We are MULTİTECH SYSTEMS BİLGİ İŞLEM SANAYİ VE TİCARET LİMİTED ŞİRKETİ (“Translate Us”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) have created this Privacy Policy to explain how we collect, use, disclose and otherwise process personal information in connection with operating our business. This Privacy Policy describes the practices concerning the information collected by Translate Us, through the use of our websites and mobile applications on which this Privacy Policy is posted.
This Privacy Policy applies to our websites and mobile applications and other online services, we may provide on which this Privacy Policy is posted, and our collection of information from our corresponding social media features and pages (each a “Service” and collectively, the “Services”). In addition to describing how we collect, use, disclose and otherwise process personal information, this Privacy Policy explains the rights and choices available to individuals with respect to their personal information.
We may provide additional privacy notices to you at the time we collect your data. This type of an “in-time” notice will govern how we may process the information you provide at that time.
The information that we collect, whether from you directly or automatically, may be considered personal information in certain jurisdictions or personal data under the European General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). Whenever we refer to personal information in this Privacy Policy, it means personal information or personal data as defined by applicable laws in the relevant jurisdiction.
Data origins and reasons of usage
Some of this information you provide to us and some we collect when you use our Services. We also may obtain information about you (including personal information) from our business partners, such as vendors, and others. You may choose not to provide some or all of your personal information to us but doing so may prevent us from providing our Services to you or limit our ability to provide you with the level of service that you would otherwise expect from us.
The following are examples of the types of information you choose to give us when using our services:
To use certain features in our services, you may allow us to access your camera or the microphone. Depending on your device, the Apple and Android system will ask for your permission before allowing us to access these features.
Features that allow you to share content about your use of our Services with your connections or through your social network.
Your translations are your creation – your transcripts are stored locally on your device, whether you create them in offline or online mode.
If you contact our support team, we collect the information you give us during the interaction.
In the event you purchase products or Services directly from us, we, or a third party on our behalf, may collect payment card and other payment information, solely as required to process payment for such purchase. If you pay for Services directly through our website, you authorize us to have our payment processor collect this information.
Information collected by automated means (“Automated Information”) We may collect Automated Information through the use of cookies, SDKs and other technologies. Automated Information includes information such as:
IP address
Operating system used (for example: iOS)
Device Information
Time zone
Identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser
Cookies
Dates and times of access
IDFA
Subscription information
We or our third-party service provider may assign you a unique identifier through automated means in order to match information collected from you through different means or at different times, (including both personal information and Automated Information) and to use such information as described in this Privacy Policy.
This Automated Information is generally used for the following purposes:
for the technical provision of our Services in order to be able to provide you with a functioning user-friendly experience.
to provide you with a secure experience and to take measures to protect our website and mobile applications from cyber risks.
to uncover insights about your use of our website and mobile applications in order to improve our Services and features, including developing new products and features.
to facilitate your access to our website or mobile application.
to customize our Services for you.
to help us better understand our current and potential customers so that we may market our Services accordingly.
events and usage data are captured for our internal business analytics in order to understand how our users interact with our mobile applications and use our services. Monitoring and analysing the effectiveness of our communications.
We may obtain information, including personal information from third parties and sources that we integrate into our Services either for the provision of our services or to facilitate your access to our Services such as described below.
You may be given the option to access or register for our services through the use of your third-party social media account. If you select this option, your social media provider may make certain of your personal information available to us, such as your email address or other unique identifier or we may be asked to share certain information with such social media providers. If you choose to sign on through your third party social media provider, you authorize us to collect your information from such provider and process it in accordance with this Privacy Policy and you also authorize us to share your information with your social media provider as necessary to permit you to access our services using your social media account. We recommend that you review your social media provider’s privacy policies carefully before using their service to connect to our Services.
Performing Our Services
Maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, operating our website and mobile applications; processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying user information, processing payments.
Communicating about the products and Services we offer, and responding to requests, inquiries, comments, and suggestions.
Internal Research
Understanding and evaluating how our Services and features perform with our users.
Uncovering insights about usage in order to improve the Services and provide customers with enhanced features as well as inform our development of new features and products.
Development of customized or personalized experiences of our Services, such as remembering your information, so you do not have to re-enter it each time you use one of our Services.
Auditing Interactions with Consumers
Measuring usage of our websites and mobile applications.
Measuring our marketing activity (e.g., measuring how a user was acquired).
Security
To provide you with a secure experience and to take measures to protect our website and mobile applications from cyber risks.
