Getyoo Privacy Policy

The following is an excerpt of section 7 of the Getyoo User Agreement, which you must read and accept before using the Getyoo Services.

1. What information do we collect and how ?

The following information is collected and/or processed by Getyoo:

  • Account Information: this is basic information you must provide us with in order to create an account, i.e. your name, email address and password;
  • Profile Information: this is personally identifiable information you may choose to communicate or not when creating your Profile Page, i.e. your name, email address, country, address, occupation, gender, birth date, phone and fax numbers, company, company address, etc.;
  • Activity Information: this is all the information that you decide to post on your Profile Page, subject to the possibilities offered by Getyoo. Activity Information may include (i) Media, Communities or Contacts that you add to your Profile Page, (ii) comment posted by your Contacts and (iii) personal information published on third party platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or similar social networking services providers, subject to your prior consent;
  • Information collected and generated by the use of the Clickey, as explained here

All that information is centralized in your personal Profile Page. Your Profile Information is publicly available to all, unless you specifically restrict it, as explained here and here. Your Activity Information is available to all Getyoo members, and may also be retrieved by any third party using search engine or other standard internet technology, since it is publicly available at the address (URL) of your personal Profile Page (such as http://www.getyoo.com/FirstnameSecondname).

The general purpose of Getyoo is to enhance your social life by providing the missing link between on-line social networking sites and off-line experience. Thus, the general purposes for which Getyoo processes your information is (a) to allow you to better control of what information is shared with others and (b) to let you enjoy enhanced, personalized and targeted messages, including from third parties, based only on such information as you accepted to share with us for that purpose.

2. What are Clickeys and Tags and how do they work ?

Clickeys and Tags are devices that enhance your social networking experience while allowing you to better control your privacy. The use of Clickeys or Tags is not mandatory to enjoy the Getyoo services. You may however want to use them in order to expand your network and to control with whom and when you decide to share information. If you don’t have a Clickey, you may obtain one subject to our Purchase Terms.

2.1. How does the system work?

A Clickey is a USB-stick, equipped with a short-range RFID tag and containing a personal identifier (which is identical to the serial number of the processor installed on the Clickey). This Clickey identifier remains totally anonymous. A Clickey identifier may correspond to any natural or legal person with a Getyoo account (a “Contact”). We may also assign such identifiers to groups or associations (a “Community”).

A Tag is a short-range RFID microchip where Getyoo or third parties may store an identifier linking to any web content or file. A Tag identifier corresponds to an address (Uniform Resource Locator) linking to any web content or file, such as video or audio files, texts, pictures or any other information (“Media”).

With your Clickey, you may choose to collect the identifiers of other Clickeys and/or of Tags, as indicated below. Once collected, you decide whether or not to add these Contacts, Communities or Medias to your Profile Page (Activity Information).

  1. You decide whether or not to collect Clickey or Tag identifiers

    The Clickey must be switched on to be activated and shall automatically switch off after 10 seconds. Provided that your Clickey is activated, the RFID tag therein will send your identifier to, and collect the identifiers from, (i) any other Clickey which is activated and which is distant from less than five centimetres and from (ii) any Tag which is distant from less than five centimetres (Tags are always activated by default).
    After transmission, all identifiers are temporarily stored on a separate memory of the Clickey, with a limited storage capacity.

  2. You decide whether or not to retrieve which Getyoo accounts own these identifies

    Your Clickey has built-in software that will automatically run once the USB-stick is plugged to a personal computer. The software will automatically read all identifiers (Clickeys and/or Tags) available on your Clickey, and transfer that information to www.getyoo.com. You will then see which Contacts, Communities or Medias correspond to the identifiers you have collected, and you will have the possibility to add them to your Profile Page.

    If you have not created a profile yet, a welcome message will be displayed and provide you with the information necessary to create your profile.

  3. You decide whether to add these accounts to your Profile Page

    Only then will you have to choose whether or not to add these Contacts, Communities or Medias to your Profile Page, on a case-by-case basis. If you decide to add a Community or Media to your Profile Page, your membership of the Community or your relation with the Media will be part of the Activity Information, and therefore be publicly accessible. Also, you will be able to receive structured messages from, or to enjoy specific services delivered by, that Community (see here and here).

2.2. What personal information exactly is collected or disclosed through the use of the Clickey?

Clickeys and/or Tags can only send and receive identifiers, and no other type of information. The transmission of your own identifier requires your prior consent on a case-by-case basis, since you must switch on the RFID tag to activate the key (see above), be it to collect another Clickey or a Tag identifier.

