Privacy Policy
Last updated April 2, 2024
Barges Technologies, Inc (“us,” “we,” or “our”) operates the Purple Garden and Purple Ocean websites and mobile applications (the “Service”). We respect our users’ privacy. Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our privacy practices and let us know if you have any questions.
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains our policies regarding the collection, storage, use, transfer and disclosure of Personal Information when you use our Service. The Policy does not address our collection of Personal Information from other sources. The Policy applies to you if you are a user, Advisor or other visitor to our website and/or Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Policy.
The Personal Information you provide us will be used to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to our collection and use of information in accordance with this Policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Policy, the terms used here have the same meanings as in our Terms of Use.
This privacy policy has been updated to comply with the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
It is your responsibility to read this Policy. If you do not accept this Policy, you must not use the Service.
INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to purchase the Service and to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, your email address, name, phone number, postal address, or credit card or other financial information (“Personal Information”). If you are using the Service as an Advisor, you may be required to provide additional information, including, but not limited to, photo identification or other identity-verifying information and tax related documents, such as a Form W-9 or Form W-8BEN, that will be maintained in our databases. Even though you may provide us with credit card or other financial information, we do not handle, process, or store that information. Payment for our Service is processed through a carefully selected third party, such as PayPal or Stripe. Personal Information shared with third party payment services will be used only in accordance with the terms of the third party services. We retain sole discretion to choose another third party payment service.
You understand that you are providing us with this information voluntarily and it may be shared with third parties in accordance with this Policy. Your Personal Information may also be used to send you updates regarding our company, to respond to your requests for information or customer service, or to inform you of other services or benefits that you may be interested in..
The following is a list of Personal Information collected by Purple Garden:
This information will be stored on third party partner servers (e.g. Amazon Web Services). User data is hosted on servers belonging to third parties with whom we have signed Data Processing Agreements. All third party partners are GDPR-compliant.
Our primary purpose in collecting Personal Information about you in connection with your use of our Services is to provide you or connect you with products, services, information, Advisors and users that match your interests and preferences. However, we may use such information collected about you for a variety of commercial purposes. Without limitation, we may use such information to
We may also use information about you that we collect in connection with your use of our Services for security, administrative, and legal purposes (including to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues).
Also, we may combine information about you that we collect in connection with your use of our Services with other records (such as those obtained from our affiliates (see below) or third parties) to develop a customer profile relating to you.
All communications on Purple Garden are stored, and are used for purposes outlined in this Policy.
We may also anonymize your information to remove Personal Information so that it cannot be associated with you or any other individual. We may analyze and use anonymized data to conduct research and develop new tools, features, products or services. We may also safely share anonymized data with third parties including our affiliates.
For users located in the U.S. (excluding the Commonwealth of Virginia and the States of Colorado and Connecticut), we may use your Personal Information for the purposes of training artificial intelligence (AI) models. For example, when you chat with Advisors or other users via our Service, we may use these conversations to develop new products, services, and tools utilizing AI. We will not use Personal Information of users located in the EU, UK, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut or any jurisdiction in which such use is not permitted under applicable law for these purposes
RIGHTS UNDER GDPR
Under certain circumstances, users based in the EU and UK have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, namely:
You can exercise any of these rights by contacting us.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
This section contains information about policies that apply solely to California residents who use Site and/or Services. If you are a California resident, as of January 2020 you have certain rights regarding your Personal Information under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”):
(1) Right to Know About Personal Information Collected, Disclosed, or Sold
You may request that we provide you with the following information:
Details about the Personal Information we collect can be found in the “Information Collection and Use” section of this Policy. Further, details about the Personal Information that we disclose to third-parties for business purposes can be found in the “Information Sharing and Disclosure” section of this Policy. The supplemental policy for the CCPA regarding the Personal Information we have collected over the last 12 months, including the categories of Personal Information, business purposes, and whether we collect or sell your Personal Information are provided below:
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Categories of personal information |
Business purpose |
Collected? |
Sold? |
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YES |
NO |
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Same as category 1 above |
YES |
NO |
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Same as category 1 above |
YES |
NO |
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Same as category 1 above |
YES |
NO |
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Not applicable |
NO |
NO |
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Same as category 1 above |
YES |
NO |
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Same as category 1 above |
YES |
NO |
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Same as category 1 above |
YES |
NO |
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Same as category 1 above |
YES |
NO |
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Not applicable |
NO |
NO |
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Same as category 1 above |
YES |
NO |
Sources of Your Personal Information
The Personal Information we collect is obtained from the following sources:
(2) Right to Request Deletion of Personal Information
Subject to certain limitations, you may request that we delete the Personal Information that we have collected about you. Upon verification of your request, we will queue your request for processing and notify you. If your request is denied, we will reply explaining why.
