Nikela Privacy Policy

Last updated Feb 10, 2023

1. About this Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how we process your personal data at Nikela. From now on, we'll call it the 'Policy'.

It applies to your use of all Nikela services henceforth referred to as 'Nikela Services'.

From time to time, we may develop new or offer additional services. They'll also be subject to this Policy, unless stated otherwise when we introduce them.

This Policy is not the Nikela Terms of Use, which is a separate document. The Terms of Use outline the legal contract between you and Nikela for using the Nikela Service. It also describes the rules of Nikela and your user rights

2. Your personal data rights and controls

Privacy laws give certain rights to individuals over their personal data.

Some rights only apply when Nikela uses a certain 'legal basis' to process your data. We explain each legal basis, and when Nikela uses each one, in Section 4 'Our purpose for using your personal data'.

You have a right to...

• Be informed of the personal data we process about you and how we process it.
• Request to know and access the personal data we process about you.
• Request that we amend or update your personal data where it’s inaccurate or incomplete.
• Request that we delete certain of your personal data.
• Request that we stop processing all or some of your personal data.
• Object to us processing your personal data.
• Request a copy of your personal data in electronic format and the right to transmit that personal data for use in another party’s service.
• Not be subject to a decision based solely on automated decision making (decisions without human involvement), including profiling, where the decision would have a legal effect on you or produce a similarly significant effect.
• Withdraw your consent to us collecting or using your personal data.

3. Personal data we collect about you

We collect the following data from you...

User Data

• Profile name
• Email
• Username
• Phone number
• Profile picture

Other Data

• Coarse location
• Payment and purchase data
• Usage data

4. Our purpose for using your personal data

We use the data we collect from you...

• To provide the Nikela Service in accordance with our contract with you. See Section 1 ‘About this Policy’ for what we mean by the Nikela Service.
• To provide further parts of the Nikela Service.
• To provide certain additional voluntary features of the Nikela Service. When this is the case, we will clearly ask for your consent.
• To understand, diagnose, troubleshoot, and fix issues with the Nikela Service.
• To evaluate and develop new features, technologies, and improvements to the Nikela Service.
• For marketing or advertising where the law requires us to collect your consent.
• To comply with a legal obligation that we are subject to.
• To comply with a request from law enforcement, courts, or other competent authorities.
• To fulfill contractual obligations with third parties.
• To take appropriate action with reports of intellectual property infringement and inappropriate content.
• To establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
• To conduct business planning, reporting, and forecasting.
• To process your payment.
• To detect and prevent fraud.
• To conduct research and surveys.

5. Sharing your personal data

This section sets out who receives personal data which is collected or generated through your use of the Nikela Service.

Publicly available information

The following personal data will always be publicly available on the Nikela Service (except to any user you have blocked):

• Your profile name
• Your username
• Your profile picture
• Your items that you posted
• Your followers and following,

You or another user can share certain information on third party services, like social media or messaging platforms. This includes:

• Your profile
• Any content you post on Nikela and details about that content

When this sharing occurs, the third party service may store a copy of it to support their features.

6. Data retention

We keep your personal data only as long as necessary to provide you with the Nikela Service and for Nikela's legitimate and essential business purposes, such as:

• maintaining the performance of the Nikela Service
• making data-driven business decisions about new features and offerings
• complying with our legal obligations
• resolving disputes

Here are some of the categories of our retention periods:

• Data retained until you remove it
• Data that expires after a specific period of time
• Data retained until your Nikela account is deleted
• Data retained for extended time periods for limited purposes

Criteria used to determine the retention periods include:

• What is the appropriate retention period to carry out our purpose?
• Do we need to keep data to ensure the service that users expect?
• Are users able to update or delete the data themselves?
• Do we need to keep the data to uphold our rules and keep our service safe?
• Is Nikela subject to a legal or contractual obligation to keep or delete the data?

7. Keeping your personal data safe

We're committed to protecting our users' personal data. We put in place appropriate technical and organizational measures to help protect the security of your personal data. However, be aware that no system is ever completely secure.

We have put various safeguards in place to guard against unauthorized access and unnecessary retention of personal data in our systems. These include pseudonymization, encryption, access, and retention policies.

To protect your user account, we encourage you to:

• use a strong password which you only use for your Nikela account
• never share your password with anyone
• limit access to your computer and browser
• log out once you have finished using the Nikela Service on a shared device

8. Children

The Nikela Service has a minimum 'Age Limit' in each country or region. The Nikela Service is not directed to children whose age:

• is under the age of 18 years
• makes it illegal to process their personal data

We do not knowingly collect or use personal data from children under the applicable Age Limit. If you're under the Age Limit, do not use the Nikela Service, and do not provide any personal data to us.

If you're a parent of a child under the Age Limit and become aware that your child has provided personal data to Nikela, contact us.

If we learn that we've collected the personal data of a child under the applicable Age Limit, we'll take reasonable steps to delete the personal data. This may require us to delete the Nikela account for that child.

9. Changes to this Policy

We may occasionally make changes to this Policy.

When we make material changes to this Policy, we'll provide you with prominent notice as appropriate under the circumstances. For example, we may display a prominent notice within the Nikela Service or send you an email or device notification.

10. How to contact us

For any questions or concerns about this Policy, contact our Data Protection Officer any one of these ways:

• email mihosystems+nikela@gmail.com

Nikela. is the data controller of personal data processed under this Policy.