Subject to your prior consent (given by activating your Clickey), we therefore only collect your identifier and the identifiers collected by your Clickey, as well as the time and duration of the transmission of those data. We do not collect the location of the transmission, since we do not and cannot collect the location of the Clickeys. However, your collecting a Tag identifier, and placing it on your Profile Page may allow third parties to indirectly find out at which place you collected the same Tag.

All identifiers that are collected by your Clickey are stored on the memory of the key, and not on the RFID tag itself. The memory has a limited capacity of 200 identifiers. Identifiers exceeding this capacity are erased automatically and irrevocably.

An identifier is normally linked to a Getyoo profile. Before the user’s profile is created, the identifier is linked to an empty and anonymous profile. We use the identifiers only in order to deliver our services, as explained here and we share that information with others only subject to your prior consent, as explained here.

Each Clickey is protected by a security password defined by you on your first connection. So, the information stored on the memory of the key is not accessible to others. On the first connection of the Clickey you will be required to create a password for security reasons. That password is part of the Security Data, and is subject to section 4 of the Getyoo User Agreement.

2.3. Does the use of RFID technology involve threats for my private life?

The idea behind the Clickeys is to allow you to exchange your personal information easily, but only when you wish and only with people of your choice. Therefore, the use of the RFID technology will not result in your personal information being disseminated without your prior consent. You should however be cautious as to what information you post on your Profile Page.

The RFID tags on our Clickeys do not include an EPC number, but only the identifier described above, which is the serial number of the processor. Your identifier is the only information on the Clickey that could be accessible to an external RFID reader, but this information is totally anonymous as such.

No location data is collected nor generated through the use of the Clickeys. In the future, we may decide to collect and process some location data, subject to your prior consent, through the use of the Tags.

The use of RFID technology is currently not precisely regulated under European or Belgian laws. However, we closely monitor developments in this field in order to ensure full compliance with the applicable requirements, in terms of security, protection of privacy and data protection, etc.

3. Do we collect sensitive data?

Sensitive data is e.g. health-related data, information revealing your racial or ethnical origin, your political, philosophical or religious beliefs, your sexual orientations, your trade union affiliation, etc. We stress that sensitive data is only collected and processed subject to your prior and written approval, and for the purposes described in this privacy policy and in sections 1 and 5 It is therefore never mandatory to provide us with sensitive data.

We do not process sensitive data, except if and strictly to the extent that you decide to publish or share such information with others on the Getyoo website, and for the purposes described in this privacy policy and in sections 1 and 5

The use of social networking services may lead you to disclose information, including pictures and sensitive data that can be critical for other people’s privacy. We urge you to process information related to other people, whether sensitive or not, only with their prior consent.

4. How do we share information with third parties?

We do not share your personal information with third parties without your prior consent and we remain within the boundaries of your settings.

Whether or not you decide to share your identifier with third parties, to add Contacts, Communities or Medias to your Profile Page, and to publish information on your Profile Page, is entirely within your hands: see sections 2 and 7

  • Your Profile Information (as defined here) is publicly accessible on the internet, but you may at any time request us to restrict access thereto, in which case it will be accessible only to your Contacts.
  • Your Activity Information (as defined here) is publicly accessible. It includes the Contacts, Communities, or Medias that you decide to add to your Profile Page because you want to share them with Getyoo and with others.
  • If you decide to add a Community or Media to your profile, your membership of the Community or your relation with the Media will be part of the Activity Information, and therefore be publicly accessible. Also, you will be able to receive structured messages from, or to enjoy specific services delivered by, that Community, as provided under sections 5 and 9
  • Your Contacts may post information on your Profile Page, like limited written comments, which will be part of the Activity Information.
  • You may at any time delete or amend your Profile Information.
  • You decide at any time whether to add or to discard Contacts, Communities or Medias from your Profile Page.

We shall thus make your information available to third parties offering services combined and approved by Getyoo, only if these services are specifically approved by you in advance, in that you (i) first decided to collect their identifiers with your Clickey, (ii) secondly decided to add them to your personal Profile Page.

Specialized providers of web advertisement and web analysis may from time to time obtain your IP address, or information gathered by their own cookies. However, third party advertisers have no access to your personal information unless you decide to share the same with them in accordance with this privacy policy.

