Privacy Policy
We are honored to have you at WE, being a WE customer you
accept the practices described in this privacy policy notice.
this privacy policy notice describes the type of
information necessary for WE (Telecom Egypt) and all its assets to gather from
you in order to process your inquiries and /or provide you with the services
offered by WE, Policy concerns the handling of customer personal information;
this includes the collection, storage, access, use, updating, disclosure,
disposal, destruction or any other processing of such information.
The purpose of gathering information from the customer
serves the purpose of operating our business and enhancing our experience. WE
(Telecom Egypt) is entrusted with the confidentiality
of millions of customers’ communications and for managing an immense volume of
personal information. WE continue to foster the trust and confidence of
customers in the way we handle their personal information and how we provide
services. This Privacy Policy Notice is created on 20 March 2018 and subject to
change at any time.
When do we collect your personal information?
We can get your personal information when you:
We may also collect information about you from other
organizations, if applicable. This includes credit reference agencies. We may
also collect information about you from other destinations that have a
regulatory nature, such as commercial registration, tax authority, etc.
What personal information do we collect?
The information we collect about you depends on the products and services you
use and subscribe to. It includes (but not limited to) the following:
We’ll also get information on how you use our products and
services, such as:
How do we use your personal information?
We may use and analyze your information to:
How long do we store your personal information?
We’ll store your information for as long as we have to by law. If there’s no legal
requirement, we’ll only store it for as long as we need it. We’ll also keep
some personal information for a reasonable period after your contract has
finished just in case you decided to use our services again. We, or one of our
partners, may contact you to offer WE (Telecom Egypt) services during this time
if you haven’t opted out of receiving marketing communication from us.
Account
deletion – User account deletion policy :
MyWe app allows users to create new account from registration screen.
Also it allows users to request for their account to be deleted from profile screen.
App users can initiate app account deletion by clicking delete account button.
When user clicks delete account button which opens OTP(one time password) screen,user enters the sent SMS code to him and navigate back to login.
If user retries to login with his old number after account deletion,he won't be able to login again.
Once user account is deleted all his associated data in database is deleted like subscriber data, auto payment details,inbox messages.
There
is no need to retain certain data for any legitimate reasons.
When do we share your personal information?
We may share information about you with:
We’ll release information if it’s reasonable for the
purpose of protecting us against fraud, defending our rights or property, or to
protect the interests of our customers. If WE (Telecom Egypt) is recognized or sold to another organization, we may
transfer any personal information we hold about you to that organization. We
will not share your information with 3rd party organizations to contact you
about their products and services without capturing your explicit, informed and
specific consent.
How do we keep your information secure?
We have specialized security teams who constantly review and improve our
measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access,
accidental loss, disclosure or destruction. If we have a contract with another
organization to provide you with services or a service on our behalf to process
your personal information, we’ll make sure they have appropriate security
measures and only process your information in the way we’ve authorized them to.
These organizations won’t be entitled to use your personal information for
their own purposes. If necessary, our security team will check them to make
sure they meet the security requirements we’ve set.
If you grant our app access to your smartphone contacts, we
will use it if required to facilitate payments, sending, receiving, and
identification of calls, messages, or other communications using our services
according to the law of the Arab Republic of Egypt. WE will never use the
information in your contacts for marketing reasons to any other entity/third
party, so If you do not grant permission for the app
to access your contacts, neither the app nor any of our services will be able
to do so.
Cookies – Privacy Using Cookies.
This section is about what cookies are, how we use them and
how you can manage them for both our sites.
What are cookies?
Cookies are tiny text files that are stored on your
computer, tablet or mobile phone when you visit a website. The cookies mean
that the website will remember you and how you’ve used the site every time you
come back. If you want to know more about cookies, head to aboutcookies.org
(Please note: this link opens a new window or browser tab).
How we use cookies?
We only keep a session cookie to enable the website to keep
track of your usage performance on our website pages so you don’t get asked for
the same information you’ve already given to the site.
For security reasons, the application shouldn’t run on a
rooted /jail broken device as your personal information might be at risk. This
will be at your own responsibility.