Privacy Policy

Welcome to Tipkit!

Your privacy is important to Tipkit LLC (the “Company”, “we”, or “us”), and we are committed to adhering to federal and state privacy laws and industry guidelines regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of user information through the website and mobile applications.

This Privacy Policy includes:

• Information Collection: Tipkit collects business and/or personal information (e.g., name, contact details) and usage information (e.g., browser type, IP address) through various means, including cookies and web beacons.
• Information Use: This information is used to provide and improve services, personalize and customize user experiences, process transactions, and communicate with users.
• Information Sharing: Tipkit may share non-personally identifiable information with third parties for analysis and advertising purposes. Personal and business information is shared with third-party service providers only for necessary purposes and with user consent for direct marketing.
• User Choices: Users can opt-out of targeted advertising and modify their communication preferences.

This Privacy Policy covers all our online (e.g., web and mobile services, Mobile Applications) and offline activities owned, operated, provided, or made available by the Company. This includes interactive features or downloads that (i) we own or control, (ii) are available through the Services, or (iii) interact with the Services and incorporate this Privacy Policy.

Please review this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, do not use our Services or give us any of your information. Additionally, review our Terms of Use, which may apply to your use of our websites and mobile applications. If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at hello@tipkit.co.

Personal Information

Although the personal and business information we may collect through our Website is limited and voluntary, you are responsible for providing the Company with accurate and complete information, and for contacting the Company if correction on the information is required. We may collect information through various forms and in various places through the Services, including account registration forms, user profiles, contact us forms, or when you otherwise interact with us.

In addition to any personal or business Information or any other information that you choose to submit to us, we, and our third-party service providers may use a variety of technologies that automatically (or passively) collect certain information whenever you visit or interact with the Services (“Usage Information”). This Usage Information may include the browser that you are using, the URL that referred you to our Services, all of the areas within our Services that you visit, the time of day, and your geolocation, among other information. We may use Usage Information for a variety of purposes, including to enhance or otherwise improve the Services. In addition, we collect your IP address or other unique identifier (“Device Identifier”) for your computer, mobile or other device used to access the Services (a “Device”). A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your Device used to access the Services, and our computers identify your Device by its Device Identifier. Usage Information may be non-identifying or may be associated with you. Whenever we associate Usage Information or a Device Identifier with your personal or business information, we will treat it as personal or business information.

A few of the methods that may be used to collect Usage Information include, without limitation, the following (and subsequent technology and methods hereafter developed):

Cookies

Cookies, log files, and pixel-tags (Web beacons) are technologies used by the Company Website for various purposes. A cookie is a data file placed on a Device when it is used to access the Services. A Flash cookie is a data file placed on a Device via the Adobe Flash plug-in that may be built-in to or downloaded by you to your Device. Cookies and Flash Cookies may be used for many purposes, including, without limitation, remembering you and your preferences and tracking your visits to our web pages. Cookies work by assigning a number to the user that has no meaning outside of the assigning website.

If you do not want information to be collected through the use of cookies, your browser allows you to deny or accept the use of cookies. Cookies can be disabled or controlled by setting a preference within your web browser or on your Device. If you choose to disable cookies or Flash cookies on your Device, some features of the Services may not function properly or may not be able to customize the delivery of information to you.

You should be aware that the Company cannot control the use of cookies (or the resulting information) by third-parties, and use of third party cookies is not covered by our Privacy Policy.

Web Beacons

Small graphic images or other web programming code called web beacons (also known as “1×1 GIFs” or “clear GIFs”) may be included in our web and mobile pages and messages. The web beacons are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored in a user’s computer hard drive, web beacons are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. Web beacons or similar technologies help us better manage content on our Services by informing us what content is effective, count users of the Services, monitor how users navigate the Services, count how many emails that we send were actually opened or to count how many particular articles or links were actually viewed. We do not tie the information gathered by web beacons to your personal information.

Embedded Scripts

An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Services, such as the links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your Device from our web server or a third party service provider, is active only while you are connected to the Services, and is deactivated or deleted thereafter.

Information Third Parties Provide About You

We may, from time to time, supplement the information we collect about you through our Services with outside records from third parties in order to enhance our ability to serve you, to tailor our content to you and to offer you opportunities to purchase products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We may combine the information we receive from those sources with information we collect through the Services. In those cases, we will apply this Privacy Policy to any personal or business information received, unless we have disclosed otherwise.

Information Collected by Mobile Applications

Our Services are primarily provided through an application on your mobile, tablet, computer or similar device (“Mobile Application”). You agree that we may collect and use technical data and related information, including but not limited to, technical information about your device, system and application software, and peripherals, that is gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, product support and other services to you (if any) related to such Mobile Applications.

When you use any of our Mobile Applications, the Mobile Application may automatically collect and store some or all of the following information from your mobile device (“Mobile Device Information”), including without limitation:

• Your preferred language and country site (if applicable).
• Your phone number or other unique device identifier assigned to your mobile device – such as the International Mobile Equipment Identity or the Mobile Equipment ID number.
• The IP address of your mobile device.
• The manufacturer and model of your mobile device.
• Your mobile operating system.
• The type of mobile Internet browsers you are using.
• Your geolocation.
• Information about how you interact with the Mobile Application and any of our web sites to which the Mobile Application links, such as how many times you use a specific part of the mobile application over a given time period, the amount of time you spend using the Mobile Application, how often you use the Mobile Application, actions you take in the Mobile Application and how you engage with the Mobile Application.
• Information to allow us to personalize the services and content available through the Mobile Application.

We may use information automatically collected by the Mobile Application (including the Mobile Device Information) to customize Services for you and to operate and improve our Services. We may also use this information to create aggregated and anonymized information to determine which Mobile Application features are most popular and useful to users, and for other statistical analyses, or to prevent, discover and investigate violations of this Privacy Policy or any applicable terms of service or terms of use for the Mobile Application, and to investigate fraud, chargeback or other matters.

We may associate your unique mobile Device Identifier or Mobile Application usage information with any personal or business information you provide, but we will treat the combined information as personal Information.

Personal or business information may also be collected and shared with third-parties if there is content from the Mobile Application that you specifically and knowingly upload to, share with or transmit to an email recipient, website, or to the public (e.g., uploaded photos, posted reviews or comments, or information about you that you choose to share with others through features which may be provided on our Services). This uploaded, shared or transmitted content will also be subject to the privacy policy of the email, website, social media or other platform to which you upload, share or transmit the content.

Use of Collected Information

Our primary goal in collecting your personal or business information or Usage Information is to provide you with an enhanced experience when using the Services. Based upon the personal or business Information you provide us when registering for an account, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your username and password. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account. We will communicate with you by email, telephone, SMS, or text message, in accordance with the account settings you have selected.

We use the information collected from our Services so that we are able to serve you the correct application version depending on your device type, for troubleshooting and in some cases, marketing purposes. The payment method and account information you provide in your personal or business profile at sign-up is not stored by us, but is stored and used by our third party credit card processors in order for them to process payment.

We use your Internet Protocol (IP) address to help diagnose problems with our computer server, and to administer our website(s). Your IP address is used to help identify you, but contains no personal or business information about you.

We will send you strictly service-related announcements on rare occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our Services are temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email or SMS. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account.

In addition, we may use your personal or business Information or Usage Information that we collect about you:

• To provide you with information or services or process transactions that you have requested or agreed to receive including to send you electronic newsletters, or to provide you with special offers or promotional materials on behalf of third parties or us.
• To process your registration with the Services, including verifying your information is active and valid.
• To improve our services, to customize your experience with the Services, or to serve you specific content that is most relevant to you.
• To enable you to participate in a variety of the Services’ features such as online or mobile entry contests or other promotions.
• To contact you with regard to your use of the Services and, in our discretion, changes to the Services and/or the Services’ policies.
• For internal business purposes.
• For inclusion in our data analytics.
• For purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information or as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy.

