order to provide a safe and secure environment for our users and we have legitimate interests in protecting the integrity of the Services we offer.
Providing your information to a user with whom you have or had a contract facilitated by Hikinjo
Legal ground(s) for use: We need to use your personal data in this way to provide the Services you request.
As required by law, order of a court, tribunal or regulator or if Hikinjo reasonably believes that the use or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary for enforcement related activities
Legal ground(s) for use: On such occasions, we are required by law to process your personal data.
To ensure that Hikinjo receives payment of the fees due to it
Legal ground(s) for use: We need to use your personal data in this way to fulfil a contract between you and us.
Contacting you to inform you about promotions or upcoming changes or improvements to the Service
Legal ground(s) for use: We handiest touch you for advertising and marketing functions together along with your consent; we may contact you regarding changes in the Services because it is in our legitimate interests to keep you informed about service changes that may affect you. See section below for further detail about marketing.
Contact you to manage our User Agreement
Legal ground(s) for use: For example, we may notify you of a breach, or action a request for a takedown notice in response to a claim of copyright infringement.
To conduct research
Legal ground(s) for use: It is in our legitimate interests to improve the Services through user questionnaires and feedback requests via the Services.
To expand our user base, including marketing communications to be targeted to potential users
Legal ground(s) for use: It is in our legitimate interest to inform potential users about the Services we offer.
To develop our relationships with affiliate service providers and provide or arrange internal or external verification services obtained by you via the Services
Legal ground(s) for use: It is in our legitimate interests to engage service providers and verification services.
To generate data reports on an aggregated, non-personally identifiable basis, for both internal and third party use, but subject to any applicable laws (for example, we may show advertisers or investors trends relating to the general use of the Services); and
Legal ground(s) for use: It is in our legitimate interests (and the interests of our partners and affiliates) to understand how you and other users engage with the Services.
Your contact information may also be used for accounting, billing and invoicing purposes, for marketing purposes, by third-party service providers for Hikinjo, and to respond to any inquiries you request.
Legal ground(s) for use: It is in our legitimate interests to engage service providers to assist us in delivering the Services you request.
When you contact Hikinjo, we may keep a record of the communication(s) between you and Hikinjo to help resolve any issues you might have
Legal ground(s) for use: We retain information when we are required to do so by law and because it is in our legitimate interests to protect our legal rights.
If other user(s) of the Services already have your userID (or other information identifying you), and you have chosen to upload a photo or other personal data to your Hikinjo account, we may show those user(s) that personal data
Legal ground(s) for use: We display your photo to other users who have your userID only with your consent, which you supply by uploading your photo.
The Services allow you to review your experience dealing with others on the Services, who may in turn leave reviews about you. We compile these reviews to provide an aggregate rating for each user, which will publicly appear along with your profile. Please be aware that other users may rely on this rating when deciding whether to engage with you.
Profiling and data analytics
We (or our service providers on our behalf) may collate information about you and your preferences, to identify market segments and use that information for data analytics and direct marketing.
We (or our service providers on our behalf) may use your name, street address, email address, phone number, and data collected from cookies and similar technologies about how you use the Services (including tasks created and certain actions taken on the site) to conduct data analytics, including the creation of look-alike audiences. We use the results of data analytics for marketing, product and service development, and policy development.
We do not use sensitive information for data analytics.
Hikinjo uses cookies and similar tracking technologies for a number of purposes including to access your information when you sign in, keep track of your preferences, direct specific content to you, report on Hikinjo’s user base, and to improve Hikinjo’s services. We also use cookies or anonymous identifiers when you interact with our affiliate service providers (for example, when you integrate your Hikinjo’s account with your Facebook profile) and as further described below.
We use the following types of cookies and similar technologies:
We use cookies and similar technologies that are necessary for the operation of the Service. This includes technologies that allow you to access our website, our services, our mobile applications, or those necessary to identify unusual website behaviour, prevent block fraudulent activity and improve security or allow you to use our functions such as saved searches or similar functions.;
If you change the settings on your internet browser to block or restrict cookies (including cookies associated with the Services), or to indicate when a cookie is being set by Hikinjo, the Services may not work as intended. You should remember that, while you may still be able to use the Services if your cookies are disabled, the Services may not function properly on your device and you may not be able to take advantage of certain Hikinjo features.
