Otaxi Privacy Notice

Otaxi offers ride-hailing service and allows you to order transportation services from our partners and our affiliates.

1. What Is This Privacy Notice For?

You entrust us with your personal data, and we take this responsibility seriously. We are committed to protecting your privacy, and to being transparent about how we handle your information.

This Privacy Notice explains what personal data we collect, how and why we use and share it, as well as the rights you have as a data subject.

2. Who Is Processing Your Personal Data?

2.1 Your personal data is processed by Cloud World Trading LLC registered at North Aludhaubah Bousher, Muscat Governate, Sultanate Oman, P.O. Box 2505, Postal Code 130. This company acts as a data controller under applicable privacy laws, and determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

2.2. Otaxi is using Yango ID as a single authentication tool. This tool is provided by different companies, depending on the country of your mobile phone operator, as defined in the Yango ID Service Terms of Use (available at the following address: https://yango.com/legal/yangoid_tou/). To find out how these companies process your personal data, please see the Yango ID Service Privacy Notice (available at the following address: https://yango.com/legal/yangoid_privacy_policy/).

3. What Personal Data Is Processed, How, and Why?

3.1 The categories of personal data we process, the purposes of the processing, and the legal bases for the processing are set out in the table below.

Categories of data	Purposes	Legal bases
Name or pseudonym Phone number	To register your account To identify and authorise you as a user To communicate with you about your order To process your payments	Contract
Destination addresses	To show you the services available in your area To place, process, and fulfil your order To help you quickly select addresses	Contract
Customer preferences	To process and fulfil your order according to your preferences	Contract
Credit or debit card details E-wallet details Mobile money account details Payment method	To process your payments	Contract
Voice recording	To provide you with customer support	Contract
Voice recording	To control the quality of our customer support To control the quality of the service provided by drivers	Legitimate interest in controlling the quality of our services
Email address	To send you service information about your orders To receive and process your customer support request	Contract
Email address	To inform you about our products and offers, and those of our partners To invite you to participate in contest marketing or other activities	Consent
User’s contacts	To order a taxi for another person To share your itinerary with a trusted person	Consent
Data collected in forms: name, phone number, email address, user’s feedback, message, rating or reviews	To receive feedback To improve our services	Legitimate interest in receiving feedback and improving our services based on that feedback
	To publish your business or store reviews	Consent
IP address Device ID Device type and model Mobile operating system Browser or mobile application details	To secure access to your account and our IT systems	Legitimate interest in ensuring the security of our systems and our users' data
	To prevent fraud	Legitimate interest in preventing fraud
Geolocation data	To check the availability of drivers To assign you a driver To send your location to the driver	Contract
Geolocation data	To share your location with a third party	Consent
Advertising identifier	To customise targeted ads	Consent
Yango user ID Frequency of orders Time taken to complete an order Most frequently ordered services Screens viewed when interacting with the applications Average order value	To improve our applications and the user experience To provide relevant features To change the user interface of our applications	Legitimate interest in improving our applications, user experience, and services
	To analyse user activity for marketing purposes To improve our marketing and business strategy	Legitimate interest in conducting marketing research
	To invite you to participate in contest marketing or other activities	Consent
Details of your orders: date and time of order, pick-up point, destination point, route, price, payment details, and contact details	To provide you with a history of your orders To enable the repeat order feature	Contract
	To prevent fraud	Legitimate interest in preventing fraud
Search history	To inform you on relevant offers of other sellers or partners	Consent
Search history	To improve our applications and the user experience To provide relevant features To change the user interface of our applications	Legitimate interest in improving our applications, user experience, and services
Order details and history Contact details Social media account Comments, attachments, and other details that you provide or that the customer support team requests	To provide you with customer support	Contract
Recording of conversations Your communications within the applications or by other means Other data you have provided	To protect our legitimate rights and the rights of third parties To resolve disputes and legal claims To control the quality of the service provided	Legitimate interest in protecting our rights, resolving disputes, and controlling the quality of our services

3.2 This personal data is mandatory to register an account: name or pseudonym, and phone number.

This personal data is mandatory to use your account: destination addresses. If you choose not to provide this information, you will not be able to place an order.

3.3 You may refuse to give your consent to the processing of your personal data, and it will not affect your ability to use our applications. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us or using automated means, if they are available in your application and/or in your country.

4. How Is Your Personal Data Protected?

4.1 We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised, accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, modification, misuse, disclosure or access, and against all other unlawful processing.

4.2 These security measures have been implemented taking into account the state of the art, the cost of implementation, the risks posed by the processing, and the nature of the personal data concerned.

