Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 29, 2020 Hey Citrus, Inc. (“CITRUS,” “WE,” “US,” or “OUR”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains how we collect, use, disclose and protect Personal Information (as it is defined below) of our customers and users. It applies to all Personal Information collected by us on the CITRUS mobile application, and any other website or mobile application that links to this Policy, as well as during any written, electronic, and oral communications (collectively, the “Services”). CITRUS may collect Personal Information to help you place and receive orders and to improve the CITRUS service.
Your access to and use of our Services are subject to our Terms and Conditions, which define some of the terms used throughout this Policy. Please make sure that you have carefully read and understand the Terms and Conditions before you use our Services. By using our Services, you accept the Terms and Conditions, and accept our privacy practices as described in this Policy. If you do not agree to any part of this Policy or our Terms and Conditions, you may not use or access our Services.
Our Services may change from time to time. As a result, we reserve the right to update or modify this Policy at any time and from time to time without prior notice. If we make any material changes to the way we process your Personal Information, we will notify you before such changes are effective. If you object to any changes you must cease using our Services. We recommend you review this Policy periodically. This Policy became effective on the date indicated at the top of this page. Your continued use of our Services after any changes or revisions to this Policy indicates your agreement to the terms of the revised Policy.
1. Collection of Personal Information
When you use our Services, we may collect or receive Personal Information about you to provide our services and operate our business. The types of Personal Information that we may collect about you are:
a. Information You Provide to Us Directly
You may provide your Personal Information to us when you use our Services, including when you register with CITRUS, interact through our Services, contact us with inquiries, respond to surveys, or otherwise access our Services. This information may include:
- User Profile – We collect profile associated with your Customer CITRUS account. This includes information such as name, email address, location information, business information, address, and phone number. In some cases we may collect government identification related information.
- Vehicle Information – We collect vehicle information that may include the type, make, model, year of your vehicle, photo of your vehicle, photo of your vehicle license plate, and other vehicle metadata.
- Payment Information – Payment information is collected such as bank name and payment method, credit card numbers, bank account number and routing number, etc.
- Receipt Information – We collect receipt information, including photos, as proof of delivery.
- Surveys – From time-to-time, we invite our customers and users to participate in surveys or contests. When a customer or a user participates, we request certain Personal Information such as name and email address.
When you use our Services, complete electronic forms, communicate with Merchants or customers or contact us, by online chat, email, phone or text, we may automatically collect and store certain information about you and the activity you engaged in, for example: your name and contact information; your order details; information that you voluntarily provide to us; the nature of your communication; the purpose of the interaction, and the action we took in response to your inquiry or request.
c. Information Collected Automatically
We also may receive and store certain information about you and your device(s) automatically when you access or use our Site and Services. This information may include:
- Technical Information – We collect technical information associated with your activity on our app and may include information related to your browser and operating system, IP address (the Internet address of your computer) unique device identifiers, and other information such as your device type. We use such information for diagnostic and statistical purposes and to administer our Services.
- Usage Information – We collect information to better understand customer traffic patterns and usage. This may include the webpage that you were visiting before accessing our mobile/web application, the pages or features of our mobile/web application you browsed to inform us which part of our app and Services you visit and how much time you spend there. This information is used to analyze and improve our Services and to provide our customers with a better user experience.
- Preferences – We collect information about your preferences to make your use of the app more productive through the use of cookies.
When you use the Services, we may collect general location information (such as IP address). If you permit the Services to access location services through the permission system used by your mobile operating system (“Platform”) or browser, we may also collect the precise location of your device when the CITRUS app is running in the foreground or background of your device. This information may be used to help you select your delivery address, to provide more accurate deliveries of your orders, to provide recommendations to you, and to enhance your user experience and improve the services. You can choose whether to enable the location tracking feature through the settings on your device or Platform or when prompted by the CITRUS mobile app. If you choose to disable the location feature, CITRUS will not receive precise location information from your device, which may compromise the accuracy of deliveries in some situations, for instance, if you are located in a large area, such as a park.
e. Personal Information from Publicly Available Sources and Third Parties
We may collect or receive Personal Information about you from publicly available sources, social network providers, marketing partners, and/or third parties. This may include:
i. Social Network Information – We may receive information about you from other services. For example, we receive certain information from Facebook or Google when you use their service to login to CITRUS.
ii. Demographic Information – This characteristic information could include information such as income, marital status, spending habits, and other information pertaining to customers.
2. Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
a. Cookies
Cookies are small web files that a site or its provider transfers to your device’s hard drive through your web browser or application that enables the provider’s system to recognize your browser and remember certain information.How We Use Cookies – We use first-party and third-party cookies for the following purposes:
i. to make our Services function properly;
ii. to improve our Services;
iii. to recognize you when you return to CITRUS and to remember information you have already provided, such as items already in your order cart;
iv. to collect information about your activities over time and across third party websites or other online services in order to deliver content and advertising tailored to your interests; and
v. to provide a secure browsing experience during your use of our Services.
