This Privacy Policy and its Addendum(s) (“Policy”) describe how Ryde Technologies Pte Ltd (collectively “Ryde Technologies”, “Ryde”, “we”, “us” or “our”) collect, use, process and disclose your Personal Data through the use of Ryde’s mobile applications and websites (respectively “Apps” and “Websites”), as well as products, features and other services globally, operated by Ryde (collectively, “Services”).
This Policy applies to our passengers, partners (such as drivers), contractors and service providers (collectively “you”, “your” or “yours”).
“Personal Data” is any information which can be used to identify you or from which you are identifiable. This includes but is not limited to your name, nationality, telephone number, bank and credit card details, personal interests, email address, your image, government-issued identification numbers, biometric data, race, date of birth, marital status, religion, health information, vehicle and insurance information, employment information and financial information.
We collect Personal Data about you in the ways listed below. We may also combine the collected Personal Data with other Personal Data in our possession. If you have or are a party to multiple relationships with us (for example if you use our Services, or if you are both a driver as well as a passenger on our transport, we will link your Personal Data collected across your various capacities to facilitate your use of our Services and for the Purposes described below. We collect your Personal Data when you voluntarily provide it to us. For example, you may provide your Personal Data to us when you:
In certain circumstances, you may need to provide your Personal Data in order to comply with legal requirements or contractual obligations, or where it is necessary to conclude a contract. Failure to provide such Personal Data, under such circumstance, may constitute failure to comply with legal requirements or contractual obligations, or inability to conclude a contract with you, as the case may be.
For purposes such as detection and prevention of fraud, we may also collect your Personal Data without consent, by relying on Legitimate Interests or other exemptions provided by the applicable data privacy laws.
When will your personal data be used?
Personal Data may be collected through the normal operation of our Apps, Websites and Services. Some examples are:
From other sources When we collect Personal Data, including but not limited to your name, contact information and other identification information where needed from other sources, we make sure that that data is transferred to us in accordance with applicable laws. Such sources include:
Personal Data about driver partners If you are a driver partner, we may collect:
Sensitive Personal Data Some of the Personal Data that we collect is sensitive in nature. This includes Personal Data pertaining to your race, national ID information, religious beliefs, background information (including financial and criminal records, where legally permissible), health data, disability, marital status and biometric data, as applicable. We collect this information only with your consent and/or in strict compliance with applicable laws.
Ryde’s applications or devices Ryde may install in-vehicle audio and/or video recording applications or devices to promote the safety and security of Rydedriver partners, delivery partners and passengers. Your Personal Data may be captured in these audio and/or video recordings. Where in-vehicle audio and/or video recordings are made, such recordings are collected, processed, used and stored in a manner that is compliant with applicable laws.
Personal In-vehicle cameras Some Ryde partners may install personal in-vehicle cameras in their vehicles for their own purposes (including safety and security). The use of such in-vehicle cameras is not endorsed or prohibited by Ryde. The collection, use and disclosure of Personal Data obtained from personal in-vehicle cameras is the responsibility of the relevant partner. Please check with the relevant partner if you have any queries about their use of personal in-vehicle cameras.
Personal Data of minors As a parent or legal guardian, please do not allow minors under your care to submit Personal Data to Ryde. In the event that such Personal Data of a minor is disclosed to Ryde, you hereby consent to the processing of the minor’s Personal Data and accept and agree to be bound by this Policy and take responsibility for his or her actions.
When you provide Personal Data of other individuals to us In some situations, you may provide Personal Data of other individuals (such as your spouse, family members or friends) to us. For example, you may add them as your emergency contact. If you provide us with their Personal Data, you represent and warrant that you have obtained their consent for their Personal Data to be collected, used and disclosed as set out in this Policy.
Ryde may use, combine and process your Personal Data for the following purposes (“Purposes”):
Providing services and features
Your Personal Data will be used to provide, personalise, maintain and improve our Apps, Websites and Services. This includes using your Personal Data to:
Safety and security
We use your data to ensure the safety and security of our Services and all users. This includes:
Customer support
We use Personal Data to resolve customer support issues. For example, we may:
Research and development and security
We may use the Personal Data we collect for testing, research, analysis and product development. This allows us to understand and analyse your needs and preferences, protect your Personal Data, improve and enhance the safety and security of our Services, develop new features, products and services, and facilitate insurance and finance solutions.
Legal purposes
We may use the Personal Data we collect to investigate and resolve claims or disputes, or as allowed or required by applicable law.
We may also use your Personal Data when we are required, advised, recommended, expected or requested to do so by our legal advisors or any local or foreign legal, regulatory, governmental or other authority.
For example, we may use your Personal Data to:
We may also use your Personal Data in connection with mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, sale of company assets, consolidation, restructuring, financing, business asset transactions, or acquisition of all or part of our business by another company.
Marketing and promotions
We may use your Personal Data to market Ryde and Ryde’s partners’, sponsors’ and advertisers’ products, services, events or promotions. For example, we may:
We may communicate such marketing to you by post, telephone call, short message service, online messaging service, push notification by hand and by email.
