PRIVACY POLICY

Effective February 29, 2024

SwayID It, Inc (d/b/a SwayID) ("SwayID," "we," "us," or "our") owns and operates this Website and the associated Applications, including, but not limited to SwayID (collectively, the "App"). This Privacy Policy informs you how we collect, use, share, and protect the information we collect from or about you on our Website, however accessed (the "Website"), and our App. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Service.

What Information does SwayID Collect?

Information You Provide Us:

The information we collect varies depending on the type of activity you are performing and helps us provide you the products and services you request, personalize and improve your experience and allows us to provide you with opportunities to learn about products and services that may interest you. We collect the following Personal Information from or about you:

  • Name
  • Birth Date
  • Email Address
  • Billing Address
  • Shipping Address
  • Telephone Number(s)
  • Any photo you provide for use as your profile
  • Survey responses
  • Video Submissions you provide us
  • Receipt submissions you provide us
  • Your device geolocation, which we collect if you grant us permission on your device in order to confirm that you are located within the United States
  • Other information you provide us

For SwayID Rewards Program (SwayID Rewards”) participants: If you choose to link your social media account to the SwayID App to redeem Offers as part of our Program, we collect basic information from your social media account, which may include your profile picture and display name, as well as your public videos, depending on your privacy settings on that platform.

For Digital Receipt Program 'eReceipts'participants: We collect personal information contained on photos of receipts you submit to us or on digital receipts in your Gmail inbox. Our use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy , including the Limited Use requirements.

Other Information We Collect When You Use Our Website or App

Our Website or App collects certain information automatically about you and your use of our Website or App and services that do not necessarily personally identify you, your interactions with us and information regarding the device you use to access our Website or App (collectively "Other Information"). This information includes:

  • Gender
  • Date of Birth
  • IP address
  • Unique device ID
  • App usage information, including but not limited to:some text
    • Details about products you have purchased
    • Details about rewards earned and cashed out associated with your account
    • Other activity logs such as number of times you’ve visited a particular page in the app
  • If you participate in SwayID Rewards, we collect your associated Venmo or PayPal account information in order to pay you

How We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Cookies: Cookies are a form of data transferred to a user's device to facilitate customized site information and ongoing use. We use cookies for website administration and personalization, authentication, completing your requests to us, and for analysis that does not identify specific individuals. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to disable cookies on your browser but doing so may prevent you from using the full features of the Website.

Pixel Tags: We use Pixel Tags, or other forms of clear images and similar technologies, such as Javascript scripts on our Website and emails to understand the actions of users and measure the success of marketing efforts. Pixel Tags help us deliver and improve our marketing and our content to be more relevant to your interests. Specifically, we use Meta Pixel. Meta Pixel assists us in customizing our advertising and serving you ads on your social media based on your browsing behavior. You can learn about Meta’s privacy practices with respect to information collected through the Meta Pixel at www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ .

Session Replay: We use third-party services provided by Clarity that employ cookies and local storage to record users’ interactions with the Services in a manner that allows us to watch DVR-like replays of those user sessions. The replays include users’ clicks, mouse movements, scrolls, text entered, and time spent on the webpage during those sessions. These replays help us diagnose usability problems and identify areas for improvement. You can learn more about Clarity at Microsoft Privacy Statement .

When you visit or log in to our website, cookies and similar technologies may be used by our online data partners or vendors to associate these activities with other personal information they or others have about you, including by association with your email or home address. We (or service providers on our behalf) may then send communications and marketing to these email or home addresses. You may opt out of receiving this advertising by visiting https://app.retention.com/optout

When we use tracking technologies, SwayID does not combine your data with data from third parties but rather only uses SwayID’s own data for its business purposes and to operate the App.

How Does SwayID Use Your Information?

We use your information to provide you with our Website, App, and SwayID Rewards program which allows you to redeem Offers such as by creating video content showcasing your purchases and posting it on social media platforms. We also use your information to analyze, administer, enhance and personalize our Website and App and the services we provide to you, including our marketing of products and services to you. More specifically, we may use your information:

  • Pursuant to your direction to enable you to engage with all our participating brands to acquire points from them and otherwise interact with them
  • To deliver our products and services to you, including completing and processing your receipts, processing your Rewards, or engaging in other transactions with us
  • To enable you to create an account to conduct transactions and otherwise interact with us and our participating brands
  • To determine your eligibility for certain products and/or services
  • To communicate with you about our program and services, including to respond to your customer service requests or respond to any other inquiry or correspondence you send to us
  • To present you with marketing relating to our program and services, including promotions, coupons and other offers
  • To provide you updates, reminders, or other informational content
  • To analyze and improve our Website, App, products, and services, including analyzing trends and usage
  • To analyze market trends and consumer behaviors for internal business purposes
  • To prevent, detect, investigate, or remediate security or other legal concerns, including fraud
  • To protect the rights, property, or safety of us our users, or any other person or the copyright-protected content of our Website
  • To comply with applicable laws, regulations, or industry requirements, or respond to subpoenas or government requests
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which your provide it or consent
Digital Receipt Program

We use the information you provide us in connection with our Digital Receipt Program (Titled "eReceipts" in the Services) to get you paid relating to receipts you receive electronically. The Digital Receipt Program allows you to link your Gmail accounts to your SwayID account, as directed by you, through the use of your login credentials to that account(s) so that SwayID, as your agent, can retrieve purchase information from digital receipts in your digital consumer account or email. We also allow you to upload photos of your receipts. In processing your Digital Receipts, SwayID may retrieve Personal Information such as billing address, mailing address, name, payment method, and other information contained in the Digital Receipt email. The account credentials that you enter for these accounts are not stored with SwayID, but are stored on your device through appropriate secure methods, such as Keychain. SwayID may scan for any data believed to be a receipt in your Gmail account.

