Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to your use of the QRPlaza.com website at QRPlaza.com. The website is owned by Hantropos S.r.l. - headquarter: Via Inganni, 34 - 20147 Milano - (MI) - Italy.
At QRPlaza.com your privacy is of great importance. As the custodians of your personal information, we have developed this policy to ensure that your privacy is always protected while you are using the QRPlaza.com universe.
By accessing or using the website, you agree to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not access or use this site.
A special note about children
We do not knowingly market to or encourage anyone
under the age of 16 to use our service and we expressly request that children do not submit information to us.
In QRPlaza.com, is expressly forbidden the subscription to children under 16.
About QRPlaza.com and the information we collect
QRPlaza.com is an innovative Social Game based on random interaction, where the members' relationships are based just on proximity, offering members a set of tools to connect to completely new people and potential new friends Internationally. The QRPlaza.com network is free to use for all members that are over 16.
In our online registration form, we ask you to provide us with certain information such as your nickname, your email address, your gender, your birthdate, your origin country, your location details and some optional details about yourself.
These details are available to you anytime, and capable of being corrected or updated (with the exception of gender and profile address) through your 'Edit profile' page.
At your own discretion, you may choose to post additional facts about yourself. These facts may include sensitive personal data such as first name, second name, categories of interest, your ethnic origin, level of education, religious denomination,
sexual life and physical or mental health.
You may volunteer sensitive personal data to us when you create your profile. Please also remember that photographs and videos that you post may reveal sensitive personal data about you e.g. about your health.
If you volunteer sensitive personal data to us, you explicitly consent to our using such information as described in this Privacy Policy.
If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, or if other users or third parties send us correspondence about your activities or postings on the website,
we may collect such information into a file which is only accessed by authorized personnel. We may also collect other users' comments about you in our complaints department.
Information that is collected automatically
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies. A session ID cookie simply terminates once a user closes the browser. Some of our business partners use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission to them to set cookies.
If however, you want to stop cookies being stored on your computer in future, please refer to your browser manufacturer's instructions by clicking 'Help' in your browser menu. For more information about deleting and controlling cookies please visit
http://www.aboutcookies.org.
While using our website, we will automatically track certain information such as your IP and email address. Many sites collect this kind of information for analytical purposes.
Please refer to the page
Cookie Policy for more details on the QRPlaza.com Cookie Policy.
If you choose to divulge personal information using any of our means of communication, such as electronic messaging, the amount of personal information you divulge becomes your own personal responsibility. We reserve the right to terminate the accounts of visitors who use this site in a manner inconsistent with our
Terms and Conditions.
Our use of your information
We internally use personal information of our users to statistically analyze site usage, to comply with applicable law, to improve our content and product offerings as well as to customize our site's content and layout. We may also use personal information about you to deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your interests, such as targeted banners and promotions. We believe these uses allow us to improve our website and better tailor your online experience to meet your needs. We use personal information to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our
Terms and Conditions.
You may wish to receive emails from us in respect to new message notifications, or for other purposes related to the use of the website. You can opt in or out from these messages via your 'Edit profile' page.
Your profile pictures will be available to other users of the website if you select the 'Any users' access setting.
Your profile pictures could also be included in public 'Who' page of our website and used in promotional material, both digital and paper, concerning QRPlaza.com.
If you have registered on one of our partner websites, your profile information will be available to all users of the QRPlaza.com social network whether via our website or our partners' websites.
By registering on the website you acknowledge and agree that the profile data and other postings that you provide, including sensitive personal data, may be accessed from countries outside Italy. Please note that countries outside Europe may have lower standards of data protection than in Italy.
By registering on one of our partner websites, you will also be providing personal information to our partner. Their privacy policies and practices are separate to those of QRPlaza.com and we strongly encourage you to familiarize yourself with the policies and practices displayed on that website.
Please note that we may also use material that you post on open access areas of the QRPlaza.com social network in advertising and promotional materials on our partner sites.
Disclosure of your information
We do not sell or rent out any personal information about you to any third party. We do disclose information in aggregate for marketing and promotional purposes. However, in these situations, we do not disclose any information that could be used to personally identify you. Certain information, such as your password is not disclosed in aggregate at all.
