PRIVACY POLICY

Welcome to the Privacy Policy of No Names. At No Names, your privacy is of utmost importance. We suggest the privacy policy should be read in conjunction with the Terms and Conditions.

While you use this platform, No Names collects some information about you, and some information is shared with other users as well. The Privacy Policy lays down how this information is collected, stored, protected, and shared, and with whom it is shared.

  1. PERSONAL INFORMATION
  2. Personal Information We May Collect

    For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, 'Personal Information' may mean any information related to an identified or identifiable individual.

    If you do not provide the Personal Information when requested, you may not be able to benefit from our Services in the case that information is essential for us to provide you with the service or if we are legally required to collect it.

    Personal Information Provided by You

    • When you create an account on our application, we ask you to provide certain basic Personal Information.
    • While completing your profile, you share with us additional information like your preferences, lifestyle and interest etc.
    • To be able add certain content, like pictures or videos, for verification purposes and to make sure there aren't any fake profiles, you may allow us to access your camera or photo album. Further, to be able to add and modify certain content and ease of matching users, you may allow us to access your location.
    • We also collect information you post through the Service. For example, any interaction you have with other users on the app through messages, videos, etc. The Service will gather the information you provide in such submissions, to the extent permitted under applicable law.
    • We may collect information such as your IP address through your communications with our customer-support team for the purpose of solving your queries. We will keep records of our communications with you, including any complaints that we receive from you about other users.
    • When you make any payment(s) via the Service, you may need to provide Personal Information to our third-party service providers, which may include financial information.
    • You are recommended to be cautious about sharing any sensitive or confidential details about yourself. Some of the personal details we recommend not sharing are URLs, instant messaging details, credit card details, national identity numbers, drivers' license details and other sensitive information which may be open to abuse or misuse.
    • You are also recommended to be cautious about posting any sensitive details about yourself on your profile, such as your religious denomination and health details. While creating your profile, you may willingly provide this information. however, it is not mandatory to do so. Be informed that photographs you post can also reveal information about you. Where you do upload and choose to tell us sensitive information about yourself, you are explicitly consenting to our processing of your information and making this public to other users.

    Information we receive from others

    Apart from the information provided by you to us directly, we may receive information about you from other sources, including:

    • Other Users: Information about you may be collected from other users as they use our Services. For instance, information about you may be collected if a user contacts our support about you.
    • Social Media: Information may be collected from social media.
    • Other Partners: Information may be received from our partners, for instance, where No Names might publish advertisements on our partner's platforms (provided the partner shares the details of the campaign's success).

    Personal Information Obtained from Your Interactions with our Services

    Cookies and Related Technologies: Technical data and related information might be collected, which may include information about your device, application software and more. This information is generated automatically while you use the Service, and it might include your usage statistics and preferences (anonymous).

    You may decline the use of cookies through the settings on your browser. However, this may hinder your experience of the website/application and you may not be able to access certain features. In the case you haven't declined the use of cookies in your browser, the system will issue cookies when you use our website or application.

    Further, it should be noted that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.

    Location and related Data: GPS coordinates and related location information may be collected and stored, provided you enable the permissions on your mobile device. Through the collection of this information, we may be able to improve the provision of the Service we are providing.

  3. HOW WE MAY USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
  4. The Personal Information we obtain about you may be used for:

    • Verification of your account and for informational and operational purposes, which may include management of your account, customer service, system maintenance, and more, including periodic service-related announcements through emails
    • Tailoring our service as per your preferences, deduced through the information collected from you (e.g., we may use cookies and similar technologies to remember your preferences)
    • Registration for new services after prior consent and display the same on your profile
    • Analyzing your preferences, including your preferred meeting venues, activities on the website or application to recommend relevant connections
    • Conducting research and analysis of users to operate, evaluate and improve our business and Services
    • Sending you marketing communications about products, services, offers, programs and promotions of The No Names App, and affiliated companies of Optech Ltd.
    • Ensuring the security of our Service
    • Ensuring legal compliance
    • Performing auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our Service.

  5. HOW WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
  6. No Names will not sell or otherwise disclose your Personal Information, except as described in this Privacy Policy or otherwise disclosed to you at the time of data collection.

    Vendors and Service Providers

    Information we receive may be shared with vendors and service providers, who might perform certain services on our behalf and in relation to the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. For example, we may use third parties to help us provide customer support; assist with data storage, and more. We require these vendors and service providers by contract to only process Personal Information in accordance with our instructions and as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements.

    Marketing

    No information collected will be rented, sold, or shared with other people or non-affiliated companies for purposes including their direct marketing, unless your permission is received. To the extent permitted under applicable law, the access to the data may be allowed to third parties, here the data being that is collected automatically by the Service to enable the delivery of online advertising on this website, or otherwise facilitate transmittal of information that may be useful, relevant, valuable or otherwise of interest to you.

    Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers

    In case in future the company is involved or goes through a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of assets, or transition of service to another provider, then your Personal Information collected through the website or application over time may be subjected to transfer or sale as part of such a transaction as permitted by contract and/or the law. The use of your Personal Information following any of the previous events will be governed by the provisions of the Privacy Policy in effect.