(3) Right to Opt Out of the Sale of Personal Information
Your Personal Information is “sold” (as we understand the term “sell” to be defined in the CCPA) when it is shared with a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration for a purpose that is not a “business purpose” as defined in the CCPA. We do not sell your Personal Information.
If you would like to opt out of promotional email messages, you may do so by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link in any of the email messages you receive.
(4) Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights
We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the
To exercise the “Right to Know” or the “Right to Request Deletion”, please email Customer Support. Before processing your request, we may ask to verify your identity or the identity of your authorized agent. Requests will be handled within the timeframes specified in the CCPA.
INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE
Your Personal Information will be used primarily in connection with operating and facilitating the Service. However, we may send your Personal Information to other companies or people:
In connection with making the Services available to our users, we may disclose certain information about you (including your name, username, and date of birth) to other users of the Services and Advisors, solely as directed by you or as authorized under our terms of service.
We may also share information collected about you with our auditors, legal advisors, and similar third parties in connection with our receiving their professional services, subject to standard confidentiality obligations.
Due to our global business activities, your personal data will also be transferred to affiliated companies which operate our worldwide portfolio of brands, as listed here: link.
By affiliated companies", we mean legally independent companies that are part of the same group of companies. For details of the affiliated companies within our group, please see here: https://www.ingenio.com/affiliates
We share data with affiliates for the purposes of our group operations, including:
LOG DATA
We collect information sent to us when you visit the Purple Garden website or use the mobile application (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser language, referring/exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. When you access the Service by or through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile devices unique device ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use and other statistics. We log this information for our internal use to help diagnose technical problems and to further administer and improve the quality of our services to you. We also maintain a record of your IP address to analyze the use of our Services on an aggregate basis. This information is helpful to understand your preferences when using our Services and enables us to customize and tailor your experience with us to your likes and dislikes, as well as to your geographical location. Some of this information is analyzed and used internally in order to develop, market or advertise new products or services that we think might interest you. We may also share this information with affiliates, advertisers and other third parties at our sole discretion.
In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this type of information in order to increase our Service's functionality. This analysis helps us to (i) better understand your use of, or interest in, our products, services, content, as well as the products, services and content offered by others; (ii) communicate with you via email, regular mail, telephone and/or mobile devices about products or services that you may be interested in; and (iii) develop, display, and tailor content and advertising to your interests.
SECURITY
The information you provide to us will be kept in our database. The security of your Personal Information is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security and any transmission of Personal Information is done at your own risk. We rely on professional hosting solutions that use reasonable care in maintaining security measures to protect you and our systems against unauthorized access to, or alteration, disclosure, destruction or loss of personal data hosted on our system. These protections, however, are not a replacement for the security measures in your control. It is important that you protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer or mobile device.
COOKIES
Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer's hard drive. Cookies allow your server or device to store its own information and can be used to customize pages and automatically recognize you based on your past usage. Cookies can help streamline your user experience and specifically tailor your information for your experience.
With your consent, where required, we use “cookies” to collect information. Rejecting consent for our use of cookies may affect your ability to use the Service and some program features or services may not function properly if cookies are not placed. For more information on the cookies used by the Service and your rights in relation to these, please see our Cookies Policy linked in the footer of the applicable Service.
DO NOT TRACK DISCLOSURE
We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.
