We are overjoyed that you have decided to visit our website; we kindly ask that you read through our Privacy Policy (the "Policy")! This will explain how we obtain, secure, store, and share any personal information that you provide, as well as who we share it with. We strongly recommend that you also read our Terms and Conditions.
This Privacy Policy applies to our website, and its associated subdomains (collectively, our “Service”) alongside our application, Social Media Site Pty Ltd. By accessing or using our Service, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service.
The Social Media Site Pty Ltd website and apps are available on a global scale; therefore, your information will be transmitted regardless of the country in which you are physically located. Please take the time to read this Policy in its entirety and pay close attention to the section explaining how we protect your personal data when we transfer it internationally. This policy applies to all of our products and services that fall under our company's umbrella. However, the use of certain products and services might necessitate adhering to their policies.
Who exactly are we?
Social Media Site Pty Ltd is the complete next-generation social media platform for meeting unlimited friends, marketplace, finding jobs, creating ads, creating posts, likes, dislikes, following, comments, poking, messaging, adding friends, trending, finding friends, people you know, sharing moments with friends all over the world, nearby friends, interact with friends, forums, pages, offers, privacy, timeline, movies, games, save posts, common things, photo albums, live chat, last seen, points, gifts, search, hashtags, activities, @mention, affiliate, emoticon, notification, reports, free Audio/Video calls, connecting with family and friends, create groups, events, post pictures, videos, sell products and services, meet your soulmate, create groups, a complete social media community with millions of users, promote your business, viral outreach, get before a huge audience, drive high traffic, boost sales, and so much more.
This policy covers how we use your personal information. We take your privacy seriously and will take all measures to protect it. We do NOT sell your personal information.
What information do we collect?
In order to be of assistance to you in the process of developing meaningful connections, we require specific information about you. We also collect information about how you use our services, such as access logs and information from other sources, such as when you access our services. This information includes things like when you access our services.
Information regarding registration
When you create an account on our Web app or download the mobile app, we may collect certain information about you that we refer to as "Registration Information." This information may include the following items:
Name; (Legal Name)
Username
Email address
Mobile number
Age
Birth Day
Country
To complete the registration process for your Account, you will need to come up with a password on your own. After you have registered with Social Media Site Pty Ltd, you can always access and modify your password.
When you subscribe to a paid service or make a purchase directly from us (rather than through a platform such as Web, iOS, or Android), you provide information, such as the number of your debit or credit card or other financial information, to our payment service provider. This could include your billing address.
The data that we collect allows us to improve the Web-App and confirm the identities of our users (robots are prohibited)
We also collect information from mobile devices for a better user experience, although these features are completely optional:
-Photo Gallery (Pictures): Granting photo gallery access allows the user to upload any picture from their photo gallery, you can safely deny photo gallery access for this website/app.
How do we use personal information?
In order to provide you with our services.
We make it easier for you to connect with other users.
We help you discover and link you with other people, organizations, businesses, and other Social Media Site Pty Ltd users, no matter which one you use. Using the information we have, we make suggestions for you and others, such as suggesting you join a group, attend an event, follow a Social Media Site Pty Ltd page, watch a movie, or become friends/follow someone. We believe that our services are most effective when people connect with others they care about.
For the purpose of conducting advertising and marketing campaigns
We are constantly working to improve our services and create brand-new ones.
Fraud and other illegal or unauthorized activities are something we work to prevent, detect, and combat.
What legal basis do we have for processing your personal data?
We rely on the following legal bases to process your information in accordance with the terms described in this Privacy Policy:
When do we share personal data?
Since one of our primary goals is to facilitate meaningful connections for you, the primary audience for the information that users share is, of course, other users. We also share some information about users with service providers and partners who assist us in operating the services, for the reasons that are specified below, and in some cases, with legal authorities. These service providers and partners help us in operating the services. Continue reading to learn more about how your information is shared with others and for what purposes.
With other users
When you voluntarily disclose information on the service, the information that you provide may be seen by other users of the platform (including your products and services). Please exercise caution with regard to your information, and check to see that the content you share is the kind of thing with which you have no problem having it made public.
In the event that someone files a report against you (for example, a claim that you violated our Terms of Use), we reserve the right to communicate to the person who filed the report the actions, if any, that we took as a direct result of their report.
