In Afeto, your privacy is our priority.You can easily trust us the as the services
included are just for you so that you may fall in love with our services. We
are really helpful that you trust us for the privacy and information provided
by you.
Our commitment to privacy.
Keeping in mind the privacy of the customers we design all the products and services. All the
decisions that are taken includes our experts from
different fields such as management, legal, technical etc. keeping in mind the
privacy of the customers.
Our commitment to security.
We
have teams who are keeping your data safe and secure.
Privacy Policy
Welcome to Afeto's Privacy Policy.
We
appreciate that you trust us while providing your information and we assure 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
Privacy Policy applies from 22nd October , 2022.
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from Dated: 22 October, 2022
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Where This Privacy Policy Applies
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Information We Collect
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Cookies And Other Similar Data Collection Technologies
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How We Use Information
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How We Share Information
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Your Rights
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How Long We Retain Your Information
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Children's Privacy
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Job Candidates, Contractors and Vendor Representatives
Where This Privacy Policy Applies
This
Privacy Policy applies to websites, apps, events and other services we operate
under the Afeto brand. 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.
Some
services may require their own unique privacy policy. If a service has its own
privacy policy, then that policy will apply,not this Privacy Policy will be applies.
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 the types of
people you’d like to meet. We also collect information about your use of our services
such as access logs, as well as information from third parties, like when you
access our services through your social media account or when you upload
information from your social media account to complete your profile. If you
want additional info, we go into more detail below.
A. Information you give us
You
choose to give us certain information when using our services. This includes:
When
you create an account, you provide us with at least your phone number and email
address, as well as some basic details necessary for the service to work, such
as your gender and date of birth.
When
you complete your profile, you can share with us additional information, such
as details on your bio, interests and other details about you, as well as
content such as photos and videos. To add certain content, like pictures or
videos, you may allow us to access your camera or photo album.
When
you subscribe to a paid service or make a purchase directly from us (rather
than through a platform such as Android), you provide us or our payment service provider with
information, such as your debit or credit card number or other financial
information.
When
you participate in surveys, focus groups or market studies, you give us your
insights into our products and services, responses to our questions and
testimonials.
When
you choose to participate in our promotions, events or contests, we collect the
information that you use to register or enter.
If
you contact our customer care team, we collect the information you give us
during the interaction.
If
you share with us information about other people (for example, if you use
contact details of a friend for a given feature), we process this information
on your behalf in order to complete your request.
Of
course, we also process your chats with other members as well as the content
you publish, as necessary for the operation of the services.
B. Information we receive from others
In
addition to the information you may provide us directly, we receive information
about you from others, including:
Members
may provide information about you as they use our services, for instance as
they interact with you or if they submit a report involving you.
Social
Media You may decide to share information with us through your social media
account, for instance if you decide to create and log into your Afeto account via your social media or other account (e.g., Facebook, Google etc) or to upload onto our services information such as photos
from one of your social media accounts (e.g., Instagram
or Spotify).
Affiliates
Afeto is part of the Match Group family of businesses.
Match Group considers the safety and security of members a top priority. If you
were banned from another Match Group service, your information can be shared
with us to allow us to take necessary actions, including closing your account
or preventing you from creating an account on our services.
Other
Partners We may receive information about you from our partners where Afeto ads are published on a partner’s service (in which case they may pass
along details on a campaign’s success). Where legally allowed, we can also
receive information about suspected or convicted bad users from third parties as
part of our efforts to ensure our members’ safety and security.
C. Information collected when you use our services
When
you use our services, this generates technical data 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:
Usage
Information Using the services generates data about your activity on our
services, for instance how you use them (e.g., when you logged in, features
you’ve been using, actions taken, information shown to you, referring webpages
address and ads that you interacted with) and your interactions with other
members (e.g., members you connect and interact with, when you exchanged with
them, number of messages you send and receive, nudges sent and received).
Device
information We collect information from and about the device(s) you use to
access our services, including hardware and software information such as IP
address, device ID and type, apps settings and characteristics, app crashes,
advertising IDs (which are randomly generated numbers that you can reset by
going into your device’ settings), identifiers associated with cookies or other
technologies that may uniquely identify a device or browser.
Other
information with your consent If you give us
permission, we can collect your precise geolocation
(latitude and longitude). The collection of your geolocation
may occur in the background even when you aren’t using the services if the
permission you gave us expressly permits such collection. If you decline
permission for us to collect your precise geolocation,
we will not collect it. Similarly, if you consent, we may collect photos and
videos (for instance, if you want to publish a photo or video or participate in
streaming features on our services).
Cookies and Other Similar Data
Collection Technologies
We
use and may allow others to use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., web
beacons, pixels, SDKs) to recognize you and/or your device(s). You may read our
Cookie Policy for more information on why we use them and how you can better
control their use.
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 Afeto, do not currently respond to DNT
signals.
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 for which we use your information, together
with practical examples.
A.
To administer your account and provide our services to you
Create
and manage your account
Provide
you with customer support and respond to your requests
Complete
your transactions
Communicate
with you about our services
B.
