Global Privacy Policy
Introduction
This Global Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how Gigsterr Pty.Ltd. and its affiliates will gather, use, and maintain your Personal Information on the Gigsterr Platform. It will also explain your legal rights with respect to that information.
By using the Gigsterr Platform, you confirm that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy, and our Global Terms of Service (together referred to herein as the “Agreement”). The Agreement governs the use of the Gigsterr Platform. Gigsterr will collect, use, and maintain information consistent with the Agreement.
If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights and choices, please contact us as set out in the “Contact Us” section below.
General Terms
In this Privacy Policy:
Gigsterr, Pty.Ltd. may be referred to as "Gigsterr," “we,” “our,” or “us.”
We call a user of the Gigsterr Platform “User,” “Users,” “Gigsterr”, “Gigsterr Provider”, “you,” “your,” or “Client” and “Tasker,” as appropriate.
The community platform that we offer at our website www.Gigsterr.app is referred to as the “Site”.
The mobile applications (whether on iOS or Android) are referred to as the “Apps.”
Gigsterr’s Site, Apps and related services, information and communications are collectively referred to as the “Gigsterr Platform.”
“Terms of Service” refers to our Global Terms of Service, which can be found here. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into, and considered a part of, the Terms of Service.
Information Collection
Information you provide to Gigsterr
Gigsterr collects certain personally identifiable information about you, including information that can identify, relate to, describe, be associated with you, or is reasonably capable of being associated with you (“Personal Information”). Examples of Personal Information that Gigsterr collects include but are not limited to:
Contact Information. This may include your first and last name, postal address, telephone number, and email address.
Billing Data, including your payment instrument number (such as a credit or debit card number), expiration date, and security code as necessary to process your payments.
Identity Information. If you are a Tasker (Gigsterr), we may collect Personal Information, such as your date of birth and address, national identification number, together with the result of basic criminal record checks as provided by you, or by our Third-Party Agents (as defined below), as applicable and to the extent permitted by law in your jurisdiction, as well as such information as may be needed to validate your identity.
Financial Information. To help Taskers (Gigsterr Providers) set up a payment account and help Clients make payments to Taskers and pay fees to Gigsterr, we may collect financial information, including credit card number, bank routing numbers, tax information, taxpayer identification number, and other payment information, as applicable. We use Financial Information in order to operate the Gigsterr Platform and to ensure that Taskers are paid by Clients. We do this as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing our platform and services and to fulfill our contracts with Users. To keep your financial data secure, we have contracted with a third party to maintain and process your payment information.
Promotional Information. Certain offerings of the Gigsterr Platform, such as newsletters, surveys, contests, and the like are optional and so you are not required to enter them or to give us your data in connection with them. Where you do consent to take advantage of Gigsterr Platform offerings, we will use your data to (as applicable) send you newsletters and other communications that are tailored based on information we have about you, or to operate and manage the survey, contest or similar offering in connection with our legitimate interest in promoting our business and the Gigsterr Platform. To opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us, please see Section 7, Your Rights and Choices.
Employment Information. We collect employment and education history, transcripts, writing samples, and references as necessary to consider your job application for open positions.
Content Information. You also may choose to send Gigsterr Personal Information in an email or chat message containing inquiries about the Gigsterr Platform and we use this Information in order to help us respond to your inquiry. We also collect content within any messages you exchange with other Users through the Gigsterr Platform (such as through our chat functionality).
We require that you furnish certain information when you register an account with us in order to provide services through the Gigsterr Platform. For example, if you are a Client, we collect your first and last name, email address, and location in order to create and administer your Gigsterr account. We also collect additional information in order to facilitate your booking request, such as information about the task you are seeking, the time, date and location of the task, and Billing Data. If you are a Tasker, we collect your first and last name, email address, mobile phone number and address in order to create and administer your Gigsterr account and facilitate communications between you and your Clients through the Gigsterr Platform. We also collect information about your tasks, rates, and skills, as well as Identity Information and Financial Information.
