Privacy Policy

Created on 6 November, 2024Policy • 18 minutes read

Effective from 25.03.2024

This Privacy Policy has been developed taking into account Our awareness of the importance and significance of Your Personal Data. The main purpose of this Policy is to help You understand how We Process and protect Your Personal Data when You use our Site - 99QRCode.com .

This Privacy Policy is developed and operates taking into account the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the General Data Protection Regulation of Great Britain (UK GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, California Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, Personal Information Protection Act of British Columbia, Personal Information Protection Act of Alberta, and Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector of Quebec, as well as other regulations and practices on the protection of Personal Data.

By using this Site, You confirm that:

(I) You have read, understood, and agree to this Policy;

(II) You have reached the age from which the legislation of the country of Your stay allows You to give Consent to the Processing of Your Personal Data. In any case, in order to use the Site, You must be at least 16 years old (at least 13 years old in certain regions) or one of Your legal representatives or guardians must have read and agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy on behalf of You. If You do not agree or cannot confirm the above, You must immediately stop using the Site. In this case, You must (a) contact Us and request the deletion of Your Data; (b) leave the Site and not use it.

1. Terms used in this Policy:

1.1. “Privacy Policy” – this document, which is available at the following link: https://99QRCode.com/privacy-policy (hereinafter — “Policy”).

1.2. “Company” — Lord Shani Dev, a Sole Proprietorship incorporated under the laws of India, GST number: 07AFKPG3462P2ZZ registered address: 38/18, Back Side Entry, East Patel Nagar, New Delhi - 110008 (hereinafter — “Company”, “We”, “Us”, “Our”).

1.3. “Personal Data” — any information relating to a natural person who is identified or can be identified using this information (hereinafter — “Personal Data”, “Data”).

1.4. “Processing of Personal Data” – any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction (hereinafter — “Processing”, “Processing of Personal Data”).

1.5. “Subject of Personal Data” – a person who visits and/or uses the Site within the scope of its available functionality and in accordance with the documentation contained on the Site (hereinafter — “User”, “You”, “Your”).

1.6. “Controller” – the Company, which determines the purposes and means of Personal Data Processing, establishes the composition of this Personal Data and the procedures for its Processing.

1.7. “Processor” – the Company or other persons that are authorized by the Controller or by law to Process Personal Data on behalf of the Controller.

1.8. “Site” — the website of the Company, https://99QRCode.com/, all its content and links that lead to this website.

1.9. “Services” — the image generation services facilitating Users to create QR codes according to their requirements, alongside functionalities enabling management and modification of generated QR codes, tracking of statistical data, and access to other features available on the Site.

1.10. “QR code” — a two-dimensional barcode containing a link to a specific web page that can be identified by scanning equipment and/or a mobile device camera.

1.11. “Consent” — any freely given, specific, informed, and unequivocal indication of the Subject of Personal Data wishes by which he or she, through clear affirmative actions, signifies agreement to the Processing of his or her Personal Data.

1.12. “Cookies” — files that are downloaded to the User's computer or any other device when the User visits the Site. These types of files allow Us to store and research information about the preferences of the User on the Site.

1.13. “General Data Protection Regulation” — European Parliament and Council Regulation № 2016/679 as of 27.04.2016 On the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (hereinafter — “GDPR”).

1.14. “UK GDPR” — Data Protection Act 2018, a regulation incorporated into the legislation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as amended by the Data Protection, Privacy, and Electronic Communications Regulations.

1.15. “CCPA” – California, USA Consumer Privacy Act of 2018.

1.16. “CalOPPA” – The Internet Privacy Protection Act of 2003 of the State of California, USA.

2. Personal Data We Process when You use the Site

2.1. Personal Data You provide to Us personally:

  1. By completing the registration procedure and filling out the registration form on the Site, You may provide the following Personal Data:

    • Email address;
    • Password.

    If the User decides to log in to the Site using a third-party authentication service, such as Google, the Company may receive the User's Personal Data or other information accessed by such third party.

  1. In the personal account of the User, after completing the registration procedure, You can additionally provide the following Personal Data:

    • First and last name
    • Date of birth
    • Phone number.

      If required, You have the right to change the Personal Data You provided during registration.

3) In order to subscribe to the Company's newsletter, You may be required to provide Your email address and Consent to receiving the specified newsletter.

4) In case of contacting Us through the means of communication available on the Site, You additionally provide Us with Personal Data that may be necessary to resolve Your request / problem.

