to Veetok's Privacy Policy. Thank you for taking the time to review it.We appreciate that you trust us with your information and we intend to always live up to your trust. So let's understand what information we collect, what we collect it for, how we use it and what choices you have regarding the use of your information. This Policy describes our privacy practices in simple language, with a minimum use of legal and technical terms.
This Privacy Policy applies to websites, applications, events and other services provided by Veetok. For convenience, we will refer to all of these as "services" in this Privacy Policy. To make this clearer to you, we have added links to this Privacy Policy on all relevant services.
Some services may have their own privacy policies. If any service has its own policy, the policy of the service will apply and not this Privacy Policy.
It goes without saying that we cannot help you get to know each other unless we have some information about you, such as basic profile information and characteristics of the people you want to meet. We also collect information about your use of our services, such as traffic logs and information from third parties, such as when you access our services through a social media account or when you upload social media information to your profile. We will explain more about this below.
The information you provide to usWhen you use our services, you provide us with certain information. This includes the following:
Information we receive from others
In addition to the information you provide to us directly, we also receive information about you from others:
Users Other users may share information about you when you use our services, such as when you communicate with us or make a complaint about you.
Social Media You may choose to share information with us through your social media account, for example if you choose to register and sign into your Veetok account through your social media or other account (such as Facebook, Google or Apple) or upload information, such as photos, from one of your social media accounts (such as Instagram or Spotify) to our services.
Our partners We may receive information about you from our partners, such as when we publish Veetok ads on our partner services (in this case, they may share information about the success of the advertising campaign). Where permitted by law, we may also receive information from third parties about suspected or verified dishonest users to ensure the safety of our users.
Information collected when you use our services
When you use our services, we collect technical information about which features you used, how you used them, and which devices you used to access our services. Learn more about this below:
Usage data When you interact with the services, we record data about how you use them: how you use them (the date and time you log in, the features you use, the actions you take, the information shown to you, the addresses of pages you clicked on, the ads you click on) and how you communicate with other users (for example, the users you contact and interact with, the time and date of contact, the number of messages you receive and send).
Device Information We collect information about the devices you use to access our services, including hardware and software information such as IP address, device ID and type, application settings and characteristics, application crashes, advertising IDs (randomly generated numbers that you can reset in your device settings), IDs associated with cookies or other technologies that can uniquely identify a device or browser.
Other Information Provided with Your Consent With your permission, we may determine your exact location (latitude and longitude). Location data may be collected in the background, even when you are not using the Services, if you have given us permission to collect this information. If you do not give us permission to collect your exact location information, we will not collect this information. With your consent, we may also collect your photos and videos (for example, after you post photos, videos or live streaming on one of our services).
We use and may allow others to use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, pixels) to recognize you and your devices. You can read our Cookie Policy to learn more about why we use them and how you can control their use.
Some browsers (including Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome) have a "Do Not Track" ("DNT") feature that tells a site that the user does not want their online activity tracked. If a site that responds to the DNT signal receives a DNT signal, your browser can block it from collecting certain information about the browser user. Not all browsers support the DNT option, and DNT signals have not yet been unified. For this reason, many companies, including Veetok, do not currently respond to DNT signals. 4. How we use information
The main reason we use your information is to provide and improve our services. We also use it for security purposes and to display advertisements that may be of interest to you. Below we detail the reasons why we use your information and provide examples.
А. To manage your account and provide services
B. For your communication with other users
Recommend you to other members for introductions. Show user profiles to each other.С. To provide you with new Veetok services
D. To manage advertising and marketing campaigns
Organize giveaways and contests, provide discounts or other offers.
To run and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns on our services and Veetok marketing campaigns on third-party services.
E. To improve our services and develop new ones
Manage focus groups, market research and surveys.
To study customer service interactions to improve service quality.
Analyze user behavior in services to improve them (e.g., we may redesign or completely redesign a feature based on user actions).
Develop new features and services (e.g., we may create a new interest-based feature as a result of requests received from users).
F. To prevent, detect and combat fraud and other illegal or unauthorized activities
G. To ensure legal compliance
We rely on the following legal framework to process your information as described in this Privacy Policy:
Providing our service to you: the reason we process your information for purposes A, B and C above is to comply with the terms of the agreement we have with you. For example, as you use our dating service, we use your information to maintain your account and profile, to make them available for other users to view and recommend other users to you, and to provide you and other users with free and paid features.
Legitimate interests: we process your information for purposes D, E and F above in accordance with our legitimate interests. For example, we analyze user behavior on our services to continually improve our products, make suggestions we think might interest you, market our services, and process information to ensure your safety, enforce your rights when necessary, assist law enforcement agencies, and protect ourselves in the event of a lawsuit.
Compliance with Applicable Laws and Regulations: We process your information for Purpose G above as necessary to comply with applicable laws and regulations, and to demonstrate compliance with applicable laws and regulations. For example, we retain traffic and transaction data in accordance with our accounting, tax and other statutory data retention obligations in order to be able to respond to requests from law enforcement agencies. We also retain data about users' consent and their decisions to opt out of any features or data processing.
Consent: If you choose to provide us with information that may be considered "sensitive" or "confidential" in certain jurisdictions, such as your sexual orientation, you consent to the processing of such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We may from time to time request your consent to collect specific information, or to use your information for certain purposes. In some cases, you may withdraw your consent by changing your preferences or deleting your content (for example, if you have added information to your profile that may be deemed "sensitive" or "confidential"). In all cases, you can always withdraw your consent by contacting us at the address listed at the end of this Privacy Policy.
