Privacy Policy for Winker
Welcome to Winker ("we," "us," or "our"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring a safe environment for all users. This Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect, use, and protect your information. By using Winker, you consent to this policy. For your better knowledge, this Privacy Policy may be updated periodically and WE SINCERELY REMIND YOU READING THE CONTEXT HEREUNDER CAREFULLY AND THOROUGHLY.
A. Information We Collect
To provide you better services experiences on Winker we collect different types of data when you choose and use different functions:
a. Information you provide
(1). Account Data: To use certain features, such as registering for an account, you need to create a user account. When you create or update your account, we collect and store the data you provide, such as your nickname, gender, and date of birth, and assign you a unique identifying number (“Account Data”).
(2). Profile Data: You can also choose to provide profile information, such as an avatar, name, birthday, region, or other data. Your Profile Data will be publicly viewable by others unless you delete your account. To add certain content, like pictures or videos, you may allow us to access your camera or photo album. Some of the information you choose to provide us may be considered “special” or “sensitive” in a certain jurisdiction, for example, your racial or ethnic origins, sexual orientation, and religious beliefs. By choosing to provide this information, you consent to our processing of that information.
(3). Usage Data: When you use our Services and features, we collect certain data, including messages, follow information, photos, and other user data. Of course, we also process your chats with other users as well as the content you publish, as part of the operation of the Services.
(4). Shared Content: Parts of the Services let you interact with other users or share content publicly, including by text, pictures, or audios you post and the data you provided in your profile. Such shared content may be publicly viewable by others depending on where it is posted.
(5). Promotions: When you choose to participate in our promotions, events, or contests, we collect the information that you use to register or enter. If you won a prize, we would collect the financial information to reward you.
(6). Data About Your Accounts on Other Services: If you log in to our Services via third-party social networking sites ("SNS") accounts (including, but not limited to, Facebook, Google+, and Apple), we ask for your permission to access certain information about that other account. The information we receive depends on what information you (via your privacy settings) or the platform or service decide to give us. For example, depending on the platform or service, we may collect your name, profile picture, gender, info, and birthday. Those platforms and services make information available to us through their APIs. The information we receive depends on what information you (via your privacy settings) or the platform or service decide to give us.
(7). Third-Party Platforms and Services: If you access or use our Services through a third-party platform or service, or click on any third-party links, the collection, use, and sharing of your data will also be subject to the privacy policies and other agreements of that third party.
(8). Communications and Support: If you contact us for support or to report a problem or concern (regardless of whether you have created an account), we collect and store your contact information, messages, and other data about you, such as your name, email address, location, operating system, IP address, and any other data you provide or that we collect through automated means (which we cover below). We use this data to respond to you and research your question or concern, in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you ask us to communicate with or otherwise process information of other people (for example, if you ask us to send an email on your behalf to one of your friends), we collect the information about others that you give us in order to complete your request.
b. Device Information
As foregoing mentioned, in order to provide you better service on Winker, it is also necessary for us to collect data that help us update, optimize, personalize and improve our services to you on Winker.
(1) Device information: We collect data about the type and model of your device, the operating system of your mobile phone or personal computer, hardware versions, carrier name, IP address, mobile browser (e.g. Chrome, Safari), applications using the Winker Services and the version of such applications, battery level, signal strength, available storage space, browser type, app and file names, and other similar types of data. We also collect other device data such as the name of your mobile operator or ISP, language, and time zone.
(2) Geo-location: We collect geo-location data when location services have been enabled when you use Winker services.
(3) Device identifiers: We collect device identifiers such as IMEI, IDFA, Android Advertising ID, serial number of mobile phone, telecommunication operator, or similar data.
B. How We Use Your Information
a. To Provide Better Services of Winker
We use the information we collect to provide services to you, including personalized features and contents, such as the monitoring back-desk interface you could access after registration and login-in your account. Such personalized features are unique relevant to you.
b. Safety, integrity and security
We use the foregoing information we collect to verify accounts and activity, combat harmful conduct, detect and prevent virus, plug-in, trojan or other malicious program or software. This safe-guard measures maintain the integrity and good business environment of Winker, which, in turn, provides you better service experiences on Winker.
C. Sharing Your Information
a. With Other Users
You share information with other users when you voluntarily disclose information on the service (including your public profile). Please be careful with your information and make sure that the content you share is the stuff that you’re comfortable being publicly viewable since neither you nor we can control what others do with your information once you share it.
b. With Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Services, to provide the Services on our behalf, to perform Services-related services (e.g., maintenance services, database management, analytics and improvement of the Services features) or to assist us in analyzing how our Services are used. These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf.
c. Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement
Winker cooperates with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We can disclose any information about you to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate to respond to claims and legal process including, but not limited to, subpoenas, to protect the property and rights of Winker or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, to prevent or stop activity we may consider to be, or to pose a risk of being, illegal, unethical or legally actionable activity, or if it is required by law.
d. Business Transfers
Winker may sell, divest, transfer, assign, share or otherwise engage in a transaction that involves, some or all of our assets, including any or all of the information described in this Privacy Policy, in the course of a corporate divestiture, merger, acquisition, joint venture, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganization, or any other similar transaction or proceeding.
D. Your Choices
a. UGC Control: You have control over the content you create and share. You can edit, delete, or limit the visibility of your content through app settings.
b. Account Information: You can edit or delete your account information at any time.
c. Cookies and Tracking: You can adjust your device or browser settings to limit or block cookies.
E. Data Retention
We keep most of your personal data for as long as your account is active. We generally retain your personal data as long as you keep your account open or as needed to provide you Services. This includes data you or others provided to us and data generated or inferred from your use of our Services. In some cases we choose to retain certain information (e.g., insights about Services use) in a depersonalized or aggregated form.
F. Deletion of your account
You can delete your account from within Winker. Deleting your account is an irreversible process, which we can't revert even if you perform it by accident.
To delete your account
a. Open Winker.
b. Tap Mine > Settings > Delete account.
Deleting your account will:
a. Delete your account from Winker.
b. Erase your message history.
If you delete your account:
a. You can't regain access to your account.
b. It doesn't affect your information other users have relating to you, such as their copy of the messages you sent them.We may retain certain log data in our databases even after you delete your account, but such data will be disassociated from any identifying information such that it can no longer be linked to your account. To do this, on a regular basis, we wipe certain identifying information from this log data, and we replace any instance of your account ID with a replacement identifier which cannot be linked back to your account once it is deleted.
c. We may also keep your information for things like legal issues, terms violations, or harm prevention efforts.
G. Security
We employ industry-standard security measures to protect your data, but no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.
H. Children's Privacy
Our app is not intended for users under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect data from children. We take extra steps to ensure that users creating Accounts are 18 or older. If we learn that we have collected PII of a child under 13, we will take steps to delete such information from our files as soon as possible. We encourage parents to take precautions to assure that their household is safe and protected when creating and sharing this video content.
I. Changes to this Policy
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time without any further notification (except for material changes). We make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you via an email to the email address associated with your account or through the Services. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
J. Contact Us
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our use of your information, please contact us at official@winkerchat.com.