Privacy Policy of Trip Ship Task

Privacy Policy

Last updated:  Oct 22, 2023

Welcome to TripShipTask!

TripShipTask helps you connect with others to give or get rides, send or receive any goods, give or get tasks and make money while you are at it.

TripShipTask takes your privacy seriously, and we are committed to maintaining the privacy of the personal information that you provide to us. By using TripShipTask you acknowledge that the terms and conditions in this Privacy Policy will apply to you, as well as to any information that you give us. Please take the time to read through this Privacy Policy to get acquainted with our practices.

We sometimes use capitalized terms in this Privacy Policy; we will use TripShipTask throughout this Privacy Policy when referring to the TripShipTask platform and Mobile Applications that we provide on the web at www.tripshiptask.com and on various mobile operating systems.

1. Information We Collect, and How We Use It.

We collect different types of information through the Platform, including: information that you provide us directly; information about you that we automatically collect from log data, IP addresses, and aggregated user data; cookies; information that you give us about your friends; and your chat histories. We may use this information in different ways.

A. Information that you provide us directly

What is it?

Information you give us when you register an account with the Platform (this might include your first and last name, username, phone number, email address, password, date of birth/age, profession, educational qualification and other personal information);

Information that you post on your TripShipTask user profile (this might include profile pictures, location, bio, and other information);

All other content that you post/share on any part of the Platform (this might include photos, videos, and any other content that you post, or associate with your account);

Information you give us during any communications you have with us (this might include information you give us in emails you send us, chats you have with us, anything you send us in the mail, and any other information you might send us);

Interactions that you have with other users or content on the Platform; and

When you give us authorization, contact information of your friends from your mobile or tablet devices to connect your contacts and address book information with your TripShipTask account.

How do we use it?

To enable you to access and use the Platform;

To list your profile in the TripShipTask directory of users so that other TripShipTask users can find you and connect with you. Please note, most of the information you list about yourself in your profile will be viewable to other TripShipTask users except for the extra sensitive data like government id number; 

To enforce our Terms of Platform;

To respond to your comments and questions;

To customize your experience, to test and introduce new features and products, and to improve and monitor the effectiveness of our Platform;

To carry out contests, surveys, evaluations, and other events or activities that you choose to participate in;

For any other purposes that we specifically communicate to you when we collect that information;

To communicate with you regarding your use of the Platform, and to advise you of changes to the Platform;

To find and connect you with your friends and contacts who are TripShipTask users and to find and invite your contacts to connect with you on TripShipTask; and

To use your email address or other contact information to send you articles, news, updates, newsletters, marketing materials, or any other information related to the Platform/ Platform services. 

Other things you should know:

We may remove, at our sole discretion, any information that you provide when you register for or use the Platform (such as usernames, profile pictures, names, etc.), if we believe it is inappropriate or violates any of the policies posted on our Policies page at http://tripshiptask.com/privacy-policy, including, but not limited to, our Terms.

B. Information that we automatically collect:

What is it?

We automatically collect information about your computer, mobile device, tablet, and other devices when you use our Platform. Among other things, we collect session data, IP addresses, web browser software information, and mobile device identifiers such as your device’s UDID.

We may also collect and/or aggregate information about your online activities, including but not limited to, content you view, demographic patterns, elements of the Platform that you use, and pages you visit.

How do we use it?

We may analyze, evaluate, and/or aggregate this information to help us understand your interests and the interests of our other users, to analyze trends, to optimize your user experience and improve the Platform.

Other things you should know:

We may share aggregated information about the Platform and our users, without seeking additional consent, with third parties (including, without limitation, advertisers, media, and actual or potential partners or investors) for informational, marketing, and/or promotional purposes. If we do share that information, we will only share it on an aggregated basis and in a manner that does not reveal any personally identifiable information about any individual user.

C. Information you give us about your friends

What is it?

If you choose to use the Platform to tell a friend about us, we will ask you for and store your friend’s email address and/or phone number. We also might ask you to access your phonebook, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or other social media sites contacts for this purpose.

How do we use it?

If you choose to use the Platform to invite one of your contacts to use the Platform, we will send your friend an email or SMS inviting them to visit the Platform. We use this information solely to send these emails or SMS messages, to help your friends register with the Platform, and to track the success of our invitation program. Your friend can contact us at support@tripshiptask.com anytime to ask us to remove this information from our database.

