This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy“) describes the types of information that Mikata Ltd. (“Mikata“, “we”, “us”, “our”) collects and processes through the websites: Mikata.cloud (the “Website”) and the Mikata platform (the “Platform” and collectively the “Service(s)”).
We have created this Privacy Policy to explain why and how we collect, use, disclose and otherwise process personal information in connection with your use of our Services.
In addition, this Privacy Policy explains the legal rights and choices, available to you with respect to your personal data and how you may exercise these rights.
We are committed to protecting and respecting data privacy. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. This Privacy Policy should be read together with our Terms of Use.
WHO WE ARE
Mikata provides to businesses (“Sellers”) an innovative Service to streamline engagements with Seller’s clients (“Buyers”).
PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED
We process information you provide us when you submit an inquiry on our Website.
You can submit an inquiry through our online contact forms or by other methods provided on the Website. When you submit an inquiry on our Website, you will be asked to provide information such as your name, email address, phone number, and the content of your message (“Inquiry Information”).
We collect and process information you provide to us when you register directly to our Service or through a Third- Party Provider account.
Whether you are a Seller or a Buyer, if you register to our Service, we’ll collect your contact information (as applicable) e.g., your name, your company name, your job title, your email, your phone number, your billing information, a profile picture and your address, in order to create your account. Mandatory fields will be marked as such. You may also register through you Google account and any other third-party accounts available for registration. In this case, we will create your account by extracting certain personal information, such as your name and email address and other personal information, that your privacy settings on such account permit us to access from such account. (“Registration Information”).
We process Buyers information upon transactions.
When collect Buyers personal information such as name, email, billing information, and shipping address, in order to operate the selling process. Then after we will retain such information, including the price of the products purchased, date of purchase, and different product’s properties in order to maintain and analyze the purchase history of a specific Buyer (“Buyer’s Information”).
We process additional information provided by you.
We may process additional information you wish to provide us such as your catalogs available in third parties’ accounts, and any other information you want to share with us.
You are not legally obligated to provide any of the abovementioned information; however, if you choose not to provide this information, we may not be able to respond to your inquiry or provide you with the Service.
We also collect analytics information about your use of the Service
When you use the Website or the Service, we record and collect certain information about your interaction with the Service, including the IP address from which you access the Service, time and date of access, type of browser used, language used, links clicked, and actions taken while using the Service (“Analytics Information“).
HOW WE PROCESS PERSONAL DATA
We will use your Inquiry Information to respond to and handle your inquiry
We will use your Inquiry Information to contact you about your inquiry and handle and respond to your inquiry.
We will use your Inquiry Information and Registration Information to send you updates and offers.
The Service uses email communication in order to deliver offers between the Seller and Buyer. We will use your Registration Information to send you catalogs, offers and updates from a specific Seller wants to connect with you.
We will use the Inquiry Information, Registration Information and Analytics Information for quality assurance and for development and enhancement of the Service, to prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and related purposes.
We use your information to maintain and improve the Service, for quality assurance and for development and enhancement of the Service, to prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations and enforce our terms of use for the Service.
We process the Analytics Information to assess the Service performance, drive product decisions, for example by looking at how popular certain features are, maintain and improve the Service, for quality assurance and for development and enhancement of the Service and to establish a customized profile for you based on Analytic Information.
We will use your email address to contact you with administrative message relating to the Service, this Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Use.
We will use your email address to contact with you regarding administrative issues related to the Services or support and maintenance.
WHOM WE SHARE YOUR DATA WITH
We will not share your information with third parties, except in the events listed below or when you provide us your explicit and informed consent.
We will share your information with our service providers helping us operate the Website, Service and our business.
We will share your personal information with our service providers who assist us with the internal operations of our business (e.g. AWS, Google, payment service providers, etc.). These companies are authorized to use your personal information in this context only as strictly necessary to provide these services to us and not for their own business purposes. We do not sell your personal information to third parties.
We will share your information with competent authorities, if you abuse your right to use the Service, or violate any applicable law in connection with our business.
If you have abused your rights to use the Service, or violated any applicable law, we may share your information with competent authorities and with third parties (such as legal counsels and advisors), for the purpose of handling of the violation or breach.
We will share your information if we are legally required to do so.
We will share information if we are required to disclose your information by a judicial, governmental, or regulatory authority.
We will share your information with third-parties in any event of change in Mikata’s structure.
If the operation of the Service or the business is organized within a different framework, or through another legal structure or entity (such as due to a merger or acquisition), we will share your information only as required to enable the structural change in the operation of our business.
COOKIES
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files, comprised of small amount of data, that are saved on your computer or other device (e.g. smartphone, tablet, etc.) when you use the internet and visit various website.
The information that the cookies maintain is read by the Website you visit, during the session of your visit to the Website (these are called ‘session’ cookies), and when you return to visit it again (these are called ‘persistent’ cookies). We also use techniques called web beacons and web pixels for purposes similar to the use of cookies.
We use a Website add-on to provide you detailed information about the cookies and enable you to control the use of cookies
We use a cookie control mechanism to provide you with more detailed information about the cookies we use (including their origin, purpose, and expiration dates) on our Websites. It also enables you to control the use of cookies. Click here Cookie Settings to manage your cookies preferences.
