At Outalks, we respect your privacy, and understand the importance of the information you entrust to us.

Who we are

(Outalks, We, Us, Our) through the use of (i) Outalks (the 'website', 'https://www.outalks.com') and (ii) Our mobile applications ( “All our mobile applications” )

This privacy policy applies to all personal information Outalks collects about you which allows us identify you. It explains the data protection practices of outalks.com and its subsidiaries.

1.0  Outalks.com in its sole discretion can change this privacy policy from time to time.

Any and all changes to “Outalks.com” Privacy policy will be reflected on this page and the date of the new versions will be stated.

1.1  Each time you use this website (outalks.com) however, the current version of this privacy policy will apply.

1.2  IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF USE AND THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST DISCONTINUE USING THIS WEBSITE AND ALL ITS FEATURES THERE IN.

1.3  IF ALSO YOUR USE OF OUR WEBSITE WOULD BE UNLAWFUL IN YOUR COUNTRY JURISDICTION, PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS WEBSITE.

2.0  Applicability

This privacy policy applies whenever and how you access or use the websites, either via personal computers, tablets, mobile devices or other devices.

2.1 Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

3.0  Information we collect

When you visit outalks or register for to any of our services, we request that you provide the following information about you:

– Personal information are information you voluntarily submit to us and can identify you. This includes contact information (your name, email address, social media handles, photos, company name and other info about you or your business.

– Payment information this refers to information we collect to process your subscribtion.

– Navigational information i.e about your device and visits to the websites such as your browser type, ip address, pages viewed.

– Demographic information, such as date of birth and gender on your sign up.

– Social networking information, you may be given the option to link your account on a third party social networking services on Outalks.com.

In addition as you interact with the website, the social networking service may collect information about your activities on the website.

3.1  We use information we collect about you… TO..

§  Enable you use our services, in creating an account or profile.

§  Provide unique customer care, like responds to your questions, comments and complaint.

§  Communicate with you on change of policy, Terms of use, procession of payments on your orders, products and promotions.

§  For improvement in our services, products and content.

§  In delivery of products and services.

4.0  User generated content (UGC) aka user created content (UCC).

– You may submit photos, user profile, written materials, videos, comments and other content.

– We do not control who will have the UGC you choose to make public or how they will use it and take no responsibility for ensuring such UGC remains private or is secure.

– The UGC is not subjected to this privacy policy but to our terms of use.

5.0 Cookies

– What are cookies: These are little files which contains strings of characters stored on your device or computer when you visit a website.
On your next visit, these cookies lets the site recognize your browsers, cookies may store other information, just to save you time on your next visit to the website or webpage.

– We use cookies to track users behavior and movement around the website, analyze trends and provide relevant advertising.

– When you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

– If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

– When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks.

– When you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

– If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

– We use cookies to personalize content and ads, to provide features to analyze our traffic and we also share information about your use of our site with our social media, analytics and advertising partners.

5.1 Embedded content from other websites

– Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

– These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

5.1.1 How does Outalks handle, Do Not Track Signals (DNT)

– We understand this and therefore honor DNT plant cookies or use advertising when a Do Not Track is in place.

5.1.2 Does Outalks.com allow third-party behavioral tracking?

– No! We do not allow third-party behavioral tracking

5.2  How long we retain your data

– If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

– For users whom register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (and can change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

5.3 What rights you have over your data

– If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

6.0  Advertising analytics

6.1  We use the information in connection with advertising to serve other content.

6.2  This can be also used to measure and improve our website, to deliver relevant content and to provide you with an enhanced experience based on the type of devices you are using.

7.0  Aggregated and non-personally-identifying information

– Outalks may share aggregated and non-personally identifying information we collect under any circumstances.

– We don’t want users to feel misled by sites that we help monetize, therefore our website may also share with third parties (Google AdSense,) and our affiliate companies to develop and deliver targeted advertising on our website.

– We may also share aggregated information with third parties, including advisors, advertisers and investor, for the purpose of conducting general business analysis. (For example, we may tell advertisers the number of visitors to our websites and the most popular features or services accessed).

– This information does not contain any personally- identifying information and may be use to develop our website content and services.

8.0  Legal grounds for using (processing) your information.

– If you are a visitor from the European economic area. Our legal basis for collecting and using the information described above will depend on the information concerned and the context in which we collect it.

8.1  We collect information from you:–

– Where we need it to perform our contract with you (i.e. our terms of services)

– Where the processing is in our legitimate interests (provided that these aren’t overridden by your interests or rights) (such as personalizing our services and marketing for example)

9.0  What about children?

– Once a child is under 13, they will not be able to register an account with us, but can use apps specifically developed for children to improve learning. We do not knowingly collect or store any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13 and therefore COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act) takes action, COPPA puts parents in control.

9.1  If parent believe that we have unintentionally collected their children personal information, they may request for the deletion of the information.

9.2  Note to parents

We recognize a special obligation to protect personal information about young children.

9.3  We urge parents to instruct their children to never give out their personal info’s, like home address, name and phone numbers, without permission, when online. Terms of use.

10.0  Outalks Disclosures

Outalks.com will disclose personally- identifying information under the following circumstances:-

§  By Law or to protect Rights:- When we believe and we are sure the disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrong doing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our business, our users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable law or co-operate with law enforcement; or to enforce our Terms of use or other agreements or polices, in response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, court order, or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal clams; or as otherwise required by Law.
In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.

BY USING THIS WEBSITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

IF YOU DON’T AGREE TO THESE POLICIES, PLEASE LEAVE THE WEBSITE AND DO NOT USE ANY OF OUR PRODUCTS.

Last updated: July 13, 2021