Privacy Policy

What is the privacy policy and what does it cover?

At Socitime we want you to understand what information we collect and how we use and share it. That's why we encourage you to read our privacy policy. It helps you use it in the right way for you.

In the Privacy Policy, we explain how we collect, use, share, retain and transfer information. We also inform you of your rights.

PRIVACY BILL OF RIGHTS

We are uncompromising about trust, respect and integrity and process your Personal Data in accordance with the following principles: 

  • You own your Personal Data & content. It is explicitly not ours.

  • You never receive targeted third-party advertisements or targeted third-party content. We think that's creepy.

  • You have full control over your newsfeed and the order of how posts appear.

  • We do not manipulate, filter, or change the order of your newsfeeds. Only you can do that.

  • Privacy permissions are your rights. You control them.

  • You control who can access your content.

  • You can opt out of our member directory to protect your privacy.

  • We do not sell your Personal Data to anyone.

  • Your face is your business. We do not use facial recognition technology.

  • You have the right to delete your account and take your content with you at any time.

Collection of Your Personal Data

The types of Personal Data we collect about you depend on how you interact with us. “Personal Data” refers to data that identifies, relates to, describes, or can be associated with you. The following are categories and specific types of Personal Data we may collect about you:

  • Contact and General Information, including name, age, gender, email address, postal address, phone number, username, or other similar identifiers.

  • Device Information and Other Unique Identifiers, device identifier, internet protocol (IP) address, or similar unique identifiers.

  • Internet or Other Network Activity, including browsing or search history, and information regarding your interactions with our websites, mobile applications, emails, or advertisements.

  • Geolocation Data, including information that permits us to determine your location, such as if you manually provide location information or enable your mobile device to send us precise location information.

  • Payment Information, including credit or debit card number, or other financial information. 

  • User Content, including your communications with us and any other content you provide through the use of our services (such as social media profiles, photographs, images, videos, survey responses, comments, testimonials, and other content).

  • Inferences, inferences drawn from or created based on any of the information identified in this section, including User Content.

  • Special Personal Data (where permitted and in accordance with applicable law), such as racial or ethnic origin, religious affiliation, and/or health information also qualify as special Personal Data, if and to the extent that you voluntarily provide this information.

How We Collect Your Personal Data

We collect your Personal Data in the following ways, as permissible under applicable law: 

  • Directly From You, when you purchase our services, register for an account or create a profile, contact us, or sign up to receive emails, text messages, and/or postal mailings. 

  • Through Our Use of Cookies and Other Automatic Data Collection Technologies, when you visit our websites, use our mobile applications, open or click on emails we send you, or interact with our advertisements. We or third parties we work with automatically collect certain information using technologies such as cookies, web beacons, clear GIF, pixels, internet tags, web server logs, and other data collection tools. For more information, please see “Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies” section below.

  • From Our ThirdParty Partners, including from third parties that we have partnered with to provide you the services that you have requested from us.  

  • Other Sources, including data analytics provider or publicly available sources.

Purpose of Processing Your Personal Data

Socitime uses and processes Personal Data, including special Personal Data, to provide you with services you request from us, including using and processing Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • We may use your Personal Data to provide you with the services that you requested. This means that we may use your Personal Data to respond to your questions, provide you with requested services and/or notify you when we think you may be interested in certain services, to perform our obligations to you, or to perform other actions based on your consent. 

  • We may use your Personal Data for everyday business purposes, such as account management, contract management, website administration, corporate governance, and reporting obligations. 

  • We may use your Personal Data to respond and address feedback you provide us or if you contact us for support.

  • We may use your Personal Data to analyze your needs and help improve, develop, and evaluate the services. 

  • We may use your Personal Data to comply with laws and regulations and legal processes. 

  • We may use your Personal Data to monitor compliance with our policies and procedures, for fraud prevention, to detect and address illegal activities and/or to protect Socitime and its employees, users and property.

  • We may use your Personal Data for customer relationship management and administration.

  • We may use the online identifiers and device information collected through the services for analytics purposes and for improving the functionality of our services. This information may also be used for administrative purposes including, without limitation, to troubleshoot and resolve problems with the services. We may rely on third-party partners to collect and analyze the online identifiers and device information.

Legal Basis of Processing Your Personal Data

We process your information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, based on the following legal grounds:

  • With Your Consent: In certain instances, we ask for your consent to process your Personal Data for specific purposes. Provision of your consent is voluntary, and you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

  • When Pursuing Legitimate Interests: We process your Personal Data for our legitimate interests and those of third parties, while applying appropriate safeguards that protect your privacy, and as further described in this Privacy Policy.     

  • To Perform a Contract With You: We will process your Personal Data when processing of your Personal Data is necessary for the execution or performance of a contract with you.

  • When We Have Legal Obligations: We will process your Personal Data when we have a legal obligation to do so, for example, if we are responding to a legal process or an enforceable government request, including law enforcement.

Provision of your Personal Data is both a contractual and statutory obligation.

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies – Where and Why

Socitime’s Use of Tracking Technology 

We don’t track you to sell your data to third parties, and we don’t track you to manipulate your newsfeed and we don’t track you when you are not on Socitime. To ensure the safety and security of our users, we track how members use our site. We collect your log data, usage activity, email, phone number, cookie data, and device/network information, to verify accounts; combat harmful conduct; detect and prevent spam; and to maintain the integrity of Socitime.

We may disclose and match your information against databases or with third parties bound by confidentiality who specialize in identifying trolls, bots, scammers, spammers, fake accounts, stalkers, or illegal activity. We may also use pattern tracking to identify and remove disruptive elements such as trolls, bots, scammers, spammers, fake accounts, stalkers, etc.

We monitor how users use our site in general so that we can make it better. We are monitoring traffic, usage activity, feature popularity and site performance, and we use general analytic tools so that we can improve your experience.

Notifications: We’d Like To Keep You Up To Date

If you are a registered user of Socitime you may receive notifications and updates while using our service. Additionally, if you have supplied your email address, Socitime may want to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, and keep you up to date about the privacy and integrity issues we care most about and how our company is working to support them. You can opt-out of these email notifications by following the instructions within the email.

Privacy Policy Changes: Immediate Notification & Easy Opt Out

If Socitime materially changes this Privacy Policy, we will notify you with a link to the changes so you can review and understand them, and provide you with an easy way to opt out of our service and delete your account if you wish.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices relating to your Personal Data, or would like to submit a request related to your Personal Data, please let us know by contact Us page.