This is the Privacy Policy of apps of Ausoco and its various & next versions (hereinafter collectivelyreferred to as "us", "we", or "our") and is incorporated into and is subject to our Terms of Use whichcan be found at https://ausoco.com/terms. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to our products and servicesas the "Service". Please read on to learn more about our data handling practices. Your use of theService signifies that you agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with theterms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Service.
When you install the Service on your device and register, personally identifiable information about youmay be collected during the download process for the Service (as requested during the download process)and when you register with us. For registration, you are required to provide your your email address,city location, gender, name, depending on the device(s) you are using on the Service. You may alsoprovide personally identifiable information, but that is optional. When you log in using your Facebookaccount, we may collect additional information you make available to us (see "Your User Profile" below).
In addition, when you install the Service on your device and register, you may will be asked to allow usaccess to your address book. If you consent, we will have access to contact information in your addressbook on the device you use for the Service (names, numbers, emails, and Facebook IDs, but not notes orother personal information in your address book) and we will store them on our servers and use them tohelp you use the Service, for example, by synchronizing your contacts between different devices you maywant to use with the Service.
We may also collect and gather non-personally identifiable information, such as certain profileinformation including country of residence and preferences. In addition, we may collect and storeinformation about your and others’ usage of and interaction with the Service and our websites, includingmatches, numbers of matches made by members, match durations, text messages, usage by geographies,device and connection information, IP address, device capability, bandwidth, statistics on page views,network type and traffic to and from our websites.
Our applications allows you to share text messages, photos, screenshots, videos and other communicationsin the application with other users, and if you choose to do so your text messages, photos, screenshots,videos and other communications will be stored on our servers. In addition, if you choose to share theseitems with other users, we may not be able to remove them from our servers or make them unavailable toanyone you have shared them with. Sending and sharing text messages, photos, screenshots, videos orother communications in the application is your decision. By choosing to share that information, youshould understand that you may no longer be able to control how that information is used and that it maybecome publicly available (depending in part on your actions or the actions of others with whom you haveshared the information). We are not responsible for any use or misuse of information you share. Inaddition, in case your conversation partner reports your abusive behavior or language to us, then theconversation information such as voices, screenshots or contents of conversation which has been storedonly in your partner's device may be transferred to our servers. Such transferred information will beprocessed by us to ascertain the genuineness of the report and determine your penalty levels, if needed.
We may also collect and gather user contents (e.g., photos, screenshots, comments, and other materials)that you create on the Service. Your photo can be taken by other users on our services, and If they usecapturing function provided by us, those photos can be stored and used for our services and 3rd party’sservice (e.g. Facebook, etc.). If you do not agree with all the terms of this Privacy Policy, please donot use the Service. To complete a commerce transaction on shop, you will be requested to provide yourpayment information, including your credit card number, card expiration date, CVV code, and billingaddress. In that event, we will transmit your information securely directly to a third party vendor ormerchant who will collect such information in order to process and fulfill your purchase. We do notprocess or store your payment information. However, we may store other information about your purchasesmade on the Service, which may include the merchant’s name, the date, time and amount of the transactionand other behavioral information.
We also collect error-reporting information if the Service crashes or hangs up so that we can investigatethe error and improve the stability of the Service for future releases. In general these reports do notcontain personally identifiable information, or only incidentally. As part of these error reports, wereceive information about the type and version of your device, the device identifier, the time the erroroccurred, the feature being used and the state of the application when the error occurred. We do not usethis information for any purpose other than investigating and fixing the error.
We will not rent or sell your information to third parties without your consent, except as noted in thisPrivacy Policy.
Parties with whom we may share your information:
- We may share User Content and your information (including but not limited to, information from cookies,log files, device identifiers, location data, and usage data) with businesses that are legally part ofthe same group of companies that is part of, or that become part of that group ("Affiliates").Affiliates may use this information to help provide, understand, and improve the Service (including byproviding analytics) and Affiliates' own services (including by providing you with better and morerelevant experiences). But these Affiliates will honor the choices you make about who can see yourcontents.
- We also may share your information as well as information from tools like cookies, log files, anddevice identifiers and location data, with third-party organizations that help us provide the Service toyou ("Service Providers"). Our Service Providers will be given access to your information as isreasonably necessary to provide the Service under reasonable confidentiality terms.
- We may also share aggregate or anonymous information with third parties, including advertisers andinvestors. For example, we may tell our advertisers the number of users our app receives. Thisinformation does not contain any personal or personally identifiable information, and is used to developcontent and services that we hope you will find of interest.
- We may remove parts of data that can identify you and share anonymized data with other parties. We mayalso combine your information with other information in a way that it is no longer associated with youand share that aggregated information.
Parties with whom you may choose to share your User Content:
- Any information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to the Service, such as UserContent, becomes available to the public. With this feature, we can be protected from exhibitionism.Once you have shared User Content or made it public, that User Content may be re-shared by others.
- If you remove information and contents (e.g. Screenshots, etc.) that you created on the Service, copiesmay remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Service, or if other Users or third parties havecopied or saved that information (e.g. Facebook, etc.).
