This Privacy Policy applies to websites, apps, events and other services operated by StoryChic. For simplicity, we refer to all of these as our “services” in this Privacy Policy. To make it extra clear, we’ve added links to this Privacy Policy on all applicable services.

Some services may require their own unique privacy policy. If a particular service has its own privacy policy, then that policy -- not this Privacy Policy -- applies.

1) Information you give us

You choose to give us certain information when using our services. This includes:

• When you create an account, you provide us with at least your login credentials, as well as some basic details necessary for the service to work, such as your gender and date of birth.
• When you complete your profile, you can share with us additional information, such as details on your personality, lifestyle, interests and other details about you, as well as content such as photos and videos. To add certain content, like pictures or videos, you may allow us to access your camera or photo album. Some of the information you choose to provide us may be considered “special” or “sensitive” in certain jurisdictions, for example your racial or ethnic origins, sexual orientation and religious beliefs. By choosing to provide this information, you consent to our processing of that information.
• When you subscribe to a paid service or make a purchase directly from us (rather than through a platform such as iOS or Android), you provide us or our payment service provider with information, such as your debit or credit card number or other financial information.
• When you participate in surveys or focus groups, you give us your insights into our products and services, responses to our questions and testimonials.
• When you choose to participate in our promotions, events or contests, we collect the information that you use to register or enter.
• If you contact our customer care team, we collect the information you give us during the interaction. Sometimes, we monitor or record these interactions for training purposes and to ensure a high quality of service.
• If you ask us to communicate with or otherwise process information of other people (for example, if you ask us to send an email on your behalf to one of your friends), we collect the information about others that you give us in order to complete your request.
• Of course, we also process your chats with other users as well as the content you publish, as part of the operation of the services.

2) Information we receive from others

In addition to the information you provide us directly, we receive information about you from others, including:

• • Other Users

  Other users may provide information about you as they use our services. For instance, we may collect information about you from other users if they contact us about you.

• • Social Media

  You may be able to use your social media login (such as Facebook Login) to create and log into your StoryChic account. This saves you from having to remember yet another user name and password and allows you to share some information from your social media account with us

• • Other Partners

  We may receive info about you from our partners, for instance where StoryChic ads are published on a partner’s websites and platforms (in which case they may pass along details on a campaign’s success).

• • Read the Contents of SD Card

  Read, Modify or delete the contents of your SD card as your instructions. We use this permission so that you can save new pictures to your SD card.

• • Location Information

  When you use our services we may collect information about your location. With your consent, we may also collect information about your precise location using methods that include GPS, wireless networks, cell towers, Wi-Fi access points, and other sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and compasses.

3) Information collected when you use our services

When you use our services, we collect information about which features you’ve used, how you’ve used them and the devices you use to access our services. See below for more details:

• • Usage Information

  We collect information about your activity on our services, for instance how you use them (e.g. date and time you logged in, features you’ve been using, searches, clicks and pages which have been shown to you, referring webpage address, advertising that you click on) and how you interact with other users (e.g., users you connect and interact with, time and date of your exchanges, number of messages you send and receive).

• • Device Information.

  We collect information about your device, including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers (including MAC address and IMEI), browser type and language, mobile device phone number, and mobile network information. We also collect certain device information that will help us diagnose problems in the (hopefully rare) event you experience any crash or other problem while using our Services. So, for example, if we detect a crash or other problematic event, we may collect the list of apps on your device and other information about your device’s performance at the time of the event for troubleshooting purposes.

• • Camera and Photos.

  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.

1) To administer your account and provide our services to you

• • Create and manage your account
• • Provide you with customer support and respond to your requests
• • Complete your transactions
• • Communicate with you about our services, including order management and billing

2) To help you connect with other users

• • Analyze your profile and that of other users to recommend meaningful connections
• • Show users’ profiles to one another

3) To ensure a consistent experience across your devices

• • Link the various devices you use so that you can enjoy a consistent experience of our services on all of them. We do this by linking devices and browser data, such as when you log into your account on different devices or by using partial or full IP address, browser version and similar data about your devices to help identify and link them.

