Privacy policy
FlashFeed Privacy Policy
We at FlashFeed, ("FlashFeed," "our," "we," or "us") value our users' privacy as we know that you care about how your personal information is collected, used, safeguarded, shared, and we take that seriously. Kindly read the following terms to learn more about your privacy as this Privacy Policy ("Policy") will help you understand how we collect and use personal information from those who use access and make use of our Site and the services that we offer.
This privacy policy also helps you understand the rights and choices that you have with respect to your personal information.
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By accessing or using the Service in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your information in the following ways.
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1. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to make changes to this Policy at any given time. If you want to make sure that you are up to date with the latest changes, we advise you to visit this page frequently. If at any point in time, FlashFeed decides to make use of any personally identifiable information on file, in a manner vastly different from that which was stated when this information was initially collected, the user or users shall be promptly notified by email.
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2. What does this privacy policy cover?
This Policy applies to FlashFeed, and it governs any and all data collection and usage by us in compliance with applicable regulations. Through the use of these Services, you are consenting to the data collection procedures expressed in this Policy.
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We gather various types of information from our users, as explained in more detail below, and we use this information internally in connection with our Services, including to personalize, provide, and improve our Services, to allow you to make purchases, communicate with you, and to analyze how you use the Services. In certain cases, we may also share some information with third parties, but only as described below.
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Please note that this Policy does not govern the collection and use of information by companies that FlashFeed does not control nor by individuals not employed or managed by us. If you visit a website made available via the service or link, review its privacy policy before providing the site with information. It is highly recommended and suggested that you review the privacy policies and statements of any website you choose to use or frequent to better understand how such websites garner, use, and share the information collected.
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GDPR Compliance:
We comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) governing the processing of personal data within the European Union. If you are a resident of the UK or EU, you have specific rights regarding your personal data.
User Rights under GDPR:
You have the right to access your personal data, request rectification or erasure, restrict processing, and object to processing based on legitimate interests or direct marketing. You also have the right to data portability. To exercise these rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer at info@flashfeed.news.
Contact for Data Protection Inquiries:
For any GDPR-related inquiries, you can contact our Data Protection Officer:
Email: info@flashfeed.news
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3. Information we collect
When you make use of our Services, we may collect and process a variety of personal information about you from various sources which may include but are not limited to the following as described below:
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means any information which, either alone or in combination with other information we hold about you, identifies you as an individual, including, for example, your contact information such as your name, email address, as well as any other non-public information about you that is associated with or linked to any of the foregoing data which you may be required to provide when using the App.
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"Anonymous/Aggregated Data" means data that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information; Anonymous Data does not, by itself, permit the identification of individual persons. We collect, use and share Anonymous Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Anonymous Data may be derived from your personal information but is not considered personal information in law as such data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For instance, FlashFeed may aggregate or anonymize your usage data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Service feature. However, suppose FlashFeed combines or connects Aggregated Data with your personal information so that it can directly or indirectly identify you. In that case, FlashFeed treats the combined data as personal information that will be used per this privacy notice.
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User Consent:
We collect and process your personal data based on your consent, obtained through clear affirmative actions such as checking a box on our registration forms. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at info@flashfeed.news.
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Information we collect automatically
We may collect certain information (which does not identify you as an individual) about your use of the App through the use of tracking technologies or by other passive means and other relevant statistics, including the following:
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Usage Data: When you access and/or make use of our Services, we collect details of your visit such as traffic data, date and time of your visit to the App, logs, location, error tracking information, and other usage data and resources that you access and use on or in the Services.
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Device and location information: We also collect information about your mobile, computer device, and internet connection, such as your operating system, IP address, browser type, and App version information. For example, we make use of Google Analytics and Mixpanel to track and collect these kinds of information. We may also collect location through the use of geolocation technology.
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When you access and/or make use of our Services, we send one or more cookies (small text files containing a string of characters) to your device that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of the software and App by storing user preferences and tracking user trends. You can refuse to accept browser cookies on your computer by activating the relevant browser setting, and you may have the same capabilities on your mobile device under the choices for your operating system or browser. If you choose this option, you may be unable to access or utilize certain features of our Services. Unless you have configured your browser or operating system to reject cookies, our system will send cookies when you visit our website or use our App.
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The Service or contents made available on the App may include links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether IP addresses have followed these links. We use this information to improve the quality of our products and design.
