Privacy Policy
Last updated: January 21, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy has been created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
- Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
- Application refers to Trip Guide, the software program provided by the Company.
- Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Collabry Software and IT Inc., Barbaros, Şebboy Sk. No:4/1 İç Kapı No:1, 34758 Ataşehir/İstanbul.
- Country refers to: Turkey
- Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
- Location Data refers to data that identifies the geographic location of Your Device, including GPS coordinates, which we use to provide location-based services.
- Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Service refers to the Application.
- Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
- Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Location Data (GPS coordinates)
- Usage Data
- Device Information
Location Data
Primary Purpose: We collect precise location information (GPS coordinates) to provide our core service of discovering nearby cultural sites, historical places, museums, parks, religious sites, shopping centers, educational institutions, and artistic venues.
How We Use Location Data:
- Finding and displaying nearby points of interest within your selected radius
- Providing distance calculations between your location and places of interest
- Sending location-based notifications about nearby attractions
- Caching nearby places data for improved performance and offline access
- Filtering content based on 8 categories: Cultural, Educational, Art, Religious, Nature, Events, Shopping, and Monuments
Location Data Storage: Your precise location coordinates are processed locally on your device and transmitted to our servers only to fetch relevant nearby places. We do not permanently store your location history on our servers.
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Information Collected while Using the Application
While using Our Application, in order to provide features of Our Application, We may collect, with Your prior permission:
- Location information: Precise GPS coordinates to discover nearby places of interest
- Device storage access: For caching place information and user preferences locally
- Network access: To fetch updated information about places and cultural sites
- Notification access: To send alerts about nearby interesting places
We use this information to provide features of Our Service, to improve and customize Our Service. The information may be uploaded to the Company's servers and/or a Service Provider's server or it may be simply stored on Your device.
You can enable or disable access to this information at any time, through Your Device settings.
Audio and Voice Features
Text-to-Speech (TTS): Our app uses text-to-speech technology to provide voice guidance about places. This feature:
- Processes place descriptions locally on your device
- Does NOT record your voice or access your microphone
- Uses your device's built-in TTS capabilities
- May cache audio files locally for improved performance
Local Data Storage
To improve your experience and reduce data usage, we store certain information locally on your device:
- Places information for areas you have visited (cached for up to 24 hours)
- Your app preferences and settings
- Theme preferences (light/dark mode)
- Category filter preferences
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our Service: Including to monitor the usage of our Service and discover nearby places of cultural, historical, and tourist interest.
- To provide location-based services: Finding and displaying nearby museums, cultural sites, historical places, parks, religious sites, shopping centers, educational institutions, and artistic venues within your specified radius.
- To send location-based notifications: Alert you about interesting places near your current location based on our 8-category filtering system.
- To improve app performance: Cache frequently accessed place data to reduce loading times and data usage.
- To customize your experience: Remember your category preferences and provide personalized recommendations.
- To provide voice guidance: Convert place descriptions to speech for hands-free information access.
- For the performance of a contract: The development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
- To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
- To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
- For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
- For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.
Sharing of Your Personal Data
We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You. This includes our backend service provider (Supabase) for storing and retrieving places data.
- For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
- With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
- With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
- With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.
Third-Party Services
Our Service integrates with the following third-party services:
- Supabase: Backend-as-a-Service provider for storing and retrieving places data. Data is processed according to Supabase's privacy policy.
- Google Play Services: For enhanced location services on Android devices.
- Apple Location Services: For enhanced location services on iOS devices.
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Location Data Retention: We do not store your precise location coordinates on our servers for extended periods. Location data is used in real-time to fetch relevant places and may be temporarily cached locally on your device for up to 24 hours.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.
Delete Your Personal Data
You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.
Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.
You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by:
- Clearing the app's cache and data through your device settings
- Uninstalling and reinstalling the application
- Contacting Us directly to request data deletion
- Disabling location services for the app through your device settings
Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Security Measures We Employ:
- Encryption of data in transit between your device and our servers
- Secure backend infrastructure provided by Supabase
- Local data storage with device-level security features
- Regular security updates and monitoring
- Minimal data collection principle - we only collect what's necessary
Children's Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Right to Access: Request information about what personal data we have about you
- Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate personal data
- Right to Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data
- Right to Restrict Processing: Request limitation on how we use your data
- Right to Data Portability: Request a copy of your data in a structured format
- Right to Object: Object to our processing of your personal data
- Right to Withdraw Consent: Withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on consent
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
Data Protection (GDPR/KVKK Compliance)
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or Turkey, we process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including GDPR and KVKK.
Legal Basis for Processing:
- Consent: For location data collection and notifications
- Legitimate Interest: For improving app performance and user experience
- Contract Performance: For providing the core location-based services
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us: