Last Updated: September 1, 2023
WYD offers a way to share what you’re doing with your friends
and family. You have a status and can update it as often as you’d like. You can
share statuses with your friends and
geotag your status to places on WYD’s
map.
Location
data
If you choose to allow location
tracking when you sign up to geotag your status to a place on the map, you will
share your location with us and with other users when the app is open or in the
background, depending on your preferences. You can choose to opt out of this
sharing, but the functionality of the app will be limited if you do so. Below,
we provide more information about the location data we collect and how you can
opt out if you no longer wish to share your location data with us.
Our
privacy principles
When you use WYD, you’re trusting us
with your information. We understand it’s a tremendous responsibility and work
hard to protect your information and put you in control. We wrote this Privacy
Policy to help you understand what personal information we collect via our website
and mobile app, how we use it and disclose it, how long we retain it, and what
choices you have about it.
- WYD users control how much information they share. You control how much information you share with other
users on the app, and you can turn off your location if you do not want to
be visible on WYD’s map.
- WYD honors users’ privacy rights. We will delete and provide you with access to your
personal information if you ask us to, including when you close your
account.
- WYD does not sell users’ personal information. We are not in the business of selling users’ personal
information. We may advertise nearby products and services you may be
interested in, but we will not share any personal information with
third-parties to use for their own purposes.
- We store the personal information we collect for as
short a duration as possible. Where
possible, we lower the resolution of historical location data, and store
only de-identified or aggregate data that is not tied to you.
Personal
information we collect
Personal
information you provide to us:
- Account information,
that you provide when you download the app and sign up to use it, such as
your name, phone number, and the social media accounts you sync with your WYD
account.
- Profile information,
such as your username, hometown, profile picture and profile background.
- User contacts,
that you may choose to share with us to help us let you know when your
contacts have joined the app and easily let you create chats with them.
Please note that this also means that if other users have you in their
contact book, we will let them know when you have joined the app.
- Messages that you exchange with other users through the
app via direct message or communications in a group or community. We may review the contents of these messages if a user
reports, or we otherwise detect, a potential trust and safety violation or
potentially illegal or illicit activity.
- Geolocation information, that you provide for us to share your location with
other app users and to allow us to display advertisements from businesses located
around you.
- Feedback or correspondence, such as information you provide when you contact us
with questions, feedback, product reviews, or otherwise correspond with us
online.
- Usage information,
such as information about how you use the app and interact with us,
including information associated with any content you upload to the app or
otherwise submit to us, and information you provide when you use any
interactive features of the app.
- Marketing information, such as your preferences for receiving communications
about our activities and publications, and details about how you engage
with our communications.
Information
we obtain from third parties:
- Third-party login information. When you link, connect, or login to the Services with a
third party service (e.g. Google or Apple), you
direct the service to send us information such as your registration,
friends list, and profile information as controlled by that service or as
authorized by you via your privacy settings at that service.
Automatic data collection. We and our service providers may automatically log
information about you, your device, and your interaction over time with our
app, our communications and other online services, such as:
- Device data,
such as your device’s operating system type and version, manufacturer and
model, screen resolution, RAM and disk size, CPU usage, device type (e.g.,
phone, tablet), IP address, unique identifiers (including identifiers used
for advertising purposes), language settings, mobile device carrier, and
radio/network information (e.g., WiFi, LTE, 4G).
- Online activity data,
such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or
screen, browsing history, navigation paths between pages or screens,
information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, and
duration of access, and whether you have opened our marketing emails or
clicked links within them.
We
use the following tools for automatic data collection:
- Local storage technologies, like HTML5, that provide cookie-equivalent
functionality but can store larger amounts of data, including on your
device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications.
- Web beacons,
also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs, which are used to demonstrate that
a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was
viewed or clicked.
How
we use personal information
We use personal information for one
or more of the following purposes:
- Providing and supporting the app. We use personal information to operate, maintain, and
provide you with the app. In particular we will use personal information
to perform our contractual obligation under our terms of use towards you,
such as to:
- Allow you to create an account and use the app.
- Respond to your requests, provide customer support,
contact you in case of any issue with your account, and send you
announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative
messages.
- Improve, monitor, personalize, and protect our app and
communications. It is in our legitimate
business interests to improve and keep our app safe for our users, which includes:
- Troubleshooting, testing and research and to keep the
app secure.
- Investigating and protecting against fraudulent,
harmful, unauthorized or illegal activity.
- Providing customized services, advertisements related
to our and other companies’ services, and communications that may be
relevant or of interest to you.
- Direct marketing. Where
applicable, if you choose to subscribe to our marketing, we process
personal information based on your consent, which you may withdraw at any
time.
- To enforce our agreements, to comply with legal
obligations and to defend us against legal claims or disputes. We may use your personal information in our
legitimate business interests to enforce and comply with our terms and
policies, to ensure the integrity of our app and to defend ourselves
against legal claims or disputes. Some processing may also be necessary to
comply with a legal obligation, for example to keep records of
transactions, or as requested by any judicial process or governmental
agency.
