PerkUp, Inc. ("PerkUp") drives employee engagement by allowing companies to issue pre-loaded gift cards to their employees to spend freely on perks they actually want such as child care, wellness, fitness, home office, or education (collectively with this website, our "Services").
This policy describes our privacy practices with respect to the personal information of visitors to our website (“Visitors”), the business representatives of our customers (“Customers”), and employees of our Customers who use our Services available at https://my.perkupapp.com ("End Users").
We provide additional information for Canadian residents and California residents below.
We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a new version on the website and updating the date. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will provide you with additional notice as required by law. In all cases, your use of our Services after the effective date of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the modified Privacy Policy.
Information you provide to us:
Third party sources. We may combine personal information we receive from you with personal information we obtain from other sources, such as:
Automatic data collection. We, our service providers, and our advertising partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with our Services and our communications, such as:
We may use the following automated tracking technologies to collect personal information:
We use the information we collect for the following purposes or as otherwise described at the time of collection:
Service delivery. We may use personal information to deliver our services, including to:
Research and development. To continue to operate and improve our Services, and to create new features and capabilities for our users, we may create and use aggregated, de-identified or other anonymous data from personal information we process.
Marketing and advertising. We may use Visitors’ and Customers’ personal information for marketing and advertising purposes, including:
Compliance and protection. We may use personal information to:
We may share your personal information with:
Program partners. When End Users obtain products and services from our program partners, the End Users direct us to share their information with the program partners to allow us to facilitate the transactions that the End Users request.
Customers. Customers may have access to their own and End Users’ personal information, including email addresses, participation and engagement information, Perk Card-uptake, other usage information, and any other information collected from End Users relating to their use of the Services.
Service providers. Companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate our Services or our business (such as hosting, information technology, customer support, email delivery, and website analytics services).
Advertising partners. Third party advertising companies, including for the interest-based advertising purposes described above, that may collect Visitors’ and Customers’ information on our website through cookies and other automated technologies.
Professional advisors. Professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
Authorities and others. Law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate for the compliance and protection purposes described above. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Business transferees. Acquirers and other relevant participants in business transactions (or negotiations for such transactions) involving a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale or other disposition of all or any portion of the business or assets of, or equity interests in, PerkUp or our affiliates (including, in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings), in which case information held by us will be one of the transferred assets.
Opt out of marketing communications. You may opt out of marketing-related communications by following the opt out or unsubscribe instructions contained in the marketing communications we send you.
Online tracking opt-out. There are a number of ways to limit online tracking, which we have summarized below:
Note that because these opt out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised, you will need to opt out on every browser and device that you use.
Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to "Do Not Track" or similar signals. To find out more about "Do Not Track," please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
We are headquartered in Canada and work with service providers in the United States. As such, the data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored in, Canada and the United States.
The time periods for which we retain your information depends on the type of information and the purposes for which we use it. We will keep your information for no longer than is required or permitted. Generally, this means that PerkUp will delete personal information of End Users once our relationship with the Customer is terminated.
Our Services may contain links to websites and other online services operated by third parties. In addition, our content may be integrated into web pages or other online services that are not associated with us. These links and integrations are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. We do not control websites or online services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for their actions.
We employ a number of technical, organizational and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, no security measures are failsafe and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.
The Services are not intended for use by children under 18 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal information through our Services from a child under 18 without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by
law, we will delete it.
When you visit our career page or apply for a job with us, we may collect additional personal information, such as your CV, a cover letter, your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, transcripts, and information from interviews and phone-screenings you may have, if any.
Your information will be used for the purposes of carrying out the job application process, including assessing your skills, sending you communications about your application, verifying your information, and carrying out reference checks (if you are offered a job). If you accept an offer of employment with PerkUp, the information collected at the time of the application process will become a part of your employment records.
We ask that you do not disclose sensitive personal information (e.g., gender, height, weight, medical information, religion, philosophical or political beliefs, financial data) in your application.
You can reach us by email at info@perkupapp.com or at the following mailing address:
PerkUp, Inc.
2261 Market Street #4456
San Francisco, CA 94114
Individuals in Canada have certain legal rights to do the following with personal information we handle:
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us as described above.
We are providing this supplemental privacy notice to California residents, pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”).
This notice and the privacy practices and rights it describes do not apply to the information we collect, use or disclose about Customers.
The CCPA grants California residents the following rights:
Please note that the CCPA limits these rights by, for example, prohibiting businesses from providing certain sensitive information in response to an access request and limiting the circumstances in which they must comply with a deletion request.
You are entitled to exercise the rights described above free from discrimination.
Here is how you can submit requests: