1. Scope of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how we may collect and use your personal information when you use our products and services, including those offered through our websites, communications (including without limitation phone calls, texts, chatbots and emails), and mobile applications (collectively, the “Service“).
The terms “we”, “us”, and “SokoMjinga” refer to SokoMjinga Inc., a Texas Corporation with its headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy have the same meaning as defined in SokoMjinga’s Terms of Service.
2. The Service
As additionally detailed below, we process your personal information for various purposes related to the Service, including, but not limited to, providing the Service’s functionality, fulfilling your requests, improving the Service, conducting research and analysis relating to the Service, personalizing your experience, monitoring usage of the Service, providing feedback to businesses listed on the Service, displaying advertising, providing customer support, communicating with you, maintaining system and data backups, enhancing the security of the Service, and complying with legal obligations.
3. Data You Share With Us
When you use our Service, we may collect and use personal information that you share with us as described below.
| Categories of Data |
Description and Summary |
How We Use It |
| Account Information |
When your account is created, we collect, store and use certain information. Such information may include: First and last name, Email address, Physical address, Zip code, Gender, Phone number, Birth date, Profile photo. |
We publicly display the first name and last initial that you provide us, as well as any other information you choose to associate with your account. We may use account information to better personalize your experience, make more relevant recommendations, and for advertising or advert attribution. If you have both a consumer and business account, we may associate both accounts. |
| Business Information |
If you represent a business, we may collect and publicly display relevant information, such as your business name, address, and professional background. |
We collect and display information about you related to that business on SokoMjinga, and may import content from your business website to keep your business information up to date. |
| Public Content |
Your contributions to SokoMjinga are intended for public display, such as reviews, photos, videos, and interactions. |
Your contributions to the Service are accessible to the public, including your reviews, photos, and ratings. We collect and store this content along with its metadata (e.g., date, time, location). If you transact with a business and review it, we may publicly display the fact that you transacted with them. |
| Contacts |
You can invite others to join SokoMjinga by providing their contact information or granting access to your device or third-party contacts. |
We use this information to process your invitations or friend requests. |
| Communications |
You may receive messages from users, businesses, and SokoMjinga. SokoMjinga may track your interactions, collect and store communications, and share status updates on requests with businesses. |
We use communications data to process and deliver messages, share status updates with other parties (e.g., businesses you contact), and may monitor, record, or review messages for quality or investigations. |
| Transactions |
When you transact on SokoMjinga, we collect relevant details to process the transaction, send updates, and facilitate future transactions. |
We collect and store information (name, contact info) to process your transaction and facilitate future requests. This information may be shared with third parties (e.g., the restaurant) as necessary. |
| Sensitive Personal Information |
You may choose to allow SokoMjinga to collect certain sensitive personal information, like precise geolocation, to enhance the Services, personalization, and ads. |
We use precise geolocation to provide Services, personalize your experience, make recommendations, and for advertising or ad attribution. You can limit or disallow our collection via your device or browser settings. |
4. Data We Collect From Your Use of Our Service
We collect personal information in connection with your use of the Service as described below.
| Categories of Data |
Description and Summary |
How We Use It |
| Activity |
SokoMjinga may collect and store data about your activity, device, and location when using the Service (e.g., searches, pages viewed, IP address, advertising identifier). |
We use this activity to personalize the Service (e.g., default locations, search results) and to personalize ads and for ad attribution. |
| Device Information |
SokoMjinga collects data across devices and platforms, combining information for a seamless SokoMjinga experience. |
The information collected through different devices and platforms may be cross-referenced and combined. |
| Mobile Identifiers, Cookies and Tracking Technologies |
SokoMjinga may use your device’s mobile advertising identifier (IDFA, GAID) to show relevant ads and measure performance. SokoMjinga and its third-party providers use Cookies for functionality, security, personalization, ads, and analytics. |
We use these identifiers to deliver and measure ads. Cookies (Essential, Functional, Analytics, Advertising/Marketing) are used to enhance and personalize your experience. |
5. Data We Collect From Third Parties
In order to better provide our Service, we may collect personal information about you from third parties as described below.
