Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy. Introduction

This Privacy Policy provides information on how Tapfiliate B.V. (hereinafter “we/us/our”) concerns your personal and non-personal data if you visit our website, we collect data from you as you a customer of Tapfiliate B.V.

1.  Data Protection Officer

Should you have any questions about our data protection measures, the processing of your data, or the protection of your rights as a data subject, you can contact our Data Protection Officer: data-support@tapfiliate.com

2. Definitions

2.1 Personal data

“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.

2.2 Technical data

Technical data” means any information that cannot be related to your identity, e.g., information on browser types, operating systems, domain names, access dates and times, referring website addresses, online transactions, and browsing and search activity.

2.3 Processing

“Processing” means any operation or set of operations performed on data such as the 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 of said data.

3. Collecting and processing personal data

The scope of how we collect and process your personal and non-personal data or other information depends on the way you interact with us or our technologies and services:

  • As a visitor of our website,
  • As a customer of our service. 

With this Privacy Policy, we want to inform you which information we receive and use at every stage.
We use personal data only to administer and provide our technologies and services. We store personal and any other kind of data strictly in compliance with applicable data protection and privacy legislation and our contractual duties and will prevent unauthorized access to data to the best of our abilities.

3.1. For visitors of our websites

If you visit our website, we log the following data to facilitate the use of our website and to ensure its security as well as the stability of our web servers.

  • The IP address of the requesting device
  • The date and time of your visit
  • The data specifications of your browser and operating system  
  • The website you were referred from to our website (a so-called Referrer URL)

Cookies

We may use cookies to enhance your experience when you use our Website. A cookie is a small text file, containing a string of characters that can be placed on your device when you visit a website. This text file uniquely identifies your browser or device. When you visit our Website again, the cookie allows our Website to recognize your browser or device. You can change your cookie settings in your browser, if you don’t want cookies to be sent to your device. Please note that some Website features or services of our Website may not function properly without cookies.

We use the following types of cookies on our Website:

Technical cookies: these are cookies that are essential for the operation of our Website, they enable you to move around our Website and use our features.

Analytical/statistical cookies: we use these cookies to track visitor statistics. We use these statistics to continuously improve the Website and mailings, and thus offer you relevant content. These cookies also allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors navigate when they’re using our Website. This helps us to improve user navigation and ensure users to find what they need more easily.

Tracking cookies: these cookies monitor clicking behaviour and surfing habits. By means of these cookies, we can see whether and when you view your profile and whether you click through to our Website.

Third-party websites

You may find advertising or other content on our Website that links to the websites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors, and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these websites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Websites. In addition, these websites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These websites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites that are linked to our Website, are subject to the terms and policies of that website.

Personal data in the “contact details” form

For the purpose of receiving feedback or any questions you may have, we may collect data about you that may include:

  • Email address
  • Name
  • Include any additional data that you might in an email or comment. You provide this data to us by using the “Contact us” form or by the email you send.

3.2. For customers of our service:

3.2.1 Which personal data do we process?
Tapfiliate collects your personal data when you create or update your account necessary to complete Tapfiliate’s online forms for a wide range of activities of Tapfiliate.
Tapfiliate processes information obtained from yourself.
Processing of your personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract or on the basis that the processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests of Tapfiliate.
These legitimate interests are that the processing of personal data is necessary for Tapfiliate to be able to identify you as a user on our platform.


The mandatory personal data Tapfiliate collects:

  • Nominative Information: Title, first name(s), surname(s): Your nominative details are needed to properly identify you, to communicate with you, and to provide you with the products and services you have requested.
    Full postal work and/or private address: The postal address is needed to correctly verify your identity (where other persons have the same or a similar name).
    E-mail address: Electronic communication is, for most purposes, Tapfiliate’s preferred method of communication because it is generally convenient, rapid, effective, environmentally friendly, and efficient. In order to be able to communicate with you directly electronically, Tapfiliate needs your e-mail address. You are, therefore, required to supply your e-mail address when you create your account on the Website, which enables you to access a variety of services online. Additionally, because we only permit a particular e-mail to be used once in our system, it reduces the possibility of duplicates. It also permits “Forgot Password” to be handled in an automated, secure way.
  • IP address: We use your IP address to resolve support cases, solve technical issues with our platform, and investigate fraud cases.
  • Cookies: The information about cookies you can find in section 3.1
  • In some cases, we ask you for additional information if it is necessary for the services provided by Tapfiliate. For example, Tapfiliate processes payment information provided by you if such information is necessary.