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Beacons (also known as "pixel tags" or "clear GIFs") are 1×1 single-pixel graphics that allow us to count the number of users who have visited or accessed the App and to recognize users by accessing our cookies. We may employ beacons to facilitate Service administration and navigation, track the actions of users of the App, compile aggregated statistics about App usage and response rates, and provide an enhanced online experience for visitors to the App.
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Analytics services: We may use third-party analytics services ("Analytics Services"), such as Google Analytics, to help monitor, visualize, report, integrate, and analyze how users use our Services. Google Analytics also makes use of cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, to help our Services analyze how users use the Services. You can learn more about how Google uses data when you visit our Services by visiting "How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services" (https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites). Furthermore, the information generated through cookies or other technologies about your use of the FlashFeed Service (the "Analytics Information") may be transmitted to the Analytics Services. The Analytics Services use Analytics Information to compile reports on user activity. The Analytics Services may also transfer the Analytics Information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process Analytics Information on their behalf. Each Analytics Service's ability to use and share Analytics Information is restricted by such Analytics Service's terms of use and privacy policy.
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Information automatically collected by third parties about you
Third-party service providers may serve some embedded content on the App. Please note that these companies may also use cookies or similar technologies to collect data about you on the Site and the Internet. Data collection and use by those third parties is subject to the privacy policies of those third parties.
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Please rest assured that this site will only collect personal information that you knowingly and willingly provide us through surveys, completed forms, and emails. FlashFeed intends to use personal information only for the purpose for which it was requested and for any additional uses specifically provided for on this Policy.
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4. What do we use your personal information for
FlashFeed uses the information collected from you to provide, improve, and develop the services we provide to you, communicate with you, offer you a better service, and protect us and our users. When you interact with or use the FlashFeed App, we use various technologies to collect information about you for various reasons.
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To create and service your user account on the App and to enable certain functionalities for your use on our Services.
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Identify you as a user of the Services and ensure the security of your account -e.g., by sending an email to confirm that you are the owner of the email address linked to your user account.
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To personalize your experience when you make use of our Services, such as by providing personalized content and recommendations. For example, we use the email address we collect from you to help you create, log into, and manage your FlashFeed account on our Services. This lets us personalize your experience and give you relevant information.
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Recommendations and Personalization: Personalize your experience and inform you about news and updates in which you have indicated an interest.
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For communication purposes: We may send emails, newsletters, product updates and related emails to the email address you provide to us, and for informational and operational purposes, such as account management, customer service, system maintenance, and other Service-related purposes.
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To administer a promotion, survey or other Service feature.
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Fraud detection and prevention: Increase and maintain the safety and security of our products and services and prevent misuse. We use personal information to detect and prevent fraud and abuse in order to protect the security and ensure the safety of our users, FlashFeed, and others.
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We may transfer your personal data outside the UK or EEA. When we do so, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your data, such as standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission or other legal mechanisms.
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We also use collected information to protect against, identify, and prevent fraud, other criminal activity, claims, and other liabilities.
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Provide, troubleshoot, and improve FlashFeed Services: We use your personal information to understand, diagnose, troubleshoot, and fix issues with FlashFeed Services. We also use such information to operate, evaluate, develop, manage, and improve our Services (including operating, administering, analyzing and improving our products and services; developing new features and services; managing and evaluating the effectiveness of our communications; performing accounting, auditing, billing reconciliation and collection activities and other internal functions;
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Comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements: in certain cases, we collect your personal information to stay in compliance with laws and relevant industry standards and policies, including this Privacy Notice and our Terms.
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5. Personal Information that we share
Except as described below, we do not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise share personal information collected through the App because we are committed to maintaining your trust:
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Service providers: We work with third-party service providers in order to make available to you our products and services for use on or through the FlashFeed App or engage the services of other service providers to perform certain functions on our behalf. Such services may include email services, product development and enhancement, customer service, and marketing
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Subsidiaries, business partners and affiliates: We may share personal information or any information collected through your use of the Service with our subsidiaries and affiliates for the purposes for which you provided the information or as reasonably necessary for our internal administrative and business purposes. We may share your Personal Information with our business partners. Some of these business partners may use your personal information to facilitate the offering of services or products that may be of interest to you. We may also share your Personal Information as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.
