SOMIS Privacy Policy

Last Updated: March 10, 2021

Welcome, and thank you for your interest in SOMIS and our website at www.somisapp.com (the “Site”), as well as all related web sites, networks, downloadable software, mobile applications, and other services provided by us and on or through which a link to this Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) is displayed (collectively, together with the Site, our “Service”).

This Policy describes how SOMIS may collect, use, process, disclose, and safeguard information we obtain through the Service and in connection with our customer, partner and vendor relationships. It also tells you about your rights and choices with respect to your information, and how you can contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

In addition to the activities described in this Policy, we process Personal Information provided by our business customers (“Business Customers”) when they use our Service. Our Business Customers use our Service to run their businesses and provide service to their end-customers, and in doing so collect Personal Information about their end users and end customers, including, for example, their end-customers’ name and address, the services that they perform for them, the locations of those services, the equipment involved as well as financial, payment and other end-customer information.  We process such Personal Information as a data processor and service provider on behalf and on the instructions of our Business Customers, which are the entities responsible for the data processing. To understand how an Business Customer processes your Personal Information, please refer to that Business Customer’s privacy policy. 

This Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the SOMIS Terms of Service. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Policy have the meaning given to them in the SOMIS Terms of Service.

1. Personal Information We Collect

For the purpose of this Policy, “Personal Information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. We obtain Personal Information relating to you from various sources described below.

Where applicable, we indicate whether and why you must provide us with your Personal Information, as well as the consequences of failing to do so. If you do not provide Personal Information when requested, you may not be able to benefit from our Service if that information is necessary to provide you with the service or if we are legally required to collect it.

a. Personal Information Provided by You 

Account Registration. If you register to use the Service, then you must provide us with your name, email address, and a password in order to create an account and user profile. Some types of user registrations also require a physical address or location.  You may also optionally add other information, such as photos of yourself or, for some types of user registrations, your household.

Making Payments. When you make payments to or through the Service, you may need to provide Personal Information to our third-party service providers, such as your credit card number and billing address.

Financing. If you apply for certain financing options, we, our Business Customers or third-party payment providers, as the case may be, may collect information such as your gender, birthdate, marital status and education and employment information as needed to process your applications with our financing partners. 

User Content. We will collect any information you upload or post to or through the Service, including calls placed to numbers or services maintained by us or through the Service. For example, when you interact with other users by sending them messages, the Service will process the information you provide in such submissions, to the extent permitted under applicable law. This may also include the information regarding your contacts that you choose to import into the Service.

Communications. We will collect any information which you provide to us through your communications e.g., when you communicate with our customer support team. 

Job Applications. We will collect any information which you provide to us when you apply for a job with SOMIS, including your resume and references.

b.Personal Information Collected via Automated Means 

In addition to information that you provide to us, we may collect information about you and your use of the Service via automated means, such as cookies, web beacons and similar technologies:

Location Information. We may collect and store your location information, including GPS coordinates, if you enable your mobile device to send it to us. Collection of this information may improve the provision of the Service.

Cookies and Similar Technologies. When you use the Service, we may send one or more cookies – small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your device. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to automatically collect certain information. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Service. When you use the Service, we may also automatically collect certain information from your device by using similar technologies, including “clear gifs” or “web beacons.” Please review your web browser “Help” file to learn the proper way to modify your settings with regard to such automated data collection. Please note that if you delete, or choose not to accept, such technologies from the Service, you may not be able to utilize the features of the Service to their fullest potential.

The automatically collected information may include your IP address or other device address or ID, web browser and/or device type, the web pages or sites that you visit just before or just after you use the Service, the pages or other content you view or otherwise interact with on the Service, and the dates and times that you visit, access, or use the Service. We also may use these technologies to collect information regarding your interaction with email messages, such as whether you opened, clicked on, or forwarded a message. This information is gathered from all users.

We use this information to assess how many users access or use our Service, how they interact with our Service, which content, products, and features of our Service most interest or are of most value to our users, what types of offers and incentives our customers and their end-customers respond to, and how our service performs from a technical point of view. 

Google Analytics. We work with Google Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the website and report on activities and trends. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and opt out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. 

