Welcome to Surly Studio Team. This Privacy Policy applies to the Surly Studio mobile app for Android. This Privacy Policy applies only to the practices of companies we own, control, or are united with under common control. By accessing or using our Service, you signify that you have read, understood and agree to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE SERVICE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS DESCRIBED HEREIN AND ALL TERMS AND CONDITIONS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH BELOW, YOU MAY NOT USE OUR SERVICES.
This Policy is part of our Terms of Service and applies to the information that is collected in connection with the download, installation and use of the Application, related services and the Site. By using the Application, related services or the Site, you signify your assent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Policy, or to our Terms of Service, do not download, install or use the Application and Service.
This Policy covers our collection, use and disclosure of your information through the Applications, the Services and the Site. It does not cover any collection, use or disclosure by third parties through any applications, Websites, products or services that we do not control or own, or any third party features or services made available via an Application, the Services. All trademarks, trade names and logos of third parties featured on the Applications or the Site belong to their respective owners.
The Application is intended for people who are competent to contract under applicable law. Individuals who are considered a minor in applicable jurisdictions are not permitted to use this application unless the complete Agreement is seen and agreed by parents or their legal guardians under applicable law.
1. What Kind Of Information We Collect
1.1 Personal Information:
Personal information is data that can be used to identify or contact a single person uniquely.
We respect the privacy of every individual who uses our Services. We collect certain personal information that you voluntarily provide to us. For example, we maybe collect your name, email address, username, social network information and other information you provide us when you register, set up an account, contact us by e-mail or use our services.
We may also obtain information from other companies and combine that with information we collect on the Services. For example, when you link your account with Facebook, we might have access to your name and profile picture.
When you interact with our services, we collect the information that you choose to share with us. Such information includes the type of browser you use, your browser’s language, access time or the website from which you linked to us. We also collect information about your computer’s operating system and information about your usage and activity on the Site. This information is only used to assist us in providing an effective service. We may, from time to time, supply the owners and operators of third party websites and mobile applications which have a link to our site or application with information about the number of users of our Site or Mobile. You cannot be identified from any of this information.
With your permission (on download or in the app), we may access and store the Content (your username and photos) you provided while using our Mobile Applications and Site. We may also edit stored photos, apply effects to them and use them to perform marketing activities. We will show your photos or your edited photos solely to you (for example by sending you promotional e-mails you opted-in).
We may also collect information about others if you use our Services to upload, share and distribute Content that contains information about them, including their name, image and online contact information. Do not send or share content that you wouldn’t want someone to save or share.
Information we get from your use of our services (with your consent):
We may collect information about the services that you use and how you use them, such as when you view and interact with our content. We will disclose app’s request detail for consent by present the consent dialog in a clear and unambiguous way in-app.
Here’s a fuller explanation of the types of information we may collect when you use our services to make functions of application work properly:
+ Content Information: We collect information about the content you provide, such as if the recipient has viewed the content and the metadata that is provided with the content.
+ Device Information: We collect device-specific information, such as the hardware model, operating system version, advertising identifier, unique application identifiers, unique device identifiers, browser type, language, wireless network, and mobile network information.
+ Information Collected by Cookies and Other Technologies: Like most online services and mobile applications, we may use cookies and other technologies, such as web beacons, web storage, and unique advertising identifiers, to collect information about your activity, browser, and device. We may also use these technologies to collect information when you interact with services we offer through one of our partners, such as commerce features. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually remove or reject browser cookies through the settings on your browser or device. Keep in mind, though, that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our services.
+ Identifiers: In addition, You may provide us with Your user identifier information regarding certain third party services, i.e. Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and Twitter, necessary for the application to interoperate with such third party services. In that case We will store and process also that information (and also a mapped photo where applicable), for as long as You use the Services and will not use this information for any other purpose than required in order to obtain interoperability and functionality in relation to such third party services. Please note that we never store any passwords to the mentioned third party services.
+ CALENDAR: Used for permissions that are associated our app features with your consent.
Read Calendar: Used for reminding some event that you will forget
Write Calendar: Used for optimizing user experiement
+ CAMERA: Many of our services require us to collect images and other information from your device’s camera and photos. We’ll access your camera and photos only after you give us your consent.
