Effective Date: June 6th, 2023
Your ("the User") privacy is in the forefront of our minds here at Partial Platforms ("the Company") as we develop our Android mobile application ("the App", "our App"). This privacy policy document ("the privacy policy", "our privacy policy") aims to provide transparency regarding how the data that we acquire through your usage of the App ("your Data") is managed, handled and otherwise used by the App as well as by the Company as a whole.
If any aspect of this policy is unclear or if you have any questions regarding how we use your Data, you can reach us via email at admin@partial.chat
1.1 Personal Identifiable Information (PII): We may collect personally identifiable information from you when you use the App. Below is a list of the information we collect, why we collect it and how it is permitted to be used by way of registering for, and/or logging in to an account on the App.
- Email Address: Your email address may be collected in order to limit the ability of individuals to create an endless number of accounts. The only use of your email address may be to send you a validation code which is used to verify your ownership of the aforementioned email address.
- Phone Number: Your phone number is collected in order to limit the ability of individuals to create an endless number of accounts. The only use of your phone number is to send you a validation code which is used to verify your ownership of the aforementioned phone number.
- Date of Birth: Your date of birth is collected for analytics purposes as well as to restrict the usage of the App from individuals under our lowest permissible age as defined in our terms of service.
1.2 Semi-Personal Identifiable Information (Semi-PII): We may collect Data from you that contains Personal identifiable information unbeknownst to the Company. The following pieces of Data do not need to contain PII, it is at the discretion of the User.
- Profile Photo: Your profile photo will be visible within the App to other user's with whom you are friends, meaning you have added the user as a friend within the app and/or have accepted their friend request within the App ("Friends"). User's of the App with whom you are not Friends, will not be shown your Profile Photo within the App. Whether your photo is of you is at your sole discretion and is in no way required. The Company reserves the right to use your uploaded photo in machine learning algorithms as the Company deems useful.
- IP Address: Your IP address may be used within internal logs of the Company in order to trace user activity and to improve the performance of the App's network switching ability, making sure your experience when connecting to and disconnecting from the internet is seamless. This data may also be used to detect if a user of the App has been banned from signing in to the App and has signed in to a different account. The Company reserves the right to anonymously share your IP address with third party companies with the intention of gaining an approximate, this location will never be shared with anyone, with the exception of a legal requirement, and will be used to improve advertisements and content recommendation on the platform. Your IP will never be visible to other users of the App.
- Display Name: The Display Name collected will be the name of the user within the App, which will be visible to Friends on the App. Your Display Name will not be visible to users on the App with whom you are not Friends. Your Display Name does not need to identify your personal identity, what you make your Display Name is up to you.
- Location: We may collect your location via your manual input or IP address in order to monitor how the App is spreading geographically and to better recommend you content within the App.
1.3 Non-Personal Identifiable Information:
- Password: We collect a password for login purposes in order to secure your account. Your password is encrypted before being stored using modern encryption techniques. Despite our best efforts to keep your password secure we still recommend not re-using a password that you are actively using elsewhere. In the case of a data breach, by accepting this privacy policy, you waive any responsibility or culpability of the Company in the unintentional exposure of the password.
1.4 User Activity:
1.4.1 Public Activity: Public activity includes but may not be limited to the following:
- Opinion posted: this may be viewed by any user of the App.
- Content posted on your profile page, or a user bio: this may be viewed by anyone with whom you are Friends on the App.
- Votes on opinions: non-incognito votes can be seen by your Friends on the App.
Your public identity will be private with respect to all of the items in the list above, except to your Friends. If you are not Friends with the user, they will not see any of your PII, those users will see either a randomly generated identifier for you or a name that you choose on a per-public-chat basis.
1.4.2 Private Activity: Private activity includes but may not be limited to the following:
- Friendships: friends added/requested or friend requests requested or declined. This information is only visible to yourself and the other user involved. This information is used by the Company to recommend content within the App.
- Time relating to usage: For analytics purposes we may collect info regarding when you use the App and for how long. This will help the Company better understand how the App is being used and how it can be improved to better serve the users.
- Incognito votes: will be used for post vote count sums and content recommendations, this data will not be shown to any user in any identifiable way.
2.1 Data Storage: We do our best to store all user data in a secure manner on secure servers. The Company cannot guarantee that your Data is 100% safe. All data collected via the App is stored in an encrypted manner but can be viewed in an unencrypted state by the Company, with the exception of the Password which is not visible to anyone including the Company after the signup is complete. Use your best discretion when entering Data into the App. We will continue to evolve our security practices and technology to more securely protect your Data.
2.2 Data Security and Transmission: Data transmitted through the App is done via an encrypted TLS connection which provides a high level of protection against your Data being intercepted on the way to our servers and readable by an individual outside of the Company. With that said, no data transmitted over the internet is 100% secure, we make no guarantees regarding data security but will do our best to constantly improve our security practices to better protect your data. Once data reaches our servers it is stored in an encrypted manner..
We do not share any Data with any third party companies or individuals, without a legal requirement to do so from law enforcement or other public authorities.
As the Company grows we aspire to provide flexible and rich data access tools but at this time we are unable to provide a means of deleting or editing your data aside from what is available in the app directly. If you feel there is an urgent need for either of these actions, you may contact us at admin@partial.chat and we will do our best to assist you at our own discretion.
If you wish to have your account removed from our platform, you may contact us at admin@partial.chat and we will do our best to assist you as per the laws and regulations of countries in which the Company operates.
We the Company reserve the rights to change this privacy policy from time to time, any changes to this privacy policy will be effective immediately upon being available on this page. We intend to uphold a high standard of data transparency and will continue to look out for the best interests of our users. We recommend checking this page regularly for changes and updates.
You can contact us via email about any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy.
admin@partial.chat