First. Overview

a. the range

This notice applies to users of Baly Services anywhere in the world, including users of other Baly applications, websites, features and services.

This notice explains how Baly and its affiliates collect and use personal data. This notice applies to all users of the applications, websites, and other features and services of Baly anywhere in the world, including the applicable or Privacy Policy at Baly

This notice also controls the collection of other personal data by Baly in connection with the services it provides. For example, we may collect contact information for people who use accounts held by customers in the Baly for Business Service, or who are owners or employees of restaurants or other stores; or the personal data of those who initiate and do not complete applications to become driver or delivery partners; or other personal data relating to map technology and features provided by Baly.

All persons to whom this notice is addressed are referred to as “Users”.

Our practices are governed by the laws of the places where we provide our services. This means that we engage in the practices described in this notice in a particular country or region only if permitted by the laws in those places. Please contact us here or through the addresses listed below if you have questions about our practices in a particular country or region.

B. Data Controllers and Transfers

All from the company “Baly.” and “Baly company.” are the controller of personal data collected in connection with the use of the Baly Services in the Region.

“Baly company.” It is the controller of the personal data collected in connection with the use of the Baly Services elsewhere.

, and “Baly company.” located at address (IRAQ-BAGHDAD-KARRADA-42nd STREET), is the controller of personal data collected in connection with the use of the Baly Services in the region.

Baly manages, collects and analyzes personal data worldwide. We may also transfer this data to countries other than the country in which our users live or use the Baly Services. The purpose is to enforce our agreements with users, such as applicable Terms of Use, or based on users’ prior consent, decisions of convenience for relevant countries, or other transfer mechanisms that may be available under applicable law, such as the Standard Contractual Clauses .

You can submit your inquiries, comments, and complaints about Baly’s data collection and use practices here. You can also use this form to send any inquiries to Baly Data Protection Officer.

Second. Data Collection and Use Policies

a. The data we collect

Baly collects personal data:

Baly collects the following personal data or it is been collected on its behalf:

1. Data provided by users. It includes the following:

This also includes gender and/or occupation (as applicable to certain services or programs in Baly, such as features that enable women to provide services to or receive services from other women).

We may use images provided by users to verify their identities through facial recognition technologies. For more information, please see the section entitled “How we use personal data”

2. Data generated while using our services. It includes the following:

We collect this data from users’ mobile devices if they allow us to do so. (See the Choice and Transparency section below for information on how riders and delivery takers can enable location data collection.) Baly collects this data from the time the trip or delivery service is requested to completion (and may indicate such collection via an icon or a notification on the user’s mobile device depending on that device’s operating system), and at any time the application is running in the mobile device interface (when the The application is open and shown on the screen.

Passengers and delivery order recipients may use the Baly Applications without allowing Baly to collect precise location data from mobile devices. However, this may affect features in Baly apps. For example, a user who did not allow Baly to collect location data would have to enter the pickup address manually. In addition, location data collected from a driver’s device during a trip will be associated with the rider’s account, even if location data is not allowed to be collected from their device, including for the purposes of generating receipts, customer support, fraud monitoring, insurance coverage, and litigation

In some cases, we collect this data through cookies, pixels, tags, and similar tracking technologies that create and maintain unique identifiers. For more information about these technologies, please see our Cookie Notice

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Data from other sources. It includes the following:

Baly may combine data collected from these sources with other data in its possession.

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B. How Baly use personal data

Billy uses personal data to provide transportation, delivery, and other services and products in a convenient and secure manner. We also use this data:

Baly does not sell or share users’ personal data with third parties for marketing directly, except with the users’ consent.

We do not share customer or driver information, this data is only private for the purpose of communication between the customer and the driver.

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We use the personal data we collect to:

1. Provide our services. Baly uses data to provide, personalize, maintain and improve our Services.

This includes data usage:

Baly carries out the above activities, including the collection and use of location data for the purposes of such activities, on the basis that they are necessary to fulfill our obligations to users under the Terms of Use or other agreements with users.

