Welcome to Pix. The Pix provides reviews of and information about restaurants and bars in locations across the globe, through this Site and any related mobile applications, mobile services and tablet applications, (collectively the Services). This Privacy Policy explains what Personal Data (defined below) we collect, how we use and share that data, and your choices concerning our data practices. Please read this Privacy Policy before using our Services or submitting any Personal Data to The Pix and contact us if you have any questions.
When you contact us or interact with our Services we collect information that alone or in combination with other information could be used to identify you ("Personal Data") as follows: Personal Data That You Provide: We collect Personal Data when you from you when you voluntarily provide such information, such as when you contact us with inquiries, post information, comments or reviews, respond to one of our surveys, register for access to The Pix Services, allow us to access your location information (such as by using the GPS on your mobile device) or use certain Pix Services. Wherever Pix collects Personal Data we make an effort to provide a link to this Privacy Policy. The Personal Data collected during these interactions may vary based on what you choose to share with us, but it will generally include name, email, address, mobile device or phone number, and social media handles, particularly Instagram and Twitter. Payment Information: In certain instances, such as when you may pay for a membership, we collect certain payment and billing information, such as billing address, payment card details and bank account information, which we collect via secure payment processing services including Recurly. At this time, membership services are only available in certain locations. Personal Data We Collect Through Our Social Media Pages: We have pages on social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Spotify, Twitter, and YouTube ("Social Media Pages"). When you interact with our Social Media Pages, we will collect Personal Data that you elect to provide to us through your settings on the Social Media Site, such as your contact details. In addition, the companies that host our Social Media Pages may provide us with de-identified, aggregate information and analytics regarding general traffic on and use of our Social Media Pages. Personal Data We Receive Automatically From Your Use of the Services: When you visit, use and interact with the Services, we may receive certain information about your visit, use or interactions. For example, we may monitor the number of people that visit our Services, peak hours of visits, which page(s) are visited on our Services, the domains our visitors come from (e.g., google.com, yahoo.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to access and visit our Site (e.g., Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.), broad geographical information, and Site- or Service-navigation pattern. In particular, the following information is created and automatically logged in our systems: Log data: Information ("log data") that your browser automatically sends whenever you visit the Site or Services. Log data includes your Internet Protocol ("IP") address (so we understand which country you are connecting from when you visit the Services), browser type and settings Cookies: Please see the "Cookies" section below to learn more about how we use cookies. Device information: Includes name of the device, operating system, and browser you are using. Information collected may depend on the type of device you use and its settings. Usage Information: We collect information about how you use our Services, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, and the time, frequency and duration of your activities.
We use Personal Data to send you newsletters, restaurant recommendations, and membership perks. This processing is necessary to perform our contract with you. We also use Personal Data as necessary for the following legitimate business interests: To respond to your inquiries, comments, feedback or questions; To manage our relationship with you, which includes sending administrative information to you relating to our Services and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies, and asking you to leave a review or take a survey; To analyze how you interact with our Services and provide, maintain and improve the content and functionality of the Services and our customer relationships and experiences, develop our business and inform our marketing strategy (please see the "Cookies" section below to learn how we use cookies); To administer and protect our business and the Services, prevent fraud, criminal activity, or misuses of our Services, and to ensure the security of our IT systems, architecture and networks (including troubleshooting, testing, system maintenance, support and hosting of data); 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 or other third parties, and recover debts due to us. For information about what we mean by legitimate interests and the rights of individuals in the European Union ("EU"), please see the "EU Users" section below. Marketing We may contact you to provide information we believe will be of interest to you. For instance, if you elect to provide your email address, we may use that information to send you promotional information about our products and services. If we do, where required by law, for example if you are in the EU, we will only send you such emails if you consent to us doing so at the time you provide us with your Personal Data. You may opt out of receiving emails by following the instructions contained in each promotional email we send you or by contacting us. You may opt out of receiving text messages by replying "STOP" to texts we send, or by contacting us. If you unsubscribe from our marketing lists, you will no longer receive marketing communications but we will continue to contact you regarding our Site and Services and to respond to your requests.