Protecting against, identifying, investigating, preventing, and responding to fraud, illegal activity (such as incidents of hacking or misuse of our websites and mobile applications), and claims and other liabilities, including by enforcing the terms and conditions that govern the Services we provide.
Debugging/Repair
Identification and repair of impairments to intended, existing functionality of our Services.
Marketing
Understanding our customer in order to more effectively market our Services.
Quality and Safety Maintenance and Verification
Activities related to improving the quality of the Services we provide, including upgrade or enhancement of the Services
Verification or maintenance of the quality or safety of Services
Tracking and responding to quality and safety matters.
Protecting our rights and property.
Complying with legal or regulatory requirements, judicial process, industry standards and our company policies, please see our Terms of Service.
Other purposes that may be described at the time you choose to provide personal information to us.
To perform the above functions, we may match information collected from you through different means or at different times, including both personal information and Automated Information, and use such information along with information obtained from other sources. We may also aggregate and/or de-identify any information that we collect, such that the information no longer identifies any specific individual. We may use, disclose and otherwise process such information for our own legitimate business purposes – including historical and statistical analysis and business planning – without restriction.
Share of Information
We may share information about you for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or pursuant to a specific “in-time” privacy notice we may provide at the time we collect the information.
Corporate Affiliates
We may share your information with other parts of IAC for legitimate business purposes, including:
to assist us in technical processing operations, such as data hosting and maintenance, finance, legal and accounting assistance, securing our data and systems and fighting against spam, abuse, fraud, infringement and other wrongdoings; and
for corporate audit, analysis and consolidated reporting as well as compliance with applicable laws.
Third Party Service Providers
We may share information about you with the following categories of third-party providers for a variety of business purposes:
Customer Communications and Insights Platforms. We may share email, app usage and interactions with our third-party customer communications platform provider for the following business purposes: performing services that allow us to communicate with you and administer your account as well as track your usage for our internal analytics.
Internal Business Insights Platforms. Our third-party internal business analytics platform provides us with the tools to help us understand app usage and interactions and uncover insights that allow us to improve our product and features. We may share or make available unique user identifiers, IDFA, device id, IP address and app usage and events (such as when you subscribed to our services) with these providers for the following business purposes: performing services that allow us to (i) monitor and understand usage in order to enhance existing Services or develop new products and features and (ii) better understand our customers in order to market our products more effectively.
Measurement and Attribution. These service providers offer tools that allow us to measure and attribute the source of new subscription sign ups and that allow us to uncover insights about usage and app events. We may use unique user identifiers made available to us from these third party providers to help us measure the effectiveness of our ads (e.g., where and how a user is acquired) and to uncover information about how our customers are using our apps in order to improve their quality and safety.
Other technology providers necessary to provide our services (including cloud storage and web hosting providers). We may make certain Automated Information and/or aggregate or non-personally identifiable information available for various purposes including monitoring network traffic to detect malicious actors and to protect against malware, fraud or other unlawful uses or activity.
Marketing providers. We, or the third-party service providers we use to assist us with marketing our own products to you, may use the information we collect from you to provide advertisements and offers for our other products. Additionally, we may share certain information with Facebook. We suggest you to review Facebook's Privacy Policy.
Corporate Transactions
We may share information about you in connection with (including during the evaluation or negotiation of) a corporate change or dissolution, including for example a merger, acquisition, reorganization, consolidation, bankruptcy, liquidation, sale of assets or wind-down of a business (each a “Corporate Transaction”). Unless prohibited by applicable law, we reserve the right to transfer the information we maintain in the event we engage in any Corporate Transaction (including, selling or transferring all or a portion of our business or assets). If we engage in such a sale or transfer, we will where feasible - direct the recipient to use the information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. After such a sale or transfer, you may contact the recipient with any inquiries concerning the processing of your personal information.
In addition, we may disclose and/or share your information to comply with legal or regulatory requirements (including to comply with a court order, judicial subpoena or other subpoena or warrant), industry standards, judicial process, and our company policies, as well as to protect against, identify, investigate, prevent and respond to fraud, illegal activity (such as identifying and responding to incidents of hacking or misuse of our websites and mobile applications), adverse event reporting, and claims and other liabilities.
We also reserve the right to disclose your information (i) when we believe in good faith that disclosure is appropriate or necessary to take precautions against liability, (ii) to protect our rights or property or the legal and property rights of others and (iii) investigate and defend third party claims or allegations against us.
