YRide Privacy Policy

Effective date: 03/21/2024

At Yride, we take your privacy seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy to learn how we treat your
personal data. By using or accessing our Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the
practices and policies outlined below, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use and share your
information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Remember that your use of Yride’s Services is at all times subject to our Terms of Use, which
incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms we use in this Policy without defining them have the
definitions given to them in the Terms of Use.

You may print a copy of this Privacy Policy by using Download PDF on this link.

As we continually work to improve our Services, we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to
time. Upon such changes, we will alert you to any such changes by placing a notice on the Yride website,
by sending you an email and/or by some other means. Please note that if you’ve opted not to receive
legal notice emails from us (or you haven’t provided us with your email address), those legal notices will
still govern your use of the Services, and you are still responsible for reading and understanding them. If
you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to
all of the changes.

Privacy Policy Table of Contents

What this Privacy Policy Covers
Personal Data
− Categories of Personal Data We Collect
− Categories of Sources of Personal Data
− Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting or Disclosing Personal Data
How We Disclose Your Personal Data
Tracking Tools and Opt-Out
Data Security
Personal Data of Children
Exercising Your Rights under CCPA and VCDPA
Other State Law Privacy Rights
Contact Information

What this Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy covers how we treat Personal Data that we gather when you access or use our
Services. “Personal Data” means any information that identifies or relates to a particular individual and
also includes information referred to as “personally identifiable information” or “personal information”
under applicable data privacy laws, rules or regulations. This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices
of companies we don’t own or control or people we don’t manage.

Personal Data

Categories of Personal Data We Collect

This chart details the categories of Personal Data that we collect and have collected over the past 12
months:

Categories of Sources of Personal Data

We collect Personal Data about you from the following categories of sources:


You

  ● When you provide such information directly to us.

    ▪ When you create an account or use our interactive tools and Services.

    ▪ When you voluntarily provide information in free-form text boxes through the
Services or through responses to surveys or questionnaires.

    ▪ When you send us an email or otherwise contact us.

  ● When you use the Services and such information is collected automatically.

    ▪ Through Cookies (defined in the “Tracking Tools and Opt-Out” section below).

    ▪ If you download our mobile application or use a location-enabled browser, we
may receive information about your location and mobile device, as applicable.

   ▪ If you download and install certain applications and software we make
available, we may receive and collect information transmitted from your
computing device for the purpose of providing you the relevant Services, such
as information regarding when you are logged on and available to receive
updates or alert notices.

  ● Public Records

     ● From the government or other sources.

  ● Third Parties

    ▪ Vendors

       ▪ We may use vendors to obtain information to generate leads and create user
profiles.

Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting or Disclosing Personal Data

Providing, Customizing and Improving the Services
     Creating and managing your account or other user profiles.
     Processing orders or other transactions; billing.
     Doing fraud protection, security and debugging.
Corresponding with You
     Responding to correspondence that we receive from you, contacting you when
necessary or requested, and sending you information about Yride or the Services.
     Sending emails and other communications according to your preferences or that display
content that we think will interest you.
Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms
     Fulfilling our legal obligations under applicable law, regulation, court order or other
legal process, such as preventing, detecting and investigating security incidents and
potentially illegal or prohibited activities.
    Protecting the rights, property or safety of you, Yride or another party.
    Enforcing any agreements with you.
    Responding to claims that any posting or other content violates third-party rights.
    Resolving disputes.

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for
materially different, unrelated or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

How We Disclose Your Personal Data

We disclose your Personal Data to the categories of service providers and other parties listed in this
section. Depending on state laws that may be applicable to you, some of these disclosures may
constitute a “sale” of your Personal Data. For more information, please refer to the state-specific
sections below.

● Service Providers. These parties help us provide the Services or perform business functions on
our behalf. They include:
    Hosting, technology and communication providers.
    Background, Driving record & Criminal check
    Security and fraud prevention consultants.
    Payment processors.
   ▪ Our payment processor is Stripe. Stripe collects your voluntarily-provided
payment card and Bank account information necessary to process your
payment.
  ▪ Please see Stripe terms of service and privacy policy for information on its use
and storage of your Personal Data.
● Parties You Authorize, Access or Authenticate
  Stripe
  Yardstick
  Fairmatics
  Social media services.
  Other users.

Legal Obligations

We may share any Personal Data that we collect with third parties in conjunction with any of the
activities set forth under “Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms” in the “Our
Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data” section above.

Business Transfers

All of your Personal Data that we collect may be transferred to a third party if we undergo a merger,
acquisition, bankruptcy or other transaction in which that third party assumes control of our business (in
whole or in part). Should one of these events occur, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you before
your information becomes subject to different privacy and security policies and practices.

Data that is Not Personal Data

We may create aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data from the Personal Data we collect,
including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to a particular user. We
may use such aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful
business purposes, including to analyze, build and improve the Services and promote our business,
provided that we will not share such data in a manner that could identify you.

Tracking Tools and Opt-Out

The Services use cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs and
JavaScript (collectively, “Cookies”) to enable our servers to recognize your web browser, tell us how and
when you visit and use our Services, analyze trends, learn about our user base and operate and improve
our Services. Cookies are small pieces of data– usually text files – placed on your computer, tablet,
phone or similar device when you use that device to access our Services. We may also supplement the
information we collect from you with information received from third parties, including third parties that
have placed their own Cookies on your device(s).

We use the following types of Cookies:

● Essential Cookies. Essential Cookies are required for providing you with features or services that you
have requested. For example, certain Cookies enable you to log into secure areas of our Services.
Disabling these Cookies may make certain features and services unavailable.

You can decide whether or not to accept Cookies through your internet browser’s settings. Most
browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from
accepting new Cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you
to decide on acceptance of each new Cookie in a variety of ways. You can also delete all Cookies that are
already on your device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences
every time you visit our website and some of the Services and functionalities may not work.

To explore what Cookie settings are available to you or to modify your preferences with respect to
Cookies, you can access your Cookie management. To find out more information about Cookies
generally, including information about how to manage and delete Cookies, please visit
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

Data Security

We seek to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use and disclosure using appropriate
physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures based on the type of Personal
Data and how we are processing that data. You should also help protect your data by appropriately
selecting and protecting your password and/or other sign-on mechanism; limiting access to your
computer or device and browser; and signing off after you have finished accessing your account.
Although we work to protect the security of your account and other data that we hold in our records,
please be aware that no method of transmitting data over the internet or storing data is completely
secure.

Data Retention

We retain Personal Data about you for as long as necessary to provide you with our Services or to
perform our business or commercial purposes for collecting your Personal Data. When establishing a
retention period for specific categories of data, we consider who we collected the data from, our need
for the Personal Data, why we collected the Personal Data, and the sensitivity of the Personal Data. In
some cases we retain Personal Data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal
obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable
law, rule or regulation. We may further retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form where
that information would not identify you personally.

For example:

  ● We retain your profile information and credentials for as long as you have an account with us.
  ● We retain your payment data for as long as we need to process your purchase or subscription.
  ● We retain your device/IP data for as long as we need it to ensure that our systems are working
appropriately, effectively and efficiently.

Personal Data of Children

As noted in the Terms of Use, we do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data from children under 13
years of age; if you are a child under the age of 13, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use
the Services or send us any Personal Data. If we learn we have collected Personal Data from a child under
13 years of age, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 13
years of age may have provided Personal Data to us, please contact us at [email protected].

Other State Law Privacy Rights

California Resident Rights

Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to contact us to
prevent disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes; in
order to submit such a request, please contact us at [email protected].

Nevada Resident Rights

If you are a resident of Nevada, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of certain Personal Data to third
parties. You can exercise this right by contacting us at [email protected] with the subject line “Nevada Do Not Sell Request” and providing us with your name and the email address associated with your
account.

Contact Information:

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use
your Personal Data or your choices and rights regarding such collection and use, please do not hesitate
to contact us at:

   ● +1 650 380 0182
   ● https://y-ride.com/
   ● [email protected]
   ● 404 Grayson CT, Menlo Park, California 94025

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