Privacy Policy

CaterInc respects our clients' privacy, and any personal information you provide on this Website will be used in accordance with our privacy policies.

Introduction

This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use, disclose and/or process the personal data you have provided to us and/or we possess about you, whether now or in the future, as well as to assist you in making an informed decision before providing us with any of your personal data. 

"Personal Data" or "personal data" means data, whether true or not, about an individual who can be identified from that data, or from that data and other information to which an organization has or is likely to have access. Common examples of personal data could include name, identification number, and contact information.

This Policy applies to both buyers and sellers who use the Services except where expressly stated otherwise.

What information do we collect?

The personal data that CaterInc may collect includes but is not limited to:
● name;
● email address;
● date of birth;
● billing and/or delivery address;
● bank account and payment information;
● telephone number;
● gender;
● information sent by or associated with the device(s) used to access our Services or Platform;
● information about your network and the people and accounts you interact with;
● photographs or audio or video recordings that you share with us;
● government-issued identification or other information required for our due diligence, know your customer, identity verification, or fraud prevention purposes;
● marketing and communications data, such as your preferences in receiving marketing from us and third parties, your communication preferences and history of communications with us, our service providers, and other third parties;
● usage and transaction data, including details about your searches, orders, the advertising and content you interact with on the Platform, and other products and services related to you;
● location data;
What do we use your information for?
We may collect, use, disclose and/or process your personal data for one or more of the following purposes:
● to consider and/or process your application/transaction with us or your transactions or communications with third parties via the Services;
● to manage, operate, provide and/or administer your use of and/or access to our Services and our Platform (including, without limitation, remembering your preference), as well as your relationship and user account with us;
● to respond to, process, deal with or complete a transaction and/or to fulfil your requests for certain products and services and notify you of service issues and unusual account actions;
● to enforce our Terms of Service or any applicable end user license agreements;
● to protect personal safety and the rights, property or safety of others;
● for identification, verification, due diligence, or know your customer purposes;
● to evaluate and make decisions relating to your credit and risk profile and eligibility for credit products;
● to deal with or facilitate customer service, carry out your instructions, deal with or respond to any enquiries given by (or purported to be given by) you or on your behalf;
● to contact you or communicate with you via voice call, text message and/or fax message, email and/or postal mail or otherwise for the purposes of administering and/or managing your relationship with us or your use of our Services, such as but not limited to communicating administrative information to you relating to our Services. You acknowledge and agree that such communication by us could be by way of the mailing of correspondence, documents or notices to you, which could involve disclosure of certain personal data about you to bring about delivery of the same as well as on the external cover of envelopes/mail packages;
● to allow other users to interact, connect with you or see some of your activities on the Platform, including to inform you when another User has sent you a private message, posted a comment for you on the Platform or connected with you using the social features on the Platform;
● to audit our Services or CaterInc business;
● to prevent or investigate any actual or suspected violations of our Terms of Service, 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 respond to any threatened or actual claims asserted against CaterInc or other claim that any Content violates the rights of third parties;
● to store, host, back up (whether for disaster recovery or otherwise) of your personal data, whether within or outside of your jurisdiction;

How do we protect your information?

We implement a variety of security measures and strive to ensure the security of your personal data on our systems. Our teams work tirelessly to protect your information and to ensure the security and integrity of our platform. However, there can inevitably be no guarantee of absolute security.

We will retain personal data in accordance with the Privacy Laws and/or other applicable laws. If you cease using the Platform, or your permission to use the Platform and/or the Services is terminated or withdrawn, we may continue storing, using and/or disclosing your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy and our obligations under the Privacy Laws. Subject to applicable law, we may securely dispose of your personal data without prior notice to you.

Do we use cookies?

We or our authorized service providers and advertising partners may from time to time use "cookies" or other features to allow us or third parties to collect or share information in connection with your use of our Services or Platform. These features help us improve our Platform and the Services we offer, help us offer new services and features, and/or enable us and our advertising partners to serve more relevant content to you, including through remarketing. “Cookies” are identifiers that are stored on your computer or mobile device that record data about your computer or device, how and when the Services or Platform are used or visited, by how many people, and other activity within our Platform. We may link cookie information to personal data. Cookies also link to information regarding what items you have selected for purchase and web pages you have viewed. This information is used to keep track of your shopping cart, to deliver content specific to your interests, to enable our third-party advertising partners to serve advertisements on sites across the internet, and to conduct data analysis and to monitor the usage of the Services.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser or device. However, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of our Platform or the Services.

Do we disclose any information to outside parties?

We may collect, use, disclose and/or process your personal data for one or more of the following purposes:
● to consider and/or process your application/transaction with us or your transactions or communications with third parties via the Services;
● to manage, operate, provide and/or administer your use of and/or access to our Services and our Platform (including, without limitation, remembering your preference), as well as your relationship and user account with us;
● to respond to, process, deal with or complete a transaction and/or to fulfil your requests for certain products and services and notify you of service issues and unusual account actions;
● to enforce our Terms of Service or any applicable end user license agreements;
● to protect personal safety and the rights, property or safety of others;
● for identification, verification, due diligence, or know your customer purposes;
● to evaluate and make decisions relating to your credit and risk profile and eligibility for credit products;
● to maintain and administer any software updates and/or other updates and support that may be required from time to time to ensure the smooth running of our Services;
● to deal with or facilitate customer service, carry out your instructions, deal with or respond to any enquiries given by (or purported to be given by) you or on your behalf;
● to contact you or communicate with you via voice call, text message and/or fax message, email and/or postal mail or otherwise for the purposes of administering and/or managing your relationship with us or your use of our Services, such as but not limited to communicating administrative information to you relating to our Services.
● to allow other users to interact, connect with you or see some of your activities on the Platform, including to inform you when another User has sent you a private message, posted a comment for you on the Platform or connected with you using the social features on the Platform;
● for marketing and advertising, and in this regard, to send you by various mediums and modes of communication marketing and promotional information and materials relating to products and/or services .
● to respond to legal processes or to comply with or as required by any applicable law, governmental or regulatory requirements of any relevant jurisdiction or where we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary, including, without limitation, meeting the requirements to make disclosure under the requirements of any law.
● any other purposes which we notify you of at the time of obtaining your consent.

Third-party links

WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THE SECURITY OF PERSONAL DATA AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE ON THIRD PARTY SITES. We do implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal data that is in our possession or under our control. Your personal data is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the personal data confidential. When you place orders or access your personal data, we offer the use of a secure server. 

We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content, security arrangements (or lack thereof), and activities of these linked sites. These linked sites are only for your convenience and you, therefore, access them at your own risk. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our Platform and the links placed upon each of them and therefore welcome any feedback about these linked sites (including, without limitation, if a specific link does not work).

Online Privacy Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline. We reserve the right to refuse to correct your personal data in accordance with the provisions as set out in Privacy Laws, where they require and/or entitle an organization to refuse to correct personal data in stated circumstances.

Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy. You may withdraw your consent for the collection, use and/or disclosure and/or request deletion of your personal data in our possession and we will process such requests in accordance with this Privacy Policy and our obligations under the Privacy Laws and other applicable laws.  However, your withdrawal of consent may mean that we will not be able to continue providing the Services to you and we may need to terminate your existing relationship and/or the contract you have with us.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will notify you by revising the "Last Updated" date and, in some cases, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below.

This policy was last modified on 09.30.2022