Overview
Information We Collect and Use |
When you use or visit our Services, we collect information directly from you (e.g.,
when you make a booking or reservation). We may also generate information about you
(e.g., information about your device while you use our mobile application). In some
cases, we also obtain personal information from third parties (e.g., our group
companies, business partners, third-party websites, applications, and services, and
others). Learn more |
How We Use Your Information |
We use your information to provide our Services, tailor your experience, show you
bookings and transactions made with our travel partners through lyft and our group
companies, send you marketing communications, provide you with more relevant
advertising and offers that may be of interest to you, and for other purposes
described below. Learn more |
How We Share Your Information |
We share your information with our travel partners; with our group companies; with
other business partners (including advertisers); with social networking services;
with third-party services or applications you use to log into your lyft account;
with service providers (including payment card processors); and others as described
below. We share information to provide and improve our Services, for our own
marketing purposes, to facilitate offers and advertising from others that may
interest you, and for other purposes as described below. Learn more
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How We Store and Protect Your Information |
We maintain technical, administrative, and physical security measures designed to
protect your information. We may retain your information for as long as your account
is active and for a period of time thereafter to allow you to re-activate your
account without loss of information, and as necessary for purposes described below.
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Cookies |
We use cookies and similar technologies to help provide our Services, offer you a
more personalized user experience and market our and third parties' products and
services to you.Learn more
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Your Choices and Rights |
You have choices about your personal information, and in some circumstances, you may
be able to opt out of receiving marketing communications, change your communication
preferences, access and update your information, update location sharing options,
exercise choices regarding cookies, and/or opt out of certain sharing of information
with third parties (including our group companies, travel partners, and other
business partners). These choices and other rights you may have are described in
more detail below. Learn more
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International Transfers of Information |
We operate internationally, and information about you may be transferred to, or
accessed by, entities located in countries outside of your home country. To protect
your information, any such international transfers will be made in accordance with
applicable law. Learn more
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Links to Other Websites |
Our Services may contain links to other websites or services that are not owned or
controlled by lyft, including links to websites of our travel partners, our group
companies, and other business partners (including advertisers). Learn
more
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Children |
Our Services are not directed at or intended for use by children, nor do we
knowingly collect information from children under 16 years of age. Learn
more
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Changes to This Policy |
We update this Policy from time to time, and changes will be effective when posted
(as identified in the Policy). Learn
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How to Contact Us |
If you have any questions about this Policy or the way your personal information has
been used, please contact us using our feedback form or at the contact details set
out below. Learn
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INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND USE
“Personal information” is data that identifies, relates to, describes, can be used to contact, or
could reasonably be linked directly or indirectly to you. For purposes of this Policy, there is
no meaningful distinction between the terms “Personal information” and “Personal data”
Personal Information We Collect Directly From You.As you visit or use our
Services, we collect the following categories of personal information directly from you:
- Personal details (such as your name, age, birthday, gender)
- Contact information (such as email address, address, phone number)
- Booking information (such as, for each traveler, the traveler's name, frequent flyer
details, passport number, redress control number, country of citizenship, booking reference
number, and itinerary, which may include name of airline or carrier, hotel accommodation
and/or vessel, port of destination, port of arrival, date and time of departure and/or
check-in, date and time of arrival and/or check-out, meal preferences, luggage information,
and layover information)
- Account information (such as login credentials, including email address and password,
and account settings)
- Social media data (if you choose to link your lyft account with a social media
account, lyft may collect personal information such as name, age, gender, photograph, and
other personal information relating to your social media account)
- Billing information (such as credit, debit, or other payment card information and
billing address)
- Your contacts (such as contact information of people you add to, or notify of, your
reservations or itineraries through our Services)
- Your preferences (such as your home airport, seating preferences, meal preferences,
communication preferences, and other preference information you provide us)
- Reviews you submit (including any screenname you publish under or any personal
information you include about yourself or others in such review)
- Content you publish (including your travel recommendations and any personal
information you include about yourself or others, or in content you publish in your Guide or
other mediums provided by us)
- Photos of you (such as when you add a photo of yourself to your profile, upload
photos to a review, or link your social media account to your lyft account)
- Communications you send us (such as questions, conversations, complaints, or other
information that you may submit to our support team)
- Promotion information (if you choose to participate in a contest, sweepstakes, or
similar campaign, we will collect any information you provide in relation to such activity,
such as photos, images, captions, or other content, in accordance with the terms provided at
that time)
- Other information you may provide (including other information you provide about
yourself or others through our Services or to which you provide us with access via
third-party platforms)
You may choose not to provide some of the personal information described above. Please note,
however, that many of our Services require some personal information to operate, including
sensitive personal information, so if you choose not to provide the personal information
necessary to operate and provide you with a particular Service or feature of that Service, you
may not be able to use that Service or feature.