Third Party Information.
Gigsterr may work with Third-Party Agents to perform identity checks and criminal background checks on Taskers, if applicable and permitted by local law, in order to advance our legitimate interests in ensuring the safety of our Users and maintaining the integrity of the Gigsterr Platform.
Information Gigsterr Collects Automatically
We automatically collect certain information when you use the Gigsterr Platform. The categories of information we automatically collect and have collected, including in the last 12 months, are as follows:
Service Use Data, including data about features you use, pages you visit, emails and advertisements you view, portions of the Gigsterr Platform that you view and interact with, the time of day you browse, and your referring and exiting pages.
Device Data, including data about the type of device or browser you use, your device’s operating system, your internet service provider, your device’s regional and language settings, and device identifiers such as IP address and Ad Id. When you visit and interact with the Gigsterr Platform, Gigsterr may collect certain information automatically through cookies or other technologies, including, but not limited to, the type of computer or mobile device you use, your mobile device’s unique device ID, the IP address of your computer or mobile device, your operating system, the type(s) of internet browser(s) you use, and information about the way you use the Gigsterr Platform (“Device Information”). We may use Device Information to monitor the geographic regions from which Users navigate the Gigsterr Platform, and for security and fraud prevention purposes. Use of any IP-masking technologies or similar technologies (like the TOR network) may render portions of the Gigsterr Platform unavailable and are forbidden on the Gigsterr Platform.
Location Data, including imprecise location data (such as location derived from an IP address or data that indicates a city or postal code level), and, with your consent, precise location data (such as latitude/longitude data). When you visit the Gigsterr Platform via a native mobile application, we use, with your consent when required under applicable law, GPS technology (or other similar technology) to determine your current location in order to determine the city you are located in and display a relevant location map. We will not share your current location obtained in this manner with other Users.
Cookies and similar technologies are described in our Cookie Policy, which sets out the different categories of cookies and similar technologies that the Gigsterr Platform uses and why we use them.
Gigsterrs use of Information
We collect and use information for business and commercial purposes in accordance with the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Our business purposes for collecting and using information include:
To operate and make available the Gigsterr Platform. We use your data to connect you with other Users to enable the posting of, selection for, completion of, and payment for Tasks, in order to fulfill our contracts with Users;
For billing and fraud prevention, on the basis of our legitimate interests in ensuring a safe and secure environment in which Clients and Taskers can meet and conduct business, and in order to comply with our legal obligations;
To conduct identification and criminal background checks, if applicable and to the extent permitted by local law, on Users, in order to advance our legitimate interests as well as for the substantial public interest of ensuring the safety of our Users both online and offline, preventing or detecting unlawful acts, protecting the public against dishonesty, and maintaining the integrity of the Gigsterr Platform given that Taskers often interact directly with Clients and may enter their homes;
To analyze Gigsterr Platform usage as necessary for our legitimate interest in improving the Gigsterr Platform to grow our business;
To contact you and deliver (via email, SMS, push notifications, or otherwise) transactional information, administrative notices, marketing notifications, offers and communications relevant to your use of the Gigsterr Platform, with your consent when required under applicable law, as necessary for our legitimate interests in proper communication and engagement with our Users, and in promoting our business;
To provide you with customer support in order to fulfill our contracts with Users;
For internal market research for our legitimate interest in improving the Gigsterr Platform to grow our business;
For troubleshooting problems for our legitimate interests in ensuring a safe and secure environment in which Users can meet;
To assist Users in the resolution of complaints and disputes between them, as necessary for our legitimate interests in facilitating good relations among Users;
To enforce our Terms of Service and our legitimate interests in ensuring our Agreement is complied with; and
As otherwise set forth in the Agreement.
