Privacy Policy
of Website and Web App
Updated and Effective as of August 2023
Thank you for choosing to be part of our community!
WE HOPE YOU TAKE SOME TIME TO READ THROUGH IT CAREFULLY, AS IT IS IMPORTANT.
This Privacy Policy describes how BeClose (collectively, “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, stores, transfers, and discloses personal information from our Users in connection with our Website or/and Web application located at the following Website: BeClose (collectively referred to as “Service”). One way to protect your privacy is to learn how it will be used before you give it out. We attach great importance to your privacy rights and truthfully explain why and how we process your information. We tried to shorten this privacy policy, so it would be easier to understand the rights of a User (referred to as “you,” “yours,” Etc.) and our obligations to the User’s data. «Personal Data» means personal data that relates to you as an identified or identifiable individual.
Where applicable, you must provide us with the relevant Personal Data to be able to use our Services completely. You should not use the Services if you disagree with this Policy, our Terms of Use, and any other agreement that governs your use. BY USING THE SERVICE, YOU PROMISE US THAT (I) YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, AND (II) YOU ARE OVER 16 YEARS OF AGE (OR HAVE HAD YOUR PARENT OR GUARDIAN READ AND AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY FOR YOU). You must not use the Service if you disagree or cannot make this promise. In this case, you must (a) contact us and request deletion of your data; and (b) leave the Service and not access or use it.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please be sure to check regularly. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on the primary access points to the Services or as otherwise required by applicable law.
If any questions still need to be answered, please contact us at support@becloseproject.com.
Table of content:
- 1. Categories of personal data, purposes of the processing, and legal bases
- 2. Cookies
- 3. Third parties processing Personal data
- 4. Term of storage of your personal information.
- 5. Rights about personal data.
- 6. Age limitations
- 7. CCPA rights
- 8. Miscellaneous
- 9. Contact information
1. Categories of personal data, purposes of the processing, and legal bases
When the User uses our Services, we can collect, use, receive, process, transfer, and share some of the User’s Personal Data for different legitimate purposes. Below are explanations regarding what Personal Data we may collect or process, why we may collect this data, and the legal bases relied on in each case.
Category
Personal Data
User-provided information (In some instances, we may require certain information in order to provide the Service, in other cases, we may ask you to provide such data voluntarily.)
Contact Data – when the User subscribes to the Service and enters the contract
email address; the password of the account that is created for you when you subscribe (the password is generated for you and sent to your email address, and you can change it afterwards); the last 4 digits of the payment card number (used, together with the email address, to identify a subscription when you cancel); the content of the messages you send us. You do not need to sign in to cancel your subscription.
Search Data - the information the User submits in order to run a lookup
the phone number entered for a lookup, the country or dialling code selected for it, and the date, time and status of each lookup made under your subscription. A phone number you enter may itself relate to another person; you must have a lawful basis for searching it, as described in our Terms of Use.
Location Data - we do not collect the User’s precise location. We do not use GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi scanning or any device sensor to locate you
an approximate location (country and, in some cases, region or city) derived from your IP address, together with your time zone, used to show prices in a suitable currency, to apply the rules that fit your jurisdiction and to detect fraud.
Automatically collected information. When you use the Service, some information about your device and user behavior may be processed automatically. Examples of such information:
Device Info – technical data
device type, two-character country code, a subdivision of country (e.g., state), city, two-character language code, browser and its version, operating system and version number, screen size, hardware type, connection type and internet service provider.
Identity Data - identify a computer, device, browser, or product
IP Address; cookie identifiers; browser and session identifiers; measurement and advertising identifiers set in your browser by our analytics and advertising partners, and other similar unique identifiers.
Usage Data (Events) - indicates how the activity happened on our Website
length of the User's last session in seconds; Length of the User's current session in seconds; Number of sessions recorded; the pages and steps of the search and checkout flow that were viewed; the campaign parameters of the link you arrived through; clicks on User's ads; the type of ads and the webpage from which such ads were displayed.