4) To provide new StoryChic services to you

• • Register you and display your profile on new StoryChic features and apps
• • Administer your account on these new features and apps

5) To serve you relevant offers and ads

• • Administer sweepstakes, contests, discounts or other offers
• • Develop, display and track content and advertising tailored to your interests on our services and other sites
• • Communicate with you by email, phone, social media or mobile device about products or services that we think may interest you

6) To improve our services and develop new ones

• • Administer focus groups and surveys
• • Conduct research and analysis of users’ behavior to improve our services and content (for instance, we may decide to change the look and feel or even substantially modify a given feature based on users’ behavior)
• • Develop new features and services (for example, we may decide to build a new interests-based feature further to requests received from users).

7) To prevent, detect and fight fraud or other illegal or unauthorized activities

• • Address ongoing or alleged misbehavior on and off-platform
• • Perform data analysis to better understand and design countermeasures against these activities
• • Retain data related to fraudulent activities to prevent against recurrences

8) To ensure legal compliance

• • Comply with legal requirements
• • Assist law enforcement
• • Enforce or exercise our rights, for example our Terms

9) To process your information as described above, we rely on the following legal base

• • Provide our service to you: Most of the time, the reason we process your information is to perform the contract that you have with us.
• • Legitimate interests: We may use your information where we have legitimate interests to do so.
• • Consent: From time to time, we may ask for your consent to use your information for certain specific reasons. You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at the email provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.

10) About face data

• • We use photo metadata to provide with certain features including precise "Facial Recognition", "Key-Points Recognition", "Region Segmentation", "Content Tags" and other custom features based on a combination of these basic features. We can provide the best user experience for these features with face data.
• • The data only be processed in using certain features.
• • We don’t share and store face data.

1) With other users

• • You share information with other users when you voluntarily disclose information on the service (including your public profile). Please be careful with your information and make sure that the content you share is stuff that you’re comfortable being publically viewable since neither you nor we can control what others do with your information once you share it.
• • If you choose to limit the audience for all or part of your profile or for certain content or information about you, then it will be visible according to your settings.

2) With our service providers and partners

• • We use third parties to help us operate and improve our services. These third parties assist us with various tasks, including data hosting and maintenance, analytics, customer care, marketing, advertising, payment processing and security operations.
• • We may also share information with partners who distribute and assist us in advertising our services. For instance, we may share limited information on you in hashed, non-human readable form to advertising partners.
• • We follow a strict vetting process prior to engaging any service provider or working with any partner. All of our service providers and partners must agree to strict confidentiality obligations.

3) With other wisesoft businesses

• • StoryChic is part of the wisesoft family of businesses which, as of the date of this Privacy Policy, includes websites and apps such as Sweet Snap, Candy Selfie and so on.
• • We share your information with other wisesoft businesses for them to assist us in processing your information, as service providers, upon our instructions and on our behalf. Assistance provided by otherwisesoft businesses may include technical processing operations, such as data hosting and maintenance, customer care, marketing and targeted advertising, finance and accounting assistance, better understanding how our service is used and users’ behavior to improve our service, securing our data and systems and fighting against spam, abuse, fraud, infringement and other wrongdoings.
• • We may also share information with other wisesoft businesses for legitimate business purposes such as corporate audit, analysis and consolidated reporting as well as compliance with applicable laws. We may also share user information with other wisesoft businesses to remove users who violate our terms of service, or have been reported for criminal activity and/or bad behavior. In some instances, we may remove that user from all platforms.

4) For corporate transactions

• • We may transfer your information if we are involved, whether in whole or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy or other change of ownership or control.

5) When required by law

• • We may disclose your information if reasonably necessary: (i) to comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, government / law enforcement investigation or other legal requirements; (ii) to assist in the prevention or detection of crime (subject in each case to applicable law); or (iii) to protect the safety of any person.z

6) To enforce legal rights

• • We may also share information: (i) if disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit; (ii) as necessary to protect our legal rights and legal rights of our users, business partners or other interested parties; (iii) to enforce our agreements with you; and (iv) to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.

7) With your consent or at your request

• • We may ask for your consent to share your information with third parties. In any such case, we will make it clear why we want to share the information.
• • We may use and share non-personal information (meaning information that, by itself, does not identify who you are such as device information, general demographics, general behavioral data, geolocation in de-identified form), as well as personal information in hashed, non-human readable form, under any of the above circumstances.
• • We may also share this information with other wisesoft businesses and third parties (notably advertisers) to develop and deliver targeted advertising on our services and on websites or applications of third parties, and to analyze and report on advertising you see. We may combine this information with additional non-personal information or personal information in hashed, non-human readable form collected from other sources.