Effective Date: 16/06/2023
INTRODUCTION
LiNKDOOD holds your privacy in high regard. We would like to clarify the use of our service would require the collection and use of your informations and the control and protection of such are being done through this Privacy Policy. Your use of LiNKDOOD services and any information you provided on LiNKDOOD’s website and services remain subjective to this Privacy Policy, so please read this Privacy Policy carefully and make the best choice for you in guidance of this policy. If you wish to contact us regarding this Privacy Policy or any privacy-related matters, please contact us through http://linkdood.com
The Information That We Collect
In LiNKDOOD, we collect, store and use following information that relates to you. If you wish not to provide us with relevant information, you may not be able to register as our user and may not be able to use LiNKDOOD services.To provide you the service, LiNKDOOD collects and uses the following types of information:
“Log File Information”, refers to technical information retained by the system via cookies, web beacon or similar technology while you use LiNKDOOD services, these logs may include:
- Technical Information, such as your mobile carrier-related information, configuration information made available by your web browser or other programs you use to access LiNKDOOD, your IP address and your device’s version and identification number;
- Information about what you have searched for and looked at while using LiNKDOOD, such as web search terms used, social media profiles visited and details of other information and content accessed or requested by you in using LiNKDOOD;
- Information about communications you have made using LiNKDOOD, such as the people you’ve communicated with and the time, date and duration of your communications;
- Metadata, which means information related to items you have made available through LiNKDOOD, such as the date, time or location that a shared photograph or video was taken or posted.
“Location Data”, is the information that we collect regarding your location (when you use a location-enabled service), including the location of your device when you use LiNKDOOD, such as:
- From GPS, WiFi or other networks;
- IP address of the device or internet service you use to access LiNKDOOD;
Other information made available by you or others that gives an indication as to where you are or have been located, such as account information that indicates where you are located, and the shared information that you or others posted which indicates your location (for example, any geotag information that is embedded in any photos you make available on LiNKDOOD);
However, you can disable your location service anytime in order to halt our collection of your location data.
How We Use Your Information
We may use your information for any of the following purposes:
- To provide LiNKDOOD services to you;
- To ensure provision of LiNKDOOD is always secure, for security, fraud-detection, archival and backup purposes;
- To help us develop new services and improve our existing services;
- To allow us have better comprehend of your access to our services, hence personalize our services to you, such as language settings, location settings, individualized help and instructions, or other relevant feedbacks to you or other customers;
- To certify software or manage software upgrades;
- To involve you in voluntary survey about our products and services.
In order to provide our users across all of our services with a better experience, to improve LiNKDOOD services, or otherwise where you have consented, the personal information collected through LiNKDOOD may, subject to user privacy controls (if available), be used by our other services. For example, the personal information collected during the use of LiNKDOOD may be made available in other LiNKDOOD services in a suggestive manner or to present advertising contents that are more likely to interest you. If migration option is available, you may have an option to authorize us to migrate or export your personal information held by us to another LiNKDOOD services.
Control Your Personal Information
LiNKDOOD will take every possible measuring in appropriate manner to ensure that you can access, update and modify your registered information or revise other personal information during the use of LiNKDOOD services. If you wish to make further changes to the personal information which you had provided, request access, deletion, update or modification, we may ask to verify your identity for security reasons. In some cases, we may not allow such amendment or removal of your personal information, in which the reason will be conveyed to you by then. Such cases might be due to disproportionate technical effort or extremely unreasonable requests, or prohibited by law which we comply to.
When LiNKDOOD Discloses Information
Despite following circumstances, we will not disclose your personal information to third party without your consent. We may share your personal information within our group of companies and with join venture partners and third party service providers, contractors and agents (such as communication service providers who send emails or push notifications on our behalf, and mapping services providers who assist us and you with location data), in each case, for the following purposes:
- Providing LiNKDOOD to you;
- Fulfilling the purposes listed under “How We Use Your Information” section;
- Exercising our rights and meet our obligation under the “Terms of Service” or “Privacy Policy” of LiNKDOOD.
- Understanding, maintaining and improving our services.
In the case we do share or transfer your personal information with above partners, we strictly evaluate our partner service providers and agents, and we make every effort to ensure that they have established appropriate and secure information administration and organizational control systems, and we strictly require that they comply with applicable laws and regulations which we affirm and comply to.We strictly require that they access to your personal information only up-to-the extent that is necessary to perform tasks on our behalf.As our business grow, we may have possible merger, acquisition, asset transfer or similar re-organization, your personal information may be transferred within our group and/or to a third party who succeeded as LiNKDOOD operator under either this Privacy Policy or a different privacy policy which will be notified to you. We may retain, preserve or disclose your personal information for following reasons: to comply with applicable laws and regulationswhich we comply to;to comply with order or other legal provisions of the federal court of Malaysia; to comply with the requirements ofanyrelevant government agencies;to comply with applicable laws and regulations which we comply to,protect the public interest or to protect our customers, our company, personal and property safety of other users or employees or legally reasonable rights purpose.