Interest-Based Advertising. Ads are a standard part of user experience on the Internet, and Gigsterr believes that targeted advertising enhances this experience. Gigsterr and affiliate third parties may use cookies and other technologies to place ads where they believe interested Users will see them. In addition to banner ads, Gigsterr may advertise products, companies and events that we think might interest you through the email address and/or phone number you provide. We may incorporate Tracking Technologies on the Gigsterr Platform (including our website and emails) as well as into our ads displayed on other websites and services. Some of these Tracking Technologies may track your activities across time and services for purposes of associating the different devices you use, and delivering relevant ads and/or other content to you (“Interest-Based Advertising”).
For more information and to understand your choices regarding third-party ads, please see our Cookie Policy. Advertising and marketing is carried out as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing an engaging and relevant experience, promoting our services, and growing our business.
Analytics and Market Analysis. Gigsterr may analyze information (“Market Analysis”) as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing an engaging and relevant experience, and promoting and growing the Gigsterr Platform.
Gigsterr uses information to offer services to Users who express an interest in these services, through a poll for example, or to Users who can be presumed to have an interest based on results from our Market Analysis. We do this as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing an engaging and relevant experience, promoting our services, and growing our business.
Cell Phone Numbers. Gigsterr may use your cell phone number to call or send recurring text messages to you, using an autodialer or prerecorded voice, in order to provide you notifications about Tasks, for marketing purposes (with your consent where required by law), and to administer the Gigsterr Platform. If you would like more information about our policy, or how to opt out, please review the “Your Rights and Choices” section below. You may be liable for standard SMS and per-minute charges by your mobile carrier. Gigsterr may also message you via push notifications (with your consent when required under applicable law), which you can opt-out of on your mobile device. Data rates may apply.
Call recordings. Calls to or from Gigsterr or its Third Party Agents may be monitored and recorded for the purposes of quality control and training. Such calls may contain Personal Information.
Information Sharing
We only share the Information we collect about you as described in this Privacy Policy or as described at the time of collection or sharing, including as follows:
Third Party Agents. We share information, including Identity Information, with entities that process information on our behalf for our business purposes. We contractually prohibit our Third-Party Agents from retaining, using, or disclosing information about you for any purposes other than performing the services for us, although we may permit them to use information that does not identify you (including information that has been aggregated or de-identified) for any purpose except as prohibited by applicable law.
To operate the Gigsterr Platform, including processing your transactions, we may share your Personal Information with our agents, representatives, vendors and service providers (“Third Party Agents”) so they can provide us with support services as follows:
Email origination;
Identity checks and criminal background checks to the extent permitted by applicable law;
Fraud prevention and detection. Our fraud detection providers also use information relating to you and your use of and activity on the Gigsterr Platform to provide fraud detection services to their other clients;
Receipt, invoice, or support services;
Customer relationship management services;
Data analytics;
Marketing and advertising;
Website hosting;
Communications services;
Technical support;
Financial transaction fulfillment (in which we are currently supported by Paystack, who processes your Personal Information in accordance with its own privacy policy) and related chargeback and collection services; and
To otherwise help us provide the Gigsterr Platform.
Promotions. When you voluntarily enter a sweepstakes, contest, or other promotion, we share information as set out in the official rules that govern the promotion as well as for administrative purposes and as required by law (e.g., on a winners’ list). By entering a promotion, you agree to the official rules that govern that promotion, and may, except where prohibited by applicable law, allow the sponsor and/or other entities to use your name, voice, and/or likeness in advertising or marketing materials. We may occasionally contact you, if you want us to, with information about special events, activities, promotions, contects, submission opportunities, and programs. You always have the ability, in your Account, to ask Gigsterr not to contact you with this type of information. Please see Section 7, Your Rights and Choices, for more information.
Matched Ads. We reserve the right to use Matched Ads by sharing personal information with another party or incorporating a pixel from another party into our own Sites, and the other party matching common factors between our data and their data or other datasets for advertising purposes. Gigsterr does not utilise matched ads at this time.