With our service providers and partners
We rely on the assistance of outside parties in order to run and improve our services. These third parties provide assistance to us with a variety of tasks, including the hosting and maintenance of data, analytics, customer service, marketing, advertising, payment processing, and security operations. We also share information with partners who help us advertise and distribute our services and who distribute our services themselves. For example, we may share some limited information about you with our advertising partners, but that information will be hashed and not readable by humans.
Before we agree to work with any partner or engage any service provider, we put them through a rigorous screening process first. Our business partners and service providers are required to sign legally binding confidentiality agreements.
Marketing vendors
The term "measurement and marketing vendors" refers to businesses that offer support to Social Media Site Pty Ltd and its advertisers in relation to matters pertaining to marketing. They, for instance, handle the purchasing of advertisements on our behalf, conduct market research, and evaluate the efficiency of our various campaigns. These vendors also contribute to the advertising efforts of our Partners.
We may provide information about you to businesses that assist us in marketing our company and our products, determining how effective our own marketing campaigns are, and conducting research regarding advertising. For instance, in order to provide you with advertisements that are more pertinent to your interests, we may share the identifier for your device or other identifiers with advertising vendors.
With our affiliates
Your information may be shared with affiliated companies for the limited and legitimate purposes that are outlined below:
for them to assist us in data processing operations as service providers, upon our instructions, and on our behalf; for them to make all of our platforms safer and enable us to address (for example, ban) bad actors found on one platform also on the others; for them to make money off of us. Their assistance may include technical processing operations such as data hosting and maintenance, customer care, marketing, targeted advertising, analytics, financial and accounting assistance, improving our service, securing our data and systems, and fighting against spam, abuse, fraud, infringement, and other types of illegal activities.
We may also share information with another Social Media Site Pty Ltd platform for other legitimate business purposes, such as the auditing, analyzing, and reporting of consolidated corporate activities, when and where permitted to do so by applicable law.
Sharing functionality
Using the sharing functionality, you are able to share the profiles of other users with people who are not a part of our services, and other users are also able to share your profile.
For corporate transactions
In the event that we are involved, whether in whole or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy, or any other change in ownership or control, we reserve the right to transfer any information that you have provided to us.
With law enforcement / when required by law
We reserve the right to disclose any information you provide to us if we believe that doing so is reasonably necessary for one of the following purposes: (a) To comply with a legal process, such as a court order, search warrant, government/law enforcement investigation, or other legal requirements; (b) to assist in the prevention or detection of crime (subject in each case to applicable law); or (c) to protect the safety of any person.
To enforce legal rights
In addition, we may disclose information in the following scenarios: (a) If doing so would reduce the potential or actual impact of a lawsuit against us; (b) if doing so is required to protect our legal rights as well as the legal rights of our users, business partners, or other interested parties; (c) if doing so is required to enforce the terms of our agreements with you; and (d) if doing so is required to investigate, prevent, or otherwise take action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud
With your consent or at your request
In order to share your information with third parties, we might ask for your permission first. In the event that this occurs, we will explain the rationale behind our desire to disclose the information.
In any of the situations described above, we reserve the right to use and disclose both non-personal information (which we define as information that, by itself, does not identify who you are, such as information about your device, general demographics, general behavioral data, and geolocation in a form that does not reveal your precise location) and personal information that has been hashed and is not readable by humans. This information may also be shared with notable advertisers in order to develop and deliver targeted advertising on our platform as well as on the websites or applications of third parties, as well as to analyze and report on the advertising that you see. We reserve the right to combine this information with additional non-personal information or personal information obtained from other sources that have been hashed and are not in a form that is readable by humans. Our Cookie Policy provides further explanation of the ways in which we make use of cookies and other tracking technologies.
We may share the information that we collect, both personal and non-personal, with third parties such as advertisers, contest sponsors, promotional and marketing partners, and others who provide our content or whose products or services we think may interest you. We may also share it with our current and future affiliated companies and business partners, and if we are involved in a merger, asset sale, or other business reorganization, we may also share or transfer your personal and non-personal information to our successors-in-interest.
We may engage trusted third-party service providers to perform functions and provide services to us, such as hosting and maintaining our servers and the website/app, database storage and management, e-mail management, storage marketing, credit card processing, customer service and fulfilling orders for products and services you may purchase through the website/app. We will likely share your personal information, and possibly some non-personal information, with these third parties to enable them to perform these services for us and for you.