We use cookies necessary to operate the Website, for Website statistics and for marketing purposes
Our Website uses cookies for a number of purposes, as briefly explained below. We allow third parties to place cookies on our Website. These third party cookies are subject to their own terms and policies, not ours. You can review additional information about the specific cookies used in relation to each purpose, through the add-on [https://mikata.cloud/cookie-policy].
Necessary. Cookies that are strictly necessary for the functioning of the Website. The Website cannot operate properly without these cookies. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the Website may not function properly.
Statistics. Cookies that help us understand how you and other users interact with our Website by collecting data that does not directly identify you, including third party cookies such as Google Analytics, that track and monitor your use of our Website.
Marketing. Cookies that track your use of the Website and allow a third party to tailor content, both on and off the Website, that it believes is relevant to you.
You can always delete or disable cookies.
Other than using the cookies control mechanism, you can always delete the cookies saved on your device through the settings of your computer browser or device. You can also disable cookies for future use through the settings of your computer browser or device.
SECURITY AND DATA RETENTION
We retain your information for as long as we need it to operate the Service and our business, and thereafter as needed for record-keeping matters.
We will retain your information for the duration needed to support our ordinary business activities operating the Website and Service. Thereafter, we will still retain your personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, establish, and defend legal claims and enforce our agreements.
We implement measures to secure your information.
We implement measures such as SSL and TSL encryption to reduce the risks of damage, loss of information and unauthorized access or use of information. However, these measures do not provide absolute information security. Therefore, although efforts are made to secure your personal information, it is not guaranteed, and you cannot expect that the Websites will be immune from information security risks.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR INDIVIDUALS IN THE UK OR THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA
Mikata is the data controller of the personal information collected via our Service.
The following is the data controller for the purposes of the personal data we collect via the Service:
Mikata Ltd.
[Ussishkin 4, Herzliya, Israel]
Cross-border transfers.
Information we collect from you will be processed within Israel and the EU. However, we operate globally. Accordingly, your personal information may be transferred and stored in other countries, that are subject to different standards of data protection. Recipients of your personal information may be in countries that do not provide the same standard of legal protection for your Personal Information as in your country.
We will take appropriate steps to ensure that transfers of personal information are made in accordance with applicable law, and carefully managed to protect your privacy rights and interests and limited to countries which are recognized as providing an adequate level of legal protection or where we can be satisfied that alternative arrangement are in place to protect your privacy rights. Legal basis under EU or UK law for processing your personal data.
The legal basis for processing your Analytics Information and Inquiry Information, is our legitimate interest in providing, maintaining, developing, and enhancing the Service.
The legal basis for collecting and processing your Registration Information and Analytics Information is our legitimate interests in providing you with the Service and tailoring the Service to your preferences.
The legal basis for processing your Analytics Information in order to measure the performances and effectivity of our Service is our legitimate interests in our business development and improvement.
The legal basis for processing and sharing your information for the purpose of handling instances of abusive use of the Service is our legitimate interests in defending and enforcing against violations and breaches that are harmful to our business.
The legal basis under EU law for processing and sharing your information where we are legally required to share it, is our legal obligation to comply with mandatory legal requirements imposed on us.
The legal basis for us processing and sharing your information in the event of a change in our corporate structure is our legitimate interests in our business continuity.
You have certain rights to access, update or delete your information, obtain a copy of your information, and object or restrict certain data processing activities.
If you are in the EU or the UK, you have the following rights under the GDPR:
Right of access: you may request information on, or a copy of, your information processed by us. Upon your request, this information will be provided to you electronically.
Right to rectification: If your Information is inaccurate or incomplete, you may request to have it rectified or completed.
Right to erasure: You may ask us to delete or remove your information in some circumstances, such as where we no longer need it, or when you withdraw your consent.
Right to restrict processing: You may ask us to restrict or ‘block’ the processing of your Information in certain circumstances, such as where you contest the accuracy of your information or object to us processing it.
Right to data portability: where you have provided consent for processing of your information or where the data processing is necessary to perform a contract with you, you may ask us to provide you with your Information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, that can be shared with others.
Right to object: You may ask us at any time to stop processing your information.
Right to withdraw consent: If we rely on your consent to process your information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time without having to provide a reason for withdrawal. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, contact us at [[email protected]].
We reserve the right to ask for reasonable evidence to verify your identity before we provide you with information. Where we are not able to provide you with information that you have asked for, we will explain the reason for this.
You have a right to submit a complaint to the relevant supervisory data protection authority.
Subject to applicable law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. If you are in the EU, then according to Article 77 of the GDPR, you can lodge a complaint to the supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your residence, place of work or place of alleged infringement of the GDPR. For a list of supervisory authorities in the EU, click here.
If you are in the UK, you can lodge a complaint to Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) pursuant to the instructions provided here.
MINORS
The Service is not directed to users under 18
The Service or the Website are not directed to users under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect information or data from children under the age of 18 or knowingly allow users under the age of 18 to use the Service or Website. Additional age restrictions may apply in your country.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
If we change this Privacy Policy, we will make efforts to proactively notify you of such changes
From time to time, we may change this Policy. If we do so, we will make efforts to proactively notify you of such changes. In any event, the latest version of the Policy will always be accessible on the Website at mikata.cloud/terms.
Last Update: September 2022
