. Personal Data: Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
. Usage Data: Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, Content that you create, such as posts, and comments).
. Cookies: Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a User's device.
. Data Controller: Data Controller means a natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and how any personal data are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your data.
. Data Processors (or Service Providers): Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers to process your data more effectively.
. Data Subject: Data Subject is any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data.
. User: The User is the individual using our Service. The User corresponds to the Data Subject, who is the subject of Personal Data.
What information do we collect?
We collect information to provide better services to all our users from figuring out basic stuff like which language you speak to more complex things like which part of our platform you use most. The information Who Cares? collects, and how that information is used, depends on how you use our platform. When you’re signed in, we also collect information that we store with your Who Cares? Account, which we treat as personal information.
Things you create or provide to us
When you create an Who Cares? Account, you provide us with personal information that includes your name, email address, e.t.c.
Information we collect as you use our platform
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (Personal Data). Personally, identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
Email address,
Name,
Phone Number,
Gender,
Country,
Age,
Social Media details(Facebook,
Google).
We may use your Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.
Device and Connection Information
We collect information about the devices you use to access Who Cares?, which helps us provide better services and updates. The information we collect includes device type, operating system, hardware model, IP address, device identifiers, app version number, crash reports, app performance, device version and mobile network information including the carrier name. We also collect information about how you interact with our platform. We collect information about your activity on our platform.
Device Permissions
Who Cares? may request access to your:
. Camera to take photos and videos
. Storage to read or write the contents of your shared storage
Your Location
We collect information about your location when you use our platform to provide better services.
Your location can be determined with varying degrees of accuracy by:
· (1) GPS.
· (2) Sensor data from your device.
· (3) Information about things near your device, such as Wi-Fi access points, cell towers and Bluetooth-enabled devices.
How do we use your Data?
We use data to build better services.
will use the information we collect from our platform for the following purposes:
Maintain & improve our platform
We also use your information to ensure our platform is working as intended, such as tracking outages or troubleshooting issues that you report to us. And we use your information to make improvements to our platform.
Develop new features
We use the information we collect in existing features to help us develop new ones.
Measuring performance
We use data for analytics and measurement to understand how our services are used. For example, we analyze data about your visits to our platform to do things like optimize product design.
Communicating with you
We use the information we collect, like your email address, to interact with you directly. For example, we may send you a notification if we detect suspicious activity, like an attempt to sign in to your Who Cares? Account from an unusual location. Or we may let you know about upcoming changes or improvements to our platform. And if you contact Who Cares? we’ll keep a record of your request to help solve any issues you might be facing.
Protecting Who Cares?, our users, and the public
We use the information to help improve the safety and reliability of our services. This includes detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud, abuse, security risks, and technical issues that could harm Who Cares?, our users, or the public. We use different technologies to process your information for these purposes. We analyze your content to help us detect abuse such as spam, malware, and illegal content. We also use algorithms to recognize patterns in data. We may combine the information we collect on our platform and across your devices for the purposes described above.
How long do we keep your data?
We will retain your Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.
How do we transfer information?
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Disclosure Of Data
. Business Transaction. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
. Disclosure for Law Enforcement. Under certain circumstances, we may be required to disclose your Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Security Of Data
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service ("Service Providers"), to provide the Service on our behalf, perform Service-related services or assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to some but not all of your Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
These Third Parties Don't Have Access to your personal data such as your name, email, age, gender, e.t.c. Will try as much as possible to keep this data safe from third parties services.
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We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website or app traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service.
Ad Service
We use third-party Ad Service Providers to display ads.
Google AdMob
Google Admob is Google’s advertising platform that helps developers and businesses generate revenue for their mobile applications and platforms.
Depending on your settings, google may show you personalized ads based on your interests. For example, if you search for “mountain bikes,” you may see an ad for sports equipment when you’re browsing a site that shows ads served by Google. You can control what information Google uses to show you ads by visiting your ad settings in your Google account.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page:
Google user privacy
Firebase
Firebase is a platform developed by Google that helps us run and manage our platform successfully.
Links To Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Children's Privacy
We don't deal in these services with anyone under the age of 13. We do not collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If we discover that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete it from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with their personal information, please contact us so that we can take the necessary action.
How can you manage or delete your Data?
We will provide a portion in our platform where you can request for your data to be deleted and permanently remove from our servers. These processes could be manual or automatic.
How will you know the policy has changed?
We'll notify you before we make material changes to this Policy. You'll have the opportunity to review the revised Policy before you choose to continue using our services.
Changes to this policy
We change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. We always indicate the date the last changes were published and we offer access to archived versions for your review. If changes are significant, we’ll provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Privacy Policy changes).
Last Revision
Date of Last Revision: June 5, 2023