Diagnostic information
logs, error reports, events, and the type, number, date, and page relating to this information.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
cookies, web beacons (also known as "tracking pixels"), embedded scripts, location-identifying technologies, fingerprinting, device recognition technologies, on-page tracking methods, and other tracking technologies now and hereafter developed ("Tracking Technologies") may be used to collect information about interactions with the Service or information received from third parties.
Please note that the reports the Service produces are assembled from publicly available and other third-party data sources. When you run a lookup, we pass the phone number you entered to third-party data providers so that they can return what they hold about it, which may include a possible owner name, an approximate location or area, the carrier and the line type, and public profiles or email addresses that appear to be associated with that number. We do not create that information, we do not control those sources, and we cannot guarantee that what they return is accurate, complete or up to date. A report is provided for information only, and a result — including an empty result — does not confirm or disprove who uses a given number.
We collect personal data to ensure the Service provided, analyze your behavior during the usage of our Service, add new features to our Service, and provide our third-party service providers with information crucial to their services.
Providing Service includes enabling you to use the Service seamlessly and preventing or addressing Service errors or technical issues. As a result of such processing, we will use your email, for example, to send you the credentials of the account created for you, to send you notices about your trial, your subscription and your payments, and to answer your support requests. To host personal data and enable our Website to operate and be distributed, we use a third-party hosting provider. We use Stripe, a payment processing provider, to allow the purchase and process your payments. We send transactional email through a third-party email delivery provider. We will not store or collect your payment card details ourselves. This information will be provided directly to our third-party payment processors.
Purposes
Personal Data
Legal Basis
To provide the Services according to our policies with you. For example, we use your Personal Data to: run the lookup you asked for, assemble and deliver the resulting report, and manage your subscription, including the trial period, renewals and cancellation.
Contact Data; Search Data; Location Data; Usage Data
Contract
Research and development: We use Personal Data for internal research and development purposes and to improve and test the features and functions of our Services. We use information processed automatically to understand better user behavior and trends, detect potential outages and technical issues, and operate, protect, improve, and optimize our Service.
Automatically collected information
Legitimate interest
To diagnose and fix issues with the Service.
Usage Data
Legitimate interest
To help the User to choose a subscription plan, to run the lookups requested under it and to send the resulting reports.
Search Data
Contract
To communicate with you. When you contact us (for example, to inquire about our Services), we want to communicate with the User to provide support.
Contact Data
Contract
To allow us to track the performance of our marketing campaign to help us optimize our Service features and events for each user.
Session identifiers, on-site activity data, advertising and measurement identifiers, IP address, approximate location
Legitimate interest
To let the User cancel without signing in.
Cancellation does not require you to sign in: we identify a subscription when you ask us to cancel it by matching the email address you give us with the last 4 digits of the card that was charged. We use these two pieces of Contact Data only to locate the correct subscription and to confirm the request comes from the subscriber.
Contract
If applicable, billing (invoicing), account management, and other administrative purposes. If you pay for Services directly through our website, you authorize us to have our payment processor collect this information.
Contact Data. In the event the User purchases products or Services directly from us, we, or a third party on our behalf, may collect the billing information the User provides us, as well as the payment card and other payment information, solely as required to process payments or send User invoices for such purchase.
Contract
To send you marketing communications.
Contact Data
Consent
To personalize ads.
Automatically collected information, Location data
Consent
To prevent fraud or harm to us or any third party and ensure the security of our network and services.
Automatically collected information
Legitimate interest
Legal obligations: We may be required to use and retain Personal Data for legal and compliance reasons, such as the prevention, detection, or investigation of a crime; loss prevention; or fraud. For example, when we keep records of payments, refunds and cancellations for accounting, tax and consumer-protection purposes, or when we need to establish that a User meets the minimum age for the Service.
Contact Data
The legal obligation
To fulfill contractual obligations with third parties. For example, when we provide pseudonymized data to our partners in analytics matters or process your payment.