We may share portions of our log file data, including IP addresses, for analytics purposes with third parties such as web analytics partners, application developers, and ad networks. If your IP address is shared, it may be used to estimate general location and other technographics such as connection speed, whether you have visited the website/app in a shared location, and type of the device used to visit the website/app. They may aggregate information about our advertising and what you see on the website/app and then provide auditing, research, and reporting for us and our advertisers.
We may also disclose personal and non-personal information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate in order to respond to claims, legal process (including subpoenas), to protect our rights and interests or those of a third party, the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity, or to otherwise comply with applicable court orders, laws, rules, and regulations.
How do we secure personal data?
To further ensure the safety of your information, we employ a variety of additional precautions. These are the following:
Encryption and security: We safeguard your information with a variety of preventative and detective steps. We protect the data of our users at all times by employing a comprehensive security program, which shields the information using safeguards such as encryption when it is being transmitted. We continually adapt and improve our security in order to stay one step ahead of the ever-evolving risks and threats to our safety that we are exposed to.
We do not provide any government with direct access or encryption "back doors" because we believe that intentionally weakening our services in this way would undermine the security that is necessary to protect people who use our global service.
Strong policies: For a considerable amount of time, we have been operating under comprehensive policies that govern how we assess and respond to requests for user data that come from the government. We examine each request and only respond with information in response to those that we deem to be legitimate. Additionally, the information that we produce is only relevant to the extent that it is needed to fulfill the specific request.
Defending the rights of our customers: When government requests are flawed in some way (for example, because they are overly broad or because they violate the law), we push back and engage governments to address any apparent flaws. If it becomes necessary, we will argue against or deny unlawful requests from the government. We would also challenge any order that attempted to gag us from disclosing the existence of such an order and our efforts to fight it, as well as any order that sought to require us to redesign our systems in a way that would compromise the security we provide to protect people's data.
In the interest of providing transparency, we make every effort to be open and proactive regarding the manner in which we protect the online privacy, security, and access to information of individuals. For this reason, it is our policy to notify users of requests for their information prior to any disclosure, unless we are prohibited from doing so by law or in exceptional circumstances when notification would be counterproductive, such as when a child is at risk of being harmed. Exceptions to this policy include situations in which notification would be counterproductive, such as when a child is at risk of being harmed. Since we began this practice a few years ago, we have been publishing transparency reports on a biannual basis. These reports discuss the nature and scope of government requests for user data that we receive, and they include as much information as we are able to provide regarding the number of requests received under the law enforcement agency.
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information. We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) is never kept on file. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the absolute security of any information you transmit to Social Media Site Pty Ltd or guarantee that your information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by a breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
Where and when is information collected from end users?
Social Media Site Pty Ltd will collect personal information that you submit to us. We may also receive personal information about you from third parties as described above.
How Do We Use Your Email Address?
By submitting your email address on this website/app, you agree to receive emails from us. You can cancel your participation in any of these email lists at any time by clicking on the opt-out link or other unsubscribe option that is included in the respective email. We only send emails to people who have authorized us to contact them, either directly, or through a third party. We do not send unsolicited commercial emails, because we hate spam as much as you do. By submitting your email address, you also agree to allow us to use your email address for customer audience targeting on sites like Facebook, where we display custom advertising to specific people who have opted-in to receive communications from us. Email addresses submitted only through the order processing page will be used for the sole purpose of sending you information and updates pertaining to your order. If, however, you have provided the same email to us through another method, we may use it for any of the purposes stated in this Policy. Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
Could my information be transferred to other countries?
Social Media Site Pty Ltd is incorporated in the United Kingdom. Information collected via our website, through direct interactions with you, or from the use of our help services may be transferred from time to time to our offices or personnel, or to third parties, located throughout the world, and may be viewed and hosted anywhere in the world, including countries that may not have laws of general applicability regulating the use and transfer of such data. To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, by using any of the above, you voluntarily consent to the trans-border transfer and hosting of such information.
Is the information collected through the Social Media Site Pty Ltd Service secure?
We take precautions to protect the security of your information. We have physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help safeguard, prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use your information. However, neither people nor security systems are foolproof, including encryption systems. In addition, people can commit intentional crimes, make mistakes or fail to follow policies. Therefore, while we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If applicable law imposes any non-disclaimable duty to protect your personal information, you agree that intentional misconduct will be the standard used to measure our compliance with that duty.
Can I update or correct my information?
