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Privacy Policy

Effective date: April 7, 2017

Welcome to i1Machines ("i1Machines," "we," "us" or "our"). i1Machines provides a fast and convenient way for you to buy, sell, or rent heavy machinery through our listings platform.

  1. Our Privacy Policy explains how we and some of the companies we work with collect, use, share and protect information in relation to our mobile services, web site, and any software provided on or in connection with i1Machines services (collectively, the "Service"), and your choices about the collection and use of your information.
  2. By using our Service you understand and agree that we are providing a platform for you to post machinery listings, including photos, comments and other materials ("User Content"), to the Service and to share User Content publicly. This means that other Users may search for, see, use, or share any of your User Content that you make publicly available through the Service, consistent with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use (which can be found at (URL to Terms & Conditions).
  3. Our Policy applies to all visitors, users, and others who access the Service ("Users").
Information We Collect

We collect the following types of information

Information you provide us directly:

  1. Your username, password and e-mail address when you register for an i1Machines account.
  2. Profile information that you provide for your user profile (e.g., first and last name, company name, picture, phone number). This information allows us to help you or others be "found" on i1Machines.
  3. User Content (e.g., photos, machine description, and other materials) that you post to the Service.
  4. Communications between you and i1Machines. For example, we may send you Service-related emails (e.g., account verification, changes/updates to features of the Service, technical and security notices). Note that you may not opt out of Service-related e-mails.

Analytics information:

  1. We use third-party analytics tools to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Service. These tools collect information sent by your device or our Service, including the web pages you visit, add-ons, and other information that assists us in improving the Service. We collect and use this analytics information with analytics information from other Users so that it cannot reasonably be used to identify any particular individual User.

Cookies and similar technologies:

  1. When you visit the Service, we may use cookies and similar technologies like pixels, web beacons, and local storage to collect information about how you use i1Machines and provide features to you.
  2. We may ask advertisers or other partners to serve ads or services to your devices, which may use cookies or similar technologies placed by us or the third party.
How We Use Your Information

In addition to some of the specific uses of information we describe in this Privacy Policy, we may use information that we receive to:

  1. help you efficiently access your information after you sign in
  2. remember information so you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Service;
  3. provide personalized content and information to you and others, which could include online ads or other forms of marketing
  4. provide, improve, test, and monitor the effectiveness of our Service
  5. develop and test new products and features
  6. monitor metrics such as total number of visitors, and traffic
  7. diagnose or fix technology problems
Sharing Your Information

We will not rent or sell your information to third parties outside i1Machines (or the group of companies of which i1Machines is a part) without your consent, except as noted in this Policy.

Parties with whom we may share your information:

  1. We may share User Content and your information (including but not limited to, information from cookies, log files, device identifiers, location data, and usage data) with businesses that are legally part of the same group of companies that i1Machines is part of, or that become part of that group ("Affiliates"). Affiliates may use this information to help provide, understand, and improve the Service (including by providing analytics) and Affiliates' own services (including by providing you with better and more relevant experiences). But these Affiliates will honor the choices you make about who can see your photos.
  2. We also may share your information as well as information from tools like cookies, log files, and device identifiers and location data, with third-party organizations that help us provide the Service to you ("Service Providers"). Our Service Providers will be given access to your information as is reasonably necessary to provide the Service under reasonable confidentiality terms.
  3. We may remove parts of data that can identify you and share anonymized data with other parties. We may also combine your information with other information in a way that it is no longer associated with you and share that aggregated information.

Parties with whom you may choose to share your User Content:

  1. Any information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to the Service, such as User Content, becomes available to all Users.
  2. If you remove information that you posted to the Service, copies may remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Service, or if other Users or third parties using the i1Machines API have copied or saved that information.

What happens in the event of a change of control:

  1. If we sell or otherwise transfer part or the whole of i1Machines or our assets to another organization (e.g., in the course of a transaction like a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation), your information such as name and email address, User Content and any other information collected through the Service may be among the items sold or transferred. You will continue to own your User Content. The buyer or transferee will have to honor the commitments we have made in this Privacy Policy.

Responding to legal requests and preventing harm:

We may access, preserve and share your information in response to a legal request (like a search warrant, court order or subpoena) if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so. This may include responding to legal requests from jurisdictions outside of Singapore where we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law in that jurisdiction, affects users in that jurisdiction, and is consistent with internationally recognized standards. We may also access, preserve and share information when we have a good faith belief it is necessary to: detect, prevent and address fraud and other illegal activity; to protect ourselves, you and others, including as part of investigations; and to prevent death or imminent bodily harm. Information we receive about you may be accessed, processed and retained for an extended period of time when it is the subject of a legal request or obligation, governmental investigation, or investigations concerning possible violations of our terms or policies, or otherwise to prevent harm.

How We Store Your Information

Storage and Processing:

  1. Your information collected through the Service may be stored and processed in Singapore or any other country in which i1Machines, its Affiliates or Service Providers maintain facilities.
  2. i1Machines, its Affiliates, or Service Providers may transfer information that we collect about you, including personal information across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. If you are located in the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from Singapore. law, please note that we may transfer information, including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction.
  3. By registering for and using the Service you consent to the transfer of information to Singapore or to any other country in which i1Machines, its Affiliates or Service Providers maintain facilities and the use and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.
  4. We use commercially reasonable safeguards to help keep the information collected through the Service secure and take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you access to your account. However, i1Machines cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to i1Machines or guarantee that information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.
  5. Please do your part to help us. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information, and for controlling access to emails between you and i1Machines, at all times. We are not responsible for the functionality, privacy, or security measures of any other organization.
Your Choices About Your Information

Your account information and profile/privacy settings:

Update your account at any time by logging in and changing your profile settings.

How long we keep your User Content:

Following termination or deactivation of your account, i1Machines, its Affiliates, or its Service Providers may retain information (including your profile information) and User Content for a commercially reasonable time for backup, archival, and/or audit purposes.

Other Web Sites and Services

We are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services linked to or from our Service, including the information or content contained within them. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Service to another website or service, our Privacy Policy does not apply to those third-party websites or services. Your browsing and interaction on any third-party website or service, including those that have a link on our website, are subject to that third party's own rules and policies. In addition, you agree that we are not responsible and do not have control over any third-parties that you authorize to access your User Content. If you are using a third-party website or service and you allow them to access your User Content you do so at your own risk.

How To Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Service, please contact us at info@i1machines.com.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

i1Machines may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please review it periodically. We may provide you additional forms of notice of modifications or updates as appropriate under the circumstances. Your continued use of i1Machines or the Service after any modification to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such modification.