To help you connect with other users
Recommend
you other members to meet
Show
members’ profiles to one another
C.
To provide new Afeto services to you
Register
you and display your profile on new Afeto features and apps
Administer
your account on these new features and apps
D.
To operate advertising and marketing campaigns
Administer
sweepstakes, contests, discounts or other offers
Perform
and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns on our services and
marketing campaigns promoting Afeto off our services
Communicate
with you about products or services that we believe may interest you
E.
To improve our services and develop new ones
Administer
focus groups, market studies and surveys
Review
interactions with customer care teams to improve our quality of service
Understand
how members typically use the services to improve them (for instance, we may
decide to change the look and feel or even substantially modify a given feature
based on how members react to it)
Develop
new features and services (for example, we may decide to build a new
interests-based feature further to requests received from members).
F.
To prevent, detect and fight fraud and other illegal or unauthorized activities
Find
and address on-going, suspected or alleged violations of our Terms of Use,
notably through the review of reports and interactions between members
Better
understand and design countermeasures against violations of our Terms of Use
Retain
data related to violations of our Terms of Use to prevent against recurrences
Enforce
or exercise our rights, for example our Terms of Use
Communicate
to individuals who submit a report, what we’ve done as a result of their
submission
G.
To ensure legal compliance
Comply
with legal requirements
Assist
law enforcement
To
process your information as described in this Privacy Policy, we rely on the
following legal bases:
Provide our service to you: The reason we process your information for purposes
A, B and C above 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,
make it viewable to other members and recommend other members to you and to
otherwise provide our free and paid features to you and other members.
Legitimate interests: We process your information for purposes D, E and F above,
based on our legitimate interest. For instance, we analyze
users’ behavior on our services to continuously
improve our offerings, we suggest offers we think might interest you and
promote our own services, we process information to help keep our members safe
and we process data where necessary to enforce our rights, assist law
enforcement and enable us to defend ourselves in the event of a legal action.
Comply with applicable laws and regulations: We process your information for
purpose G above where it is necessary for us to comply with applicable laws and
regulations and evidence our compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
For example, we retain traffic data and data about transactions in line with
our accounting, tax and other statutory data retention obligations and to be
able to respond to valid access requests from law enforcement. We also keep
data evidencing consents members give us and decisions they may have taken to
opt-out of a given feature or processing.
Consent:
If you choose to provide us with information that may be considered “special”
or “sensitive” in certain jurisdictions, such as your sexual orientation,
you’re consenting to our processing of that information in accordance with this
Privacy Policy. From time to time, we may ask for your consent to collect
specific information such as your precise geolocation
or use your information for certain specific reasons. In some cases, you may
withdraw your consent by adapting your settings (for instance in relation to
the collection of our precise geolocation) or by
deleting your content (for instance where you entered information in your
profile that may be considered “special” or “sensitive”). In any case, you may
withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at the address provided at
the end of this Privacy Policy.
How We Share Information
Since
our goal is to help you make meaningful connections, the main sharing of
members’ information is, of course, with other members. We also share some
members’ information with service providers and partners who assist us in
operating the services, with other Match Group companies for specified reasons
as laid out below and, in some cases, legal
authorities. Read on for more details about how your information is shared with
others.
A. With
other members
You
share information with other members 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 visible.
If
you choose to limit the audience for all or part of your profile or for certain
content or information about you, then it will be visible according to your
settings.
If
someone submits a report involving you (such as a claim you violated our Terms
of Use), We may communicate to the reporter actions,
if any, we took as a result of their report.
B. 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 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. Our service providers and partners must agree to
strict confidentiality obligations.
C. With
our affiliates
Afeto is part of the Match Group family of businesses.
We
share your information with affiliates for limited legitimate purposes as laid
out below:
to
make all Match Group platforms safer and enable us to address (e.g., ban) bad
actors found on one platform also on the others; for them to assist us in data
processing operations, as service providers, upon our instructions and on our
behalf. Their assistance may include technical processing operations, such as
data hosting and maintenance, customer care, marketing and targeted
advertising, analytics, finance and accounting assistance, improving our
service, securing our data and systems and fighting against spam, abuse, fraud,
infringement and other wrongdoings.
We
may also share information with other Match Group companies for other
legitimate business purposes including corporate audit, analysis and
consolidated reporting, where and as allowed under applicable law.
Sharing
functionality
You
may share other members’ profiles and they may share yours with people outside
of our services, using the sharing functionality.
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.
With
law enforcement / 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 members, 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.
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 behavioural data, geolocation
in de-identified form), as well as personal information in hashed, non-human
readable form, under any of the above circumstances. We may also share this
information with other Match Group companies and third parties (notably
advertisers) to develop and deliver targeted advertising on our services and on
websites or applications of third parties, and to analyse and report on
advertising you see. We may combine this information with additional
non-personal information or personal information in hashed, non-human readable
form collected from other sources. More information on our use of cookies and
similar technologies can be found in our Cookie Policy
Your Rights
We
want you to be in control of your information, so we want to remind you the
following options and tools available to you:
Access / Update tools in the service: Tools and account settings can help
you access, rectify or remove information that you provided to us and that’s
associated with your account directly within the service. If you have any
question on those tools and settings, please contact our customer care team for
help here.