In order to maintain a healthy community, QRPlaza.com cooperates with all law enforcement inquiries and with all third parties to enforce their intellectual property or other rights.
We reserve the right to disclose your personal information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website.
Your use of other users' information
You may not use other users' information for commercial purposes, to spam, to harass, or to make unlawful threats. We reserve the right to terminate the accounts of those who misuse other users' information or who otherwise violate the
Terms and Conditions.
Inactivity
If you have not signed in to the website for more than 2 months, we can remove your profile as part of our data cleansing process.
Control of your password
You may not disclose your password to any third parties or share it with any third parties. If, despite the foregoing, you lose control of your password, you may lose substantial control over your personal information and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore, if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately change your password. This can be done via your 'Edit profile' page.
Reviewing and changing your personal information
Once you register, you will be able to review and change much of your personal information including:
- Your contact email address;
- Your name and surname;
- Your profile picture;
- Your profile description, pictures and videos;
- Your country of residence;
- Your birthdate;
- Your password.
Note: in case of Social Login (with Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo), we use the Social Network profile informations, just to identify the user inside QRPlaza.com.
QRPlaza.com doesn't store social profile picture in QRPlaza.com DB or servers, the profile picture will be on original Social Networks servers until you decide to change it on your 'Edit Profile' page.
Please promptly update your information if it changes by signing in to your account and following the screen prompts. We strongly urge you to periodically change your password to help reduce the risk of unauthorized access to your account information.
You are entitled to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee).
We welcome any comments or queries you may have, so please feel free to send a message to Customer Service, including for the purposes of altering your information or changing your settings.
Security
QRPlaza.com has security measures in place to protect and prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. QRPlaza.com uses industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information such as firewalls. While 'perfect security' does not exist on the Internet, our technical experts at QRPlaza.com work hard to ensure your secure use of our site.
Deleting your Profile
Users of the QRPlaza.com universe have the following choices to delete their profile from our database:
- Send a message to 'Customer Service';
- Sign in with your password and delete your profile. These options are available from your 'Edit profile' page with the dedicated button 'Delete your profile'.
Invite a Friend
If a user decides to use our Invitation option to invite a friend to our site, we ask them for the friend's email address. QRPlaza.com will automatically send the friend an email inviting them to join the website. QRPlaza.com doesn't store these email addresses. QRPlaza.com does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations.
By providing us with information about a friend, you confirm that they have given you their informed consent to do so.
Uploading your Contacts
If a user decides to upload their contacts, they accept that by doing so, an email invitation will be sent on their behalf, to the email addresses of the contacts that have been uploaded and then selected to be invited. QRPlaza.com doesn't store these email addresses. QRPlaza.com does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations.
Geolocation of QRPlaza.com profiles
When you activate the Geolocation in QRPlaza.com within your 'Edit profile' page, and if you have a new generation browser (Internet Explorer version 8 or later, Google Chrome version 5 or later,
Firefox 3.5 or higher, Safari 5 or later, Opera 6.10 or later), the browser asks you if you want to communicate your position.
If you agree, your browser will collect information about nearby wireless access points and IP address of your computer.
Then your browser will send this to the default service provider for location-based service, Google Location Services,
to receive an estimate of your position. Finally, this information will be saved in your QRPlaza.com profile, in fields latitude and longitude.
If you choose not to activate QRPlaza.com geolocation, information relating to your last position will not be saved in your profile
and the browser will not make any operation.
In case of deactivation of Geolocation in QRPlaza.com, we'll save your last known position before the deactivation of the service.
Reactivation of Geolocation service will always be possible.
For more information about the Geolocation browsers will refer you to the page
Geolocation in Firefox
for more information on browser compatibility, we refer to the page
location sharing from your computer.
Responsibility
QRPlaza.com reserves the right to modify, limit or discontinue the scope and functionality of the Site at any time.