Third Party Web Beacons and Third Party Buttons. We may also implement third-party content or advertising on the Service that may use clear gifs or other forms of web beacons, which allow the third-party content provider to read and write cookies to your browser in connection with your viewing of the third party content on the Service. Additionally, we may implement third party buttons (such as  “like” or “share” buttons) that may allow third parties to collect information about you through such third parties’ browser cookies, even when you do not interact with the button. Information collected through web beacons and buttons is collected directly by these third parties, and SOMIS does not participate in that data transmission. Information collected by a third party in this manner is subject to that third party’s own data collection, use, and disclosure policies.

c. Personal Information Obtained from Third Parties

Our Business Customers. If you are using the Service as an end user of a Business Customer, we may collect Personal Information about you from our Business Customers who use the Services with their own end users, often their employees. This information may include your name, email address, phone number, information necessary for payroll processing, and other information necessary to operate the Services.  We may also collect information from our Business Customers about their end-customers, which information we process on their behalf.

2.How We Use Personal Information We Collect

We may use Personal Information we collect for the following purposes:

Internal and Service-Related Usage. We use your Personal Information to operate, maintain, enhance and provide all features of the Service, to provide services and information that you request, to respond to comments and questions and otherwise to provide support to users.

Analytics and Improving the Service. We use your Personal Information to understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences of our users, to improve the Service, and to develop new products, services, feature, and functionality.

Communications. We may use your email address or other Personal Information (i) to contact you for administrative purposes such as customer service, to address intellectual property infringement, privacy violations or defamation issues related to your User Content posted on the Service or (ii) to send communications, including updates on promotions, relating to products and services offered by us and by third parties we work with. Generally, you have the ability to opt-out of receiving any promotional communications as described below under “Your Rights and Choices.”

Tailored Content. We may use your Personal Information to: (i) personalize our services, such as remembering your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Service; (ii) provide customized advertisements, content, and information.

Aggregate Data. We may de-identify and aggregate information to monitor and analyze the effectiveness of Service and third-party marketing activities and to monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed.

Partners and Vendors. We use Personal Information collected from our business partners and vendors to manage those relationships. 

Job Applications. If you apply for a job at SOMIS, we may process your Personal Information to evaluate your application.

Legal. We may use your Personal Information to enforce our End User License Agreement and Terms of Service, to defend our legal rights, to comply with our legal obligations and internal policies.

Other Purposes. We also may use your Personal Information as may be described in a notice to you at the time the information is collected, or in any other manner to which you consent.

If you are located in the European Economic Area, we only process your Personal Information based on a valid legal ground, including when: 

• You have consented to the use of your Personal Information;

• We need your Personal Information to provide you with the Services, including for account registration and to respond to your inquiries;

• We have a legal obligation to use your Personal Information;    

• We or a third party, have a legitimate interest in using your Personal Information. In particular, we have a legitimate interest in using your Personal Information to conduct business analytics, and otherwise improve the safety, security, and performance of our Services. We only rely on our or a third party’s legitimate interests to process your Personal Information when these interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.

3.How We Disclose Your Personal Information

Except as described in this Policy or otherwise disclosed to you at the time of the collection, we will not disclose your Personal Information to third parties without your consent. We may disclose information to third parties in the following circumstances:

• SOMIS affiliates and subsidiaries. We may disclose Personal Information about you with our affiliates and subsidiaries.

• Other users.  Any Personal Information that you voluntarily choose to include on or through the Service, including information in a publicly accessible area of the Service (such as a public profile page) or information you share with or allow to be shared with other users, will be available to anyone who has access to that content, including other users. We are not responsible for privacy practices of the other Users who will view and use the posted information.

• Vendors and Service Providers. We work with third party service providers to provide website or application development, hosting, maintenance, and other services for us. These third parties may have access to or process your Personal Information as part of providing those services for us. We limit the information provided to these service providers to that which is necessary for them to perform their functions, and we require them to agree to maintain the confidentiality of such information.

• Advertising Partners. We may share your Personal Information with our third party advertising partners to provide ads that we think may interest you. For more information about our advertising and marketing practices and those of the third party advertising partners, please see the Personal Information Collected by Automated Means section above.

• Our Business Customers If you are using the Service as an end user or end-customer of a Business Customer, we may disclose information about you to that Business Customer, such as your name, email address and physical address, in connection with your business relationship with that Business Customer and as necessary to provide the services you have requested of the Business Customer.

• Other Third Parties.  We may also share Personal Information about you with other third parties in the following circumstances:

• In Aggregated Form. We may make certain automatically-collected, aggregated, or otherwise de-identified information available to third parties for various purposes, including (i) compliance with various reporting obligations; (ii) for business or marketing purposes; or (iii) to assist such parties in understanding our users’ and our Business Customers’ end-customers’ interests, habits, and usage patterns for certain programs, content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality available through the Service.

