Privacy Policy
Yolla Calls International OÜ, doing business as Yolla eSIM, a company located at Rävala pst 6-404A, Tallinn city, Harju county, Estonia (“Yolla”), takes the security of personal information and privacy of users very seriously. Please take a moment to read this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) details how we collect, use and protect the information in connection with our web site located at esim.yollacalls.com (“Site”) and calling and other services (“Service”) through Yolla eSIM’s mobile and web applications (“Product”). Personal information is information that can be used to identify or contact a single person, like your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, and other non-public information that is associated with this personal information. By downloading and/or using the Product and Service you acknowledge and agree to the Yolla eSIM Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. If you choose not to agree with the Policy or Terms, you may not use the Product and/or Service. Yolla eSIM may make some changes to this Policy from time to time without notice. Yolla eSIM will publish any changes at https://yollaesim.com/info/privacy-policy. The changes will be effective when published. You agree to review the Policy periodically so that you are aware of any modifications. If you continue to use the Product and the Service after the date of the amendment`s publication, it shall constitute that you accept the updated Policy. If you do not agree with the amended Policy, you may terminate your relationship with Yolla eSIM. If there are any material changes to this Policy, we will notify you by email or as otherwise required by applicable law. Yolla eSIM will also post any adjustments to the Policy on this web page and the revised version will be effective immediately upon posting (or upon notice as applicable). If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at hi@yollacalls.com.
Collecting, Using, and Sharing Your Personal Information
Yolla eSIM may collect Personal Information as you interact with the Product, the Services, and the Site as described below. We endeavor to collect only the information that is necessary for the purposes of processing, to provide our users with all means to rectify the information, and delete information that is no longer necessary for the purposes for which the data is processed.
(I) Types of Personal Information Yolla eSIM Collects
Yolla eSIM collects Personal Information regarding its current, prospective, and former users, visitors, guests. (a) Information you provide directly to Yolla eSIM through interacting with the Product, the Services, and the Site, participating in surveys, and contacting support. Yolla eSIM collects information when you register, sign in and use our Product and Service. Yolla eSIM also collects your email in order to send you important updates about your account changes and payment confirmations. You may also opt in to receive information about Yolla eSIM special offers and bonuses. (b) Yolla eSIM may collect certain information automatically. Yolla eSIM may collect certain information through the Product, the Services, and the Site, or methods of web analysis and technologies, such as your IP address (an IP address is a number that can identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet), cookie identifiers (“cookies”), mobile advertising identifiers, and other identifiers that are automatically assigned to your Device, location data, browser type, operating system, Internet service provider, mobile carrier, pages that you visit before and after using the Site, the date and time of your visit, the amount of time you spend on each page of the Site, information about the links you click and pages you view on the Site, and other actions taken on the Site. We analyze this data for trend, statistics and security reasons, e.g. to identify the location of users from different countries and to block disruptive and fraudulent use. Yolla doesn't store bank card data – card information is securely processed by the payment processing system. For your convenience, you may still opt to use the same card for subsequent payments. In this case, you will not be required to enter the card details again. The payment processing system will use the payment details you have already provided. We may also use mobile advertising identifiers to recognize your device and perform the services. Depending on your device, you can choose to change or limit the transmission of your mobile advertising identifiers from within your device settings. If you would like to opt out of other technologies we employ to collect certain types of information, you may do so by blocking, deleting, or disabling them as your browser or device permits. (c) Yolla eSIM may also obtain information about you through third-party services as described below to supplement information provided by you. This supplemental information allows us to verify information that you have provided to Yolla eSIM, enhance our ability to communicate with you, and to detect, investigate, prevent, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues. We may use your personal data to provide our Services, including improving your satisfaction and loyalty. The purpose of data processing is to improve co-operation, promote loyalty and maintain satisfaction (loyalty call, service call with the goal of improving a user's experience, identifying desires and needs, determining a user's level of satisfaction). We may occasionally ask you to provide information on your experience using the Product and the Services. Such information is used to improve the quality of the Services.
(II) Cookies and Tags
Yolla eSIM, as well as third parties that provide communication, advertising, or other means may use cookies, mobile device identifiers and other technologies to automatically collect information through the Product, the Service, and the Site. Yolla eSIM may use cookies, which are small text files stored on your device, to help operate the Product and provide the Service and collect information about activity. Cookies and web beacons may be used to store your preferences and information when you register, sign-in and use our Product and Service, to provide targeted ads, content and marketing communications for preventing fraud, and analyzing site statistics and operations. By using the Product, the Service, and the Site you consent to the use of cookies. You may control cookies and similar technologies with a variety of tools and browser add-ons that can prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, disable cookies, have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, etc. However, because cookies allow you to take advantage of useful features, we recommend you leave them turned on. The Site may also use pixel tags to track the actions of users on the Site. Unlike cookies, which are stored on your computer or mobile device, pixel tags are embedded on webpages to measure marketing campaign performance and compile statistics about usage of the Service, so we can manage our content more effectively. The information collected using pixel tags is not linked to personal user data.
(III) Analytics Information
Yolla eSIM may use Google Analytics and Yandex Metrics to collect, process, and analyze trends regarding Site visitor behavior and demographics. For more information about Google Analytics, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can opt out of Google’s collection and Processing of data generated by your use of the Services by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can also out opt of Yandex Metric`s collection and processing of such data by following this link https://yandex.com/support/metrica/general/opt-out.xml. The Yolla eSIM Android and iOS mobile apps use AppsFlyer analytics (provided by AppsFlyer Ltd. – the mobile measurement industry standard) to track and analyze user characteristics and activities and upload to AppsFlyer’s platform certain data that refers to downloads, impressions, clicks and installations of their mobile applications, mobile device use and data regarding in-app events. Yolla eSIM uses this platform to collect and analyze the data parameters: (a) unique identifiers and technical data, such as IP address, User agent, IDFA (Identifier For Advertisers) or Android ID (Android devices); (b) technical data regarding the user operating system, device attributes and settings, applications, advertising opt-out signals, Google Advertiser ID, in-app events, device motion parameters and carrier. For more information about the AppsFlyer privacy policy, please visit https://www.appsflyer.com/privacy-policy/. You can opt-out of AppsFlyer Analytics tracking by emailing AppsFlyer at privacy@appsflyer.com or by completing the form at https://www.appsflyer.com/optout.
(IV) The Purposes of the Processing
Yolla eSIM collects your personal information for the purpose of: (a) Providing our Services: we use your registration and account data to (i) sign you up for the Product and create your user account for Yolla eSIM; (ii) create your profile and make it visible; (iii) process your payments; (iv) provide customer service, give you information about your account, and respond to your requests; (b) Improving our Services: we use logs and usage information (as described above) to better understand network behavior and trends and detect potential technical issues; (c) Processing your payments: we may use your information like your name and phone number to process your payments for our Services and mobile top-ups through a secured third-party service provider and, on an aggregate basis to determine charges for our phone carriers and other service providers; (d) Personalizing and optimizing our Services, promotional content and advertising to you. For example, we may use the information we collect through cookies, ad identifiers and similar technologies to show you ads you may be interested in; (e) Preventing cheating, crime or fraud: we may use your information to prevent, detect, and investigate fraud, security breaches, potentially prohibited or illegal activities, protect our trademarks and enforce our Terms of Use. We may use automated decisions to suspend an account based on such data in order to prevent recurring breaches. If your account has been suspended you can contact our support. We may use your information and service log information to comply with applicable laws; (f) Communicating with you: we use your information to contact you (via message or other means) to maintain the Product, to comply with your stated communication preferences or to provide updates about other Yolla eSIM services; (g) As otherwise expressly set out in this Policy or as required by law.
(V) Sharing of Personal Information
In order to provide you with the Service you have requested, enhance your user experience, and improve the Product and Service, Yolla eSIM may sometimes, if necessary, share your personal information with trusted partner service providers, including, but not limited to: payment and analytical services, customer support, hosting services, quality control of services, safety and protection, providing organizational management. Yolla eSIM will always require these third parties to take all necessary measures to protect your personal data and to observe the relevant legislation. The following is a description of how we may share your personal information with trusted third-party partners: (a) We use payment solution providers to process the payment and/or billing information. We require that these third parties take the appropriate organizational and technical measures to protect your personal information and to comply with relevant laws, but we are not liable or responsible for these third-party transactions. Therefore, you should review such third-party terms and conditions before providing your payment or billing information. (b) When you use Yolla eSIM on your mobile device, Yolla eSIM may use notification services available for that device to send you alerts when you are not running the mobile application. These services are provided by a third party. For example, messages sent to an Apple device use Apple’s Push Notification Services. Notification services may receive information about the alerts and may use the information in accordance with the privacy policy for the third-party service provider. Yolla eSIM is not responsible for the data collected by third-party notification services. If you do not want to use third-party notification services to receive notifications and alerts, you can disable this in your notification settings in the Yolla eSIM application settings or in your device notification settings. (c) Yolla eSIM uses third-party analytics services to help understand your usage of our services. In particular, we provide a limited amount of your information (such as sign-up date and some personal information like your email address – please see below) to Intercom R&D Unlimited Company, an Irish company with offices at 2nd Floor, Stephen Court, 18-21 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland, (“Intercom”) and utilize Intercom to collect data for analytics purposes when you visit our website or use our product. As a data processor acting on our behalf, Intercom analyzes your use of our website and/or product and tracks our relationship by way of cookies and similar technologies so that we can improve our service to you. For more information on Intercom's use of cookies, please visit https://www.intercom.com/terms-and-policies#cookie-policy. We may also use Intercom as a medium for communications, either through email, or through messages within our Product. As part of our service agreements, Intercom collects publicly available contact and social information related to you, such as your email address, gender, company, job title, photos, website URLs, social network handles and physical addresses, to enhance your user experience. For more information on the privacy practices of Intercom, please visit https://www.intercom.com/terms-and-policies#privacy. Intercom’s services are governed by Intercom’s terms of use which can be found at https://www.intercom.com/terms-and-policies#terms. If you would like to opt out of having this information collected by or submitted to Intercom, please contact us. We may disclose your personal information to law enforcement, governmental agencies, or authorized third-parties, in response to a verified request relating to terror acts, criminal investigations or alleged illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you, or any other Yolla eSIM user to legal liability. We also may share your personal information with market supervisory authorities. If we go through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, personal information would likely be among the transferred assets. As part of such a transaction, the new entity will be required to commit to the same level of protection of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Children’s Privacy