D. Location Information

What is it?

When you use our Mobile App, we may collect and store information about your location by converting your IP address into a rough geo-location or by accessing your mobile device’s GPS coordinates or coarse location if you enable location services on your device.

How do we use it?

To improve and personalize our Services, including, without limitation, to identify nearby Users with whom users can communicate.

If you are a User or if you communicate with a User, we may, review, scan, or analyze any communications via the Platform involving a User for fraud prevention, risk assessment, and customer support purposes. We will not review, scan, or analyze your communications for sending third party marketing messages to you. We will also not sell these reviews or analyses of communications to third parties. We will also use automated methods to carry out these reviews or analyses where reasonably possible. However, from time to time we may have to manually review some communications.

To collect aggregated data from your usage history. We use the data to build language models which help us improve the Platform. We will only collect this data on an aggregated basis, and in a manner which does not reveal any personally identifiable information about any individual user. We will use this data to help us understand our users’ interests, analyze trends, and customize the user experience.

2. Sharing Your Information.

In addition to using your information for the purposes described above, we may share your information with parties other than TripShipTask or its users (the “Third Parties”). In some cases we may request your permission before we share that information, but we reserve the right to share your information with Third Parties without prior notification or without soliciting additional permission: We discuss below situations where we may share your information without requesting your further permission:

We share certain information about you (including information which could be used to personally identify you) with the companies we engage to facilitate our Platform, perform Platform related functions, and/or provide the Platform/Services on our behalf, such as Internet Service Providers and hosting service providers. We require these companies to maintain your information in confidence, and they are prohibited from using your information in any way other than performing services for or on behalf of TripShipTask.

We may disclose your information (including information which could be used to personally identify you) when we have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary: (i) to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other compulsory legal process; (ii) to protect our property rights and investigate and defend against legal claims (iii) to enforce or apply our Privacy Policy, our Terms or our other policies or agreements; (iv) when we believe disclosure is necessary to protect others from death or serious bodily injury; and (v) as otherwise required by law.

Transfer your information in the event that TripShipTask is involved in a merger, acquisition, divestiture, consolidation, reorganization, asset sale, or bankruptcy.

3. Controlling Your Information.

A. Posting in Chat Groups

When you post or make content available in Chat Groups, that content will be visible to everyone who is a member of that Chat Group.

B. Communicating with Users

When you communicate with or make content available to a User that content is provided directly to the User and is subject to the User’s privacy or security practices and policies.

C. Accessing and Changing your Account Information; Deleting your Account

You can edit, update, or delete your account at any time.

If you delete your account, you won’t be able to sign in, use the Platform, or access any of your information. If you delete your account, we may retain certain information associated with your account, for analytical purposes and recordkeeping. If you delete your account with us, please be aware that we may retain any content you have previously posted on the Platform, including, without limitation, any other data or posted content.

D. Opting out of Receiving Communications

If you are using the Platform, you are to be open to receiving communications from us. You won’t be able to opt out of Platform-related communications like Platform announcements, administrative notices, and the like.

4. Security

Your account, registration information, and password are protected so that only you (or any third parties that you allow to access your login credentials) can access your account. All personally identifiable information that we collect about you is stored in limited-access servers. The Platform has technical, administrative, and physical security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information which is under our control. While we are committed to implementing reasonable and appropriate safeguards to protect your information against foreseeable risks, no computer system or information can ever be fully protected against any possible risk, and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will not be able to circumvent those safeguards, or access and/or use your personal information for improper purposes.

5. International Transfer

TripShipTask stores its data in the United States, and may store data in any part of the world where it operates or it may choose to keep. Your information may be transferred to - and maintained on - computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. By using the Platform, you understand and consent that your information may be transferred to our facilities and those third parties with whom we share it as described in this Privacy Policy.

6. Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may modify our Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will notify you by making the revised version available on this webpage, and will indicate at the top the date of the latest revision. You should check this Privacy Policy on a regular basis, since revised versions will be binding on you. Any such modifications will be effective when we post the updated Privacy Policy. You understand and agree that your continued access to our Platform after any posted modification to the Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of those modifications.

7. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please email to support@tripshiptask.com.