Disclosure of Information to Third Parties

We may share non-personally identifiable information, such as aggregated user statistics and log data, with third parties for industry analysis, demographic profiling, to deliver targeted advertising about other products or services, or for other business purposes. We do not sell, share, rent, trade, or voluntarily provide to others any personally identifiable information collected on our Website. We do not share your personal or business information with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes unless you consent or specify to such sharing at the time you provide your information.

When You Agree To Receive Information From Third Parties

You may be presented with an opportunity to receive information and/or marketing offers directly from third parties. If you do agree to have your personal or business information shared, your personal or business information will be disclosed to such third parties and all information you disclose will be subject to the privacy policy and practices of such third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of such third parties and, therefore, you should review the privacy policies and practices of such third parties prior to agreeing to receive such information from them. If you later decide that you no longer want to receive communication from a third party, you will need to contact that third party directly.

Third Parties Service Providers

We use third parties to facilitate our Services, provide or perform certain aspects of the Services on our behalf, third-parties to host the Services, design and/or operate the Services’ features, track the Services’ analytics, process payments, engage in anti-fraud and security measures, provide support, provide geolocation information, enable us to send you special offers, perform technical services, or perform other administrative services. We may provide these vendors with access to user information, including personal or business information; this information sharing is limited to only the information needed by the vendor to carry out the services they are performing for you or for us. Each of these vendors is obligated not to disclose or use personal or business information for any other purpose.

While we may use third party analytics service providers to evaluate and provide us with information about the use of the Services and viewing of our content, we do not share personal or business information with these analytics service providers, but they may set and access their own cookies, web beacons and embedded scripts on your Device and they may otherwise collect or have access to information about you, including non-personally identifiable information.

Co-Branded Services

Certain aspects of the Services may be provided to you in association with third parties (“Co-Branded Services”) such as sponsors and charities, and may require you to disclose personal or business information to them. Such Co-Branded Services will identify the third party. If you elect to register for products and/or services through the Co-Branded Services, you may be providing your information to both the third party and us. Further, if you sign-in to a Co-Branded Service with a username and password obtained through our Services, your personal or business information may be disclosed to the identified third parties for that Co-Branded Service and will be subject to their posted privacy policies.

Contests and Promotions

We may offer contests, and other promotions (“Promotion”) through the Services that may require registration. By participating in a Promotion, you are agreeing to official rules that govern that Promotion, which may contain specific requirements of you, including, allowing the sponsor of the Promotion to use your name, voice and/or likeness in advertising or marketing associated with the Promotion. If you choose to enter a Promotion, personal or business information may be disclosed to third parties or the public in connection with the administration of such Promotion, including, in connection with winner selection, prize fulfillment, and as required by law or permitted by the Promotion’s official rules, such as on a winners list.

Administrative and Legal Reporting Reasons

We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. Thus, we may access, use, preserve, transfer and disclose your information (personal or business information), including disclosure to third parties such as government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we reasonably determine is necessary and appropriate:

• To satisfy any applicable law, regulation, subpoenas, governmental requests or legal process.
• To protect and/or defend the Terms of Use for the Services, including investigation of potential violations thereof.
• To protect the Company, our Services or any third party.
• To protect the safety of the public for any reason.
• To detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
• To prevent or stop activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, an illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity. Further, we may use IP address or other Device Identifiers, to identify users, and may do so in cooperation with third parties such as copyright owners, internet service providers, wireless service providers and/or law enforcement agencies, including disclosing such information to third parties, all at our discretion. Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to you.

We may share your information, including your personal or business information and Usage Information with our affiliated businesses and sister companies for internal reasons. We also reserve the right to disclose and transfer all such information to a subsequent owner, co-owner or operator of the Services or applicable database or in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, restructuring, the sale of substantially all of our membership interests and/or assets or other corporate change, including, during the course of any due diligence process.

User-Generated Content

The Services may offer publicly accessible blogs or community forums or other ways to permit you to submit ideas, photographs, user profiles, writings, music, video, audio recordings, computer graphics, pictures, data, questions, comments, suggestions or other content, including personal or business information (collectively, “User Content”). Others or we may reproduce, publish, distribute or otherwise use User Content online or offline in any media or format (currently existing or hereafter developed). Others may have access to this User Content and may have the ability to share it with third parties across the Internet. You should be aware that any User Content you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. Thus, please think carefully before deciding what information you share, including personal or business information, in connection with your User Content.

