Hike Private Limited (“Hike”/ "we") respects the privacy of its users (“you”/”your”/”user”) who access the Rush application (the “Application”) and/or our site www.getrushapp.com and is committed to protecting it in all respects. This Privacy Policy explains about our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use and disclosure of information and data. We take commercially reasonable steps to ensure that privacy of the user is protected and no information given by the user is utilized in any manner whatsoever which could directly or indirectly result in any harm to the user or which would constitute a breach of privacy.

This Privacy Policy is an electronic record in the form of an electronic contract formed under the information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made thereunder and the amended provisions pertaining to electronic documents / records in various statutes as amended by the information Technology Act, 2000. This Privacy Policy does not require any physical, electronic or digital signature and is a legally binding document between You and Hike.

This Policy is part of our Terms of Service and applies to the Personal Information that is collected in connection with the download, installation and use of the Application and Services. By using the Application or the Services You signify Your assent to this Privacy Policy and consent to the processing of Your Personal Information as described herein. If You do not agree with this Policy, or with our Terms of Service, please do not download, install and / or use and/or access the Application or the Services.

If you have any questions about our privacy practices or wish to report any privacy issue, please refer to our Terms of Service on how to contact us.

"Personal Information" means any information that either on its own or when combined with certain other information including but not limited to Your mobile phone number, name, and date of birth, financial data (such as Your account details (including with third party PPI issuer, payment gateway), e-wallet details, credit or debit card details etc., as applicable) (as defined by applicable privacy or data protection laws). 

Hike may obtain the following types of information from or concerning You or Your mobile device, which may include personal information that can be used to identify You as specified below:

User Provided Information: You provide certain Personal Information to Hike when choosing to participate in the use or access of the Application and/or the Services, including registering as a user with your mobile number, image that you use to generate an avatar, and interacting with other users. In order to provide Services or provide access to such Services, Hike may periodically access data including access to your mobile number, Your contact list and/or address book on Your mobile device for providing you with different features on the Application including but not limited to referral programs. By permitting us to collect Personal Information, you hereby agree to provide Hike the right to use such information for providing Services and also warrant that you have all requisite rights in your favour to share this information with Hike.

Our App may contain links to third party websites or applications. You agree and understand that privacy policies of these websites are not under our control. You understand that once You leave our servers, use of any information You provide shall be governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site used by You.

Hike may receive certain categories of information whenever You access or use our Application or Services. This may include data pertaining to your usage of the Application, the web address, IP address information, browser, your access and usage of third party services accessed through our Application, and if You have created an account on the Application then Your authentication tokens (“Traffic Data”). Your authentication tokens would be saved on the Hike’s servers (it includes third party servers used by Hike) for authentication of subsequent calls to our Services.

Hike may use cookies and other technologies such as web beacons, web storage, unique advertising identifiers to collect information about your use of our Application and/or Services and your device. We may use similar technologies to collect information if and when you interact with services offered by any third party through the Application. 

If You communicate with Us by, for example, e-mail or other customer support systems, letter, any information provided in such communication will be collected and processed by Hike in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

If you make a purchase in the Services, we may collect the billing and financial information necessary to process the charges; and/or do so on behalf of the relevant payment service providers. Usage of third party payment gateways is subject to the relevant provider’s privacy policy.

Hike may collect mobile phone numbers and names associated with such mobile phone numbers of the persons in such user’s contact lists and/or address books for the purpose of analytics and improving features. The Application will associate whatever name the Hike user has assigned to the mobile telephone number in his/her mobile address book. We may collect location data for use in the improvement of Services or to ensure that the Application is only available in locations permitted by applicable law.

If the recipient can be messaged at any time via the Application, the message may be delivered to that recipient via data service routed through our servers. We may use third party servers having industry standard security measures to provide you the Services.

Hike may retain date and time stamp information associated with any metadata related to your use of the Services and/Application as well as any other information which Hike is legally compelled to collect in accordance with retention policies applicable under Indian law.

We do not sell the Traffic Data and/or Your Personal Information that we collect with any third parties for use for commercial, advertising and or similar marketing purposes.

We may use the Traffic Data and/or Your Personal Information:

• to provide Services or facilitate access to Services and to allow you to use the Services offered by the Application;
• to provide you with relevant content, Services or advertisements (as applicable) in accordance with your usage of the Application and any other information available with us
• to verify your identity;
• to help you find people you know that are already using the Application so that you can connect using the Application and, subject to your prior agreement, to allow other users to connect with you;
• to help you connect with other users during usage of any Service;
• to monitor, detect and deter unauthorized or fraudulent use of, or abuse of, Services;
• to improve and/or optimize the Services;
• to audit usage of the Application and in business analytics;
• to keep track of the payments made by you during course of accessing the Services;
• to enable us to provide customer support, and to respond effectively to your inquiries and claims;
• to conduct user surveys;
• to measure the effectiveness of advertisements that we place on the Internet or in other media (where applicable);
• to notify you of any other important information regarding Services, if necessary;
• to identify winners of promotional contests, to send gifts to those winners, to aggregate anonymized statistical data regarding Services; and
• to comply with applicable laws or legal obligations.