3. Personal Data We Process automatically:

The list of Personal Data that We automatically receive from You when using Our Site includes:

  • Cookies;
  • IP or MAC address of Your device;
  • Information about Your device's operating system and browser type, Your device type;
  • Geolocation data to the extent that Your device settings allow Us to collect such information;
  • Time spent on the Website and on its individual pages.

4. Children's Privacy

We knowingly do not Process the Personal Data of children under the age of 13 (applies to Users who are residents of countries with a reduced minimum age for Personal Data Processing) and children under 16, and We also do not offer them to use the Site.

If We become aware that a person who has not reached the age from which it is permitted to Process their Personal Data has provided Us with their Personal Data without the Consent of a legal representative, guardian, or other person authorized to provide such Consent, We will take all necessary measures to delete such Data. If You believe We might have any information from or about a child under 16 (or 13 if applicable), please contact Us at support@99QRCode.com.

5. Purposes of Personal Data Processing

We Process the Personal Data provided by You only for the specific and limited purposes specified below:

  1. Keep things up & running (i.e., operate, deliver, and maintain Our Services). We use the information We collect in order to operate, deliver, and maintain Our Services. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Services that are available to You as a registered User. We also use some of Your Personal Data to help keep Our Site up to date, for example, to make sure that Our Services work with the latest operating systems and devices.

  2. Management and improvement of the Site. All the time, We try to improve the functions that support the operation of the Site. This allows Users to use the Site smoothly, quickly and efficiently.

  3. Performance of a contract. The development, compliance, conclusion, and execution of the services contract for the services You have purchased on the Site or of any other contract with Us through the Services. The Processing of Personal Data is necessary to ensure the performance of the contract between the User and the Company, thereby enabling the provision of the agreed-upon Services.

    1. Analytics. In order to understand what to build or how to improve the Services, We need to understand trends and demand for Our features. For example, We analyze the types of QR codes created by Users as part of the Services to determine which ones are in the highest demand, as well as other frequently used functionalities on the Site. This helps inspire Us to improve Site on a larger scale. We perform analytics in order to identify, monitor, and analyze trends and usage.

    2. Enhance the safety and security of Our Services. We may use Your Personal data to enhance the safety and security of Our Services, and prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity. We monitor failures of the Site and create software solutions to eliminate them, detect violations of this Policy, and monitor the use, abuse and potential abuse of the Site.

    3. Sending of newsletter. Under the condition that the User has subscribed and provided Consent to receive newsletters, Personal Data may be used for sending informational and marketing messages deemed by the Company to align with the preferences of the Users. You can find out more about sending such letters in the section “Sending marketing and informational materials to the User”.

  1. User support. Personal Data Processing is utilized for providing customer support services, including responding to inquiries, resolving issues, and facilitating communication between Users and the support team.
  1. Compliance and security. Personal Data Processing is essential for ensuring compliance with legal obligations, such as tax regulations and consumer protection laws, as well as for implementing security measures to protect against unauthorized access, fraud, and other security threats.
  1. Enforce Our Terms & Policies. We use the Data We collect to enforce Our Terms of Service, Policy and the law. This includes enforcing, investigating, and reporting conduct that violates Our Terms of Service, Policy, or the law, responding to requests from law enforcement, and complying with legal requirements. In some cases, We may also use or share Your Personal Data to cooperate with law enforcement requests, escalate safety issues to law enforcement, industry partners, or others, or comply with Our legal obligations.

To process Your Personal Data, We rely on the following lawful bases:

  1. Performance of the contract — for the Processing of Personal Data necessary for the negotiating on, conclusion, and performance of a contract (mainly, the Terms of Service) with You;
  1. Legitimate interest — for the Processing necessary for the development of Our Services, taking into consideration Your interests, rights, and expectations;

  2. Legal obligation — for the Processing as required by applicable laws (for example, to comply with tax or KYC/AML regulations) or if requested by a law enforcement agency, court, supervisory authority, or another state-authorized public body;

  3. Consent — for additional specific purposes.

6. Storage of Personal Data

6.1. How long do We keep Your Personal Data?

We will store Your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes set forth in the Policy. When determining the duration of such periods, We first decide whether We need to collect Personal Data at all, and, if such a need really exists, We keep it only for the period necessary to realize the purposes of collection, or until the moment You make a corresponding request to delete Your Personal Data.