Sensitive Personal Information. Some of the information identified above, such as your
passport number, redress travel number, and citizenship information, may be considered
"sensitive personal information" under certain laws. Please be aware that this information may
be required for certain bookings and we may not be able to complete such bookings without this
information. In addition, our Services may include text boxes that are designed for you to
describe certain details about your travel preferences or special requests that you want us or
our travel partners to know, which may also be more sensitive in nature. Please be aware that
information you freely submit in these boxes may reveal to us or to the travel partners or third
parties with whom we share information (as detailed in the How We Share Your Information section
below) certain information that may be considered sensitive personal information under
applicable law (for example, information about dietary restrictions or disability
accommodations). Lastly, certain features of our Services may prompt your device or browser to
request access to your precise geolocation information, which may be considered sensitive
personal information. We do not process precise geolocation absent you granting permission
through your device or browser. Where you have voluntarily consented to our processing of your
sensitive personal information, you may revoke such consent at any time by contacting us at the
details set out in the How to Contact Us section below.
Personal Information Generated By Us. As you use our Services, we generate certain
personal information about you, including through automatic data collection and by inferences
based on the information we collect about you and your activity. We may automatically collect
information about your interactions with the Services or communications you receive (such as
email) using certain technologies, such as cookies, web beacons and other technologies (see our
Cookies and Interest-Based Advertising Policy for more details). We generate the following
categories of personal information about you:
- Device information. When you visit or use our Services, we automatically collect
certain information about your device (e.g., your mobile device, computer, or tablet),
including information about your hardware and software, device configuration, and nearby
networks. Such data may include data about your device operating systems, browsers, and
other software installed on your device; such as IP address or other device identifier;
country of origin, region and language settings; and information about domain servers and
wireless or network access points near your device.
- Usage and performance information. We also automatically collect personal information
about your usage of the Services, including information about your searches, statistics
about the travel itineraries you share with us, how you interact with the features of our
Services and the links you click, your preferences, access times, referring URL, and
performance of our Services.
- Location information. If you use our Services, we automatically collect approximate
location information about you (such as your city) or, with your consent, precise geographic
location data from your mobile device when the app is running and when it is not running,
depending on the choices you make when you are asked to consent to our collection of
location information. The technologies we use to determine your location may include IP
address mapping, cell tower position, Wi-Fi position and GPS signals. We may use and store
this information to provide and improve features of our Services, for example, to tailor our
Services on a needs-based manner to better facilitate your requests (such as helping you
find the hotel closest to you) and to provide you with more relevant content in the cities
you visit (such as sending you marketing communications relating to goods or services in
your current city, including local accommodations and travel options). lyft does not have
control over your device settings, but we do recommend enabling location services on your
device so you can take advantage of the location-based features and functionality offered.
Please see the Your Rights and Choices section below for more information about how to
adjust your preferences, including those related to location information.
- Inferences about you. We combine the information we collect, generate, or otherwise
obtain to draw inferences about your preferences and interests in order to provide and
personalize our Services and tailor the advertising we and our partners display or offer to
you.
- Emails you synchronize with your Trips account. If you sign up to synchronize your
email inbox to your Trips account, you authorize us to access the emails in the email
accounts you have connected to your Trips account in order to create travel itineraries.
This involves automatically scanning your inbox at regular intervals to identify emails that
are booking confirmations, which are then parsed automatically or manually for relevant
travel details and imported into our Trips service (along with a copy of the email, which is
saved to your Trips account). See the Trips Services section below for more information.
Personal Information We Obtain from Third Parties. We may also receive certain
categories of
personal information from third parties, such as third-party websites, applications, social
media networks, and services (each, a “third-party platform” ), our group companies,
travel
partners, and other third parties, including individuals who have shared their travel
itineraries with you through our Trips service. If you are an existing lyft user, we will
combine this information with information we collect through our Services and use and share it
for the purposes described below. The categories of personal information we may obtain from
third parties includes:
- Your name
- Email address or other contact information
- Social media data, if you connect to our Services using a social media third-party
platform or interact with lyft by liking or commenting on our social media pages or
content, we may receive information from that social media third-party platform about those
interactions and from your social media profile (e.g., name, age, gender, photograph, and
other personal information related to that account)
- Browsing, purchase, usage and advertising details, including information about
restaurant or travel accommodations and bookings you make through our group companies and
travel partners (for example, if you book a flight through one of our group companies, we or
our travel partners may receive the general location of your destination and use that
information to provide recommendations for hotels or other accommodations or complementary
services); how you use third-party websites, applications, and services; information
relating to your interactions with our advertising and marketing materials; and demographic
information about users of our Services.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use your personal information for the following purposes (“Purposes” ), to:
- Provide the Services, which includes providing you with the services, products, and
functionality offered through our Services and fulfilling your requests, including, but not
limited to: facilitating and processing bookings with our travel partners, reviewing travel
partners, paying for travel partners' products and services through our Services, and
notifying people you add to, or otherwise request to notify of, your bookings through the
Services
- Providing Trips services, including automatically creating a “Trips” account for you
if you make a booking using our Services. This account collects your travel information to
create and maintain your travel itineraries, which you can then share with others. If you
sign up for the synchronization of your emails to our Trips service, we access the emails in
the email accounts you have connected to your Trips account, to regularly review these
emails in order to identify those that are booking confirmations that we can import into our