The rights you have to request updates or corrections to the information Social Media Site Pty Ltd collect depend on your relationship with Social Media Site Pty Ltd. Personnel may update or correct their information as detailed in our internal company employment policies.
users have the right to request the restriction of certain uses and disclosures of personally identifiable information as follows. You can contact us in order to (1) update or correct your personally identifiable information, (2) change your preferences with respect to communications and other information you receive from us, or (3) delete the personally identifiable information maintained about you on our systems (subject to the following paragraph), by canceling your account. Such updates, corrections, changes, and deletions will have no effect on other information that we maintain or information that we have provided to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy prior to such update, correction, change, or deletion. To protect your privacy and security, we may take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.
You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have provided to us from our system. The need to back up our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that a copy of your information may exist in a non-erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. Promptly after receiving your request, all personal information stored in databases we actively use, and other readily searchable media will be updated, corrected, changed, or deleted, as appropriate, as soon as and to the extent reasonably and technically practicable.
If you are an end-user and wish to update, delete, or receive any information we have about you, you may do so by contacting the organization of which you are a customer.
Personnel
If you are a Social Media Site Pty Ltd worker or applicant, we collect the information you voluntarily provide to us. We use the information collected for Human Resources purposes in order to administer benefits to workers and screen applicants.
You may contact us in order to (1) update or correct your information, (2) change your preferences with respect to communications and other information you receive from us, or (3) receive a record of the information we have relating to you. Such updates, corrections, changes, and deletions will have no effect on other information that we maintain or information that we have provided to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy prior to such update, correction, change, or deletion.
Sale of Business
We reserve the right to transfer information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of Social Media Site Pty Ltd or any of its Corporate Affiliates (as defined herein), or that portion of Social Media Site Pty Ltd or any of its Corporate Affiliates to which the Service relates, or in the event that we discontinue our business or file a petition or have filed against us a petition in bankruptcy, reorganization or similar proceeding, provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Affiliates
We may disclose information (including personal information) about you to our Corporate Affiliates. For purposes of this Privacy Policy, "Corporate Affiliate" means any person or entity which directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by or is under common control with Social Media Site Pty Ltd, whether by ownership or otherwise. Any information relating to you that we provide to our Corporate Affiliates will be treated by those Corporate Affiliates in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Governing Law
This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of the United Kingdom without regard to its conflict of laws provision. You consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in connection with any action or dispute arising between the parties under or in connection with this Privacy Policy except for those individuals who may have rights to make claims under Privacy Shield or the Swiss-US framework.
The laws of the United Kingdom, excluding its conflicts of law rules, shall govern this Agreement and your use of the website/app. Your use of the website/app may also be subject to other local, state, national, or international laws.
By using Social Media Site Pty Ltd or contacting us directly, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you should not engage with our website, or use our services. Continued use of the website, direct engagement with us, or following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy that do not significantly affect the use or disclosure of your personal information will mean that you accept those changes.
Your Consent
We've updated our Privacy Policy to provide you with complete transparency into what is being set when you visit our site and how it's being used. By using our website/app, registering an account, or making a purchase, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Links to Other Websites
This Privacy Policy applies only to the Services. The Services may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by Social Media Site Pty Ltd. We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, or opinions expressed in such websites, and such websites are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy or completeness by us. Please remember that when you use a link to go from the Services to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including those that have a link on our platform, is subject to that website’s own rules and policies. Such third parties may use their own cookies or other methods to collect information about you.
Advertising
This website/app may contain third-party advertisements and links to third-party sites. Social Media Site Pty Ltd does not make any representation as to the accuracy or suitability of any of the information contained in those advertisements or sites and does not accept any responsibility or liability for the conduct or content of those advertisements and sites and the offerings made by the third parties.
Advertising keeps Social Media Site Pty Ltd and many of the websites and services you use free of charge. We work hard to make sure that ads are safe, unobtrusive, and as relevant as possible.
Third-party advertisements and links to other sites where goods or services are advertised are not endorsements or recommendations by Social Media Site Pty Ltd of the third-party sites, goods, or services. Social Media Site Pty Ltd takes no responsibility for the content of any of the ads, promises made, or the quality/reliability of the products or services offered in all advertisements.
Cookies for Advertising
These cookies collect information over time about your online activity on the website/app and other online services to make online advertisements more relevant and effective to you. This is known as interest-based advertising. They also perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing and ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers. Without cookies, it’s really hard for an advertiser to reach its audience, or to know how many ads were shown and how many clicks they received.