2. Safety and security. We use personal data to help maintain the integrity and security of our Services and users. It includes the following:

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And In some regions, this includes real-time Baly Verification, which asks drivers and delivery partners to share a selfie before going online to help ensure that the driver or delivery partner using the app matches their Baly account . This also includes, where permitted by law, performing facial verification of images submitted by users, or collected from public databases, to prevent identity borrowing or to verify users’ identities.

Baly performs the above activities on the basis that they are necessary to fulfill our obligations to users under our Terms of Use or other agreements with users, and/or for the legitimate safety and security purposes of Baly or other parties, including users and the general public.

3. Customer support service. Baly uses the information we collect (which may include call recordings) to provide customer support, including troubleshooting user problems and monitoring and improving customer support team responses and operations.

Baly performs the above activities on the basis that they are necessary to fulfill our obligations to users under our Terms of Use or other agreements with users.

4. Conducting research and development operations. We may use personal data to conduct testing, research, analytics, product development, and machine learning to improve users’ experience. This helps us make our services more accessible and easier to use, enhance the safety and security of our services, and develop new services and features.

Baly performs the above activities on the basis that they are necessary to fulfill our obligations to users under these Terms of Use or other agreements with users to improve existing services and features, or for the purposes of Baly’s legitimate interests in developing new services and features

5. Providing means of communication between users. For example, driver partners may call or text a passenger to confirm a pick-up location, passengers may contact the driver to retrieve a lost item, or a restaurant or delivery partner may contact the order recipient with information about their order.

Baly performs the above activities on the basis that they are necessary to fulfill our obligations to users under our Terms of Use or other agreements with users.

6. Marketing. Baly may use personal data to market our Services to users. This includes marketing about the Baly Services, features, promotions, prize draw contests, existing studies, polls, news, updates and events on users’ social media. We may do this through various methods, including email, text messages, push notifications, in-app communications, advertisements, and advertisements on third-party applications.

We may also inform users of the products and services offered by our partners. For example, we may provide recommendations, promotions or advertisements to our Baly partners based on users’ past delivery services. Although we inform users about the products and services offered by our partners, we do not sell or share users’ personal data with these partners or others for marketing or direct advertising to them, except with the users’ consent.

We may use the data we collect, including advertising partner data, to personalize and improve the marketing communications (including advertising) that we send on or off Baly apps and websites, including the use of Baly Services, and user preferences and settings based on the User’s location. For example, we share user data (such as hashed email address, usage information, and device or user identifiers) with Facebook to personalize and improve ads for Baly Services.

For information on how to opt out of certain marketing communications (including advertisements) from Baly and its advertising partners, please see the section entitled “Marketing Choices”.

We may also inform Users of elections, polls, referendums, and other political processes and notices relating to our Services. For example, Baly has sent some Users notice by email of polling measures or pending legislation related to the Baly Services in those Users’ areas.

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Baly performs the above activities on the basis that it is necessary for the purposes of Baly’s legitimate interests in informing users of Baly services and features or those offered by Baly partners, or based on the user’s consent. You can see the sections “Choice and Transparency” and “Marketing Choices” for information about your choices regarding the use of your data for marketing purposes by Google.

7. Non-marketing communications. Baly may use Personal Data to generate and provide receipts to Users; to inform them of changes to our terms, services, or policies; or send other messages that are not intended to market Baly’s services, products or partners.

Baly performs the above activities on the basis that they are necessary to fulfill our obligations to users under the Terms of Use or other agreements with users, or for the purposes of the legitimate interests of Baly and its users in informing users of events that may have an impact on how Baly Services are used.

8. Legal procedures and requirements. We may use Personal Data to investigate or resolve claims or disputes related to the use of Baly Services, or to fulfill requirements under applicable laws, regulations, operating licenses or agreements, or pursuant to legal process or governmental requests, including law enforcement requests.

