We appreciate that you trust us with your information and we
intend to always keep that trust. This starts with making sure you understand
the information we collect, why we collect it, how it is used and your choices
regarding your information. This Policy describes our privacy practices in
plain language, keeping legal and technical jargon to a minimum.
1. WHO WE ARE
Social Foundry, LLC
16192 Coastal Highway
Lewes, Delaware 19958
United States
2. WHERE THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLIES
This Privacy Policy applies to websites, apps, events and
other services operated by Social Foundry, such as Nearby. For simplicity, we
refer to all of these as our “services” in this Privacy Policy. To make it
extra clear, we’ve added links to this Privacy Policy on all applicable
services.
3. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
It goes without saying, we can’t help you develop meaningful
connections without some information about you, such as basic profile details
and your location. We also collect information generated as you use our
services, for example access logs, as well as information from third parties,
like when you access our services through a social media account. If you want
additional info, we go into more detail below.
Information you give us
You choose to give us certain information when using our
services. This includes:
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When you create an account, you provide us with at least your
login credentials, as well as some basic details necessary for the service to
work, such as your name and location.
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When you complete your profile, you can share with us additional
information, such as details on your personality, lifestyle, interests and
other details about you, as well as content such as photos. To add certain
content, like pictures or videos, you may allow us to access your camera or
photo album. Some of the information you choose to provide us may be considered
“special” or “sensitive” in certain jurisdictions, for example your racial or
ethnic origins, sexual orientation and religious beliefs. By choosing to
provide this information, you consent to our processing of that information.
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When you subscribe to a paid service or make a purchase directly
from us (rather than through a platform such as iOS or Android), you provide us
or our payment service provider with information, such as your debit or credit
card number or other financial information.
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If you contact our customer care team, we collect the information
you give us during the interaction. Sometimes, we monitor or record these
interactions for training purposes and to ensure a high quality of service.
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Of course, we also process your chats with other users as well as
the content you publish, as part of the operation of the services.
Information we receive from others
In addition to the information you provide us directly, we
receive information about you from others, including:
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Other users may provide information about you as they use our
services. For instance, we may collect information about you from other users
if they contact us about you.
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You may be able to use your social media login (such as Facebook
Login or Google Login) to create and log into your Nearby account. This saves
you from having to remember yet another user name and password and allows you
to share some information from your social media account with us.
Information collected when you use our services
When you use our services, we collect information about
which features you’ve used, how you’ve used them and the devices you use to
access our services. See below for more details:
We collect information about your activity on our services, for instance
how you use them (e.g., date and time you logged in, features you’ve been
using, searches, clicks and pages which have been shown to you, referring
webpage address, advertising that you click on) and how you interact with other
users (e.g., users you connect and interact with, time and date of your
exchanges, number of messages you send and receive).
We collect information from and about the device(s) you use to
access our services, including:
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hardware and software information such as IP address, device ID
and type, device-specific and apps settings and characteristics, app crashes,
advertising IDs (such as Google’s AAID and Apple's IDFA, both of which are
randomly generated numbers that you can reset by going into your device’ settings),
browser type, version and language, operating system, time zones, identifiers
associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your
device or browser (e.g., IMEI/UDID and MAC address);
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information on your wireless and mobile network connection, like
your service provider and signal strength;
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information on device sensors such as accelerometers, gyroscopes
and compasses.
If you give us permission, we can collect your precise
geolocation (latitude and longitude) through various means, depending on the
service and device you’re using, including GPS, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connections.
If you decline permission for us to collect your geolocation, we will not
collect it, but your ability to use and enjoy our Services may be limited as a
result. Similarly, if you consent, we may collect your photos and videos (for
instance, if you want to publish a photo, video or streaming on the services).
4. COOKIES AND OTHER SIMILAR DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES
We use and may allow others to use cookies and similar
technologies (e.g., web beacons, pixels) to recognize you and/or your
device(s). We use these for the purpose of authenticating you, remembering your
preferences and settings, analyzing site traffic and trends, delivering and
measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns, and allowing you to use
social features. You can learn how you can better control their use, through
your browser settings and other tools.
Some web browsers (including Safari, Internet Explorer,
Firefox and Chrome) have a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) feature that tells a
website that a user does not want to have his or her online activity tracked.
If a website that responds to a DNT signal receives a DNT signal, the browser
can block that website from collecting certain information about the browser’s
user. Not all browsers offer a DNT option and DNT signals are not yet uniform.
