Privacy Policy
This privacy policy (this “Policy”) explains how your personal information is collected, used, and disclosed by merothekka (collectively, ” merothekka,” “we,” “our” or “us”). This Policy applies to visitors and users (individually, “you”) of the merothekka’s website and other online services. By visiting or using our website and other online services to the extent permitted by applicable law, you are consenting to us gathering and processing information about you in accordance with this Policy, although consent may not be required for all the elements described in this Policy. For certain types of information or processing, we may provide you with choices or request your further consent related to what information we collect and how we may process it.

THE INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT

We may collect personal information and device Information in connection with your registration;

We may use your information to provide services, respond to and fulfil your requests.

PERSONAL INFORMATION.

By visiting or using our website, we may collect the following categories of personal information (“Personal Information”) you provide to us: title, first name, last name; date of birth, email address; postal code; phone number (mobile or home phone number).

We do not proactively collect personal information considered as sensitive personal information.

DEVICE INFORMATION.

When you visit our website, some information is automatically collected from devices (mobile, computer, laptop, tablet) used to visit our website, including, but not limited to, operating system, access times, browser information (type, language, and history), settings, and other data about your device that we use to provide the services or as otherwise described in this Policy (“Device Information”). We also collect information about your usage and activity on our website using certain technologies, such as cookies, web beacons and other technologies. This is to help us provide a better / more personalised user experience and service to you.

LOCATION INFORMATION.

If you use our website, we may receive your generic location (such as city) or, with your consent, precise geographic location data from your device when the website is running and when it is not running. We may, for example, receive this information when you select projects search locations, choose to publish your location in reviews you leave for contractors on our website, or in your comments or communications with us.

Personal information, device information, and location information are collectively referred to as “your information.”

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use your information for the following purposes (“Purposes”), to: provide you with the services, products, and functionality offered on our website and fulfil your requests, including, but not limited to, contacting contractors, customers or reviewing contractors, or use of our website, services, products and/or functionality; respond to, or follow up on your comments and questions, and otherwise provide customer service; communicate with you about special offers and other marketing communications on behalf of our partners; operate and improve our website, products, services, and functionality; authenticate your credit or debit card account information, if applicable; personalise your experience on our website, including displaying relevant advertising; perform statistical analysis; protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorised, or illegal activity; comply with our policies, procedures and legal obligations; and as otherwise consented to by you and as required or permitted by applicable law.

If you do not provide us with certain of your information, we may not be able to fulfil the requested Purpose of collection, such as to respond to your queries or provide our website, apps or services to you.

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS

Consistent with the above Purposes, we may communicate with you via electronic messages, including email, text message, for example: send you information relating to our products and services, including receipts, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages; and/or, subject to your preferences, and/or applicable law, communicate with you about offers, promotions, rewards, upcoming events, and other news about products and services offered by partners.

RETENTION

We will retain your information for the period necessary to fulfil the Purposes outlined in this Policy and as otherwise needed to comply with applicable law and internal company policies.

HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

a) PAYMENT CARD INFORMATION

To use certain services on our website (such as contacting and communication with contractors or customers), we may require credit or debit card account information. By submitting your credit or debit card account information through our website, to the extent permitted by applicable law, you expressly consent to the sharing of your information with merothekka, third-party payment processors, and other third-party service providers (including, but not limited to, vendors who provide fraud detection services to us and other third parties), and you further agree to the following terms.

i) When you use a credit or debit card to recharge your wallet through our website, we provide your credit or debit card account information (including card number and expiration date) to our third-party payment service providers.

ii) When you initially provide your credit or debit card account information through our website in order to use our payment service, we provide your credit or debit card account information to our third-party payment service providers.

b) INFORMATION YOU SHARE SOCIALLY

Our website may allow you to connect and share your actions, comments, content, and information publicly or with friends. Our website may also allow you to connect with us on, share on, and use third-party platforms, including those on which merothekka has a presence.