In certain circumstances we may share your Personal Data with third parties without further notice to you, unless required by the law, as set forth below: Vendors and Service Providers: To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may share Personal Data with service providers, including hosting, cloud services and other information technology services providers; event management, email and text communication software providers and email newsletter providers; data base and sales/customer relationship management services; payment processors; web analytics services (for more details on the third parties that place cookies through the Site, please see the "Cookies" section below). Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process or store Personal Data in the course of performing their duties to us. 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, your Personal Data and other information may be shared in the diligence process with counterparties 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 legal or regulatory obligations, including to respond to lawful requests from public authorities and 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 Services, or the public, or (v) protect against legal liability. DATA RETENTION We keep Personal Data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, while we have a legitimate business need to do so, or as required by law (e.g. for tax, legal, accounting or other purposes), whichever is the longer. If you have elected to receive marketing communications from us, we retain information about your marketing preferences until you opt out of receiving these communications and in accordance with our policies. To determine the appropriate retention period for your Personal Data, we will consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your Personal Data, the purposes for which we use your Personal Data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
If you need to change or correct your Personal Data, or wish to have it deleted from our systems, you may contact us at privacy@pix.com. We will address your request as required by applicable law.
Scope: This section applies to individuals in the EU (for these purposes, reference to the EU also includes the European Economic Area countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, the United Kingdom, and, to the extent applicable, Switzerland). Data Controller: The Pix is the data controller for the processing of your Personal Data. You can find our contact information, and the contact information of our EU-based representative, in the "Contact Us" section below. Legal Bases for Processing: This Privacy Policy (the paragraph "How We Use Personal Data") describes the legal bases we rely on for the processing of your Personal Data. Please contact us if you have any questions about the specific legal basis we are relying on to process your Personal Data. As used in this Privacy Policy, "legitimate interests" means our interests in conducting our business and developing a business relationship with you. This Privacy Policy describes when we process your Personal Data for our legitimate interests, what these interests are and your rights. We will not use your Personal Data for activities where the impact on you overrides our interests, unless we have your consent or those activities are otherwise required or permitted by law.Pursuant to the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR), you have the following rights in relation to your Personal Data, under certain circumstances: Your Rights: This Privacy Policy (the paragraph "How We Use Personal Data") describes the legal bases we rely on for the processing of your Personal Data. Please contact us if you have any questions about the specific legal basis we are relying on to process your Personal Data. Right of access: If you ask us, we will confirm whether we are processing your Personal Data and, if so, provide you with a copy of that Personal Data along with certain other details. If you require additional copies, we may need to charge a reasonable fee. Right to rectification: If your Personal Data is inaccurate or incomplete, you are entitled to ask that we correct or complete it. If we shared your Personal Data with others, we will tell them about the correction where possible. If you ask us, and where possible and lawful to do so, we will also tell you with whom we shared your Personal Data so you can contact them directly. Right to erasure: You may ask us to delete or remove your Personal Data, such as where you withdraw your consent. If we shared your data with others, we will tell them about the erasure where possible. If you ask us, and where possible and lawful to do so, we will also tell you with whom we shared your Personal Data with so you can contact them directly. Right to restrict processing: You may ask us to restrict or ‘block’ the processing of your Personal Data in certain circumstances, such as where you contest the accuracy of the data or object to us processing it (please read below for information on your right to object). We will tell you before we lift any restriction on processing. If we shared your Personal Data with others, we will tell them about the restriction where possible. If you ask us, and where possible and lawful to do so, we will also tell you with whom we shared your Personal Data so you can contact them directly. Right to data portability:You have the right to obtain your Personal Data from us that you consented to give us or that was provided to us as necessary in connection with our contract with you, and that is processed by automated means. We will give you your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You may reuse it elsewhere. Right to object: You may ask us at any time to stop processing your Personal Data, and we will do so: If we are relying on a legitimate interest to process your Personal Data -- unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing or we need to process your data in order to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; If we are processing your Personal Data for direct marketing. We may keep minimum information about you in a suppression list in order to ensure your choices are respected in the future and to comply with data protection laws (such processing is necessary for our and your legitimate interest in pursuing the purposes described above); Right to withdraw consent: f we rely on your consent to process your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent will not affect any processing of your data before we received notice that you wished to withdraw consent. Right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority:Right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority: If you have a concern about our privacy practices, including the way we handled your Personal Data, you can report it to the data protection authority that is authorized to hear those concerns (in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), who can be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns, and in other EU countries the data protection authority of the country in which you are located). Please see the "Contact Us" section below for information on how to exercise your rights.
The Services may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by The Pix, 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.