1. Our commitment to privacy

whYTiTi knows that you take your privacy seriously. We do, too. We are committed to be transparent with you about our data practices and to give you control over personal data we collect about you. We don’t sell your personal data and by default your settings are privacy friendly. By default, your trips are only visible to people following you and you have full control over who can follow you. In this Privacy Policy, we outline the reasons why we need to process your Personal Data and the manner in which it is processed. You will also read about your rights and what you can ask us to do with your personal data.

2. About whYTiTi

With whYTiTi you can plan, track and remember your trips by using our website (whytiti.com, “Website”) and/or mobile app (“App”, together “whYTiTi”). When you use whYTiTi we will process your personal data. This may include sensitive data about you, such as your location.

All personal data is collected, processed and secured in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We, whYTiTi, are controller of the personal data we process about you in relation to the use of our Website and App.

3. How do we process your personal data?

3.1 Creating an account

You can create an account to track your trips and follow others. When you register for an account, we ask you to provide some basic information about yourself, such as:

You can also use your Facebook, Apple or Google account to register. If you do so, we may gain access to public profile information such as your name, e-mail address and Apple, Facebook or Google ID.

We process this data as it is necessary to deliver whYTiTi to you (legal basis: the performance of the agreement).

3.2 Using whYTiTi with an account

As a registered user, you can start using whYTiTi. It is up to you how you use whYTiTi. You can add photos (with or without GPS tags), create trips, send treats to other users. Or you can manually enter the places you have been. You can share your trips with everyone, or just your friends or keep it entirely to yourself. And if you regret sharing certain information, you can delete it. Don’t want to track your travels? Feel free to use whYTiTi just to keep in touch with friends and family on the road. You are in control. We will explain this in detail below.

Depending on how you use whYTiTi, we process the following data:

We process this data as it is necessary for the performance of the agreement.

You can delete all of your added content whenever you like. When you do, it will no longer be visible to others and be deleted from our servers. You can also delete your entire account. When you do, we will delete all of your data 90 days after. If you haven’t used yhYTiTi for more than two years we will send you two reminders to ask you if you still want us to keep your data. If there is no response, we will permanently delete your account.

Finding your friends

You can find out which friends of yours are using whYTiTi by giving us access to your address book and/or your Facebook friends list. In case you opt to do so, we process the following data:

The legal basis is the performance of the agreement with you. We use this information to show you which friends of yours already have a whYTiTi account, and to let these friends know that you have joined. We do not store this information and we do not use this information for any other purpose.

Location data

With whYTiTi you can track your trips and the places that you visited based on the GPS tags in your pictures and routes. Each picture uploaded containing GPS tag will keep the GPS tag when uploaded to the platform. To remove GPS tags, user should use different software before uploading pictures.

You can also grant us access to your location for other purposes than tracking your route. With your (specific and separate) consent, we will collect your location when you open the app or occasionally in the background, to suggest adding a trip when it looks like you’re travelling. If you have given such consent, we only store your last known location and we never store your full location history (route) unless you have chosen otherwise.

If you don’t want to share your location anymore you can withdraw your consent, and deny us access through your device settings.

Sharing your travels

whYTiTi is a community. We allow you to not only keep track of your travels for yourself, but to share them with whomever you like.

You can change the sharing settings for a specific photo or trip at any time. For every individual photo or trip, you can choose with whom you want to share your experience:

The legal basis is the performance of the agreement with you.

Think carefully about which data you share and who you share it with. By default, your photos and trips are visible to the public. Please be aware that when you set your trip to public, anyone may be able to see your live location. Share responsibly!

3.3 Using whYTiTi without an account

You cannot view public photos and or trips.

3.4 Treats

You can send and receive treats from fellow users. To enable this, we need to link your account to the following service:

This is necessary for the performance of the agreement with you, for allowing you to send treats. 

For each received treat, 30% of said treat are charged by whYTiTi.

Example, you receive a beer and the user paid 2 euros to send you the beer. You well receive 1.4 euro for said beer.

