PKRVip Privacy Policy | Your Data, Our Priority
Another online platform from Pakistan, PKRVIP, realized in 2018 the need to protect users’ privacy and fundamentally began to prevent leakage of personal data. The feature article of this Journal offers a breakdown of the PKRVIP’s anonymity policy in as far as 2018 was concerned, including types, method, and purpose of the information collected, sharing and usage of the data collected, measures to ensure the security of the data and information, rights of the user, and conformity to Pakistan’s data protection laws.

Information Collection
PKRVIP’s privacy policy outlined the collection of various types of personal information from users, including: 1. Personal Identification Information:
- For instance, first and second names, email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses, entered at the time of registration or while using the software.
- Financial Information: Such as credit card information and bank details required for completing the transactions.
- Technical Data: Such as IP addresses, browser types, operating systems and device details collected for improving the experience of the users as well as the security of the present platform.
- Usage Data: These are the habits, actions, and preferences of the users, collected for the purpose of enhancing services and enhancing offerings.
Sources of Information
PKRVIP employed several methods to collect user information:
- Direct Collection: Data which is created when a user engages with the website or interacts with the company through an account creation, a submitted form, or through customer support.
- Automated Technologies: Employment of cookies and other tracking methods to on an auto basis collect technical and usage information as users engaged on the platform.
- Third-Party Sources: Data collected from affiliates, partners or available public data for augmenting user profiling data and to improve services.
Use of Collected Information
The information collected by PKRVIP was utilized for various purposes:
- Service Provision: To manage your account, process transactions, and provide you the services which you require.
- Personalization: To satisfy user needs by offering content and products that attracts and may suit the users preference.
- Communication: It involves sending messages in the administrative nature, answering to mails received, and sharing the details of the services given.
- Security Enhancement: For understanding the usage behavior of the users, for identifying and preventing fraudulent activities on the site and the app’s security, in general.
- Legal Compliance: As a legal requirement, to uphold legal responsibilities for all users to ensure that things such as Terms and Conditions are being followed, and security and rights of PKRVIP and its users.
Information Sharing Practices
PKRVIP’s privacy policy specified circumstances under which user information might be shared:
- With Service Providers: Third-party services to PKRVIP, including payment solution providers and data analysts who work independently on the user data, including data management mandates.
- For Legal Reasons: Compliance with legal requirements, sharing of information under legal proceeding as required, for legal purposes that require sharing of information.
- Business Transfers: Where users’ information could be transferred in the course of mergers, acquisitions or sale of certain assets, users are informed on any change in the ways their information is processed.
- With User Consent: Sharing of the information with third parties contrary to the general policy but in this instance it is done under the approval of the user.
Data Security Measures
PKRVIP emphasized its commitment to protecting user information through:
- Technical Safeguards: Supplement encryption, firewall and the use of secure socket layer technology to protect the data both while in transit and in storage.
- Organizational Measures: Security measures that include using passwords that restrict access to the information and conducting security awareness programs for workers.
- Regular Audits: The other measure is doing susceptibility scans at regular intervals in order to assure that there are few openings which might have been overlooked by the system.
User Rights
The privacy policy outlined several rights afforded to users regarding their personal information:
- Access and Correction: They could demand their data from the market and seek rectifications in regards to the data that was inaccurate.
- Data Deletion: Customers were allowed to demand the information we collected about them to be erased, though certain legal and contractual restrictions applied.
- Consent Withdrawal: Some users could revoke consent for data processing activities based on primary consent without prejudicing the lawfulness of processing that took place before revocation.
- Objection to Processing: Users could have the right to refuse the processing of their data for direct marketing purposes or for another reason.
The standards related to the Pakistani Data Protection Laws
This paper established that as at 2018, Pakistan did not have adequate legislation that sought to protect data as per international standards. However, the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 (PECA 2016) provided to some extent for the protection of personal data. PKRVIP’s privacy policy aimed to align with the principles of PECA 2016, ensuring:
- Lawful Processing: Gathering and handling personal information with prior permission of the end user and where it is reasonable, proper and justified.
- Data Minimization: The need to ensure that personal data was only collected to the extent of the objectives as stated and were required.
- Data Accuracy: The need to keep personal information precise and current.
- Storage Limitation: Storing personal information only for as long as it is reasonable and necessary to meet the purpose for which the information was collected.
- Integrity and Confidentiality: Applying adequate security measures in order to prevent unauthorized access to, alteration of, or disclosure of personal data.
International Data Transfers
Since most online services are international in nature, PKRVIP’s privacy policy covered the transfer of personal data abroad. The policy also informed the users such transfers would be performed under the data protection laws in existence to provide sufficient protection for the user information.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
PKRVIP collecting cookies and other tracking tools to improve the site’s performance, and for displaying advertisement that might interest the users. On the privacy policy page, we obtained the necessary information like the category of cookies used, the purposes of utilizing the cookies, how the users can control their cookies through the browser settings.