    With Your Consent

    Your Personal Information may also otherwise be disclosed provided we have your permission.

  7. PROFILE MATCHING
  8. To help us match your profile to other users more effectively, your Personal Information and preferences may be used as to understand what kind of a meeting you are looking for, make predictions and filter out people that match your interests. This may include the use of dating preference Personal Information and may affect your match results on the Service.

  9. ACCOUNT INFORMATION
  10. Through your account settings, you can update some of your Personal Information, such as your photo, and email address, number, etc.

    Location Information

    You can at any time choose to stop the application from collecting location related information by changing the settings on your device. However, if the location related information is not provided, certain parts of the service may not be available to you.

    Marketing Opt-out

    You have the option to opt-out or unsubscribe from promotional emails or text messages from us via the unsubscribe link provided in the app. However, this does not include administrative messages, which you will continue receiving.

    Other Legal Rights of Users

    In certain jurisdictions, you may have the right to request access and receive details of the information we maintain about you, to update and correct inaccuracies, to restrict or object to the processing, to have certain or whole information blocked, or deleted, as appropriate. Although, the above mentioned rights may be limited in some circumstances by local law requirements. In addition to the rights mentioned above, you also have the right to lodge a complaint at any time with a competent supervisory authority subject to the applicable laws of British Virgin Islands.

    Where required by law, we obtain your consent for processing certain Personal Information collected through cookies or similar technologies, or used to send you direct marketing communications, to collect your location information or when we carry out other processing activities for which consent may be required. If consent is required for the processing of any of your Personal Information, then you may edit or withdraw your data at any time, free of charge. When you do so, this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before your consent withdrawal.

  11. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
  12. Our primary focus is on keeping your Personal Information safe. At every step, we ensure that your Personal Information is treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy with proper discretion. However, due to hackers, non-secure networks and other malicious elements the Internet cannot be termed as 100% secure, therefore, we cannot guarantee/ ensure utmost security of any Personal Information you provide to us, as it may be subjected to the afore-mentioned contingencies. However, we employ administrative, technical and physical safeguards with the intention of appropriately protecting your Personal Information against accidental or unlawful destruction, data loss, unauthorized access or editing, misuse, and any other unlawful form of processing of the Personal Information in our possession. In particular, No Names uses tailor-made security methods and procedures specifically designed to safeguard Personal Information during transmission and storage.

    Measures are also put in place to delete your Personal Information or keep it in a form that does not permit identifying you when this information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which we process it in the context of the Service or when you request their deletion, unless we are required by law to keep the information for a longer period. Periodic reviews of our databases are performed by us and specific time limits for data deletion have been established, taking into account the type of services provided in the context of the Services, the length of our relationship with you, mandatory retention periods and the statute of limitations.

  13. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
  14. We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use Personal Information, from children under 18 years of age, and no part of the Service is directed to children under the age of 18. If you learn that your child has provided us with Personal Information without your consent, you may alert us at Contact. If we learn that we have collected any Personal Information from children under 18, then we will promptly take steps to delete such information and terminate the child's account. If we delete a profile because of the aforesaid reason, we may also retain the email and IP address to ensure that the minor does not create another profile.

    Further, users are requested to be vigilant in this regard. If a user learns that a minor below the age of 18 years has an account with us, such user is requested to report the same to us by email at Contact.

  15. UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
  16. If any adjustments to the Privacy Policy are made on the website or the application, we will update the same on the website as well as the application, and also notify on e-mail, wherever appropriate, along with the 'effective date'. Your continued use of the Service after changes to the Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of the new terms of the Privacy Policy.

  17. YOUR UK AND EU RIGHTS
  18. Under UK and EU law, UK and EU users have the right to lodge a complaint with data protection regulators, and the Information Commissioners' Office (ICO) is the UK's lead regulator. You can find out how to raise a concern with the ICO by visiting their website at www.ico.org.uk. If you're within the EU, you may also get in touch with your local Data Protection Regulator who may liaise with the ICO on your behalf.

    You have a number of rights under European Data Protection law if you are an EU citizen, such as:

    • Right to be informed: what personal data an organization is processing and why (this notice).
    • Right of access: you can request a copy of your data.
    • Right of rectification: if the data held is inaccurate, you have the right to have it corrected.
    • Right to erasure: you have the right to have your data deleted in certain circumstances.
    • Right to restrict processing: in limited circumstances, you have the right to request that processing is stopped but the data retained.
    • Right to data portability: you can request a copy of your data in a machine-readable form that can be transferred to another provider.
    • Right to object: in certain circumstances (including where data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests or for the purposes of marketing) you may object to that processing.

    Rights related to automated decision-making including profiling: there are several rights in this area where processing carried out on a solely automated basis results in a decision which has legal or significant effects for the individual. In these circumstances your rights include the right to ensure that there is human intervention in the decision-making process.

  19. CONTACT US
  20. The No Names App is the entity (Optech Ltd.) responsible for the processing of your personal information, if you have any queries or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, you may CONTACT.