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Legal and Guidelines

TATTBOOTH help build connections between studios and artists. TATTBOOTH is build on the foundation of trust and in the best interests of our community. The Community Guidelines are basic and we take violations are taking very seriously - this may suspend or terminate/exclude and account.
This Privacy Policy describes how TATTBOOTH and its affiliates (“we,” “us,”), process personal information in relation to your use of the Platform. Please follow the Terms of use for supplemental information and services.

1. PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

1.1 Information needed to use the TATTBOOTH Platform.

We collect personal information about you when you use the Platform. Without it, we may not be able to provide all services requested. This information includes:

• Personal details: Name, email address, phone number, street address
• Account details: username, password (stored in encrypted format)
• The description text that the user may write about him/herself
• The offers and requests the user has posted to the service
• The given and received feedback and badges
• Statistical data about service usage, e.g. number times the user has logged in

1.2 Information you choose to give us.

You can choose to provide us with additional personal information. This information may include:

• Additional Profile Information. Such as gender, city and personal description. Some of this information as indicated in your account settings is part of your public profile and will be visible.
• Address Book Contact Information. Address book contacts you import or enter manually.
• Other Information. Such as when you fill in a form, add information to your account, respond to surveys, post to community forums, participate in promotions, communicate with our customer care team and other Members, or share your experience with us.

1.3 Information Automatically Collected by Using the Airbnb Platform and our Payment Services.

When you use the Platform and Payment Services, we automatically collect personal information. This information may include:

• Usage Information. Such as the pages or content you view, searches for Listings, bookings you have made, and other actions on the Platform.
• Log Data and Device Information. Such as details about how you’ve used the Platform (including if you clicked on links to third party applications), access dates and times, device information.
• Payment Transaction Information. Such as payment instrument used, date and time, payment amount, payment instrument expiration date and billing postcode, PayPal email address, IBAN information, your address, and other related transaction details.

1.4 Personal Information We Collect from Third Parties.

We collect personal information from other sources, such as:

• Third-Party Services. If you link, connect, or login to the Platform with a third party service (e.g. Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter), you direct the service to send us your profile information as controlled by that service or as authorized by you via your privacy settings at that service.
• Referrals and co-travelers. If you are invited to the Platform, the person who invited you can submit personal information about you such as your email address or other contact information.
• Other Sources. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may receive additional information about you to help detect fraud and safety issues from third party service providers and/or partners and combine it with information we have about you. For example, we may receive background check results or fraud warnings from identity verification service providers for use in our fraud prevention and risk assessment efforts. We may receive information about you and your activities on and off the Platform, or about your experiences and interactions from our partners. We may receive health information, including but not limited to, health information related to contagious diseases.

2. HOW WE USE INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Information may be stored to a server that may be located inside or outside of the EU and the European Economic Area

The information is stored on computers. The access to the information is restricted with passwords and physical access to the computers is restricted by the server hosting company.

2.1 Provide, Improve, and Develop the TATTBOOTH Platform. Such as to:

• enable you to access the Platform and make and receive payments,
• enable you to communicate with other Members,
• process your request,
• perform analytics, debug and conduct research,
• send you messages, updates, security alerts, and account notifications,
• if you provide us with your contacts’ information, such as your friends, we may process this information: (i) for fraud detection and prevention, and (ii) to facilitate your requests or for any other purpose you authorize,
• personalize and customize your experience based on your interactions with the Platform, your search and booking history, your profile information and preferences, and other content you submit, and
• enable your use of our enterprise products

2.2 Create and Maintain a Trusted and Safer Environment. Including to:

• detect and prevent fraud, spam, abuse, security and safety incidents, and other harmful activity,
• study and combat discrimination,
• conduct security investigations and risk assessments,
• verify or authenticate information provided by you,
• conduct checks against databases and other information sources, including background checks,
• comply with our legal obligations, protect the health and well-being of our Studios, Studio’s employees and customers,
• resolve disputes with our Members,
• enforce our agreements with third parties,
• comply with law, respond to legal requests, prevent harm, and protect our rights,
• enforce our Terms, and

2.3 Provide, Personalize, Measure, and Improve our Advertising and Marketing. As:

• send you promotional messages, marketing, advertising, and other information,
• personalize, measure, and improve our advertising,
• administer referral programs, rewards or other promotional activities,

2.4 Provide Payment services. Personal information is used to enable, or authorize third parties to use, Payment Services such as to:

• detect and prevent money laundering, fraud, abuse, and security incidents,
• conduct security investigations and risk assessments,
• comply with legal obligations (such as anti-money laundering regulations),
• enforce the payment terms and other payment policies,
• provide and improve Payment Services.

