プライバシーポリシー

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, process, and disclose your information across the Paqupel Service.

 

1. NFORMATION WE COLLECT

There are three general categories of information we collect.

1.1 Information You Give Us.

We collect information you share with us when you use the Paqupel Community Service.

  • Account Information.

    When you sign up for an Paqupel Account, we require certain information such as email address.

  • Profile Information.

    To use certain features within the Paqupel Service, we may also ask you to complete a profile. Certain parts of your profile (like your profile picture, nickname and so on) are a part of your public profile page, and will be publicly visible to others.

  • Communications with Sharaq and other Users.

    When you communicate with Paqupel or use the Paqupel Community Service to communicate with other Users, we collect information about your communication and any information you choose to provide.

  • Other Information.

    You may otherwise choose to provide us information when you fill in a form, conduct a search, update or add information to your Paqupel Community Account, respond to surveys, participate in promotions, or use other features of the Paqupel Service.

1.2 Information We Automatically Collect from Your Use of the Paqupel Community Service.

When you use the Paqupel Service, we collect information about the services you use and how you use them.

  • Usage Information.

    We collect information about your interactions with the Paqupel Community Service, such as the pages or other content you view, your searches, and other actions on the Paqupel Service.

  • Log Data.

    We automatically collect log information when you use the Paqupel Community Service, even if you have not created an Paqupel Account or logged in. That information includes, among other things: details about how you’ve used the Paqupel Service (including links to third party applications), IP address, access times, hardware and software information, device information, device event information (e.g., crashes, browser type), and the page you’ve viewed or engaged with before or after using the Paqupel Service.

1.3 Information We Collect from Third Parties.

We may collect information that others provide about you when they use the Paqupel Service, or obtain information from other sources and combine that with information we collect through the Paqupel Community Service.

  • Background Information.

    To the extent permitted by applicable laws, Sharaq may obtain the local version of background or registered sex offender checks. We may use your information to obtain such reports.

  • Other Sources.

    To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may receive additional information about you, such as demographic data or fraud detection information, from third party service providers and/or partners, and combine it with information we have about you. For example, we may receive background check results or fraud warnings from service providers like identity verification services for our fraud prevention and risk assessment efforts. We may receive information about you and your activities on and off the Paqupel Service through partnerships, or about your experiences and interactions from our partner ad networks.

 

2. HOW WE USE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We use, store, and process information about you to provide, understand, improve, and develop the Paqupel Service, and to create and maintain a trusted and safer environment.

2.1 Provide, Improve, and Develop the Paqupel Service.

  • Enable you to access and use the Paqupel Service.
  • Enable you to communicate with other Users.
  • Operate, protect, improve and optimize the Paqupel Service and experience.
  • Provide customer service.
  • Send you service or support messages, such as updates, security alerts, and account notifications.
  • If you provide us with your contacts’ information, we may use and store this information: (i) for fraud detection and prevention, and (ii) for any purpose you authorize at the time of collection.

2.2 Create and Maintain a Trusted and Safer Environment.

  • Detect and prevent fraud, spam, abuse, security incidents, and other harmful activity.
  • Conduct investigations and risk assessments.
  • Conduct checks against databases and other information sources.
  • Comply with our legal obligations.
  • Resolve any disputes with any of our users and enforce our agreements with third parties.
  • Enforce our Terms of Service, Payments Terms, and other policies.

 

3. SHARING & DISCLOSURE

3.1 With Your Consent.

We may share your information at your direction or as described at the time of sharing, such as when you authorize a third party application or website to access your Paqupel Account.

3.2 Profiles, Posts, and other Public Information.

The Paqupel Service lets you publish information that is visible to the general public. For example: nickname.

  • Parts of your public profile page, such as photo, nickname and introduction, are publicly visible to others.
  • Public post pages are publicly visible and include information such as photos, description and any additional information you chooses to share.
  • If you submit content in a public forum or social media post, or use a similar feature on the Paqupel Service, that content is publicly visible.

Information you share publicly on the Paqupel Service may be indexed through third party search engines. We do not control the practices of third party search engines, and they may use caches containing your outdated information.

3.3 Safety and Compliance with Law.

Paqupel may disclose your information to courts, law enforcement or governmental authorities, or authorized third parties, if and to the extent we are required to do so by law or if such disclosure is reasonably necessary: (i) to comply with legal process and to respond to claims asserted against Sharaq, (ii) to respond to verified requests relating to a criminal investigation or alleged or suspected illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you, or any other of our users to legal liability, (iii) to enforce and administer our Terms of Service or other agreements with users, (iv) for fraud investigation and prevention, risk assessment, customer support, product development and debugging purposes, or (v) to protect the rights, property or personal safety of Sharaq, its employees, its Users, or Users of the public.

We will attempt to notify Users about these requests unless: (i) providing notice is prohibited by the legal process itself, by court order we receive, or by applicable law, or (ii) we believe that providing notice would be futile, ineffective, create a risk of injury or bodily harm to an individual or group, or create or increase a risk of fraud upon Sharaq’s property, its Users and the Service (collectively, “Risk Scenarios”). In instances where we comply with legal requests without notice for these reasons, we will attempt to notify that User about the request after the fact if we determine in good faith that we are no longer legally prohibited from doing so and that no Risk Scenarios apply.

3.4 Business Transfers.

If Sharaq undertakes or is involved in any merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or insolvency event, then we may sell, transfer or share some or all of our assets, including your information. In this event, we will notify you before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

3.5 Aggregated Data.

We may also share aggregated information (information about our users that we combine together so that it no longer identifies or references an individual user) and non-personally identifiable information for industry and market analysis, demographic profiling, marketing and advertising, and other business purposes.

 

4. THER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

4.1 Analyzing your Communications.

We may review, scan, or analyze your communications on the Paqupel Community Service for fraud prevention, risk assessment, regulatory compliance, investigation, product development, research, and customer support purposes. We use automated methods where reasonably possible. However, occasionally we may need to manually review some communications, such as for fraud investigations and customer support, or to assess and improve the functionality of these automated tools. We will not review, scan, or analyze your communications to send third party marketing messages to you, and we will not sell reviews or analyses of these communications.

4.2 Linking Third Party Services

  • Linking FirebasePaqupel

    Service use Firebase services for authentication and chat function. Use of Firebase is subject to Firebase Privacy Policy.

  • Linking Google Cloud Platform

    Paqupel Service use Google Cloud Platform services for hosting, database and storage. Use of Google Cloud Platform is subject to Google Cloud Platform Privacy Policy.

  • Linking Google Analytics

    Paqupel Service use Google Analytics services for payment. Use of Google Analytics is subject to Google Analytics Privacy Policy.

  • Linking Cloudflare

    Paqupel Service use Cloudflare services for CDN and security improvement. Use of Community is subject to Community Privacy Policy.

 

5. THIRD PARTY PARTNERS & INTEGRATIONS

The Paqupel Service may contain links to third party websites or services, such as third party integrations, co-branded services, or third party-branded services (“Third Party Partners”). Sharaq doesn’t own or control these Third Party Partners and when you interact with them, you may be providing information directly to the Third Party Partner, Sharaq, or both. These Third Party Partners will have their own rules about the collection, use, and disclosure of information. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of the other websites you visit.

 

6. YOUR CHOICES

6.1 Access and Update.

You may review, update, or delete the information in your Paqupel Community Account by logging into your Paqupel Account and reviewing your Account settings and profile.

6.2 Account Cancellation.

You can request withdrawal at 'My page' page. Your personal information will be completely deleted unless there is a use such as investigation of fraud, unauthorized use etc.

 

7. SECURITY

We are continuously implementing and updating administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration.

 

8. PERSONAL INFORMATION ADMINISTRATOR

Our personal information administrator is as follows:
Masami Imazeki, President and Representative Director of sharaq co., ltd.

 

9. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Sharaq reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change or modify portions of these Privacy Policy at any time.We will try to notify you of material revisions, for example via a service notification or email associated with your account.If we do this, we will post the changes to these Privacy Policy on this page and will indicate at the bottom of this page the date these terms were last revised. By continuing to access or use the Services after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Terms.

 

Effective Date: 4 October, 2023

For questions or inquiries, please contact us using the contact form.