QRPlaza.com is committed to offering and delivering the service free of technical failures;
However, any use of the Site or the Service may be suspended or terminated at any time due to maintenance or other problems, malfunctions of the Service or the Internet connectivity or telephone operator chosen by the User or providers that provide or perform network management or the Site. If necessary, this could cause a malfunction of the Site or the Service,
suspension or interruption of the same, the loss of data. QRPlaza.com assumes no responsibility, prejudice to mandatory law, the availability and continuity of the Site and Service, the absence of technical failures or loss of data.
In the case of ICE (In case of Emergency) services, QRPlaza.com not engaged in performing a primary function of emergency calls to
NUE 112 number or any other public emergency number, but simply the display of emergency information entered by the code owner and sending an emergency message
linking location-based information to emails inserted by the code owner inside the emergency module and the possibility to contact by Whatsapp the phone numbers entered by the code owner in the emergency page.
QRPlaza.com is in no way responsible for the correctness and accuracy of the information entered by the owner of the code within the
Emergency module (such as, but blood type, allergies, telephone numbers).
In no case, QRPlaza.com will be held responsible for damages or otherwise, arising from the provision of the Service to the User,
except for fraud or gross negligence and subject to the mandatory law.
Exercise of Users' Rights
The subjects whose Personal Data have the right at any time to obtain confirmation of the existence or not of the same at the Data Controller,
to know the content and origin, to verify its accuracy or request its integration the cancellation, updating, correction,
conversion into anonymous form or blocking of Personal data processed in violation of the law,
and oppose any case, for legitimate reasons, their treatment. Requests should be addressed to the Owner of the data.
NEW GDPR REGULATION
QRPlaza takes data protection and people's privacy very seriously and we are committed to continue to comply with data protection laws.
The
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) creates consistent data protection rules across the EU. The GDPR will become effective as of 25 May 2018 and applies to companies based in the EU, as well as to companies around the world who provide or offer goods or services, and who process data from or about people in the EU. While many of the principles of the GDPR are build upon
current data protection rules in the EU, the GDPR has a wider scope, more prescriptive standards and substantial fines for compliance and violations. For example, it requires companies to obtain a higher standard of consent from customers, wherever, relevant and broadens individuals' rights with respect to accessing and porting their data.
At QRPlaza, preparations are well underway to ensure that our products and services comply with the GDPR. QRPlaza and its affiliates, will all comply with the GDPR. Our team has been working to review and expand our tools to help people manage their privacy and understand their choices with respect to their personal data. We're also expanding our Milan-led data protection team to support these efforts, and will hire a data protection officer.
We are committed to transparency, control and accountability.
Transparency: Our Data Policy will remain the single consolidated place that maps out the ways in which we use data and process people's personal information, but we'll also provide education through consent experiences for new and existing users, in-product notifications and consumer education campaign.
Control: We'll continue to provide people with controls over how their data is used. To build on this, we're simplifying the design of our privacy settings in a new control centre.
Accountability: We are accountable for our privacy practices, which includes updating our existing compliance program to ensure that we are adequately documenting our GDPR review and compliance.
What this means for businesses
Businesses can continue to use QRPlaza platforms and solutions in the same way they do today, but just as they are responsible for compliance with the laws that apply to them today, companies are responsible for ensuring their own compliance with the GDPR.
In most cases, QRPlaza serves people and advertisers as a data controller. Businesses can be confident that QRPlaza takes its compliance with the GDPR very seriously. There are some key instances, listed below, in which QRPlaza may serve as a data processor. When QRPlaza acts as a data processor, businesses are responsible for ensuring that data they share with us complies with the GDPR.
Measurement and analytics:We process data on your behalf in order to measure the performance and reach of your ad campaigns and provide insights about the people who use your services, and report back to you.
When QRPlaza provides services to our EU partners as a data processor on their behalf, we'll ensure that we comply with the specific requirements for data processors. This means that we'll refresh any necessary contractual obligations to align with the GDPR.
When we appoint third parties to act as data processors on our behalf, we'll also ensure that we have appropriate terms in place to comply with the GDPR and safeguard our data. And when we act as a data processor on an advertiser's behalf, we will be relying on our advertisers' legal basis as data controller.
For more information, visit the GDPR website.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy or email practices, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the homepage, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our homepage.