We use machine learning techniques on user's data to provide them with the best experiences.

We may share your personal information outside of Hike if we believe in good faith that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to:

• Meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request.
• Enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations.
• Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or any technical issues.
• Protect against harm the rights, property or safety of Hike, its users, or the public as required or permitted by law.
• Respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights (including intellectual property rights) of third parties.

If we provide you with more specific purposes of use either at the time, we ask you to provide your personal information or through other means, then such notice will take precedence.

We collect and store your service usage and transaction information in order to enable you to view certain details of all your transactions which have been made using our Services, to provide you uninterrupted and satisfactory Services, to administer our relationship with you, to comply with any statutory or regulatory requirement, to monitor your use of our Services for the purposes of ensuring compliance with our user rules.

You agree that Hike has the right to monitor the Application electronically from time to time and to disclose information as may be necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or other governmental or judicial request, to operate the Application properly for justified purposes that are relevant for the features and functionalities of the Application and Services opted by You, or to protect itself or its users. We may transfer Your Traffic Data and/or Your Personal Information or other information collected, stored, processed by Hike to any other entity or organization located in India or outside India only in case it is necessary for providing services to You in connection with Application. Except with Your consent including under this Agreement for specified purposes, we will not disclose any Traffic Data or Personal Information to any third party except for the purpose of providing you Services or facilitating access to any Service. We will cooperate with the appropriate law enforcement authorities in investigating claims of illegal activity.

You may choose not to submit Personal Information through the Application or may not agree to this Privacy Policy in which case we may not be able to provide You part or full services in connection with the Application. If You do not agree with any of the Terms of Service including our Privacy Policy, You may delete Your account or not access download and use the Application and/or the Services. If you are inactive on the Application for a period amounting to 365 days then this may lead to deletion of Your Personal Information and any associated contents from Hike’s servers, except to the extent required to be retained under applicable law.

This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties.

In the interest of protecting Your privacy and for security measures, Hike ensures to take reasonable steps to identify and authorize You before registering Your mobile phone number and granting You use of the Application.

Upon access/use of the Application or the Services, you authorize us and third party service providers (as the case may be) to contact you regarding any promotions / notifications/ transactional or service (including both service implicit and service explicit) related messages pertaining to Application or the Services, notwithstanding your number being registered in any Do not Call Registry in your jurisdiction.

We have implemented commercially reasonable physical, managerial, operational and technical security measures to protect the loss, misuse and alteration and to preserve the security of the Traffic Data and Personal Information in our care. Our security practices and procedures limit access to personal information on a ‘need to know’ basis only.

Such measures may include, where appropriate, the use of firewalls, secure server facilities, implementing proper access rights management systems and processes, careful selection of processors, standard authentication and encryption policies for Hike’s Servers (including third parties) and other technically and commercially reasonable measures.

However, Hike cannot guarantee in any way with respect to any Traffic Data or Personal Information or contents that You upload, transmit, share or display through the Application, the Services and You acknowledge that you do so at Your own risk.

Using unsecured or other unprotected networks to use any features through the Application is not recommended.

If Hike learns of a security breach, then we may attempt to notify You electronically so that You can take appropriate protective steps. However, note that this does not cast an obligation on us to do so.

Capitalized terms used in this Privacy Policy but not defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to it given under our Terms of Service, available at www.getrushapp.com.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Any changes in the Privacy Policy shall be posted on our website www.getrushapp.com to reflect changes in our policy so that the users are always aware of what information we collect, use, and under what circumstances, if any, we may disclose it. Users should periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. Once posted, those changes are effective immediately. Continued access or use of the Application and/or the Services constitutes Your acceptance of the changes and the amended Privacy Policy.

We make no claims, promises or guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents available through the Application and expressly disclaims liability for errors and omissions in the contents available through the Application.

No warranty of any kind, implied, expressed or statutory, including but not limited to the warranties of non-infringement of third party rights, title, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and freedom from computer virus, is given with respect to the contents available through the Application or its links to other internet resources as may be available to You through the Application.

Disclaimer: Apple’s app store is only an app downloading platform and in no way, shape or form, Apple is responsible/involved for any games/contest/campaign on the Application.