+ CONTACTS INFORMATION: If our app is obtained from other sources than Apple App Store or Google Play, you may share the names, numbers and email addresses contained in Your device’s address book (“Contact Information”) with us for the purpose described below under Enhanced Search. If you provide us with personal information about someone else, you confirm that they are aware that you have provided their data and that they consent to our processing of their data according to our Privacy Policy. If the our app is obtained from Google Play, we will only use permitted Contact Information to make our Services more relevant to you and your engagement with the community in our app.
In addition to Contact Information, if you choose to activate use of a third party social network service, such as Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn or Twitter, within our app, and we may up-load, store and use the list of identifiers associated with said services linked to the Contact Information in order to enhance the results shared with other users.
Please note that no other Contact Information than the phone numbers and thereto attached names and email addresses will be received, stored and used from the user’s address book. Other numbers or information that may be contained in your device’s phone book will be filtered away and will therefore not be stored or used by us. Addresses, passwords and credit card numbers and any other similar information will automatically be prevented from being entered into the app database by our safety algorithms, that filters any numbers and other information stored in the phone book in a number sequence not compatible with that used for telephone numbers. Please also note that you can always choose not to share Contact Information with us and if you have shared information, you can easily delist your number or opt-out to render your entire Contact Information unavailable for search in the database for Enhanced Search. The app accesses the contacts on the phone in order to display the contacts that were recorded and so the app can record or ignore calls from specific contacts. The contacts information is NOT transmitted nor stored on any server.
Read contact: Read and display the names of contacts when recording the phone calls, reading all the contacts for adding excluded numbers and share to your friends as easy as well. This information is NOT transmitted nor stored on any server.
Write contact: to help you manage your contact easily
+ LOCATION:
Access Fine Location: This permission is needed to obtain your location. GPS (also known as ‘fine mode’) is a bit slower to initially locate you, but is usually more accurate
Access Coarse Location: When you use our services we may collect information about your precise location or approximate location. With your consent, we may also collect information about your location using methods that include GPS, wireless networks, cell towers, Wi-Fi access points, and other sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and compasses. To help you easy to check public internet point, find your friends, near restaurant, bus station,….
Our apps do not share location information except allowing some friend / family by you
Our app will never sell, rent, license, exchange, or share any of your information without your permission.
+ MICROPHONE: to use a microphone to record voice as the main feature of the app described with your consent. This information is NOT transmitted nor stored on any server.
+ PHONE: Used for permissions that are associated telephony features with your consent to detect incoming calls to handle voice recording properly, answers phone calls, stop and save recording when user pick up the call; or add voicemail, call phone when stop calling or identify or recording, block when you are making or answering a call.
+ SENSOR: We use body sensor to access data from sensors that you uses to measure what is happening inside your body, such as heart rate only after you give us your consent.
+ SMS: To facilitate the delivery of your messages through our app, with your consent, we may store your messages in encrypted form for a limited period of time. With our app, you are provided with an SMS and MMS messaging service. In order to facilitate the delivery of your messages through the app, we may store your messages in encrypted form for a limited period of time. However, we do not monitor the content of such messages.
+ STORAGE: Used for permissions that are associated our app features to save files on your local storage (internal and external) only with your consent.
Other Permission requests access to information We may collect:
+ This app uses Accessibility services.
Accessibility can make it easier for all users, not only those with disabilities, to interact with my app.
For example:
users who used to provide ability to lock the device in situations the user specifies;
Optimize battery life
Optimize this app by locking orther underground apps
Speed up: Auto speed up after restarting app
for automatic hibernation to work on non-root devices;
to improve junk clean feature in some devices;
for reading the text you typed on screen
+ Name tagging: We may also associate a name with a phone number through the name tagging functionality, which allows a user who receives a call from a phone number which is not associated with a name in our database to indicate a name to be associated with that number. A name will only be associated with a number through this functionality if a sufficient number of independent users, based on our algorithm, have indicated the same name for the relevant number.
