Whatzzup's Privacy Policy When you use our services, you’re trusting us with your information. We understand this is a big responsibility and work hard to protect your information and put you in control. This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information may collect , why may collect it, and how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information. We build a range of services that help many people daily to explore and interact with the world in new ways. Our services include: Whatzzup apps, sites, and devices. Platforms like the Whatzzup browsers Products that are integrated into third-party apps and sites, like ads and embedded Whatzzup Maps. You can use our services in a variety of ways to manage your privacy. For example, you can sign up for a Whatzzup Account if you want to create and manage content like emails and photos, or see more relevant search results. And you can use many Whatzzup services when you’re signed out or without creating an account at all, like searching on Whatzzup or watching Whatzzup Music videos. You can also choose to browse the web privately using Whatzzup Browser in Incognito mode. And across our services, you can adjust your privacy settings to control what may collect and how your information is used. To help explain things as clearly as possible, we’ve added examples, explanatory videos, and definitions for Key Terms. INFORMATION WHATZZUP COLLECTS We want you to understand the types of information may collect as you use our services May collect information to provide better services to all our users — from figuring out basic stuff like which language you speak, to more complex things like which ads you’ll find most useful, the people who matter most to you online, or which videos you might like. The information Whatzzup collects, and how that information is used, depends on how you use our services and how you manage your privacy controls. When you’re not signed in to a Whatzzup Account, we may store the information with unique identifiers tied to the browser, application, or device you’re using. This helps us do things like maintain your language preferences across browsing sessions. When you’re signed in, we may also collect your personal information (Recorded information about an identifiable individual that may include his or her (1) name, address, email address, phone number, (2) race, nationality, ethnicity, origin, color, religious or political beliefs or associations, (3) age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, (4) identifying number, code, symbol, (5) finger prints, blood type, inherited characteristics, (6) health care history including information on physical/mental disability, (7) educational, financial, criminal, employment history, (8) others' opinion about the individual, and (9) personal views except those about other individuals, (10) Payment Information.) that we store with your Whatzzup Account, which we treat as personal information. Things you create or provide to us When you create a Whatzzup Account, you provide us with personal information that includes any Recorded information about an identifiable individual that may include his or her (1) name, address, email address, phone number, (2) race, nationality, ethnicity, origin, color, religious or political beliefs or associations, (3) age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, (4) identifying number, code, symbol, (5) finger prints, blood type, inherited characteristics, (6) health care history including information on physical/mental disability, (7) educational, financial, criminal, employment history, (8) others' opinion about the individual, and (9) personal views except those about other individuals,, (10) Payment Information. Even if you aren’t signed in to a Whatzzup Account, you might choose to provide us with information — like an email address to receive updates about our services. We also collect the content you create, upload, or receive from others when using our services. This includes things like email you write and receive, photos and videos you save, docs and spreadsheets you create, and comments you make on our services. By creating, uploading or sharing any data on/with our services, you give Whazzup the global license to share this publicly and also accept that you have the rights to share, upload or create this information. Information may collect as you use our services Your apps, browsers & devices Our apps and services may use information about the apps, browsers, and devices you use to access Whatzzup services, which helps us provide features like automatic product updates and dimming your screen if your battery runs low, but we don’t collect this data on our servers. The information we USE (Not collect) includes unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device type and settings, operating system, mobile network information including carrier name and phone number, and application version number. We may also COLLECT(And use) information about the interaction of your apps, browsers, and devices with our services, including IP address, crash reports, system activity, and the date, time, and referrer URL of your request. May collect this information when a Whatzzup service on your device contacts our servers — for example, when a service checks for automatic updates. Information 3rd Party Apps and Services Collect Even if we don't collect much data, 3rd party apps and services, that help us, or are our partners, or are having any other relationship with Whatzzup, may collect information about the apps, browsers, and devices you use to access Whatzzup services. The information they may collect includes unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device type and settings, operating system, mobile network information including carrier name and phone number, and application version number. We may also collect information about the interaction of your apps, browsers, and devices with our services, including IP address, crash reports, system activity, and the date, time, and referrer URL of your request. They may even collect data from your device harware camera, microphone, etc. They may also collect any other information including Personal Information( any Recorded information about an identifiable individual that may include his or her (1) name, address, email address, phone number, (2) race, nationality, ethnicity, origin, color, religious or political beliefs or associations, (3) age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, (4) identifying number, code, symbol, (5) finger prints, blood type, inherited characteristics, (6) health care history including information on physical/mental disability, (7) educational, financial, criminal, employment history, (8) others' opinion about the individual, and (9) personal views except those about other individuals, (10) Payment Information). We don't take any responsibility for any data they collect or any harm they do to you. Your activity We May collect information about your activity in our services, which we use to do things like recommend a video you might like. The activity information may collect may include: Terms you search for Videos you watch Views and interactions with content and ads Voice and audio information when you use audio features Purchase activity People with whom you communicate or share content Activity on third-party sites and apps that use our services Whatzzup Browser browsing history you’ve synced with your Whatzzup Account. These information, if recorded by Whatzzup, are recorded anonymously and is not treated as personal information. If you use our services to make and receive calls or send and receive messages, we