3. SHARING & DISCLOSURE

3.1 Sharing With Your Consent or at Your Direction.

Where you provide consent, we share your information as described at the time of consent, such as when authorizing a third-party application or website to access your TATTBOOTH account.

Where permissible under applicable law, we may use certain information about you such as your email address, de-identify it, and share it with social media platforms to generate leads, drive traffic or otherwise promote our services.

3.2 Sharing Between Members.

To help facilitate bookings or other interactions between Members, we may need to share certain information such as:

• When a booking request is made, or a dispute is submitted, certain information may be shared between Artist(s) and Studio(s), including profile, name, names of any additional Guests, cancellation history, review information, age of guest (unless prohibited by applicable law), dispute outcome (when applicable), and other information you choose to share and submit. When you as a Studio have a confirmed booking, certain information is shared with the Artist to coordinate the booking, such as your profile, full name, phone number, and Listing address.
• When you as a Studio invite another Member to host with you, you authorize that person to access and update your information and Member Content, including, but not limited to, certain information like your full name, phone number, Accommodation address, calendar, Listing information, Listing photos, and email address.
  

3.3 Information You Publish in Profiles, Listings, and other Public Information.

You can make certain information publicly visible to others, such as:

• Your public profile page, which includes your profile photo, first name (or company name where applicable), description, and city.
• Listing pages that include information such as the approximate or precise location description, calendar availability, profile photo, aggregated demand information (like page views over a period of time), and additional information you choose to share.
• Reviews, ratings, and other public feedback.
• Content in a community or discussion forum, blog, or social media post.

We may display parts of your public profile and other Content you make available to the public like Listing details on third-party sites, platforms, and apps.

Information you share publicly on the Platform may be indexed through third-party search engines.

3.4 Complying with Law, Responding to Legal Requests, Preventing Harm and Protecting our Rights.

We may disclose your information to courts, law enforcement, governmental or public authorities, tax authorities, or authorized third parties, if and to the extent we are required or permitted to do so by law or where disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with our legal obligations, (ii) comply with a valid legal request (such as a subpoena or court order) or to respond to claims asserted against TATTBOOTH, (iii) respond to a valid legal request relating to a criminal investigation to address alleged or suspected illegal activity, or to respond to or address any other activity that may expose us, you, or any other of our users to legal or regulatory liability, (iv) enforce and administer our Terms with Members, including or (v) protect the rights, property or personal safety of TATTBOOTH, its employees, its Members, or members of the public.

Where appropriate, we may notify Members about legal requests unless: (i) providing notice is prohibited by the legal process itself, by court order we receive, or by applicable law, or (ii) we believe that providing notice would be futile, ineffective, create a risk of injury or bodily harm to an individual or group, or create or increase a risk of fraud upon or harm to TATTBOOTH, our Members, or expose TATTBOOTH to a claim of obstruction of justice.

Where legally required or permissible according to applicable law, we may disclose Member information to tax authorities for the purpose of the tax authorities’ determination of proper compliance with relevant tax obligations. Relevant tax obligations include TATTBOOTH's tax obligations on its service fees, its facilitation of taxes on accommodations and withholding taxes, and Member’s individual tax obligations. Information that may be disclosed includes, but is not limited to, Member’s names, listing addresses, tax/business identification number(s), date of birth, and/or contact information, payout information, transaction dates and amounts, number of days booked, gross and net booking value and payout amounts to the extent any of this information is known by TATTBOOTH.

3.5 Service Providers.

We share personal information with affiliated and unaffiliated service providers to help us run our business and for their compliance purposes, including service providers that help us: (i) verify your identity or authenticate your identification documents, (ii) check information against public databases, (iii) conduct background or police checks, fraud prevention and risk assessment, (iv) perform product development, maintenance and debugging, (v) allow the provision of the TATTBOOTH Services through third-party platforms and software tools (e.g. through the integration with our APIs), (vi) provide customer service, advertising, or payments services, or (vii) process, handle or assess insurance claims or similar claims. These providers are contractually bound to protect your personal information and have access to your personal information to perform these tasks.

4. OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION

4.1 Analyzing your Communications.

We may review, scan, or analyze your communications on the Platform for reasons outlined in the “How We Use Information We Collect” section of this policy, including fraud prevention, risk assessment, regulatory compliance, investigation, product development, research, analytics, enforcing our Terms and customer support purposes. For example, as part of our fraud prevention efforts, we scan and analyze messages to mask contact information and references to other sites. In some cases, we may also scan, review, or analyze messages to debug, improve, and expand product offerings. We use automated methods where reasonably possible. Occasionally we may need to manually review communications, such as for fraud investigations and customer support, or to assess and improve the functionality of these automated tools. We will not review, scan, or analyze your messaging communications to send third-party marketing messages to you and we will not sell reviews or analyses of these communications.

4.2 Linking Third-Party Accounts.

You can link your TATTBOOTH account with certain third-party services like social networks. Your contacts on these third-party services are referred to as “Friends.” When you direct the data sharing by creating this link:

• some of the information provided to us from linking accounts may be published on your public profile,
• your activities on the Platform may be displayed,
• a link to your public profile on that third-party service may be included in your public profile,
• other users may be able to see any Friends that you may have in common with them, or that you are a Friend of their Friend if applicable,
• information you provide to us from the linking of your accounts may be stored, processed, and transmitted for fraud prevention and risk assessment purposes, and
• publication and display of information that you provide to the Platform through this linkage is subject to your settings and authorizations on the Platform and the third-party service.

4.3 Third-Party Partners & Integrations.

Parts of TATTBOOTH may link to third-party services, not owned or controlled by TATTBOOTH, such as Google Maps/Earth. Use of these services is subject to the privacy policies of those providers. TATTBOOTH does not own or control these third parties and when you interact with them you are providing your information to them.

5. YOUR RIGHTS

You can exercise any of the rights described in this section consistent with applicable law. We may ask you to verify your identity and request before taking further action on your request.

5.1 Managing Your Information.

You can access and update some of your personal information through your Account settings. If you connected your TATTBOOTH Account to a third-party service, like Facebook or Google, you can change your settings and unlink from that service in your Account settings. You are responsible for keeping your personal information up to date.

5.2 Data Access and Portability.

In some jurisdictions, applicable law may entitle you to request certain copies of your personal information or information about how we handle your personal information, request copies of personal information that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and/or request that we transmit this information to another service provider (where technically feasible).

5.3 Data Erasure.

In some jurisdictions, you can request that your personal information be deleted. Please note that if you request deletion of your personal information, or if your account is suspended, terminated, or voluntarily closed:

• We may retain your personal information as necessary for our legitimate business interests, such as prevention of money laundering, fraud detection and prevention, and enhancing safety. For example, if we suspend an Account for fraud or safety reasons, we may retain information from that Account to prevent that Member from opening a new Account in the future.
• We may retain and use your personal information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations.
• Information you have shared with others (e.g., Reviews, forum postings) will continue to be publicly visible on TATTBOOTH, even after your Account is canceled. However, attribution of such information to you will be removed. Some copies of your information (e.g., log records) will remain in our database, but are disassociated from personal identifiers.
• Because we take measures to protect data from accidental or malicious loss and destruction, residual copies of your personal information may not be removed from our backup systems for a limited period of time.

6. SECURITY

While no organization can guarantee perfect security, we are continuously implementing and updating administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, destruction, or alteration.

7. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time in accordance with applicable law. If we do so, we will post the revised Privacy Policy and update the “Last Updated” date at the top. In case of material changes, we will also provide you with notice of the modification by email at fourteen (14) days before the effective date. If you disagree with the revised Privacy Policy, you can cancel your Account. If you do not cancel your Account before the date the revised Privacy Policy becomes effective, your continued access to or use of the Airbnb Platform will be subject to the revised Privacy Policy.

8. CONTACT INFORMATION AND RESPONSIBLE TATTBOOTH ENTITIES

For questions or complaints about this Privacy Policy please contact us on info@tattbooth.com or Inknet AG, Moosstrasse 25, 3113 Rubigen.

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