Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains what personal data is collected when you use Unimeal websites and mobile applications (the 'Website', 'App', together the 'Service'), how such personal data will be used, shared, and how you can control it.

BY USING THE SERVICE, YOU PROMISE US THAT (I) YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, AND (II) YOU ARE OVER 16 YEARS OF AGE (OR HAVE HAD YOUR PARENT OR GUARDIAN READ AND AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY FOR YOU). If you do not agree, or are unable to make this promise, you must not use the Service.

Any translation from English version is provided for your convenience only. In the event of any difference in meaning or interpretation between the English language version of this Privacy Policy available at https://unimeal.com/privacy-policy, and any translation, the English language version will prevail. The original English text shall be the sole legally binding version

“GDPR” means the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.

“EU/EEA” includes all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.

“Process”, in respect of personal data, includes to collect, store and disclose to others.

“CCPA” means the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.

1. CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

• You provide us information about yourself in the process of ordering a personalized meal plan. For example: age, gender, weight, height, target weight, body type, food preferences, name, email address, how does your typical day look like, how much you work out, your daily water intake, average time asleep.
• We collect data about your referring app or URL (that is, the app or place on the Web where you were when you tapped on our ad).
• We collect data from your device. Examples of such data include: language settings, IP address, time zone, type and model of device, device settings, operating system, Internet service provider, mobile carrier, hardware ID, and Facebook ID.
• We record how you interact with our Service. For example, we may log your taps/clicks on certain areas of the interface, the features and content you interact with, how often and for how long you use the Website, and your meal plan orders.
• We collect your Apple Identifier for Advertising (IDFA) or Google Advertising ID (AAID) (depending on the operating system of your device) when you access our Website from a mobile device. You can typically reset these numbers through the settings of your device’s operating system (but we do not control this).
• When you make payments through the Service, you need to provide financial account data, such as your credit card number, to our third-party service providers. We do not collect or store full credit card number data, though we may receive credit card-related data, data about the transaction, including: date, time and amount of the transaction, the type of payment method used.
• A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. Cookies can be either session cookies or persistent cookies. A session cookie expires when you close your browser and is used to make it easier for you to navigate our Service. A persistent cookie remains on your hard drive for an extended period of time. We also use tracking pixels that set cookies to assist with delivering online advertising.
  Cookies are used, in particular, to automatically recognize you the next time you visit our Website. As a result, the information, which you have earlier entered in certain fields on the Website may automatically appear the next time when you use our Service. Cookie data will be stored on your device and most of the times only for a limited time period.
  How to influence use of cookies by the Service: We have implemented consent management tool on our website to provide you with control over technologies such as cookies. This tool enables you to decide which partners you allow to set, in particular, cookies on your browser or device. You may make the selection either (i) in the consent management pop-up window, which emerges in the footer of the page when you visit our Service the first time (if you are based in the EEA) or (ii) by clicking/pushing on Privacy Settings (located in the footer). You may view the list of such third parties in our Privacy Settings and edit your choices at “See full vendor list” or “View Companies” (designated for each separate type of the cookies) sections in the 'Third Party Vendors' section. You can change your decision and revisit your consent choices at any time by returning to the Privacy Settings.