Automatically collected information. Contact Data
Legitimate Interest
2. Cookies
We may send one or more small data files called - "cookies" - to User's computer to uniquely identify User's browser, help the User move through the search and checkout flow faster, and enhance User's navigation through the website. Cookies may convey anonymous information about how Users browse the Services to us so we can provide you with a more personalized experience, but do not collect personal information about you. We may use different types of cookies: Essential Cookies (to provide you with Services available through our Site and to enable you to use some of its features, for example to keep the number you are searching for and your progress through the checkout flow), Functionality Cookies (to remember the language, currency and other changes you make, this helps us to make Service personal oriented), Analytics Cookies (these cookies allow us to collect information about traffic to our Site and how users use our Site, but this information doesn't include personally identifiable user information, the data collected is aggregated and anonymous), Social Media Cookies (these cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing). We may use web analytics and advertising services and technologies (such as the Meta (Facebook) Pixel and the Meta Conversions API, Yandex.Metrica, Etc.) to assist in collecting certain information about the devices or computers you use to access the Site. Users can opt out of certain types of tracking by Google Analytics and Yandex.Metrica. If you want to refrain from participating in Google Analytics and Yandex.Metrica, you can download a browser add-on that blocks the display of ads. We may use remarketing technology like Google Remarketing. We may use Google Remarketing to serve targeted advertisements. You can disable this function using the appropriate settings at http://www.google.com/settings/ads. For further information about cookies, including how to see the cookies set on your computer or mobile device and manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.com.
3. Third parties processing Personal data
We may share your information with third-party companies to perform certain services, including but not limited to hosting services, payment processing, analytics, and customer service, and to assist us in our marketing efforts. We share your Personal Data with certain third parties as part of our operation of the Service, whether shared by us or gathered directly by third parties through SDKs integrated into the Service. This data sharing enables us to provide you with the Service optimally, such as serving you personalized, relevant advertisements within the Service. We hereby undertake not to disclose or transfer the User’s Personal data to any third parties, except Processors mentioned in this paragraph, without receipt of individual consent of the User. The following companies are the Processors of the Personal Data of the Services (In case you want to learn more about the services and privacy options, please consult their websites and privacy policies):
Processor
Purpose
Policy and opt-out
Customer support and service email: help us to communicate with you simple and fast
Our email delivery provider
Sending and receiving service and support email, for example the credentials of the account created for you, billing notices and answers to your questions (Email address, Password, Content of the emails).
Data providers: supply the information from which a lookup report is assembled
Third-party data providers and publicly available data sources
To return whatever information they hold about a phone number so that we can assemble your report. Personal Data disclosed to them: the phone number you submit for a lookup and the country or dialling code selected for it. We do not send them your email address or your payment data. We do not control these sources and cannot guarantee that the information they return is accurate, complete or up to date.
Ad Partners: usually collect data via their tools, help us to measure our campaigns and find new users
Meta Platforms (Facebook, Instagram)
Advertising and conversion measurement service. Our Services measure conversions using visitor action pixels and the server-side Conversions API from Meta. It allows an analysis of the effectiveness of advertisements for statistical and market research purposes and their future optimization. You can manage your personalized ad preferences concerning Facebook directly from your Facebook account. Personal Data collected: Cookies, Identity Data (including the IP address and browser identifiers) and Usage Data, and a hashed version of the email address you provide at checkout. You may opt out of specific features by following the instructions in their Privacy Policy. You may visit www.aboutads.info/choices or www.youronlinechoices.eu (for individuals in the EU) to learn more about interest-based advertising and how to opt-out of this form of advertising on your web browser by companies participating in the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) self-regulatory program.
https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Analytic companies: provide us with tools and technologies that allow us to understand better how users interact with our services
Yandex (Yandex.Metrica)
Website analytics. To perform research and analysis about how users interact with the Website, which pages and steps they use and where they stop. Personal Data collected: Cookies, Usage Data, Device Info and IP address.
https://yandex.com/legal/confidential/
Other partners
Stripe, Inc.
Payment service provider. To collect and process payments for the trial and the subscription, to run fraud and risk checks, and to handle refunds, cancellations and disputes. Personal Data collected: Payment and banking information (entered directly into Stripe’s own payment form), email address, IP address and Usage Data.
Our hosting provider
Hosting and backend service. Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the service's Privacy Policy.
