Privacy Policy

Why Privacy Matters

Bizoco’s mission to help its members by providing them with useful connections, curated content, business & ecommerce tools & community building platform.

Our Service is designed exclusively for members and enables them to engage in meaningful networking experience, elevate their business activity socially, access to business opportunities, connect with like-minded peers, consume rich insights and learn from experts who are at the frontiers of knowledge & innovation.

This privacy policy explains how we collect, use and disclose information about you when you use our mobile application (the “App”), our Website (the “Site”) and other online products and services that link to this privacy policy (collectively, the “Service”). By using the Service, you consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this privacy policy.

Through the Service, you can share messages, comments, and other content (“Posts” & “Work profile”) with certain other users of the Service. You may also send private messages directly to other users (“Messages”).

Collection of Information

Bizoco verifies all users who register for the Service including, but not limited to, where they work and their role or professional title. Only Verified users can get access into the App and choose to post, comment, start a discussion, register for events, connect/network with other members.

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information you directly give us. For example, we collect information about you when you sign up for our Service, when you make a Post, start a discussion, register for an event, give feedback about the Service or otherwise communicate with us.

Registration

When you sign up for our Service, we capture relevant information necessary to verify your professional profile. This may include your email address, your full name, your mobile phone number, your company, your industry, your sub industry, your country, your city, your professional role/title, your gender, and your date of birth.

We use your contact information, such as your work email address or phone number, to authenticate your account and keep it – and our services – secure, and to help prevent spam, fraud, and abuse. We also use contact information to personalize our services, enable certain account features (for example, for login verification), and to send you information about our services. If you provide us with your phone number, you agree to receive text messages from Bizoco to that number as your country’s laws allow. Bizoco also uses your contact information to market to you as your country’s laws allow, and to help you find and connect with people you know and help others find and connect with you. You can unsubscribe from notifications by opting out or in the case of push notifications revoking consent by updating the settings on your device or by letting us know.

Profile

You have additional choices about the information on your profile, such as your education, work experience, photo, city, industry, the groups you’ve joined (Industry Pages), about you, your email id or your number. You don’t have to provide additional information on your profile; however, profile information helps you to get more from our Service. It’s your choice whether to include additional information on your profile.

Information We May Collect

We may, with your consent, collect information from your device’s address book. We do this, for example, so that you can share messages with your address book contacts or add contacts to group chats. You can always revoke this consent by changing the settings on your device.

We may ask you to provide and verify your telephone number when you first launch the App. Additionally, this process may be triggered if you want to create a new group, or we suspect improper activity on your account.

We may collect public information about you and make it available as part of our Services.

Additional Information We Receive About You

We receive certain information when you use our Service or other websites that include our content. Like the information you share with us, we use the data below to operate our services.

We log usage data when you visit or otherwise use our Service, including our sites, app and platform technology, such as when you view or click on content, perform a search, install or update one of our mobile apps or share articles. We use log-ins, may use cookies, device information and internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to identify and log your use.

Like many websites, we may use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional website usage data and to operate our services. Cookies are not required for many parts of our Service such as searching or posting. Although most web browsers automatically accept cookies, many browsers’ settings can be set to decline cookies. However, some of our services may not function properly if you disable cookies. When your browser or device allows it, we use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our services, to monitor aggregate usage patterns, and to personalize and otherwise operate our Service such as by providing account security, and personalizing the content we show you. We also get information about your network and device (e.g., IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser and add-ons, device identifier and features, cookie IDs and/or ISP, or your mobile carrier). If you use our Service from a mobile device, that device will send us data about your location based on your phone settings. We will ask you to opt-in before we use GPS or other tools to identify your precise location.

We may allow third parties to provide analytics services to us. We use these tools to help us improve our Service, performance, and user experiences. The information collected may include unique device identifiers, device manufacturer and operating system, IP address, browser type, session start/stop time, and user activity.

Use of Information

How we use your personal data will depend on which part of the Service you use, how you use those that service and the choices you make in your settings. We use the data that we have about you to provide and personalize our Service, including with the help of automated systems and inferences we make, so that our services can be more relevant and useful to you and others.

Storage of Information

The information you provide to Bizoco is encrypted. We take reasonable measures to protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. We also seek to minimize the data we keep and information is stored only as long as necessary to accomplish the purposes described in this privacy policy.

Services

We use your data to authorize access to our services:

Network with Professionals

Our Service allows you to network with other like-minded leaders who have similar roles or work at similar companies to exchange professional opportunities. To do so, you can create Posts/start Discussions in groups (called “Industry Pages” on our Service) and send Messages to professionals. Subject to your and their settings, your general profile may display in certain groups that you are member of, if you have turned “networking on” in the group.

We use data about you (such as your profile, profiles you have viewed or data provided through address book uploads) to suggest professionals you may want to network with (e.g. users who share your contacts or job experiences) and enable you to invite others to become members of the Service.

It is your choice whether to invite someone to our Service, post, or send a direct message. When you invite someone to the Service, your invitation will include your network and basic profile information (e.g., name, profile photo, job title, company). We may send invitation reminders to the person you invited.

Stay Informed through our Research & Events

Our Service allows you to stay informed about news, experiences, and ideas regarding the industries and professional topics you care through discussions with like-minded professionals. Our Service also allows you to learn and improve your professional skills by asking questions and receiving answers from other like-minded professionals who have may have more experience or are further along in their careers. We use the data we have about you (e.g., data you provide, data we collect from your engagement with our Service and inferences we make from the data we have about you), to personalize our Service for you, such as by recommending or ranking relevant content and conversations on our Service.

Enterprise Solutions

We may use your data to produce and share insights that do not identify you. For example, we may use your data to generate statistics about our members, their profession or industry to create demographic workforce insights. These market insights are based off only aggregated, de-identified or non-personal information.

We also may provide customized-search functionality and messaging tools as part of our marketing & networking solutions. Your posts and messages are not associated with your public profile and will always remain anonymous. We may provide non-personal information to our partner/advertiser as a result of your engagement with a partner’s/advertiser’s post/event but we do not provide your contact information to customers as part of these solutions without your consent.

Communications

We will contact you through email, mobile phone, notices posted on our websites or apps, direct messages to your Bizoco inbox, and other ways through our Service, including text messages and push notifications. We will send you messages about the availability of our Service, security, or other service-related issues. We also send messages about how to use our Service, network updates, reminders and events. You may opt out of these communications at any time by unsubscribing or responding to the message with an opt out. Please be aware that you cannot opt out of receiving service messages from us, including security and legal notices.

We also enable communications between you and others through our Service, including for example invitations, groups and direct messages between users.

With your consent, we may send push notifications or alerts to your mobile device. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your mobile device.

Marketing

In addition to advertising our Service, we may use members’ data for invitations and communications promoting membership and network growth, and engagement, such as by alerting your relevant contacts that you have signed up for the Service.

Developing Services and Research

We use data, including public feedback, to conduct research and development for our Service in order to provide you and others with a better, more intuitive and personalised experience, drive membership growth and engagement on our Services, and help connect professionals to each other and to economic opportunity.

Other Research

We seek to create equal economic opportunity for all professionals and to help them be more productive and successful. We may use the data available to us to research social, economic and workplace trends. In some cases, we work with trusted third parties to perform this research, under controls that are designed to protect your privacy. We publish or allow others to publish economic insights, presented as only aggregated non-personal data.

Surveys

Polls and surveys are conducted by us and others through our Service. You are not obligated to respond to polls or surveys, and you have choices about the information you provide. Only aggregated, de-identified and non-personal information is included with poll results.

Customer Support

We use data (which can include your communications) to investigate, respond to and resolve complaints and for Service issues (e.g., bugs).

Security and Investigations

We use your data for security purposes or to prevent or investigate possible fraud or other violations of our Terms of Service, our Community Guidelines, and/or attempts to harm our users.