may collect telephony log information like your phone number, calling-party number, receiving-party number, forwarding numbers, time and date of calls and messages, duration of calls, routing information, and types of calls. Your location information May collect information about your location when you use our services, which helps us offer features like weather forecasting. Your location can be determined with varying degrees of accuracy by: GPS IP address Sensor data from your device Information about things near your device, such as Wi-Fi access points, cell towers, and Bluetooth-enabled devices The types of location data may collect depend in part on your device and account settings. For example, you can turn your Android device’s location on or off using the device’s settings app. You can also turn on Location History if you want to save and manage your location information in your account. In some circumstances, Whatzzup also collects information about you from publicly accessible sources. For example, if your name appears in your local newspaper, Whatzzup’s Search engine may index that article and display it to other people if they search for your name. We may also collect information about you from trusted partners, including marketing partners who provide us with information about potential customers of our business services, and security partners who provide us with information to protect against abuse. We also receive information from advertisers to provide advertising and research services on their behalf. We use various technologies to collect and store information, including cookies, pixel tags, local storage, such as browser web storage or application data caches, databases, and server logs. WHY WHATZZUP COLLECTS DATA We use data to build better services We use the information may collect from all our services for the following purposes: Provide our services We use your information to deliver our services, like processing the terms you search for in order to return results or helping you share content by suggesting recipients from your contacts. Maintain & improve our services We also use your information to ensure our services are working as intended, such as tracking outages or troubleshooting issues that you report to us. And we use your information to make improvements to our services — for example, understanding which search terms are most frequently misspelled helps us improve AI features used across our services. Develop new services We use the information may collect in existing services to help us develop new ones. Provide personalized services, including content and ads We use the information may collect to customize our services for you, including providing recommendations, personalized content, and customized search results. For example, Security Checkup provides security tips adapted to how you use Whatzzup products. Depending on your settings, we may also show you personalized ads based on your interests. For example, if you search for “mountain bikes,” you may see an ad for sports equipment when you’re browsing a site that shows ads served by Whatzzup. You can control what information we use to show you ads by visiting your ad settings. We don’t show you personalized ads based on sensitive categories, such as race, religion, sexual orientation, or health. We don’t share information that personally identifies you with advertisers, such as your name or email, unless ask ask us to. For example, if you see an ad for a nearby flower shop and select the “tap to call” button, we’ll connect your call and may share your phone number with the flower shop. Measure performance We use data for analytics and measurement to understand how our services are used. For example, we analyze data about your visits to our sites to do things like optimize product design. And we also use data about the ads you interact with to help advertisers understand the performance of their ad campaigns. We use a variety of tools to do this, including Whatzzup Analytics. When you visit sites that use Whatzzup Analytics, Whatzzup and a Whatzzup Analytics customer may link information about your activity from that site with activity from other sites that use our ad services. Communicate with you We use information may collect , like your email address, to interact with you directly. For example, we may send you a notification if we detect suspicious activity, like an attempt to sign in to your Whatzzup Account from an unusual location. Or we may let you know about upcoming changes or improvements to our services. And if you contact Whatzzup, we’ll keep a record of your request in order to help solve any issues you might be facing. Protect Whatzzup, our users, and the public We use information to help improve the safety and reliability of our services. This includes detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud, abuse, security risks, and technical issues that could harm Whatzzup, our users, or the public. We use different technologies to process your information for these purposes. We use automated systems that analyze your content to provide you with things like customized search results, personalized ads, or other features tailored to how you use our services. And we analyze your content to help us detect abuse such as spam, malware, and illegal content. We may combine the information may collect among our services and across your devices for the purposes described above. For example, if you watch videos of guitar players on our AI Bots, you might see an ad for guitar lessons on a site that uses our ad products. Depending on your account settings, your activity on other sites and apps may be associated with your personal information in order to improve Whatzzup’s services and the ads delivered by Whatzzup. If other users already have your email address or other information that identifies you, we may show them your publicly visible Whatzzup Account information, such as your name and photo. This helps people identify an email coming from you, for example. We’ll ask for your consent before using your information for a purpose that isn’t covered in this Privacy Policy. Managing, reviewing, and updating your information When you’re signed in, you can always review and update information by visiting the services you use. For example, change your country of residence. We also built a place for you to review and control information saved in your Whatzzup Account. To know Your Whatzzup Account includes, visit your Whatzzup Account through our Facebook AI Bots When you’re signed out, you can manage information associated with your browser or device, including: Signed-out search personalization: Choose whether your search activity is used to offer you more relevant results and recommendations. Ad Settings: Manage your preferences about the ads shown to you on Whatzzup and on sites and apps that partner with Whatzzup to show ads. Exporting, removing & deleting your information You can export a copy of content in your Whatzzup Account if you want to back it up or use it with a service outside of Whatzzup. You can also request to remove content from specific Whatzzup services based on applicable law. To delete your information, you can: Delete your content from specific Whatzzup services Search for and then delete specific items from your account. Delete specific Whatzzup products, including your information associated with those products Delete your entire Whatzzup Account There are other ways to control the information Whatzzup collects whether or not you’re signed in to a Whatzzup Account, including: Browser settings: For example, you can configure your browser to indicate when Whatzzup has set a cookie in