Privacy Policy

Makat Inc. and its affiliates (collectively, “Makat” or “we”) respect the privacy of our website users (“User(s)” or “you”). We believe that you have a right to know our practices regarding the information we may collect and use when you visit and/or use our website (available at: https://www.makat.ai/) and its subdomains (collectively, the “ Site”). Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it.

1. Your Consent (PLEASE READ CAREFULLY!)

This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) details how your Personal Information (as defined below) collected via the Site is used and processed by Makat.

BY ENTERING, ACCESSING OR USING THE SITE, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY, INCLUDING TO THE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU DISAGREE TO ANY TERM PROVIDED HEREIN, YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR USE THE SITE AND YOU SHOULD NOT PROVIDE US WITH ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION VIA THE SITE.

FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBT, YOU HEREBY CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION, PROCESSING, TRANSFER  AND  USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. YOU ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE AND CONFIRM THAT YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO PROVIDE US WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND THAT SUCH INFORMATION IS VOLUNTARILY PROVIDED TO US.

2.  Which information we may collect on our Users?

We may collect two types of data and information from our Users:

2.1. Non-personal Information. The first type is non-identifiable and anonymous information. Non-personal information is any unconcealed information which does not enable identification of an individual User, and which is available to us while such User is entering into and/or using the Site (“Non-Personal Information”). We are not aware of the identity of the User from whom we have collected the Non-personal Information.

You may access and browse the Site without disclosing personal information, although, like most websites, we passively collect certain Non-Personal Information from your devices when you access and browse our Site, including: (i) technical information such as the type and version of your device and its operating system, the type of browser, screen resolution, device browser and keyboard language, Wi-Fi connectivity and the type and name of your device and/or browser, etc.; and (ii) behavioral information which may include the User’s click-stream on the Site, the activities of the User on the Site and additional information of a similar nature (collectively, “Technical and Behavioral Information”). We may also use third-party service providers such as Google Analytics to obtain detailed analytics on the device and the User's behavior on the Site. Please note that we or our third-party service providers will collect such Technical and Behavioral Information by using certain technologies such as cookies, as further detailed below.

2.2. Personal Information. The other type of information we collect is individually identifiable information. This information may identify an individual or may be of a private and/or sensitive nature (“Personal Information”).

2.2.1. Personal Information which is provided consciously and voluntarily:

• “Contact Us” Form: Personal Information is collected from the details the Users provide us while filing the “Contact Us” form available on the Site, including without limitation, the User’s full name, email address, phone number, and company name. In addition, the Users may optionally provide any text they wish to insert into the “comments” box. Further information may be requested via the “Contact Us” form in the future.
• Communications with Makat: Personal Information is collected from the details the Users provide as part of any communications with Makat, by any means, including without limitation, by email, telephone, or through our social media pages or otherwise.
• Newsletter and other commercial material: you may voluntarily provide us with your contact details in order to subscribe to our newsletter and to receive commercial materials from Makat and our partners.
• Personal Information relating to job applicants: you may, at your discretion, use the “Careers” page available in our Site in order to apply for open positions at Makat that we publish on the Site. In such cases, the following shall apply:
  1. (a) As part of your submission to a job application, you will be required to provide certain Personal Information, such as: your full name, email address, phone number, and attach your CV. Please note that we may also collect similar data relating to you from public sources, such as publicly available social network pages and public databases.
  2. (b) The Personal Information collected as part of the application process, including any Personal Information included in your CV, may be accessed by our HR department and/or by Makat's managers, worldwide, solely for the purposes of evaluation and to enable us to contact you with respect to the recruitment process.
  3. (c) If you submit an application on behalf of a third party, you hereby acknowledge that such third-party was made aware of this Privacy Policy and has granted their consent to the processing of their Personal Information by Makat.
  4. (d) Makat will retain Personal Information collected from applicants solely for the period that is necessary for the purposes set forth under this Privacy Policy or for the maximum statutory period in which a claim with respect to the recruitment process may be brought against Makat. Please note that if you have successfully recruited to work for Makat, any Personal Information collected as part of the application process may be retained by Makat for the purposes of your employment.