Trips service, to parse these emails and to add the information we have collected (including
a copy of the email to your Trips account) (see below for more detail on Trips Services)
- Authenticate your account credentials and identify you, as necessary to log you in
to the Services and ensure the security of your account
- Show your reservations and bookings made through the websites, applications, and
services of our group companies, such as Booking.com or OpenTable, on your account page
- Communicate with youabout your account or use of our Services, products, and/or
functionality (e.g., soliciting reviews and feedback, sending alerts and notifications you
have subscribed to, providing updates regarding itineraries processed by our Trips service,
sending you booking confirmations, sending you information servicing and administrative
emails or other notices required by law); respond to, or follow up on, your comments and
questions; and otherwise provide customer service (see below for more detail on Electronic
Communications)
- Send you marketing communications,including communicating with you about services or
products offered by lyft, our group companies, or our business partners and other marketing
communications that we believe you would be interested in, as permitted by law (see below
for more detail on Electronic Communications and Your Choices and Rights)
- Operate and improve our Services and develop new products and services,including
using analytics to better understand how you use our Services for purposes of product,
website, application and service development and to enhance the user experience
- Process and deliver contest entries and rewards
- Process your payment information
- Provide services and information to travel partners,such as providing user feedback
and usage details
- Tailor your experience with our Services,such as by making inferences or combining
different pieces of information we have collected about you to offer better search results
or otherwise tailor our Services to you according to your preferences or restrictions. For
example, if you frequently book rooms at four-star hotels and rent cars when you travel, we
may prioritize four-star hotels in your search results or bring you a combined package offer
for hotel and car, or prioritize accommodations you have previously booked
- Provide you more relevant advertising on and off our Services,including to show you
personalized offers and advertising on and off our Services. For example, if you tend to
book rooms at four-star hotels and often travel to Tokyo, we may display advertising for a
four-star Tokyo hotel to you on our Services or work with our travel partners and
advertising partners to display advertisements for four-star Tokyo hotels to you on other
websites you visit.
- Protect against, investigate, and deter fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity
- Comply with our policies, procedures and legal obligations, including complying with
law enforcement or government authority requests, addressing litigation-related issues, and
exercising rights or obligations conferred by law
- As otherwise consented to by you and as required or permitted by applicable law.If
you give your consent to any further use of personal information, you can withdraw that
consent at any time by contacting us using the details set out below.
You have choices about your personal information, and in some circumstances, you may have the
right to opt out or object to our uses of your personal information for these Purposes. For more
information, or to exercise these or other rights (where available), see the Your Choices and
Rights section below.
Trip Services. If you register for an account, send a booking confirmation to our Trips
service
or make a booking through our Services, you will have access to our Trips service, where we will
collect your travel information to create and maintain your travel itineraries. If you directly
send us booking confirmation emails, you authorize us to parse these emails automatically or
manually and to add the information you provide to your Trips account, along with other
information that we have collected (including saving a copy of the original email to your Trips
account). If you sign up for the synchronization of your emails to our Trips service, you
authorize us to access the emails in the email accounts you have connected to Trips, to
regularly review these emails in order to identify those that are booking confirmations that we
can import into our Trips service, to parse these emails automatically or manually and to add
the information we have collected to your Trips account (including saving a copy of the original
email to your Trips account). To the extent permissible by our email synchronization partners,
we use the information in your Trips account to show you more relevant search results (e.g.,
accommodations you previously booked) or to provide you statistics about your travels, and we
may use such information for marketing communications as described above. If you use or have
itineraries as part of our Trips Service, you can send or grant access to your itinerary to
anyone you choose. Your itinerary may contain enough details (e.g., booking reference codes) to
allow the recipient to cancel or modify your booking, perform a check-in, etc. You should only
share your itinerary with people you trust. Please also refer to our Getting Started with Trips
page and the detailed Trips FAQ for answers to frequently asked questions, and visit your
Account page to update your account settings and preferences. If you choose to display your
itinerary on publicly-viewable web pages (Facebook, for instance), that information may be
collected and used by others.
Electronic Communications. Consistent with the above Purposes and as permitted by
applicable law, we may communicate with you via electronic messages, including email, text
message, or mobile push notification to:
- Send you information relating to our products and Services. This may include booking
confirmations and updates, receipts, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and
support and administrative messages.
- Send you marketing communications. In other situations, subject to the Your Choices
and Rights section below and applicable law, we may communicate with you about contests,
offers, promotions, rewards, upcoming events, and other news about products and Services
offered by us, our group companies, our travel partners, and other business partners.
With your consent, where required, we may contact you at the mobile phone number that you provide
to us by way of direct dial calls, autodialed and prerecorded message calls, and text messages
in connection with the above Purposes.
Our Role as Data Controller.For purposes of European Union law and similar data protection
regimes, we generally act as a data controller, meaning we determine the purposes and means of
processing your personal information. Our travel partners to whom we may connect you to make
reservations are also generally independent data controllers. To learn more about how our travel
partners may use your personal information, we encourage you to review their privacy notice.
Processing Bases and Consequences.When we process your personal information, we rely on
the following legal bases:
- Performance of the contractwe have with you (for example, if you use our Services to
book a flight, we will process your information in order to allow the relevant airline
partner to complete and administer that booking).
- Compliance with legal obligations to which we are subject (such as when we are
obliged to comply with lawful requests from competent authorities such as law enforcement).
- To serve our legitimate interests(such as tailoring your experience with our
Services, carrying out online advertising, and for fraud detection), provided that such
processing does not outweigh your rights and freedoms. The processing must also be pursuant
to other applicable legal bases for data processing, especially provisions set out under
local law.