Data Security
We only retain your personal information within timeframe set for purposes endorsed under the Privacy Policy and in accord to law requirements. We use commercially reasonable technical means and safeguards to prevent lost, misuses, destructions, unauthorized access or disclose of your personal information. For instance in certain services, we use encryption technology (such as SSL) to protect your personal information. Please be aware that despite our effort, LiNKDOOD may be subject to security breaches and failures due to technical limitation and possible malicious intention. No data security measures up to date can guarantee perfect security at all times based on current technology. Hereby, we deemed that you have consent to our service may be subject to failures that beyond our reasonable control.
Shared Information
LiNKDOOD and its services allow you to communicate and publish not only within your own social network, but with all LiNKDOOD users. For example, your posts and uploads through our services (including your public profile or list), your response to posts and uploads published by other users, and all relevant archival and location data if available. Other LiNKDOOD users may also access to the shared information that is relevant to you (including location data and archive). Especially for LiNKDOOD to be a social media service provider, our design is meant to accomplish information sharing and connects you and the other users, so that shared Information can be broadly and instantly transmitted. The shared Information will remain public for as long as you do not delete it; and even after you delete the shared Information, it may still be separately cached, copied, or stored by, or remain public through, other users or third parties who are not affiliated with and not controlled by us. Please consider carefully what you had posted and communicate via LiNKDOOD. In some instances, you may control or restrict other users from access into your information via the privacy settings in some of LiNKDOOD. If you wish to request the removal of your relevant information, please follow the instruction given in the Terms, we will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.
Sensitive Personal information
Certain types of personal information are categorized as “sensitive” and are subject to stricter act than regular personal information in some jurisdictions, inclusive of information regarding your race or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical views or personal health. Kindly take note that you’re uploads or posts (such as photographs or information regarding your social activities) during the use of our services may unintentionally harrass, causing harm, fear, uncomfortable towards other users. Please be careful and consider whether it is appropriate to upload or post any sensitive personal information within LiNKDOOD. By using LiNKDOOD services, you consent that LiNKDOOD will handle your sensitive personal information for the purposes and in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.
Email and Information That We May Send you
- Email and Information Delivery
You acknowledge, confirm, and expressly agree that during registration and use of the Service, any information voluntarily provided by you or automatically collected by the system (including, without limitation, your mobile number and email address) shall be deemed your explicit authorization for us to deliver communications to your device(s) via email, push notifications, SMS, WhatsApp, and any other communication channels now existing or hereafter devised. If you do not wish to receive such information, you may unsubscribe on your device by following the steps given by LiNKDOOD.
- Service-related Announcements
For inevitable reasons, we may send you service-related announcement such as when particular LiNKDOOD services have been temporarily suspended for maintenance. You may not be able to opt-out receiving service-related and non-promotional announcement.
Period of Use of Your Personal Information
In line with the purposes stated in “How We Use Your Information” section, LiNKDOOD will retain your personal information for as long as it is necessary. LiNKDOOD may retain, preserve or disclose your personal information for longer period in the following circumstances:
- To comply with applicable laws or regulationswhich we comply to;
- To comply with a court order, subpoena or other legal process;
- To comply with applicable laws or regulations where we believe it is reasonably necessary;
- To enforce the Terms or this Privacy Policy;
- To protect our rights, property or safety, or the rights, property or safety of our affiliate companies or any LiNKDOOD user(s);
- To respond to the request by government authority, law enforcement agency or similar body (whether situated in your jurisdiction or elsewhere).
Under certain circumstances that allowed by laws, you may request to update, deactivate, prohibit the use of or acquire a copy of your personal information which we hold. To perform any of these actions, you may contact us directly or do so whenever this option is offered in LiNKDOOD. Please note that, should your account be terminated by you or us for any reason, LiNKDOOD will need a reasonable period of time to wipe your personal information from the service we provide after such termination, in which does not apply to the personal information which you have put in the hands of third parties during your use of the Service.