+ Call Block: Where a user within the services reports a phone number as spam, we store that phone number in combination with the user’s RegisterID in order to maintain the user’s spam list online but also for the purpose of building a community based spam blocking directory. On the Android platform, the user can also add a name to the phone number in question that will only be visible to that user.
+ Recording Call – Microphone access: We do not hold any recordings or user information on our own servers. Our app records phone calls. All recorded calls are recorded on the phone using the microphone on the device. The recorded files and related notes are stored on the phone’s storage and NO server is involved with recording phone calls. The recorded calls are not stored on our own server and can only be stored locally or on a third party cloud storage service such as Google Drive or Dropbox.
USER GENERATED CONTENT
You are solely responsible for your use of our services and for any videos, information, messages and any other content that you create via our services, whether privately transmitted or made publicly available (together, “User Content”). You retain ownership of your User Content.
Any videos you make by using our services are stored locally in your phone and are not stored in or will not be uploaded to our services/server.
You understand and agree to comply with all applicable laws in relation to your use of our services and User Content.
You shall at all times ensure that your User Content does not:
Contain any content, information or material that infringes the rights of any third party including copyright, trademark right, confidential information or rights of privacy;
Violate any applicable laws;
Contain any content or material that is offensive, abusive, defamatory, libellous, derogatory, bullying, discriminatory, obscene, violent, sexually explicit, indecent, which promotes or encourages violence, terrorism or any other illegal acts or which is likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm, inconvenience or annoy any person;
In any way promote or incite anyone to commit or assist in any unlawful or criminal activity or anti-social behaviour, or encourage activities which could endanger the safety or wellbeing of others;
Identify any person without their consent, or the consent of their parent or legal guardian if they are under 18 years of age;
Disclose anyone’s personal contact details or invade their privacy;
Contain any viruses or other malicious or harmful programs;
Furthermore, you understand and agree that you will not do or attempt to do, or cause any third party to do or attempt to do, any of the following in connection with your use of our services:
Use our services or User Content available on our services in a way other than as expressly permitted by these Terms and the normal functionality of our services;
Use our services for any illegal purpose, in an unlawful manner or in any manner inconsistent with these Terms;
Use our services in a way that could damage, disable, overburden, impair or compromise our services, our systems or security or interfere with other users;
Use any programme or other means, including but not limited to scripts, spiders and robots, whether manually or automatically, to extract, download, index, mine, scrape, reproduce or circumvent the presentation, operation or intended use of our services or any features or functions of it;
Copy, modify, decompile or otherwise interfere with any part of our services;
Make alterations to, or modifications of, the whole or part of our services, or permit our services or any part of it to be combined with, or become incorporated in, any other programs;
Hack into, or insert malicious code, including viruses, or harmful data, into, our services;
Infringe our intellectual property.
For the following purposes that we may use personal information submitted by you: help us develop, deliver, and improve our products and services and supply higher quality service; manage online surveys and other activities you’ve participated in.
In the following circumstances, we may disclose your personal information according to your wish or regulations by law:
Your prior permission;
By the applicable law within or outside your country of residence, legal process, litigation requests;
By requests from public and governmental authorities;
To protect our legal rights and interests.
1.2 Non-Personal Information
We may collect Non-Personal Information about users whenever they interact with our apps. Non-personal information is data in a form that does not permit direct association with any specific individual, such as your Android ID, CPN model, memory size, your phone IMEI number, Phone model, Rom, Installed application name and Package name, Phone operator, Location, Install, Uninstall, Frequency of use, etc.
We may collect and use non-personal information in the following circumstances. To have a better understanding of user’s behavior, solve problems in products and services, improve our products, services and advertising, we may collect non-personal information such as installed application name and package name, the data of install, frequency of use, country, equipment and channel.
If non-personal information is combined with personal information, we treat the combined information as personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.
More details as follows:
Log Data: When you interact with us using the Application, our systems may automatically collect your unique User Device number, the IP address, or operating system you use, and the dates and times of your use (“Log Data”).
Aggregate Information: “Aggregate Information” is data we collect about a group or category of services or Users from which individual User identities have been removed. In other words, information on how you use the Application may be collected and combined with information about how others use the Application, but no personally identifiable information will be included in the resulting Aggregate Information. Aggregate Information helps us understand trends in our Users’ needs so that we can better consider new features or otherwise tailor of the Application.