We use cookies and similar technologies that allow us to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing or using the Services. This may include identifying you when you log in to our website, keeping you logged in while browsing, or keeping track of your interests, or previously viewed items so that we can work to improve the presentation of content on our website and mobile app.
We use cookies and similar technologies to assess the performance of the Services. We use this information to analyse and help us understand how you and other visitors use the Services so we can improve the content or layout of the Services. We also use this information to track the number of our visitors and analyse the popularity of the features we offer.
We may use first-party or third-party cookies and similar technologies to deliver content, including ads relevant to your interests. This includes using technologies to understand how useful the ads and content served to you, such as whether you clicked on an ad.
You may reject first-party advertising cookies and similar technologies through your browser settings (as described below). To learn more about the use of cookies or other technologies to deliver more relevant advertising and to control or opt out of the collection and use of the data by these third party tools, visit here.
You may set your browser or operating system to limit certain tracking or to decline cookies, but you may not be able to use certain features on the Services which require such cookies. Each browser and operating system is a little different, so please check your browser or operating system's settings or help section to learn more about how to delete or disable cookies and tracking.
If you want to prevent the use of your data by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on available here and you can manage your Google account here.
Hikinjo may disclose the information it collects from you as follows:
Your account is password protected to ensure your privacy and security. We take reasonable steps to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use and disclosure, but we cannot guarantee the absolute security of such information or the system. Our website will be completely free from being intercepted by third parties or unable to fight viruses. We cannot and do not guarantee that any information you send to us from your computer over the Internet will be protected by any form of (encryption software). Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee the security or privacy of your personal data, including payment and account details. You transmit your personal data to us at your own risk. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and/or account information.
The Services may contain links to third party websites including the networks of our valued affiliate service providers, advertisers, and PayPal, or make available services obtained from third parties, including verification services by third party verification providers. If you click on a link to any of these websites, such as the PayPal payment system, or use services obtained from third-party service providers that require you to provide personal data directly to such third parties (e.g. third-party verification providers), note, that they have their own privacy policies. If you use the Services to link to another site, or use a service obtained from a third party service provider via the Services, you will be subject to that site's or third party's terms and conditions of use, privacy policy and security statement. We strongly encourage you to view these before disclosing any of your personal data on such sites. Hikinjo does not control, and does not accept any responsibility or liability for, the privacy policy of, and use of personal data by, any party other than Hikinjo, including any user of the Services, the operators of any website to which the Services link, or third party service providers to whom you directly provide your personal data (including sensitive information if relevant) to.
The entire contents and design of the www.hikinjo.com Web Site, including all trademarks, text, images and audio and video files, is proprietary to us or our content providers and is protected by copyright laws. You may not reproduce, modify, copy, distribute, transmit, communicate, display, publish or use any material contained in the hikinjo.com web site and/or our e-newsletters without our express prior written permission or the permission of the relevant copyright owner. You may not use any of the information or content on hikinjo.com Web Site for commercial purposes or to establish, operate or maintain your own product or service offering. You acknowledge that any breach by you of this paragraph may cause damage to us which cannot adequately be remedied by damages and that if you breach or act in a way which threatens to breach this paragraph, we may seek injunctive relief against you.
Rights in Certain Countries. In the European Economic Area and certain countries, users have the right to access, edit, update, restrict processing and/ or delete the personal data that we hold about you or to receive a copy of it in a portable format by contacting us here. Where we process your personal data with your consent, you may withdraw it at any time. You also have a right to object to processing based on legitimate interests. These rights may be limited in some circumstances, for example, if:
We need to prevent information in our systems from being accidentally or maliciously destroyed. This means that, where you delete information from the Services, residual copies of that information on our active servers, as well as any corresponding information on our back-up systems, may not be immediately deleted.
If you have concerns about how we handle your personal data or require further information, please email Hikinjo using the contact form provided on the Services. Location Information. You can prevent your device from sharing precise location information at any time through your device’s operating system settings.
Do Not Track. There is no accepted standard on how to respond to Do Not Track signals, and we do not respond to such signals.
Hikinjo
USA
256 Chapman Road STE 105-4
Newark, New Castle 19702
UK
6th Floor,
2 Lakeside Drive First Central 200
London, UK NW10 7FQ
