Privacy Policy
Introduction
Welcome to Busyfriends! This Privacy Policy is here to help you understand how we treat any personal information that you share with us when you use the Busyfriends platform via a PC, Laptop or via the Busyfriends Mobile Apps! This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect visitors’ and users’ information. Any discussion of your use of the Service in this Policy is meant to include your visits and other interactions with the Sites and Services, whether or not you are a user of this Community.
Who Are We?
The Busyfriends website via PC, Laptop or Mobile App (“Site”) is operated by Busyfriends Ltd (“Busyfriends, ''we”`,''us” and/or “our”), the global organizer of this Web Based, Mobile Community, is a registered Limited Liability Company registered in the United Kingdom. The data controller responsible for your personal data is Busyfriends Ltd with whom you contract as a customer, member or membership applicant (“Busyfriends”, “we”, “us” and/or “our”).
What is this Privacy Policy for?
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to personal data that we collect from you as a user of our Web Based platform or via our Mobile Apps or as a visitor, member, subscriber, or customer (“you” or “your” being interpreted accordingly). It provides information on what personal data we collect, why we collect personal data, how it is used and the lawful basis on which your personal data is processed, and what your rights are under the applicable data protection and privacy laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)
What do we mean by Personal Information?
‘Personal Data’ as used in this Privacy Policy means any information that relates to you from which you can be identified. Personal information means any information that relates to a natural person, which, either directly or indirectly, in combination with other information available or likely to be available with a body corporate, is capable of identifying such person.
Personal Information does not include “User Metrics data” which we define as encrypted information or aggregated data we collect about a service, features or users which does not contain personally-identifying information. Usage Data helps us understand trends in the usage of the Service so that we can better consider new features or otherwise tailor the Service. In addition to collecting and using Usage Data ourselves, we may share Usage Data with third parties, including our customers, partners, and service providers, for various purposes, including to help us better understand our customers’ needs and improve the Service as well as for advertising and marketing purposes. We do not share Usage Data with third parties in a way that would enable them to identify you personally.
By using the Busyfriends web based platform, Mobile Apps or submitting your personal data you are taken to accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, so please read it carefully.
Information you voluntarily provide to us during Registration:
We collect some Personal Information about users while they Register their Account or contact us through Enquiry Forms, their contact details including their First Name, Surname, Gender, Birthday, Email Address and Contact Number which will be kept confidential from other users and will be shared with others only after the user's consent & permission. You may also provide at your own discretion certain related information like your social media websites URL's, a list of your interests, the date you started using the Service and a description of yourself.
Personal Data may include, but not limited too:
Reason for Use : These details are used to have the unique identity of each user within the Busyfriends Community.
While Sign Up, users accept these "Terms and Policy" before providing such details.
When Users access the community via PC, Laptop or Apps, we do collect some personal information of the User's Device like Email Address and Contact Numbers, which is done only after User's consent. The Website, Apps asks permission if the user allows accessing these details and only after the consent these details are used in the Application.
Reason for Use: These details are used to invite users added within the Website or Mobile Device to our Community, and to add connections with mutual users of the Device and Busyfriends Community.
It can include below details:
Our Mobile Apps may take permission to access Bluetooth of the device in order to connect on Audio / Video Call or Listen Musics across the app through wireless connection
When User access the site or app, we might ask permission for access of CONTACT NUMBER and EMAIL ADDRESS of users present in the Site, Mobile Device. These details are used to invite users added in the site, Mobile Device to our Community, or to add connections with mutual users of the Device and Busyfriends Community.
It can include below details:
We might fetch Users' location before allowing access to the site, app, but before the access we take permission from user
Reason for Use : Access of Location is used for the purpose of filtering the content across the site, app based on selected Location, set default location of the app as per the user's requirement, for check-In purpose, create content for any specified location etc.
Members of the Site, Mobile Apps can upload Audio, Photos, Videos, Audios and capture images/videos in the Site, Mobile Apps. To do so, the site, mobile app will access the Camera, Microphone and Gallery of the Device. We take consent from users before accessing the Camera, Gallery / SD card of the Device, Microphone, Hard Drive etc.
When you access our Service using any PC, Laptop Mobile devices, we may access, collect, monitor, and/or remotely store one or more “device identifiers,” of the device. A device ID ( device identification) is a distinctive number associated with a device or smartphone or similar handheld device , these are small data files or similar data structures stored on or associated with your mobile device, which uniquely identify your mobile device. A device identifier may convey information to us about how you browse and use the Service. A device identifier may remain persistently on your device, to help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through the Service. Some features of the Service may not function properly if use or availability of device identifiers is impaired or disabled.