For this reason, many businesses, including Social Foundry, do not currently
respond to DNT signals.
5. HOW WE USE INFORMATION
The main reason we use your information is to deliver and
improve our services. Additionally, we use your info to help keep you safe and
to provide you with advertising that may be of interest to you. Read on for a
more detailed explanation of the various reasons we use your information,
together with practical examples.
To administer your account and provide our services to
you
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Create and manage your account
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Provide you with customer support and respond to your requests
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Complete your transactions
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Communicate with you about our services, including order
management and billing
To help you connect with other users
To ensure a consistent experience across your devices
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Link the various devices you use so that you can enjoy a
consistent experience of our services on all of them. We do this by linking
devices and browser data, such as when you log into your account on different
devices or by using partial or full IP address, browser version and similar
data about your devices to help identify and link them.
To provide new services to you
To serve you relevant offers and ads
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Develop, display and track content and advertising tailored to
your interests on our services and other sites
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Communicate with you by email, phone, social media or mobile
device about products or services that we think may interest you
To improve our services and develop new ones
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Conduct research and analysis of users’ behavior to improve our
services and content (for instance, we may decide to change the look and feel
or even substantially modify a given feature based on users’ behavior)
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Develop new features and services (for example, we may decide to
build a new interests-based feature further to requests received from users).
To prevent, detect and fight fraud or other illegal or
unauthorized activities
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Address ongoing or alleged misbehavior on and off-platform
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Perform data analysis to better understand and design
countermeasures against these activities
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Retain data related to fraudulent activities to prevent against
recurrences
To ensure legal compliance
To process your information as described above, we rely on
the following legal bases:
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Provide our service to you: Most of the time, the
reason we process your information is to perform the contract that you have
with us. For instance, as you go about using our service to build meaningful
connections, we use your information to maintain your account and your profile,
to make it viewable to other users and recommend other users to you.
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Legitimate interests: We may use your information
where we have legitimate interests to do so. For instance, we analyze users’
behavior on our services to continuously improve our offerings, we suggest
offers we think might interest you, and we process information for
administrative, fraud detection and other legal purposes.
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Consent: From time to time, we may ask for your
consent to use your information for certain specific reasons. You may withdraw
your consent at any time by contacting us at the address provided at the end of
this Privacy Policy.
6. HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION
Since our goal is to help you make meaningful connections,
the main sharing of users’ information is, of course, with other users. We also
share some users’ information with service providers and partners who assist us
in operating the services, and, in some cases, legal authorities. Read on for
more details about how your information is shared with others.
With other users
- You share information with other users when you voluntarily
disclose information on the service (including your public profile). Please be
careful with your information and make sure that the content you share is stuff
that you’re comfortable being viewable by anyone since neither you nor we can
control what others do with your information once you share it.
With our service providers and partners
- We use third parties to help us operate and improve our
services. These third parties assist us with various tasks, including data
hosting and maintenance, analytics, customer care, marketing, advertising,
payment processing and security operations.
- We may also share information with partners who distribute
and assist us in advertising our services. For instance, we may share limited
information on you in hashed, non-human readable form to advertising partners.
- We follow a strict vetting process prior to engaging any
service provider or working with any partner. All of our service providers and
partners must agree to strict confidentiality obligations.
For corporate transactions
- We may transfer your information if we are involved, whether
in whole or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture,
restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy or other change of
ownership or control.
When required by law
- We may disclose your information if reasonably necessary:
(i) to comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or search
warrant, government / law enforcement investigation or other legal
requirements; (ii) to assist in the prevention or detection of crime (subject
in each case to applicable law); or (iii) to protect the safety of any person.
To enforce legal rights
- We may also share information: (i) if disclosure would
mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit; (ii) as necessary to
protect our legal rights and legal rights of our users, business partners or
other interested parties; (iii) to enforce our agreements with you; and (iv) to
investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity,
suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.
With your consent or at your request
- We may ask for your consent to share your information with
third parties. In any such case, we will make it clear why we want to share the
information.
- Your profile data is generally public and available to be
viewed by anyone, including search engines, who might index your information for
display in their search results. We may use and share non-personal information
(meaning information that, by itself, does not identify who you are such as
device information, general demographics, general behavioral data, geolocation
in de-identified form), as well as personal information in hashed, non-human
readable form, under any of the above circumstances.
7. CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS
Sharing of information laid out in Section 6 sometimes
involves cross-border data transfers, for instance to the United States of
America, Canada, and other jurisdictions. As an example, where the service
allows for users to be located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), their
personal information is transferred to countries outside of the EEA. We use
standard contract clauses approved by the European Commission or other suitable
safeguard to permit data transfers from the EEA to other countries. Standard
contractual clauses are commitments between companies transferring personal
data, binding them to protect the privacy and security of your data
8. YOUR RIGHTS
We want you to be in control of your information, so we have
provided you with the following tools:
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Access / Update tools in the service. Tools and account
settings that help you to access, rectify or delete information that you
provided to us and that’s associated with your account directly within the
service.
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Device permissions. Mobile platforms have permission systems
for specific types of device data and notifications, such as phone book and
location services as well as push notifications. You can change your settings
on your device to either consent or oppose the collection of the corresponding
information or the display of the corresponding notifications. Of course, if
you do that, certain services may lose full functionality.
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Deletion. You can delete your account from the privacy settings
on our website while logged-in.
- We want you to be aware of your privacy rights. Here are a
few key points to remember:
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Reviewing your information. Applicable privacy laws may give
you the right to review the personal information we keep about you (depending
on the jurisdiction, this may be called right of access, right of portability
or variations of those terms). You can request a copy of your personal
information by visiting your privacy settings on our website.
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Updating your information. If you believe that the
information we hold about you is inaccurate or that we are no longer entitled
to use it and want to request its rectification, deletion or object to its
processing, please either delete it using our service or contact us.
For your protection and the protection of all of our users,
we may ask you to provide proof of identity in the form of our account access
credentials before we can answer the above requests.
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You can stop all information collection by an app by uninstalling
it using the standard uninstall process for your device. If you uninstall the
app from your mobile device, the unique identifier associated with your device
will continue to be stored. If you re-install the application on the same
mobile device, we will be able to re-associate this identifier to your previous
transactions and activities.
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In certain countries, including in the European Union, you have a
right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority if
you have concerns about how we process your personal information. The data
protection authority you can lodge a complaint with notably may be that of your
habitual residence, where you work or where we are established.
9. RESIDENTS OF CALIFORNIA
If you are a California resident, you can request a notice
disclosing the categories of personal information about you that we have shared
with third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the preceding
calendar year. To request this notice, please contact us. Please allow 30 days
for a response.
10. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
We work hard to protect you from unauthorized access to or
alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information. As with all
technology companies, although we take steps to secure your information, we do
not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information will always
remain secure.
We regularly monitor our systems for possible
vulnerabilities and attacks and regularly review our information collection,
storage and processing practices to update our physical, technical and
organizational security measures.
We may suspend your use of all or part of the services
without notice if we suspect or detect any breach of security. If you believe
that your account or information is no longer secure, please notify us
immediately.
11. HOW LONG WE RETAIN YOUR INFORMATION
We keep your personal information only as long as we need it
for legitimate business purposes (as laid out in Section 5) and as permitted
by applicable law. To protect the safety and security of our users on and off
our services, we implement a safety retention window of 30 days following
account deletion or twelve months following account suspension. During this
period, account information will be retained although the account will of
course not be visible on the services anymore.
In practice, we delete or anonymize your information upon
deletion or suspension of your account (following the safety retention window),
unless:
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we must
keep it to evidence our compliance with applicable law
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there is
an outstanding issue, claim or dispute requiring us to keep the relevant
information until it is resolved; or
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the
information must be kept for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud
prevention and enhancing users' safety and security. For example, information
may need to be kept to prevent a user who was banned for unsafe behavior or
security incidents from opening a new account.
Keep in mind that even though our systems are designed to
carry out data deletion processes according to the above guidelines, we cannot
promise that all data will be deleted within a specific timeframe due to
technical constraints.
12. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our services are restricted to users who are 16 years of age
or older. We do not permit users under the age of 16 on our platform and we do
not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If
you suspect that a user is under the age of 16, please use the reporting
mechanism available through the service.
13. PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
Because we’re always looking for new and innovative ways to
help you build meaningful connections, this policy may change over time. We
will notify you before any material changes take effect so that you have time
to review the changes.
14. HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, here’s how
you can reach us:
- By email: support@wnmlive.com
- By mail: Social Foundry, LLC
16192 Coastal Highway
Lewes, Delaware 19958
United States