Privacy Policy Application Exemption
Our service may incorporate or redirects to a third party social media or any other services (including website). For example your use of:
- “Share” button that allows you to share a particular content to our services, or when you login to our service via any third party linked service. These functions may collect your relevant information (such as your log files), or install cookies in your device in order to function;
Links with provide through advertisement or in other manner via our services, in which you can access third party services or websites;
Such third-party social media or other services may be operated by a third party service provider or LiNKDOOD. Your use of such third-party social media or other services ( including any personal information you provide to such third party ) , is subject to the terms of service and privacy policy of third party ‘s ( instead of ” universal terms of service ” or ” Privacy policy ” ), you are advised to read the terms carefully. This “Privacy Policy” applies only to the information we collect and does not apply to any third party services or third party’s regulation in use of information, we do not assume any responsibility on third party use of your information.
Tracking Technologies
For LiNKDOOD to personalize our service to you, our service is integrated with cookies, log files, web beacons, scripts, tags and other tracking technologies that collects, use and store information about you or relating to you. These tracking technologies are:
- Cookies: A small file containing a string of characters that is placed on your computer, mobile phone or other device when you access a website or other web content.
- Web beacons: Electronic image files or other technologies that may be embedded within websites or emails that may be used to keep count of visitors, record when and if an email or website is viewed, or access certain cookies.
- Log files: Files that automatically gathered and stored information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.
- Entity tag (orETag): HTTP headers that are sent-behind-the-scenes between a web browser and a web server. They are used to track particular users in place of cookies.
- JavaScript: A scripting language used to produce more interactive and dynamic websites. JavaScript can create cookies, read cookies, and delete cookies.
These tracking technologies help us to understand you better and to let us know what is best to provide to you, for example:
- To acquire your authentication details in order to start using LiNKDOOD;
- To detect your location for the use of any mapping and location-based services;
- To detect your language preference and present the Service in correct translation;
- To help us deliver relevant and safe advertising to you;
- To obtain other information about you from time to time;
While advertising is essential for keeping LiNKDOOD free of charge for you, tracking technologies help us to convey meaningful advertisement to you. LiNKDOOD believes with the use of tracking technologies, our advertisers can benefit from further information collected such as viewer count. For your safety, LiNKDOOD uses tracking technologies to ensure safe advertising by filtering repeated or fraudulent advertisement for you. Tracking technologies help us to deliver more relevant advertisement to you based on the accounts followed by you or based on your location.
Certain tracking technologies belong to LiNKDOOD third party partners and affiliate companies. They assists us to track more effectively from various perspectives, they are:
- Service partners who help us manage and provide certain features in LiNKDOOD, such as mapping or location-based services;
- Analytics partners who help us to analyze LiNKDOOD usage statistics at all times and collect demographic information of our user base and market trend;
- Customer support service partners who help us deliver better responses to any queries from you and to assist you closely;
- Marketing partners or advertisers who help us deliver better and more relevant advertising to you.
Please note that third party tracking technologies are subject to the relevant third party’s own privacy policies and not this Privacy Policy. LiNKDOOD does not responsible for any action or issue arising from the use of racking technologies by third parties.
LiNKDOOD uses these tracking technologies in various ways to achieve our purposes, one general example would be to remember you, which combine the use of cookies and web beacons to identify you as our registered user and automatically load your data into the Service. Similar technologies but combined with more tracking technologies are also used by LiNKDOOD to analyze your usage patterns including which of our features or contents has interests you more. LiNKDOOD may also combine our tracking technologies with other data or information we gathered about you, such as how do you know about LiNKDOOD and where you have discovered us.
You may toggle certain tracking technologies in your mobile device settings. For instance, you may disable cookies or web beacons via browser settings. Please note that if you choose to disable or block any of our tracking technologies, you may not experience optimal services from LiNKDOOD or LiNKDOOD may not function properly.
Age Restrictions
Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to use LiNKDOOD. We shall not knowingly collect the personal information from any children under the age of 13. Please contact us if you believe us have any personal information from any children under the age of 13 – we will promptly investigate (and remove) such personal information.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be revised subject to our discretion, such changes form part of this Privacy Policy. In case which such changes has caused reduce in your substantive rights under this Privacy Policy, we will notify you in a noticeable manner on the main page, send you an email or by any other method that you preferred. By continuing using LiNKDOOD after any changes made to this Privacy Policy, with or without notice from us, you are agreeing to the revised Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
LiNKDOOD Technologies
33-17, Q Sentral
2A, Jalan Stesen Sentral 2
Kuala Lumpur Sentral
50470 Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur
info@linkdood.com
+603-2701-3606
Thank you for trusting LiNKDOOD Technologies with your privacy.