4.3 Personal data is processed automatically without access by our staff in most cases. However, if such access is necessary, your personal data can only be accessed by employees whose duties require the use of this information. These employees are required to follow internal rules and protocols for processing personal data, and to comply with technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data.

5. Who Do We Share Your Personal Data with?

5.1 Your personal data is shared with parties directly involved in the provision of the services within the application:

Our partners who are involved in obtaining and handling your order and who provide software solutions for the same purpose;
Payment service providers, e-wallets providers, and mobile money service providers that facilitate electronic transactions;
Insurance companies;
Our affiliates who provide authentication tools;
Our affiliates and third parties who provide us with servers, data storage, and other infrastructure facilities; and
Our affiliates and third parties who assist us with customer support.

5.2 Your personal data is shared with parties entitled to receive your personal data under the law to which the relevant data controller is subject:

For example, if law enforcement authorities have a lawful right to have access to your personal data, or financial regulators are duly entitled to investigate suspicious activities or transactions (according to the applicable law in your country and/or the country where our entity providing a service to you is incorporated).

5.3 Your personal data is shared with parties helping us to improve our applications:

For example, data about technical errors encountered while using our services are shared with our affiliates who are involved in the development of our applications.

5.4 Your personal data is shared with parties helping us to inform you about products, services, and offers:

For example, advertising or device identifiers may be shared with companies that provide us with advertising or analytics services.

6. Who Do We Transfer Your Personal Data to?

Parties we share your personal data with may be located in different countries.

Some of these countries may not provide the same level of data protection or data subject rights as the country where you use a service. In such cases, we follow the necessary procedures to ensure that your rights are respected and that your personal data are protected during and after the transfer.

Such procedures may include (subject to applicable privacy laws):

i) Data protection commitments for data transfers through standard contractual clauses issued by relevant authorities;

ii) Additional contractual obligations based on our assessment of the local law of the country where your personal data are transferred and processed;

iii) Registration or authorisation of the transfer from competent data protection authority; and/or

iv) Additional technical and organisational security measures to prevent unlawful, i.e. incompatible with the laws of the country where we provide the service, or unauthorised access to your personal data.

You can contact us for information about the countries to which your personal data may be transferred and the safeguards in place.

7. How Long Will Your Personal Data Be Retained?

7.1 We process your personal data until the purpose of the processing has been achieved.

7.2 We may continue to process your personal data, even after you deleted it from our applications, if such processing is required by law or is necessary to protect our rights and interests or the rights and interests of third parties, in particular in the context of court proceedings.

The ability to delete data may also be limited by laws relating to freedom of expression and information.

8. What Are Your Rights?

You have a number of rights under privacy laws. The rights you have depend on the purpose for which we process your personal data, and the applicable law.

You can always access, rectify, or erase your personal data yourself after logging into the application using our authentication tool.

You may exercise the following rights by contacting our customer support team through our applications.

8.1 Right of access

You always have access to your personal data. You have the right to request a copy of your personal information.

8.2 Right to rectification

You have the right to ask us to update or rectify information that you believe is incorrect, inaccurate, or outdated. You also have the right to ask us to complete any information that you believe is incomplete.

8.3 Right to withdraw consent

You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data where such processing is based on your consent.

8.4 Right to erasure

You have the right to ask us to erase your personal data in certain circumstances, for example, if the data is no longer needed for our purposes, if we process your data without a valid legal basis or otherwise unlawfully, if you have withdrawn your consent (if the processing was based on your consent), if we collected your data when you were a child, or in other circumstances according to applicable laws.

8.5 Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances, for example, if you wish to exercise your right to rectification, you may request that we restrict the processing of your data until it has been rectified.

8.6 Right to data portability

If your personal data is processed by automated means based on your consent or based on a contract with us (e.g. to provide you with the features of the application), you have the right to receive your data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.

8.7 Right to object

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data if you consider that the processing violates your rights. Please note that the right to object can only be exercised if we are processing your data on the basis of legitimate interests or public interest.

You have the right not to be subjected to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling.

8.8 Right to lodge a complaint

We are always ready to consider your complaints and suggestions. Please send them to our customer support team.

If you believe that your rights have been violated, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in the country of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement.

9. How to Contact Us?

9.1 If you need assistance, you can contact the customer support team through the mobile application after logging in.

9.4. Our Data Protection Officer (DPO) can be contacted by email at dpo-yt@yango.com.

9.5 Please include the phone number you used to register with our application in your message to identify you promptly and process your request efficiently.

10. How Is This Document Modified?

In the event of substantial changes to this Privacy Notice, we may use any available means (push notification in the application, SMS, or email) to notify you.

Date of publication: 03.07.2025