This Privacy Policy describes the information that emonster, inc. (“we”, “our,” or “us”) collects from users of the emonster mobile application (the “App”) (collectively, the “Service”) and how this information will be used and disclosed. By accessing the Service, you expressly consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy and to the Terms of Service (“TOS”).
If you do not consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy or our TOS, you should immediately stop visiting or using the Service.
If you are located outside of the United States, please note that the Website is hosted on our computer servers in the United States. Therefore, your information may be processed and stored in the United States. As a result, United States federal and state governments, courts, or law enforcement or regulatory agencies may be able to obtain disclosure of your information through laws applicable in the United States. Your use of the Service or your submission of any information to us will constitute your consent to the transfer of your information outside of your home country, including the United States, which may provide for different data protection rules than in your country.
Information We Collect
- You may voluntarily provide us with information, including:
- Your name, email address, age, profile name, profile photo, height, weight, occupation, personal interests, and a password that you create to register to use the Service;
- Information you provide when you contact us (for example, regarding support or employment opportunities); and
- Any other information you voluntarily provide us with in registering and using the Service.
- We automatically collect other information about you, including:
- An identifier that is unique to the device on which you install the App and some device identifiers may be persistent device identifiers, as well as certain software and hardware information about your device;
- Your Internet Protocol (IP) address;
- Domain name of your Internet service provider;
- Your geographic location;
- The Service pages that you visit and the date and time of your visits; and
- Aggregated information that cannot be used to specifically identify you when you visit or use the Service.
- We may combine any of the information we collect from or about you and use it in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.
- We may supplement any of the information we collect from or about you with other information.
Use of Your Information
We use the information that we collect for the following purposes, including:
- The purposes for which you provided it;
- To identify you as a user of the Service;
- To improve the Service, including personalizing the Service by presenting content and promotional information and recommendations tailored to you (please see Information We Collect above);
- To develop new services;
- To provide the services you request, including the Service;
- To respond to your inquiries related to support, employment opportunities or other requests;
- To contact you with information, including promotional information and recommendations, that we believe will be of interest to you;
- To create anonymous data, which we may use for any purpose;
- To analyze the Service;
- To compile aggregate data for internal and external business purposes;
- To run advertising via our advertising display partners on third party websites and mobile applications;
- To prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft and otherwise protect users and our business;
- To administer and troubleshoot the Service; and
- As otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy or our TOS.
How Your Information is Disclosed
Information may be disclosed to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Anonymous data may be disclosed to third parties. Please note that a user may choose not to share certain information. Please see Your Choices Regarding Your Information below.
- Profile. The name and profile of a user of the Service, as well as whether the user is online, may be visible to other users. DO NOT INCLUDE INFORMATION IN YOUR PROFILE THAT YOU WANT TO KEEP PRIVATE. App users can use the search feature in the App to search for other users by different profile criteria, like profile name, age, height, weight, geographic location, or personal interests. Your profile information will be used for these searches. The App user interface may include a feature to make certain items of profile information non-public. However, even if you choose to make non-public certain items of your profile information if and as permitted by the user interface, sophisticated users who use the App in an unauthorized manner may nevertheless be able to obtain this information. The App may include a feature that allows you to designate certain users as “Favorites” or “Blocked”. Generally, this designation is only viewable by you; however, sophisticated users who use the App in an unauthorized manner may be able to determine which users you have designated as Blocked. YOU HEREBY CONSENT TO THE DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PROFILE INFORMATION AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
- User Submissions. A user of the Service may voluntarily provide content and materials (such as pictures, reviews, ratings, ideas, notes, concepts, or creative suggestions) from themself and other users ("User Submissions") to the Service. We make no representations and undertake no obligations as to the security or use of information you voluntarily include when providing User Submissions. Before submitting content, please read our TOS and Profile Guidelines carefully.
We reserve the right to remove any such content for any reason or no reason, including without limitation if in our sole opinion such information or material violates, or may violate, any applicable law or our TOS, Profile Guidelines or End User License Agreement or to protect or defend our rights or property or those of any third party. We also reserve the right to remove information upon the request of any third party.
