Privacy Policy
Last modified: [9 August 2023]
INTRODUCTION
Kibbi Technologies Inc. (“Company”, “we”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it by complying with this policy
This policy describes:
- how we collect, use, disclose, and protect the personal information of our customers and platform users (“you”);
- the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://mykibbi.com/ or download and use the Kibbi app (collectively our “Platform”) or connect with us through other means;
- our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
Privacy laws in Canada generally define “personal information” as any information about an identifiable individual, which includes information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person. Personal information does not include business contact information, including your name, title, or business contact information.
This policy applies to information we collect, use, or disclose about you:
- On our Platform;
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Company;
- Through our social media channels;
- Through other mobile and desktop applications you download from the Company, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and the Company;
- When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services if those applications or advertising include links to this policy;
- Through any other means where you come into contact with the Company.
The Platform may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, services, social networks, or applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow the third party to collect or share data about you. If you follow a link to a third-party website or engage a third-party plugin, please note that these third parties have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. We do not control these third-party websites, and we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices for collecting, processing, and storing your information. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use the Platform or otherwise engage with the Company.
By accessing or using the Platform, you indicate that you understand, accept, and consent to the practices described in this policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of the Platform after we make changes indicates that you accept and consdt to those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
The Company is in Canada and the Platform is offered in Canada. The Platform is not intended for use in any jurisdiction where its use is not permitted. If you access the Platform from outside Canada, you do so at your own risk and you are responsible for compliance with local laws of your jurisdiction. You must immediately stop using the Platform if use of the Platform as it is offered by the Company is prohibited under your local regulations.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
We collect and use several types of information from and about you, including:
- Direct interactions with you when you provide it to us, for example, by creating profiles, responding to job listings, filling in forms, surveys, or polls, signing up for newsletters or other content, or corresponding with us by app, phone, email, or otherwise.
- User Content, when you provide information to us to publish or display on the public Platform areas or transmit to other Platform users or third parties (“User Content”), such User Content to be subject to the Company’s Terms of Service at https://mykibbi.com/legal/terms-of-use.
- Automated technologies or interactions, as you navigate through our Platform, Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
- Partners, as you work with other organizations that may in turn share your information, with us such as business associations, non-profit organizations, other job listing portals.
- Referrals including family, friends, job fairs, career fairs, schools, and universities, partners, events, etc
- Public information, for example, information that you share on social media, on your website, or through other channels.
- Third party tracking technologies, such as Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, and LinkedIn Pixel, which may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
Information You Provide to Us
- The information we collect directly from you on or through the Platform or through other means may include:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms, surveys or polls on the Platform, whether partially or fully submitted;
- Personal and other information provided to us during the registration process, subscribing to our service or products, submitting User Content, or requesting further services, complaints or inquires;
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us;
- Details of transactions you carry out through our Platform and of the fulfillment of your orders and listings. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order or listing through our Platform;
- Your search queries on the Platform.
Subject to the Terms of Service at https://mykibbi.com/legal/terms-of-use you may also provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “submitted”) on public areas of the Platform or transmitted to other users of the Platform or third parties (all of which are part of User Content). Your User Content is posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Platform with whom you may choose to share your User Content. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that unauthorized persons will not view your User Content.
Information We Collect Through Cookies and Other Automatic Data Collection Technologies
The information we collect directly from you on or through the Platform or through other means may include:
Information that you provide by filling in forms, surveys or polls on the Platform, whether partially or fully submitted;
- Personal and other information provided to us during the registration process, subscribing to our service or products, submitting User Content, or requesting further services, complaints or inquires;
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us;
- Details of transactions you carry out through our Platform and of the fulfillment of your orders and listings. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order or listing through our Platform;
- Your search queries on the Platform.
Subject to the Terms of Service at https://mykibbi.com/legal/terms-of-use you may also provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “submitted”) on public areas of the Platform or transmitted to other users of the Platform or third parties (all of which are part of User Content). Your User Content is posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Platform with whom you may choose to share your User Content. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that unauthorized persons will not view your User Content.
Information We Collect Through Cookies and Other Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Platform, we may use cookies or other automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
- Details of your visits to our Platform, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Platform;
- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We may also use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).