It is basically used for sending Push Notifications within and to the Device.
When the user saves files through the Site, Mobile Apps like Images, Videos, Audios, it gets stored in the internal storage / Gallery of the Device.
Only users with login passwords can access the password-protected areas of the Busyfriends Community. The user identity shall be provided by us while the user shall define the login password, which shall be encrypted and stored on the server. We strongly recommend that the password is retained confidential.
We use third-party analytics tools like Firebase to help us measure user traffic for the Service. These tools collect information sent by your browser as part of pages request, including the web pages you visit, your browser add-ons, and other information that assists us in improving the Service. We may collect and use this analytics information together with your Personal Information to build a broader profile of our individual users so that we can better serve you. We also use it to monitor aggregate device, app’s usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed.
We display Advertisement across the site and apps using our own built in Advertising platform.
We may receive information about you from other sources. For example, if you use third-party software through the site or apps, they may transfer information to us for fulfillment. For example, if you access our site or app or Service through a third-party connection or log-in or connect to our service using social media account (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc.) that third party may pass certain information about your use of its service to Busyfriends. This information could include, but is not limited to, the user User Token, User ID associated with your account or any information that you have permitted the third party to share with us, and any information you have made public in connection with that third-party service. Information will be saved as Encrypted form.
Our Service and Application may contain links to other website services. These may include links like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Vimeo or any external website links . Please be aware that we are not liable for the privacy practices or content of such external websites and applications operated by third parties.
In addition, you agree that we are not responsible and do not control any third parties that you authorize to access your user content or related data. If you are using a third-party website or service and you allow such a third party access to your User Content, you do so at your own risk. This Policy applies only to information collected by our Service.
We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by Busyfriends. We may use both session cookies, which expires when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the website, app and community.
Note that disabling cookies on your PC, Laptop or Mobile device or browser may prevent us or our business partners from tracking your browser’s activities in relation to the Service we provide. However, doing so may disable many of the features available through the Service.
A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website. The cookie will collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device such as the device’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and if you arrived at our Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.
We also have the option for users to remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit our site or app.
The users of the Busyfriends Community do have the right and access to delete their Account from the Platform. if done so, all relevant data collected and saved on the server would be permanently removed from the database as well as the Server and there will be no further details saved at our end.
We do not have a native Payment Process within the site or apps but have Payment through webview. Users can purchase paid packages created within the site and apps to purchase products, etc through different payment methods. But, we do not store or save any Payment Account such as Paypal, Credit / Debit Card details at our end. These details are added by the user while making the payment and are only saved by respective Payment Methods (which are the third party payment gateways) like PayPal , PayU Money, etc. We do not save any details at our end. We just save order details, billing addresses which are internally added by the Users while making the purchase. This is being done only after user's consent.
We use the information we collect to provide our products to you and make them better, develop new products, and protect our users. For example, we may log how often people use two different versions of a product, which can help us understand which version is better.
We also use the information we collect to offer you customized content, including:
The information we collect may be “personally identifiable” (meaning it can be used to specifically identify you as a unique person) or “non-personally identifiable” (meaning it can’t be used to specifically identify you).
What choices do you have about your information?
Our goal is to give you simple and meaningful choices over your information. If you have an account, many of the choices you have on this are built directly into the product or your account settings. For example, you can:
How do we share the information we collect?
People use the Busyfriends Community to find inspiration, make them a reality, and inspire others in the process. When you post public updates, anyone can view them. You may also provide us with profile page information that anyone can view. The other limited instances where we may share your personal information include:
We might also share aggregated or non-personally identifiable information with our partners or others who are linked with our Services.
We at Busyfriends, are committed to securing the personal information shared by the Users. We use various technologies that helps to secure User’s personal details and other related information in various ways. We have standard and high quality SSL Certificates installed on our servers which transmits data in encrypted form. Databases are secured under security Layer which is Private Subnet. Any external attack can not break our protective firewall and security layer thus, informations and details like Images and other Contents are protected using Cloud Fronts.
We do not accept account for children under 13. If you learn that your minor child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us.
We have a “Data Protection Officer” who is responsible for matters relating to privacy and data protection. You may contact this officer if you have any questions about our privacy practices or the way in which we have been managing your personal information. This Data Protection Officer can be reached at the following address: Busyfriends Ltd, 20-22 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU, England or use the email info@busyfriends.com.
We may change this policy from time to time, and if we do we’ll post any changes on this page. If you continue to use the site via PC, Laptop or via the Apps after those changes are in effect, you agree to the revised policy. If the changes are significant, we may provide more prominent notice or obtain your consent as required by law.