- Research and development. As part of these activities, we may create
aggregated, de-identified or other anonymous data from personal
information we collect. We may use this anonymous data and share it with
third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and
improve the app, and promote our business.
How
we share personal information
Service providers. We may share your personal information with third
party companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us
operate the app (such as customer support, content moderation, hosting,
analytics, email delivery, marketing, identity verification, fraud detection,
payment processing, and database management).
For compliance, fraud prevention and
safety. We may share your personal
information for the compliance, fraud prevention and safety purposes described
above.
Business transfers. We may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all
of our business or assets, including your personal information, in connection
with a business transaction (or potential business transaction) such as a
corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization or
sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy or dissolution. In such a case,
we will make reasonable efforts to require the recipient to honor this Privacy
Policy.
How
you share personal information
Other app users. By using the app, you share information with other users.
For example, you may choose to direct message other app users located near you,
or post messages in a community or group. You may choose to share more of your
information directly with other app users as you build a relationship with them
over time.
Your
privacy rights and choices
Unsubscribe from direct marketing
communications. You may opt out of
marketing-related communications by following the opt out or unsubscribe
instructions contained in the marketing communication we send you.
Opt-out of push notifications. If you opt in to receive push notifications within the app,
we may send push notifications or alerts to your mobile device from time to
time. You can deactivate push notifications and alerts at any time by changing
your device settings, changing the push notification settings within the
application, or deleting the application.
Opt-out of location tracking. You may allow or disallow WYD to collect geolocation data
by enabling or disabling location services on your device. You can also choose
to create a “closed space” radius on the map where the app will not show your
location publicly within 1000 feet. If you decline to grant WYD access to your
location data, we will not be able to provide certain services, capabilities,
or features to you.
Stop updating your contact list. If you chose to sync your contacts, you can always stop
updating your contact list later by disabling contact sync in your account
settings page.
Personal information requests. We also offer you choices that affect how we handle the
personal information that we control. You may request the following in relation
to your personal information:
- Information
about how we have collected and used your personal information. We have
made this information available to you without having to request it by
including it in this Privacy Policy.
- Access
to a copy of the personal information that we have collected about you.
Where applicable, we will provide the information in a portable,
machine-readable, readily usable format.
- Correction
of personal information that is inaccurate or out of date.
- Deletion
of your account and your personal information that we no longer need to
provide our services to you or for other lawful purposes.
- Additional rights,
such as to object to and request that we restrict our use of
your personal information, and where applicable, you may withdraw
your consent.
To make a request, please email us
or write to us as provided in the “Contact us” section below. We may ask for
specific information from you to help us confirm your identity. California
residents can empower an “authorized agent” to submit requests on their behalf.
We will require authorized agents to confirm their identity and authority, in
accordance with applicable laws. You are entitled to exercise the rights
described above free from discrimination.
Limits on your choices. In some instances, your choices may be limited, such as
where fulfilling your request would impair the rights of others, our ability to
provide a service you have requested, or our ability to comply with our legal
obligations and enforce our legal rights. If you are not satisfied with how we
address your request, you may submit a complaint by contacting us as provided
in the “Contact us” section below.
Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do
Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We
currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out
more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
Children’s
privacy
Our app is not intended for use by
children under 16 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal
information through the app from a child under 16 without the consent of the
child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will delete it. If you are a
parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with
personal information, please contact us as set out in the “Contact us” section
below.
International
data transfers
Since we are based in the United
States, you will provide your data directly to us in the United States, and we may transfer your personal information to our
service providers in the United States and other jurisdictions. Please rest
assured that where we share your personal information with any other parties,
we ensure that any safeguards required under your local law (e.g.
contracts or assessments which include special data transfer protections) are
in place for such transfers. You can contact us as set out in the “Contact us”
section below to find out more about these safeguards.
Retention
of personal information
We retain your personal information
only for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was
collected and processed, in accordance with our retention policies, and in
accordance with applicable laws or until you withdraw your consent (where
applicable).
To determine the appropriate
retention period for your personal information, we consider the amount, nature,
and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from
unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for
which we use your personal information and whether we can achieve those
purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
Security
practices
We use reasonable organizational,
technical and administrative measures designed to protect against unauthorized
access, misuse, loss, disclosure, alteration and destruction of personal
information. Unfortunately, data transmission over the Internet cannot be
guaranteed as completely secure. Therefore, while we strive to protect your
personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of personal information.
Other
sites, mobile applications and services
Our app may contain links to other
websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third
parties. These links are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are
affiliated with, any third party. In addition, our content may be included on
web pages or in mobile applications or online services that are not associated
with us.
We do not control third-party
websites, mobile applications or online services, and we are not responsible
for their actions. Other websites and services follow different rules regarding
the collection, use and sharing of your personal information. We encourage you
to read the privacy policies of the other websites and mobile applications and
online services you use.
Changes
to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this
Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy,
we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it
on the app.
Contact
us
WYD is responsible for the
processing of your personal information (as a data controller, where provided
under applicable law). If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy
Policy, our privacy practices, or if you would like to exercise your rights
with respect to your personal information, please contact us by email at [email protected] or
write to us at:
Wyd Inc.
823 Congress Ave Ste 150
Austin, TX 78768