2.2.2. Personal Information collected via technology:‍

• Identifiers: during your use of the Site, we will access, collect, process, monitor and/or remotely store online identifiers, such as Internet Protocol (IP) address, your Unique Device Identifier (UDID(, or other unique identifiers, for security purposes, analytics, and in order to provide you with targeted advertising of our products and services.
• Geolocation data: during your use of the Site, we will access, collect, process, monitor and/or remotely store "geolocation data", including through the collection of IP addresses and other similar information to determine your general location for analytics and security purposes.
• Technical and Behavioral Information   : to the extent that the Technical and Behavioral Information detailed above under Section 2.1 will be linked to or associated with a specific individual, then such information will be considered as Personal Information.

Please note:

• We may cross-reference Personal Information with other Personal Information we have about you and any Non-personal Information connected or linked to or associated with any Personal Information shall be deemed as Personal Information as long as such connection, linkage or association exists.
• We may use third-party tracking services and usage logs, to track and analyze data from Users of the Site and for purposes of security and fraud prevention. We may also use cookies to gather information regarding your use of the Site and the information for which you searched and accessed.

3. How Do We Collect Information about Our Users?

There are a few main methods that we use in order to collect information:

3.1. We collect information through your entry, connection, access and/or use of the Site. In other words, when you are using the Site, we are aware of it and may gather, collect and store the information relating to such usage. For example, when you use the Site, we gather your Technical and Behavioral Information.

3.2. We collect information which you decide to provide us voluntarily. For example, we collect Personal Information that you provide via our Site, when you communicate with us or apply for a position at Makat.

3.3. We collect information from public sources. We may supplement personal information that we collect about you with information which you have made public on websites associated with you or your company or on social media platforms such as LinkedIn.

We may gather, collect and store such information either independently or through the help of our authorized third-party service providers as detailed below.

4. What are the Purposes of the collection and processing of information?

4.1. Non-personal    Information is collected in order to:

• Use it for statistical and research purposes and for customization and improvement of our Site.
• Enhance the User's experience while using the Site.
• Keep the Site safe and secured against fraudulent and criminal activity.

4.2. Personal Information is collected in order to:

• Enable the operation and constant improvement of the Site.
• Respond to your inquiries, requests, comments and suggestions.
• Ensure that the content on the Site is presented in an optimal way for you and for your device (e.g. tablet and mobile phone).
• Provide support and technical assistance.
• Display ads and send you offers. We may also use your Personal Information in delivering third party advertisements to you. This may include "targeted ads" based upon your interactions with our Site.
• Contact you by telephone and/or by email with further information relating to our services and/or job positions which you enquired about, or applied for, via the Site.
• Send you by email, SMS, phone, through web-browser notification or through the post updates, notices, announcements, and additional information related to Makat and Makat's products and services.
• Conduct online surveys to better understand your needs, and how we can modernize, innovate and improve our services.
• Conduct internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and statistical purposes.
• Email tracking. We may use tracking technology within the email we send you in order to improve interactions with you and to better understand whether our emails were opened and read, and such tracking may include capturing the time and date in which you opened our email messages and the type of device you use to open such emails.
• Keep the Site safe and secured and for prevention of fraud and crime.
• Comply with our legal obligations and in order to be able to protect our rights and legitimate interests, including in order to improve the Site.
• Maintain our data processing records and general administrative purposes.

5. Cookies

When you access or use the Site, we and/or our third party service providers may use industry-wide technologies such as cookies, web beacons, pixels, clear gifs and other similar tools (or other similar technologies) (collectively, "Cookies"), which may enable us, amongst others, to recognize your device from those of other Users of the Site, to improve the Site's performance, to deliver a better and more personalized service according to our Users' individual interests and the device or browser used, to track Users' use of the Site, to gather information about the Users' approximate geographic location (e.g. city), to prevent fraud and/or abuse, to estimate our audience size and usage pattern and perform other analytics, and to develop our Site, and to serve targeted advertisements.

Cookies may locally store certain Technical and Behavioral information and other Personal Information on your device and we and/or our authorized third party service providers may access such information for the purposes detailed under this Privacy Policy. We and/or our authorized third party service providers may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close the web-browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on the User’s device
until he/she deletes them).