Because our goal is to help you get to know each other, the main information we share is with other users.
You share information with other users when you voluntarily disclose information on the service (including a public profile). Be careful and make sure you are comfortable posting such content.
If you choose to limit the audience for all or part of your profile, for certain content or information about you, it will be displayed according to your settings.
If someone files a complaint against, we may inform that person of the action taken in connection with their complaint.
We use third parties to operate and improve our services. These third parties help us with various tasks, including hosting and maintenance, analytics, customer service, marketing, advertising, payment processing, and security operations. We may also provide information to partners who distribute and help us promote our services. For example, we may provide limited information about you to advertising partners in a hashed, human-readable format.
We conduct a rigorous background check before engaging a service provider or working with an affiliate. All of our service providers and partners must agree to strict confidentiality obligations.
You may share other users' profiles and they may share yours outside of our services.
We may share your information if we are involved, in whole or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, split, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy or other ownership or management change.
We may disclose your information as necessary to: (i) to comply with court orders, such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, to assist in a government/law enforcement investigation, or to comply with other legal requirements; (ii) to assist in the prevention or detection of crime (in each case according to applicable law); or (iii) to protect the safety of the user.
We may also share information: (i) if disclosure would decrease our liability in an actual or perceived claim; (ii) as necessary to protect our legal rights and the legal rights of our users, business partners or other stakeholders; (iii) to enforce our agreements with you; and (iv) to investigate, prevent or take other actions regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud or other violations.
We may ask for your consent to share your information with third parties. In that case, we will explain why we want to share the information.
We may use and share non-personally identifiable information (that is, information that does not itself identify who you are, such as device information, general demographic information, general behavioral data, geodata in an impersonal form) and personal information in hashed, human-readable form in any of the above circumstances. We may combine this information with additional non-personal information or personal information in hashed, human-readable form collected from other sources.
The provision of the information set forth in Section 6 involves the cross-border transfer of data to the United States and other jurisdictions in which different data processing laws may apply. When transferring personal information outside of the EEA, the United Kingdom, Switzerland or other countries whose data protection laws are recognized as appropriate by the European Commission or other competent authority, we use standard contractual terms (standard contractual terms are the privacy and data security obligations of companies when transferring personal information) or other appropriate data transfer mechanism. We are currently reviewing how we transfer data to our suppliers and the relevant legal framework in accordance with the recent European Union decision on the transfer of personal data to the United States.
We want you to have control over your information, so we remind you that you have the following tools:
We want you to be aware of your privacy rights. Here are a few key points
For your protection and the security of all our users, we may ask you to confirm your identity before we can respond to the above requests.
Please note that we may decline requests, including if we cannot verify your identity, if the request is unlawful, or if it may violate the trade secrets, intellectual property, or privacy of other users. If you wish to obtain information about another user, such as copies of communications received from them or through our service, the other user must contact our Privacy Officer to provide their written consent before the information is shared. We may also ask the user to confirm their identity in order to fulfill the request.
In addition, we may not be able to accommodate certain requests with an objection to the processing of personal information, especially in cases where such requests would prevent us from providing our services to you. For example, you will not be able to use the service if we do not have your date of birth and we are unable to verify that you are over the age of 18.
In some countries, including the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority if you have concerns about how we process your personal information. You can find information about the data protection authority in the EEA here and in the UK here. You can make a complaint to the data protection authority where you live, work or where the alleged breach occurs.
We only retain your personal information for as long as we need it for legitimate business purposes (as set out in Section 5) and within the limits of applicable law. If you decide to stop using our services, you may delete your account and your profile will no longer be visible to other users. Once your account is closed, we will delete your personal information as outlined below:
1. To ensure the protection and safety of our users, we retain data for three months after an account is deleted or for one year after it is blocked. During this period, we retain your information in case we need to investigate illegal or malicious activity. The retention of information during this period is based on our legitimate interests as well as the interests of possible third party victims.
2. At the end of the retention period, for security purposes, we will delete your information and retain only limited information for the purposes set out below:
Our services are only available to users 18 years of age or older. We do not allow anyone under the age of 18 to use our platform. If you suspect that a user is under 18 years of age, use the complaint function.
We process personal information of job seekers, contractors and supplier representatives as part of our recruitment and human resources operations and as part of the management of services provided by our contractors and suppliers. If you are a Veetok applicant, contractor or supplier representative, certain terms of this Privacy Policy apply to our processing of your personal information.
If you are a job seeker, the personal information we process about you may vary depending on the job opening you desire, but generally includes what you provide us in your job application, as well as professional qualifications, background and reference information provided to us by recruiters or others. We use this information to organize the hiring process that may lead to an employment contract. We may process contractor and supplier representative identifiers and information related to their employment as necessary to manage our relationship with you and your employer. We require such information to execute a service agreement and to file, perform or defend against possible legal claims. We may share personal information with service providers who assist us with recruitment and technical data processing. Personal information is only stored for as long as necessary to fulfill those purposes.
We are always looking for new and innovative ways to help you get to know each other and we aim to provide up-to-date information about our approach to data processing, so this Policy may change over time. We will alert you before any material changes take effect so that you have time to review them.