Khalf Privacy Policy
What Information We Collect From You
In General, we receive and store any information you enter on our Website or give us in any other way. This includes information that can identify you ("personal information"), including your first and last name, telephone number, postal and email addresses, user name, and password. We may also request information about your location, travel plans, and coworking preferences. You can choose not to provide information to us, but in general, some information about you is required in order for you to receive relevant offerings from Khalf and its partners and enjoy other benefits of being a registered member. For example, only registered members are able to post coworking space reviews, participate in discussion forums, email Khalf content to themselves and others, access members-only newsletters and coworking content, and enter surveys, contests, or sweepstakes. In addition, some information is also required in order for you to ask us a question or initiate other transactions on our site. Information About Others. You will have the opportunity to provide contact and coworking-related information for other people through our Website. If you make a reservation for someone else through Khalf, you will need to submit that individual’s personal information. You must obtain the consent of other individuals prior to providing us with their personal information, as any access to view or modify their information will be available only through your account.
Location Information and Other Information From Devices
When you use an Application on a Device, we will collect and use information about you in generally similar ways and for similar purposes as when you use the Khalf website. In addition, we may collect information about your location if you have instructed your Device to send such information to the Application via the privacy settings on that Device, or if you have uploaded photos tagged with location information. We may use the location information collected from your Device or photos to enhance your use of the Application by providing you with relevant content and contextual advertising.
Cookies and Other Web Technologies
Cookies are small data text files and can be stored on your computer’s hard drive or your Device (if your Web browser permits). Khalf, its affiliated websites, and Apps use cookies for the following general purposes: To help us recognize your browser as a previous visitor and save and remember any preferences that may have been set while your browser was visiting our site. For example, if you register on our site, we may use cookies to remember your registration information. To help us customize the content, experience, and advertisements provided to you on our websites and on other websites across the Internet. For example, when you access a web page, a cookie is automatically set by us, our service providers, or our partners to recognize your browser as you navigate on the Internet and to present you with information and advertising based on your apparent interests. See “Display Of Advertising For Your Preferences” for more information about our online advertising practices and your choices. To help measure and research the effectiveness of features and offerings, advertisements, and email communications (by determining which emails you open and act upon). The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers should tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable most types of cookies. Please note that if you refuse to accept cookies, you may not be able to access many of the coworking tools offered on our sites. Our sites also may use Web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags or Web bugs), which are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, that are placed in the code of a Web page. We use Web beacons to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within our sites to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to our site from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, and to improve site performance. We also may allow our service providers to use Web beacons to help us understand which emails have been opened by recipients and to track the visitor traffic and actions on our site. This helps us measure the effectiveness of our content and other offerings.
Display Of Advertising For Your Preferences
Data collected to serve you with relevant advertising Khalf and its affiliated websites are committed to providing you with relevant content and information across our sites. To do this, we may collect information about your coworking-related searches and other site activities, and use this information to serve you with ads on our sites or elsewhere online that match your apparent interests. We do not share your personal information (such as email addresses) with unaffiliated third parties so they can serve you with advertisements.
Data Collected By Business Partners and Ad Networks To Serve You With Relevant Advertising
Many of the advertisements you see on our sites are served by Khalf. But we also allow third parties to collect information about your online activities through cookies and other technologies. These third parties include (1) advertising networks, who collect information about your interests when you view or interact with one of the advertisements they place on many different websites on the Internet. The information gathered by these third parties is used to make predictions about your characteristics, interests or preferences and to display advertisements on our sites and across the Internet tailored to your apparent interests. Please note that we do not have access to or control over cookies or other technologies these third parties may use to collect information about your interests, and the information practices of these third parties are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Some of these companies are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, which offers a single location to opt out of ad targeting from member companies.
How We Use Your Information
Khalf uses the information we collect about you for the following general purposes: for registration and to manage your account, including to allow your access to and use of our site; to communicate with you in general, including to provide information about Khalf and invitations from the Khalf community; to enable us to publish your reviews, forum posts, and other content to the Khalf community; to facilitate your booking of coworking space reservations; to respond to your questions and comments; to measure interest in and improve our products, services, and Website; to notify you about special offers and products or services available from us or our partners that may be of interest to you; to otherwise customize your experience with Khalf, including customizing the ads shown to you; to solicit information from you, including through surveys; to resolve disputes or troubleshoot problems; to prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities; to enforce our Terms of Use; and as otherwise described to you at the point of collection. If you have signed up as the owner or manager of a coworking space or listed your coworking space in our Coworking Spaces section, we will send you email messages at the email address you provide to us. Please review "Your choices with respect to the collection and use of your information" below. With whom we share your information, Khalf may share your information with the following entities: Suppliers, including but not limited to coworking space managers or owners who fulfill your coworking related reservations; throughout Khalf and its affiliated sites; all products and services provided by third-party suppliers are described as such. Information that we share with suppliers to facilitate reservations will be treated according to applicable suppliers’ privacy policies, except for payment information. We share payment information only when it is necessary for reservations facilitated through or made on Khalf, and we restrict suppliers’ use of payment information for these purposes. We encourage you to review the privacy policies, terms of use, and other policies of any coworking space supplier whose products and services. Please note that these suppliers also may contact you as necessary to obtain additional information about you or your coworking plans, to facilitate your coworking space reservations, or for other purposes consistent with the practices described in their privacy policies and terms of use.