PRIVACY POLICY

(Last Modified: 03/27/2019)

Your privacy is important to us. This privacy statement explains what information we may collect from you and how we use it, whom we share it with, and the controls we give you to access, update, and delete your information. We encourage you to read the entire Privacy Policy below.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

 “Information” could be either personal information or non-personal information; “information you make available or combination that relates to you, and can be used to identify you. In providing our Services, we collect, store and use the following information relating to you:

There are a few basic categories of information we collect:

1. 1.Information you choose to give us when you open an account or use our Services, such as your email address, your telephone number, your introduction, and your birthday;

2. 2.Information which you make available when you use our Services, including shared information you make available to others through our Services and information you store our Services.

3. 3.Shared information we receive from others using our Services, such as information contained in posts they make and other using our Services; and information we collect as you use our Services, such as certain location data and log data.

Information You Choose to Give Us & Make Available to Us

Information and Content You Provide. Besides the basic information we request when you sign up, we also collect the content, communications and other information you provide when you use our Services, including when you sign up for an account, create or share content, and message or communicate with others.

Non-personal Information. Including any information related to you but from which it is not practicable to directly identify you, including your vaping devices, vape diary, feedback, and personal information in Aggregated or Pseudonymized form.

Location Data. We collect information regarding your location (when you use a location-enable service), including the location of you device when you use our Services, such as from the GPS, WIFI, compass, accelerometer or other sensors in you mobile device; the IP address of the device or internet service you use to access our Services; other information made available by you or others that indicated where you are located and shared information you or others post indicating your location, such as any geotag information that is embedded in any photos you make available to us; and if you have provided us with your location data previously and would like us to delete such existing location data, you may be able to do so via our Services.

Devise Information and Log Data. We collect technical information automatically when you use our Services, whether through the use of cookies, web beacons and log files or otherwise, including technical information such as your mobile carrier, configuration information made available by your web browser or other programs you use to access our Services, your IP address and your device’s version and identification number.

Browsing and Searching History. Information about what you have searched for and looked at while using our Services, such as web search terms used, social media profiles visited and details of other information and content accessed or requested by you in using our Services;

Communication. Information about communication you have made using our Services, such as the people you’re communicated with and the time, data and duration of your communications; and meta data, which means information related to items you have made available through our services, such as the data, time or location that a shared photograph or video was token or posted.

Shared Information We Collect from Others

Things other users do and information they provide about you. We may receive and analyze content, communications and information that other people provide when they use our Services. This can include information about you, such as when others share or comment on a photo of you, send a message to you, or upload, sync or import your contact information. If other users upload their contact list, we may combine information from that user’s contact list with other information we have collected about you.

From other services. If you link your Vaffle account to another service, we may receive information from the other service, like how you use that service. Advertisers may let us know you installed a new app or game so we can determine whether we showed you an ad for it. If you interact with one of our advertisers, they may share information with us to help target or measure the performance of ads.  

HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

To provide you with an amazing set of Services that we relentlessly improve. Here are the ways we do that:

• develop, operate, improve, deliver, maintain, and protect our Services;

• for customer service, security, fraud-detection, archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of our services;

• provide you with advertising and direct marketing that is more relevant to you(as discussed in more detail below under the “direct marketing” section below);

• to better understanding how you access and use our services, for the purposed of trying to improve our services and to respond to user desires and preferences, including language and location customization, personalized help and instructions, or other responses to your and other users’ usage of our services;

• to access the effectiveness of and improve advertising and other marketing and promotional activities on or in connection with our services when your account is subscribed to an official account; and 

• to allow you to participate in surveys about Services. if you participate in a survey, we may request certain personally identifiable information from you, participation in these surveys is voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. We use third party service provider will be prohibited form using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.

Please note that the purposes of seeking to provide our users with a better experience, to improve our Services or otherwise where you have consented, personal information collected through our site or Service may, subject to user privacy controls (where available), be used by our other Services (including in an aggregated or individualized manner).

HOW WE SHARE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your personal information with your consent or as necessary in the following ways and reasons:

• With other Vafflers, we may share the following information with other Vaffle users:

• Information about you, such as: username, name, and profile picture; 

• content you post or send and information about how you have interacted with our Services

• With our affiliates. We may share information with entities within our Vaffle family of all affiliate companies. 

• With third parties. We may share your information with the following third parties:

• With service providers. We may share information about you with service providers who perform services on our behalf, to improve our Services. Those trusted their services can help us safely store your data and observe different analytics.

• With business partners. We may share information about you with our business partners, if any, that provide services and functionality. For more information about information collected by third parties on our Services.  

• With third parties for legal reasons. We may share information about you if we reasonably believe that disclosing the information is necessary to:

• comply with any valid legal process, governmental request, or applicable law, rule, or regulation

• protect the rights, property, and safety of us, other Vaffle users, or the public.