In addition, we may collect, use and disclose your personal information as required or permitted by applicable law, or as directed by you, in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We maintain a presence on several social networking and blogging platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, Google, WordPress, LinkedIn, TikTok and Twitter. We may incorporate some third-party social networking features into our Services (including, allowing users to interact with others and share certain content and information on social media platforms) or utilize third-party provided platforms to publish or manage the Services or portions thereof. Through these platforms and features, we receive or may share information about you, and this Privacy Policy applies to that information as well. In addition, some providers of third-party social media or blogging platforms we utilize have their own privacy policies which explain how the third parties that provide them may collect, use and protect your information (e.g., if you establish an account with such platform providers directly). By using social features, you agree to those third parties’ privacy policies and terms of use.
If you choose to communicate with us or another user through social features available on our websites or mobile applications or through our social media pages, or other similar communication or messaging features or services, such information may be made publicly available. For security purposes, please do not include any password, social security number, payment card or other sensitive information via these features. We have the right, but not the obligation to monitor messages and communications between and among users for security and training purposes. We may, but are not obligated to, remove any content we deem inappropriate.
Access: you may request access to your personal information and receive copies of it;
Correction: you may have inaccurate/incomplete personal information corrected and updated;
Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data: you can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal information or to limit our use of it;
Deletion: in certain circumstances, you can request a right "to be forgotten" (this is a right to have your information deleted or our use of your data restricted). We will honor such requests unless we have to retain this information to comply with a legal obligation or unless we have an overriding interest to retain it;
Deletion: in certain circumstances, you can request a right "to be forgotten" (this is a right to have your information deleted or our use of your data restricted). We will honor such requests unless we have to retain this information to comply with a legal obligation or unless we have an overriding interest to retain it;
Portability: in certain circumstances, exercise the right to data portability (this is a right to obtain a transferable version of your personal information to transfer to another provider); and
Consent Management: where we rely on consent to process your personal data, you may withdraw consent at any time. You do not have to provide a reason for your withdrawal where processing is based on consent.
If you are a resident of the EEA and you wish to access, change or delete personal information we hold about you, you may contact us. If we change or delete your personal information or if you decline to actively share certain personal information with us, we may not be able to provide you with our Services or some of the features and functionality of our Services. In addition, you may contact us to request that we not disclose your personal information to third parties (other than those that are acting as our agent to perform tasks on our behalf, such as data processors). Keep in mind, we may reject requests for certain reasons, including if the request is unlawful or if it may infringe on the rights and freedoms of another person. For example, we may not be able to accommodate certain requests to object to the processing of personal information, notably where such requests would not allow us to provide our service to you anymore. For your protection, we may require proof of identity and verification before we can answer the above requests.
Legal basis for processing data
In this section, we identify the legal grounds on which we rely to process personal information.
In some cases, we have a legitimate interest to process the personal information that we collect, such as to develop, administer and support our products and services; to operate, evaluate and improve our business; to facilitate and manage engagement programs; to promote research; to support our recruitment activities; or to facilitate a Corporate Transaction (including a sale of assets or merger or acquisition).
In other cases, we process personal information to fulfil our contracts with business partners, such as third parties that distribute our products.
It may be also necessary for us to process personal information to establish, exercise or defend against fraud, illegal activity, and claims and other liabilities, including by enforcing the terms and conditions that govern the Services we provide.
Our processing of certain information may be necessary to comply with our legal obligations, and for reasons of public interest, such as with respect to adverse event and product safety reporting. We may also process personal information as specifically permitted by applicable legal requirements. If we rely on consent for the processing of your personal information, we will seek such consent at the time we collect your personal information.
Access, Edit and Delete Your Information.
If you are a resident of the EEA, your rights to access, edit and delete your information can be found in the Information for Individuals in the European Economic Area (EEA) section of this Privacy Policy. If you are a California resident, your rights to access, edit and delete can be found in the Information for Residents of California: Your California Privacy Rights section of this Privacy Policy.
If you are not a resident of the EEA or California, depending on your location, you may be able make requests to access, correct and/or delete certain personal information that you provide to Translate Us. For your protection, we may require proof and verification of identity and jurisdiction of residency before we can answer the above requests. If you wish to make such a request, you may contact us at the support email indicated in the How to Contact Us section of this Privacy Policy. If we change or delete your personal information or if you decline to actively share certain personal information with us, we may not be able to provide to you our services or some of the features and functionality of our services. Once we have verified that you own the account, we will honor such requests at our discretion and in accordance with applicable law.
Device permissions
Mobile platforms have permission systems for specific types of device data and notifications, such as camera and microphone as well as push notifications. Where applicable, you can change your settings on your device to either consent or oppose the collection of the corresponding information or the display of the corresponding notifications. Of course, if you do that, certain services may lose full functionality.
