Phonebooth Privacy
Privacy Policy
November 19, 2022
Introduction
Privacy is a fundamental human right. We will uphold the privacy of our users by fighting against ads, trackers and other impingements on privacy. We will never profit by monetizing your data but instead seek to fulfill our company mission by delivering a great product & service.
Our commitment to privacy and data protection is reflected in this Privacy Statement which describes how we collect and process "personal information" that identifies you, like your name or email address. Any other information besides this is "non-personal information." If we store personal information with non-personal information, we'll consider that combination to be personal information.
References to our "Services" in this statement include the Phonebooth Privacy app and our website, apps, and other products and services. This statement applies to our Services that display or reference this Privacy Statement. Third-party services that we integrate with are governed under their own privacy policies.
Information Gathering
Phonebooth Privacy strives to continually improve our Services for our users. To that end, we learn information about you when:
1. You directly provide it to us.
2. We collect it automatically through our products and services.
3. Someone else tells us information about you.
For example, depending on your device and app settings, we collect call log data including caller number, name of caller if present in contacts, call type, duration and timestamp of the call. The logs are not tied to any user identifier, like user account. Also, depending on other users' device and settings and whether you have called them on their phone, their call log data may contain your phone number, name if present in their contacts, call type, duration and timestamp of the call.
We do not require account signup to use the app, and hence, do not collect other information tied to user accounts like name, email and so on. Neither do we collect all of your contacts, apart from the name of caller in Call Log, as mentioned earlier.
Information Use
We use each category of personal information about you:
* To provide you with our Services
* To improve and develop our Services
* To communicate with you
* To provide customer support.
Information Sharing
We share information about you:
* When we've asked & received your consent to share it.
* To comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process, provided that we'll notify you unless we're legally prohibited from doing so. We'll only release personal information if we believe in good faith that it's legally required.
* Only if we reasonably believe it's necessary to prevent harm to the rights, property or safety of you or others.
* In the event of a corporate restructuring or change in our organizational structure or status to a successor or affiliate.
Finally, we may share non-personal information in accordance with applicable law.
Information Protection
Phonebooth Privacy implements physical, business and technical security measures to safeguard your personal information. In the event of a security breach, we'll notify you so that you can take appropriate protective steps. We only keep your personal information for as long as is needed to do what we collected it for. After that, we destroy it unless required by law.
Other Information
We retain personal data for as long as necessary to provide the services and fulfill the transactions you have requested, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and other legitimate and lawful business purposes. Because these needs can vary for different data types in the context of different services, actual retention periods can vary significantly based on criteria such as user expectations or consent, the sensitivity of the data, the availability of automated controls that enable users to delete data, and our legal or contractual obligations.
As part of our normal operations, your information may be stored in computers in other countries outside of your home country. By giving us information, you consent to this kind of information transfer. Irrespective of where your information resides, we'll comply with applicable law and abide by our commitments herein.
We don't want your personal information if you're under 13. Do not provide it to us. If your child is under 13 and you believe your child has provided us with their personal information, please contact us to have such information removed.
EU, EEA, Swiss and California Users
The following rights are granted under the European General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") and California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"). Phonebooth Privacy applies these rights to all users of our products, regardless of your location:
* The right to know what personal information is collected.
* The right to know if personal information is being shared, and to whom.
* The right to access your personal information.
* The right to exercise your privacy rights without being discriminated against.
EEA, UK, and Swiss Users
Our lawful bases for collecting and processing personal information under the GDPR include:
* Performing our contract with you and providing our services.
* Legitimate interests: we receive technical and interaction data of users, which may include IP addresses, to improve the security and reliability of our services and prevent abuse, and to understand where people learn about Phonebooth Privacy.
* Consent: where we ask for your consent to process your information, you can always withdraw this consent.
Under the GDPR, EEA, UK, and Swiss users have additional rights:
* The right to request correction or erasure of personal information.
* The right to object to processing your personal information.
* The right to right to transfer or receive a copy of the personal information in a usable and portable format, when any automated processing of personal data is based on your consent or a contract with you.
* The right to withdraw your consent to processing, when the processing is based on your consent.
When we are processing data on behalf of another party that is the "data controller," you should direct your request to that party. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, but we encourage you to first contact us with any questions or concerns.
California Users
Under the CCPA, California residents have additional rights:
* The right to request personal information about to be deleted, subject to several exceptions.
* The right to opt-out of the sale of personal information.
Note that we do not "sell" personal information as defined by the CCPA.
You may designate, in writing or through a power of attorney, an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights under the CCPA. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require the agent to provide proof you have authorized it to act on your behalf, and we may need you to verify your identity directly with us.
Further, to provide or delete specific pieces of personal information we will need to verify your identity to the degree of certainty required by law. We will verify your request by asking you to send it from the email address associated with your account or requiring you to provide information necessary to verify your account.
Data Subject Access Requests
If you wish to update, delete or change personal information Phonebooth Privacy may hold, contact us at phonebooth.privacy@gmail.com
Changes
We may need to change this privacy statement and our notices from time to time. Any updates will be posted online with an effective date. Continued use of our services after the effective date of any changes constitutes acceptance of those changes.
Contact Us
You can get in touch by emailing us at phonebooth.privacy@gmail.com
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