Privacy Policy Hot Summer Apps Pic Quick
This Privacy Policy explains how Hot Summer Apps Inc. (Pic Quick App, Pic Quick) collects, uses, discloses, stores, safeguards and retains your Personal Information in connection with your use of our mobile application (the "App"). If you do not agree to the terms set out in this Privacy Policy, you must not use our website or App.
What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy covers and refers to two types of information:
1. “Personal Information” means information about an identifiable individual, such as your name, username, physical address, email address, date of birth, phone number, photograph, Internet protocol (IP)address, and precise geolocation information; and
2. “Other Information” means information that may not identify you and cannot be used to contact you personally, including information about you such as your ZIP, postal or area code, non-precise geolocation information (e.g., your city), and gender, as well as information about your mobile device, such as your unique device ID, or other persistent identifiers, and their hardware/software/firmware. Other Information also includes “Usage Data,” which includes data relating to usage of your device, such as the actions you take within and outside of the App, the browser and/or device you use, the date and time of your use of the App, particular preferences you have chosen, and the apps you used before and after using our App.
Together, Personal Information and Other Information may collectively be referred to as “Information”.
What Information Do We Collect?
The information we collect enables us to improve, customize, personalize and operate the services. We collect the following types of information from our users:·
If you choose to open an account with us, participate in our contests, request support, sign up to receive notifications, or in any other way take steps that require the submission of Information, we will collect all information you submit, which may include your name, email address, phone number, date of birth, postal/zip/area code and/or gender;·
If you partake in any contests or games, you may be required to submit Personal Information such as your name, street address, city, state/province and postal/zip/area code, email address, phone number and date of birth;·
If you choose to submit your Information to us for any other reason in any other form (e.g., customer service requests, inquiry submissions, etc.), we will collect such Information and use it for the purposes for which you submitted it and to improve the App and our services;· User profile information including your first name, first initial of your last name, username and other information you may enter or submit at sign up or otherwise provide to us may be displayed to other users to facilitate user interaction within our services;·
We may communicate with you via push notification, email, SMS, MMS or other text message(“Message”) (to the extent you permit us to do so), and we may collect information regarding such communications, such as confirmation when you open an email, read a Message or receive a push notification. We use this information to improve our services, including without limitation our customer service. · We may access your device’s phonebook or contact list to gather Information such as your friend’s contact information in order to facilitate inviting your friends to join our App, but only if you have first given us your express consent;·
We may collect Information about your location, but only if you have first given us your express consent. With your consent, we may also collect Information about your precise location using methods that include GPS, wireless networks, cell towers, Wi-Fi access points, and other sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and compasses;·
We, or third party analytics services on our behalf, may collect Information such as device IDs, IP addresses and other persistent identifiers whenever you use our App; and·
A special note about cookies: When you use the App, we may also use “cookies,” “web beacons” or similar tracking technologies, which are tiny files that identify your computer or mobile device that collect and store Usage Data relating to such computer or mobile device. Should you choose to submit other Information to us, we may link that Usage Data to your other Information. You may be able to disable cookies and other tracking technology; however, some of our App will not function properly if you do so and you may lose access to the parts of the App you wish to use.
Use of Personal Information
We will use your Personal Information to:·
Provide you with the services or functionality you have requested, including facilitating posts, messaging and chats, contacting your friends, registering you for a contest or game, and processing any prizes or awards you’ve won;·
Respond to any inquiries you have made through our customer service features;·
Facilitate our referral process, which allows users to refer friends to our App;·
Promote our App or alert you to special offers or features. We will provide you with the opportunity to opt in to receiving such communications in the future. You may also opt in to receiving such communications at any time in accordance with the instructions provided in this Privacy Policy. Please note that if you have not chosen to opt-in to receiving promotional emails, you will still receive emails alerting you if you have won a contest, or other personal communications regarding your win and/or prize.
Use of the Other Information
Other Information may be used by us for administrative, analytical, research, optimization, security and other purposes. Specifically, we may use your Other Information (including Usage Data collected through tracking technologies) to:·
Track your use of our App to help us learn more about your preferences and tendencies so that we can personalize your experience, provide you with notifications that are tailored to you, and otherwise enhance your experience;·
Determine which features, products and services users enjoy the most so we can enhance and improve our App;·
Evaluate the success of certain features;·
Protect against crime or fraud, or to address other security concerns.