Baly performs the above activities on the basis that they are necessary for the purposes of Baly’s legitimate interests in investigating and responding to claims and disputes relating to the use of Baly Services and its features, and/or on the basis that they are necessary to comply with applicable legal requirements.

9. Automated decision making

We use personal data to automatically make decisions about the use of our services. It includes the following:

Click on the links in this section to find out more information about these procedures. To object to the account deactivation decision resulting from these actions, please contact Baly Customer Support.

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c. Cookies and Third Party Technologies

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Baly and its partners use cookies and other identification technologies on apps, websites, email addresses, and online advertising for the purposes described in this Notice and the Baly Cookie Notice.

Cookies are small text files that are stored on browsers or devices by websites, apps, online media, and advertisements. The Company uses cookies and similar technologies for purposes such as:

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We may also allow others to provide analytics and audience sizing services, serve ads on our behalf across the Internet, and track and report on the performance of those ads. These entities may also use cookies, web beacons, software development kit (SDK) tools, and other technologies to identify devices used by visitors to our sites, as well as when visiting other sites and online services.

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Please see our Cookie Notice for more information about the use of cookies and other technologies described in this section.

D. Information sharing and disclosure

Some of the Baly Services and its features require that personal data be shared with other users or at the user’s request. We may also share this data with our affiliates, subsidiaries and partners, for legal reasons or in connection with claims or disputes.

Baly may share personal data:

1. With other users

This includes sharing the following:

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We also provide passengers and delivery recipients with receipts that include information such as details of the amounts charged, the first name of the driver or delivery partner, his photo, and a road map. We also include other information in these receipts if required by law

2. At the request of the user

This includes sharing data with:

3. With the general public

Inquiries or comments made by Users through public forums (Baly Blogs and the Baly social media pages) may be made public, including any personal data contained in User inquiries or comments.

4. With a Baly account owner

If a user requests a ride or meal using an account owned by a third party, we may share the order or ride information, including location data, with that account owner. This happens, for example:

5. With the subsidiaries of Baly Corporation and its subsidiaries

We share personal data with our affiliates and subsidiaries to help us provide our services or perform data collection and use on our behalf. For example, it may collect and store this data in Iraq on behalf of its international affiliates and subsidiaries.

6. With Baly Service Providers and Business Partners

Baly provides personal data to suppliers, consultants, marketing partners, research firms, and other service providers or business partners. This includes the following:

7. For legal reasons or in the event of disputes

Baly may share users’ personal data if we believe it is required by law, rules, business license or agreement, applicable legal process or government requests, or when disclosure is necessary for safety or similar concerns.

This includes sharing personal data with law enforcement officials, public health officials, other government authorities or airport officials (if airport authorities require such data as a condition of operating on the airport grounds), or with other third parties as necessary to enforce the applicable Terms of Service; or user agreements, or other policies; To protect the rights, safety, or property of Bly or others, or in the event of a claim or dispute relating to the use of our Services. In the event of a dispute regarding the use of someone else’s credit card, we may be required by law to share your personal data, including trip or order information, with the owner of that credit card.

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To find out more information, please see Baly Guidelines for Law Enforcement Authorities – Iraq and Baly Guidelines for Law Enforcement Authorities – Outside Iraq, and Guidelines for Third Party Legal Document Data Requests and Services.

This also includes sharing personal data with others in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, consolidation, restructuring, financing, or partial or total acquisition of our business by another company.

8. With consent

Baly may share personal user data other than as described in this notice if the user informs us and the user agrees to share.

e. Keeping and deleting information

Baly retains Users’ data for as long as necessary for the above purposes.

Users may request deletion of their account at any time. Baly may retain User Data after deletion is requested due to legal or regulatory requirements or for reasons stated in this Policy.

Baly retains Users’ data for as long as necessary for the above purposes. This means that we retain different categories of data for different periods of time based on the type of data, the category of user the data relates to, and the purposes for which we collected the data.