your browser. You can also configure your browser to block all cookies from a specific domain or all domains. But remember that our services rely on cookies to function properly, for things like remembering your language preferences. Device-level settings: Your device may have controls that determine what information may collect . For example, you can modify location settings on your Android device. SHARING YOUR INFORMATION When you share your information Many of our services let you share information with other people, and you have control over how you share. Remember, when you share information publicly, your content may become accessible through search engines, including Whatzzup Search. When you’re signed in and interact with some Whatzzup services, like leaving comments on a video or reviewing a song, your name and photo appear next to your activity. We may also display this information in ads depending on your Shared endorsements setting. When Whatzzup shares your information We do not share your personal information with companies, organizations, or individuals outside of Whatzzup except in the following cases: With your consent We’ll share personal information outside of Whatzzup when we have your consent. For example, if you use some of Whatzzup’s services , We’ll ask for your explicit consent to share any sensitive personal information. With domain administrators If you’re a student or work for an organization that uses Whatzzup services , your domain administrator and resellers who manage your account will have access to your Whatzzup Account. They may be able to: Access and retain information stored in your account, like your email View statistics regarding your account, like how many apps you install Change your account password Suspend or terminate your account access Receive your account information in order to satisfy applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request Restrict your ability to delete or edit your information or your privacy settings For external processing We provide personal information to our affiliates and other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. For example, we use service providers to help us with customer support. For legal reasons We will share personal information outside of Whatzzup if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to: Meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request. We share information about the number and type of requests we receive from governments in our Transparency Report. Enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations. Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues. Protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Whatzzup, our users, or the public as required or permitted by law. We may share non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners — like publishers, advertisers, developers, or rights holders. For example, we share information publicly to show trends about the general use of our services. We also allow specific partners to collect information from your browser or device for advertising and measurement purposes using their own cookies or similar technologies. If Whatzzup is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, the personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy. KEEPING YOUR INFORMATION SECURE We build security into our services to protect your information All Whatzzup products are built with strong security features that continuously protect your information. The insights we gain from maintaining our services help us detect and automatically block security threats from ever reaching you. And if we do detect something risky that we think you should know about, we’ll notify you and help guide you through steps to stay better protected. We work hard to protect you and Whatzzup from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of information we hold, including: We allow a range of security features, like Security Checkup, and 2 Step Verification to help you protect your account We restrict access to personal information to Whatzzup employees, and agents who need that information in order to process it. Anyone with this access is subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations. EXPORTING & DELETING YOUR INFORMATION You can export a copy of your information or delete it from your Whatzzup Account at any time You can export a copy of content in your Whatzzup Account if you want to back it up or use it with a service outside of Whatzzup. To delete your information, you can: Delete your content from specific Whatzzup services Search for and then delete specific items from your account using My Activity Delete specific Whatzzup products, including your information associated with those products Delete your entire Whatzzup Account All the account controls can be found in your Whatzzup Account. In some cases, we retain data for limited periods when it needs to be kept for legitimate business or legal purposes. You can read about Whatzzup’s data retention periods, including how long it takes us to delete your information. We try to ensure that our services protect information from accidental or malicious deletion. Because of this, there may be delays between when you delete something and when copies are deleted from our active and backup systems. COMPLIANCE & COOPERATION WITH REGULATORS We regularly review this Privacy Policy and make sure that we process your information in ways that comply with it. Data transfers Third Party Services who power or host whatzzup’s services maintain servers around the world and your information may be processed on servers located outside of the country where you live. Data protection laws vary among countries, with some providing more protection than others.Your information is processed, modified, hosted by these only and all the responsibility is with them. We hold no responsibility of any data leak, sharing, selling, or any mishandling of the data. We apply the protections described in this policy to the data which we have on our servers or offline devices. These third party services may or may not comply with certain legal frameworks relating to the transfer of data, such as the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield Frameworks. It is their lookout. When we receive on-call complaints, we respond by trying to contact the person who made the complaint. We try to work with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of your data that we cannot resolve with you directly. ABOUT THIS POLICY When this policy applies This Privacy Policy applies to all of the services offered by Ayush Pathak or Whatzzup whose services’ data is stored on our servers or devices. including This Privacy Policy doesn’t apply to services that have separate privacy policies that do not incorporate this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy doesn’t apply to: The information practices of other companies and organizations that host, advertise, or modify our services Services offered by other companies or individuals, including products or sites that may include Whatzzup services, be displayed to you in search results, or be linked from our services Changes to this policy We change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this Privacy Policy without your explicit consent. Please check this page regularly. We hold no responsibility for bringing your notice to any change in this policy. Third Party Declararion: We do not take any responsibility for the Third Parties. By using our services or technologies, you accept the privacy policies, terms and conditions, terms of service and other legal policies of the respective third party services we use.