Abto Privacy Policy Updated June 1, 2023
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Abto values its users' privacy and has created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate its commitment to preserving it. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it if necessary, with whom it may be shared, and how you can control these uses and disclosures. Before using the Abto app or transacting business with us, please read this Privacy Policy carefully. You agree to the methods outlined in this Privacy Policy by using our app.
Please see the bottom of this Privacy Policy for information on how to contact us if you have any queries about our privacy policies.
Information we collect about you
We may collect your Personal Information, including Sensitive Data, as well as other data in general. Individually identifiable information that enables us to verify the true identity of users and contact a real person is referred to as personal information. Sensitive Data refers to optionally provided information such as comments or content such as images, videos, profiles, and lifestyles that may expose your ethnic origin, nationality, or religion. You consent to Abto collecting, using, and disclosing Sensitive Data following relevant privacy regulations by providing Sensitive Data to Abto. With your agreement, we will also gather your geolocation data. You authorize us to collect, process, and retain your data relating to the provision of the Service by using our app. When you submit personal information using our Service, it may be transmitted to servers in the United States and other countries across the world.
Furthermore, we gather and keep any personal information you give us when using our app or in any other way. This may include personal data like your name, address, email address, and phone number, as well as financial data if you do business with us. For basic recommendations, such as search distance, age range, and gender, we may additionally need data such as images, a personal description, and information about your gender and interests. You supply us with the content of your chats if you talk with other app users, and you provide us with the content of your communication if you contact us for customer service or other queries.
Technology used to collect information: We collect information from your device and about your activity on our app using a variety of methods.
Automatically collected information: When you visit our app, we automatically acquire information from your browser or device. While our application is active, this information may include your IP address, device ID and type, browser type and language, operating system used by your device, access times, and your mobile device's geographic location.
Mobile device IDs: Instead of cookies, we recognize you using mobile device IDs, which are the unique identifiers issued to a device by the manufacturer, or Advertising IDs for iOS 6 and later. This is done so that we can save your preferences and track how you use our app. Device IDs, unlike cookies, cannot be removed, however, Advertising IDs can be reset in your iPhone's settings. Device IDs or Advertising IDs are also used by ad providers to track the number of ads seen, app usage, measure ad performance, and show you advertising that is more relevant to you. Device IDs are used by analytics businesses to track app usage data.
We may use the Personal Information we collect about you for-
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account creation and management, ensuring our services, payment processing, and responding to your questions;
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communication for account verification, informational and operational purposes like customer services, managing account, maintaining system, including occasionally emailing about the service-related announcement;
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customizing or improving our services;
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deliver online advertising on the Service and facilitate the transmission of information that you might find useful, relevant, valuable, or otherwise interesting;
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evaluating your interactions with our Service and third-party online services, including to serve you with more relevant advertising;
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combining your personal information for analysis;
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making your personal data anonymous;
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operating, evaluating, and improving our business, including developing new services, managing our communications, tracking the performance of our Service, facilitating the use of our Service, determining the effectiveness of our advertising, analyzing how the service is accessed and used, and improving our video calling feature;
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ensuring the security of our services;
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managing business stakeholders' relationships;
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enforcing our Service terms as well as any other legal rights;
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abiding by all applicable laws, industry standards, and company rules; dude it's not time kilogram
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maintaining, defending, and improving our Service, we conduct auditing, research, and analysis.
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Consent to Photography, Video Recording, and Use
By participating in our events, you acknowledge and agree to be potentially photographed and/or video recorded. These materials ("Event Materials") may be used by Abto for various purposes, including but not limited to, advertising, publicity, marketing, and other communications purposes, without any further consent from or payment to you.
Your participation in our events indicates your consent to such recordings and your agreement that your image, voice, and likeness may be used by Abto for these purposes. You understand that all Event Materials, including photographs and video recordings, will be the sole property of Abto Jim near me well that's perfect because I have a Bluetooth I will save this I was.
We will share your information with:
When you register as an Abto app user, your profile information will be shared with other users. Other app users will be able to see your profile. Other users will have immediate access to the profile information you've submitted to us.
Personal information: Except as stated in this Privacy Policy or when we notify you and provide you the option to opt-out of having your personal information shared, we do not share your personal information with anybody. We may share personal information with the following parties:
Service providers: Your personal information, including financial information, may be shared with third parties who provide services on our behalf. For example- order fulfillment, ad tracking, and analytics, member screenings, supporting our Service functionality, contests, sweepstakes, performing business and sales analysis, providing customer service and marketing assistance, surveys, and other features offered through our Service. Although the services providers may have access to your personal information for their servicing functions, they are not allowed to use that information in other regards.
Other Circumstances: We may also release your personal information for investigation issues, defending against law enforcement, court order, practicing legal rights, or a request for cooperation from law enforcement or other government agency, or as otherwise required by law.
If we believe disclosure is necessary to investigate, protect, and defend our company's rights, property, or safety, or to take other action in response to any illegal activity, such as suspected fraud or other illegal action, by our users, employees, or others, to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement, or to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements or policies.
In the unlikely case of bankruptcy, we may also share your information in connection with a major corporate transaction such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, the sale of our company, or asset sale.
Aggregated or non-personal data: We may also use your non-personal data in any of the above-mentioned conditions. For creating targeted advertisements on our app, we may share your information with third parties. For example, we may work with a data provider to gather data from you, such as your IP address and device or operating system information, or to set or identify a unique cookie on your device so that you can receive personalized content. The cookies may contain de-identified demographic or other data associated with the information you voluntarily provide to the app, such as your email address, which we may share only in hashed, non-human readable form with a data provider.