We use or may disclose your personal information only as follows:
- To verify your identity;
- To connect you with others as enabled by the Service;
- To share your Profile with others on the Service;
- To allow your use of certain features of the Service that may be offered from time to time (such asPremium Services (see our Terms of Use));
- To show you the names of persons you communicate with and to show your name to persons you communicatewith on the Service;
- To deliver to you any administrative notices, alerts and communications relevant to your use of theService;
- To provide you with relevant content that you requested, using information that you allow us tocollect from you or that you provide to a social media provider with which your account is connected,such as information regarding your and your contacts' respective locations;
- To contact you via email, SMS or otherwise for the purpose of informing you about new products,services or promotions offered by us (you can opt-out of such emails or SMS by sending an email tosupport@ausoco.com);
- For internal operations, including troubleshooting problems, data analysis, testing, research,improvements to the Service, detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other illegalactivity;
- When we have a good faith belief that the law, any legal process, law enforcement, national securityor issue of public importance requires disclosure;
- To protect and defend our rights or property (including to enforce our Terms of Use and otheragreements); or
- In connection with a corporate transaction involving us, such as the purchase or sale of a businessunit, an acquisition, merger, sale of assets, or other similar event.
The information you enter into your user profile (your “Profile”) may be shared with your contacts. Youcontrol your Profile and you can access and modify your Profile from the application at any time. Inaddition, if you register using your Facebook account (e.g. Facebook Connect), we may store yourFacebook ID and corresponding token on our servers and, if you give us your express consent, we willhave access to and may collect certain information that you make available on Facebook (for example,your first and last names, email address, profile picture, your friend lists and birthdays). YourProfile is available to other users of the Service who are connected to you on our applications. Inaddition, unless you opt-out, your Profile is discoverable by other users, including by way of examplein listings of contacts that will include your proximity to other users. You may also “block out” anyuser in your contact list from discovering your Profile at any time. In addition, we may pre-populateyour Profile with certain information such as your name and Facebook profile picture if you or yourfriends have logged onto the Service using Facebook.
You can always control what information you choose to share with us on the Service. To do so, you canchange your settings in the Service or in your mobile device. Alternatively, you can remove the Servicefrom your mobile device entirely.You can remove your data anytime you want. If you ask us to delete youraccount, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to remove your data from our servers.Any personallyidentifiable information that (i) you share in text messages, photos, videos or otherwise in or throughthe application with other users, or (ii) submit on a blog, bulletin board or chat room on our websiteor elsewhere, can be viewed and used by others, including to send you unsolicited messages or to commitidentity theft. We are not responsible for any use or misuse of your information that might result fromyour disclosure of information.
In certain instances, we may have contracts with third parties to provide products and/or services inconnection with the Service. In those cases, we may share your personal information with our third-partyservice providers, but only in connection with providing the services to you. For example, we may shareyour phone number or email with third party SMS and email providers to deliver the authentication SMS oremail to you when you register. We contractually require that these third parties use your informationsolely to deliver SMS or email to you and to use appropriate security measures to protect yourinformation. In addition, certain servers are owned and hosted by third party service providers. ThisPrivacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third party service providers.
If you accessed a website, product or service provided by a third party, including through the Service,such third party may also collect information about you. Please see the privacy policies of each suchthird party for more information about how they use the information they collect. This Privacy Policydoes not apply to any exchange of information between you and any third party.
We allow you to choose not to receive promotional email messages and its service providers. You mayopt-out by following instructions in the message sent by us or its service providers on how tounsubscribe from that particular mailing. You may also opt-out by contacting us at support@ausoco.com.
Protecting user privacy and personal information is a top priority for us. We make substantial efforts toensure the privacy of all personally identifiable information you provide to us. Access to allpersonally identifiable information is restricted to those employees, contractors, agents andthird-party service providers who need to know that information in order to provide, operate, develop,maintain, support or improve the Service. we use password protection, access logs, and system monitoringto safeguard the confidentiality and security of all member information. In addition, due to theinherent nature of the Internet and related technology, we do not guarantee the protection ofinformation under our control against loss, misuse or alteration.
Your Facial Data is purged one month after its creation. All Personal Information is stored on yourdevice. To erase this data, simply delete the app; this action is irreversible. In order to enhance ourservices and AI models, we may occasionally retain anonymized data, without any links to your identity,as a necessary part of our service delivery. Safety and privacy are paramount to us, and as such, wealso delete your Facial Data one month after its creation. Should you decide to remove the app and anyphotos generated by it, you can do so by deleting the app. Please be aware that all deletion actions arepermanent and cannot be undone once confirmed. Your account or specific models, all associatedinformation will be permanently purged from our system, ensuring your complete data removal.
The Service is not directed to children under the age of thirteen (13) and we do not knowingly collectpersonally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of the Service. Ifwe become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable information from a userunder the age of thirteen as part of the Service, we will delete such information from our records. Ifwe change our practices in the future, we will obtain prior, verifiable parental consent beforecollecting any personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part ofthe Service.
We reserve the right at our discretion to make changes to this Privacy Policy. You may review updates toour Privacy Policy at any time via links on our website. You agree to accept electronic communicationsand/or postings of a revised Privacy Policy on our website, and you agree that such electroniccommunications or postings constitute notice to you of the Privacy Policy. We reserve the right tomodify this policy from time to time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes tothis policy, we will notify you by publishing a revised Privacy Policy or by means of a notice on ourwebsite, or as required by law. You agree to review the Privacy Policy periodically so that you areaware of any modifications. You agree that your continued use of the Service after we publish a revisedPrivacy Policy or provide a notice on our website constitutes your acceptance of the revised PrivacyPolicy. If you do not agree with the terms of the Privacy Policy, you should not use the Service.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@ausoco.com. Anypersonally identifiable information provided in connection with inquiries related to this Privacy Policywill be used solely for the purpose of responding to the inquiry and consistent with our Privacy Policy.
This privacy policy was posted on July 1, 2020.