YEAPS Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 2021

Introduction

YEAPS Corporation (“YEAPS”) respect your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy ("Policy"). Maintaining protection of the data entrusted to our care by our clients, suppliers and partners is of the utmost importance to YEAPS.

This Policy describes the types of data we may collect from you or that you may provide and describes our policies and practices for collecting, using, protecting, and disclosing that data.

This Policy may change from time to time (see changes to our Privacy Policy section), so check the Policy periodically for the most current version. If you have any questions about the meaning or interpretation of this Policy, the English-language version of this Policy is the official text.

DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We collect several types of personal data that can be used to identify you ("Personal Data"), which may include your:

  • Name

  • Postal address

  • Email address

  • Telephone or mobile number

  • Job title

  • Organization

  • Sensitive authentication data

  • Internet connection

  • Equipment used to access our Website and usage details

 Depending on the type of interaction that you have with YEAPS, we may also collect your:

  • Gender

  • Birth year

  • Marital status

  • Occupation

  • Employer

  • Photographs/images

Under limited circumstances, we may collect highly sensitive personal data, such as government ID numbers and/or health information.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR DATA

 We collect Personal Data from:

  • Users of our Website

  • Attendees and participants of events organized and/or managed by YEAPS on behalf of its client/s

We collect this data:

  • Directly when you provide it to us through any interaction offline or in person

  • From our website yeaps.com (our "Website")

  • From other YEAPS-sanctioned websites, microsites, other online and/or offline resources that link to this Policy

  • When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Policy

  • Automatically, as you navigate through the Website (data collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies)

  • When you use our services, directly or indirectly

  • When we engage you, on behalf of a client whom you are an employee, supplier, partner, or customer of, through our services sanctioned by said client, including but not limited to promotions, events, and activation efforts

  • When you participate in our programs or sign up for and/or attend any events that we host

  • From third parties we contract with to provide services on our behalf, such as travel service providers, payment processing services, email marketing services, and software providers; these service providers may change, or new service providers may be added without notice to you

  • When you interact with us in another way, for example, contacting us with an inquiry

  • From publicly available resources

DATA YOU PROVIDE TO US

We collect data you provide when you interact with YEAPS, either through our Website or any interaction offline or in person. That data may include:

  • Personal data that you provide by making an inquiry

  • Personal data you provide when participating in services available on our Website (e.g. Project DEAR)

  • Personal data you provide when you enter a contest or promotion organized by us

  • Personal data you provide when you report a problem with our Website

  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email, social media posts, and other electronic messages), if you contact us

  • Your responses to surveys or questionnaires, that may be hosted in different platforms, that we might ask you to complete for service fulfillment or research purposes

  • Personal data that you provide during registration, attendance, or any forms of participation in any of our services (or in the fulfillment thereof) on behalf of a client, supplier, or partner that you may be an employee, supplier, partner, or customer of, including but not limited to promotions, events, and activation efforts

  • Personal data you provide when submitting inquiries or applications on the Website

  • Your search queries on our Website

Features that are developed in the future may result in the collection of additional new personal data.

You also may provide data to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Website or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "User Content"). Your User Content is posted on the Website and transmitted to others at your own risk. We limit access to certain pages, and you may set certain privacy settings for this data from your account profile. However, we cannot control the actions of other Website users with whom you may choose to share your User Content.

USAGE DETAILS, IP ADDRESSES, COOKIES, AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may automatically collect certain data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on our Website

  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type 

The data collected is anonymous. It is aggregated into statistical data to help us improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size, browser statistics, popularity of content, and usage patterns

  • Speed up your searches

  • Recognize you when you return to our Website 

We use cookies (or browser cookies) for this automatic data collection. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website

THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISER USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Some advertisements and offers on our Website may be served by third-party advertisers, ad networks, and ad servers. Additionally, some of the applications accessible from, or on, our Website may be owned by third parties. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with other tracking technologies to collect data about our users. We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement, you should contact the responsible advertiser directly.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We use data that we collect about you or that you provide to us, which may include any personal data:

