Poster Privacy Policy
At Poster we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We take your privacy seriously and will use your personal information (or data) to administer your account and to provide the services Poster provides only after obtaining your consent for the collection and processing of your personal data on the terms specified below. We tried to write it as clear and in as plain as only our lawyers could manage to do. By doing so we hope you will get all information to be assured your personal information is safe with us.
This Privacy Policy explains when where and why we collect personal information about people who use the Poster, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, your rights in respect of your personal information as well as how we keep it secure.
We may change the Policy from time to time so please check this page to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. The additional notifications on any amendments shall be sent to your Poster account. If within one week after the notification is sent you continue to use Poster, you will be considered as having accepted all the amendments made, unless there is an obligation set on Poster by law to obtain your explicit consent for the amendments. This can be a case when, for example the nature of your data processing and purposes for processing changes significantly.
Any questions regarding this Policy and our services should be sent to [email protected].
1. What is Poster?
We believe that since you chose Poster for use you are familiar with the main focus of our services and business, and you have also of course got yourself acquainted with our Terms and Conditions. We will point at it once more for better understanding of the purposes your personal information is being collected and processed according to this Privacy Policy. So Poster is a cloud-based tablet Point of Sale platform that offers cafes, shops and restaurants a simple platform from which to manage sales, inventory and marketing activity managed by
Poster Pos Inc., a company registered at Dover, Country of Kent, 160 Greentree Drive, Suite 101, 19904, Delaware, USA.
Restaurant Automation Limited, a company registered at ROOM 5A 11D MARVEL INDUSTRIAL BUILDING BLOCK B, 17-23 KWAI FUNG CRESCENT, KWAI FONG, Kwai Tsing District, New Territories, HONG KONG.
2. What is personal information and what is processing or personal information?
Personal information (or data) is any information relating to you and that alone or in cumulation with other pieces of information gives the opportunity to the person that collects and processes such information to identify you as a person. It can be your name, your identification number, your location data, or information related to your physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social life. Processing of the information means any action with your personal data, for example, collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, use, disclosure by any means and so on.
3. What type of information is collected from you?
Poster may collect personal information such as name, email address, telephone number, address as well as aggregate information such as frequency of visits to website, IP address, site pages most frequently accessed, browser type. Aggregate information is non-personally identifiable/anonymous information about users of the Poster’s platform. Aggregate information is used in a collective manner and no single person can be identified directly by that compiled information.
4. Why does Poster collect information from you?
As you can see there is not much personal information Poster collects from you. Nevertheless, all the information Poster collects is crucial for the operation of the Poster platform. Poster collects and uses the information to:
4.1. understand your needs and provide services that is relevant to you;
4.2. boost the quality of the services you get from Poster platform including via personalization of the services;
4.3. generate statistical studies;
4.4. conduct market research and planning;
4.5. help you to complete a transaction, or provide services or customer support;
4.6. communicate back to you;
4.7. update you on services, information, and products, or, in other words send you some marketing information;
4.8. notify you of any crucial information or changes within the platform which may affect you;
4.9. enforce terms of use within the platform;
4.10. administer the platform including performing troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
4.11. keep the platform safe and secure;
4.12. to conduct anonymized general statistical analyses of the Food & beverage market.
If Poster decides to change the purposes of processing specified above, we will inform you on such changes prior to use your personal information within the newly set purposes. The notification on such changes will be sent to your account dashboard and/or your email.
5. Who will get access to your personal information?
In order to provide high-quality services within the platform Poster hires people, enters into agreements with independent contractors as well as cooperates with other services providers, companies and organizations. For that reasons some of your personal information can be passed to the persons mentioned. In order to achieve the platform goals in a best way the Poster uses various technologies and services including the one that can be provided and/or hosted in other countries. Your data may thus be accessed by the IT services contractors of Poster in USA, Ukraine or other countries that are not members of European Economic Area. The transfer of your data to the recipients in these countries are secured by the Standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission and compliant with the EU data protection laws. By registering within the Poster platform and by using it you agree to such transfer and processing within the purposes set in Section 4 of this Privacy Policy.
In all cases we pass the information to other persons we ensure that your information is being protected and used only within the purposes specified in Section 4 of this Privacy Policy. This is achieved by using only certified services and products, signing agreements on protection of personal data with contractors as well as taking technical measures to ensure the information is protected when stored, used and while being transferred. You also have to be aware of the fact that Poster may disclose your personal information to enforce and comply with the law. In other words, Poster may disclose to officials information necessary for the investigation or legal process on official request or the official bodies acting within their power.
6. How long will the personal information be processed and stored by Poster?
Your personal information will be stored by Poster within the term of your use of the platform and up to your termination of such use which means the deletion of your account from Poster platform. Poster shall terminate the processing of your personal information unless the special retention period for the storage of such data is set by the relevant legislation.
7. Your rights regarding your personal information Poster collects and processes
7.1. You have a right to request Poster to access to your personal information That means that you can ask Poster what personal information of yours is being processed as well as for the clarifications on the information described above, i.e. purpose of collecting and processing, period of processing, third parties that have access to information.
7.2. You have a right to request Poster to rectify your personal information This means you can ask all the inaccurate personal information concerning you being corrected. You can also complete the personal information if you feel there is a need to do so.
7.3. You have a right to request Poster to erase personal information You can request Poster to erase such data if its processing is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected as well as if there are no legal grounds for the processing. In most cases Poster will erase it unless otherwise will be required by legislation.
7.4. You have a right to request Poster to restrict the processing of your personal information In some cases, prescribed by law you will be able to restrict the processing of your personal data, for example if you contest the accuracy of your personal information being processed or in case Poster will not be interested to process your personal information any longer, but you will want Poster to do this on different reasons, for example, to bring some claim for somebody and instead of the erasure of information its processing will be just restricted.
7.5. You have a right to withdraw consent You can withdraw your consent for the collection and processing of your personal information by Poster at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. After we at Poster receive such withdrawal from you we will process it in a timely manner and no longer process such information unless the obligation to proceed is set by law. The phrase «in timely manner» is deciphered below.
If you have any request to Poster related to the use of your rights, please drop us a line here [email protected]
8. Time for reply and reaction
Poster will provide information on action taken on your request related to your rights specified above within one month of receipt of the request for the longest. That period may be extended by two further months if Poster is overwhelmed by the number of the requests. Poster will inform you of any such extension within one month of receipt of the request, together with the reasons for the delay.
9. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that is empowered to process such complaints in your country.
10. How Poster protects personal information?
Poster takes technical and organizational measures to ensure the information is processed in a manner that ensures appropriate security of information, including protection against unauthorised or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage.
11. Cookies
What are cookies? These are tiny pieces of code that remains in your computer after you have visited some website. These pieces then enable the server to provide you with the information that is customized with your needs when you use some platform or website for the next time.
If you visited our website and come here, to the Privacy Policy, the cookies consent form was the first you had to notice on the website. Please see the detailed information on these tiny tools in our Cookies Policy here. The Cookies Policy is a part of this Privacy Policy.
12. Are you already 16 years old?
The privacy of children is one of our concerns as well. Here at Poster we can provide services only in case you as the user are aged 16 or older. If you are under 16 you will need to get your parent’s/guardian’s permission before submission any private information to Poster.
We hope this Privacy Policy helped you to understand how your personal information will be dealt with here at Poster. Do not be afraid – we will take care of it in order the platform will only help you to do your staff and not to be concerned over your privacy at Poster. So, enjoy our platform!
If you have any request to Poster, please drop us a line here [email protected], we will be happy to help and chat.
Your Poster team.