2. FOR WHAT PURPOSES WE PROCESS PERSONAL DATA

• This includes enabling you to use the Service in a seamless manner and preventing or addressing Service errors or technical issues. For this purpose, we, in particular, will send you your customized meal plan to your email, which you will indicate during the purchase. To host personal data and enable this Website to operate and be distributed we use Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is a hosting and backend service provided by Amazon.
• We process your personal data, such as your goals (for example, target weight), to adjust the content of the Service and make offers tailored to your personal preferences. For example, we ask you to provide us with your body measures in order to calculate, in particular, recommended daily amount of water.
• We process your personal data to respond to your requests for technical support, Service information or to any other communication you initiate. For this purpose, we may send you, for example, notifications or emails about the performance of our Service, security, payment transactions, notices regarding our Terms and Conditions of Use or this Privacy Policy.
• We communicate with you, for example, by emails. These may include, for example, emails with information about the Service. The services that we use for these purposes may collect data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by the Website’s users, as well as when they interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message. We use Sendpulse, which is a marketing personalization and retention platform, to deliver tailored email messages to our users.
• This helps us to better understand our business, analyze our operations, maintain, improve, innovate, plan, design, and develop the Website and our new products. We also use such data for statistical analysis purposes, to test and improve our offers. This enables us to better understand what features and sections of the Website our users like more, what categories of users use our Website. As a consequence, we often decide how to improve the Website based on the results obtained from this processing. What third-party services we use for this purpose? We use Facebook Analytics, which is a service provided by Facebook that allows us to use different analytical tools. On Facebook Analytics we get, in particular, aggregated demographics and insights on how many people access the Website and users’ interactions within the Website. Lean more about Facebook’s approach from its Privacy Policy To analyse how visitors use our Website and to measure effectiveness of some ads we use Google Analytics, a web analysis program of Google. In order to provide us with analytics, Google Analytics places cookies on your device. On Google Analytics we get, in particular, aggregated information on the data you enter on our Website and users’ interactions within the Website. Google allows you to influence the collection and processing of information generated by the Google, in particular, by installing a browser plug-in, available here. You can read more about how Google uses information here. On our Service we also use Yandex Metrica, a web analytics service provided by Yandex. Yandex Metrica uses cookies to help us analyse how visitors use the site. Yandex will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity. In order to deactivate the data collection on the part of Yandex Metrica, you can use the browser add-on developed by Yandex. Lear more about how Yandex uses data in its Privacy Policy. We also use Amplitude that is an analytics service that we use to understand how customers use our Service. Amplitude collects various technical information, in particular, time zone, type of device (phone or tablet), unique identifiers (such as IDFA). Amplitude also allows us to track various interactions that occur in our App. As a result, Amplitude helps us to decide what features should we focus on. Amplitude is EU-US Privacy Shield certified. Amplitude provides more information on how they process data in its Privacy Policy. To track and analyze behavior of our Service users (in particular, how they react to changes of the Service structure, text or any other component), we use Firebase Remote Config. Firebase Remote Config is an A/B testing and configuration service provided by Google, which also enables us to tailor the content that our App’s users see (for example, it allows us to show different onboarding screens to different users). Privacy Policy and Privacy and Security in Firebase. We also use Firebase Analytics, which is an analytics service provided by Google. In order to understand Google's use of data, consult Google's partner policy. Firebase Privacy information. Google’s Privacy Policy. We use Yahoo! Inc’s Flurry Analytics to receive a unique count analytics such as weekly number of users and how they interact with Service, Flurry Analytics collects device identifiers that are considered “personal information”. For more information on the privacy practices and policies of Yahoo! please visit their Privacy Policy page. You can opt-out from Flurry Analytics service to prevent Flurry Analytics from using and sharing your information by visiting the Flurry’s Opt-out page: https://dev.flurry.com/secure/optOut.do