The retention period for Personal Data is 14 (fourteen) days, unless a longer period is required to fulfill the Company's obligations or achieve the purposes of Personal Data Processing. After this period, the Company takes all necessary measures to delete Personal Data for which the necessity has expired.

6.2. Where do We store Your Personal Data?

We adhere to generally accepted industry standards to protect Your Personal Data both during transmission and after receipt. Storage of Personal Data is facilitated through platform services managed by Hostinger and its subsidiaries and affiliates.

Processing of Personal Data is carried out using computers and/or automated means in accordance with procedures and methods that correspond to the purposes of collecting Personal Data.

Your Personal Data that We Process may be transferred and stored outside the European Economic Area (EEA):

  • If there is no adequate decision by the European Commission regarding the country We transfer Data to, We use adopted standard contractual clauses based on legislation assessments for Data protection during transfer and storage;

  • If there is an adequate decision by the European Commission regarding the country We transfer Data to, We can transfer Personal Data to that third country without any further safeguard being necessary.

We take the protection of Your Personal Data very seriously. We take all commercially reasonable measures to prevent unauthorized access to Your Personal Data and those data obtained in the process of using the Site. Not only that, but We strive to protect Your Personal Data by various means in order to preserve its confidentiality and integrity, prevent unauthorized use or disclosure of Your Personal Data, and protect Your Personal Data from loss, misuse, disclosure, alteration, and/or destruction.

7. Cookies

7.1. What are Cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data (text files) or parts of program code that contain a unique User ID and information about how You use the Site. Cookies are transmitted through a server and stored on Your device when You visit and/or use the Site. The Cookies are installed by a request issued by a web server to a browser (e.g.: Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox) and is completely “passive” (does not contain software programs, viruses, or spyware and cannot access the information on the User's hard drive).

A Cookie consists of 2 parts: the name and the content or value of the Cookie. Moreover, the duration of existence of a Cookie is determined; technically, only the web server that sent the Cookie can access it again when a User returns to the website associated with that web server. Cookies themselves do not require Personal Data to be used and, in most cases, do not personally identify Internet Users.

Cookies may be stored until You close Your web browser (“session Cookies”) or during a repeat visit (“persistent Cookies”). “Persistent Cookies” remain on the User's device for a certain period of time specified in the Cookies. They are activated every time the User visits the Site.

Cookies may also be used to collect anonymous statistics about the experience of visiting the Site. The data collected is not personally identifiable and is limited to the minimum information necessary to optimize the performance of the Site.

In order to obtain additional general information about Cookies, You can check out information about HTTP Cookies, which is available at the following link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie.

7.2. Consent to the use of Cookies

Cookies are not strictly necessary for visiting and/or using the Site (except for the “strictly necessary” type of Cookies) and will be used by Us only after obtaining Your Consent to their use. Once You agree to Our use of Cookies in a separate notice about the use of Cookies, We will consider Your Consent to be obtained.

When You have given Us Your Consent to use Cookies when visiting and/or using the Site, the Processing of the Data collected by Cookies is carried out in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, in accordance with which the Processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that at least one of the following applies: the data subject has given Consent to the processing of his or her Personal Data for one or more specific purposes. You can familiarize yourself with the text of the GPDR by following the link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj.

You may certainly change Your Cookie settings on Your device at any time. For more information, please read the section 9.4 “How You can manage Your Cookies settings”.

7.3. The types of Cookies We collect:

  • Strictly necessary Cookies. These are essential for the Site's functionality and the use of its features, especially those related to security. Without these Cookies, it is impossible to ensure the proper functioning of the Site. They allow Users to freely use the Site and access various available features.

  • Statistics Cookies. These Cookies gather information about visits and traffic sources, helping Us assess and enhance the Site's performance. All information collected by these Cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

  • Marketing Cookies. We may also use Cookies in Our marketing emails (which will be sent only after We have received Your Consent to such sending) to analyze User interaction with Our marketing campaigns. This helps Us fine-tune and make them more convenient.

  • Preference Cookies. They enable the Site to remember information that changes the way the Site behaves or looks, like Your preferred language or the region You are in.

We assure You that all information collected through Cookies is used solely for the purposes stated in this Policy, and Cookies in no way are harmful to You or Your device, as they do not make any changes to its configuration.

7.4. How You can manage Cookies settings?

You can change how Cookies are used, including completely blocking or deleting them, through Your web browser settings. Please be aware that disabling or blocking some Cookies may hinder or significantly affect the proper functioning of the Site, potentially slowing it down.

