PRIVACY POLICY
Vybe Technology Inc. (hereinafter referenced as “we”,
“our”, “us” and “the Company”) is committed to safeguarding your privacy
by protecting your personal data in accordance with applicable laws. This Privacy Policy outlines how and
why we collect, use, share and protect your personal data.
About our Services
We are a business organization offering digitized services and solutions in the
dating and social interaction space across Africa through this application (“the Services”).
By accessing and using our application, you agree that your personal data will
be handled in the manner as described in this Policy.
Kindly read and understand the terms of this Policy carefully before using the
Services. In the event that you disagree in any way with the terms stated herein, you should not use or
access the Services. We shall take your continued use of the Services as your consent to this Policy and the
use and sharing of your information as provided herein.
CONTENTS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This policy entails:
- What information we use and how we collect same
- Use of your personal data
- Data protection principles
- Your rights regarding the use of your personal data
- Sharing your personal data
- Retention periods
- Data security and transfers
- Security of personal Information; and
- Changes.
- WHAT INFORMATION WE USE AND HOW WE COLLECT SAME
To satisfactorily provide the Services to you, we receive and store the information
you provide to us including your identity data, contact data, and financial data when you
interact with us on our application and/or access our Services. Such information is categorized as follows:
1.1 Personal Data
When you access our Services,
you complete forms and provide us with basic information about yourself, such as your name, date of birth,
phone number, physical address and email address. We collect such personal data in
order to provide and continually improve our Services. We may also collect, use, store and transfer your
personal data for marketing and personal data optimization purposes.
1.2 Technical
Information and Analytics
When you use our application, we may automatically collect the following
information where this is permitted by your device settings:
- technical information, including your IP address, your
login information, laptop and operating system type and version, browser version (where applicable),
your time zone setting, and your location (based on IP address).
- information about your site visit, including services you
viewed or used, our response times, interaction information (such as button presses) and any phone
number used to call our customer service number. Cookies and similar technologies may be used to collect
this information, such as your interactions with our Services.
1.3 We may also collect any
other relevant information upon obtaining your consent in that regard.
- USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The purposes for which we use your personal data
are detailed below.
- To offer and provide you with our Services and to support our
business functions.
- To register your account, fulfill your requests for Services and
communicate with you about such requests.
- To respond to reviews, comments, or other feedback you provide
us.
- As may be necessary to establish, exercise, and defend legal
rights.
- To evaluate and improve our business, including developing new
products and services.
- To provide, administer, and communicate with you about products,
services, offers, programmes, and promotions of our Services.
- To enforce our Terms of Use and Conditions, and to prevent and
combat fraud.
- To contact you or send you marketing content and communication
about our products, services, or surveys. You may exercise your right to object to such contact from us
or opt out from the marketing content. Please note however that if you opt out of marketing content, we
may still send you messages relating to transactions and our services related to our ongoing business
relationship.
- To help us personalize our Service offerings in order to improve
your experience on the application, and to protect the security and integrity of our Services.
- Third party processing.
- DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES
- We shall ensure that your data is:
- processed in accordance with specific, legitimate and lawful
purposes;
- stored only for the period within which it is reasonably
needed;
- reasonably secured against foreseeable hazards and breaches such as
theft, cyberattacks, unauthorized dissemination, disruptions, damages and/or manipulations of any kind;
and
- We shall not be liable for any breach which occurs due to no fault
of ours.
- YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING THE USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
You have rights under applicable data protection laws in relation to your
personal data, including the right:
- To withdraw consent to the processing of your data at any time,
without affecting the lawfulness of processing of your
information which you previously consented to. Note that
if you revoke your consent
to such processing, we will be unable to provide you with the Service(s) for which such consent is
required. Such withdrawal of consent can be in the form of closing your account, withdrawing already
granted permissions or by uninstalling the application.
- To restrict the use of your personal data pending a determination as
to the overriding nature of the legitimate grounds in 4.1 above.
- To request for the deletion of your personal data, subject to any
overriding legitimate grounds for the use of same, such as our obligation to store your personal
information and company details for prescribed periods of time.
- To request for, and receive free of charge, any information
regarding you which has been collected on the application, in concise & intelligible written form;
provided that where such request is determined by us to be manifestly unfounded or excessive, we shall
be entitled to charge a reasonable fee for same, taking into consideration, inter alia the administrative costs of providing such
information.
- To contest the accuracy of your personal information, and to procure
the rectification of any inaccurate information.
- SHARING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may share your personal data as follows
- We may share your personal data with members of our corporate group
and our partners to aid the optimal delivery of our Services to you.
- We may share your personal data with companies we have hired to
provide services on our behalf, including those who act as data processors on our behalf, acting
strictly under contract in accordance with applicable data protection laws. Those data processors are
bound by strict confidentiality and data security provisions, and they can only use your data in the
ways specified by us.
- We may share your personal data with other users of the application,
when you disclose any such information, including your user profile.
- We may share with our commercial partners aggregated data that does
not personally identify you, but which shows general trends, for example, the number of users of our
Services.
- We may preserve or disclose information about you to comply with a
law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to assert legal rights or defend against legal
claims; or to prevent, detect, or investigate illegal activity, fraud, abuse, violations of our terms,
or threats to the security of our Services or the physical safety of any person.
- RETENTION PERIODS
We will retain your data for as long as your account exists. Upon closure of your
account, we will retain your personal data in accordance with national and international best
practices.
However, we may retain records for a longer period as required by law or
regulation.
- DATA SECURITY
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated
securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. Your data may be processed or stored via destinations
outside of the United States (e.g. where we work with third parties who help deliver our Services to you,
whose servers may be located outside of the United States), but always in accordance with applicable data
protection laws, including mechanisms to lawfully transfer data across borders, and subject to strict
safeguards.
- SECURITY OF PERSONAL DATA
Where you have chosen a password that enables you to access our application, you
are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share the password with
anyone.
Despite our very judicious efforts, you understand and accept that there is still
a risk to your personal data being gained access to without authorisation due to the fact that there is no
full guarantee of fidelity as per information transmitted across the internet. You are however advised to
adhere to our security protocols at all times. We will not be liable for any unauthorized access to your
personal information, save to the extent that such access is as a result of the willful negligence of the
Company.
- CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may modify this Policy from time to time without notice to you. To make sure
you are aware of any changes, please review this policy periodically. You agree to be bound by the changes
where you continue to use our Services after the changes have been made and we have duly notified you of
them.
- INQUIRIES
If you have any further questions about how we process your information, or
if you would like to exercise any of your rights regarding your personal information as set out above,
please contact us through our Data Protection Officer, using the details below:
Email address: support@appvybe.com
Post: 651 N Broad Street, Suite 206, Middletown, Delaware, USA