We comply with the Google API Services User Data Policy , including the Limited Use requirements, and use information collected through your participation in our eReceipts program from your Gmail account only to provide you points for your purchases on behalf of our participating brands and to improve user-facing features on the App or Website such as letting you know ways to earn money.

How Does SwayID Share Your Information?

In operating our business and working to provide you the best products and services, unless specified otherwise elsewhere, we may share your information in the following ways:

  • With our participating brands — When you use our App and participate in our program, you direct us to provide information you give us (including content you create) by registering to tell you that you can earn money on qualifying purchases you’ve made as part of our SwayID Rewards Program.
  • What Value Do You Receive from Participating in Our Program? — Our program allows you to direct us to ingest your personal information you provide us when registering so that we can enable you to earn money through your participation in various Offers. The value you receive in participating in our Program is calculated by SwayID. No third party input is involved in this calculation. If you no longer want to share your personal information with SwayID, please stop using the Services and delete your account at any time.
  • With service providers, which are the companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate our Services or our business (such as hosting, information technology, customer support, email delivery, and website analytics services).
  • With third parties for legal or security reasons
  • We may share information about you if we reasonably believe that disclosing the information is needed to:some text
    • comply with any valid legal process, governmental request, or applicable law, rule, or regulation.
    • investigate, remedy, or enforce potential violations of our Terms of User or Privacy Policy
    • protect the rights, property, and safety of us, our users, or others.
    • Detect and resolve any fraud or security concerns.
  • With third parties as part of an acquisition or liquidation
  • We are involved in a merger, asset sale, financing, corporate divestiture, reorganization, or acquisition of all or some portion of our business to another company or if we undergo liquidation or bankruptcy proceedings, we may share your information in connection with such transaction or proceeding before and or after the transaction closes or the proceedings are completed.
  • With your consent — We may share information in other ways if you give us consent or direct us to do so.

How We Use Google Analytics

For analytics, we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics may set cookies on your browser or mobile device or read cookies that are already there to collect information. Google Analytics may also receive information about you from apps you have downloaded that partner with Google. Google Analytics collects information such as how often you use our Website and how you use our Website. We use the information provided by Google Analytics to improve our Websites and services.

For more information regarding how Google collects, uses, and shares your information please visit google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ . By using our Website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google as described here and in Google's privacy policy. You can control the information provided to Google and opt out of certain ads provided by Google by using of the of the methods set forth in google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ or use the Google Analytics opt out browser add-on at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

What Personal Information can I access, and how do I edit or change my Personal Information?

When you log into your account or email us at support@swayid.com, you may access, and, in some cases, edit or delete the following information you have provided to us:

  • Email Address
  • For Digital Receipt Program participants: all personal information
  • User Name
  • Date of Birth
  • Past Receipts & purchases

You may be able to add, update, or delete information. However, when changes are made we may maintain a copy of the unrevised information in our records. You can also contact us about questions or requests relating to your personal information by sending an email to support@swayid.com. To protect your privacy, before we give you access or let you update your information, we may ask you to verify your identity or provide additional information. We may reject a request for a number of reasons, including, for example, that the request risks the privacy of other users, requires technical efforts that are disproportionate to the request, is repetitive, or is unlawful.

You may opt out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the emails you receive from us. You may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.

You may prevent us from collecting your device’s geolocation by adjusting your device settings.

Is Personal Information about me secure?

If you choose to register an account with us, it will be protected by an automatically generated, one-time password code. It is your obligation to prevent unauthorized access to your account and Personal Information by protecting your password code appropriately and limiting access to your computer or device, email account, and browser and by logging out after you have finished accessing your account.

We use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures designed to protect against unauthorized access, misuse, loss, disclosure, alteration, and destruction of Personal Information we maintain. Unfortunately, data transmission over the Internet cannot be guaranteed as completely secure. Therefore, while we strive to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of Personal Information.

Do Not Track

Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to "Do Not Track" or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit www.allaboutdnt.com

Other Sites and Services

SwayID’s App and Website may contain links to websites and other online services operated by third parties. In addition, our content may be integrated into web pages or other online services that are not associated with us. These links and integrations are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. We do not control websites or online services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for their actions. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such third-party sites or services.

No Collection of Personal Information from Children Under 14 Years Old

SwayID’s App and Website are not targeted to children under 14 years old, and it does not intend to collect Personal Information from children under the age of fourteen (14). If you are aware of a user under the age of fourteen (14) who has provided Personal Information to SwayID, please contact us at support@swayid.com. Parents and legal guardians may choose to provide information about their children, even if under the age of fourteen (14), for the purposes of using our products and services, including, without limitation, the App and Website.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last updated on the date indicated above. We reserve the right to amend this Policy from time-to-time. Any material change to our privacy practices will be reflected in this Privacy Policy. We will indicate the date this Policy was last updated.

What if I have questions about this policy?

If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please send us a detailed message to support@swayid.com.

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