Other Users. Gigsterr facilitates contact between Clients and Taskers and reserves the right to share one User’s contact information (e.g., name, phone number, email, or address) with other Users, or with the recipient User’s legal or other authorized representative, in order to: (1) facilitate or communicate the resolution of an investigation or dispute related to or arising from an interaction between two or more Users of the Gigsterr Platform; or (2) facilitate the performance of a Task. This exchange of information is essential to the operation of the Gigsterr Platform.
Legal Obligations. Gigsterr and our Third Party Agents may disclose your Personal Information or User Generated Content to courts, law enforcement, governmental or public authorities, tax authorities or authorised third parties, if and to the extent required or permitted to do so by law or where disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with Gigsterr’s legal or regulatory obligations; (ii) respond to a court order, warrant or subpoena; (iii) respond to a valid legal request relating to an investigation into alleged criminal or illegal activity; or (iv) respond to or address any other activity that may expose us to legal or regulatory liability.
In jurisdictions where Gigsterr is, according to applicable law, required to collect or remit information about Users’ permits, licences, tax, or other registrations, Gigsterr and our Third Party Agents may disclose information, including but not limited to, User contact details, identification information, transaction dates and amounts, license and permit status, and tax identification number(s) to applicable governmental authorities.
Gigsterr reserves the right to disclose Personal Information from both private and public areas of the Gigsterr Platform in the absence of a court order, warrant, or subpoena, to the extent permitted by applicable law, if we are given reason to believe, in our sole discretion, that someone is causing injury to or interfering with the rights of Users, the general public, or Gigsterr or its partners or affiliates.
It is our policy to provide notice to Users before producing their information in response to law enforcement requests unless (i) we are prohibited or otherwise constrained by law or court order from doing so, (ii) we have reason to believe the User’s account has been compromised such that the notice would go to the wrong person, or notice would otherwise be counterproductive or would create a risk to safety, or (iii) it is an emergency request and prior notice would be impractical (in which case we may provide notice after the fact).
Merger or Acquisition. Gigsterr reserves the right to share information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any proposed or actual merger, purchase, sale, or any other type of acquisition or business combination of all or any portion of our assets, or transfer of all or a portion of our business to another business.
Public Areas. Your profile on the Gigsterr Platform consists of information about you and your business, and may include information such as photographs, your years in business, skills and expertise, hourly pay rates, feedback/rating information, and other information, including your username (“Profile”). The information in your User Profile may be visible to all Users and the general public. If you choose to post a Task via the Gigsterr Platform, the contents of such listing will be viewable to Taskers on the Gigsterr Platform.
Your Rights and Choices
You may opt-out of receiving promotional communications from us, including promotional communications related to the Gigsterr Platform, and request the removal of your Personal Information from our databases, or deactivate your account, by logging on to the Site or App and clicking on the “Account” tab, or by contacting us.
Account Settings. During registration you choose whether to receive marketing correspondence from Gigsterr. This information remains on your Profile where you can, at any point, easily edit it. After logging on, click on the “Account” tab, then select “Notifications” to make your preferred selections.
Push Notifications. You have the option to receive updates and relevant offers via push notifications in your app. These notifications can be configured in the settings of your mobile device at any time. Please note that disabling this feature may impact your ability to use the Apps.
Corrections to Profile. You have the right to access, update, and correct inaccuracies in your Gigsterr Profile at any time by logging in and clicking on the “Account” tab. There, you can view, update, and correct your Account information.
Promotional Communications. You can opt out of receiving promotional communications from Gigsterr via the Account tab in your Profile. In addition, you can opt out of email marketing by clicking on the unsubscribe link in any message. You can opt out of promotional communications from Gigsterr sent via text message at any time by following the instructions provided in those messages to text the word "STOP". Please note that your opt-out is limited to the phone number used and will not affect subsequent subscriptions. If you opt-out of only certain communications, other subscription communications may continue. Even if you opt-out of receiving promotional communications, Gigsterr will continue to send you non-promotional communications, such as those about your account, Tasks, transactions, servicing, or Gigsterr’s ongoing business relationship with you. If you receive unsolicited promotional communications from a Gigsterr, please let us know here.
