Privacy
Last Updated June 22, 2020 Koala Labs, Inc. (
“Company,” “we,” “us,” or
“our”) makes available an Internet-based food and beverage ordering service, which can be managed by restaurant employees through a content management platform (the
“Koala Platform”). Restaurant customers (
“Diners”) can place orders through the use of related Koala technologies (which are private-labeled with the restaurant brand (the
“Restaurants”)), including (a) a website ordering platform through which Diners can place and pay for orders (
“Web Ordering”), (b) software installed on in-store kiosks, which facilitates in-store ordering, payment and pickup by Diners, (c) mobile applications downloaded by Diners through a Mobile App Store and used by Diners to place and pay for orders (the
“Mobile App”) and (d) software installed on Restaurant employee iPads for in-store ordering processed by the Restaurant employees. The Koala Platform, any such related technologies and any websites controlled by us, including
http://koala.io (the
“Site”), are referred to herein collectively as the
“Service”. This Privacy Policy explains what Personal Data (defined below) we collect in connection with the operation of our Service, how we use and share that data, and your choices concerning our data practices. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and forms part of our
Terms of Service.Before using the Service or submitting any Personal Data to Company, please review this Privacy Policy carefully and contact us if you have any questions. By using the Service, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Service.
We collect information that alone or in combination with other information in our possession could be used to identify you (“Personal Data”) as follows:
Personal Data You Provide. When you use the Service, we collect the following categories of Personal Data.
Contact and Profile Information. When you create an account with us (either as a Restaurant employee or a Diner), complete your account profile, place an order (if you are a Diner), sign up for a mailing list, complete the contact information form on the Site or otherwise communicate or interact with us, we may collect information from you, such as your name, phone number, e-mail address, and physical address. We may use this contact and profile information to: (i) create and personalize your account; (ii) communicate with you directly about the Service as well as about any questions, issues or concerns you or other users may have, (iii) fulfill your order (if you are a Diner), and (iv) send you marketing communications in accordance with your preferences.
Diner Data. When Diners submit an order, the Service processes pertinent details including the items purchased, date, location, and time of the transaction, the names of the transacting parties, a description of the transaction, special instructions, and points accrued or rewards or promotions redeemed as part of a loyalty or rewards program (collectively, “Diner Data”). We do not store any personally identifiable Diner Data submitted in connection with an order and all such Diner Data is subject to the privacy policy of the Restaurant from which the applicable Diner places an order. If you are a Diner and have questions about any Restaurant’s policies with respect to your Diner Data, please contact the Restaurant directly.
Communications, Participation and Other Content. We maintain all communications resulting from your interactions with us by email, phone, mail or chat. We also record comments and opinions you express when responding to surveys, entering a sweepstakes or taking part in promotions we run. We use all of the foregoing communications to address your questions, issues and concerns and to improve the Service.
Financial Data. Our payment processor(s) collect the financial information necessary to process Diner payments. We only have access to tokenized credit card information which we pass through to our processors.
Social Media Data. We have pages on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn (“Social Media Pages”). When you interact with our Social Media Pages, we will collect Personal Data that you elect to provide to us, such as your contact details. In addition, the companies that host our Social Media Pages may provide us with aggregate information and analytics regarding the use of our Social Media Pages.
Internet Activity Data. When Restaurant employees and Diners visit, use, and interact with the Service, we may receive certain information about their visit, use, or interactions. Although, as indicated above, we not store any personally identifiable Diner Data, we do collect non-individually identifiable Internet activity data from both our Restaurant employees and Diners. For example, we may monitor the number of people that visit the Service, peak hours of visits, which page(s) are visited, the domains our visitors come from (e.g., google.com, yahoo.com, etc.), which browsers people use to access the Service (e.g., Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.), broad geographical information, and navigation pattern. In particular, the following information is created and automatically logged in our systems:
1. personal data
Log Data: Information that a user’s browser automatically sends whenever the user visits any of our websites or any Restaurant website featuring Web Ordering. Such log data includes a user’s Internet Protocol address, browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how the users interacted with the Service.
Cookies Data: Please see the “Cookies” section below to learn more about how we use cookies.
Device Data: We may collect information regarding the name of the device, operating system, and browser the user is using to access the Service. Information collected may depend on the type of device the user uses and its settings.
Usage Data: We collect information about how a user uses our Service, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features a user uses, the actions a user takes, and the time, frequency, and duration of a user’s activities.
Location Data: We collect your location information through our Mobile Apps using your device IP address, WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS coordinates (e.g. latitude/longitude) of your mobile device. If a user has given the Mobile App permission to access the user’s location, we may collect the user’s device’s location and store the user’s location history. If you want to opt-out of the collection of your location data, please adjust your settings in your mobile device to limit the Mobile App’s access to your location data.
Email Open/Click Data: We use pixels in our email campaigns that allow us to collect your email and IP address as well as the date and time you open an email or click on any links in the email.
Cookies: We use cookies to operate and administer our Service, gather usage data on our Service, and improve your experience on it. A “cookie” is a piece of information sent to your browser by a website you visit. Cookies can be stored on your computer for different periods of time. Some cookies expire after a certain amount of time, or upon logging out (session cookies), others survive after your browser is closed until a defined expiration date set in the cookie (as determined by the third party placing it), and help recognize your computer when you open your browser and browse the Internet again (persistent cookies). For more details on cookies please visit
All About Cookies. On most web browsers, you will find a “help” section on the toolbar. Please refer to this section for information on how to receive a notification when you are receiving a new cookie and how to turn cookies off. Please see the links below for guidance on how to modify your web browser’s settings on the most popular browsers:
Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox
Google Chrome
Apple Safari
Please note that if you limit the ability of websites to set cookies, you may be unable to access certain parts of our websites or Web Ordering and you may not be able to benefit from the full functionality of the Service. Advertising networks may use cookies to collect Personal Data. Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s online resources at
http://www.networkadvertising.org and follow the opt-out instructions there.If you access the Service on your mobile device, you may not be able to control tracking technologies through the settings.