Competent Authorities
To comply with a legal obligation, process, or request. If we are bound to disclose your Personal data by a judicial order or governmental or regulatory authority, we will comply and share the personal data with that body.
The links above indicate data retention periods for other Processors (other than us).
4. Term of storage of Personal data. Security measures.
If you are located outside of the USA and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the USA and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by submitting such information, represents your agreement to that transfer. We retain all Personal Data for as long as you use the Services and 24 months after you stop. If you do not use the Services for 24 continuous months, we erase Personal Data from our database and request the same erasure from any third party to whom your Personal Data may have been transferred. We may erase Personal Data earlier if we no longer need to process such data.
Personal data may be processed by automated and non-automated means and stored at our premises and on our service provider's servers. We understand that, unfortunately, the Internet's transmission of information is not entirely secure. We do our best to maintain the privacy and integrity of your information. We have implemented industry-standard security measures, which include encryption to protect your personal information, including the phone numbers you search for, the reports produced for you and the contact details you share in Services, and this information is not available to third parties other than the Processors listed above. Our measures include pseudonymization and tokenization; Encryption; Protection of data integrity, Etc. However, transmissions over the Internet are never 100% secure, and you should not provide personal data to avoid risk. We will also not sell the phone numbers you search for or the reports produced for you, and we will not use them for advertising or similar services.
5. Rights about personal data.
We attach great importance to user privacy and would like to explain your data protection rights.
(i) The withdrawal right. It's important to remember that if we process your data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. Withdrawal is made by the mere notification of us via its Support service, i.e., by emailing support@becloseproject.com with the topic «Consent withdrawal», or, for consent given to cookies and similar technologies, by changing the cookie and tracking settings of your browser. The Service does not provide a separate consent settings menu, so please use the email address above to withdraw a consent you have given us.
(ii) The right to be informed. The right to know what Personal Data we hold and how and why we handle your Personal Data. You can ask us for a copy of your Personal Data. If you would like to exercise your right of access, please contact us as described below and let us know what information, in particular, you would like to receive.
(iii) The right to opt-out of direct or target interest advertising. Because the Service is a website, you exercise this right in your browser: by blocking or deleting cookies in your browser settings, by using the industry opt-out pages at www.aboutads.info/choices and www.youronlinechoices.eu (for individuals in the EU), by managing your ad preferences in your Facebook account, and by emailing us at the address below. Please note that even if you use your right to opt out, you will still receive advertising but not direct or target interest.
(iv) The right to request an update or correction (rectify) to any of your Personal Data that is out of date, incomplete or incorrect (according to Article 16 of the GDPR). In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to delete the Personal Data we hold about you.
(v) The right to delete your Personal data. (Right to be forgotten). You have the right to request that we delete certain of your Personal data. There are situations where we are unable to delete your data, for example, when: it's still necessary to process the data for the purpose we collected it for; our interest in using the data overrides your interest in having it deleted (for instance, we need the data to protect service from fraud); we have a legal obligation to keep the data or require the data to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
(vi) The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions: we are processing your personal data on the legal basis of legitimate interest or processing your personal data for interest-based advertising. Object to us processing your personal data at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation Object to your personal data being processed for direct marketing purposes.
(vii) The right to restrict the processing of your personal data under the conditions set out in Article 18 of the GDPR or any other applicable laws in your country of residence. You can do this if: your personal data is inaccurate; our processing is unlawful; we do not need your information for a specific purpose; you object to processing, and we are assessing your objection request.
(viii) The right to portability of your personal data. In some circumstances, you may have the right to request that the data you provided to us be provided so that you can transfer this to another data controller. You have the right to Request a copy of your personal data in electronic format and transmit that personal data for use in another party's service. If you wish to receive personal data in a machine-readable format, you can send a respective request to support@becloseproject.com.
(ix) The right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. Don't hesitate to contact your local data protection authority for more information. Please see this directory for contact details: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en. If you are in Switzerland, please visit this FDPIC site for contact details: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home/the-fdpic/contact.html.