Please note that the Company does not control who will have access to the information that you choose to make public, and cannot ensure that parties who have access to such publicly available information will respect your privacy or keep it secure. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information that you disclose publicly, share with others or otherwise upload, whether through the Services or otherwise. We are not responsible for the accuracy, use or misuse of any content or information that you disclose or receive through the Services.

Third Party Content and Links to Third Party Services

The Services may contain content that is supplied by a third party, and those third parties may collect web site usage information and your Device Identifier when web pages from any online or mobile Services are served to your browser. In addition, when you are using the Services, you may be directed to other sites or applications that are operated and controlled by third parties that we do not control. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by any of these third parties. These other web sites may send their own cookies to you, independently collect data or solicit personal or business information and may or may not have their own published privacy policies. We encourage you to note when you leave our Services and to read the privacy statements of all third party web sites or applications before submitting any personal or business information to third parties.

Social Media

Our online and mobile Services may include social media features, such as LinkedIn, Instagram, etc, and widgets such as a “Share This” button, or interactive mini-programs that run on our online and mobile Services. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our online or mobile Services, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our online Services. Your interactions with these features and widgets are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing them.

Modifications and Account Management

You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of the information you submit to us, such as your contact information provided as part of account registration. If your personal or business information changes, or if you no longer desire our Services, you may correct, delete inaccuracies, or amend information by making the change on your dashboard or by contacting us at hello@tipkit.co. We will make good faith efforts to make requested changes in our active databases as soon as reasonably practicable.

You may also cancel or modify your communications that you have elected to receive from the Services by following the instructions contained within an e-mail or by logging into your user account and changing your communication preferences.

If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services, you may do so through your user account page or contact us at hello@tipkit.co. We will retain your personal or business information and Usage Information (including geolocation) for as long as your account with the Services is active and as needed to provide you services. Even after your account is terminated, we will retain your personal or business information and Usage Information (including geolocation and transaction history) as needed to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, resolve disputes, conclude any activities related to cancellation of an account, investigate or prevent fraud and other inappropriate activity, to enforce our agreements, and for other business reasons. After a period of time, your data may be anonymized and aggregated, and then may be held by us as long as necessary for us to provide our Services effectively, but our use of the anonymized data will be solely for analytic purposes.

Age-Appropriate Access

The Company cares about the safety of children. Because our Services are not directed toward minors, no one under eighteen (18) is allowed to register with or use the Services. We do not knowingly collect personal or business information from anyone under the age of eighteen (18). If we discover that we have collected personal information from a person under eighteen (18), we will delete that information immediately. If you are a parent or guardian of a minor under the age of eighteen (18) and believe he or she has disclosed personal Information to us, please contact us at hello@tipkit.co.

Protection of Information

The personal or business information and Usage Information we collect is securely stored within our databases, and we use standard, industry-wide, commercially reasonable security practices such as encryption, firewalls and SSL (Secure Socket Layers, stay PCI compliant and participate in audits, for protecting your information – such as any portions of your credit card number which we retain (we do not ourselves retain your entire credit card information) and geolocation information. However, as effective as encryption technology is, no security system is impenetrable.

We make a genuine effort to ensure the security of activities conducted on this Website and we take various security measures to protect information received online. The Company also maintains an internal compliance team to assess security risks and monitor compliance with its policies and procedures. We cannot guarantee that information you supply won’t be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet or wireless communication, and any information you transmit to the Company you do at your own risk.

This Privacy Policy is inclusive of how we collect, use, and store personal data from UK residents, including the specific purposes for data collection, how long data is retained, and the individual rights to access and control their personal data, as mandated by the UK’s data protection laws, primarily the UK GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).

Privacy Policy Updates

From time to time, we may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our information practices and disclosures. Any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the updated Privacy Policy. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. Your continued use of our Services after the update, constitutes your acceptance of the new policy.