If you wish to unsubscribe to the processing of your Personal Data for marketing and promotions, please click on the unsubscribe link in the relevant email or message. Alternatively, you may also update your preferences in our App settings.
We need to share Personal Data with various parties for the Purposes. These parties include:
We retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfill the Purposes outlined in this Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law. Once your Personal Data is no longer necessary for the Services or Purposes, or we no longer have a legal or business purpose for retaining your Personal Data, we take steps to erase, destroy, anonymise or prevent access or use of such Personal Data for any purpose other than compliance with this Policy, or for purposes of safety, security, fraud prevention and detection, in accordance with the requirements of applicable laws.
Ryde, and third parties with whom we partner, may use cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts, local shared objects such as HTML5 and Flash (sometimes called “flash cookies”), advertising identifiers (including mobile identifiers such as Apple’s IDFA or Google’s Advertising ID) and similar technology (“Cookies”) in connection with your use of the Websites and Apps. Cookies may have unique identifiers, and reside, among other places, on your computer or mobile device, in emails we send to you, and on our web pages. Cookies may transmit Personal Data about you and your use of the Service, such as your browser type, search preferences, IP address, data relating to advertisements that have been displayed to you or that you have clicked on, and the date and time of your use. Cookies may be persistent or stored only during an individual session.
Ryde may allow third parties to use Cookies on the Websites and Apps to collect the same type of Personal Data for the same purposes Ryde does for itself. Third parties may be able to associate the Personal Data they collect with other Personal Data they have about you from other sources. We do not necessarily have access to or control over the Cookies they use.
Additionally, we may share non-personally identifiable Personal Data with third parties, such as location data, advertising identifiers, or a cryptographic hash of a common account identifier (such as an email address), to facilitate the display of targeted advertising on third party platforms.
If you do not wish for your Personal Data to be collected via Cookies on the Websites, you may deactivate cookies by adjusting your internet browser settings to disable, block or deactivate cookies, by deleting your browsing history and clearing the cache from your internet browser. You may also limit our sharing of some of this Personal Data through your App (Settings > Privacy > Ads) and mobile device settings.
We will take reasonable legal, organisational and technical measures to ensure that your Personal Data is protected. This includes measures to prevent Personal Data from getting lost, or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your Personal Data to our employees on a need to know basis. Those processing your Personal Data will only do so in an authorised manner and are required to treat your information with confidentiality.
Nevertheless, please understand that the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Data transmitted through any online means, therefore, any transmission remains at your own risk.
In accordance with applicable laws and regulations, you may be entitled to:
Ryde shall have the right to modify, update or amend the terms of this Policy at any time by placing the updated Policy on the Websites. By continuing to use the Apps, Websites or Services, purchase products from Ryde or continuing to communicate or engage with Ryde following the modifications, updates or amendments to this Policy, you signify your acceptance of such modifications, updates or amendments.
If you have any queries about this Policy or would like to exercise your rights set out in this Policy, please contact: [email protected]
The original of this Policy is written in the English language. In the event of any conflict between the English and other language versions, the English version shall prevail.
All capitalised terms but undefined terms used herein shall bear the same meaning as those defined in the Terms of Use and the Ryde Privacy Policy (accessible at https://www.rydesharing.com/privacy-policy/).
This Addendum forms part of the Ryde Privacy Policy. In the event of any inconsistency between the Ryde Privacy Policy and this Addendum, this Addendum shall prevail.
Ryde for Business is provided as an add-on feature to facilitate corporate billing for the Authorised Users’ use of Ryde’s Services in the course of work.
When an organisation (“Client”) chooses to utilise the corporate account, the Authorised User is given the option of tagging his/her rides or other transactions to the Client or to tag it as a personal ride. An Authorised User is referred to in the Ryde Privacy Policy as a passenger.
As part of this feature, Ryde will disclose detailed trip and booking information that Authorised Users have tagged as being for business purposes to the Client. Apart from this, Ryde does not disclose other Personal Data of its Authorised Users to the Client.
Alternatively, an individual user may choose to set up a corporate account profile within the App to facilitate the tagging of business-related rides and to generate consolidated trip reports to facilitate the submission of claims from his or her employer. When used in this mode, the claims process is user-driven and the user’s employer need not be a Client.
For ease of reference, Authorised Users and individual users will each be referred to as a “User” and collectively as “Users” in this Addendum.
Ryde is a data controller, so are our Clients
In respect of any User and the processing of all their Personal Data (including but not limited to Linking Data and Portal Data), Ryde acts as a data controller. For further information on how Ryde collects, uses and discloses Users’ Personal Data, please refer to the Ryde Privacy Policy.
Due to the way Ryde’s Corporate Account works, Ryde does not process any Personal Data for and on behalf of the Client. Accordingly, Ryde is not the data processor of the Client, but an independent data controller in respect of all Personal Data that it processes in the course of providing Ryde’s Corporate Account feature. Likewise, the Client is an independent data controller of the Personal Data (e.g. the Linking Data and Portal Data) that it discloses to and/or receives from Ryde.
As independent controllers, Ryde and the Client individually determine the purposes and means of processing Personal Data, subject to the provisions set out in the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy. Ryde and the Client are also individually responsible to ensure the protection of Personal Data under their charge.