Updated December 31, 2019
We at YouTeam are committed to protecting your privacy. We want to make sure you always have control over the data you share with us and know how we use it.
This Privacy Policy applies to both YouTeam’s Website located at www.youteam.io and our affiliated website located at youteam.io (collectively, the “Site”), and related software and services (collectively with the Site, “YouTeam Platform”).
This Privacy Policy governs our data collection, processing, usage, and sharing practices and is an essential part of our Terms & Conditions and the Standard Referral Agreement. It also lays out your preferences regarding the use, access, and correction of your personal data. If you do not agree with the data practices described in this Privacy Policy, you should not use YouTeam Platform.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The latest version is posted on this page. If we make significant changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by sending you an email.
Although we will notify you of any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we encourage you to review it regularly.
1. What Information We Collect About You?
What types of information we collect from you depends on how you use YouTeam Platform, what services you use, and what information you choose to provide or make available to us. We collect information about you when you:
- Create an account, and when you administer your account
- Input information or data into YouTeam Platform
- Submit questions, requests and other communications to us via forms, email, or other communication media
- Contact us for user support or technical support
- Visit any of our Sites or use YouTeam Platform
- Participate in any promotions, voluntarily complete surveys and provide feedback
- Interact with the Approved Contractors listed at YouTeam or with the Customers we refer to you.
Website usage information is collected using cookies.
1.1. When You Use YouTeam Platform, the Categories of Information We Collect May Include:
User Information
Information related to the creation of the account or that otherwise identifies you as the user of YouTeam.
Personal Information
User Information may include certain Personal Information – any information that you voluntarily submit to us and that identifies you personally, including contact information, such as your name, email address, company name, job title, phone number, Skype ID and other information about yourself or your business. Personal Information can also include information about any transactions that you enter into YouTeam Platform, and information about you that is available on the Internet, such as from Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google, or publicly available information that we acquire from service providers.
Information collected on behalf of the customer or the service provider
If you are the user using YouTeam Platform through an account created on your behalf (such as an employer, organization of which you are a member or another individual), we may collect and process User Information about you within the account your use of YouTeam Platform is associated with.
Information collected from the third-party service
When you create an account with YouTeam, we may collect certain User Information directly from you or, if you create your account using a third-party service (Google or Facebook), we may collect User Information about you from the third-party service (such as your username or user ID associated with that third-party service). By choosing to create an account using a third-party service, you authorize us to collect User Information necessary to authenticate your account with the third-party service provider.
1.2. Information About Children
YouTeam platform is not intended for or targeted at children under 16, and we do not knowingly or intentionally collect information about children under 16 If you believe that we have collected information about a child under 16, please contact us at frondesk@youteam.io, so that we may delete the information.
2. How We Use Information We Collect
We require certain information to provide our services to you. When you choose to share the information with us, we collect and use it solely to operate our services.
Here are other examples of how we use the information you share with us along with the purpose and the legal basis we rely on for such usage (listed in the table below).
Contract
Processing of your Personal Information is necessary for us to administer the contractual relationship between ourselves and the Approved Contractors in connection with the performance of a contract.
Legitimate interests
If you are an existing Customer of YouTeam, or contact either YouTeam or any Approved Contractor with regard to software development, design, project management, testing, and diagnostics or other professional services they provide, we would like to contact you about our services & special offers, as well as remote work and teamwork content that may be of interest to you, and process your personal information to make sure we send you only relevant, targeted information. You can opt-out of this at any time.
Consent
If you sign up and create a YouTeam account, we will ask for your consent to process your Personal Information in order to send you marketing materials. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
We will usually ask for your consent in the form of a tick box or when you share with us your email address expressly to subscribe to our updates.