• We process your personal data for our marketing campaigns. We may add your email address to our marketing list. As a result, you will receive information about our products, such as for example, special offers. If you do not want to receive marketing emails from us, you can unsubscribe following instructions in the footer of the marketing emails. We use Sendpulse, which is a marketing personalization and retention platform, to deliver tailored email messages to our users.
• We and our partners, including Facebook and Google, use your personal data to tailor ads and possibly even show them to you at the relevant time. For example, if you have accessed our Service, you might see ads of our products, for example, in your Facebook’s feed. How to opt out or influence personalized advertising On the Website: On our Website, you can use Consent Management Platform to make your choice whether to allow us to store or access information on your devices via cookies and other tracking technologies for the purpose of delivering interest-based advertising. You can open Consent Management Platform by clicking on Privacy button in the right lower corner of the Website. iOS: On your iPhone or iPad, go to “Settings,” then “Privacy” and tap “Advertising” to select “Limit Ad Track”. In addition, you can reset your advertising identifier (this also may help you to see less of personalized ads) in the same section. Android: To opt-out of ads on an Android device, simply open the Google Settings app on your mobile phone, tap “Ads” and enable “Opt out of interest-based ads”. In addition, you can reset your advertising identifier in the same section (this also may help you to see less of personalized ads).
• Browsers: It is also may be possible to stop your browser from accepting cookies altogether by changing your browser’s cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the “options” or “preferences” menu of your browser. The following links may be helpful, or you can use the “Help” option in your browser. What third-party services we use for this purpose? We value your right to influence the ads that you see, thus we are letting you know what service providers we use for this purpose and how some of them allow you to control your ad preferences. We use Facebook pixel on the Website. Facebook pixel is a code placed on the Website collecting data that helps us track conversions from Facebook ads, build targeted audience and remarket to people who have taken some action on the Website (for example, purchased a meal plan). We also use Facebook Ads Manager together with Facebook Custom Audience, which allows us to choose audiences that will see our ads on Facebook or other Facebook’s products (for example, Instagram). Through Facebook Custom Audience we may create a list of users with certain sets of data, such as an IDFA, choose users that have completed certain actions on the Website. As a result, we may ask Facebook to show some ads to a particular list of users. As a result, more of our ads may show up while you are using Facebook or other Facebook’s products (for example, Instagram). You may learn how to opt out of advertising provided to you through Facebook Custom Audience here. Facebook allows its users to influence the types of ads they see on Facebook. To find how to control the ads you see on Facebook, please go here or adjust your ads settings on Facebook. Google Ads is an ad delivery service provided by Google that can deliver ads to users. In particular, Google allows us to tailor the ads in a way that they will appear, for example, only to users that have conducted certain actions with our Website (for example, show our ads to users who visited our Website). This remarketing could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Good Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve advertisements based on someone’s past visits to the Service. Google allows its users to opt out of Google’s personalized ads and to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics. We also use Snapchat Advertising Platform together with Snapchat Audience Based Match, which is an ad delivery service provided by Snapchat that can link the activity of some users of our Website with the Snapchat advertising network and show some of our ads to them. As a result, you may see more of ads on Snapchat in case you use our Website. Snapchat allows you to Opt Out of their audience based ads. Privacy Policy.
• We provide paid products and/or services within the Service. For this purpose, we use third-party services for payment processing (for example, payment processors). As a result of this processing, you will be able to make a payment for a customized meal plan and we will be notified that the payment has been made and will send you the meal plan. We will not store or collect your payment card details ourselves. This information will be provided directly to our third-party payment processors.
• We use personal data to enforce our agreements and contractual commitments, to detect, prevent, and combat fraud. As a result of such processing, we may share your information with others, including law enforcement agencies (in particular, if a dispute arises in connection with our Terms and Conditions of Use).
• We may process, use, or share your data when the law requires it, in particular, if a law enforcement agency requests your data by available legal means.