The information we collect automatically is statistical information that may include personal information, and we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways, that you provide to us, or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Platform and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Platform according to your individual interests;
- Match you for jobs or provide you with ‘job nearby’ notifications or other job recommendations;
- Rank profiles;
- Speed up your searches;
- Recognize you when you return to our Platform.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Platform. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Platform
- Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Platform may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Platform. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings that are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
- Web Beacons. Pages of our Platform and any correspondence may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
THIRD PARTY USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Some other content or applications on the Platform, including advertisements, are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Platform. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioural) advertising or other targeted content. In addition to helping advertisers reach the right people for their products and services, behavioural advertising helps support our Platform so that you can enjoy free content.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they are used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For more information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
- To present our Platform and its contents to you;
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us;
- To fulfill the purposes for which you provided the information or that were described when it was collected, or any other purpose for which you provide it;
- To provide you with notices about your account or subscription, including expiration and renewal notices;
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts with you, including for billing and collection or to comply with legal requirements;
- To verify the accuracy or appropriateness of any User Content for the purposes of monitoring our Platform and removing content;
- To notify you about changes to our Platform or any products or services we offer or provide though it;
- To improve our Platform, products or services, marketing, or customer relationships and experiences;
- To allow you to participate in interactive features, social media, or similar features on our Platform;
- To measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
- To study and generate industry and other macroeconomic information;
- To connect you with relevant third parties’ services;
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information or for any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services, our own and third parties’ that may be of interest to you, as permitted by law. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please use the unsubscribe mechanism at the bottom of our e-mails. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
- Directly on the Platform when you submit User Content;
- To our subsidiaries and affiliates, and in accordance with applicable law, to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets
- To third parties, such as community partners who contract with us in part for the provision of such information. We do not disclose data about identifiable individuals to these third parties, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our Users;
- To advertisers and advertising networks that require the information to select and serve relevant advertisements to you and others. We do not disclose data about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our Users;
- To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to/not opted out of these disclosures. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information;
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (such as analytics and search engine providers that assist us with Platform improvement and optimization) and who are contractually obligated to keep personal information confidential, use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them, and to process the personal information with the same standards set out in this policy; or · For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information or with your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request, in accordance with applicable law;
- To enforce or apply our Terms of Service at https://mykibbi.com/legal/terms-of-use including for billing and collection purposes; or · If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others.
TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may transfer personal information that we collect or that you provide as described in this policy to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (such as analytics and search engine providers that assist us with Platform improvement and optimization) and who are contractually obligated to keep personal information confidential, use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them, and to process the personal information with the same standards set out in this policy.
CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Platform may not be accessible or may not function properly.
- Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by following any instructions to unsubscribe or by emailing your request to legal@mykibbi.com.
- Promotional Offers from the Company. If you have opted in to receive certain emails from us but no longer wish to have your email address used by the Company to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by clicking the unsubscribe link we have included in the email.
We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt-out of several third party ad servers' and networks' cookies simultaneously by opt-out tools such as those created by Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada or Network Advertising Initiative. You can also access these to learn more about online behavioral advertising and how to stop websites from placing cookies on your device. Opting out of a network does not mean you will no longer receive online advertising. It does mean that the network from which you opted out will no longer deliver ads tailored to your web preferences and usage patterns.
DATA RETENTION
Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Under some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent
USERS UNDER THE AGE OF 14
The Platform is not intended for children under 14 years of age. No one under age 14 may provide any information to or on the Platform. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 14. If you are under 14, do not use or provide any information on this Platform or on or through any of its features/register on the Platform, make any purchases through the Platform, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Platform, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 14 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 14, please contact us at legal@mykibbi.com.
ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR PESONAL INFORMATION
It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes. By law you have the right to request access to and to correct the personal information that we hold about you. You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Platform and visiting your account profile page.
If you want to otherwise review, verify, correct, or withdraw consent to the use of your personal information you may also send us an email at legal@mykibbi.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and your right to access, and to provide you with the personal information that we hold about you or make your requested changes. Applicable law may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all the personal information that we hold about you, or we may have destroyed, erased, or made your personal information anonymous in accordance with our record retention obligations and practices. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal information, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.
If you delete your User Content from the Platform, copies of your User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Platform users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Platform, including User Content, is governed by our Terms of Service at https://mykibbi.com/legal/terms-of-use.
WITHDRAWING YOUR CONSENT
Where you have provided your consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your personal information, you may have the legal right to withdraw your consent under certain circumstances. To withdraw your consent, if applicable, contact us at legal@mykibbi.com. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with a particular product or service. We will explain the impact to you at the time to help you with your decision.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Platform.
We include the date the privacy policy was last revised at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active, and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Platform and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
CONTACT INFORMATION AND CHALLENGING COMPLIANCE
We welcome your questions, comments, and requests regarding this privacy policy and our privacy practices. Please contact us at legal@mykibbi.com or 400 53 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta, T2V 2B7, Attention: Privacy Officer.
We have procedures in place to receive and respond to complaints or inquiries about our handling of personal information, our compliance with this policy, and with applicable privacy laws. To discuss our compliance with this policy please contact our Privacy Officer using the contact information listed above.