Cookies
Social Media Site Pty Ltd uses "Cookies" to identify the areas of our website that you have visited. A cookie is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser. We use cookies to enhance the performance and functionality of our website/app but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality like videos may become unavailable or you would be required to enter your login details every time you visit the website/app as we would not be able to remember that you had logged in previously. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of Cookies. However, if you disable Cookies, you may not be able to access functionality on our website correctly or at all. We never place Personally Identifiable Information in Cookies.
Blocking and disabling cookies and similar technologies
Wherever you're located you may also set your browser to block cookies and similar technologies, but this action may block our essential cookies and prevent our website from functioning properly, and you may not be able to fully utilize all of its features and services. You should also be aware that you may also lose some saved information (e.g. saved login details, and site preferences) if you block cookies on your browser. Different browsers make different controls available to you. Disabling a cookie or category of cookies does not delete the cookie from your browser, you will need to do this yourself from within your browser, you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.
Remarketing Services
We use remarketing services. What Is Remarketing? In digital marketing, remarketing (or retargeting) is the practice of serving ads across the internet to people who have already visited your website. It allows your company to seem like they're “following” people around the internet by serving ads on the websites and platforms they use most.
Changes To Our Privacy Policy
We may change our Service and policies, and we may need to make changes to this Privacy Policy so that they accurately reflect our Service and policies. Unless otherwise required by law, we will notify you (for example, through our Service) before we make changes to this Privacy Policy and give you an opportunity to review them before they go into effect. Then, if you continue to use the Service, you will be bound by the updated Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to this or any updated Privacy Policy, you can delete your account.
Third-Party Services
We may display, include or make available third-party content (including data, information, applications, and other product and services) or provide links to third-party websites or services ("Third-Party Services").
You acknowledge and agree that Social Media Site Pty Ltd shall not be responsible for any Third-Party Services, including their accuracy, completeness, timeliness, validity, copyright compliance, legality, decency, quality, or any other aspect thereof. Social Media Site Pty Ltd does not assume and shall not have any liability or responsibility to you or any other person or entity for any Third-Party Services.
Third-Party Services and links thereto are provided solely as a convenience to you and you access and use them entirely at your own risk and subject to such third parties' terms and conditions.
Facebook Pixel
Facebook pixel is an analytics tool that allows you to measure the effectiveness of your advertising by understanding the actions people take on your website. You can use the pixel to Make sure your ads are shown to the right people. The Facebook pixel may collect information from your device when you use the service. Facebook pixel collects information that is held in accordance with its Privacy Policy
Tracking Technologies
-Google Maps API
Google Maps API is a robust tool that can be used to create a custom map, a searchable map, check-in functions, display live data synching with location, plan routes, or create a mashup just to name a few.
Google Maps API may collect information from You and from Your Device for security purposes.
Google Maps API collects information that is held in accordance with its Privacy Policy
-Cookies
We use cookies to enhance the performance and functionality of our website/app but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality like videos may become unavailable or you would be required to enter your login details every time you visit the website/app as we would not be able to remember that you had logged in previously.
We may allow third parties to use cookies and other similar technologies (such as web beacons, pixels, and SDKs) to recognize you and/or your device, and we also use these technologies ourselves (s). You can read our Cookie Policy to learn more about why we use cookies and how you can better control how often they are used by visiting our website.
There is a feature in certain web browsers known as "Do Not Track" (also abbreviated as "DNT") that communicates to websites that a user does not wish to have his or her online activity tracked. These web browsers include Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. When a website that is configured to respond to a DNT signal receives a DNT signal, the user's browser may prevent the website in question from collecting certain information about the user of the browser. A Do Not Track (DNT) option is not available in every browser, and there is currently no standard for DNT signals. As a result of this, a lot of companies, including Social Media Site Pty Ltd, do not respond to DNT signals at the moment.
Cookies allow us to provide, secure, and improve our services, just like other providers of online services do. This is accomplished, among other things, by remembering your preferences, recognizing you when you visit our website, measuring the success of our marketing campaigns, and personalizing and tailoring advertisements to your interests. In order to accomplish these goals, we may combine the information obtained from cookies with any other personally identifiable information we have stored about you.
If you use any of our services, the following categories of cookies may be installed on your device, in any combination.
Essential cookies: These cookies are required for us to be able to provide our services to you, such as allowing you to log in, remembering your preferences, and keeping you safe by detecting malicious activity. Among other things, they allow you to access your account information.