3.2.2 How do we use your personal data?
We use and process the personal data you have provided us with for the purposes described below.
– customer support, fraud detection, marketing and customer retention activities, implementation of new product functionality, billing;
– Used for KYC/application review (approval/disapproval) by customers (core feature), access to dashboard, fraud prevention;
– Used by customers to payout their affiliates (core feature);

4. Newsletters

With the following information, we will inform you of the contents of our newsletter and the procedure for the registration and dissemination of newsletters, and the evaluation of statistics thereof, as well as your right to object to the procedure. By subscribing to our newsletter, you agree to the receipt of the newsletter and the procedures described.
We send out newsletters, emails, and other electronic notifications with promotional information (hereinafter “Newsletter”) subject to the recipient’s consent or legal permission.
You may terminate the receipt of our newsletter at any time, which means you revoke your consent to receive it. You may withdraw your consent to receive our newsletter at any time by changing the notification settings in your account. In addition, you can find a link to unsubscribe from our newsletter at the bottom of each newsletter.

The processing of your personal data relies on the following legal bases:

  • Your consent, if you have given us such consent 
  • The initiation or execution of a contract with you 
  • The fulfillment of legal obligations 
  • The implementation of our legitimate interests. 

6. Data protection and transmission to third parties

Tapfiliate does not sell, trade, or rent your personal data to third parties.
Tapfiliate takes all technical and organizational security measures required to protect your personal data from loss, unauthorized disclosure, or other forms of misuse. Data is stored in a safe environment that is not open to public access. Your personal data may be encrypted before transmission in certain cases (e.g., processing your login data). This means that communication between your device and our servers will include recognized encryption measures if your browser supports doing so.
Our staff has been trained in privacy matters and responsibly handling personal data and information to which they have access.
Please be aware that should you contact us via email, the confidentiality of the information therein may not be ensured. Third persons may have access to the contents of emails.

For Tapfiliate to execute its business processes in a convenient and optimal way, it may be necessary for certain data to be processed by trusted third parties and reliable partners.

These third parties may:

  • Process payments
  • Fulfill orders
  • Send emails
  • Manage communications (e.g., newsletters, security notifications, chat, etc.)
  • Host websites
  • Conduct other related activities on behalf of Tapfiliate.

If we share your personal information with a processor, we make sure the processor complies with the GDPR by signing processing agreements. Other third parties have no access to personal data.


Generic aggregated (non-personal) data
We may share generic aggregated data with our business partners, trusted affiliates and advertisers. In such case the data will be fully anonymized.

7. User Rights

You have the following rights concerning our processing of your personal data:

  • The right to access
  • The right to rectification
  • The right to erasure
  • The right to restrict processing
  • The right to data portability
  • The right to object (on grounds related to your particular situation) if your personal data is processed based on our legitimate interest  
  • The right to withdraw your consent at any time in the event of any consent-based processing of your personal data without affecting the lawfulness of processing said data based on consent before your withdrawal
  • The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

You may exercise your legal rights by contacting us via email at data-support@tapfiliate.com
While observing applicable privacy legislation, we will erase your data without any action required by you if retention of your data is no longer necessary for the purpose pursued or retention is no longer allowed for any legal reason. We may restrict processing instead of erasing your data where it is legally not allowed to erase (e.g., legal obligations to maintain your personal data).

8. Amendments

We may modify this Privacy Policy and our data security provisions at any time, particularly if new laws and/or regulations need to be adopted or if we regard amendments as reasonable.

9. Questions/Contacts

For all questions and requests related to the security of your personal data, please contact our Privacy Officers and us at data-support@tapfiliate.com