5. How do we use your personal information and for what purposes ?

We use your information for the following purposes:

  • Manage your account and customize the services we deliver;
  • Provide you with the facilities and services mentioned above or otherwise available on www.getyoo.com, and allow you to control what information, if any, is shared with other profiles, and to communicate with other profiles;
  • Send you promotional communications from Communities or Contacts accepted by you in advance;
  • Propose personalized services or advertisements, including on behalf of third parties, subject to your prior approval;
  • Deliver services requested by you, including, when necessary, transmitting the necessary information to third parties (service providers).

In addition, we reserve the right to use the Profile Information in order to post on the website advertising messages specifically adapted in function of that profile information. However, we do not use your Profile Information for direct marketing purposes.

You will only receive communications, with your prior consent, from such Contacts and of Communities as accepted by you. Communities may only use the Getyoo services defined by us, a description of which is available here

In short, we allow Communities to do the following for their own purposes:

  • send structured messages to the Contacts who accepted them;
  • post Media on their own Profile Page, make them available to their Contacts and manage the use of these Medias, including analysing the access, deletion, transfer, modification or other use of the files by their Contacts;
  • analyse statistical data related to their Contacts;
  • modify the graphical design of their Profile Page.

We may also collect information automatically gathered by cookies when you surf on our website, as well as information gathered by other technologies in order to recognize you, customize your experience and to deliver targeted advertisements, including from third parties. In addition, browsing information generated automatically when you leave or arrive on our website, such as an IP address, the URL’s of the visited sites, your type of browser and your access provider, may be collected by us for the same purposes.

6. Children

Because we care about your privacy, we do not allow people under the age of 13 to create a Getyoo Account nor to use the Getyoo Services. If you are under 13, please immediately remove any information related to you that you transmitted to us and delete your account here

If you are between 13 and 18 years old, we strongly recommend asking for your parents’ authorization before sending any information about yourself on the internet.

Profile Information of users under the age of 18 are not searchable using classical internet search engines, provided that they respect the so-called robot.txt functionality.

Don’t lie or misrepresent your age, and avoid re-registering with a different age after being previously rejected due to age restrictions.

We advise you not to accept contact requests from profile holders you don’t know, and we encourage you to put your privacy settings to restrict access to your profile information.

Don’t accept face-to-face meetings or appointments with people you never met in real life before.

Please refer to our guidelines for safer social networking

7. Your choices and your settings

Our default profile settings are set to have only a very few personal information on your Profile Page, i.e. the Profile Information. In addition, you may restrict access to your Profile Information to your Contacts.

Adapt these settings, especially your profile settings, and to adjust your preferences (you may not change the Clickey settings), including:

  • Enhance, modify or edit your Profile Information;
  • Add Contacts, Media or Communities to your Profile Page;
  • Decide whether or not to receive communications from Communities, by including or discarding them from your Profile Page;
  • Communicate with your Contacts and control these communications;
  • Instruct us to suppress or to suspend your Account.

8. Your rights

The Act of 8 December 1992 on the protection of privacy with respect to the processing of personal data allows you to refuse any processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In the same line, we do not process your data for such purposes, except with your prior consent and subject to the User Agreement section 4 and section 5)

You also have the right to access your personal data and, where necessary, to have that same data rectified.

In order to exercise those rights, you must apply in written to Getyoo:

Getyoo
Privacy Protection
60a rue des Tanneurs / Huidevetterstraat 60a
1000 Brussels, Belgium

Or write by email to privacy@getyoo.com

9. Guidelines for a safer social networking

You may help us making social networking a safer experience by adopting an appropriate conduct and refraining from posting illicit or abusive content on our services. Please refer to our terms and conditions to find out what we regard as inappropriate, illicit or abusive use of our services.

In any instance, don’t post or circulate in any manner content such as hate speech and incitement to hatred, images of child abuse, pornography or other sexually illicit material. Posting or disseminating inappropriate content may result in your account being temporarily suspended, or irrevocably deleted, as explained here.

Please report to us any illicit, inappropriate or harmful content without delay following our Notification Procedure, write by email to report@getyoo.com, to allow us to take the necessary steps as quickly as possible.

In addition, note that the use of social networking services may lead you to disclose information, including pictures and sensitive data, which can be critical for other people’s privacy. Accordingly, please publish or use information related to other people only with their prior consent.

10. Contact us

For any information in relation with your privacy or the above, please contact us at privacy@getyoo.com.