When we use personal information to meet our legitimate interests, we take steps to ensure that
your rights to your personal information are not infringed. You can contact us using the details
set out in the How to Contact Us section below for more information about the steps we take to
ensure these rights are not infringed. You also have the right to object to such processing as
described in the Your Choices and Rights section below.
- Consent.To the extent that a legal ground described above would not apply to
processing of your personal information by us, we will seek your consent for such specific
purpose in accordance with applicable law (such as sending direct marketing messages by
electronic means, like email, without an exception from the requirement to obtain consent).
Aggregate Information. We aggregate personal information collected directly from you,
information generated about you by us, and information obtained from third parties (with your
consent, where required) with personal information collected about other users in order to
produce general statistics that cannot be linked to you or any other specific user. Information
that has been aggregated and de-identified is no longer considered “Personal information” and
may be subsequently used for any purpose.
Anonymized Information.We may process information that cannot be linked to you or any
other specific user using any means available to us, either because it was collected anonymously
or has been subsequently anonymized. Information that is anonymous or has been anonymized is no
longer considered “Personal information” and may be subsequently used for any purpose.
HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
We disclose the personal information we collect (or otherwise generate or obtain) as follows:
- With our travel partners. We share your information with our travel partners to
provide the Services (such as connecting users with airlines or online travel agents to book
a flight or other travel service, and sharing personal details, contact information,
passport information, preferences, requests, accommodations, and other information with the
airline or online travel agent) and for our travel partners' own purposes, which may include
marketing or advertising purposes (see below for more detail on Sharing with Travel
Partners).
- With our group companies in our corporate family. We share your information with our
group companies within our corporate family, including but not limited to for the Purposes
described above, to provide you with integrated products and services, and for our and their
marketing purposes (see below for more detail on Sharing with Our Group Companies).
- With other business partners.We share information with other third-party business
partners for their own marketing purposes, including sharing with online advertisers or
advertising technology (“ad tech”) companies to provide you with targeted advertising and
marketing communications, where permitted under law (see below for more detail on Sharing
with Our Business Partners).
- Trips shared by you. If you use or have itineraries as part of our Trips Service, you
can send or grant access to your itinerary through our Services to anyone you choose. See
the Trips services section above for more detail.
- With social networking services.We share (or facilitate your sharing of) your
information with social networking services when you use our Services to connect and share
your information publicly or with friends or when you use our Services to connect with us
on, share on, or use third-party social networking platforms and services (see below for
more detail on Sharing with Social Networking Services).
- Third-party services or applications you use to log into your account.If you use a
third-party service or application (e.g., Facebook) to log into your lyft account, we share
certain personal information with that third party.
- How We Store and Protect Your Information. If you provide us with a review of your
trip, you authorize us to publish it on all our Services under the screenname you provided
and to share it with travel partners. You also authorize us to aggregate your review with
other reviews.
- Content you publish. If you publish travel recommendations as part of Guides or other
mediums provided by us, you authorize us to publish it on all our Services.
- To process payments. Credit or debit card information is required to process certain
transactions, including to make certain bookings and reservations or to purchase other
products or services from travel partners or other third parties, in which case we share
your payment information with travel partners, and other third-party service providers (such
as fraud detection services) (see below for more detail and additional terms regarding
Sharing to Process Payment Information).
- With other service providers. We share information with third-party vendors,
consultants, and other service providers who perform services or functions on our behalf
(see below for more detail on Sharing with Other Service Providers).
- In the event of a corporate transaction.We may disclose or transfer your information
to a third party if we sell, transfer, divest, or disclose all or a portion of our business
or assets to another company in connection with or during negotiation of any merger,
financing, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, transaction, or proceeding.
- To protect rights and property. We may disclose your information to third parties
when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, our
property, the integrity of the Services, personal safety, or the interests of you or any
other person, and to detect, prevent and/or otherwise address fraud, risk management,
security or technical issues.
- To comply with and as required by law.We may disclose your personal information to
government authorities or other relevant third parties in order to comply with applicable
legal requirements, judicial proceedings, court orders, legal process, or lawful requests
from governmental authorities.
- Aggregate Information. We share aggregate statistical data for the improvement of our
Services. We may also share aggregate or de-identified information with third parties at our
discretion.
- At your request. We also share your information as directed or requested by you, or
subject to your consent.
In some circumstances, you may have the right to opt out or object to our sharing of your
information with certain third parties. For more information, or to exercise these or other
rights, see the Your Choices and Rights section below.
Sharing with Travel Partners. Our travel partners include online travel agencies, hotels,
airlines, car rental companies, and travel insurance providers. When you make a request for a
booking or reservation from one of our partners through our Services, we share your information
with that travel partner to facilitate the booking or reservation and provide the services you
requested. Depending on the request, this may include your name, contact information, passport
information, frequent flyer details, itinerary details as described above, your preferences, any
special requests or accommodations, information or comments that you choose to submit (if any),
and other information as required by the particular travel partner. Your information is provided
to the travel partner, just as it would be if you contacted the travel partner directly. If you
provide a mobile phone number in connection with your request, travel partners may send you text
messages regarding your request. Some travel partners also require you to provide credit or
debit card account information to secure your reservation.