(x) The right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change it or delete it in some circumstances. You have the right to ask for copies of your personal data. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please submit a request. We will respond to your request within 30 business days. The User is empowered to request one copy of the personal data undergoing processing free of charge. Any additional documents are provided on a reimbursement basis.In this case, please send an email to support@becloseproject.com.
If you are based in the EEA, you have the following rights in addition to the above: The right to complain to the supervisory authority. We would love for you to contact us directly so that we can address your concerns. Nevertheless, you can complain to a competent data protection supervisory authority, particularly in the EU Member State where you reside, work, or where the alleged infringement has occurred.
6. Age limitations
The Service is intended for adults and has a minimum “Age Limit” in each country or region. In general, you must be 16 years of age or older to use the Service, or your age requires parental consent to process your personal data. Following the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (“COPPA”), we will never knowingly solicit, nor will we accept, personally identifiable information from users of the Service known to be under 13 years of age. Please see our privacy policy for additional information, including how to notify us of any concerns.
If you believe we have information from or about anyone under thirteen (13) years of age, please notify us by email at support@becloseproject.com. Please include “COPPA Concern” in your message’s subject line and the body for the fastest processing. We will make the most significant efforts to delete the personal data.
7. CCPA rights
Here is the additional information about how we collect, use, disclose and otherwise process the personal data of individual residents of the State of California within the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). We adopted this paragraph to comply with CCPA, and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice. California law requires us to disclose the categories of personal information we collect and how we use them, the categories of sources from which we collect personal information, and the third parties with whom we share personal information. We have provided detailed descriptions above in this policy. In particular, our Services have collected the following categories of personal information from its consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
Category
Examples
Collected
We sell
Sources of Collection
Categories of Third Parties with Whom We Share Personal Information
A. Identifiers
A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number.
YES
NO
User, their Devices
Advertisers, Analytics Providers, and Third Parties as Legally required
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).
A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal data in this category may overlap with those from other categories. Of the examples listed in this statutory category, we handle only the following: the telephone number you submit for a lookup, a possible owner name returned for that number by a third-party data source, and the last 4 digits of your payment card. We do not collect medical information or health insurance information, and full card numbers are entered directly into our payment processor’s form and are not stored by us.
YES
NO
User, Third-party data providers
Data Providers, Payment Service Providers, and Third Parties as Legally required
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information), driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
NO
NO
N/A
N/A
D. Commercial information.
Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
YES
NO
User
Payment Service Providers
E. Biometric information.
Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as fingerprints, faceprints, voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data (Hair color, eye color, fingerprints, height, retina scans, facial recognition, voice, and other biometric data).
NO
NO
N/A
N/A
F. Internet or other similar network activity.
Browsing history, search history, and information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
YES
NO
User, their Devices
Advertisers, Analytics Providers, and Third Parties as Legally required
G. Geolocation data.
Physical location or movements. We derive only an approximate location (country and, in some cases, region or city) from the IP address, in order to show prices in a suitable currency and to detect fraud. We do not collect precise or GPS location and we do not track movements.
YES
NO
User, their Devices
Payment and Fraud Prevention Providers, Analytics Providers, and Third Parties as Legally required
H. Sensory data.
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
NO
NO
N/A
N/A
I. Professional or employment-related information.
Current or past job history or performance evaluations.
NO
NO
N/A
N/A
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).
Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.
NO
NO
N/A
N/A
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information.