Analytics: We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how users use our websites and enhance your experience when you use our websites. For more information on how Google uses this data, go to
www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
Online Tracking and Do Not Track Signals: We and our third party service providers[, including Facebook, may use cookies, pixels, or other tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites following your use of the Service and use that information to send targeted advertisements. Our website currently does not respond to “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) signals and operates as described in this Privacy Policy whether or not a DNT signal is received. If we do respond to DNT signals in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy to describe how we do so.
2. how we use personal data
We may use your Personal Data for the following purposes:
To provide the Service and assist with the placement and fulfillment of Restaurant orders;
To enable you to create accounts and otherwise access and use the Service (e.g., remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit);
To display historical transaction information;
To provide custom, personalized content and information;
To respond to your inquiries, comments, feedback, or questions;
To send administrative information to you, for example, information regarding the Service and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies;
To inform you of products, programs, services, and promotions that we believe may be of interest to you, including, without limitation, through emails and push notifications;
To analyze how you interact with our Service, through detecting activity patterns on the Service and through otherwise researching usage;
To identify and contact you across multiple devices;
To maintain and improve the Service;
To test and develop new products and services;
To determine the effectiveness of our Service and our promotional campaigns;
To diagnose or fix technology problems;
To prevent fraud, criminal activity, or misuses of our Service, and to ensure the security of our IT systems, architecture, and networks; and
To comply with legal obligations and legal process and to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, Restaurants, or other third parties.
Aggregated Information. We may aggregate your Personal Data and use the aggregated information to analyze the effectiveness of our Service, to improve and add features to our Service, and for other similar purposes. In addition, from time to time, we may analyze the general behavior and characteristics of users of our Service and share aggregated information like general user statistics with prospective business partners. We may collect aggregated information through the Service, through cookies, and through other means described in this Privacy Policy.
Marketing. We may use your Personal Data to contact you to tell you about products or services we believe may be of interest to you. For instance, if you elect to provide your email or telephone number, we may use that information to send you special offers. You may opt out of receiving emails by following the instructions contained in each promotional email we send you. You can also control the marketing emails and/or text messages you receive from Restaurants and their partners by following the process established by the applicable Restaurant. In addition, if at any time you do not wish to receive future marketing communications, you may contact us. If you unsubscribe from our marketing lists, you will no longer receive marketing communications but we will continue to contact you regarding management of your account, other administrative matters, and to respond to your requests.
3. sharing and disclosure of personal data
In certain circumstances we may share Personal Data with the following categories of third parties without further notice to you, unless required by the law, as set forth below:
Restaurants: If you are a Diner, your Diner Data will be shared with the Restaurant at which you place an order.
Vendors and Service Providers: To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may share your Personal Data with vendors and service providers, including providers of delivery services, hosting services, cloud services, and other information technology services providers, event management services, email communication software and email newsletter services, advertising and marketing services, payment processors, customer relationship management and customer support services, and web analytics services. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store Personal Data in the course of performing their duties to us. Further, In connection with our use of Google Maps to provide the Service, we will also share your Personal Data with Google (please see Google’s privacy policy for information on their collection and use of data, including with respect to Google’s own use of Personal Data). We take commercially reasonable steps to ensure our service providers adhere to the security standards we apply to your Personal Data.
Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of all or a portion of our assets, or transition of service to another provider (collectively a “Transaction”), your Personal Data and other information may be shared in the diligence process with counter-parties and others assisting with the Transaction and transferred to a successor or affiliate as part of that Transaction along with other assets.
Legal Requirements: If required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements, (ii) protect and defend our rights or property, (iii) prevent fraud, (iv) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Service, or the public, or (v) protect against legal liability.
Affiliates: We may share your Personal Data with our current and future affiliates, meaning an entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with Company. Our affiliates may use the Personal Data we share in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
4. data retention
We keep Personal Data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, while we have a business need to do so, or as required by law (e.g. for tax, legal, accounting, or other purposes), whichever is longer.
5. updating your information
Please contact us if you need to change or correct your Personal Data. For Personal Data held by a Restaurant, please follow the applicable process established by the applicable Restaurant.
6. children
Our Service is not directed to children who are under the age of 16. Company does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 16. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 16 has provided Personal Data to Company through the Service please contact us and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.
7. links to other websites
The Service may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by Company, including social media services (“Third Party Sites”). The information that you share with Third Party Sites will be governed by the specific privacy policies and terms of service of the Third Party Sites and not by this Privacy Policy. By providing these links we do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed these sites. Please contact the Third Party Sites directly for information on their privacy practices and policies.
8. security
You use the Service at your own risk. We implement commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures to protect Personal Data both online and offline from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or e-mail transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, e-mail sent to or from us may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via the Service or e-mail. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any Personal Data to Company via the Internet. In addition, we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Service, or third party websites.
9. your choices
In certain circumstances providing Personal Data is optional. However, if you choose not to provide Personal Data that is needed to use some features of our Service, you may be unable to use those features. You can also contact us to ask us to update or correct your Personal Data.
10. changes to the privacy policy
The Service and our business may change from time to time. As a result we may change this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do we will post an updated version on this page, unless another type of notice is required by the applicable law. By continuing to use our Service or providing us with Personal Data after we have posted an updated Privacy Policy, or notified you by other means if applicable, you consent to the revised Privacy Policy and practices described in it.
11. contact us
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or information practices, please feel free to contact us at our designated request address:
privacy@koala.io.