Do Not Track disclosure:
Users can set Do Not Track (DNT) as a privacy choice on their mobile devices to tell the apps and services that they don't want specific data about their page visits gathered over time and across apps and websites. We are committed to giving you meaningful choices regarding the data we gather from every user of our app, which is why we give opt-out links.
Third-party websites
There are several locations on our app where you can tap a link to go to a website that does not follow our Privacy Policy. If you click on an advertisement in our app, for example, you may be directed to a website that is not under our control. These third-party websites may independently solicit and collect all of your information, including your personal information, and these advertising websites may provide us with information about your actions on those websites in some situations.
How you can access and correct your information:
If you have an Abto account, you can review and change your personal information on the Service by heading to settings and opening your account. You may have the right under applicable privacy laws to view and remedy any inaccuracies or omissions in your personal information under our control. Our Privacy Officer will help you with your access request.
Within the timeframes set forth by all applicable privacy regulations, we will reply to your profile requests, and try our best to reply accurately, promptly, and completely. Corrections to personal information will be notified to any organizations to whom it was disclosed as soon as possible.
We may not be able to offer access to the certain personal information we keep in rare circumstances. The Privacy Officer does not have access to all personal information for security reasons. If access or corrections are not possible, we shall notify the person who made the request in writing within 30 days of the reasons for the refusal.
Data retention
We only store your data for as long as we need it for legitimate business purposes and as long as applicable legal obligations allow us to. When you close your account, we will keep certain data for analytical purposes and record-keeping integrity. We will use this information to prevent fraud, enforce our Terms of Use, and take other actions we deem necessary to protect the integrity of our app and our respected users, or as otherwise permitted by law. If specific information has already been shared with third parties as specified in this Privacy Policy, the third parties' policies will govern the keeping of that information.
Your choices about collection and use of your information:
Although you can choose not to provide certain information, you may be unable to use certain features of the app if you do so. For example, certain information may be required for you to register as a user, use a specific feature of the app, purchase products or services, participate in an event, promotion, survey, or sweepstakes, ask a question, or initiate other transactions. A video calling function, for example, may require access to your camera.
Notifications are also sent to your mobile device using our service. You may turn off these notifications by heading to the app's App Settings or changing your mobile device's settings. You may also manage the information that cookies collect. By modifying your device settings, you can erase or reject cookies.
How we protect your personal information
We take precautions to keep your personal information safe against unauthorized access and disclosure. Although no system can guarantee total security, we guarantee that the information you submit with us will be kept safe. We take precautions to keep your sensitive information safe. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information, chats, or other communications. Users should also be cautious about how they manage and distribute their personal information and should refrain from transmitting sensitive data via unsecured emails.
You consent to us communicating with you electronically about security, privacy, and administrative matters like security breaches. If there is a security breach, we may post a notice on our app. We may also send you an email using the email address you provided. You have a legal right to have this notice delivered to you in writing.
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Information you provide about yourself while using our app
On our app, there are sections where you may share information about yourself and others, as well as communicate with other users. Our Terms of Service apply to such postings. When you voluntarily publish personal information on publicly accessible pages, such information is accessible to anybody who visits the page and can readily be utilized by others. If you post your email address, for example, you may receive unsolicited communications. We have no control over the information you voluntarily reveal to the public, who views your posting, or what other users may do with the information you freely disclose to the public, so we advise you not to share your personal data and to be cautious with your personal information. Unless you expressly request a copy of your messages in accordance with relevant legislation, we will only make messages you send to another user through our app accessible on the Service if required by a court order or other similar legal procedure. If you want a copy of any messages you got through our app from other users, you must first get their prior written consent, and then they must contact us to give their prior written consent.
MATCHING:
We may utilize your Personal Information and preferences to undertake automated analysis, detect correlations, and make predictions about your interests in order to match you more effectively and perfectly. This could involve the usage of your dating preferences' Personal Information, which could alter your app match outcomes. We also host events to encourage our members to communicate with one another based on their shared interests. Your educational level and preference for someone who shares your political values, for example, maybe a good fit. Similarly, based on your profile, you and others may be rejected as a match.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in the law, our data collecting, and use practices, the features of our Service, or technological advancements. We will update the last updated date at the top of this Privacy Policy, which will be posted on the Services under Settings when we make changes, and you should check for the most recent version, which is the version that applies, on a regular basis. If we make any significant changes to our Privacy Policy, we will tell you via reasonable means, such as push notifications in the app or via email. Please take a close look at the changes.
Eligibility:
To utilize our service, you must be at least 21 years old to establish an account on the Abto app. You represent and warrant that by creating an account and using the Service, you will:
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You can make a legally binding agreement with Abto.
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You are not a person who is prohibited by the laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction from using the Service
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You will abide by the Agreement, as well as all applicable local, state, national, and international laws, rules, and regulations.
Arbitration, Class-Action Waiver, and Jury Waiver:
Except for users who reside in the European Union or the European Economic Area, and where relevant law prohibits it:
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Binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association under the Consumer Arbitration Rules shall be the sole means of resolving any dispute or claim arising out of or pertaining to this Agreement or the Service. Whether you pick small claims court or arbitration, you are not permitted to file a lawsuit or other representative action or process against the Company.
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You agree to the above arbitration agreement by using the Service in any way. By doing so, you relinquish your right to take the Company to court to assert or defend any claims you may have against it. You also relinquish your right to take part in an event or other activity. Your rights will be evaluated by a Neutral Arbitrator rather than a judge or jury, and the arbitrator will decide any concerns concerning the arbitrariness of the dispute. You are entitled to a fair hearing in front of the arbitrator.
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This Agreement, as well as any disagreement between you and the Abto, will be governed by the laws of the United States of America, without respect to principles of conflict of laws, with the exception of this arbitration agreement, which will be regulated by the Federal Arbitration Act.