When you make a request, we also share with the travel partner additional information about you,
such as information about your travel activity and history, and/or information that we collect
from you and third parties. Travel partners use this information for their own purposes, which
may include to improve their products or services and to provide you with targeted advertising
and marketing communications, where permitted under law.
Sharing with Our Group Companies.We share your information with our affiliates and
subsidiaries in the U.S. and worldwide, as well as with our parent corporation, Booking
Holdings, Inc., and its other subsidiaries (collectively, as also defined earlier in this
Privacy Policy, our “group companies”). We may share your information with our group companies
for the following reasons:
- Provide you with integrated services (including to administer and manage reservations,
bookings, services, and payments across our affiliated platforms).
- Provide personalized offers or send you marketing communications with your consent or as
otherwise permitted by applicable law.
- Enable “single sign-on” in certain circumstances, i.e., allowing you to log into a
shared
account for multiple Booking Holdings Inc. brands using a single set of log-in credentials,
which allows us to, for example, show your reservations and bookings made through the
websites, applications, and services of our group companies on your account page, and allow
our group companies to show information in your respective account(s) with them.
- Provide customer support services.
- Detect, prevent, and investigate fraud and misuse of our services, other illegal activities,
and data breaches.
- Analyze how users use our independent and affiliated platforms, including so that we may
improve existing products and services and develop new features, products, and services that
may be of interest to our users.
- Ensure compliance with applicable law.
To learn more about your choices related to how we share your information with our group
companies (including our subsidiaries, our parent company, and its other subsidiaries), please
see the Your Choices and Rights section below.
Sharing with Our Business Partners. We share your information with other third-party
business
partners for their own marketing purposes. These third parties include online advertisers or ad
tech companies, who may provide you with targeted advertising and marketing communications,
where permitted under law. The information we share includes information collected through your
use of our Services (e.g., information about your bookings and reservations for flights, hotels,
car rentals, or other travel accommodations) and information we collect about you through the
use of cookies and similar technologies (e.g., information about the websites you visit;
information about your searches, including the cities or destinations you search for, the types
of accommodations you search for, your travel preferences, price range, intended travel dates,
and the number of travelers in your party).
For example, if you frequently search for flights from Seattle to Paris around certain holidays,
we may share that information with a particular airline partner so it can better understand
which of our customers are interested in flights from Seattle to Paris on certain dates. The
airline partner may then, for example, use this information to offer you a promotion.
To learn more about your choices related to how we share your information with our business
partners, please see the Your Choices and Rights section below.
Sharing with Social Networking Services. Our Services allow you to connect and share your
actions, comments, content, and information publicly or with friends. Our Services may also
allow you to connect with us on, share on, and use third-party platforms, including those on
which lyft has a presence. Please be mindful of your personal privacy needs and the privacy
needs of others as you choose whom to connect with and what to share and make public. We cannot
control the privacy or security of information you choose to make public or share with others.
lyft also does not control the privacy practices of third-party platforms. Please contact those
sites and services directly to learn about their privacy practices.
Sharing to Process Payment Information.To use certain Services (such as to book a flight)
and to make payments to certain of our travel partners, we require payment information (e.g.,
credit or debit card account information, other online payment method information, etc.). When
you submit your payment information through our Services, we will share that information with
travel partners, third-party payment processors, and other third-party service providers
(including, but not limited to, vendors who provide fraud detection services to us and other
third parties), to the extent necessary to meet our contractual obligations to you (e.g., to
secure your reservation or make a payment to a travel partner where required), to meet our
legitimate interests in preventing fraud and other misuses of our platforms or Services, or with
your consent where this is required by law. In particular:
- When you use a credit or debit card to secure a booking or reservation through our Services,
we provide your credit or debit card account information (including card number and
expiration date, and if required by the travel partner, CVV number) to the applicable travel
partner to process the transaction.
- When you provide your credit or debit card account information through our Services, you
will have the option to save your information to your account for future use. If you choose
not to save your credit or debit card account information to your account, your credit or
debit card account information will be deleted after the transaction is complete.
- For information about the security of your payment information, see the How We Store and
Protect Your Information section below.
Sharing with Other Service Providers.We share information with third-party vendors,
consultants, and other service providers who perform services or functions on our behalf (e.g.,
hosting or operating our Services, data collection, manually parsing booking confirmations,
reporting, ad response measurement, site analytics, data analysis, delivering marketing messages
and advertisements, processing credit card payments, and providing fraud detection services). We
do not authorize these third parties to use or disclose your information for purposes other than
those for which it has been provided. We require these third parties to maintain and implement
security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access or processing.
HOW WE STORE AND PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
lyft maintains commercially-reasonable technical, administrative, and physical security measures
designed to protect your information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure,
alteration, and destruction.
You play an important role in keeping your information secure. You should not share your user
name, password, or other security information for your lyft account with anyone. If we receive
instructions using your user name and password, we will assume you have authorized the
instructions. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure
(e.g., if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been
compromised), please contact us immediately as detailed in the How to Contact Us section below.
When your payment information is being transmitted to our Services or through our Services, it
will be protected by cryptographic protocols. To be clear, lyft only stores your payment
information if you choose to save that information to your account. When you submit a booking or
reservation, we transfer your payment information to the applicable travel partner to process
the transaction. Our contracts with third parties that receive your payment information require
them to keep it secure and confidential.