Cookies for analytics: These cookies help us understand how our services are being used, which enables us to customize and improve our offerings for each individual user.
Cookies for advertising and marketing: These cookies are used to determine how successful our marketing campaigns are and to make the advertisements that you see more relevant to you. They perform functions such as helping us understand how much traffic our marketing campaigns drive on our services, preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, selecting advertisements that are relevant to you, and measuring the number of ads displayed as well as their performance, such as the number of people who interacted with a particular ad.
Cookies for social networking: These cookies are used to enable you to share pages and content that you find interesting on our services through third-party social networking and other websites or services. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and can only be read by the website that gave them to you. There is also the possibility that these cookies will be used for marketing purposes.
What options do you have for managing cookies?
You can choose from a few different approaches to managing cookies if you want to. Please be aware that if you make any adjustments to the cookie settings on your browser, it is possible that the experience of using our services will become less satisfying because they may no longer be as personalized. It is possible that you will be unable to make use of any or all of our services in certain circumstances.
-Local Storage
Local Storage sometimes known as DOM storage provides web apps with methods and protocols for storing client-side data. Web storage supports persistent data storage, similar to cookies but with a greatly enhanced capacity and no information stored in the HTTP request header.
-Sessions
Social Media Site Pty Ltd uses "Sessions" to identify the areas of our website that you have visited. A Session is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser.
Information about General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
We may be collecting and using information from you if you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), and in this section of our Privacy Policy, we are going to explain exactly how and why is this data collected, and how we maintain this data under protection from being replicated or used in the wrong way.
What is GDPR?
GDPR is an EU-wide privacy and data protection law that regulates how EU residents' data is protected by companies and enhances the control the EU residents have, over their personal data.
The GDPR is relevant to any globally operating company and not just the EU-based businesses and EU residents. Our users’ data is important irrespective of where they are located, which is why we have implemented GDPR controls as our baseline standard for all our operations worldwide.
What is personal data?
Any data that relates to an identifiable or identified individual. GDPR covers a broad spectrum of information that could be used on its own, or in combination with other pieces of information, to identify a person. Personal data extends beyond a person’s name or email address. Some examples include financial information, political opinions, genetic data, biometric data, IP addresses, physical addresses, sexual orientations, and ethnicity.
The Data Protection Principles include requirements such as:
-Personal data collected must be processed in a fair, legal, and transparent way and should only be used in a way that a person would reasonably expect.
-Personal data should only be collected to fulfill a specific purpose and it should only be used for that purpose. Organizations must specify why they need personal data when they collect it.
-Personal data should be held no longer than necessary to fulfill its purpose.
-People covered by the GDPR have the right to access their own personal data. They can also request a copy of their data, and that their data be updated, deleted, restricted, or moved to another organization.
Why is GDPR important?
GDPR adds some new requirements regarding how companies should protect individuals' personal data that they collect and process. It also raises the stakes for compliance by increasing enforcement and imposing greater fines for breaches. Beyond these facts, it's simply the right thing to do. At Social Media Site Pty Ltd we strongly believe that your data privacy is very important and we already have solid security and privacy practices in place that go beyond the requirements of this new regulation.
Individual Data Subject's Rights - Data Access, Portability, and Deletion
We are committed to helping our customers meet the data subject rights requirements of GDPR. Social Media Site Pty Ltd processes or stores all personal data in fully vetted, DPA-compliant vendors. We do store all conversation and personal data for up to 6 years unless your account is deleted. In this case, we dispose of all data in accordance with our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, but we will not hold it for longer than 60 days.
We are aware that if you are working with EU customers, you need to be able to provide them with the ability to access, update, retrieve and remove personal data. We got you! We've been set up as self-service from the start and have always given you access to your data and your customer's data. Our customer support team is here for you to answer any questions you might have about working with the API.
California Residents
The California users Privacy Act (CCPA) requires us to disclose the categories of Personal Information we collect and how we use it, the categories of sources from whom we collect Personal Information, and the third parties with whom we share it, which we have explained above.
We are also required to communicate information about the rights California residents have under California law. You may exercise the following rights:
-Right to Know and Access. You may submit a verifiable request for information regarding the: (1) categories of Personal Information we collect, use, or share; (2) purposes for which categories of Personal Information are collected or used by us; (3) categories of sources from which we collect Personal Information; and (4) specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.
