Privacy Policy

Introduction

Your privacy is important to us. The Lab Group provides a service which enables customers to make quick and easy payments via scanning a QR code. It is The Lab Group's policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including across our websites, which are located at the following web addresses: thelabgroup.com; qrlab.com; nfclab.com; menulab.com; booked.in and payd.in.

Personal information is any information about you which can be used to identify you. This includes information about you as a person (such as name, address, and date of birth), your devices, payment details, and even information about how you use a website or online service.

In the event our sites contains links to third-party sites and services, please be aware that those sites and services have their own privacy policies. After following a link to any third-party content, you should read their posted privacy policy information about how they collect and use personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of your activities after you leave our sites.

Information We Collect

Information we collect falls into one of two categories: 'voluntarily provided' information and 'automatically collected' information.

'Voluntarily provided' information refers to any information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our services and promotions.

'Automatically collected' information refers to any information automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing our products and services.

Log Data

When you visit our websites, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your device's Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other details about your visit.

Additionally, if you encounter certain errors while using the sites, we may automatically collect data about the error and the circumstances surrounding its occurrence. This data may include technical details about your device, what you were trying to do when the error happened, and other technical information relating to the problem. You may or may not receive notice of such errors, even in the moment they occur, that they have occurred, or what the nature of the error is.

Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons.

Device Data

When you visit our websites or interact with our services, we may automatically collect data about your device, such as:

• Device Type
• Operating System
• Unique device identifiers
• Device settings
• Geo-location data

Data we collect can depend on the individual settings of your device and software. We recommend checking the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider to learn what information they make available to us.

Personal Information

We may ask for personal information — for example, when you use our services or when you contact us — which may include one or more of the following:

• Name
• Email
• Social media profiles
• Date of birth
• Phone/mobile number
• Home/mailing address

Please note that we may obtain information regarding you from third-party databases and verification services — which may include one or more of the following:

• Financial status
• County court judgments
• Identity verification
• Whether you or your parties are sanctioned individuals or potentially exposed persons (as defined in the Money Laundering Regulations 2017)

User-Generated Content

We consider 'user-generated content' to be materials (text, image and/or video content) voluntarily supplied to us by our users for the purpose of publication on our websites or re-publishing on our social media channels. All user-generated content is associated with the account or email address used to submit the materials.

Please be aware that any content you submit for the purpose of publication will be public after posting (and subsequent review or vetting process). Once published it may be accessible to third parties not covered under this privacy policy.

Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information

We only collect and use your personal information when we have a legitimate reason for doing so. In which instance we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you.

Collection and Use of Information

We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our websites:

• Register for an account
• Enter any of our competitions, contests, sweepstakes, and surveys
• Sign up to receive updates from us via email or social media channels
• Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content
• Contact us via email, social media, or on any similar technologies
• When you mention us on social media

We may collect, hold, use and disclose information for the following purposes, and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:

• to provide you with our platform's core features and services
• to enable you to customize or personalise your experience of our websites
• to contact and communicate with you
• for analytics, market research, and business development, including to operate and improve our websites, associated applications, and associated social media platforms
• to enable you to access and use our websites, associated applications, and associated social media platforms
• for internal record keeping and administrative purposes
• to run competitions, sweepstakes, and/or offer additional benefits to you
• for security and fraud prevention, and to ensure that our sites and apps are safe, secure, and used in line with our terms of use
• for technical assessment, including to operate and improve our app, associated applications, and associated social media platforms

We may combine voluntarily provided and automatically collected personal information with general information or research data we receive from other trusted sources. For example, Our marketing and market research activities may uncover data and insights, which we may combine with information about how visitors use our sites to improve our sites and your experience on them.

Security of Your Personal Information

When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure and no one can guarantee absolute data security.

You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the bounds of our services. For example, ensuring any passwords associated with accessing your personal information and accounts are secure and confidential.

How Long We Keep Your Personal Information

We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this privacy policy. For example, if you have provided us with personal information as part of creating an account with us, we may retain this information for the duration your account exists on our system. If your personal information is no longer required for this purpose, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you.

However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.

Children's Privacy

We do not aim any of our products or services directly at children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information about children under 13.

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

We may disclose personal information to:

• a parent, subsidiary or affiliate of our company
• third-party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, error loggers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving providers, marketing providers, professional advisors, and payment systems operators
• our employees, contractors, and/or related entities
• our existing or potential agents or business partners
• sponsors or promoters of any competition, sweepstakes, or promotion we run
• credit reporting agencies, courts, tribunals, and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you
• courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights
• third parties, including agents or sub-contractors who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you
• third parties to collect and process data
• an entity that buys, or to which we transfer all or substantially all of our assets and business

Third-party platforms used by all our websites:

Payment providers:

plaid.com, stripe.com

Cloud service providers:

aws.amazon.com

Other service providers:

Calendly.com (meetings & appointment booking), crisp.chat (live chat)

Please note that the data related to taking payments will be shared with Plaid and Stripe. Disclosure of such data is necessary for The Lab Group to provide services to our clients, as processing payments is central to our service.

Contact Us

For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you may contact us using the following details:

Email: hello@thelabgroup.com