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This Privacy Policy describes the
information that THWL Apps (“we”, “our,” or “us”)
collects from visitors to and users of the website at
//www.thwlapps.com (the “Website”) and any THWL
Apps 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 End User License Agreement (EULA). If you do not
consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy or our EULA,
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
1. You may voluntarily provide us with
information, including:
◦ Your name, email address, age, profile
name, profile photo, height, weight, occupation,
personal interests, third party social networking
service user name, 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.
2. 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.
◦ Prior to your installation of the App,
we may have already collected information about the
other apps that you have used via our Advertising
Partners or other Third Parties.
3. We may collect information about you
from:
◦ third party social networking services;
◦ commercially available sources;
◦ our affiliates; and
◦ our third party business partners.
4. We may combine any of the information
we collect from or about you and use it in the manner
described in this Privacy Policy.
5. 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 EULA.
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.
1. 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.
2. 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 EULA 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 EULA, 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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 EULA, 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 EULA, Profile Guidelines,
policies or agreements or as otherwise required by law.
◦ Protect our rights, reputation, safety,
and property, or that of users or others.
9. Aggregated Information. We may share
aggregated information relating to visitors to and users
of the Service with affiliated or unaffiliated third
parties.
10. 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.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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. Please review the following link to better
understand their practices:
//www.google.com/privacy
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. For
information about how to opt out of receiving behavioral
advertisements from our advertising partners, please
visit //networkadvertising.org/choices/#completed.
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.
To opt-out of ads shown by Google AdMob
within the App, please visit
//www.google.com/ads/preferences/html/mobile-about.html.
To opt-out of Millennial Media’s use of
data for interest-based advertising, please visit
//lp.mydas.mobi/rich/foundation/opt-out.php.
To opt-out of MoPub's use of data for
interest-based advertising, please visit
//www.mopub.com/legal/mopub-ads-privacy-policy and
https://dev.twitter.com/mopub/ui/opting-out-interest-based-advertising.
To opt-out of Smaato's use of data for
interest-based advertising, please visit
//www.smaato.com/privacy/.
To opt-out of Microsoft pubCenter's use of
data for interest-based advertising, please visit
https://choice.microsoft.com/en-US.
If you are using the App on an Apple iOS
device, Apple Inc.’s iAd network states that users may
opt out of behavioral advertising by visiting
//oo.apple.com from your iOS device.
To opt-out of AdWill's use of data for
interest-based advertising, please visit
//www.adwill.co/opt-out.html.
Do Not Track
At this time, we do not respond to "do not
track" signals. 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.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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 by email: [email protected]
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 by email:
[email protected]
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