-Right to Equal Service. We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.
-Right to Delete. You may submit a verifiable request to close your account and we will delete the Personal Information about you that we have collected.
-Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
We do NOT sell the Personal Information of our users.
For more information about these rights, please contact us.
How long do we keep your personal data?
We will only keep any of your personally identifiable information for as long as we continue to have a legitimate business need for it (as described in the prior section) and as long as the law allows us to do so. If you choose to no longer make use of our services, you have the option to close your account, at which point your profile will no longer be displayed to other members. Please be aware that your account will be terminated without further notice if it has not been accessed for a period of two years. Following the closure of your account, we will delete your personal information in the manner that is detailed below:
We implement a safety retention window that lasts for one year after an account has been banned or for three months after an account has been closed. This is done to protect the safety and security of our users. During this time, we will keep your information in our files in the event that it becomes necessary to conduct an investigation into potentially illegal or harmful behavior. Our legitimate interests, as well as the interests of any potential third-party victims, necessitate the storage of this information throughout the duration of this safety retention window.
We will delete your data once the safety retention window has passed, and we will only keep limited information for specific purposes, as outlined in the following paragraphs:
Your rights in relation to personal data
Because we want you to have complete command over the use of your personal information, we would like to draw your attention to the following choices and tools that are at your disposal:
Gain access to and make necessary updates to the service's tools. You can access, edit, or delete the information that you provided to us that is associated with your account directly within the platform with the help of the tools and settings associated with your account. Please get in touch with us so that we can assist you with any questions you may have regarding those tools and settings.
Device permissions. Mobile platforms can have permission systems for specific kinds of device data and notifications, such as phone contacts, pictures, location services, push notifications, and advertising identifiers. Examples of these kinds of data and notifications include push notifications, location services, and phone contacts. You have the ability to change the settings on your device in order to either agree to or object to the collection or processing of the corresponding information, as well as the display of the corresponding notifications. Obviously, if you do that, the functionality of some of the services you use could be affected.
Uninstall. Uninstalling an application using the process that is customary for your device will prevent it from collecting any further information after it has been done so. Keep in mind that removing an app from your device does NOT close your account. Please make use of the appropriate functionality provided by the service in order to delete your account.
The account has been closed. You can terminate your account by using the functionality that is specifically designed for that purpose on the service itself.
In addition to that, we want you to be aware of the rights you have regarding your privacy. The following are some of the most important things to keep in mind:
I'm going over the information you provided. You may have the right under applicable privacy laws to review the personal information that we keep about you in our records (depending on the jurisdiction, this may be called right of access, right of portability, right to know, or variations of those terms). You have the ability to make use of this right by submitting a request of this kind in this location.
Bringing your information up to date. If you believe that the information we hold about you is inaccurate or that we are no longer entitled to use it, and you want to request that it be rectified, deleted, or that its processing be objected to or restricted, please contact us here. If you believe that the information we hold about you is inaccurate or that we are no longer entitled to use it.
Before we can respond to any of the aforementioned questions or concerns, we reserve the right to request that you provide some form of identifying documentation, both for your own safety and for the safety of every other member of our community.
Keep in mind that we reserve the right to refuse requests for a variety of reasons, such as if we are unable to authenticate you, if the request is unlawful or invalid, or if it may infringe on someone else's trade secrets, intellectual property, or privacy rights, among other rights. If you want to receive information pertaining to another member, such as a copy of any messages you received from them through our service, the other member will need to contact us to provide their written consent before the information can be released to you. For example, if you want to receive information relating to another member, such as a copy of any messages you received from them through our service. Before we can respond to the request, we might also ask them to provide some form of identification first.
In addition, it is possible that we will not be able to comply with certain requests to object to or restrict the processing of personal information. This is especially the case in situations in which such requests would prevent us from continuing to provide our service to you. For instance, we are unable to provide our service if you are unable to verify that you are at least 18 years old or if you are unable to provide us with the required information.
Children Privacy Policy
Individuals who are at least 18 years old are able to use Social Media Site Pty Ltd. Our website is not open to anyone under the age of 18, and those under that age cannot use it. Please get in touch with us or make use of the reporting mechanism provided on the platform if you have any reason to believe that a user is under the age of 18.
How to contact us?
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us by sending an email to Hello@SocialMediaSite.net
If there is anything else that you require, please do not be reluctant to get in touch with us.
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