Pelichat Privacy Policy effective date: December 05, 2016 On December 05, we published a revised version of our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of Pelichat means you agree to this revised document

The Pelichat mobile application offers users a forum to interact with other Pelichat users, by means of posts, chats, sharing comments, and responding to comments posted by others. In this Privacy Policy ("Policy"), we describe how we collect, use, and disclose information that we obtain about users of our application.

 

What Information We Collect

 

Account Information. When you first launch the App and/or the Sites, we assign you a user id but we do not require you to provide your name or email address. In addition, you are required to create a unique username for posting content or replying to a content. You may choose a username that contains personally identifiable information such as your name. This username may be changed to any unique username at any time. Once the username has been changed, the old username is no longer reserved for use by yourself. Any content produced with the old username will remain and continue to have said username as the poster.

We may also collect the following information:

 

Your Content and Usage. We collect any content you submit to the application.  The content includes anything in or attached to your Squawks (for example, photos and GIFs), replies and likes, as well as information about when you submitted the content and other activities.

  

Other Information you Provide to Us. When you interact with our application or otherwise communicate with Pelichat in any way, we will collect the information you choose to share with us. 

 

Information We Collect Automatically. We may automatically collect information about your use of the application such as: access time, device ID, application ID or other unique identifier; screen views; geo-location data (with your permission); language information; device name and model; operating system information; your activities within the application; and the length of time that you are logged in. We may combine this information with other information that we have collected about you.

 

Social Media Sites. You can like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and promote us on other social media sites. We collect information about who has liked us or followed us. However, we don't associate your social media account with your Pelichat account. You may also share screenshots of chats or Squawks through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media accounts.

 

How We Use Information We Collect

In general, we use the information we collect from and about you to provide and operate the application, respond to your requests, and to provide customer service and technical support. We may also use information:

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  To place you in context of your location to view Squawks and chat rooms.
  
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  To tailor the information that we may send or display to you, offer location customization, and send you push notifications and alerts.
  
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  To send you notices.
  
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  To display advertising, including advertising that is targeted to you based on your location, as well as your Pelichat activities.
  
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  To verify your identity within the parameters of the application, not your actual identity(i.e. your real name) and prevent impersonation, spam or other unauthorized or illegal activity.
  
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  To better understand how users access and use the application, both on an aggregated and individualized basis, in order to improve the application and respond to user desires and preferences, and for other research and analytical purposes.
  

 

Pelichat is based in South Africa. No matter where you are located, you consent to the processing and transferring of your information in and to South Africa and other countries.  The laws of South Africa and other countries governing data collection and use may not be as comprehensive or protective as the laws of the country where you live. And, your information may be made available to government or law enforcement requests.

 

How We Share Information

You cannot control who views your content; any content you post is publicly available. So, if you don't want to share something publicly, don't post it. Pelichat is a social network, and the content you post may be shared with and viewable by others.  We do not identify you by name or contact information to other Pelichat users.  However, we cannot prevent others from determining your identity from the content you post or how you share content through third party sites.

The information we collect, including personally identifiable information, may be shared as follows:

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  Pelichat Users. Any information that you post, including usernames, comments, pictures, replies and other information is publicly available. We cannot control how your information is used by others. Your posts are available to all other users. Users can also freely share any Pelichat content, no matter who posted it, through other third party sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. And, your posts may be publicly distributed outside of Pelichat by us or third parties.
  
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  Service Providers. We may disclose the information we collect to third party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform functions on our behalf.
  
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  Business Transfers. We may transfer the information we have collected to another company in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business.
  
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  Third Parties and Partners. We may share the information with our third party partners, including advertisers and researchers. For example, if you post content that mentions one of our advertisers, we may share that content with them. Or, we may work with a researcher to analyze the content on a particular feed.
  
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  In Response to Legal Process. We also may disclose the information in order to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order, subpoena, or other legal process. For example, we may share your IP address or other identifier, your location information, or any other information we have collected about you and your device.
  
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  To Protect Us and Others. We also may disclose information if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Service or this Policy, or as evidence in litigation in which Pelichat is involved.
  
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  Aggregate and De-Identified Information. We may also share aggregate or de-identified information about users with third parties for marketing, advertising, research or similar purposes.
  

You can delete content you have posted (including comments).  Content you delete will be hidden from other users.  However, Pelichat may maintain a copy of such content in our records.  

 

We may send push notifications or alerts to your device.  You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your device or by changing your Pelichat settings.

  

Third Party Analytics

We may use automated devices and applications, included those offered by third parties to evaluate usage of the application.  We also may use other analytic means to evaluate the application.  We use these tools to help us improve the application, performance and user experiences. The information collected may include unique device identifiers, device manufacturer and operating system, session start/stop time, and user activity.

The mobile analytics tool Pelichat uses is Fabric. To learn how Fabric uses your data from the application please visit https://fabric.io/.

 

We may display ads to you (including in-app ads), and we may target those ads based on your location, your Pelichat activities, and other criteria (e.g., the time of day).  We do not currently respond to do-not-track signals that may be sent from your device.  

 

Third-Party Links

The application may contain third party links, including third party integrations.  Any access to and use of such links or third party integrations is not governed by this Policy, but instead is governed by the privacy policies of those third parties.

 

Minors

You must be at least 18 to use the application.  If you are not at least 18, please do not use the application or provide any information to us.

 

Contact Us

 

If you have questions about the privacy aspects of the application or would like to make a complaint, please contact us at support@pelichat.com.