Gigsterr's Information Retention Policy
We retain personal data for as long as you are a User in order to meet our contractual obligations to you, and for such longer period as may be in our legitimate interests and to comply with our legal obligations. We may also retain data from which you cannot directly be identified, for example where stored against a randomly-generated identifier so we know the data relates to a single User, but we cannot tell who that User is. We use this kind of data for research purposes and to help us develop and improve our services, and we take appropriate measures to ensure you cannot be re-identified from this data.
Gigsterr's Security of Collected information
Your Gigsterr account is password-protected so that only you and authorised Gigsterr staff have access to your account information. In order to maintain this protection, do not give your password to anyone. Also, if you share a mobile device, you should sign out of your Gigsterr account and close the app. This will help protect your information from disclosure to third parties.
Gigsterr implements and maintains reasonable administrative, physical, and technical security safeguards to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. Gigsterr has staff dedicated to maintaining this Privacy Policy and other privacy initiatives, periodically reviewing security, and making sure that every Gigsterr employee is aware of our security practices. Nevertheless, transmission via the internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of information about you.
Notification of Changes
Gigsterr's Privacy Policy is periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary. This Privacy Policy might change as Gigsterr updates and expands the Gigsterr Platform. Gigsterr will endeavor to notify you of any material changes by email. Gigsterr also encourages you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.
Children's Privacy
This service is intended for a general audience, and is not directed at children under 18 years of age. Only users over the age of 18 years are permitted to use the Apps.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the manner in which we or our Third-Party Agents treat your Personal Information, the practices of the Site, your dealings with the Gigsterr Platform, or if you have technical problems, you may contact us here.
Gigsterr's staff will respond to all mail or emails from Users with questions about privacy, including the types of Personal Information stored on the Gigsterr databases, and requests to know, delete or rectify such Personal Information.
Gigsterr does not generally sell information as the term “sell” is traditionally understood. However, to the extent “sale” under the CCPA is interpreted to include advertising technology activities such as those disclosed in Section 5, Gigsterr’s Use of Information, as a “sale,” we will comply with applicable law as to such activity.
Gigsterr reserves the right to disclose the following categories of information for commercial purposes:
Commercial Information;
Demographic Data;
Location Data;
Identifiers;
Inferences; and
Internet activity.
We use and partner with different types of entities to assist with our daily operations and manage the Gigsterr Platform. Please review Section 6, Information Sharing, for more detail about the parties with which we share Personal Information.
Authorized Agent. You can designate an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf. However, we will require written proof of the agent’s permission to do so and verify your identity directly.
Right to Non-Discrimination. You have the right to non-discriminatory treatment by us, should you exercise any of your rights.
Your Rights. You have the following rights under certain circumstances:
A right of access: you have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether personal data concerning you are processed or not and, if processed, to obtain access to such data and a copy thereof;
A right to rectification: you have the right to obtain the rectification of any inaccurate personal data concerning you. You also have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement;
A right to erasure: in some cases, you have the right to obtain the erasure of personal data concerning you. However, this is not an absolute right and Gigsterr may have legal or legitimate grounds for keeping such data;
A right to restriction of processing: in some cases, you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data;
A right to data portability: you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you which you have provided to Gigsterr, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from Gigsterr. This right only applies when the processing of your personal data is based on your consent or on a contract and such processing is carried out by automated means.
A right to object to processing: you have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to processing of personal data concerning you when such processing is based on the legitimate interest of Gigsterr. Gigsterr may, however, invoke compelling legitimate grounds for continued processing. When your personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of such data. You can change your marketing preferences at any time as described in Section 7, Your Rights and Choices.
A right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority: if your request or concern is not satisfactorily resolved by us, you may approach your local data protection authority. Protection of Personal Information Act can provide further information about your rights and our obligations in relation to your personal data, as well as deal with any complaints that you have about our processing of your personal data.
You can exercise your rights by contacting us here.
