At TARHETA.PH, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, disclose, and protect personal information when you use our website, digital business profile services, vCard features, online store features, and other services provided through the TARHETA.PH platform.
By using TARHETA.PH, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.
We may process your personal information for the following purposes:
To create, maintain, authenticate, and manage your TARHETA account and digital profile.
To display the information you choose to publish on your TARHETA profile, including your name, business information, products, services, links, galleries, testimonials, contact details, and other content you provide.
To process subscriptions, purchases, payments, invoices, and other transactions associated with our services.
To facilitate appointments, reservations, service bookings, enquiries, and communications between you and visitors to your TARHETA profile.
To respond to questions, requests, technical issues, and other support concerns.
To send service-related notifications, account information, security notices, and important updates.
Where permitted and where applicable, we may also send promotional or marketing communications in accordance with applicable laws and your preferences.
To protect TARHETA.PH, our users, and our systems against unauthorized access, fraud, abuse, and other security threats.
To understand how our platform is used, troubleshoot problems, improve features, and develop new services.
We process personal information only for declared, specified, and legitimate purposes and seek to limit collection and processing to information that is relevant and necessary for those purposes. These principles are consistent with the Philippine Data Privacy Act and its implementing rules.
Depending on the circumstances, TARHETA.PH may process personal information based on one or more lawful grounds recognized under applicable Philippine data privacy laws, including:
• Your consent;
• The performance of a contract or steps necessary before entering into a contract;
• Compliance with a legal obligation;
• Protection of vital interests, where applicable;
• The pursuit of legitimate interests, provided that such interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms; or
• Other lawful grounds permitted under applicable law.
Not all processing activities necessarily rely on consent. Where processing is based on another lawful basis, we will process information only for legitimate and specified purposes and in accordance with applicable privacy requirements.
TARHETA is designed to help you create a digital business identity and public-facing profile.
Information that you intentionally publish on your TARHETA profile may be accessible to other people through your TARHETA link, QR code, NFC-enabled sharing, directory listing, search features, or other sharing methods you activate.
You are responsible for ensuring that the information you publish:
• Is accurate and appropriate for public display;
• Does not unnecessarily contain another person's personal information;
• Does not contain confidential or sensitive information that you do not intend to make public; and
• May lawfully be published and shared.
TARHETA.PH may use cookies and similar technologies to:
We may provide these providers with only the information reasonably necessary for them to perform their services. Where applicable, appropriate contractual, organizational, and technical safeguards will be used to protect personal information.
TARHETA.PH may work with third-party service providers that help us operate the platform, such as providers of:
• Cloud hosting and infrastructure
• Payment processing
• Email and communications
• Analytics
• Security and fraud prevention
• Customer support
• Booking or other integrated services
We may provide these providers with only the information reasonably necessary for them to perform their services. Where applicable, appropriate contractual, organizational, and technical safeguards will be used to protect personal information.
We may also disclose information when required or permitted by law, regulation, legal process, or a lawful government request.
We do not sell your personal information as a standalone product.
We implement reasonable and appropriate organizational, physical, and technical safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, destruction, or other unlawful processing.
Security measures may include access controls, authentication mechanisms, system monitoring, secure transmission, and other safeguards appropriate to the nature of the information and the risks involved.
However, no method of transmission or electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee absolute security of information transmitted through the internet.
The Philippine Data Privacy Act requires personal information controllers and processors to implement reasonable and appropriate organizational, physical, and technical measures for protecting personal data.
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to:
• Provide and maintain our services;
• Fulfill the purposes for which the information was collected;
• Maintain business and transaction records;
• Comply with legal and regulatory obligations;
• Resolve disputes;
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims;
• Protect the legitimate interests of TARHETA.PH and its users.
When personal information is no longer required, we will take reasonable steps to securely delete, destroy, anonymize, or otherwise dispose of it, subject to applicable legal and operational requirements.
The Data Privacy Act provides that personal information should not be retained longer than necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, subject to applicable exceptions.
Subject to applicable law and its limitations, you may have the right to:
Be informed about how your personal information is processed;
Access your personal information;
Correct or rectify inaccurate or incomplete information;
Object to certain processing activities;
Request erasure or blocking of personal information in appropriate circumstances;
Request data portability, where applicable;
Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
File a complaint regarding the processing of your personal information; and
Seek damages where provided by applicable law.
The National Privacy Commission identifies these among the rights of data subjects under the Data Privacy Act.
Please note that these rights are subject to limitations and exceptions provided by law.
If you wish to access, correct, update, delete, or otherwise exercise your rights regarding your personal information, you may contact us using the privacy contact details provided below.
We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests in order to protect your account and personal information.
We will handle privacy-related requests in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
Privacy Contact:
Email: support@tarheta.ph
Website: https://tarheta.ph
TARHETA.PH is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children where such collection is prohibited by applicable law.
If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate authorization, please contact us so that we can review and take appropriate action.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our services, technology, business practices, or applicable legal requirements.
When we make material changes, we may provide an appropriate notice through our website, platform, or other communication channels.
The Last Updated date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy indicates when the policy was most recently revised.
If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or the processing of your personal information, please contact us:
TARHETA.PH
Email: [privacy@tarheta.ph]
Website: https://tarheta.ph