However, we cannot guarantee that transmissions of your payment information or your other
information will always be secure or that unauthorized third parties will never be able to
defeat the security measures taken by lyft or our third-party service providers. Except to the
extent that liability cannot be excluded or limited due to applicable law, we assume no
liability or responsibility for disclosure of your information due to errors in transmission,
unauthorized third-party access, or other causes beyond our control.
Retention. We may retain your personal information for as long as your account is active
and for
a period of up to five years thereafter to allow you to re-activate your account without loss of
information. We may also retain your personal information as necessary to:
- Maintain logs and business records for analysis, security, and/or audit purposes
- Comply with record retention requirements under the law
- Deal with any complaints regarding the Services; and
- Comply with our legal obligations, protect or defend our rights, resolve disputes and
enforce our contracts
COOKIES
When you use or visit the Services, we collect information about your usage and activity using
cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies. ome of these technologies are owned and
developed by third parties and we and our third-party service providers, our group companies,
and other business partners may also place such technologies for their purposes. The use of
these technologies by third parties is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered
by this Policy, except as required by law. See our Cookies Policy for more details.
YOUR CHOICES AND RIGHTS
Choices Regarding Electronic Communications
- Email. If you no longer want to receive marketing and promotional emails from
lyft, you
may click on
the “unsubscribe” link in such emails to opt out of future marketing email communications.
If
you have a lyft account, you may also opt out of marketing emails in your account settings.
Please note that even if you opt out of receiving marketing communications from one or all
of
our Services, we will still send you service-related communications, such as confirmations
of
any future bookings you make.
- Push Notifications (on Mobile Devices). You can use the settings on your mobile
device to
enable or turn off mobile push notifications from lyft.
- Text Messages. If you no longer want to receive text messages from lyft, reply STOP
(or
as otherwise instructed) to the text message. If you have a lyft account, you may also
adjust
your account settings to opt out of text messages.
Cookies and Interest-Based Advertising.To exercise choices regarding cookies set through
our websites or Services, as well as other types of online tracking and online advertising, see
our Cookies and Interest-Based Advertising for more details. We currently do not employ
technology that recognizes “do-not-track” signals from your browser.
Application Location. As explained in more detail in the Information We Collect and Use
section above, we collect information about your location if you enable location services
through the settings in your mobile device, or with your consent, as may be required by law. You
can change the privacy settings of your device at any time to turn off the sharing of this
location information with our Services. If you choose to turn off location services, this could
affect certain features of our Services. If you have specific questions about the privacy
settings of your device, we suggest you contact the manufacturer of your device or your mobile
service provider for help.
Choices Regarding Sharing with Third Parties. As described above in the How We Share Your
Information section, we share your information with third parties for their own purposes or work
with those partners to support their own marketing purposes. You can opt out of sharing your
information with:
- Our group companies,for their own marketing purposes;
- Travel partners, for their own marketing purposes (including sending marketing
communications and providing targeted advertising, promotions, and other offers
- Other business partners, who use information for their own marketing purposes
You can opt out of such sharing by changing your lyft account preferences. You may also send
such opt-out requests to us as described in the How to Contact Us section below.
Control Over your Account Information. If you have created an online account with us and
would
like to update the information you have provided to us, you can access your account to view and
update your information. You may also contact us as described in the How to Contact Us section
below.
Legal Rights. In addition to the rights described above in this section, you may have the
following additional rights regarding your personal information, depending on where you reside
and under applicable local law:
- The right to access and request a copy of personal information we hold about you
- The right to have your personal information corrected or updated
- The right to request deletion of your personal information
- The right to restrict how we process your personal information
- The right to opt-out of the "sale" of your personal information (as the term is defined
under applicable local laws)
- The right to opt-out of the sharing of your personal information for cross-context
behavioral advertising or targeted advertising purposes
- The right to have your personal information delivered to you in a usable electronic format
(the right to data portability)
- The right to object to how we use your personal information if the legal basis for
processing that information is our legitimate interest.
- Where we are using your personal information on the basis of your consent, and where
applicable under local law, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Where
you have granted consent to receive direct marketing communications from us, and where
applicable under local law, you may withdraw that consent at any time.
If you wish to exercise the legal rights you may have under applicable law, please submit your
request by using our feedback form. So that we can better process your request, please provide
the email you use to log into your lyft account. If you do not have a lyft account, please
provide the email you used to make requests or to use our Services.
Some jurisdictions also permit you to appeal a decision made with respect to your exercising of
your privacy rights. If you wish to appeal a decision to a request you have made, please send
your appeal request using our feedback form.
Where applicable, you may also have the right to register a complaint to your local data
protection authority. For residents of the EU and UK, contact the EU data protection
authorities. For residents of Australia, if you are not satisfied with the outcome of your
complaint after first contacting us, you may wish to contact the Office of the Australian
Information Commissioner.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF INFORMATION
Information about you will be transferred to, or accessed by, entities located around the world
as described in this Policy. Some of these entities may be located in countries that do not
provide an equivalent level of protection for personal information as your home country.
