Terms & Privacy
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and (under certain conditions) disclose your personal information. This Privacy Policy also explains the steps we have taken to secure your personal information. Finally, this Privacy Policy explains your options regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information. By visiting the Site directly or through another site, you accept the practices described in this Policy.PKWORLD collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. PKWORLD also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.This information is used by Pkworld for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Pkworld Web site.
Data that we collect
If you use our website, please ensure you are familiar with this notice. It contains information about our company and your personal data that we collect. Specifically, it tells you how we will use and process any information provided to us when you sign up a property to pkworld or contact us. In most cases, the information that we collect and process in order to sign up a property and operate the pkworld platform will not constitute personal data. However, we process the following types of personal data: names, email addresses.
- Contact Details – Your name and email address.
- Identification – We may ask you to provide a copy of government issued identification to verify your identity.
- We may collect information in relation to your property info, such as your manager or owner levels.
- Payment Details – If you use a personal bank account, or other personal payment method, by which we can make or receive payments from you, we will collect this data.
Technical Data – This includes your internet protocol (IP) address, login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access pkworld Inbox. We may collect and / or use personal data in certain circumstances, such as if you complain personally to us that you had a questionable stay at a pkworld property. We may also conduct online searches as part of the initial vetting process for potential new properties. These searches may include information that we use to verify your identity and association with the property.
Use of your personal Information
Pkworld collects and uses your personal information to operate the pkworld Web site and deliver the services you have requested. pkworld also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from pkworld and its affiliates. pkworld may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.
Pkworld does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. pkworld may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, pkworld may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to pkworld, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Pkworld does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.
Pkworld keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within pkworld, in order to determine what pkworld services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within pkworld to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Pkworld Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on pkworld or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of pkworld; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of pkworld, or the public.
HOTEL POLICY
We process your personal data to provide you with access to our system. We need to communicate with properties such as yours. Where you act as a sole proprietor and sign up your property on that basis, the information we collect about the property or business could be personal data (e.g., details of a bank account that you provide that is set up in your own name).
We process personal data because we are legally allowed to do so, and in order for us to carry out our business operations. Overall, it is necessary for our company to function. This includes our legitimate interest in preventing fraudulent sign-ups, communicating with properties, and operating our web-based administration portal.
Where you sign up to our website in a personal capacity as a sole proprietor, you will enter a contract with us. The basis for our processing of your personal data in such circumstances is that it is necessary in order for us to enter into the contract with you, and then to perform that contract.
- Identity and contact data, such as your name, date of birth or incorporation, company name, address, email address, phone number and other business-related information (e.g. company registration number, business license, tax information, shareholder and director information, etc.);
- Account data, such as bank account details, bank statements, credit card details and payment details (such account data may also be collected directly by our affiliates and/or third-party payment service providers);
- Technical data, such as Internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, international mobile equipment identity, device identifier, IMEI, MAC address, cookies (where applicable) and other information and technology on the devices you use to access the Site;
- Profile data, such as your username and password, orders related to you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses;
- Usage data, such as information on how you use the Site, products and Services or view any content on the Site, including the time spent on the Site, items and data searched for on the Site, access times and dates, as well as websites you were visiting before you came to the Site and other similar statistics;
- Location data, such as when you capture and share your location with us in the form of photographs or videos and upload such content to the Site;
- Marketing and communications data, such as your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences and your chat, email or call history on the Site or with our third-party seller service providers;
- Additional information we may request you to submit for authentication (such as copies of government issued identification, e.g. passport, ID cards, etc.) or if we believe you are violating our Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use.
User policy
We will use the information you provide to enable us to process your orders and to provide you with the services and information offered through our website and which you request in the following ways
- Processing your booking for products:
- Booking orders you submit through the Site;
- The Room you have Booked through the Site for which we may pass your personal information on to a third party (e.g. our Hotel Service Provider partner) in order to make Sure of the rooms to you;
- Provide customer support for your Booking;
- Verify and carry out payment transactions (including any credit card payments, bank transfers, offline payments, remittances, or e-wallet transactions) in relation to payments related to you and/or services used by you. In order to verify and carry out such payment transactions, payment information, which may include personal data, will be transferred to third parties such as our payment service providers;
- Providing services:
- Facilitate your use of the services or access to the Site;
- Administer your account with us;
- Display your name, username or profile on the Site (including on any reviews you may post);
- Respond to your queries, feedback, claims or disputes, whether directly or through our third party service providers;
- Marketing and advertising:
- Provide you with information we think you may find useful or which you have requested from us (provided you have opted to receive such information);
- Send you marketing or promotional information about \ products and services on the Site from time to time (provided you have opted to receive such information);
- Help us conduct marketing and advertising;
- Legal and operational purposes:
- Ascertain your identity in connection with fraud detection purposes;
- Compare information, and verify with third parties in order to ensure that the information is accurate;
- Process any complaints, feedback, enforcement action you may have lodged with us;
- Produce statistics and research for internal and statutory reporting and/or record-keeping requirements;
- Store, host, back up your personal data;
- Prevent or investigate any actual or suspected violations of our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, fraud, unlawful activity, omission or misconduct, whether relating to your use of Site or any other matter arising from your relationship with us;
- Perform due diligence checks;
- Comply with legal and regulatory requirements (including, where applicable, the display of your name, contact details and company details), including any law enforcement requests, in connection with any legal proceedings, or otherwise deemed necessary by us;
- Where necessary to prevent a threat to life, health or safety.