Users may request deletion of their account at any time through the “Settings” > “Privacy” menus in Baly app, or through Baly website (passengers and delivery recipients here, driver partners and delivery partners here).

After requesting account deletion, Baly deletes the user’s account and data, unless it must be retained due to legal or regulatory requirements, for safety, security and fraud prevention purposes, or because of an issue with the user’s account such as an outstanding balance, an outstanding claim, or an unresolved dispute. To comply with legal and regulatory requirements regarding driver and delivery partners, Baly generally retains their accounts and data for a minimum of 7 years after deletion was requested. For passengers and recipients of delivery orders, their data is generally deleted within 90 days of the deletion request, except in cases where data retention is necessary for the reasons mentioned above.

Third. Choice and transparency

Baly allows users to use and/or control the data it collects, including by:

Baly allows users to request that data be used or copied, or to change, update or delete their accounts, or to restrict the analysis and use of users’ personal data.

1. Privacy Settings

The Settings > Privacy menus in Baly app allow riders and delivery recipients to set or update their preferences regarding location data collection and sharing, emergency data sharing, and notifications.

Passengers and delivery recipients can enable/disable Baly’s collection of location data from their mobile devices through their device settings, which can be navigated through the Settings > Privacy > Location menus.

Riders can enable/disable Baly’s sharing of real-time location data from their mobile devices with driver partners through their device settings, which can be navigated through the Settings > Privacy > Location menus.

Riders may enable Baly to share real-time location data from their mobile devices with police, fire services and emergency ambulances. This data may include the approximate location at the time of emergency calls; This includes information on the vehicle manufacturer, model, colour, license plate, passenger name and phone number, pick-up and drop-off locations, and the name of the driver.

Riders may enable/disable this feature via the Settings > Privacy > Location, or Safety Center menus.

Baly provides users with notifications about trip status and updates related to their account. These notifications are an essential part of using Baly App and cannot be deactivated. However, users may choose how they receive these notifications through the Settings > Privacy menus.

Users may allow Baly to send you push notifications about discount offers and news from Baly. Push notifications may be enabled or disabled through the Settings > Privacy menus in Baly app.

Users may opt in to receive messages from specific restaurants while placing an order in Baly Food app. Subscribers may stop receiving these communications through the “Settings” > “Account” > “Data Sharing” menus within Baly Food app.

2. Device Permissions

Most mobile platforms (iOS, Android, etc.) have set certain types of device data that apps can’t use without the device owner’s permission, and these platforms have different ways of how to get this permission. Please check the settings available on your device or check with your service provider.

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3. In-app reviews pages

After each ride, riders and driver partners can rate one another on a scale of 1 to 5 stars. The average rating is associated with a user account and displayed to other users who provide or receive services. For example, the driver rating feature is available to passengers who request rides, and the passenger rating feature is available to the driver partner.

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The Mutual Evaluation System holds everyone accountable for their behaviour. Taking responsibility helps create a respectful and safe environment for both drivers and passengers.

Riders can see the average rating in the main menu in Baly app.

Drivers can also see the average rating after clicking on the profile in Baly Partner app.

Recipients of delivery orders, restaurants and stores may also rate delivery partners. Click here for more information.

4. Marketing options

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Users may opt out of certain marketing communications (including advertising) and use their data for marketing in the following ways:

5. Users’ personal data requests

Baly provides Users with a variety of ways to identify, control and provide inquiries and feedback regarding how Baly uses their personal data.

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Users can submit the above requests here.

Fourthly. Updates to this notice

We may occasionally update this notice.

We may occasionally update this notice. If significant changes are made, we will notify users in advance of them through Baly Apps or through other means, such as email. We encourage Users to review this Notice periodically for the most current information about our applicable privacy practices.

To the extent permitted by law, use of our Services after they are updated constitutes acceptance of the updated notice.