- Distance Information. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN YOU USE THE APP, AS A DEFAULT, INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DISTANCE FROM OTHER USERS IS PUBLIC AND OTHER USERS OF THE APP CAN SEE THIS INFORMATION WITHIN YOUR PROFILE. App users can use the search feature in the App to search for other users by distance. Information about your distance from other users will be used for these searches. This information is public, but the App may include a feature to hide or change the accuracy of this information. However, even if you choose to hide the display of this information, sophisticated users who use the App in an unauthorized manner may nevertheless be able to determine your location. YOU HEREBY CONSENT TO THE DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DISTANCE FROM OTHER USERS AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
- Third Party Service Providers and Business Partners. We may use third party service providers and business partners to provide the Service or to perform functions in connection with the Service, including without limitation, monitoring compliance by users with and enforcement of our Profile Guidelines. We may share information about you that they need to perform their functions, but they may not use it for other purposes. For example, we share your device identifier and demographic information with our advertising display and analytics partners. Our advertising display partners may use this information to run advertising campaigns on third party websites and mobile applications. These third parties may also collect information directly from you and about you from third party sources (including without limitation, third party mobile applications). Please see Cookies, Web Beacons, Persistent Device Identifiers, Advertising Identifiers, Do Not Track and Other Technologies below. YOU HEREBY CONSENT TO THE DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION FROM YOU AND ABOUT YOU AS DESCRIBED ABOVE AND HEREIN.
- Third Parties for Their Promotional Purposes. We may share your information with third parties for their promotional purposes. Please see Your Choices Regarding Your Information below.
- Business Changes. If we become involved in a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, joint venture, securities offering, bankruptcy, reorganization, liquidation, dissolution, or other transaction or if the ownership of all or substantially all of our business otherwise changes, we may share or transfer your information to a third party or parties in connection therewith.
- Affiliates. We may also share your information with our affiliates for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy. Our affiliates will be required to maintain that information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
- Investigations and Law. Regardless of any choices you make regarding your information (as described below), we may disclose information about you to third parties to:
- Enforce or apply our TOS, Profile Guidelines or End User License Agreement.
- Comply with law, in response to subpoenas, warrants, or court orders, or in connection with any legal process or cooperate with government or law enforcement officials or private parties.
- Establish or exercise our rights to defend against legal claims.
- Protect against legal liability.
- To investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected illegal activities, suspected fraud, the rights, reputation, safety or property of us, users or others, violation of our TOS, Profile Guidelines, policies or agreements or as otherwise required by law.
- Protect our rights, reputation, safety, and property, or that of users or others.
- Aggregated Information. We may share aggregated information relating to visitors to and users of the Service with affiliated or unaffiliated third parties.
- Cookies, Web Beacons, Persistent Device Identifiers, Advertising Identifiers, Do Not Track and Other Technologies. Please see Cookies, Web Beacons, Persistent Device Identifiers, Advertising Identifiers, Do Not Track and Other Technologies below.
Cookies, Web Beacons, Persistent Device Identifiers, Advertising Identifiers, Do Not Track and Other Technologies
We, along with our third party service partners and business partners, use cookies, Web beacons, persistent device identifiers, advertising identifiers and other technologies. These technologies are used for tracking, advertising, analytics and personalization and optimization of the Service.
- Cookies. Cookies are small bits of information that are transferred to and stored in separate files within your computer’s browser. You can instruct your browser to stop accepting cookies. But if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use all portions or all functionality of the Service.
- Persistent cookies remain on the visitor’s computer after the browser has been closed.
- Session cookies exist only during a visitor’s online session and disappear from the visitor’s computer when they close the browser software.
- Web Beacons. Web beacons are small strings of code that provide a method for delivering a graphic image on a Web page or in an email message for the purpose of transferring data. You can disable the ability of Web beacons to capture information by blocking cookies.