|
Activity |
Why we need to process your Personal Information |
Legal basis to process your Personal Information |
| Creating and using your YouTeam account | To create and administer your account
Personalize YouTeam Platform for your usage To enable us to introduce or facilitate an introduction between the Customers and the Approved Contractors |
Performance of contract |
| Contacting YouTeam with a request, inquiry or claim | To process and respond to your requests, inquiries, and claims | Legitimate interests, including pursuing an opportunity to win you as a new Customer or Approved Contractor before the above basis applies |
| Submitting service provider application | To process application
To share the details of cooperation To communicate with you efficiently |
Legitimate interests, including the growth of business and creating a network of Approved Contractors at YouTeam. |
| Email marketing | To send information and marketing messages via email | Consent |
| Analytics and segmentation | To provide targeted marketing messages or your account analytics | Legitimate interests, including improvement of our services, tailoring them to you |
3. International Transfer of Your Personal Information
Transfers between YouTeam’s legal entities
YouTeam Inc., a Delaware corporation, having its principal place of business at 800 W El Camino Real #180, Mountain View, CA 94040, is the controller of the data collected in connection to your usage of YouTeam Platform. To provide our operations, we may transfer your Personal Information between YouTeam Inc. and YouTeam Ltd.
Transfers to third parties
The Personal Information we collect may be transferred to and stored a) in countries outside of the jurisdiction you are in by the Customer or the Approved Contractor; b) in the third countries in order to connect you with the Customer or the Approved Contractor identified by you or referred to you via YouTeam Platform.
International transfers of your Personal Information are made pursuant to appropriate safeguards, such as standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission. If you wish to enquire further about these safeguards used, please contact us using the details set out at the end of this privacy policy.
4. How to Access & Control Your Personal Information
You have the following rights with regard to reviewing, correcting and removing your Personal Information:
- You can request access, correction, updates, or deletion of your Personal Information.
- You can object to the processing of your Personal Information, ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Information or request portability of your Personal Information.
- If we have collected and process your Personal Information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your Personal Information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
- You have the right to complain to your data protection authority about our collection and use of your Personal Information. You may find information on how to contact your local data protection authority is available at https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.
- You may also review and edit by yourself the Personal Information you have shared with us, as well as manage your communication preferences by logging into your account at YouTeam platform. You may unsubscribe from our marketing communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link on the bottom of our emails, updating your communication preferences, or by sending us an email at frontdesk@youteam.io or mail to YouTeam Inc., 800 W El Camino Real #180, Mountain View, CA 94040. Important: Privacy.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us by email at legal@youteam.io or by mail to YouTeam Inc., 800 W El Camino Real #180, Mountain View, CA 94040. Important: Privacy. We will respond to your request to change, correct, or delete your information within a reasonable amount of time and notify you of the outcome.
5. Data Retention
Unless you request us to delete Personal Information contained within your account, we delete the information you submit to verify your identity (or the identity of the person listed as the service provider’s signing officer) 30 days following your account deactivation and retain certain data (including Personal Information, such as your name and email address) for the following 6 months. Should you wish to revisit the possibility of cooperation with YouTeam, the aforementioned data will be used to recover your account records to the fullest extent possible.
Please be advised that it is not always feasible to completely remove or delete information from our databases, hence certain information, such as information you posted on YouTeam Platform via online chats, RFP form or other contact forms, will persist on YouTeam Platform even after your account has been deleted.
6. How We Secure Your Information
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the information we collect and store. Unfortunately, no security measures are 100% foolproof, and as such no network or system (including ours) can be guaranteed to be 100% secure against destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to information we collect and store. If you believe your information may not be secure for any reason, please contact us immediately at legal@youteam.io.
7. Cookies
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. This information is used to track visitor use of the Site and to compile statistical reports on Site activity. We use cookies at YouTeam platform to present you with information you will find more relevant and provide functionality you used previously.
Cookies do not provide us with access to your computer or any information about you, other than that which you choose to share with us. We do not use cookies to identify who you are. Nevertheless, we may use cookies to identify that your web browser has accessed aspects of the services and may associate that information with your account (if you have created an account at YouTeam).
You can use YouTeam Platform without registering, limiting the type of information that we gather. However, please note that registration enables you to take advantage of the most attractive features of YouTeam Platform.
For further information visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org. You can set your browser to not accept cookies and the above websites tell you how to remove cookies from your browser.
8. Other Websites
YouTeam Platform contains links to other websites. This Privacy Policy only applies to YouTeam Platform, so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.
9. How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, how we use the information you provide us and maintain its security, your rights to access information we collect about you, please contact us by email at legal@youteam.io or by mail to to YouTeam Inc., 800 W El Camino Real #180, Mountain View, CA 94040. Important: Privacy.