The Site, the Product, and the Service are restricted to individuals over the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use Personal Information from children under 16 years of age (and in certain jurisdictions under the age of 13), and no part of the Site, the Product or the Service is directed to children under the age of 16 (and in certain jurisdictions under the age of 13). If you learn that your child has provided us with Personal Information without your consent, you may alert us at hi@yollacalls.com. If we learn that we have collected any Personal Information from children under 16 (and in certain jurisdictions under the age of 13), we will promptly take steps to delete such information and terminate the account.
Data Retention Periods
We process your personal data no longer than it is necessary and relevant for us to achieve the purposes referred to above or to enable us to comply with our legal data protection retention obligations. The retention period may be based on agreements with you, the legitimate interest of Yolla eSIM or applicable law (such as laws related to bookkeeping, statute of limitations, civil law, etc.). Upon deactivation of your account, we will minimize the personal data about you that we keep only to such data that we are required to keep to comply with laws, or for other legal reasons.
Security
We take reasonable precautions to protect personal information including physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards. Private information is stored on servers with limited access in controlled facilities, and payment information is protected with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption when transferred over the internet. Although we cannot guarantee that personal information will not be subject to unauthorized access as no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure.
Geographical Area of Processing
We may, for the purposes set forth herein, transfer, process and store your information in Estonia, Germany, or any other country in which Yolla eSIM or its affiliates, subsidiaries, suppliers or agents maintain facilities. Information collected within the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) may, for example, be transferred to and processed in a country outside of the EU/EEA, which may not provide the same level of protection for personal data as within the EU/EEA. Transfer and processing of personal data outside the EU/EEA can take place provided there is a legal ground, i.e. legal requirement conclusion or performance of an agreement or client’s consent and appropriate safeguards are in place.
Rights of Users from the EU/EEA
If you use Yolla eSIM Services from the EU/EEA, you have the following rights regarding your personal information: to access your personal information, to rectify the information we hold about you, to erase your personal information, to restrict our use of your personal information, to object to our use of your personal information, to receive your personal information in a usable electronic format and transmit it to a third party (right to data portability), to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. If you would like to understand or exercise such rights, please contact us using the above details. Our legal basis to process your personal information will be one of the following:
(a) to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, for example to provide the services;
(b) consistent with your consent, which you can revoke at any time;
(c) to comply with our legal obligations to which we are subject;
(d) to meet our legitimate interests. When we process personal information to meet our legitimate interests, we put in place robust safeguards to ensure that your privacy is protected and to ensure that our legitimate interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms;
(e) to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person;
(f) necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.
We may obtain your consent to collect and use certain types of personal information when we are required to do so by law (for example, in relation to Cookies or when we process accurate location data for purposes other than performing the service). If we ask for your consent to process your personal information, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the details provided above or by changing your settings within the Site or Product. By withdrawing your consent to the processing of Personal Data, we will no longer process your Personal Data. However, if you have withdrawn any of your consent, you must take into account that the data-processing associated with this consent will no longer be secured and you may no longer have access to available options at the previous level. Withdrawal of consent will not affect the legality of your Personal Data processing prior to the withdrawal of consent. It is important for us that we have truthful and up-to-date information about your personal data. If your personal data has changed, and if you have found that we have processed inaccurate or incomplete personal data, we ask you to inform us within a reasonable period of time about the need to make corrections. In the context of communication and cooperation, we may ask you to provide additional identifying information if necessary to ensure that communication or cooperation takes place directly with you as a data subject, and that you are the person who has submitted and signed the request. If you do not provide us with the additional requested information or we have any doubts about the identity of the applicant, in this case we may postpone your request until we have confirmed your identity. We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution of any complaint or concern about privacy. If, however, you believe that we have not been able to assist with your complaint or concern, you have the right to submit a complaint to your data protection authority.
Last update: December 2023
06 Dec 2023