THIRD PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS
This Policy exclusively addresses our activities from our servers and does not make promises or guarantees as to other third party sites or services that may be used in conjunction with our Service. We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service Related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. We take care to select and enter into agreements with third parties capable of maintaining appropriate security measures that are in line with our policies and relevant privacy laws and regulations. These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. These third party service providers have their own privacy policies addressing how they use such information.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
COMMUNICATIONS
We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.
COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS
We will disclose your Personal Information where required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement or to protect the security or integrity of our Service. We reserve the right to release all types of information to law enforcement agencies if we determine, in our sole judgment, that either you have violated our policies, or the release of information about you may protect the rights, property, or safety of us or another person.
BUSINESS TRANSACTION
If Barges Technologies, Inc is involved in a merger, acquisition, asset sale, bankruptcy or reorganization, your Personal Information may be shared, as well as retained by us. By providing us with your Personal Information, you consent to that transfer.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER
Your information, including Personal Information, may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the information, including Personal Information, to United States and process it there. Your consent to this Policy, followed by your submission of such information, represents your agreement to that transfer.
Where you are located in the EU or UK and your personal data is transferred to a country that has not been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection of personal data when compared with the protections afforded under the GDPR, then we will ensure such transfer is governed by an agreement that incorporates standard contractual clauses approved for these purposes by the relevant body in the EU and/or UK as appropriate. This ensures your personal data remains protected.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
Our Service is not marketed to under the age of 13, or the equivalent minimum age in the relevant jurisdiction, and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children. We encourage parents to be involved in the online activities of their children to ensure that no information is collected from a child without verifiable parental permission. If we become aware that a child has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our servers as soon as possible.
To use Purple Garden you must be at least 18 years of age. If you are under 18 years of age, please do not use our Service.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to replace, modify or amend this Policy from time to time. It is your responsibility to review this Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Policy are effective when they are posted on this page, as reflected by updating the date at the beginning of this Policy, and your continued use of our Service represents your consent to any changes in our Policy. Any changes made will apply to information collected after the revised date.
ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION
If your Personal Information changes, or if you no longer desire our Service, you may correct, update, delete, or deactivate it by making the change on the member information page or by emailing us at [email protected].
OPT-OUT
If you give the company your Personal Information and you wish to opt-out of receiving communications from us, our partners, or our third party providers, simply click on the opt-out link provided in the e-mail communication.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Please also visit our Terms of Use, our Purple Ocean Terms of Use, and our Advisor Terms and Conditions which explain the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing your use of our Service.
GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)
For purposes of the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the data controller is Barges Technologies, Inc., with an office at 182 Howard Street, #826, San Francisco, CA 94105.
Our representative in the EU is:
adviqo GmbH
Max-Dohrn-Str. 8 - 10, D10590 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0)30 22445 0
E-mail: [email protected]
Our representative in the UK is:
adviqo UK Limited
Anglia House, 6 Central Avenue, St Andrews Business Park, Thorpe St. Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, NR7 0HR, United Kingdom
Phone: +44 203 835 5700
E-mail: [email protected].
If you are based in the EU or UK, we will only process your personal data for a purpose described in this Policy if (1) you have provided your consent (which can be withdrawn at any time), (2) the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you, (3) we are required by law, (4) processing is required to protect your vital interests or those of another person, or (5) the processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate commercial interests (except where such interests are overridden by your rights and interests). Where we are processing your personal data on the basis that it is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate commercial interests, the relevant interest will generally be the provision of the Services to you. We may also process your personal data when it is in our legitimate interests in further developing and improving the Services, analyzing traffic to better serve all Service users, analyzing the likes and dislikes of our users, and to help us to provide a more stable, consistent, and secure user experience.
If you feel that your personal data has been processed in a way that does not meet the GDPR, you have the right to file a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority.
NOTIFICATION IN THE EVENT OF A DATA BREACH
In the event of a data breach, we will notify the owners of Purple Garden accounts within 72 hours of the discovery of said breach.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us at [email protected].