Please be mindful of your personal privacy needs and the privacy needs of others as you choose whom to connect with and what to share and make public. We cannot control the privacy or security of information you choose to make public or share with others. merothekka does not control the privacy practices of third-party platforms. Please contact those sites and services directly to learn about their privacy practices.

c) OTHER SHARING

We do not share your information with third parties.

i) We may disclose your information to regulatory authorities, courts, government agencies and other third parties where we believe that doing so would be in accordance with or permitted or required by any applicable law, regulation or legal process, to defend the interests, rights, and/or property of merothekka or others, or to respond to emergencies.

ii) We may disclose or transfer your information to a third party if we sell, transfer, divest, or disclose all or a portion of our business or assets to another company in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, transaction, or proceeding.

iii) We may otherwise share your information as directed by you or subject to your consent.

SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

merothekka takes commercially-reasonable technical, administrative, and physical security measures designed to protect your information from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.

When your credit or debit card account information is being transmitted to our website it will be protected by cryptographic protocols. To be clear, merothekka does not itself store your credit or debit card account information, and we do not have direct control over or responsibility for your credit or debit card account information. We use third party payment processors that are the controllers of your credit card information. Our contracts with third parties that receive your credit or debit card account information require them to keep it secure and confidential.

Nonetheless, we cannot guarantee that transmissions of your credit or debit card account information or your other information will always be secure or that unauthorised third parties will never be able to defeat the security measures taken by merothekka or our third-party service providers. Except to the extent that liability cannot be excluded or limited due to applicable law, we assume no liability or responsibility for disclosure of your information due to errors in transmission, unauthorised third-party access, or other causes beyond our control. You play an important role in keeping your information secure. You should not share your user name, password, or other security information for your merothekka account with anyone. If we receive instructions using your user name and password, we will consider that you have authorised the instructions. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure or feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please contact us immediately.

YOUR CHOICES

i) EMAIL

If you do not want to receive marketing and promotional emails from merothekka on behalf of its partners, you may click on the “unsubscribe” link in the email you receive to unsubscribe and opt-out of marketing email communications. Alternatively, to the extent that applicable law requires your prior opt-in consent to receive marketing and promotional emails, you can choose not to opt-in.

ii) TEXT MESSAGES.

If you no longer want to receive text messages from merothekka, reply STOP (or as otherwise instructed) in the text message. Alternatively, to the extent that applicable law requires your prior opt-in consent to receive text messages, you can choose not to opt-in.

In addition to the above methods of exercising choice, to the extent required by applicable law, we may provide you with additional choices regarding the processing of your information, which you may exercise by contacting us. You may also send requests about your contact preferences related to the items listed above or changes to your information to us.

We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable as required by applicable law. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes, to complete any transactions that you began prior to your request, or for other purposes as required or permitted by applicable law.

ACCESS AND CORRECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION

If you have created an online account with us and would like to update the information you have provided to us, you can access your account to view and make changes or corrections to your information.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to other websites or services that are not owned or controlled by merothekka, including links to our advertisers, sponsors and partners. This Policy only applies to information collected by our website. We have no control over these third-party websites, and your use of third-party websites and features are subject to privacy policies posted on those websites. We are not responsible or liable for the privacy or business practices of any third-party websites linked to our website. Your use of third parties’ websites linked to our website is at your own risk, so we encourage you to read the privacy policies of any linked third-party websites when you leave our website.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

Except to the extent limited by applicable law, we reserve the right to update this Policy to reflect changes to our information practices by prominently posting notice of the update on our website, and as required, obtaining your consent. Any updates will become effective immediately after posting the updates to this Policy and apply to all information collected about you, or where required, upon your consent. You agree that you will review this Policy periodically. If we make any changes to this Policy, we will change the “Last Updated” date above. You are free to decide whether or not to accept a modified version of this Policy, but accepting this Policy, as modified, is required for you to continue using our Sites. If you do not agree to the terms of this Policy or any modified version of this Policy, your sole recourse is to terminate your use of our website and/or services.

You can opt out of receiving marketing communications from us by changing your communication preferences, update your location sharing at any time.

We provide you with the opportunity to be informed of whether we are processing your information and to access, correct, update, oppose, delete, block, limit, or object, upon request and free of charge, to our use of your information, to the extent required by applicable law.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Policy or information, we have collected about you, please contact us by email at info@merothekka.Com