This Policy describes the information we process to support Mybuddys and other products and features offered by Mybuddys.

We do not collect any user's personal information without their permission.
We collect the following types of personal information:

• Personal Information: This includes names, addresses, user names, email addresses, and phone numbers.
• Usage Data: We collect data when a user registers, purchases or uses our services, completes a contact form, signs up for a newsletter, etc.
• Media Files: Our app may access your media files (photos, videos, and audio files) to provide certain functionalities, with your consent.
• Device Information: We collect information about your device, including the device model, operating system, and unique device identifiers.

Explanation: Mybuddys App collects contact list information to enhance the user experience by:

• Finding Friends: Helping users find friends who are also using the Mybuddys App.
• Enabling Communication: Displaying a list of users who have enabled chat services, allowing for easy communication via the chat page and its functionalities.
• Suggesting Connections: Using the contact list information to suggest connections with users who are already members of communities related to the user's profile. This feature helps users discover and join relevant communities that their contacts have already joined, thereby improving the overall user experience.

We use the information we collect to deliver and enhance our Products, including:

• Personalisation: Tailoring features and content (such as your Buds page, Stories, and ads) and making suggestions for you (like groups or events you might be interested in) on and off our Products.
• Connections and Interests: Creating personalised experiences based on your connections, preferences, interests, and activities, including any special data you choose to provide.
• Interaction Data: Using data about how you use and interact with our Products, as well as the people, places, or things you're connected to, to make your experience unique and relevant.

Additionally, we use location-related information such as your current location, the places you frequently visit, and the businesses and people you're near to provide, personalise, and improve our Products and ads. This includes precise device location if you have permitted us to collect it.

We share your personal data under the following circumstances:

• Activity Sharing: If you share content, such as a bud or message, with specific Mybuddys users, they can download, screenshot, or reshare that content. When you comment on or react to someone else's content, your comment or reaction is visible to anyone who can see that content. The content’s audience may be changed by the original poster.
• Third-Party Apps and Services: When you use third-party apps, websites, or services integrated with Mybuddys, they may receive information about your activities. For example, game developers or websites with Mybuddys integrations may access details about your interactions. These services can also access your public profile and any shared information. Note that any information collected by third-party services is governed by their own terms and policies.
• Public Profile Information: Third-party services may access your public Mybuddys profile and any information you choose to share with them. However, they will not receive additional information about your Mybuddys connections or followers beyond what you explicitly share.

It is important to review the terms and policies of any third-party services you use as they handle your information independently of our policies.

Under the GDPR, you have rights regarding your personal data, including:

• Access to Personal Information: The right to access the personal data we hold about you.
• Correction and Deletion: The right to request correction or deletion of your personal data.
• Withdrawal of Consent: If processing data based on consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time.
• Data Portability: The right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
• Restriction of Processing and Objection: The right to restrict or object to the processing of your personal data.
• Lodging a Complaint: The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

We explain how you can exercise these rights and how we will respond to your data requests. If relevant exemptions apply, or if fulfilling your request may expose personal data about another person or if we are required to keep data by law, we will outline those circumstances.

Any kind of content which spreads deliberate misinformation, hoaxes or fake propaganda, with the intent to mislead, is not permitted. We prohibit posting of content that exaggerates an existing piece of news by introducing non-factual elements into it.

If you intend to mislead our users or attempt to create a sensation by straight-up fabricating content, or attempt to damage someone’s reputation, or hurt their financial or political standing on the basis of false information, we will not let it spread on our Platform.

Don’t worry though. We don’t confuse fake news with any satire or parodies. We know they are to amuse, and not to mislead.

Where you use profiling or other automated decision-making, you must disclose this in your privacy policy. In such cases, you must provide details on existence of any automated decision-making, together with information about the logic involved, and the likely significance and consequences of the processing of the individual.

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 features.

You can learn more about how privacy works on Mybuddys. If you have questions about this Policy, you can contact us via email at help@mybuddysapp.com. We may resolve disputes that you have with us in connection with our Privacy Policies.

Date of last revision: 1st August 2024