3. UNDER WHAT LEGAL BASES WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA (Applies only to EEA-based users)

• Under this legal basis we: Send you marketing communications. You have the right to withdraw your consent any time by using the unsubscribe link in the footer of our emails. We will also send you push notifications if you allow us to. You can disable notifications any time in the settings of your device. Store or access information on your devices via cookies and other tracking technologies. To withdraw your consent, you shall change your preferences on Consent Management Platform. You can open Consent Management Platform by clicking on Privacy button in the right lower corner of the Website.
• Under this legal basis we: Provide our Service (in accordance with our Terms and Conditions of Use)
  Customize your experience
  Manage your account and provide you with customer support
  Communicate with you regarding your use of our Service
  Process your payments
• for our (or others') legitimate interests, unless those interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms that require protection of personal data;
• to comply with legal obligations.

4. WITH WHOM WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

• We share information with third parties that help us operate, provide, improve, integrate, customize, support, and market our Service. We may share some sets of personal data, in particular, for purposes indicated in Section 2 of this Privacy Policy. The types of third parties we share information with include, in particular:
• We share personal data with third parties that we hire to provide services or perform business functions on our behalf, based on our instructions. We may share your personal information with the following types of service providers: cloud storage providers (Amazon)
  data analytics providers (Facebook, Google, Yandex)
  marketing partners (in particular, social media networks, marketing agencies, email delivery services; including, Facebook, Google, Sendpulse)
• We describe for what purposes and with which third-party service providers we share information in detail in Section 2 of this Privacy Policy.
• We may use and disclose personal data to enforce our Terms and Conditions of Use, to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others, and to respond to requests from courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and government authorities, or in other cases provided for by law.
• As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customers’ information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may also share such information with any affiliated entity (e.g. parent company or subsidiary) and may transfer such information in the course of a corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

5. HOW YOU CAN EXERCISE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

• Accessing / reviewing / updating / correcting your personal data. You may review, edit, or change, or request a copy of your personal data collected during your use of the Website at [email protected].
• Deleting your personal data. You can request erasure of your personal data by sending us an email at [email protected].
• When you request deletion of your personal data, we will use reasonable efforts to honor your request. In some cases, we may be legally required to keep some of the data for a certain time; in such event, we will fulfill your request after we have complied with our obligations.

6. AGE LIMITATION

• We do not knowingly process personal data from persons under 16 years of age. If you learn that anyone younger than 16 has provided us with personal data, please contact us at [email protected].

7. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

• We do business globally. We may transfer personal data to countries other than the country in which the data was originally collected in order to provide the Service set forth in the Terms and Conditions of Use and for purposes indicated in this Privacy Policy. If these countries do not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information, we deploy special safeguards.
• In particular, if we transfer personal data originating from the EEA to countries with not adequate level of data protection, we use one of the following legal bases: (i) Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission (details available here), or (ii) the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (details available here), or (iii) the European Commission adequacy decisions about certain countries (details available here).

8. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

• We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we decide to make material changes to this Privacy Policy, you will be notified through our Service or by other available means and will have an opportunity to review the revised Privacy Policy. By continuing to access or use the Service after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.

9. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

• The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) provides additional rights to know, delete and opt-out, and requires us to disclose what personal information we have collected, used, and shared over the last 12 months.
• Section 2 describes the personal information we have collected about you, including the sources of that information. We collect this information for the purposes described in Section 3. We share this information as described in Section 5.
• Under CCPA you as a California resident have the following rights, which you may exercise by yourself or you may designate an authorized agent to make these requests on your behalf:
• Right of Know. You have the right to request that we disclose to you the personal information we collect, use, or disclose.
• Right to Delete. You have the right to request that we delete your personal information that we have collected from you.
• Right to Opt-Out. CCPA requires that we maintain a separate webpage that allows you to opt out of the sale of your personal information.
• Right to Non-Discrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights. We will not deny you our services, charge you different prices, or provide you a lower quality of services if you exercise your rights under the CCPA.
• You may designate, in writing or through a power of attorney, an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights under the CCPA. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require the agent to provide proof you have authorized it to act on your behalf, and we may need you to verify your identity directly with us.

10. DATA RETENTION

• We will store your personal data for as long as it is reasonably necessary for achieving the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy (including providing the Service to you), which includes (but is not limited to) the period during which you have an account with the Website. We will also retain and use your personal data as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

11. HOW “DO NOT TRACK” REQUESTS ARE HANDLED

• Various browsers (including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari) offer a DNT option that relies on a technology known as a DNT header that sends a signal to websites visited by the browser user about the user's DNT preference. You can usually access your browser's DNT option in your browser's preferences.
• We currently do not support “Do Not Track” requests because no DNT standard has been adopted​​.
• Our third-party services may collect information about you and your online activities over time and across our Services and other online properties. These third parties may not change their tracking practices in response to DNT settings in your web browser and we do not obligate these parties to honor DNT settings. To determine whether any of the third-party services honor the “Do Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.

12. PERSONAL DATA CONTROLLER

• eljazeera, a company registered in the Dubai (with registered office at 5-9 MAIN STREET, Dubai, Dubai, Postal/Zip Code GX11 1AA) will be the controller of your personal data.

13.CONTACT DETAILS

If you want to send any notice under these Terms or have any questions regarding the Service, you may contact us at: [email protected]

I HAVE READ THESE TERMS AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.

Last updated: 01 December 2020