• To Comply with Legal Obligations. We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws (such as U.S. copyright law), in response to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena or warrant, or to otherwise cooperate with law enforcement or other governmental agencies.

• To Protect and Enforce Our Rights.  We also reserve the right to disclose your information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to (i) take precautions against liability, (ii) protect ourselves or others from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses or activity, (iii) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, (iv) protect the security or integrity of the Service and any facilities or equipment used to make the Service available, or (v) protect our property or other legal rights (including, but not limited to, enforcement of our agreements), or the rights, property, or safety of others.

• In case of Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfer. Information about our users, our Business Customers and their end-users and end-customers, including Personal Information, may be disclosed and otherwise transferred to an acquirer, or successor or assignee as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets.

• With Your Consent. We also may disclose your Personal Information as may be described in a notice to you at the time the information is collected, or in any other manner to which you consent. 

4. Your Rights and Choices

Account Information. You may, of course, decline to share certain Personal Information with us, in which case we may not be able to provide to you some of the features and functionality of the Service. You may update, correct, or delete your profile information and preferences at any time by accessing your account settings page on the Service. If you are not a registered user of the Service, if you wish to access or amend any other Personal Information we hold about you, or if you would like to request that we delete any information about you that we have obtained from a Business Customer, you may contact us at support@somisapp.com. Please note that while any changes you make will be reflected in active user databases instantly or within a reasonable period of time, we may retain all information you submit for backups, archiving, prevention of fraud and abuse, analytics, satisfaction of legal obligations, or where we otherwise reasonably believe that we have a legitimate reason to do so, to the extent permitted under applicable law.

Opt-Out. If you receive commercial email from us, you may unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions contained within the email. You may also opt-out from receiving commercial email from us, and any other promotional communications that we may send to you from time to time, by sending your request to us by email support@somisapp.com or by writing to us at the address given at the end of this policy. We may allow you to view and modify settings relating to the nature and frequency of promotional communications that you receive from us in user account functionality on the Service.

Please be aware that if you opt-out of receiving commercial email from us or otherwise modify the nature or frequency of promotional communications you receive from us, it may take up to ten business days for us to process your request, and you may receive promotional communications from us that you have opted-out from during that period, unless we are required by applicable law to process your request within a shorter period of time. Additionally, even after you opt-out from receiving commercial messages from us, you will continue to receive administrative messages from us regarding the Service.

Privacy Settings. Although we may allow you to adjust your privacy settings to limit access to certain Personal Information, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. To the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures on the Service. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of others with whom you may choose to share your information. Further, even after information posted on the Service is removed, caching and archiving services may have saved that information, and others, including third parties, may have copied or stored the information available on the Service. To the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, we cannot and do not guarantee that information you post on or transmit to the Service will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Do Not Track. Some web browsers incorporate a “Do Not Track” feature. Because there is not yet an accepted standard for how to respond to Do Not Track signals, our website does not currently respond to such signals.

Other Rights. If you are located in the European Economic Area, you may have the following additional rights: 

• Request access to and receive information about the Personal Information we maintain about you, to update and correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information, to restrict or to object to the processing of your Personal Information, to have the information anonymized or deleted, as appropriate, or to exercise your right to data portability to easily transfer your Personal Information to another company. In addition, you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, including in your country of residence, place of work or where an incident took place.

       

  Withdraw any consent you previously provided to us regarding the processing of your Personal Information, at any time and free of charge. We will apply your preferences going forward and this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before your consent withdrawal. 

Those rights may be limited in some circumstances by local law requirements. You may exercise these rights by using the How to Contact Us below. 

If you are a California resident, please review the additional notice below for more information regarding your rights under California law.

5. California Residents

California Resident Privacy Notice

This California Resident Privacy Notice supplements the information and disclosures contained in our Privacy Policy. It applies to individuals residing in California from whom we collect Personal Information as a business under California law.

The chart below provides the categories of Personal Information (as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (California Civil Code §§ 1798.100 to 1798.199) and its implementing regulations, as amended or superseded from time to time (“CCPA”)) we have collected, disclosed for a business purpose, sold, or used for business or commercial purposes in the preceding twelve months since this notice was last updated. The examples of Personal Information provided for each category may not reflect all of the specific types of Personal Information associated with each category.