We have put in place safeguards designed to provide adequate protection for transfers of certain
information, in accordance with applicable legal requirements. For more information on the
appropriate safeguards in place, or to request a copy of these safeguards, please contact us
using the contact details listed in the How to Contact Us section below.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our Services contain links to other websites or services that are not owned or controlled by
lyft, including links to websites of travel partners and our advertisers, our group companies,
and other business partners. This Policy only applies to information collected by our Services.
We have no control over these third party websites, and your use of third party websites and
features are subject to privacy policies posted on those websites. We are not responsible or
liable for the privacy or business practices of any third party websites linked to our Services,
including those of our group companies. Your use of third parties' websites linked to our
Services is at your own risk, so we encourage you to read the privacy policies of any linked
third party websites when you leave one of our Services.
CHILDREN
Our Services are not directed at or intended for use by children. We do not knowingly collect
information from children under 16 years of age. If you become aware that your child or any
child under your care has provided us with information without your consent, please contact us
using the contact details listed in the How to Contact Us section below.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
Except to the extent limited by applicable law, we will update this Privacy Policy from time to
time to reflect changes in our privacy practices, legal requirements, and other factors by
prominently posting notice of the update on our Services. Changes to our Privacy Policy will be
effective when posted and the new effective date will be identified.
If we make any changes to the Privacy Policy that materially impact previously collected personal
information about you, we will make reasonable efforts to provide notice and obtain consent to
any such changes as may be required by law.
To request a copy of this Policy, or to request a copy of the Privacy Policy in place at the time
you signed up for an account, please contact us at the details below.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Policy or the way in which your personal information has
been used, please contact us using our feedback form or by postal mail at:
COOKIES AND INTEREST-BASED ADVERTISING POLICY
What are Cookies?
Cookies and similar tracking technologies, such as beacons, scripts, web beacons and tags
(which together we refer to as “cookies”), are small bits of text, usually stored on a
user's computer hard drive or within a browser. They enable a website to remember
information about the user's visit to the website. On mobile websites and mobile
applications, we use device IDs and / or Advertising IDs in a similar manner to which we use
cookies.
We and certain third-party partners (as described below) use cookies on our websites, our
mobile applications and within emails or other communications we send to you (we refer to
these together as our “Sites”).
To the extent the cookies we use for these purposes lead to the processing of your personal
information, details about how we use that personal information and your rights over that
personal information are discussed in our Privacy Policy.
What types of Cookies are used on our Sites and what do we use them for?
We use “first-party cookies,” i.e., those that are used solely by us or by third parties who
act only on our instructions or on our behalf. These types of cookies are used for our own
analysis of our own Sites, or to provide functionality such as remembering your language
preference.
Other cookies on our Sites are used both by us for the purposes described in this policy and
by third parties for purposes where those third parties may wish to combine information from
our Sites with information from other sites to improve their services. For example, these
types of cookies may be used for interest-based advertising purposes.
The cookies used on our Sites, by either us or by third parties, can be “session” cookies, or
“persistent” cookies. “Session” cookies are deleted automatically when you close your
browser, and are used for things like ensuring you are kept logged in as you navigate around
our Sites. “Persistent” cookies remain stored on your device or browser even after you close
it. These cookies are used, for example, to recognize you when you come back to our Sites.
We divide the cookies we use into three categories:
Type of cookie |
Description of how we use this type of cookie |
What choices do you have? |
Required |
To provide a secure log-in to our Sites.
To keep you logged in so that you do not have to log in repeatedly to access
different pages of the Sites.
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Required cookies are necessary for our Sites to operate. On some platforms, you
can delete all cookies, but this may affect the basic functionality of the
Sites. |
Functional |
To recognize you if you have visited previously, and remember your
preferences from past visits, such as your language preference.
To track when you make purchases or bookings on websites operated by our
group companies (e.g., travel bookings on Booking.com, restaurant
reservations on OpenTable, or car rentals on Rentalcars.com), so that we can
display your bookings with our group companies on your account page.
To improve our Sites and our offerings by helping us to understand how users
use the Sites and to analyze trends which appear in that data. For example,
we make changes to the user interface if we can see that certain pages are
difficult for a large number of users to navigate. We also collect broad
information about how our users use the Sites, for example, to understand
which aspects of our Sites and our services are particularly popular, so
that we can make improvements going forward.
To personalize your experience of our Sites, for example, by showing you
offers on our homepage or in emails that are most relevant to you based on
your previous visits to our Sites or those operated by our group companies
or by ranking certain types of options (e.g., only non-stop flights) higher
in your search results.
|
Where required by law, functional cookies will only be used on the Sites
where you have given your consent to their use.
You can opt out of our use of Google Analytics by downloading
the browser add-on
|
Advertising (e.g., Google DoubleClick, Google Ads, Oath, Bing Ads)
|
To recognize you if you have used our services on another device. We combine
information received from multiple devices to determine if you are using a
new device, so that we can continue to provide you with a personalized
experience on our Sites.
To enable you to post to social media sites and other platforms, for example,
to allow you to access a particular social media page to post a comment or a
“like.”
To collect information for use in advertising on our own Sites and on third
party sites which you may visit. Such information is based on your
preferences and your usage of our Sites. We have included more information
about our use of advertising cookies below.
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Where required by law, advertising cookies will be used only on the Sites
where you have given your consent to their use.
