KickChat (“we,” and “us”) respects the privacy of its users and has developed this Privacy Policy to demonstrate its commitment to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect, how that information may be used, with whom it may be shared, and your choices about such uses and disclosures. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully when using our Service or transacting business with us. By using our Service, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference into the KickChat Terms of Service. Any capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meaning provided in the Terms of Use.
Collection of Personal Data
We collect personally identifiable information, such as your email address, username, fullname, and precise location. This information is used by us for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide you with quality service. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through this service, it may be publiclly viewable by other users.
From within the app, we request permission to access your mobile device contact list. We only access this information so you can send an invitation link to your contacts to download KickChat. We do not store your contact information or neither do we share with a third-party. If you choose to deny permission to your contacts when requested, we do not access your information.
Information you provide. We may collect and store personal information when you register and use the Service or provide to us in some other manner. This may include, but not limited to your photos, videos and other media files, identifying information, such as your name, address, email address, username, photographs. (including the photographs which have been deleted from your profile). We also request other information about your interests and activities, your gender, and other personal characteristics. Information may also be provided by corresponding with us (by email or chat, for instance), when you report a problem with the Service on our Service. Although we do not usually read or monitor the messages sent or received by you via the Service, we reserve the right to access and view such messages to detect any fraud or other illegal and undesirable user behavior, perform background checks on users or take any legally required actions. For instance, that may happen if we receive numerous complaints from the users on the content of the messages received from you.
Cookies. We may log information using "cookies." Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a website. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Site. This type of information is collected to make the Site more useful to you and to tailor the experience with us to meet your special interests and needs.
Information about others. We may collect and store personal information about other people that you provide to us, such as their name, address and email address. If you use our Service to send others (friends, relatives, colleagues, etc.) a product as a gift or refer the Service to them, we may store your personal information, and the personal information of each such recipient in order to process those requests or facilitate future activities.
Location Data Collection
In order to use the KickChat Services, we need to associate your account with a geographic location. In order to do this, we will utilize the GPS and/or cellular antenna of your mobile device to find your approximate location. We may also utilize your IP Address to determine where you are. Your latitude and longitude coordinate pair will be utilized to determine the city and political region that you are currently in. This information will be visible publicly when you use the KickChat service.
KickChat is an ad-supported free service. We use AdMob service to provide advertisements shown within the application.
How We Use the Information We Collect
We use your personal information as follows:
1. We use your personal information to operate, maintain, and improve our sites, products, and services.
2. We use your personal information to respond to comments and questions and provide customer service.
3. We use your personal information to send information including confirmations, technical notices,
updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
4. We use your personal information to link or combine user information with other personal information.
5. We use your personal information to protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal
activity.
6. We use your personal information to provide and deliver products and services customers request.
The nature of the KickChat service is that most information you give us will be shared with any other user of the KickChat service. This includes your profile details, Live Stream posts, photos, and general location.
With Whom We Share Your Personal Information
We may share personal information as follows:
1. 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.
2. We may share personal information when we do a business deal, or negotiate a business deal,
involving the sale or transfer of all or a part of our business or assets. These deals can include
any merger, financing, acquisition, or bankruptcy transaction or proceeding.
3. We may share personal information for legal, protection, and safety purposes.
4. We may share information to comply with laws.
5. We may share information to respond to lawful requests and legal processes.
6. We may share information in an emergency. This includes protecting the safety of our
employees and agents, our customers, or any person.
7. We may share information with those who need it to do work for us.
We may anonymize or aggregate data collected through the Service and use and disclose it for any purpose.
There are also a few ways we share your data in order to help enhance the service, and specifically drive user interaction. For instance, we may choose to use your user content (including your profile, posts, or photos) to market the KickChat service. This could include, without limitation, screenshots for the App Store or promotional emails to current or potential users.
Security of Personal Data
We take reasonable security measures (including physical, electronic and procedural measures) to help safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access and disclosure. We want you to feel confident using our Service to transact business. However, no system can be completely secure. Therefore, although we take steps to secure your information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information, searches, or other communications will always remain secure. Users should also take care with how they handle and disclose their personal information and should avoid sending personal information through insecure email.
Information You Provide About Yourself
We provide areas on our Service where you can post information about yourself and others and communicate with others or upload content such as photographs. Such postings are governed by our Terms of Service. In addition, such postings may appear on other websites or when searches are executed on the subject of your posting. Also, whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information on publicly-viewable web pages, that information will be publicly available and can be collected and used by others. For example, if you post your email address, you may receive unsolicited messages. We cannot control who reads your posting or what other users may do with the information you voluntarily post, so we encourage you to exercise discretion and caution with respect to your personal information.
How Can I Delete My Account?
Should you ever decide to delete your account, you may do so from the settings page from within the app or you can email us at support@kickchatapp.com. If you terminate your account, all data like profile information, posts, videos, images, saved games etc. will be deleted and no longer accessible. Your username will be made available for use by other users during signup.
Children's Privacy
Although our Service is a general audience service, we restrict the use of our Service to individuals age 13 and above. We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use personal information from children under 13 years of age, and no part of the Service is directed to children under the age of 13. If you learn that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, you may alert us at kick.chat2018@gmail.com. If we learn that we have collected any personal information from children under 13, we will promptly take steps to delete such information and terminate the child’s account.
Service Monitoring
During normal course of business our employees will never review your private communications or other personal data. We do however reserve the right to do so when there is a clear and obvious need to do so. An example of such a situation would be to verify reports of harrassment or to investigate service interuptions or issues. In the event that it is neccessary to review private personal data, such data will only be viewed by individuals under a strict non-disclosure agreement with our company to protect disclosure beyond our company.
Data Retention
Your data will be retained on our server computers for as long as neccessary to provide our services. In the event that you explicitly delete information from the app, it will be deleted from our servers. In the event that you uninstall the app, your data will remain on our servers in the event that you choose to reinstall at a later time.