You may stop using our service at any time. When you delete data, a copy might remain on the servers for a period of time before complete deletion; this is due to computer system operation and continuous data backup and archiving features.
2. How We Use Collected Information
2.1 Personal Information
We use personal information collected through the Services:
to communicate with you or third parties;
to process your requests and transactions;
to improve the Services;
to customize the services and/or products we provide to you;
to assist with our product and service development;
to perform marketing activities;
to provide relevant advertising; and
for other purposes related to our business.
2.2 Non-Personal Information
We may use Non-Personal Information for any purpose as below:
To personalize user experience: We may use your Non-Personal Information to understand Demographics, Customer interest, and other trends among our users;
To help develop our service: We may use Non-Personal Information to provide, maintain, improve and modify the Applications, Services and the Site and develop new services;
To further develop my business: We may use Non-Personal Information for promotion and marketing purposes.
3. How Your Information May Be Disclosed
3.1 Personal Information
Personal information (and non-personal information) collected through the Services may be shared with companies and organizations that perform services on our behalf (for example, companies that provide data management or other support services to us such as data storage and Web hosting services). We may share your personal information (and non-personal information) with third parties to serve you relevant advertising and market our products, but we won’t sell your personal information.
Also, we may disclose the personal information we collect through the Services when we, in good faith, believe disclosure is appropriate to:
comply with applicable law (e.g., in response to a valid court order or subpoena);
prevent or investigate a possible crime, such as fraud or identity theft;
enforce or to apply our Terms of Service and other agreements;
to protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or others; or
to protect your vital interests.
We do not disclose your images, which you have uploaded for editing and manipulation to any of the Services unless you provide explicit consent to show your images at our Site, Mobile and other Services, or at third party services.
Your personal information and other data collected by us may be transferred to another company that has acquired our stock or assets, for example, as a result of a sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or liquidation. If such a transfer occurs, the acquiring company’s use of your personal information will still be subject to this Privacy Policy.
3.2 Non-Personal Information
We may disclose Non-Personal Information to our trusted partners who shall comply with this privacy policy and the relevant privacy laws. We do not combine Non-Personal Information with Personal Information (such as combining your name with your unique User Device number).
4. Cookies
We may collect certain information through the use of “cookies” with your consent. Cookies are small data files that are stored on your hard drive by a Web site. We use cookies to collect information about your device, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report information to our branded partners.
We may store some information on your computer when you visit the website. This information facilitates your use of the website, personalizes your experience and helps us to remember your preferences. The information stored in a cookie provides features that recognize your account as logged on and other Site features. We do not have any control over cookies which our advertisers or branded partners may use on the website.
5. Third Party
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which goes into effect on 25 May 2018, creates consistent data protection rules across Europe. It applies to all companies that process personal data about individuals in the EU, regardless of where the company is based. Processing is defined broadly and refers to anything related to personal data, including how a company handles and manages data, such as collecting, storing, using and destroying data.
5.1 In general, the Applications, the Services and the Site access third party information (such as your Facebook, Google account information) through application interfaces. We may provide links to third-party websites, such as Facebook, Google as a service to our users. The Site may also carry advertisements from other companies. When you click on links of third parties in an Application, the Services, you may leave the Application, the Services.
We do not collect your information through the third party. Although they are linked to us for accessible from our Application & Services, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of Websites operated by third parties. Therefore, this Policy does not address and we are not responsible for any problem caused by them.
5.2 The information that you transfer and share through the Application may be intercepted, collected, used and disclosed by third parties. We are not responsible for any interception, collection, use and disclosure of your information by any third party. Please choose other ways to transfer and share if you have higher security requirements.