How to Manage Cookies – You may disable the use of cookies by modifying your browser settings. If you choose to disable cookies you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our Services. For more information on cookies and how to disable cookies visit www.ftc.gov/ftc/cookies.shtm or https://www.usa.gov/optout_instructions.shtml.
b. Web Beacons
Web beacons, also known as web bugs, pixel tags or clear GIFs, are tiny graphics with a unique identifier that may be included on our application or Site to deliver or communicate with cookies, in order to track and measure the performance of our Site and Services, monitor how many visitors we have, and to monitor the effectiveness of our advertising. Unlike cookies, which are stored on the user’s hard drive, web beacons are typically embedded invisibly on webpages, application pages, or in an email.
c. Online Analytics and Advertising Technologies
We and our third-party vendors may use automated technologies (including cookie identifiers on our Site), along with other collected information, to tailor ads or deliver content when you are on our Services or on other devices, apps or websites.
3. Use of Your Personal Information
We may use the information we collect or receive about you for various purposes.
a. To Provide You With Our Services
We use your information to provide you the Services. If the applicable information is to be provided or Service is to be performed by a third party, then we will disclose the applicable Personal Information to the third party providing the information or performing applicable Services. Your information may be available or provided to third-party service providers and that are contractually obligated to protect your information as disclosed in this Policy.
b. To Maintain, Improve, and Personalize the Services
We use your information for our everyday business operations such as auditing, administration of the Services, forum management, fulfillment, and analytics. Your information may also be used to improve the content and/or functionality of the Services. For example, it may be used to help us and/or our Merchants improve our offerings. We also use your information to personalize your experience. For example, we may personalize the content and features you see when visiting our Services. In addition, we may personalize advertisements, marketing communications, and recommendations to make them more tailored to your interests.
c. To Communicate with You
We use your information to communicate with you. For example, we may send you text messages or other notifications about the status of your orders and deliveries. We may also contact you with promotional offerings or other communications that may be of interest to you. If we send you marketing emails about services that may interest you, each email will contain instructions permitting you to “opt-out” of receiving future marketing or other communications.
If you contact us, we use certain information to respond to your questions and assist you with any issues that may arise in your use of the Services. If you send text messages to a Merchant, using the telephone number for that Merchant available on the Services, we may use a third-party service provider to track these text messages. We track these text messages for fraud prevention, to ensure appropriate charging of fees, to enforce our Terms and Conditions, and for quality and training purposes. As part of this process, CITRUS and its service provider will receive in real time and store data about your text message, including the date and time of the text message, your phone number, and the content of the text message.
d. For Account and Network Security Purposes
We care about keeping you secure and safe while using our Services. Keeping you safe requires us to process your Personal Information, such as your device information, activity information and other relevant information. We use such information to combat spam, malware, malicious activities or security risks; improve and enforce our security measures; and to monitor and verify your identity so that unauthorized users do not gain access to your information.
e. To Maintain Legal and Regulatory Compliance
Our Services are subject to certain laws and regulations which may require us to process your Personal Information. For example, we process your Personal Information to pay our taxes, to fulfill our business obligations, ensure compliance with employment and recruitment laws or as necessary to manage risk as required under applicable law.
f. To Enforce Compliance with Our Terms and Conditions and Policies
When you access or use our Services, you are bound to our Terms and Conditions and this Policy. To ensure you comply with them, we process your Personal Information by actively monitoring, investigating, preventing and mitigating any alleged or actual prohibited, illicit or illegal activities on our Services. We also process your Personal Information to: investigate, prevent or mitigate violations of our internal terms, agreements or policies; enforce our agreements with third parties and business partners.
g. To Protect You, Others, and Our Business
We use your information to protect you, others, and our business, including, without limitation, using information for fraud prevention, for enforcement of our Terms of Service, to comply with the law, and to protect against security risks.
h. For Our Business Purposes
We may use your information for any other purpose disclosed to you at the time we collect or receive the information, or otherwise with your consent.
4. Sharing of Personal Information with Third Parties
Your Personal Information is not shared with third parties without your permission, except as described below.
a. Service Providers
We may share your information with our third-party service providers for certain business purposes. This information is provided in order for them to provide us services such as payment processing, advertising services, marketing partners, web analytics, data processing, IT services, customer support and other services. These third-party service providers have access to your Personal Information only for the purpose of performing services on our behalf and are expressly obligated not to disclose or use your Personal Information for any other purpose.
b. Merchants
To help provide you with a high-quality delivery we also may share your information, including your Personal Information and order details, with the Merchants who complete your deliveries. Similarly, we may share your name, phone number, order information, customer feedback and other information related to your orders with CITRUS Merchants.
c. Related Entities
We may share your information with our affiliates (entities that control or are under the control of CITRUS) for business purposes. We will require these entities to comply with the terms of this Policy with regard to their use of your information.
d. When Required by Law
We recognize that information related to your orders could contain private information. However, we may be required to disclose your information to third parties including law enforcement agencies when required to protect and defend our legal rights, protect the safety and security of users of our Services, prevent fraud, comply with the law, respond to legal process, or a request for cooperation by a government entity.
e. Corporate Transactions
In the event of sale, transfer, merger, reorganization, dissolution, or similar event we may transfer your information to one or more third parties as part of that transaction.
f. With Your Consent
We also may share or disclose your information with your consent or at your direction.