- Analytics, research, business and development:
- Understand your user experience on the Site;
- Improve the layout or content of the pages of the Site and customize them for users;
- Identify visitors on the Site;
- Conduct surveys, including carrying out research on our users’ demographics and behavior;
- Derive further attributes relating to you based on personal data provided by you (whether to us or third parties), in order to provide you with more targeted and/or relevant information;
- Conduct data analysis, testing and research, monitoring and analyzing usage and activity trends;
- Further develop our products and services;
- Other:
- Any other purpose to which your consent has been obtained;
- Conduct automated decision-making processes in accordance with any of the above purposes.
- If you are a seller:
Providing Services (hotel)
- To facilitate your use of the Site;
- To respond to your queries, feedback, claims or disputes, whether directly or through our third party service agents;
- To verify your documentation submitted to us facilitate your onboarding with us as a seller on the Site, including the testing of technologies to enable faster and more efficient onboarding;
- To administer your account (if any) with us;
- To display your name, username or profile on the Site;
- To verify and carry out financial transactions (including any credit card payments, bank transfers, offline payments, remittances, or e-wallet transactions) in relation to payments related to you and/or Services used by you. In order to verify and carry out such payment transactions, payment information, which may include personal data, will be transferred to third parties such as our payment service providers;
- To assess your application for loan facilities and/or to perform credit risk assessments in relation to your application for seller financing (where applicable);
- To provide you with ancillary logistics services to protect against risks of failed deliveries or customer returns;
- Marketing and advertising:
To send you marketing or promotional materials about our or third-party sellers’ products and services on our Site from time to time (provided you have opted to receive such information);
- To help us conduct marketing and advertising.
- Legal and operational purposes
- To produce statistics and research for internal and statutory reporting and/or record-keeping requirements;
- To store, host, back up your personal data;
- To prevent or investigate any actual or suspected violations of our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, fraud, unlawful activity, omission or misconduct, whether relating to your use of our Services or any other matter arising from your relationship with us;
- To comply with legal and regulatory requirements (including, where applicable, the display of your name, contact details and company details), including any law enforcement requests, in connection with any legal proceedings or otherwise deemed necessary by us;
- Where necessary to prevent a threat to life, health or safety;
- To process any complaints, feedback, enforcement action and take-down requests in relation to any content you have uploaded to the Site;
- To compare information, and verify with third parties in order to ensure that the information is accurate;
- To ascertain your identity in connection with fraud detection purposes;
- viii. To facilitate the takedown of prohibited and controlled items from our Site
- Analytics, research, business and development:
To audit the downloading of data from the Site;
- To understand the user experience with the Services and the Site;
- To improve the layout or content of the pages of the Site and customise them for users;
- To conduct surveys, including carrying out research on our users’ demographics and behaviour to improve our current technology (e.g. voice recognition tech, etc) via machine learning or other means;
- To derive further attributes relating to you based on personal data provided by you (whether to us or third parties), in order to provide you with more targeted and/or relevant information;
- To conduct data analysis, testing and research, monitoring and analysing usage and activity trends;
- To further develop our products and services;
- To know our sellers better.
- Other:
Any other purpose to which your consent has been obtained;
- i. To conduct automated decision-making processes in accordance with any of these purposes.
- Further, we will use the information you provide to administer your account with us; verify and carry out financial transactions in relation to payments you make; audit the downloading of data from our website; improve the layout and/or content of the pages of our website and customize them for users; identify visitors on our website; carry out research on our users' demographics; send you information we think you may find useful or which you have requested from us, including information about our products and services, provided you have indicated that you have not objected to being contacted for these purposes.
