Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 30, 2021

1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy is a legal document that forms part of our Terms and Conditions, describing Zocal's policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information. If you have any questions or concerns, please send an e-mail to zocal@zocalapp.com. Zocal reserves the right to make changes to this policy.

When using Zocal's services, you consent to the collection, manipulation, transfer, storage, disclosure and other uses of any of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. Regardless of the country that you create the information from or reside in, your information and data may be used by Zocal in the United States or any other country where Zocal operates in accordance with the policy below.

2. Information Collected
Registration - When you create an account on Zocal, you provide your some personal information such as your name, e-mail, username, gender, date of birth, location, and some other details about yourself. Information such as your name and/or username, may be searchable by other users through the network.

You are allowed to edit and update any of the information you provide us through the 'Settings' page.

Content- You control how your information and content is shared. One of the main reasons of using Zocal is to share your information with your friends and keep in touch with them. Thus, your location, status updates, photos, board discussions and other voluntarily uploaded information would be able to be seen by your friends and/or followers. Please upload only that information that you are comfortable with sharing and be aware that other users may also be able to see what you have uploaded. Also, when creating your 'friend list', add only those people whom you are comfortable with viewing your information. Zocal is not to be held responsible for any consequences occurring from not following these guidelines

Zocal recommends that you share your personal information such as your telephone number, e-mail address, exact location, home address and other contact information only with your friends or your known and trusted contacts.

Who can view your information? : While only your basic information such as your name may be searchable through the Service, your friends and contacts may be able to see your entire profile, current city location (at the city level), and other information that you choose to upload.

3. Usage of your information
The information you upload on Zocal is on a voluntary basis and at your own risk. Zocal owes you no compensation for the data either uploaded by you or gathered about you when using the Service.
Subject to your privacy settings, you also agree to provide your friends or followers on Zocal who are able to access your information through the Service a non-exclusive license to access, copy, modify, distribute or display your submissions.

The information may be used:
a. To send you information about our services.
b. To provide customer support or respond to any inquiry.
c. To enforce our Terms & Conditions.
d. To process any form of payment for any goods or services ordered on our site.
e. To generate anonymous informational statistics regarding the use of our Services (the results of which may be shared publicly). Please note that this will not be linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
f. To generate data for our internal studies to improve our Services.
g. In any business acquisition, merger, fund-raising or sale of any of our assets (including negotiations for the same).
h. To prevent any illegal or fraudulent activity, including but not limited to hacking, security breaches or safety risks.
i. In any business operation to which the information provided by you relates to.
j. As provided under bankruptcy or applicable laws.
k. As provided by the enforcement of equitable rights.
l. To serve targeted ads to you when you visit Zocal.

Please note that we maintain backups of the information contained on our website and mobile services and thus even when you alter, modify, or delete a certain submission, it may be possible that it will still be able to be viewed in our archives or in cached information.

If any of your information changes or for some reason you no longer wish to be part of our service, you may update, de-activate or delete your account through the "Settings" tab.

4. Content posted by other users
While the Terms of Service list the guidelines for the kind of content that is posted by other users, Zocal is not responsible for the content posted, uploaded or submitted by its users nor is it required to monitor or control such submissions. Any use or reliance on such submissions is to be done at your own risk. However, Zocal does reserve the right to copy, modify, distribute or delete the content that is posted by its users without providing any compensation or prior notice for the same if, but not limited to, it violates the Terms of Service.

5. Cookies
Like several other websites, we use small files known as 'cookies' to collect website data and enhance our Services. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your computer. We may also store your 'Login Information' such as your IP address, the referring domain, pages visited, search terms and browser type.
Cookies will be used by us for several activities such as (without limitation):
a. Monitoring aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing.
b. Holding member's login information so that you need not re-enter them when you visit the website. This option is disabled after 'logging off' the Service.
c. Using the Zocal Service more easily, by means of a temporary 'session' cookie. These cookies disappear after either 'logging off' or when the browser session ends.
d. Running targeted advertisements. Advertisers or sponsors may place their own unique cookie that they can recognize.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You can change your browser's cookie settings to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from a website.

6. Notifications
As part of the Zocal Service, you may receive e-mails, push or in-app notifications regarding updates in your account, reminders, information about the travels of your friends or other information at our discretion. You may change these notification settings in the 'Settings' tab.

7. Information Disclosure
Zocal will not supply your personal information and (where applicable) your credit card information to third parties for commercial exploitation. However, we may share your information in the following circumstances:
a. With your consent with third parties, such as when you use a third party client on Zocal.
b. With our service providers or subsidiaries that perform functions and provide services to us. However, we may share your information with these parties only to the extent where it is needed to provide the service.
c. When we feel it is necessary to supply, edit or delete any of your information to comply with a legal request, regulation or law to protect the safety of any person, to address fraud and security issues or to protect Zocal's rights or property.
d. In the event of a business acquisition, sale of assets, merger, reorganization or transfer, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. We will attempt to make sure that the promises made to you in this privacy policy will apply to your information when transferred to the new entity.
e. We may share your non-private, non-personal information or other aggregated information with trusted parties for internal and external evaluation purposes to improve our Services.
f. With other users, your friends and third-parties as listed in Clause 2.
g. Though we make attempts to prevent it from happening, we cannot guarantee that your information will not be seen by unauthorized people.
h. The activity feed may aggregate and display your information, travels and status updates to your friends.

8. Security
Though we have security measures to protect our customer database and access to our database is restricted internally, we cannot guarantee that the data storage, display and transmission will be 100% secure. Thus, it is the responsibility of all Zocal members to:
a. Protect your details from unauthorized access
b. 'Logout' after every session, especially on a public computer
c. Keep their password secret
d. Contact our team at zocal@zocalapp.com in case of any security concern.

9. Data storage & processing
Zocal attempts to create a global community with consistent standards for everyone. However, in doing so, there are special provisions necessary for users who do not live in the same countries where Zocal's servers and offices are located. In order to better provide consistent services to all users globally, the following provision applies to all users: Data and user submissions may be transferred to and processed on Zocal's servers which may be in a country that you may or may not be affiliated with.

10. Inviting Friends or Importing Contacts
When inviting friends or importing contacts to the Zocal service, members consent to an e-mail or text message being sent on their behalf to the relevant e-mail address or phone number as well as any subsequent reminders.

11. Third Party sites
Zocal is not responsible for the privacy, practices, content, or policies of third-party websites or services, even if they are affiliated with Zocal, or use any of our APIs or link, or promote, or advertise on or for Zocal. While we will make every effort to protect the privacy of our users, the user is solely responsible for visiting third-party websites and Zocal is not to be held liable should any issues arise therein.

12. Policy towards children
Zocal is not directed to people under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect information from users below the age of 13. If you believe your child has created an account on Zocal by forging his or her age, please contact us to have the account removed.

13. Changes to the Policy
Zocal reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy and the most recent one can be found on the homepage. If the changes are of consequence, we may notify you by e-mail or the next time you use the Service.