Most devices and browsers will allow you to erase Cookies from your device’s hard drive, block acceptance of Cookies, or receive a warning before a Cookie is stored on your device. However, if you block or erase Cookies, your experience of the Site may be limited.

For detailed instructions regarding the blocking of Cookies, please refer to your browser's 'help', 'tool' or 'edit' sections or see http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/. Below are links to instructions regarding the blocking of Cookies on commonly used web-browsers: Chrome, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox and Safari.  

It is possible to opt-out of having your browsing activity within the Site recorded by performance cookies. Please note that we may use Google Analytics as our service provider in order to track Users' activities on the Site, including by use such services' persistent cookies. Google provides a browser-add on which allows users to opt-out
of Google Analytics across all websites, which can be downloaded here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

You can opt out of receiving interest-based advertising on your device  by  visiting the following sites: www.aboutads.info/choices/, www.networkadvertising.org/choices/, and preferences-mgr.truste.com/. If you wish to opt out of receiving interest-based advertising on your mobile device, please see the advertising preferences information on https://support.apple.com/ for iOS devices or https://support.google.com/ for Android devices.

Sharing Information with Third Parties‍

5.1. Makat respects your privacy and will not disclose, share, rent, or sell your Personal Information to any third party, other than as permitted under this Privacy Policy.

5.2. In addition to using the information collected by us for the purposes described above, we may also share your information in the following cases:

• Makat Personnel: Personal Information that we collect and process may be transferred to, or accessed by, personnel of Makat for the sole purpose of contact you, enabling the operation of the Site and for HR purposes. Please note that all Makat’s personnel that will have access to your Personal Information are under an obligation of strict confidentiality with respect to such Personal Information.
• Service Providers: Please note that we may collect, hold and/or manage your Personal Information through Makat's authorized third parties’ vendors of certain products or services (such as, cloud services) (including, as applicable, their affiliates) solely and limited to providing us with such requested services, and not for any other purposes. Such vendors may be located in a country that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction. For more information regarding our service providers, please refer to Section 9 below.
• In addition, we may share Personal Information in the following cases: (a) to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, subpoena or governmental request; (b) to enforce this Privacy Policy or any other agreement or terms of service between you and Makat, including investigation of potential violations thereof, and to defend against any claims or demands asserted against us by you or on your behalf; (c) to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (d) to respond to claims that contact information (e.g. name, e-mail address, etc.) of a third-party has been posted or transmitted without their consent or as a form of harassment; (e) to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Makat, its Users or the general public; (f) by virtue of undergoing any change in control, including by means of merger, acquisition or purchase of all or substantially all of the assets of Makat, so long as such acquirer
  maintains the same privacy terms hereunder; or (g) pursuant to your explicit approval prior to the disclosure.

5.3. For the avoidance of doubt, Makat may use Non-personal Information and transfer and disclose it to third parties at its discretion, including without limitation for statistical, analytical and research purposes and for customization, developing and improvement of the Site.

6. Your Rights

Makat acknowledges that under certain circumstances you may have the right to access and to request an amendment or deletion of the Personal Information we collect and process about you. If you wish to access or to correct, amend, or delete Personal Information, please send us an email with adequate details of your request to: info@makat.ai and we will enable you to fulfill such rights, to the extent it is required under applicable laws.

7. Minors

The Site is intended for Users over the age of sixteen (16). Therefore, Makat does not intend and does not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children under this age. We reserve the right to request proof of age at any stage so that we can verify that minors under this age are not using the Site. If we learn that we collected Personal Information from minors under the age of sixteen (16) we will delete that information as quickly as possible. Please contact Makat at: info@makat.ai if you have reasons to suspect that Makat collected Personal Information from minors under the age of sixteen (16) and we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

8.  Security

We take reasonable measures to maintain the security and integrity of our Site and prevent unauthorized access to it or use thereof through generally accepted industry standard technologies and internal procedures. Your Personal
Information is hosted on third parties’ servers, which provide advanced strict security standards (both physical and logical). Please note, however, that there are inherent risks in transmission of information over the Internet or other methods of electronic storage and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access or use will never occur. Makat will
comply with applicable law in the event of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your Personal Information and will inform you of such breach to the extent so required by applicable law. MAKAT SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE OR LIABLE FOR UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS, HACKING, OR OTHER SECURITY INTRUSIONS OR FAILURE TO STORE OR THE THEFT, DELETION, CORRUPTION, DESTRUCTION, DAMAGE, OR LOSS OF ANY DATA OR INFORMATION.

