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PRIVACY POLICY

What We Do To Protect Your Privacy. How We Use Your Data and Your Rights Regarding Your Data. We are committed to your right to privacy and we take you privacy seriously. We keep your personal data confidential and secure according to this Privacy Policy and the applicable laws and regulations. We have strict internal Privacy Policies and procedures and we strive to keep your personal data secure. Note that this Privacy Policy only applies to the apreet Software & Services and does not apply to any other web sites, software, products or services that you may access from apreet, each of which may have privacy policies that are materially distinct from this Privacy Policy. Further note that the transmission of data over the Internet may not always be secure. Email was not built for confidential information. We are using the following services to deliver you the best experience:

SMS Verification

To verify your mobile phone number we send a one-time SMS with a code through Vonage Holdings Corp., 23 Main Street, Holmdel, NJ 07733, USA. You can view their privacy policy here: https://www.vonage.com/legal/privacy-policy/

Support & User Engagement

You can chat with us: We are using Intercom as a chat service. We are also using Intercom to push emails and notifications to you to help you get the most out of apreet. Sign-up date, chats, chat histories, app usage, emails, and notifications are stored on the Intercom systems. Intercom, Inc. 55 2nd Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94105. As part of our service agreements, Intercom collects publicly available contact and social information related to you, such as your email address, gender, company, job title, photos, website URLs, social network handles, and physical addresses, to enhance your user experience. For more information on the privacy practices of Intercom, please visit https://www.intercom.com/terms-and-policies#privacy. Intercom’s services are governed by Intercom’s terms of use which can be found at https://www.intercom.com/terms-and-policies#terms. If you want to opt out of having this information collected by or submitted to Intercom, please contact us.

Tracking of App Crashes

apreet works with an SDK from Firebase Crashlytics, provided by Google LLC, with offices at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043. This SDK allows us to immediately see reports of bugs in our iOS and Android app. After a crash, the app will send certain information about the incident to Crashlytics including device type, OS version, and certain information about the phone, the time of the crash, the state of the application at the time of the crash, and stack traces. To provide us with information on crashes and malfunctions in the app, Crashlytics uses its Installation UUIDs to measure the number of users impacted by a crash and minidump data to process NDK crashes. In case of a crash, the following personal data is processed and transmitted to Firebase Crashlytics:
  • IP-address of the device and
  • device information, such as a RFC-4122 Universally Unique Identifier UUID to deduplicate crashes, the timestamp of when the crash occurred, the app’s bundle identifier and version number, the device’s OS name and version number, the device’s model name, CPU architecture, amount of RAM and disc space and language.
Firebase Crashlytics retains crash stack traces, extracted minidump data, and associated identifiers (including Crashlytics Installation UUIDs) for 90 days. Data transmitted to Firebase Crashlytics is neither stored nor transferred to other services or resources nor associated with other data available to Google. Personal data processed by Firebase Crashlytics is transferred to Google servers in the U.S. Find a complete list of all data processed by Firebase Crashlytics and more privacy information https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy#crash-stored-info> Crashlytics’ privacy policy is based on Google Privacy Policy https://policies.google.com/privacy

Server Log Files – Apreet App

We’ll automatically collect server logs that your device sends to our servers when using our app, these are: • Your devices, device OS, OS version • Your apreet app version • Your current location (if you granted us permission to use it) • Time of requests We are attributing this data to your account. We track the server logs to better understand your usage of our Software & Service and to improve the service for you. We may analyze the server logs if we see irregular usage patterns or suspect illegal use.

How and Why Do You Use My Contact Data?

apreet processes your contacts (names, phone numbers, email addresses, addresses) periodically, both of people already using apreet and other contacts. You confirm that you are authorized to provide us with these numbers and addresses. apreet determines if any of the phone numbers in your address book is already associated with an apreet user. If that is the case and if your mobile number is in that user’s address book, we match you as friends and show both of you where your paths will cross in the next 4 weeks. For all other contacts, apreet processes the location information in the address book, i.e., the city. For any destination on your itinerary, apreet shows you contacts nearby. Note that we do not read or transfer the notes section of your contacts in your address book. These are strictly private, and we are keeping it that way. We do not write to your address book, i.e. change or create new contact information. We process your contact data internally – we do not share your contact data with third parties. How and Why Do You Use My Calendar Data?
apreet is using your calendar events to build your itinerary for the next 4 weeks. This is mainly based on the dates and location information of the calendar events. For flights, we determine the airport of departure and arrival based on the Title/Summary/Subject and the Location data.
Note that we do not read or transfer data in the description or notes section of your calendar events. These are strictly private, and we are keeping it that way. We do not write to your calendar, i.e. change or create new events.
We process your calendar data internally – we do not share your calendar data with third parties.

How and Why Do You Use My Location Information?

We collect and use – with your permission – the location information from your device when you choose to use location-related features, like using your current location as a starting point of your itinerary – we will try matching it to a nearby town/city and your contacts that have an address in your address book that is close by and/or contacts using apreet currently or planning to be in the near future nearby. Also, with your permission on iOS only, we access your current location up to twice a day in the background to determine your matches. If any favorite contacts are nearby, you’ll receive a notification (if you’ve granted us permission to do so). We might also use your location information to troubleshoot errors like mistaken localization or matches. You can turn off the app’s access to location information in the device’s settings. If the app gets the starting point wrong, it feels “wrong” – that’s why we believe that using the current location as a starting point of your itinerary is an important part of your user experience – and therefore, we recommend enabling location permission. We process your location data internally – we do not share your location data with third parties.

