INTRODUCTION
This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) explains how MDST Market Inc. (“MDST Market”, “we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses, and discloses personal information through its website and mobile application (the “App”, and collectively with the website, the “Services”).
INFORMATION COLLECTED AND HOW WE USE IT
As explained further in this section, you will have the opportunity to provide us with certain personal information. In addition, we may collect certain personal information automatically through your use of the Services. The rest of this section provides a more detailed explanation of the personal information we collect, how we use that personal information, and our lawful bases for processing that personal information.
Voluntarily Disclosed Information
The following table identifies the specific purposes for which you may voluntarily disclose personal information to us, along with our lawful bases for processing that personal information.
| Purpose for Collection | Type of Personal Information | How we collect that information | Lawful Basis for Processing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Account creation; communications about your use of the Services | Name, email address, phone number | Directly from you or from a third-party service through which you log in (e.g., Google, Facebook) | Our legitimate interest of maintaining the Services and communicating with you |
| Your use of the services | Photos, videos, physical measurements, information you include as part of your search, discovery, and sale efforts | Directly from you | Performance of a contract with you |
| Subscription and product purchases | Name, mailing address, email address, phone number, billing information | Collected by our Third-Party Payment Processor, but the billing information is not shared with us | Performance of a contract with you |
| To communicate with you if you reach out to use through the “Contact Us” form on our Services | Name, email address | Directly from you | Our legitimate interest of responding to your inquiries |
| Posting content and text to public portions of Services | Whatever personal information you choose to include in your posts | Directly from you | Performance of a contract with you |
| Direct messaging between users of the Services | Whatever personal information you choose to include in your messages | Directly from you and other users you message with on the Services | Performance of a contract with you |
| Marketing communications | Name, email address | Directly from you | Your consent |
Automatically Collected Information
Whenever you interact with the Services, we automatically receive and record certain information from your browser or device or based on your activity, which may include your IP address, device ID, search history and other activity on the Services. We collect this information for our legitimate interests of securing our Services and providing a smooth user experience on the Services. You can learn more about why we collect this data, and about the technologies we use to collect the data, in our Cookie Policy.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information as detailed in this section.
Personnel and Third Party Service Providers
We employ personnel and engage other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your personal information with them to provide products or services to you. For example, we use a third party payment processor to process payments on our behalf, so the payment processor will have access to your billing information. As another example, we may rely on a third-party provider for the operation of the chat functionality on our Services, and that provider will have access to information submitted through the chat.
Other Users
Please note that if you submit any information to a portion of the Services that is accessible by other users, including an online forum, comment section, or direct message, those users will be able to see that information. Accordingly, only include information in such submissions that you are comfortable sharing with other users.
Sellers
If you enter into a transaction with a seller through the Platform, we will share your personal information with the seller to the extent necessary for the transaction to be completed.
Third Party Applications
If you use third party applications (the “Third Party Apps”) within the Services, MDST Market will allow the providers of those Third Party Apps (the “Third Party Providers”) to access or use your personal information and User Content as required for the interoperation of the Third Party Apps and the Services. Any Third Party Provider’s use of your personal information and User Content is subject to the applicable agreement between you and the Third Party Provider. MDST Market is not responsible for any access to or use of your personal information or User Content by Third Party Providers. You are solely responsible for the decision to permit any Third Party Provider to use your personal information or User Content.
Analytics Services
We may use third party analytics vendors to better understand how visitors engage with our Services. These services will have access to certain information about your activity on our Services. Please see our Cookie Policy for more information about these tracking technologies and your options with respect to our use of those tracking technologies.
Business Transfers
If we (or our assets) are acquired, or if we go out of business, enter bankruptcy, or go through some other change of control, personal information could be one of the assets transferred to or acquired by a third party.
Legal Compliance
We reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information that we believe is necessary to comply with governmental requests, law enforcement or court orders, or enforce or apply our Terms of Service and other agreements.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
We may transfer the personal information of users from the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or United Kingdom to the United States. When doing so, we rely on adequacy decisions, data transfer agreements, or other legally compliant mechanisms for such transfers, including standard contractual clauses.
SECURITY
We use commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. In addition, we rely on the technical safeguards provided by the third party service providers we use to host, store, and process your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant that your personal information on the Services may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
YOUR RIGHTS
You may have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal information. You can learn more about your rights further down in this section.