9.  Third Party Service Providers

While using the Site we may be using third party service providers, who may collect, store and/or process the Personal Information detailed herein. Note, that we collect, hold and/or manage your Personal Information through Makat's authorized third parties vendors of certain products or services (such as hosting cloud services) (including, as applicable, their affiliates) solely and limited to providing us with such requested services, and not for any other purposes. Such third parties may be located in a country that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction. Such third parties’ software or services may include without limitation the following categories of service providers:

• Hosting Cloud Services, such as Amazon AWS, which privacy policy can be found at: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/.
• Analytics Services,  such as Google Analytics, which privacy policy can be found at: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Please read such third-party service providers' terms of use and privacy policies to understand their privacy practices.

10. Links to Third Party Websites

Certain links provided in the Site permit Users to leave our Site and enter non-Makat sites or services. Those linked sites and services are provided solely as a convenience to you. Those linked sites and services are not under the control of Makat and it is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or services, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content advertising, products, services or other information on or available
from such linked sites and services or any link contained in a linked site or service. Makat reserves the right to terminate any link at any time. You further acknowledge and agree that Makat shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such linked sites or resource.

Most of such linked sites and services provide legal documents, including terms of use and privacy policy, governing the use thereof. It is always advisable to read such documents carefully before using those sites and services, inter alia, in order to know what kind of information about you is being collected.

11. International Data Transfer

The information collected about you, including Personal Information (as detailed in the Privacy Policy), may, in whole or in part, be transferred, and further transferred, to affiliated entities, any future and/or potential investor or acquirer of Makat or to other third-party service provides (as provided herein), across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. Please note that we may transfer such information to such third party who is located in a country and jurisdiction that whose laws do not ensure the same level of protection as the level of protection under the privacy protection laws applicable in your jurisdiction, and you consent to such transfer of information. Any transfer of data will be in accordance with the safeguards permitted under applicable privacy laws.

BY SUBMITTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO MAKAT, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE, AND
AGREE, IN JURISDICTION WHERE SUCH CONSENT IS REQUIRED, TO SUCH TRANSFER, STORING AND/OR PROCESSING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION.

12. Direct Marketing

You hereby agree that we may use the contact details you provided us with (including, without limitation, e-mail address) for the purpose of providing you with commercial and/or non-commercial materials related to our current and/or future activities and/or services. You may withdraw your consent by sending a written notice to our e-mail address at: info@makat.ai or alternatively follow the instructions for removing yourself from the mailing list which are available in the message transmitted to you.

13. Data Retention

Makat will retain the Personal Information for as long as we are confident that it is accurate and can be relied upon. Personal Information which is no longer required for the purpose for which it was initially collected will be deleted, unless we have a valid justification to retain it which is permitted under applicable law, such as to resolve disputes or comply with our legal obligations.

14. Changes to the Privacy Policy

Makat reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time, so please re-visit this page frequently to check for any changes. In case of any material change, we will make reasonable efforts to post a clear notice on the Site or we will send you an e-mail regarding such changes (to the extent that you provided us with such e-mail address). Such material changes will take effect seven (7) days after such notice was provided on our Site or sent to you via e-mail, whichever is the earlier. Otherwise, all other changes to this Privacy Policy are effective as of the stated “Last Revised” and your continued use of the Site on or after the Last Revised date will constitute acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes. In the event that the terms should be amended to comply with any legal requirements, the amendments may take effect immediately, or as required by the law and without any prior notice.

15. Have any Questions?

If you have any questions (or comments) concerning this Privacy Policy, you are most welcome to send us an email to the following address: info@makat.ai