Device permissions: Mobile platforms can have permission systems for specific
types of device data and notifications, such as phone contacts, pictures,
location services, push notifications and advertising identifiers. You can
change your settings on your device to either consent or oppose the collection
or processing of the corresponding information or the display of the
corresponding notifications. Of course, if you do that, certain services may
lose functionality.
Uninstall: You can stop all information collection by an app by uninstalling it
using the standard uninstall process for your device. Remember that
uninstalling an app does NOT close your account. To close your account, please
use the corresponding functionality on the service.
Account closure: You can close your account by using the corresponding
functionality directly on the service.
We
also want you to be aware of your privacy rights. Here are a few key points to
remember:
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, right
to know or variations of those terms). You can exercise this right by putting
in such a request here.
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, object to or restrict its
processing, please contact us here.
For
your protection and the protection of all of our members, we may ask you to
provide proof of identity before we can answer the above requests.
Keep
in mind, we may reject requests, including if we are unable to authenticate
you, if the request is unlawful or invalid, or if it may infringe on trade
secrets or intellectual property or the privacy or other rights of someone
else. If you wish to receive information relating to another member, such as a
copy of any messages you received from them through our service, the other
member will have to contact us to provide their written consent before the
information is released. We may also ask them to provide proof of identity
before we can answer the request.
Also,
we may not be able to accommodate certain requests to object to or restrict the
processing of personal information, notably where such requests would not allow
us to provide our service to you anymore. For instance, we cannot provide our
service if we do not have your date of birth and thus cannot ensure that you
are 18 years of age or older.
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. If you decide to stop using our services, you can close your account and
your profile will stop being visible to other members. Note that we will close
your account automatically if you are inactive for a period of two years. After
your account is closed, we will delete your personal information, as laid out
below:
To
protect the safety and security of our members, we implement a safety retention
window of three months following account closure, or one year following an
account ban. During this period, we keep your information in the event that it
might be necessary to investigate unlawful or harmful conducts. The retention
of information during this safety retention window is based on our legitimate
interest as well as that of potential third-party victims.
Once
the safety retention window elapses, we delete your data and only keep limited
information for specified purposes, as laid out below:
a)
We maintain limited data to comply with legal data retention obligations: in
particular, we keep transaction data for 10 years to comply with tax and
accounting legal requirements, credit card information for the duration the
user may challenge the transaction and “traffic data” / logs for one year to
comply with legal data retention obligations. We also keep records of consents
members give us for five years to evidence our compliance with applicable law.
b)
We maintain limited information on the basis of our legitimate interest: we
keep customer care records and supporting data as well as imprecise location of
download/purchase for five years to support our customer care decisions,
enforce our rights and enable us to defend ourselves in the event of a claim, information
on the existence of past accounts and subscriptions, which we delete three
years after the closure of your last account to ensure proper and accurate
financial forecasting and reporting, profile data for one year in anticipation
of potential litigation, for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal
claims, and data necessary to prevent members who were banned from opening a
new account, for as long as necessary to ensure the safety and vital interests
of our members.
c)
Finally, we maintain information on the basis of our legitimate interest where
there is an outstanding or potential issue, claim or dispute requiring us to
keep information (in particular if we receive a valid legal subpoena or request
asking us to preserve data (in which case we would need to keep the data to
comply with our legal obligations) or if data would otherwise be necessary as
part of legal proceedings).
Children's Privacy
Our
services are restricted to individuals who are 18 years of age or older. We do
not permit individuals under the age of 18 on our platform. If you suspect that
a member is under the age of 18, please use the reporting mechanism available
on the service.
Job Candidates, Contractors and Vendor Representatives
We
process the personal information of our job candidates, contractors and vendor
representatives, as part of our recruitment and talent management operations
and our management of the services that contractors and vendors provide to us.
If you are a job candidate, contractor or vendor representative of Afeto, certain relevant terms of this Privacy Policy apply
to our processing of your personal information, including the sections of this
Privacy Policy that discuss the entity that is responsible for the processing
of your personal information, transfers of personal information.
If
you are a job applicant, the personal information we process about you may vary
depending on the job you seek but typically includes what you provide to us as
part of your job application as well as professional qualifications, background
and reference information that recruiters or other third parties share with us.
We use this information to support the recruitment process, which may lead to
an employment contract. For contractors and vendor representatives, we may process
identification information and work-related information, as necessary to manage
our relationship with you and your employer, which is necessary for the
performance of the services agreement, and to establish, exercise or defend
potential legal claims. We may share personal information with service
providers that assist us with recruitment and technical data processing
operations as well as with Match Group companies (for instance if you have a
business relationship with employees of an affiliate). We keep your personal
information only as long as necessary for those purposes.
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