Sharing of Information

Our Services

• Posts, Discussions, Likes, Comments, Messages, Work Profiles
• Our Service allows viewing and sharing information including through posts, likes, and comments.
• When you share an article or a post (e.g., an update, image, video or article) it can be viewed by everyone and re-shared anywhere
• Members, Visitors and others will be able to find and see your publicly shared content
• Your membership visibility in groups (called “Industry Pages” on Bizoco) are public
• When you like or re-share or comment on another’s content, others will be able to view these “social actions”

Profile

Your profile is visible to all members and customers of our Service. Your profile includes your name, your company, your industry, your professional title, region and may include optional information like your education or work experience if provided by the user. Your profile may also include groups or “Industry Pages” you’re a member of.

Your Choices & Obligations

Data Retention

We generally retain your personal data as long as you keep your account open or as needed to provide you the Service. This includes data you or others provided to us and data generated or inferred from your use of our Service. In some cases we choose to retain certain information (e.g., insights about Service use) in a depersonalized or aggregated form. The information you provide to Bizoco is encrypted. We take reasonable measures to protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction.

Your Personal Data

You have the right to correct, delete, or otherwise access the personal information we’ve collected about you. If you wish to delete your account, please contact us by emailing hello@bizoco.app

1. Delete Data: You can ask us to erase all of your personal data (e.g., if it is no longer necessary to provide the Service to you).
2. Change or Correct Data: You can edit some of your personal data through your account. You can also ask us to change, update or fix your data in certain cases, particularly if it’s inaccurate.
3. Right to Access Your Data: You can ask us for a copy of your personal data and a copy of your personal data will be provided to you in machine readable form.

If you choose to delete your Bizoco account, your account will generally be deleted within 72-96 hours or 4 working days on sending a special request through email on support@bizoco.app. We retain your personal data even after you have closed your account if reasonably necessary to comply with regulatory requirements, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse (e.g., if we have restricted your account for breach of our Professional Community Policies), enforce our User Agreement, or fulfill your request to “unsubscribe” from further messages from us. We will retain de-personalized information after your account has been closed.

Information you have shared with others (e.g., through group posts) will remain visible after you close your account, and we do not control data that other members have copied out of our Service. Your profile may continue to be displayed in the services of others (e.g., search engine results) until they refresh their cache.

If you wish to delete your account, please contact us by emailing hello@bizoco.app

Additional Information or Assistance

Thoughts or questions about this Privacy Policy? Please let us know by reaching us on support@bizoco.app

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. If we make material changes to it, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of the policy and, in some cases, we will provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you an email notification). We encourage you to review the privacy policy periodically to stay informed about our practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.

Code of Conduct

This Code of Conduct applies to every member of the Bizoco app. Members must affirm that they understand and commit to the Code of Conduct.

1. Act with integrity and high ethical standards in your personal and professional life
2. Avoid behavior that reflects adversely on Bizoco or on other members by their association with you
3. Disclose and get approval of any conflict of interest in advance
4. Support the safe haven culture within Bizoco to encourage open sharing of ideas and perspectives. Always respect members & their confidentiality
5. Ensure the content you share is relevant to that Community’s sector or around business related subjects. Refrain from expressing personal matters like religion etc. (If we feel that the content you have shared with the community isn’t of relevance to that sector or does not revolve around a business subject, we retain the right to remove the content posted by you (member)

Violations of this code could result in a loss of membership.

Code of Conduct enforcement is conducted by Bizoco’s management. The significance of a violation and any consequences thereof may vary based on the circumstances that are determined through the management’s investigative process. Repeat offenders are addressed with less tolerance.Reports of potential violations of the Code of Conduct are handled on a strictly confidential basis. Any potential violations in the Code of Conduct should be reported to any one of the following:

Contact Us:

Address: 105, Cuffe Parade, Mumbai | Email: hello@bizoco.app | Contact: +919137250244