See the section entitled “Your Cookie Choices” below to learn more about how
to withdraw your consent to advertising cookies.
You can opt out of our use of Google Analytics by downloading the
browser add-on
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Our Advertising Cookies
We work with third parties that place cookies on our Sites to provide their services,
including:
- Ad Targeting. We work with third-party advertising companies to serve ads while
you are visiting our Sites and to permit these companies to place and access their own
cookies on your computer in the course of serving advertisements on our Sites.
These companies may use information obtained through their cookies (which does not
include your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to
our Sites and other websites, in combination with information about your purchases
and interests from other online sites in order to provide advertisements about goods
and services of interest to you.
We also allow certain third parties (as described in our Privacy Policy to collect
web log data from you (which may include IP address, where permitted, and
information about your browser or operating system), when you visit our Sites, or to
place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser to enable you to receive
customized ads or content. The cookies may reflect de-identified usage data or other
data linked to data you voluntarily have submitted to us, for example, your email
address, that we may share with third parties solely in hashed, non-human readable
form.
- Advertising Analytics/Measurement. We make use of analytics cookies as part of
our online advertising campaigns to learn how users interact with our Sites after they
have been shown an online advertisement, which may include advertisements on third-party
websites. In particular, our Sites use Google Analytics 360 Suite, including Google
Analytics Advertising, which are web analytics and analytics advertising services
provided by Google, Inc., which use third party cookies. Where required, our Sites have
activated the IP address anonymization functionality so that the IP address of the user
is shortened by Google. Our Sites also use the following Google Analytics Advertising
features: Google Remarketing, Google Segments, Google Ads Manager and Google Ads. These
features use third party cookies to collect information about our website traffic by
tracking users across websites and across time and generating reports for us to better
understand our website users and to create audiences for our advertisements based on
such understanding.
- Remarketing Pixel Tags. In addition, we may share website usage information about
visitors to our Sites with third-party advertising companies for the purpose of managing
and targeting advertisements and for market research analysis on our Sites and other
sites. For these purposes, we and our third-party advertising companies may place pixel
tags (also called clear gifs) on some of the pages you visit on our Sites. We will then
use the information that is collected using these pixel tags to serve you relevant
advertisements when you are visiting other sites on the Internet. These advertisements
may be based on your interests, for example, on the basis of specific searches you
conducted on our Sites during earlier browsing sessions.
- Other Cookies: Our partners, who provide certain features on our Sites or display
advertising based on your browsing activity, also use Local Storage such as HTML5, to
collect and store content information and preferences. Please note that different web
browsers offer their own management tools for removing HTML5 local storage.
Mobile Devices, Anonymous Device Identifiers and Hashed IDs. We and/or third parties
that we have engaged may collect and store a unique identifier matched to your mobile
device, in order to deliver customized ads or content while you use applications or surf the
internet, or to identify you in a unique manner across other devices or browsers. In order
to customize these ads or content, we or a third party may collect de-identified usage data
or other data about you which you have either voluntarily submitted to us, for example, your
email address, or has been passively collected from you, such as your device identifier or
IP address, where permitted. However, if we share your email address, we share it solely in
hashed, non-human-readable form.
Your Cookie Choices
We provide you with choices over the use of cookies as described in this policy.
When you first visit our Sites, where required by law, you will have the option to give your
consent to the advertising and functional cookies we use, or to refuse your consent to our
use of those cookies by clicking on the [X] within that disclosure.
Browsers. Most browsers accept cookies by default. You may be able to change the
settings to have your browser refuse certain cookies or notify you before accepting cookies.
To do so, please follow the instructions provided by your browser which are usually located
within the "Help", "Tools" or "Edit" facility. Some third parties also provide the ability
to refuse their cookies directly by clicking on an opt-out link, and we have tried to
indicate where this is possible in the table above.
You can also find more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been
set on your device and how to manage and delete them, at
www.allaboutcookies.org and
www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Mobile Devices. If you no longer wish to receive interest-based advertising on your
mobile applications, please refer to your device's operating system settings and follow
instructions below.
- iOS users: To use the "Limit Ad-Tracking" option, follow the instructions provided by
Apple here: Apple Support Center
- Android Users: To use the "opt-out of interest-based advertising" option, follow the
instructions provided by Google here: Google Play Help
- You may also consider downloading the DAA AppChoices Mobile App to manage online
behavioral advertising technology.
If you no longer wish to receive interest-based advertising on your mobile device browser,
you can follow the steps in relation to Browsers outlined above.
Do-Not-Track Signals. We currently do not employ technology that recognizes
"do-not-track" signals from your browser.
Please keep in mind that, without cookies, you may not have access to certain features on our
Sites, including access to your profile/account and certain personalized content. Removing
all cookies from your computer could also affect your subsequent visits to certain websites,
including our Sites, by requiring that, for example, you enter your login name when you
return to that website. Please note that even if you exercise any of the choices described
above, you will still see ads, but they will not be based upon the information collected
through these tracking technologies, and therefore not necessarily relevant to your
interests.
Privacy Policy. Please review our privacy policy for additional details about how we
collect, use, and disclose information in connection with our Sites, including personal
information obtained from cookies.
Contact. If you have any questions about our use of cookies, please use our feedback
form.