Privacy policy

Version 1.0, effective as of 18 Jul 2024

This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information [Appgeater Limited] (the “Owner” or “We”) and application Appgreater, developed by the Owner (the “Application”) collect and process, and what permissions the Application requests. This document describes the information that we process to operate the Application.
The proper handling of Data is extremely important to us. We therefore take your privacy seriously when processing and protecting your Data. This is done in accordance with provisions set out in the applicable privacy laws (including the General Data Protection Regulation). We want you to understand how and why We collect, process, use, and share your Data (as defined here bellow) when you are using the Application or when you otherwise interact with us or receive a communication from us.
If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you via an email to the email address associated with your account. If required by law, we will request your permission or give you the opportunity to opt out of any new uses of your Data.

1. Types of Data collected

To provide the services via our Application, we must process information about you (“User”). The type of information that we collect depends on how you use our Application.

We collect and process the following information (the “Data”):

Authentication information

To use our Application, you need to have an account, and to create an account, you need to provide us:

Your name,
Your surname,
Your username,
Your email,
Your password to use the Application

For username, you can use either your real name or a pseudonym.

Information and content that you share with other users of the Application

When you use our Application, you may share some of your content and other information with other users. This can include:

Content (images and accompanying text) that you share with other users (the “Content”),

Information in or about the Content that you provide (including metadata such as the location [latitude and longitude] , the date and time when a file was created, name of device).

Device information

We collect information from and about the computers, tablets, phones and other mobile devices (the “Devices”), such as:

Attributes:

Operating system,
Hardware,
Software versions,
IP-address
Device ID

Data from device settings (information you allow us to receive through device settings):

Camera
Access to Device storage (gallery).
GPS location.

Cookie data: data from cookies stored on your device, including cookie IDs and settings.

Information we collect when you are using our Application

When you use our Application, we collect information about how you use it and services offered by the Application, including:

types of Content that you engage with,
actions you take,
accounts you interact with
time, frequency and duration of your activities.

We use that information to provide you with best customer experience and constantly modify and improve our Application to make our Application safer.

Information from other sources

We might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.

Other information

You may choose to provide other information directly to us. For example, we may collect information when you request customer support or otherwise communicate with us. You may provide us with the information about your e-mail to receive mailings.

We collect and process Data that is necessary for our legitimate business purposes, which will be disclosed to any person whose personal data is being collected, held or processed (hereinafter: «data subject») at the time of collection. We will use and process this information only for the purposes for which it was collected, retaining the personal information only for so long as it is required for specific purpose of collecting the information.
We do not collect any special categories of personal data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data), except when permitted or required to do so by law, and will do so only for legitimate business purposes. Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences. If in any other instance a need arises to collect sensitive personal data, we will do so only with the data subject’s express consent, which can be withdrawn at any time.
You can access, correct, or modify the information you provided to us.
We may share specific aggregated, non-personal information with third parties, such as the number of users who have registered with us, the volume and pattern of traffic to and within the website, etc. That information will not identify you, the individual, in any way.

Please note, that the Data may be freely provided by you if you wish to use this Application. If you do not wish to transfer any and all the Data, you will not be able to use the Application.

2. Purpose of Data collection

We may deliver, personalize, and improve our Application by combining and using the information we have about you (including information we receive on and off our Application) to understand how you use and interact with our Application and the people or things you’re connected to and interested in. We also may use the information we have about you for the following purposes:

to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, services that you request from us;
provide, maintain, improve, and develop relevant features, content,
to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about services we feel may interest you
fulfil your requests when authorized by you
detect and defend against fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful activity;
research and develop new services;
Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, invoices and other support and administrative messages;
provide customer service;
communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, and events, and provide other news and information we think will be of interest to you;
The e-mail address can be used to carry out mailings with your consent;
Personalize the Services and provide advertisements, content and features that match user profiles or interests.

We collect general anonymous analytical information on the use of the services for their optimization.
We provide you with controls to manage your experience with us. You can change the privacy settings in your account at any time.

3. Sharing information

  1. General sharing
    By using the Application, you direct and authorize us to disclose the Content as broadly as possible. The Content, as well as your username, is available for viewing by the general public.

  2. Sharing with partners
    We may share information with vendors, consultants, and other service providers, and any of our parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership who need access to such information to carry out work for us. The partner’s use of personal data will be subject to appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

  3. Sharing for regulatory purposes.
    We may preserve, use, share, or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to:
    comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request;
    protect the safety of any person, protect the safety or integrity of our platform, including to help prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actors on our services;
    explain why we have removed content or accounts from our services;
    address fraud, security, or technical issues; or
    protect our rights or property, or the rights or property of those who use our services.
    Sharing in case of transfer of ownership.

We may share, sell, or transfer information about you in connection with our merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or bankruptcy. This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal information that is shared with (before and after the close of any transaction) or transferred to the new legal entity.

4. Keeping information

We retain your Personal Data for as long as it is required to satisfy the purpose for which they were collected and used, unless a longer period is necessary for our legal obligations

5. Place of storage

By using the Application, you hereby consent that your Data will be stored and processed on our servers in London (Data except for email) and Stockholm (emails)
All personal information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access

6. Your rights regarding collected Data

You can access and change certain information through the Application.
You may delete your account information at any time. But we may retain certain information about you as required by law or for legitimate business purposes after you delete your account.
You have the right to receive information regarding purposes of Data collection, regarding third parties, to which we disclose your personal information, information, regarding safeguards that are applicable for secure storage of your personal information, period of time for which Personal information will be stored.
You also have the right to demand erasure of personal data concerning you sending us a request. We shall fulfil your request in appropriate period of time. If there is no other lawful ground for storing and processing of your Data, as prescribed by applicable law, we shall erase such information. If there is another legal ground for such processing, we shall notify you in appropriate period of time.
You also have the right to demand restriction of the storing and processing of the personal information, if legal grounds for such demands have arisen / as prescribed in applicable law.
You have the right to object processing of personal data concerning yourself under circumstances, that are prescribed in applicable law. In case of such objection, we shall restrain from processing of your personal information, if there will be no other legal grounds for continuing of processing.
we take your rights very seriously. However, if you are of the opinion that we have not dealt with your complaints adequately, you have the right to submit a complaint to the data privacy protection authorities responsible.

7. Protection of the information

We provide the following safety measures regarding protection of Data:

evaluation of the effectiveness of used security measures,
establishing rules to access to personal data processed by the Application,
detection of the facts of unauthorized access to personal information and the adoption of appropriate response measures;
restoration of Data that was modified or destroyed due to unauthorized access to them (within the framework of technical capability).
We protect your Personal Data under internationally acknowledged standards, using physical, technical, and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, and alteration. Some of the safeguards we use are firewalls and data encryption, physical access controls to our data centers, and information access authorization controls. We also authorize access to Data only for those employees or contractors who require it to fulfil their job or service responsibilities. All of our physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards are designed to comply with applicable laws and regulations. Third parties may be located in other countries where the laws on processing of Data may be less stringent than in your country. From time to time, the Data may be also stored in other locations, and in such cases, we will ensure that the Data will be stored and processed with the reasonable level of care and security.

8. Information not contained in this policy

More details concerning the collection or processing of Data may be requested from us at any time.

9. Contact information

All queries regarding the provisions of the Policy may be sent to the one of our office:

Appgreater Limited
7 Bell Yard, London, England, WC2A 2JR
support@appgreater.com

© Appgreater Limited 2024