The profile reflects a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
YES
NO
User, their Devices, Partners
Advertisers, Analytics Providers, and Third Parties as Legally required
As a California resident, you have the rights listed below:
- You can request information about how we have collected and used your personal information during the past 12 months including the categories: The categories of information we have collected about you; The categories of sources from which the information is collected; The business or commercial purpose for collecting your information; The categories of third parties with whom we have shared your information; and The specific pieces of information we have collected about you;
- You can request a copy of the personal information that we have collected about you during the past 12 months. Also, according to the California “Shine the Light” law users who are California residents have the right to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed their personal information (if any) for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year, as well as the type of personal information disclosed to those parties. To make such a request from us, if entitled, please use the contact information listed below;
- You can ask us to delete personal information we have collected from you. We may need certain types of information so that we can provide our Services to you. If you ask us to delete some or all of your information, you may no longer be able to access or use the Services;
- You have the right to be Free from Discrimination. We may not discriminate against you because you have exercised your rights, including, for example, by denying you access to our online services or charging you different rates or prices for the same online services, unless that difference is reasonably related to the value provided by your data;
- You have the right to opt out of the sale of Personal Information, which is defined in a way that may include the transfer of data to third parties to personalize ads for you. Please note that the CCPA defines the term “sale” very broadly to include any exchange of data for consideration of any kind, not simply selling your data for monetary compensation. Depending upon the circumstances, the term “sale” could include a company providing a resident’s data to another entity to assist the company with targeted advertising. We do not sell to third parties, and within the last 12 months have not sold, any of your personal information. If you opt out of the ‘sale’ of your information, we will not sell your information, including to our advertising partners, but you may continue to receive ads from our Services, which may not be as tailored to your interests;
- You have the right to complete your transaction;
- You have the right to provide you a good or service;
- You have the right to perform a contract between us and you;
- You have the right to protect your security and prosecute those responsible for breaching it;
- You have the right to fix our system in the case of a bug;
- You have the right to protect the free speech rights of you or other users;
- You have the right to comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et seq.);
- You have the right to engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interests that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws;
- You have the right to comply with a legal obligation;
- You have the right to make other internal and lawful uses of the information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it;
- Other Rights. You can request certain information about our disclosure of your information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year (to the extent we have shared information for such purposes within the given period). This request is free and may be made once a year. You also have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights listed above.
You may exercise your California privacy rights described above by emailing us to support@becloseproject.com. We will need to confirm your identity (e.g. first name, last name, account name, email address, state of residence, etc.) and California residency to process your requests to exercise your information, access or deletion rights. We aim to respond to a consumer request for access or deletion within 45 days of receiving that request. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) provides California residents with the additional rights listed here. To exercise these rights, see the “Exercising Your California Privacy Rights” subsection below.
Social sharing features
User has the right to know and see what information we have collected about you over the past 12 months, including:
- The categories of information we have collected about you;
- The categories of sources from which the information is collected;
- The business or commercial purpose for collecting your information;
- The categories of third parties with whom we have shared your information;
- The specific pieces of information we have collected about you;
Right to Delete
The User has the right to request that we delete the information we have collected from you (and direct our service providers to do the same). There are several exceptions, however, that include, but are not limited to, when the information is necessary for us or a third party to do any of the following:
- Complete your transaction;
- Provide you a good or service;
- Perform a contract between us and you;
- Protect your security and prosecute those responsible for breaching it;
- Fix our system in the case of a bug;
- Protect the free speech rights of you or other users;
- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et seq.);
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interests that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws;
- Comply with a legal obligation;
- Make other internal and lawful uses of the information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
Right to Opt-out
You have the right to “opt-out,” or direct us to stop “selling” or otherwise sharing your information with third parties in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration. To submit an opt-out request, please follow the instructions in the ‘right to opt-out’ paragraph found above, configure the cookie and tracking settings of your browser, or email us at the address below.
Other Rights
You can request certain information about our disclosure of your information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year (to the extent we have shared information for such purposes within the given period). This request is free and may be made once a year. You also have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights listed above.
Exercising Your California Privacy Rights
To request access to or deletion of your personal information, to opt-out, or to exercise any other rights under California law, please write us an email to support@becloseproject.com.
8. Miscellaneous
Conditions of the present PRIVACY POLICY may be unilaterally changed by us if required under the applicable laws or in other relevant cases with obligatory notification of the Users. The new version of the PRIVACY POLICY enters into force and is subject to observance by the User after the User has expressly agreed to its applicability. If the User does not agree to the relevance of the new version of the PRIVACY POLICY, the User will discontinue the usage of the Service of BeClose and will not be allowed to use the Service without the provision of unambiguous consent to the applicability of the new version of the PRIVACY POLICY.
9. Contact information
DATA CONTROLLER:
BeClose, operated by Patrycja Kiecana
Email: support@becloseproject.com