Disclosure of the Information·
We will not sell, rent or transfer your Personal Information to third parties for marketing purposes without your prior consent. Specifically, we will not disclose your Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes unless you first “opt in” or affirmatively agree to the disclosure.·
In order to provide certain aspects of our App, such as prize fulfillment, we may be required to share your Information, including Personal Information, with third parties with whom we have contracted to assist us in providing such App. Your Information may be maintained and processed by us or our third party service providers in the US or other jurisdictions. In addition, Information in aggregated, anonymous form may be shared with third parties who assist us with our internal operations such as administration, analytics, research, strategy and optimization. The third parties we contract with for the foregoing purposes (“App Providers”) will be authorized to use such Information only for the purposes for which the party was engaged.·
Our App may offer social sharing features such as via Instagram or other third party socialnetworking sites. If you decide to use such features, it may allow the sharing and collection of Information both to and from such third-party social networks. You should visit the policies ofsuch third parties for more information about their information collection practices.·
We and our Canadian, US and other service providers may disclose your Personal Information orother Information collected if required by law or court order, if the information relates to actualor threatened harmful conduct, to investigate and/or take action against illegal activity,suspected abuse or unauthorized use of the App, or to protect the property or safety of others.We may also share your Information with an organization in the case of a breach of anagreement or contravention of law, or to detect, suppress or prevent fraud.·
In connection with an actual or proposed sale or transfer of our company or any line of business(including the assets relating thereto) or other corporate reorganization or change in corporatecontrol, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets, and suchcustomer information (including your Personal Information) will be transferred, shared or sold tothe acquirer or transferee or potential acquirer or transferee.
Advertising
By using our App, you may be offered advertising content. We or the ad networks we use may utilizead-serving technologies that use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels and other technologies that areplaced within the ads and allow us or our networks to collect Information. Information such as age and gender may be used to ensure that appropriate advertising is offered to you, otherwise known asinterest-based advertising. Information such as advertising identifiers may be used to determine how many clicks an ad received, to measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns, to determine the properamount of repeat views of a given ad, and/or to deliver ads that best relate to your interests.
Your Rights and Access to Your Information
We ask that you keep the Personal Information that you provide to us accurate. You may correct any Personal Information stored or collected by us that is not accurate by contacting us atinfo@picquickapp.com.
You may withdraw your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information at anytime. To do this, please contact our Privacy Officer. Withdrawal of your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information may result in you being unable to continue use of our App or services. You may have the ability to decline to permit cookies or other tracking technology, but in that case we cannot promise you that all features will function properly as a result.
If you use the App, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and for restricting access to your computer or device, and you agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account.
Children and Minors
We do not knowingly collect or use any Personal Information from minors under the age of 16 If you area parent or guardian of a child under 16 years of age and you believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at info@picquickapp.com.
Changes
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. We may notify you of a change to this Privacy Policy, for example by announcing the change on our website or app. If you have any questions about the changes that were implemented, please contact us at info@picquickapp.com and include“ Information Regarding Updated Policy” in the subject line. Your continued use of our App constitutes your consent to the contents of any updated policy.
Security
We have implemented reasonable technological and security features appropriate to the sensitivity of the information to safeguard the privacy of your Personal Information from unauthorized access or improper use.
Third Party Links
Our App may contain links to other sites on the Web. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave the PicQuick platform and to read the privacy statements of each and every Website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected on the Pic Quick platform.
You may be able to access posting and sharing tools on the services that allow you to post or share information to your social networks outside of the Services (“Share”). By using these tools, youacknowledge that some account information from your account on the applicable third party service may be transmitted into your account with us, and that such information is covered by this Privacy Policy.Furthermore, if a tool, such as the Share tool, is operated by a third party service, it may collect information about your browser or online activity, which would be subject to the third party service’sprivacy policy. When you use these tools, some of your information from the services may be sharedwith the third party service and others. Therefore, we encourage you to read the privacy policies andother policies of any third party services, including without limitation any applicable social networks, youuse in connection with our services or App.
Data Retention
Your Personal Information will be retained only as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, or until you request that we delete it, in which case it will be deleted in accordance with (and subject to) our internal data retention policies and our legal obligations.
Privacy Officer
If you have any concerns about our Privacy Policy or its implementation, you may contact our Privacy Officer at: info@picquickapp.com.
This Privacy Policy is effective as of January 1st, 2024.