- Persistent Device Identifiers. Persistent device identifiers are unique strings that are associated with the mobile device that you use to connect to the Service. Persistent device identifiers may be modified or disabled by sophisticated users.
- Advertising Identifiers. Advertising identifiers are unique strings associated with your mobile device provided by the operating system. Advertising identifiers may be modified or disabled by users in the operating system settings. Please see Do Not Track below for more information about how to configure these settings.
Third parties may collect personally identifiable information about an individual user's online activities over time and across different websites when a user uses the Service.
Below are links to resources for opting out of different types of online tracking and targeting.
Google Analytics collects information anonymously and reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. Google Analytics uses its own cookie to track visitor interactions. Website owners can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so they can improve their website and how people find it. Google’s privacy policy applies to their collection, use and disclosure of your information.
Ads appearing on the Service may be delivered to users by our advertising partners, who may set cookies, persistent device identifiers and advertising identifiers. These cookies, persistent device identifiers and advertising identifiers allow the ad server to recognize your computer or mobile device each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer or mobile device. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you.
We use Google Analytics to better understand who is using the Service, and how people are using it. Each of Google Analytics use cookies and persistent device identifiers to collect and store such information as time of visit, pages visited, time spent on each page of the Website, IP address, and type of operating system used. We use this information to improve the Service and make it appealing to as many users as possible.
Do Not Track
At this time, we do not respond to "do not track" signals sent from Web browsers.
Apple iOS and Google Android devices provide the ability for users to enable a "do not track" setting that disables your advertising identifier. If the “do not track” setting is disabled, we may record when a user installs the App, and whether or not this action was the result of a tap on an ad outside of the App. We may also run targeted advertising on third party applications via our advertising display partners. For users who have enabled the "do not track" setting in iOS or Android, this data will not be collected.
Please note that the “do not track” setting may not be available on all operating systems or versions of the App. The “do not track” settings requires iOS 6 or greater, or Google Play Services 4.0 or greater.
We may update these instructions periodically as new information becomes available from Apple, Google, and other Operating System manufacturers.
Security
We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100 percent secure. While we use reasonable efforts to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Third Party Websites
When you click on a link to any other website or location, you will leave the Website and go to another website and another entity may collect information or anonymous data from or about you. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these third party websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to these third party websites or content, or to any collection of data after you click on links to these third party websites.
Your Choices Regarding Your Information
You have choices regarding the use of your information on the Service.
- Changing Your Information and Privacy Settings. You may make changes to your information, including keeping your information accurate as well as your privacy settings, by editing your profile in the App. You may request deletion of your information by us, but please note that we may be legally required to keep this information and not delete it (or to keep this information for a certain time, in which case we will comply with your deletion request only after we have fulfilled such requirements). When we delete any information, it may be deleted from the active database, but could remain in our archives. Please note that we retain User Submissions (for example, your messages) in our archives and that User Submissions may be accessible by other users of the Service even after you have requested deletion of your information by us.
- Email Communications. When you receive promotional email communications from us, you can indicate a preference to stop receiving promotional email communications from us by following the “unsubscribe” instructions in a promotional email communication from us. However, we may send you email communications relating to the Service.
- Social Networking. You should make sure you are comfortable with the information that a third party social networking service may make available to us by visiting the service’s privacy policy and by modifying your privacy settings directly on that service.
- Cookies, Web Beacons, Persistent Device Identifiers, Advertising Identifiers, Do Not Track and Other Technologies. Please see Cookies, Web Beacons, Persistent Device Identifiers, Advertising Identifiers, Do Not Track and Other Technologies above.
Children
We do not knowingly collect personal information from individuals under age 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any personal information through the Service. If you have reason to believe that we may have accidentally received personal information from an individual under age 18, please contact us immediately at support@anitalk.app
Changes to Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time without prior notice. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically, and especially before you provide any information. This Privacy Policy was made effective on the date indicated above.
Contact Information
Please contact us with your comments or questions regarding this Privacy Policy at support@anitalk.app