This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how GF-Soft and its related companies (“we,” or “us,” or “Company”) collect, use and share personal information of users of the GF-Soft’s applications (“App”), websites (the “Site”) and other services provided by the Company (the App, the Site, and such services shall be collectively referred to as the “Service”). This Policy also applies to any of our other mobile applications or websites that post this Policy. This Policy does not apply to websites that post different statements.
WHAT WE COLLECT
We get information about you in a range of ways.
- Information You Give Us. We collect the information you directly give us, such as your voice recording provided via the App, and your name, email address, phone number, password, login credentials to your social network accounts, and demographic information. Information That Is Aggregated. “Aggregate data” are data we collect about a group or category of features, services or individuals, from which individual identities have been removed. For example, information about how you use a feature may be collected and combined with information about how others use the same feature, without any personal information included in the resulting data.
- Information We Get from Others. We may get information about you from other sources. We may add this to information we get from the Service. We allow you to access third-party services, such as Facebook and Twitter, to import information about who you are connected with on those other services so you can connect with them on the Service. Some of those third party services may also provide us with information from your accounts there to enhance and personalize your use of the Service; you may modify your privacy settings with those other services directly.
- Information Automatically Collected. We automatically log information about you and your device. For example, when you visit Site, we log your computer operating system type, browser type, browser language, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times, Internet protocol (IP) address, and information about your use of and actions on Site.
- Cookies. We may log information using “cookies.” Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a website. Cookies help us make our Service and your visit better. We use cookies to see which parts of our Service people use and like and to count visits to our Service.
- Web Beacons. We may log information using digital images called Web beacons on our Service or in our emails. We use Web beacons to manage cookies, count visits, and to learn what marketing works and what does not. We also use Web beacons to tell if you open or act on our emails.
- Public Content. You can contribute to the Service in a number of different ways that are intended to be viewed by other users, including writing reviews, uploading videos and photos, participating in forums, tagging products, filling out your public profile, and voting on other users’ contributions. We may store these contributions (your “Public Content”), display them to other users, and use them for promotional purposes. Note that if you include personally identifiable information in your Public Content, it can be used and viewed by others. We are not responsible for the information you choose to include in your Public Content.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use your personal information as follows:
- To operate, maintain, and improve our (and out partners) sites, products, and services.
- To find and connect with your or your friends.
- To provide custom, personalized advertisements, content, and information.
- To let your friends, know about your activity on Service.
- To monitor and analyze usage and trends, and to personalize and improve Service and your experiences when you use Service.
- To respond to comments and questions and provide customer service.
- To send information including confirmations, invoices, technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
- To protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity.
- To communicate about promotions, upcoming events, and other news about products and services offered by us and our selected partners.
SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may share personal information as follows:
- We may share personal information with your friends on Service.
- We may share your personal information with companies who may offer you products and services.
- We may share personal information with certain social networking services if you allow such sharing through our services.
- We may share personal information with your consent. For example, you may let us share personal information with others for their own marketing uses. Those uses will be subject to their privacy policies.
- We may share personal information for legal, protection, and safety purposes.
- We may share information to comply with laws.
- We may share information to respond to lawful requests and legal processes.
- We may share information to protect the rights and property of the Company. our agents, customers, and others. This includes enforcing our agreements, policies, and terms of use.
- We may share information in an emergency. This includes protecting the safety of our employees and agents, our customers, or any person.
- We may share information with those who need it to do work for us.
- If you post Public Content on the Site or the App, we may distribute such Public Content to a wider audience by sharing it (or portions of it) with third parties so that they can publish it on their own websites and media platforms. We allow you to access third-party services, such as Facebook and Twitter, to share your selected Public Content with those services.
- We may share personal information if and when we negotiate a transaction involving the sale or transfer of all or a part of our business or assets. These transactions can include any merger, financing, acquisition, or bankruptcy transaction or proceeding.
- We may share your voice records without personification.
We may share aggregate data with interested third parties to assist them in understanding the interest and usage patterns for certain information, products, services, data, content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the Service.
INFORMATION CHOICES AND CHANGES
Our marketing emails tell you how to “opt-out.” If you opt out, we may still send you non-marketing emails. Non-marketing emails include emails about your accounts and our business dealings with you. You may send requests about the personal information to our Contact Information below. You can request to change contact choices, opt-out of our sharing with others, and update your personal information. You can typically remove and reject cookies from our Service with your browser settings. Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings. If you remove or reject our cookies, it could affect how our Service works for you.
ADVERTISING AND REMARKETING
We may allow other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the Site or the App. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements, and links that appear on the Site. They automatically receive your IP Address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize their advertising content. Further, these advertisers may also serve ads to you on other websites (including ads for our products and services) based on information collected from you while using the Site. For example, we may use Google’s “remarketing” service to target our ads to you based on your prior use of the Site or the App when you visit on other sites in Google’s content network. You should be aware that advertisers may target advertisements to users based on certain user characteristics. If you respond to this type of targeted advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they were trying to reach. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such as ad servers, ad networks, or their advertiser clients.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
The Site may contain links or references to external websites. These are provided for your convenience only, and we do not have control over the privacy or security practices and policies of third party sites. Any personal information you provide on linked pages is provided directly to that third party and is subject to that third party’s privacy policy. Please learn about the privacy and security practices and policies of external websites before providing them with personal information.
CHILDREN
Consistent with the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of thirteen (13) without parental consent. Any person who provides their personal information to us through the Site represents that they are 13 years of age or older. We may ask for and store users’ date of birth to ensure they are 13 or older, but do not share that information unless the user chooses to share it on the user’s profile. However, we regard the use of our Services by children under 13 as coordinated with parents or guardians.
SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We take steps to help protect personal information. No company can fully prevent security risks, however. Mistakes may happen. Bad actors may defeat even the best safeguards.
NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL USERS
The Service is hosted in the “cloud”, please note that you are possible transferring your personal data to a jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your home jurisdiction. By providing your personal data you consent to (a) our use of your personal data for the uses identified in this Privacy Policy, and (b) the transfer of your personal data to another jurisdiction.
CONTACT INFORMATION
We welcome your comments or questions about this Privacy Policy. You may also contact us at our address: egolfeld@gfsoft.com
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will also revise the “updated date” on the Privacy Policy. For changes to this Privacy Policy that may be materially less restrictive on our use or disclosure of personal information that you have provided to us, the new policy will not apply to information collected prior to the change unless we obtain your consent. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the Service constitutes your going forward agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.
This privacy policy was last updated on April 4, 2019.
