Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

WINAKK ("we", "us") operates the WINAKK deals and business-map app, the website winakk.com and the portals used by businesses and by the WINAKK team. WINAKK is responsible for the processing described in this policy.

For any question about this policy or your data, write to contact@winakk.com.

2. What we collect

What we collect depends on how you use WINAKK.

• Using the app (no account needed): a random identifier created on your phone the first time you open the app; your language, the categories you follow and your notification choices; the deals you save, the coupons you claim and redeem, and any rating or report you send; your approximate area, rounded to about 1 km; and usage events such as a deal viewed, a map pin tapped or directions requested, stored with a position rounded to about 1 km. We do not ask for your name, phone number or email address to use the app.
• Businesses: the account email address, and your password or your Google sign-in; the business name, category, phone number, address, map position, opening hours, logo and photos; the adverts you create; your points balance and transactions; the coupons redeemed at your shop; and the notes exchanged when your adverts are reviewed.
• Business ownership requests: when you tell us that a business on the map is yours, your name, phone number, email address if you give it and your message, so that we can check the request, usually by phone.
• WINAKK team members (regional managers and partners): name, email address, phone number, region, the businesses you sign up, the points you sell, your commissions, settlement records and the payment receipts you upload, and a log of the actions taken in the portals.
• Technical data: when you use our services, our servers receive technical information such as your IP address, device type, app version and the time of the request. We use it to run and protect the service. Where our activity log records an IP address, it stores it in hashed form.

3. Your location

When you allow it, the app uses your phone’s location to show deals and businesses near you. Your precise position is sent with the request so that we can find nearby results and it may appear briefly in technical server logs. What we keep is rounded to about 1 km.

You can refuse or withdraw location access at any time in your phone’s settings and still browse by town or on the map.

4. Signing in with Google

If you choose "Continue with Google", Google shares your email address, name and profile picture with us. We use them only to create your account and sign you in. We do not access your Google contacts, files or any other Google data, and we do not share this information with anyone else.

5. Businesses shown on the map

The WINAKK map shows businesses that are open to the public. Their details (name, category, address, phone number and position) come from open map data published by the Overture Maps Foundation, from our field team and from the businesses themselves. This is business information, but it can include a person’s name or phone number when a business uses them.

If you own a business and want its information corrected or removed, use "This is my business" in the app or write to contact@winakk.com.

6. Why we use your data

• To provide the service: show deals and businesses near you, issue and redeem coupons, run business accounts and publish adverts.
• To review adverts and ownership requests before they are accepted, and to prevent fraud and abuse, such as the same coupon being claimed over and over.
• To manage points purchases, partner commissions and settlements, and keep the accounting records the law requires.
• To send the messages you ask for or need: invitations and sign-in links by email, and the push notifications you have switched on.
• To measure how WINAKK is used, in aggregate, and to show each business statistics about its own adverts (views, claims, redemptions). A business never learns who a customer is.
• To answer your questions and requests.

We process your data with your consent (for example for location and notifications), to provide the service you asked for or perform our agreement with a business or a team member, to meet our legal obligations, and to keep WINAKK secure, within the limits set by Law 18-07.

7. Who we share it with

We do not sell your personal data and we do not share it with advertisers.

• Businesses: when you redeem a coupon, the shop sees the coupon and that it was redeemed, not who you are.
• The WINAKK team: regional managers and partners see the information of the businesses they look after.
• Service providers that process data on our behalf and only for that purpose: Supabase (database and sign-in, hosted in Zurich, Switzerland), Microsoft Azure (website and API hosting, Switzerland), Google (sign-in with Google, and Firebase Cloud Messaging to deliver push notifications) and our email provider (invitations and sign-in links).
• Public authorities, when the law requires it.

8. Where your data is stored

Our servers are located in Switzerland, a country that ensures a high level of personal data protection. Using these services means that your data is transferred outside Algeria. We carry out these transfers in line with the conditions of Law 18-07 and require our providers to protect your data with appropriate security measures.

9. How long we keep it

• App data linked to your phone’s identifier: while you use the app. You can ask us to delete it at any time.
• Business and team accounts: while the account is open. When it is closed we delete or anonymise the personal data, except the records we must keep by law.
• Points sales, commissions and settlements: for the period required by Algerian commercial and tax law.
• Ownership requests: as long as needed to handle the request and keep a record of the decision.

10. Your rights

Under Law 18-07 you have the right to be informed, to access your personal data, to have it corrected or updated, and to object to its processing for legitimate reasons, including direct marketing. You can withdraw your consent at any time, for example by turning off location or notifications in your phone’s settings.

To exercise these rights, write to contact@winakk.com. We may ask you to confirm that the request comes from you, and we answer within the time the law allows. To delete your data, see Delete your account and data.

You can also lodge a complaint with the National Authority for the Protection of Personal Data (ANPDP).

11. Security

We protect your data with encrypted connections (HTTPS), access controls that limit each account to its own data, encryption at our hosting providers and access limited to the people who need it. No system is perfectly secure. If a breach affects you, we will inform you and the authority as the law requires.

12. Cookies and storage on your device

The website uses only the cookies it needs to work. We do not use advertising cookies or third-party tracking.

• Sign-in cookies, which keep you signed in to the business and team portals.
• Your language choice.
• A device cookie that keeps the deals you saved and the coupons you claimed on this browser.
• A visit identifier that expires after 24 hours, used to count visits without identifying you.

The app keeps its identifier and your settings on your phone. Uninstalling the app removes them.

13. Children

WINAKK is not intended for children. You must be at least 18 years old, or use the app with the permission of a parent or guardian. Business and team accounts are for people who can enter into a contract under Algerian law. If you think a child has given us personal data, write to us and we will delete it.

14. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. We will publish the new version on this page with its date and, if the change is significant, tell you in the app or by email.

15. Contact

WINAKK, winakk.com. Email: contact@winakk.com.