You can configure, block or delete Cookies that are installed on Your computer or mobile device in the settings of Your browser.

When adjusting Your Cookie settings, You can:

  • delete all Cookies;
  • block all Cookies;
  • allow all Cookies;
  • block third party Cookies (including those set by other online services than the one You are on);
  • clear all Cookies when You close the web browser;
  • open “private browsing” / “incognito browsing”, which allows You to browse pages without recording the history of visits or storing local data such as Cookies (at the same time, You should be aware of the limitations of such a function in terms of privacy).

Learn how to manage Cookies in popular web browsers:

  • Microsoft Edge: Follow the instructions for configuring Cookies in Microsoft Support.
  • Internet Explorer: Find instructions for configuring Cookies in Microsoft Support
  • Google Chrome: Discover how to adjust Cookie settings in Google Support.
  • Firefox: Get instructions on configuring Cookies in Mozilla Support.
  • Safari for Mac: Learn about Cookie settings in Apple Support.
  • Opera: Find instructions on configuring Cookies in Opera Support.
  • Safari for iOS and iPadOS (iPhone / iPad): Check Cookie settings in Apple Support.
  • Google Chrome for Android: Learn how to configure Cookie settings in Google Support.

To find information about other web browsers, review the privacy settings in Your browser's settings or visit the website of the developer of the web browser You are using.

If You want to learn more about Cookies or how to control, disable, or delete them, You can visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for additional information.

PLEASE NOTE THAT CHANGES TO THE USE OF COOKIES MAY RESULT IN THE LOSS OF FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES OF THE SITE IN PART OR IN FULL.

8. Sending marketing and informational materials to the User

Periodically, with the prior consent of the User, the Company may send informational and promotional messages regarding the Services, news, special tariff plans, and other relevant updates. These messages may include, but are not limited to:

  • Service Updates: information regarding updates, improvements, or changes to the Services offered by the Company.

  • Newsletters: periodic newsletters containing industry news, tips, and other relevant information related to the Services.

  • Special Offers and Promotions: notifications about special offers, discounts, promotions, or deals available to Users.

  • New Features and Products: announcements about new features, products, or services that may be of interest to the User.

  • Other messages that the Company believes may be of interest and importance to the User.

Consent to receive such messages is given by the User by ticking the appropriate checkbox during registration on the Site or in a separate form in which the User has provided his / her e-mail address for receiving marketing messages, which confirms the User's desire to receive such messages and materials.

In the event that the User did not opt in a corresponding mark in the checkbox or provided Us with a separate e-mail address for marketing purposes, We will not send information messages listed above, but will only communicate with the User regarding his / her specific request.

If the User agreed to receive such informational and promotional messages, they will be sent by Us for any reason that We consider to be in the User's interests.

At the same time, the User has the right to withdraw the Consent for the further receipt of the above-mentioned materials by submitting an appropriate objection to their receipt by using the “Unsubscribe” function available at the bottom of the received e-mail message, or by contacting Us at support@99QRCode.com.

We may post active links to sites that are not maintained by the Company. If You visit such sites, You should review their privacy policies and operating principles. We are not responsible for the Personal Data Processing policies and practices of other companies, and any information You provide to such companies is subject to their Company policies.

10. Dispute Resolution

Before filing a claim in court in disputes arising from the relationship between the User and Us, it is mandatory to submit a claim (a written proposal for voluntary settlement of the dispute). The recipient of the claim shall, within 30 (thirty) calendar days from the date of receipt of the claim, notify the applicant of the claim in writing about the results of the consideration of the claim.

In case of failure to reach a compromise, the dispute will be referred to the competent court of the Honorable High Court of Delhi, India. The Policy is governed by and construed in accordance with the law of India.

11. Changes to the Policy

We have the right to make changes to this Policy at any time and for any reason by posting a new version of the Policy at the above link. We strongly recommend that You check the Policy and the date of the last change from time to time to stay informed of the latest changes.

If You do not agree with any changes made to the Policy, You must stop using the Site, and You can also request the deletion of Your Personal Data.

If there are material changes to the Policy or the Site that affect Your data privacy rights, We will notify You by displaying information on the Site and, if necessary, ask for Your Consent.

12. Contact information

If You have any comments, doubts, or questions regarding this Policy, please contact Us at support@99QRCode.com.

We will try to answer You as soon as possible, but no longer than within 30 (thirty) calendar days.