Information we receive from other sources:
We work closely with third-party service providers and may receive information about you from them. These services providers collect usage data in compliance with their privacy policies. These service providers are described below:
+ About how Google manages data in ads products: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/partner-sites/ and
About Google comply with Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): https://support.google.com/admob/answer/7666366
+ Firebase Analytics: our Android application uses Firebase Analytics service. Firebase’s privacy policy is available at
https://firebase.google.com/terms/analytics
Firebase Analytics is a mobile analytics services also provided by Google and governed by the Firebase Analytics terms of service. This service helps us understand our users and how they use our apps including information about interactions with the user’s mobile applications. Firebase Analytics uses identifiers for advertising on mobile applications (for example, Android Advertising ID and Advertising Identifier for iOS), and they will collect the AAID and AIiOS to understand our users, but users who wish to opt-out of the AAID and AIiOS advertisement tracking can do so through device advertising settings for mobile apps and Users who wish to avoid tracking by Firebase Analytics can opt-out in application settings. Data collected will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers globally.
+ Google Analytics: for information regarding how Google uses data please visit “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps”:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/partners/
Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies” to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
+ Google AdMob: our Android application uses Google’s AdMob advertising service. AdMob’s privacy policy is available at
http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy
+ Facebook Analytics and Facebook Audience Network: Facebook may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from your websites, apps and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services, target ads and as described in their Data Policy.
Users can opt-out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting. For websites, Users can access to
http://www.aboutads.info/choices and
http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.
For apps and mobile devices, Users can access to a device’s limit ad tracking settings.
For information regarding how Facebook uses data, please visit:
https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
https://developers.facebook.com/policy/
+ Facebook Advertising Platform: Ad support: [https]://m.facebook.com/ads/ad_choices
+ About Facebook comply with Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): https://www.facebook.com/business/gdpr
+ Mobvista is a world leading provider of mobile marketing automation that empowers brands and marketers to attain, engage and entertain audiences.
Our Android application uses Mobvista advertising service. Mobvista privacy policy is available at:
https://www.mobvista.com/en/privacy/
https://www.mintegral.net/children-online-privacy-protection-act.html
https://www.mintegral.net/terms-and-conditions
About MobVista & Mintegral comply with Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): https://www.mintegral.com/en/gdpr/
+ Yeahmobi is an intelligent mobile advertising platform designed to help mobile technology companies reach global growth, acquire active users and monetize inventory. Headquartered in China, it has offices in Japan, US and Germany.
Our Android application uses YeahMobi advertising service. YeahMobi privacy policy and About YeahMobi comply with Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is available at:
http://en.yeahmobi.com/privacy-policy/
6. Users with Whom You Share Your Information
We cannot control the actions of other users with whom you share your information. We cannot, and do not, control the information you share with other users using an Application, the Services (including via Forums) or how such other users will use or share such information. We are not responsible for third party circumvention of our security measures.
7. Security & Protection Of Personal Information
We are very concerned about safeguarding the confidentiality of your information. We only collect certain personal information that you voluntarily provide to us, and we employ administrative, physical and electronic measures designed to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access and use. Please be aware that no security measures that we take to protect your information are absolutely guaranteed to avoid unauthorized access or use of your Personal Information which is impenetrable.
8. Sensitive Information
We ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, sexual orientation, criminal background or membership in past organizations, including trade union memberships) on or through an Application, the Services or otherwise to us.
9 .Children
We understand the importance of taking extra precautions to protect the privacy and safety of children while using our products and services. We do not collect, use or disclose personal information from children. If you are under 18, you may use our website with accompany of your parents or guardians.
10.Modifying Your Information – Opt-Out / Opt-In
We respect your right to make choices about the ways we collect, use and disclose your personal information. You may update or modify your information or change your privacy preferences at any time via our Services. You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us, including, but not limited to, promotional emails, by clicking a special unsubscribe link in the e-mail or other Content from us. Transactional service communications (such as messages about your registration) are not subject to the preceding opt-out procedures. Requests to disable your account or reset your password should be sent to our email for faster processing.
11. Contacting Us
If you have any questions or comments about this Policy or our privacy practices, or to report any violations of the Policy or abuse of an Application, the Services, please contact us via email on Google Play Store Page.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Policy is current as of the Effective Date set forth above. We may change this Policy from time to time, so please be sure to check back periodically. We will post any changes to this Policy on our Site. If we make any changes to this Policy that materially affect our practices about the personal information we have previously collected from you, we will endeavor to provide you with notice in advance of such change by highlighting the change on our Site.