Rights of Users in the EEA, Switzerland, and UK
- Request access to your personal information. You may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it. Where we have good reason, and where applicable law permits, we can refuse your request for a copy of your personal information, or certain elements of the request. If we refuse your request or any element of it, we will provide you with our reason(s) for doing so.
- Request correction of your personal information. You may request that we correct any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you.
- Request erasure of your personal information. You may request that we delete or remove personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You may also ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your personal information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal information to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request. You may not request the removal of de-identified, anonymous, or aggregate data from our databases.
- Right to Object to or Restrict Processing. In certain circumstances, you have the right to object to our processing of your personal information (for example, if we are processing your personal information on the basis of our legitimate interests but there are no longer any compelling legitimate grounds to justify our processing overriding your rights and interests). You may also restrict our processing of your personal information, for example during a period in which we are verifying the accuracy of your personal information in circumstances where you have challenged the accuracy of your personal information.
- Request the transfer of your personal information to you or to a third party. In certain instances, you have a right to receive the personal information that we hold about you (or a portion thereof) in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. In such circumstances, you can ask us to transmit your personal information to you or directly to a third-party organization on your behalf. While we are happy for such requests to be made, we are not able to guarantee technical compatibility with a third-party organization’s systems. We are also unable to comply with requests that relate to personal information of others without their consent.
- Withdraw consent. You may withdraw your consent for our processing of your personal information where we are relying on consent to process that personal information. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
Rights of All Other Users
Regardless of where you reside, through your settings, you may access, edit and delete your profile information. Please understand, however, that it may be impossible to delete this information completely, due to backups and records of deletions. In addition, we may deny a deletion request if (i) the denial is necessary for us to comply with applicable law, or (ii) the request pertains to content that you posted on a publicly available portion of the Services and that cannot be deleted without impacting the Services experience for other users. You may not request the removal of de-identified, anonymous, or aggregate data from our databases.
How to Exercise Your Rights
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out in Section 6.2, or if you have any questions about updating your profile information pursuant to Section 6.3, please contact us at privacy@mdstmarket.com.
Supervisory Authorities
We welcome and appreciate the chance to address any concerns you may have about the Policy and our collection and use of your personal information. To the extent you feel like we have not addressed your concerns, and depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to make a complaint at any time to your data protection supervisory authority. For end users in the EEA, you can find contact information for each country’s supervisory authority here. For end users in the UK, you can find contact information for the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on the ICO’s website here.
RETENTION OF INFORMATION
Subject to your right to request deletion of your personal information in accordance with Section 6, we will retain your personal information as long as needed for your use of the Services, your approved receipt of marketing communications from us, our compliance with legal obligations, and to protect our or other’s interests.
HOW WE RESPOND TO DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS
We will honor your exercise of your rights with respect to your personal information in accordance with Section 6. Apart from those rights, we do not respond to “Do Not Track” signals.
AGE OF USERS
Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to use, access or register for the Services in any way. We do not knowingly collect or solicit information from anyone under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.
CHANGES TO POLICY
We’re constantly trying to improve the Services, so we may need to change this Policy from time to time as well. The date of the last modification will be posted at the beginning of this Policy. It is your responsibility to check from time to time for updates. By continuing to access or use the Services, you are indicating that you agree to be bound by the modified Policy.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Policy, please send us a detailed message to privacy@mdstmarket.com, and we will try to resolve your concerns.
MDST Market Cookie Policy
This Cookie Policy provides information about cookies and similar technologies, such as web tokens and SDKs (collectively referred to as “tracking technologies” in this policy), how we and third parties use them on the Services, and how you can manage our use of tracking technologies with respect to your experience on the Services.
What Are Cookies and Web Tokens?
A cookie is a small text file that can be stored on and accessed from your device when you visit and use our Services. The Services use cookies to analyze trends on the Services and track your movements around the Services.
Web tokens are small digital codes we use to keep you securely logged in and to verify your identity while you use the Services.
Tracking Technologies That We Use
We may use tracking technologies for authentication of users, session management, remembering user preferences, and analyzing activity on the Services. For example, we use the Google Firebase SDK in order to track how our users interact with the Services.
Your Choices With Tracking Technologies
Please review your web browser settings to see how you may be able to modify your cookie settings, to disable the use of cookies, or to delete cookies. The National Advertising Initiative provides a helpful overview for disabling cookies.