5. Security
CITRUS has implemented administrative, technical, and physical security controls that are designed to safeguard Personal Information. However, no online activity is ever fully secure or error-free. While we strive to protect your information, we cannot guarantee that your Personal Information is absolutely secure. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any information to CITRUS.
Please recognize that protecting your Personal Information is also your responsibility. We urge you to take every precaution to protect your information when you are on the Internet, or when you communicate with us and with other through the Internet. Change your passwords often, use a combination of letters and numbers, and make sure you use a secure browser. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of your account might have been compromised), or if you suspect someone else is using your account, please let us know immediately by contacting us as indicated in the Contact Us section below.
6. Data Retention
We will retain your Personal Information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services and to maintain a record of your transactions for financial reporting purposes. We will also retain and use your Personal Information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
7. Third-Party Sites
Some of the functionality may be provided by third parties and the Services may link to other third-party websites that are not controlled by CITRUS. These third parties are not under our control and CITRUS is not responsible for their privacy policies or practices. If you provide any Personal Information to any third party or through any such third-party website, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the privacy policies and practices of that third party.
8. Social Media Usage
You may choose to enable or log in to our Services via various online services, including social networking services like Facebook and Google. Our Services also may enable you to access social networking services such as Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram (collectively, “Social Network”) directly or indirectly through our Services.
When you link a Social Network account to CITRUS or log into our Services using your Social Network account, we may collect relevant Personal Information necessary to enable our Services to access that Social Network and your data contained within that Social Network. We also may share your information with the operator of that Social Network to facilitate or enhance delivery of that Social Network or other services to you. A Social Network may provide us with access to certain information that you have provided to them, and we will use, store, and disclose such information in accordance with this Policy. Additionally, a Social Network may collect Personal Information and information about your use of our Site or Services automatically. The manner in which a Social Network collects, uses, stores, and discloses your information is governed by the policies of such third parties and CITRUS shall have no liability or responsibility for the privacy practices or other actions of any Social Network that may be enabled within our Services.
You may also have the option of posting your activities on our Services and other content to a Social Network when you access content through our Services. For example, you may post to Facebook that you placed an order with CITRUS. Keep in mind that your usage of Social Network features is governed by applicable Social Networks and not by CITRUS, and may be visible or accessible to the public.
9. Children’s Information
Our Services are not intended for children under 13 years of age and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian of a child under the age of 13 and believe he or she has disclosed personally identifiable information to us please contact us at privacy@heycitrus.com. A parent or guardian of a child under age 13 may review and request deletion of the child’s Personal Information.
10. Your Choices
We provide our customers and their authorized agents with the ability to access and delete Personal Information. In order to exercise these rights you must login to your account to confirm your identity, which helps us ensure that Personal Information is only made accessible to appropriate parties. Customers will not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising their rights and can return to the service after deleting their information.
a. Your Rights
This section lists the privacy-related rights (“Rights”) we extend to all CITRUS customers. Your right to know and right to deletion are not absolute and are subject to certain exceptions. For instance, we cannot disclose specific pieces of Personal Information if the disclosure would create a substantial, articulable, and unreasonable risk to the security of the Personal Information, your account with us or the security of our systems.
- Right to Know – You have the right to know the Personal Information we collect, use, disclose, and sell about you.
- Right to Deletion – You have the right to request that we delete any Personal Information we have collected from you or maintain about you. We may save Personal Information when permitted by applicable law including, without limitation, when the information is needed for a legal purpose.
- Right to Rectification – If you are a registered CITRUS user you may modify certain of your Personal Information by logging into our Site using your username and password and visiting the “Account” page. Registered CITRUS users may also access the “Account” page to manage their subscriptions.
- Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Your Personal Information – You have the right to opt-out of having your Personal Information sold.
- Right to Non-Discrimination – CITRUS will not discriminate against those who exercise their Rights. Specifically, if you exercise your Rights, we will not deny you goods or Services, charge you different prices or rates for goods or Services or provide you a different level or quality of goods or Services.
b. Asserting Your Rights
You may exercise your right to know or your right to deletion by contacting us. To verify your identity, you must log-in to your account prior to accessing or deleting your information. You may also designate an authorized agent to make a request to know or a request to delete. In order to be able to act, authorized agents have to submit proof that they are authorized to act on your behalf, or have a power of attorney. We may deny requests from authorized agents who do not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on their behalf.
11. International Users
CITRUS is based in the United States and, regardless of where you use our Services, the information collected as part of that use will be transferred to and maintained on servers located in the United States. Any information we obtain about you will be stored in accordance with U.S. privacy laws, regulations, and standards, which may not be equivalent to the laws in your country of residence. By using our Services, you consent to this collection, transfer, storage, and processing of information to and in the United States.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns relating to this Policy or our privacy practices please contact us at:
privacy@heycitrus.com
or
101 Hudson Street, Unit 3705, Jersey City, NJ 07302