How Do You Use Notifications?

apreet notifies you – with your permission – of contacts you may meet 3 days before a trip. It notifies you of friends and contacts joining apreet. And new destinations added to your itinerary. How Do You Use My Photos? You may select and upload a profile picture from your photo library.

Who Has Access to My Data?

Your data is important to us. We strive to keep the data you provide secure, and we do not share or disclose this data to third parties unless otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy or by legal obligations.

How is My Data Secured?

We take precautions to ensure that your data is kept private. We use industry-standard measures to secure your personal data from accidental loss and unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We also restrict access to users’ data to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff. We use encryption to make sure your data is kept safe whenever it is transmitted between your mobile device and our servers. Note that we cannot guarantee the security of your account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of your data at any time.

Request Your Data & Deletion of Account

You may – at any time – ask us what personal data we have stored about you. To request your personal data contact us. You can delete your apreet account and all personal data associated with it: Open the apreet app and tap on > Menu (top left icon) > My Profile > Delete Account. Or request the deletion of your account and personal data via email. The deletion of your account does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Newsletter Mailing List

As a proud recipient of our newsletter, you have provided us with your email address and some information that allows us to verify you are the owner of this address and are willing to receive thew newsletter. Your email will be used to keep you up to date about our activities. We are sending emails through our partner MailChimp, The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE, Suite 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308 USA carrying the TRUSTe’s Privacy Seal, see http://mailchimp.com/legal. MailChimp is part of the Intuit Inc., see https://www.intuit.com/privacy/statement/ You may unsubscribe at any time.

Server Log Files – Apreet Web Site

We’ll automatically collect server logs that your browser sends to out servers when visiting our site, these are: • Your device’s browser type and version • Your devices OS • Referrer URL • Host name the your device • Time of requests This data is not directly attributable to a person. We are not cross-referencing this data with other data. We may analyze the server logs if we see irregular usage patterns or suspect illegal use.

Cookies

We are using Cookies. Cookies help us to tailor our site to better to suit your needs by helping us to identify areas of improvement. Cookies are small text files that are saved on your device by your browser. Session cookies are deleted at the end of your visit; other more permanent cookies allow us to recognize you as a retuning visitor. You can set your browser to ask for your consent when a site wants to set a cookie, you may only allow some cookies to be set, you may generally disallow cookies or you may set your browser to delete all cookies when closed. If you deactivate cookies the site might not work as intended.

Google Analytics – Web Site Analytics

We use the web analytics tool called Google Analytics by Google Inc 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics are using cookies, small text files that are saved on your device and that allow the analysis of your usage of our site. The data generated by the cookie will usually be send to and saved by Google servers in the USA. We activated the IP Anonymization on our site. This sets the last octet of IPv4 user IP addresses and the last 80 bits of IPv6 addresses to zeros in memory shortly after being sent to the Analytics Collection Network. The full IP address is never written to disk in this case. In countries of the EU and EEA in exceptional case the IP will be forwarded to the USA and shortened there. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics sets a permanent cookie on your browser to identify you as a unique user on a returning visit, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to our site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html and the Google Privacy Policy http://www.google.com/policies/privacy You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to our site by disabling cookies on your browser, however our site might then not be fully functional and might not work as intended. You may opt out of sending data generated by your visit to this site to Google Analytics by clicking on the link below. We’ll place an opt out cookie on your computer to disable the future collection of data with your preferred browser when visiting this site. Note that you’ll have to click the link again to re-set the opt out cookie if you delete your cookies. Set Opt-out Cookie of Google Analytics for this site Furthermore you may prevent the collections and the analysis of data by Google Analytics regarding the visit to this and all other sites by installing the following plugin: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

LinkedIn

We have embedded plugins from the business network LinkedIn by LinkedIn Corporation, Attn: Legal Dept. (Privacy Policy and User Agreement), 1000 W. Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA. You can recognize these by the LinkedIn logo on our page. When visiting our site a direct connection between your browser and LinkedIn servers is established via the plugin. LinkedIn thus receives information that you with your IP address have visited our site. When tapping or clicking the LinkedIn button on our site you may link the content of our pages with your LinkedIn profile. Thus LinkedIn can associate your visit to our site to your LinkedIn profile. Note that we have no knowledge of the transmitted data and the use by LinkedIn. For further information consult the LinkedIn’s privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy If you do not wish LinkedIn to associate your visit of our site to your LinkedIn profile log out of LinkedIn prior to visiting our site or use the incognito mode of your browser.

Twitter

We are using the functionality of Twitter on our site. These services are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the function Re-Tweet the sites you are visiting will be associated with your Twitter account and published to other users. By doing so data will be sent to Twitter. We do not know what data is transmitted and how the transmitted data will be used. For further information consult Twitter’s privacy policy http://twitter.com/privacy You may change your Twitter privacy settings in your account settings http://twitter.com/account/settings

Questions?

Email us at support@apreet.com if you have any questions about this Privacy Policy. Last updated May 4, 2023

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