  • To present our Website and its contents to you

  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us

  • To offer and fulfill our core business purposes, which may include:

    • Providing project service

    • Providing managed services

    • Providing SaaS Solutions

    • Providing other products and services in line with YEAPS's Domains and other offerings

  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it

  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection

  • To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it

  • To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website

  • To store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests

  • To help us develop and test updates to this Website and other YEAPS applications that support YEAPS’s core business purposes

  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the personal data

  • For any other purpose where we have your consent

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may disclose aggregated data about our users, and data that cannot be used to identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal data that we collect or you provide as described in this Policy:

  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and fulfill our duties and deliverables, who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal data confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them, including:

    • Travel service providers, such as airlines, hotels, ground transport, and travel agencies

    • Online shop vendor

    • Payment processing vendors

    • Financial institutions and fiscal agents when processing financial transactions, such as expense reimbursements

    • Software and applications used for administrative functions such as providing online forms/surveys/applications, newsletter services, online learning, webinar/teleconference services, electronic voting

    • Cloud-based databases used for administrative functions

    • Email distribution services

  • To third parties to promote YEAPS or for the third party to market their products or services to you if you have consented to these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal data confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

    • If you do not want us to share your personal data (even when anonymized) with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for advertising or promotional purposes, you can send an email stating your request to privacy@yeaps.com.

  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it

  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the data

  • With your consent 

We may also disclose your personal data:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

  • If disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of YEAPS. This includes exchanging personal data with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction

PRIVACY OF PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED

YEAPS will not sell, trade, or share any of the partner's, customer's or client's, or associate's personal data, including their name, phone number, email, or physical address, with non-YEAPS entities. This policy applies to all partner, customer or client, and associate received by YEAPS, both online and offline, as well as any electronic, written, or oral communication. YEAPS occasionally uses third-party vendors to manage and process such data. These vendors are bound by strict confidentiality agreements.

ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

You may request to access and correct your data by emailing privacy@yeaps.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal data that you have provided.

We may choose not to accommodate a request to change or delete data if we believe the change or deletion would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the data to be incorrect.

If you delete your User Content from the Website, copies of your User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of data provided on our Website, including User Content, is governed by our Terms of Use .

CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 16

Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16 without parental consent. No one under age 16 may provide any personal data to or on our Website.

If you are under 16, do not:

  • Use or provide any personal data on our Website or on or through any of its features

  • Use any of the interactive or public comment features of our Website, or

  • Provide any personal data about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone or mobile number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use.

If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that personal data. If you believe we might have any personal data from or about a child under 16, please contact us at privacy@yeaps.com.

DATA SECURITY

We have implemented technical and operational measures designed to secure your personal data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Additionally:

  • When developing new or enhancing existing systems and processes, YEAPS implements appropriate data protection throughout its data processing operations.

  • All personal data you provide to us is stored on password-protected databases on our secure servers behind firewalls and we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to ensure that the transmission of sensitive data for payments and contributions is encrypted and appropriately safeguarded.

  • Employees are trained on the importance of data security and focus specifically on practices for protecting against unauthorized disclosure of personal data.

  • We have a documented incident response plan for promptly acting upon events that violate YEAPS's security or privacy policies, should they occur, and this plan is reviewed and updated on an ongoing basis. 

The safety and security of your personal data also depends on you.

Unfortunately, the transmission of personal data via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to our Website or over any public network. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk. Without prejudice to any mandatory legal obligations to which we may be subject, we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures on our Website.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

YEAPS may change, add, modify or remove portions of this Policy at any time, which shall become effective immediately upon posting on this page. The date the Policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the policy. It is your responsibility to review this Policy for any changes.

How to Contact Us

For inquiries, complaints, and other concerns related to our Privacy Policy, you may contact us through the following channels:

privacy@yeaps.com

+63 (2) 886 6319
5th Floor, CJV Building
108 Aguirre Street
Legaspi Village
Barangay San Lorenzo 1229
Makati City, Philippines