- Subject to obtaining your consent we may contact you by email with details of other products and services. You may unsubscribe from receiving marketing information at any time in our mobile application settings or by using the unsubscribe function within the electronic marketing material. We may use your contact information to send newsletters from us and from our related companies. If you prefer not to receive any marketing communications from us, you can opt out at any time.
- iii. We may pass your name and address on to a third party in order to make delivery of the product to you (for example to our courier or supplier). You must only submit to us the Site information which is accurate and not misleading and you must keep it up to date and are responsible for informing us of changes to your personal data, or in the event you believe that the personal data we have about you is inaccurate, incomplete, misleading or out of date.inform us of changes. You can update your personal data anytime by accessing your account on the Site.
- iv. Your actual order details may be stored with us but for security reasons cannot be retrieved directly by us. However, you may access this information by logging into your account on the Site. Here you can view the details of your orders that have been completed, those which are open and those which are shortly to be dispatched and administer your address details, bank details ( for refund purposes) and any newsletter to which you may have subscribed. You undertake to treat the personal access data confidentially and not make it available to unauthorized third parties. We cannot assume any liability for misuse of passwords unless this misuse is our fault.
- Other uses of your Personal Information:
. We may use your personal information for opinion and market research. Your details are anonymous and will only be used for statistical purposes. You can choose to opt out of this at any time. Any answers to surveys or opinion polls we may ask you to complete will not be forwarded on to third parties. Disclosing your email address is only necessary if you would like to take part in competitions. We save the answers to our surveys separately from your email address.
- We may also send you other information about us, the Site, our other websites, our products, sales promotions, our newsletters, anything relating to other companies in our group or our business partners. If you would prefer not to receive any of this additional information as detailed in this paragraph (or any part of it) please click the 'unsubscribe' link in any email that we send to you. Within 7 working days (days which are neither (i) a Sunday, nor (ii) a public holiday anywhere in Pakistan) of receipt of your instruction we will cease to send you information as requested. If your instruction is unclear we will contact you for clarification.
- ii. We may further anonymize data about users of the Site generally and use it for various purposes, including ascertaining the general location of the users and usage of certain aspects of the Site or a link contained in an email to those registered to receive them, and supplying that anonymized data to third parties such as publishers. However, that anonymized data will not be capable of identifying you personally.
- Competitions For any competition we use the data to notify winners and advertise our offers. You can find more details where applicable in our participation terms for the respective competition.
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- Third Parties and Links
We may pass your details to other companies in our group. We may also pass your details to our agents and subcontractors to help us with any of our uses of your data set out in our Privacy Policy. For example, we may use third parties to assist us with delivering products to you, to help us to collect payments from you, to analyze data and to provide us with marketing or customer service assistance. We may also exchange information with third parties for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
- We may share (or permit the sharing of) your personal data with and/or transfer your personal data to third parties and/or our affiliates for the above-mentioned purposes.
- We may transfer our databases containing your personal information if we sell our business or part of it, provided that we satisfy the requirements of applicable data protection law when disclosing your personal data. Other than as set out in this Privacy Policy, we shall NOT sell or disclose your personal data to third parties without obtaining your prior consent unless this is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or unless we are required to do so by law. The Site may contain advertising of third parties and links to other sites or frames of other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those third parties or other sites, nor for any third party to whom we transfer your data in accordance with our Privacy Policy. You are advised to check on the applicable privacy policies of those websites to determine how they will handle any information they collect from you.
- In disclosing your personal data to third parties, we endeavor to ensure that the third parties and our affiliates keep your personal data secure from unauthorized access, collection, use, disclosure, processing or similar risks and retain your personal data only for as long as your personal data helps with any of the uses of your data as set out in our Privacy Policy.
- We may transfer or permit the transfer of your personal data outside of Pakistan for any of the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. However, we will not transfer or permit any of your personal data to be transferred outside of Pakistan unless the transfer is in compliance with applicable laws and this Privacy Policy.
- We may share your personal data with our third party service providers or affiliates (e.g. payment service providers) in order for them to offer services to you other than those related to your use of the Site. Your acceptance and use of the third party service provider’s or our affiliate’s services shall be subject to terms and conditions as may be agreed between you and the third party service provider or our affiliate. Upon your acceptance of the third party service provider’s or our affiliate’s service offering, the collection, use, disclosure, storage, transfer and processing of your data (including your personal data and any data disclosed by us to such third party service provider or affiliate) shall be subject to the applicable privacy policy of the third party service provider or our affiliate, which shall be the data controller of such data. You agree that any queries or complaints relating to your acceptance or use of the third party service provider’s or our affiliate’s services shall be directed to the party named in the applicable privacy policy.
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