3.5 Improving, securing and optimizing whYTiTi

whYTiTi is constantly in development. We need certain data to optimize your experience and to improve the services. This concerns, for example, the following data:

The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest to improve the App, by analyzing how the App is used, what problems are encountered and what improvements are necessary. We will limit this processing as much as possible, for instance by pseudonymizing the data.

3.6 Cookies

When you visit our App or Website, small text files are stored on your computer, smartphone or other device. These files are called cookies. Cookies help us to function, analyze and personalize the website. We do not make use of tracking cookies to personalize content or show advertisements. For detailed information on the use of cookies, see https://whYTiTi.com/cookie-policy.

3.7 Social Media

If you follow us on social media or communicate with us or about us on social media, we may have access to a part of your public profile data. whYTiTi also follows social media channels and may have access to public profile information by doing so.

We do this in order to increase our social media activity, respond to queries, and analyze customer satisfaction. The legal basis for this is our legitimate interest to improve our services.

3.8 Customer satisfaction surveys

whYTiTi conducts customer surveys in several ways. If you contact support or send a treat, you may receive an invitation to participate in a customer satisfaction surveys. For this purpose, we process information such as your e-mail address, the reason for sending you a survey and the results of the survey.

We use the results to improve the quality of our services and products. The legal basis is the performance of the agreement with you.

3.9 Mailings

You can subscribe to our mailings. For this, we need your name and email address. The legal basis for this is your consent. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ button in each email. If you are no longer subscribed, we will remove your name and email address from our mailing list.

You may also receive mails which are necessary for the performance of the agreement with you, such as a confirmation of your account creation, password reset request or changes to our legal documentation.

 

3.10 Payments

You can request payouts for the treats you have received. Payments are only possible when you have acquired €100,- or more worth of treats. To send the payment, we process the following data:

 

See section 3.4 Treats for more information on how we calculate your funds and or check the Terms of use.

3.11 Support

You can contact our support department for any issues related to our services. When you do, we process your account details and the contents of your issue, in order to answer your request, on the basis of the performance of the contract with you.

3.12 Contracting partners

We sometimes make use of contracting partners, such as IT providers. We may need to process some personal data of our contacts with such partners. We do this for the performance of the contract with these partners.

3.13 Protection of rights

Lastly, we may need to process your data to protect our rights or the rights of third parties and to enforce our Terms of Service or policies, for instance to protect our intellectual property rights when they are violated. We may also share your data as part of a business sale, merger, investment, change in control or transfer of whYTiTi. The legal basis for this are our legitimate business interests.

4. How do we share your personal data?

We have never sold your personal data to third parties for commercial purposes, and we have no intentions to do so in the future. We only share your personal data when necessary for offering our services, as described here.

We provide personal data to third parties who process personal data on our behalf. We enter into a processing agreement with our processors in which we legally bind our processors to process your personal data in accordance with the GDPR. We share data, for instance, with:

Other parties may also be involved in the performance of the agreement with you as an independent or joint controller. We will inform you about it when this is the case.

Your personal data will only be stored or processed outside the European Union (and the EEA) by us or by third parties if this is in accordance with the applicable regulations for the transfer of personal data to countries outside the European Union. This means that we will only transfer your personal data to countries outside the European Union if the European Commission has decided that the third country in question ensures an adequate level of protection, or if other appropriate safeguards are put in place, such as the use of unchanged standard data protection clauses that have been approved by the European Commission.

5. How do we secure your data?

whYTiTi takes the protection of personal data seriously and takes appropriate measures to prevent misuse, loss, unauthorized access, unwanted disclosure and unauthorized alteration.

6. What rights do you have?

As we explained above, most information you can already change in your account. You can see, edit, or delete individual trips by going to the settings of that trip. You can also download a copy of all your data or delete your account through your account settings. Also, when you have given us consent for certain processing activities, you can withdraw this consent at any time.

You have the right to access, correction or erasure of your data. You can also ask us to restrict the processing or transfer your personal data and you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.

To exercise these rights, contact us at support@whytiti.com. You can also submit a complaint to the Personal Data Authority.

Thank you for reading our privacy policy. We hope you trust us with your personal data. Travel safe and share responsibly!



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