• investigate, remedy, or enforce potential Terms of Service violations.

• detect and resolve any fraud or security concerns.

• As part of a merger or acquisition. If we are involved in a merger, financing, sale of asset, liquidation or bankruptcy, or acquisition of all or some portion of our business to another company, we may share your information with that company before and after the transaction closes.

• Others. We may also share with third parties (such as advertisers) aggregated, non-personally identifiable, or de-identified information.

Where we or our affiliate companies do share your personal information with any third parties, we will use reasonable efforts to ensure that such third parties only use your personal information in a way that 1) is in compliance with this privacy policy, and 2) is subject to any other instructions we give them, including any appropriate confidentiality and security measures that we implement.

Sensitive Personal Information

Certain information, such as information about your race or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical views or personal health, is characterized as “sensitive” and is subject to stricter regulation than other personal information. Please note that consent and information that you input to our Services, such as photographs or information about your school or social activities, may reveal your sensitive personal information to others.

we urge you to consider whether it is appropriate to communicate personal information of a sensitive nature in the manner you are proposing to communicate it using our Services.

you consent to all processing of sensitive personal information for the purposes and in the manner described in this Privacy Policy.

Please note that we do not use your sensitive personal information for the purpose of serving advertising to you.

Third-Party Services on Our Services

Our Services may link you to other social media or other services provided by third party, for example: you may be able to share content on, or log in, our Services using services provided by third parties. The third parties who provide such services may be able to collect your information and personal information (including your log data), and may set cookies on your computer to enable such feature to function properly; and we may (whether in advertisements or otherwise within our Services) provide you with links that allow you to access third party services or websites.

ABOUT COOKIES & SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

Our Services 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. Most of the web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. Should you prefer, you usually should be able to remove or reject browser cookies through the settings on your browser or device. Please keep in mind, that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our Services. VAFFLE SERVICES’ COOKIES DO NOT AND CANNOT INFILTRATE A USER'S HARD DRIVE TO GATHER A USER'S CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. OUR COOKIES ARE NOT "SPYWARE."

MINORS UNDER 18

We love young people. HOWEVER, minors under the age of 18 shall NOT use our Services. Again, our Services are not intended for, and we don’t direct them to anyone under 18. We do NOT knowingly collect personal information from any minors under the age of 18. Please contract our privacy officer if you believe we have any personal information form any children under the age of 18 and we will promptly investigate (and remove) such personal information.

TRANSFER, STORAGE AND SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We operate and may continue to operate Vaffle Services in a number of jurisdictions around the world, so the server on which your purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

We use a variety of security technologies and procedures for purpose of preventing loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure of information.

In our Services, we will use encryption technology (such as ssl) to protect certain sensitive information (such as location data ) provided by you to us. Please be aware that despite our efforts, no data security measures can guarantee 100% security at all time. Our systems and communications networks through which you access our Services may be subject to security breaches and failure which are due to circumstances beyond our reasonable control. If you have questions regarding the security of your personal information. please contact us.

HOW YOU CONTROL THE INFORMATION YOU SHARE WITH US

We wish our users to be in control of your information, so we provide you with the following:

• Whether your posts are publicly available on Vaffle

• Whether others can find you based on your email or phone number

• Whether you upload your address book to Vaffle for raffle lottery

• Whether you want to block or mute other Vaffle accounts

• Deletion. If for some reason you ever want to delete your account, just contact us via email: support@vaffle.com and we allow us 48-72 hours to process your request and delete your account for good.

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION

We store data until it is no longer necessary to provide our Services, or until your account is deleted - whichever occurs first. This could be a case-by-case determination that depends on things like the nature of the data, why it is collected and processed, and relevant legal or operational retention needs.

When you delete your account, we also delete content you have posted, such as your photos and status updates, and you may not be able to recover that information later. Information that others have shared about you isn't part of your account and won't be deleted.

Subject to applicable and regulations (including as set out under the “How We Use / Share Your Personal Information” sections above), we will only use your personal information for so long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes as set out under the section above.

Subject to applicable laws and regulations, you may have the right to request to receive a copy of and make any corrections to your personal information which we hold, and to request that we deactivate and not use any of your personal information that is stored by us, you may direct such request to our privacy officer, or where we offer this option in our Services ,you may also log into your account with us and make the appropriate changed. We will respond to all requests made to our privacy officer under this “retention of your personal information” section within 60 days.

UPDATING PRIVATE POLICY

We'll notify you before we make changes to this policy and give you the opportunity to review the revised policy before you choose to continue using our Services.

Contact Us.  If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, or would like more information from us, please contact us via support@vaffle.com or by mail at:

HongKong Office: Global Foginfo Technology CO. Limited

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Suite 603, 6/F laws comm plaza 788 Chenung Sha Wan RD Kln Hong kong