| Categories of Data |
Description and Summary |
How We Use It |
| Acquired Data |
SokoMjinga may obtain information from third parties, including public sources, to better identify and contact business representatives. |
This data is used to communicate with business representatives about their presence on SokoMjinga and to improve the accuracy of business pages. |
| SokoMjinga’s Role as a Service Provider |
SokoMjinga may collect your information on behalf of businesses (e.g., reservation details). Third parties may also share your information with SokoMjinga for advertising or other services. |
We share this information with the business to fulfill your requests (e.g., reservation). We receive information from third parties to provide services to them (e.g., displaying ads). |
| SokoMjinga’s Service Providers |
We rely on third-party service providers (e.g., for security, marketing). |
These service providers may collect and share certain types of information with us in the course of providing their services. We contractually require them to use your personal information solely on our behalf. |
6. Data We Share With Third Parties
When you use our Service, we may share information about you with our affiliates, businesses and advertisers on SokoMjinga, content and data partners, service providers, and third-party platforms.
| Third Parties |
Description and Summary |
How We Use It |
| Affiliates and Business Transfers |
We may share information with our subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control, or to a company that acquires SokoMjinga. |
This sharing is to ensure continuity of this Privacy Policy and the Service. |
| Advertisers, Businesses and Other Third-Parties |
SokoMjinga may share non-identifiable, de-identified and/or aggregated information with advertisers and others for ad programs and analytics. We may also share limited information (e.g., city, age, gender) and activity data with businesses on SokoMjinga. |
We share information to measure ad effectiveness and provide data about user engagement. Businesses also receive information you share directly with them (e.g., through quote requests, phone calls). |
| Content & Data Partners |
We may allow third-party partners to use certain publicly available content (e.g., your photos, reviews) on the Service. |
This is to reproduce, adapt, distribute, and display some of your public contributions. |
| Service Providers |
We share information with our third-party service providers to perform services on SokoMjinga’s behalf (e.g., facilitating ad programs). |
Sharing is done subject to contractual obligations that the personal information is only used on SokoMjinga’s behalf and according to our instructions. |
| Third-Party Platforms |
We may link to third-party websites. If you sign up or log in through third-party platforms (like Google or Apple), we may receive information about you from them. |
We do not share your personal information with third-party platforms unless you direct us to. If you interact with businesses through SokoMjinga, they receive information you choose to share. |
| Investigations and Legal Disclosures |
We may investigate and disclose information if required by law, to prevent wrongdoing, or to protect our rights and the rights of our users. |
This includes complying with legal processes (e.g., subpoenas) and investigating or identifying possible wrongdoing. |
7. Managing Your Personal Information
Be mindful that visitors to the Service may be able to identify you, or associate you with your account, if you choose to include personal information in the content you post publicly. You can reduce the risk of being personally identified by using the Service pseudonymously. You can limit your visibility for features like Find Friends in your account settings. Please note that messages you send using the Service are only private to the extent that both you and the recipient(s) keep them private.
8. Artificial Intelligence
We may use machine learning and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies (“AI Technologies”) to provide and improve our Service. For example, we may use such AI Technologies to analyze and process your contributions and interactions to provide you with personalized experiences, content recommendations, and relevant information; develop new products and features; train AI models; and provide interactive services such as AI powered chats.
9. Account Closure and Data Retention
Your account will be closed and your public content will be removed from view on the Service promptly after you close your account. We may retain information about you for the purposes authorized under this Privacy Policy unless prohibited by law. For example, we may retain information to prevent, investigate, or identify possible wrongdoing or to comply with legal obligations. We may also retain copies of your information in our systems in accordance with our data retention policy.
10. Children
The Service is intended for general audiences and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please contact us here.
11. Security
We use various safeguards to protect the personal information submitted to us. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or via mobile device, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
12. How to Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or any of our practices, please contact us by email at: privacy@Sokomjinga.app.
13. Modifications
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the Privacy Policy will govern our collection, use, and disclosure of information about you. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by email or by posting a notice on the Service prior to the effective date of the changes.