Uninstall
You can stop all information collection by the app by disabling call forwarding and deactivating your account by following the instructions on the Service’s Settings screen and then uninstalling the app using the standard uninstall process for your device. If you uninstall the app from your mobile device, the unique identifier associated with your device will continue to be stored. If you reinstall the application on the same mobile device, we will be able to re-associate this identifier to your previous transactions and activities.
Location information
If you choose to opt-in, some of our apps may collect your device’s precise real-time location. You may be able to opt out from further allowing us to have access to such location data by managing your location preferences in the app and/or on your device
International Transfers
Our Services are hosted in the United States. If you choose to use our Services from outside the United States, with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from United States law, note that you are transferring your personal information outside of those regions to the United States for storage and processing. We may transfer your data from the United States to other countries in connection with the storage and processing of data to operate our business. By using our Services and providing personal information, you consent to such transfer, storage and processing. If you are a resident of the EEA, you can learn more about transfers outside the EEA in the Information for Residents of the European Economic Area section of this Privacy Policy.
When you allow Notifications, we may send you offers, and promotions related to our products and features. You may opt-out of these through the Settings menu on your device.
Except as provided below, we may retain your personal information for the longer of three (3) years after we become aware that you have ceased using our Services or for so long as necessary to fulfil any contractual obligation governing the information or our legal and regulatory obligations. However, we may not know if you have stopped using our services, so we suggest you to contact us at the appropriate support email if you are no longer using the services. We may retain other information that is not personally identifiable for backups, archiving, prevention of fraud and abuse, analytics, or where we otherwise reasonably believe that we have a legitimate reason to do so.
Protection of Personal Information
We use various efforts intended to safeguard the security and integrity of personal information collected through our Services. Despite these measures, however, we cannot and do not guarantee that information will be absolutely safe from interception or intrusion during transmission or while stored on our system, or otherwise, and you provide information to us at your own risk.
If you correspond with us by e-mail or using Web forms available through our Services, you should be aware that your transmission might not be secure from access by unauthorized parties. We have no liability for disclosure of your information due to errors or unauthorized acts of third parties during or after transmission. If you create an account as part of using our Services, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account password and for any activity that occurs under your account. Please notify us of any unauthorized use of your password or account.
If we believe that the security of your personal information in our care may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you. If we have your email address, we may notify you by e-mail to the most recent e-mail address you have provided us in your account profile. Please keep your email address in your account up to date. You can change that e-mail address anytime in your account profile. If you receive a notice from us, you can print it to retain a copy of it. To receive these notices, you must check your email account using your computer or mobile device and email application software. We may also post a conspicuous notice on our site or notify you through the mobile application. You consent to our use of email, text message and/or notification through the app as a means of such notification. If you prefer for us to use the postal service to notify you in this situation, please let us know by submitting your request. You can make this election any time, and it will apply to notifications we make after a reasonable time thereafter for us to process your request. You may also use this email address to request a print copy, at no charge, of an electronic notice we have sent to you regarding a compromise of your personal information.
Third-Party Content
For your convenience and information, we may provide links to websites and other third-party content that is not owned or operated by us. The websites and third-party content to which we link may have separate privacy notices or policies. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of any entity that it does not own or control. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of such third parties before providing them with any personal information.
Data Related to Children
We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 16 years old (or older if required in an applicable jurisdiction to comply with applicable laws). If you are not over 16 years old (or older if required in an applicable jurisdiction to comply with applicable laws) then DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR USE THE SERVICES. If you believe that we may have personal information from or about a child under the age of 16 years old, please contact us. Note that we'll attempt to delete the account of any child under the age of 16 that's reported to us as soon as possible. You are responsible for any and all account activity conducted by a minor on your account.
Our Privacy Policy Changes
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. When we update this Privacy Policy, we may, but are not obligated to notify you of changes that are deemed material under applicable legal requirements. In some cases (for example, if we make certain material changes) and when required by applicable law, we may inform you by additional means, such as by sending you an email. In some cases, when required by applicable law, we may obtain your consent to the changes.
How to Contact Us
You may contact us with questions, comments, or concerns about our services and this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, or to request access to or correction of your information by submitting your requests or inquiries as detailed below:
For our European users, our Data Protection Officer is responsible for ensuring your rights are respected and to review and oversee how we collect and use your personal information.
If you are a resident of California, please contact us.
Our support team can be contacted by email: support@multitechsystemsltd.com
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