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Analytics Partners: When you provide your personal information to us, we may make certain personal information available to certain third parties for analytics purposes, including but not limited to leveraging third-party tools and services to host, track, integrate, manage user's interests, mood, emotional wellbeing, usage pattern, and/or functionality available through our Services. We do not in any way sell your personal information to advertisers.
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Merger and acquisition: We may disclose or transfer personal information or any information collected through your usage of our Service to third parties who acquire all or a portion of FlashFeed's business, whether such acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
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Compliance with laws: We may disclose personal information or any information collected through your usage of the FlashFeed Service if we are required to do so by law or pursuant to legal process, in response to a request from government officials, law enforcement authorities or a valid subpoena, or as necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of illegal activity, including without limitation to prevent, investigate, detect or prosecute any criminal offense or attack.
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We may share personal information in accordance with any consent you provide.
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Aggregate Information: We share aggregate statistical data for the improvement of our Services. We may also share aggregated or de-identified information with third parties at our discretion.
6. Data retention and deletion
We keep your personal information only as long as necessary to provide you with the FlashFeed Service and for legitimate and essential business purposes, such as maintaining the performance of the FlashFeed Service, making data-driven business decisions about new features and offerings, complying with our legal obligations, and resolving disputes. We keep some of your personal information for as long as you are a user of the FlashFeed Service.
If you request, we will delete or anonymize your personal information so that it no longer identifies you, unless we are legally allowed or required to maintain certain personal information.
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7. Your rights
General Data Protection Regulations grant you certain rights ('information rights') which provide you with:
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Right of rectification or erasure - if you feel that any data that we hold about you is inaccurate you have the right to ask us to correct or rectify it. You also have a right to ask us to erase information about you where you can demonstrate that we no longer need the data we hold if you withdraw the consent upon which our processing is based or if you feel that we are unlawfully processing your data. Your right of rectification and erasure extends to anyone we have disclosed your personal information to and we will/shall take all reasonable steps to inform those with whom we have shared your data about your request for erasure. Note that we may have a legal obligation to retain some or even all personal information about you under relevant laws. We may also have the legal right to retain the information you have requested to be erased.
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Right to restriction of processing - you have a right to request that we refrain from processing your data where you contest its accuracy, or the processing is unlawful and you have opposed its erasure, or where we don't need to hold your data anymore but you need us to in order to establish, exercise or defend any legal claims, or we are in dispute about the legality of our processing your personal information.
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Right to data portability: In certain circumstances, you may have the right to request that data which you have provided to us be made available to you so that you can transfer this to another data controller.
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Right to object - you have a right to object to our processing of your personal information where the basis of the processing is our legitimate interests including but not limited to direct marketing and profiling.
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Right to withdraw consent - you have the right to withdraw your consent for the processing of your personal information where the processing is based on consent. To withdraw consent, please specify what you wish to withdraw consent for, by emailing us at info@flashfeed.news.
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Right of complaint - if you are unhappy with the way we have used or are handling your personal information you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority for data protection issues. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the Supervisory Authority. So, please contact us in the first instance by emailing us at info@flashfeed.news.
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Our services are not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children. If we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information as soon as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@flashfeed.news.
8. Keeping your data safe
As a matter of policy, we are committed to protecting your data and as such, FlashFeed takes precautions to protect your information. We adopt commercially reasonable measures to secure Personal Information by using physical and electronic measures designed to ensure the integrity and security of the Personal Information we hold. When you submit sensitive information via the App, your information is protected.
9. Your California privacy rights
If you are a resident of California, this section provides additional information about specific rights regarding your personal information.
Personal Information we collect
The following is a list of personal information that we collect or have collected from California residents over the past twelve months. We will update this disclosure from time to time as appropriate.
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Unique identifiers such as your first name, last name, age, gender, or similar identifier, address, or IP address;
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Internet or other electronic network activity information, including content interaction information, such as content downloads, search history, transaction and interaction data on your use of our Service and from links in our emails sent to you;
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geolocation data, such as the location of your device or computer;
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inference data, such as information about your purchase preferences, feedback, and survey responses;
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Other information that identifies or can be reasonably associated with you (e.g., the information you voluntarily provide as you use the FlashFeed services, such as additional profile information or user-generated content).
How we collect personal information
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following sources:
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Directly from our Services users when they provide the information to us.
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Indirectly from you as you navigate through the Services. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
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From third-party service providers.
Categories of personal information disclosed for our business purpose
The personal information that we disclosed about consumers for a business purpose over the past (12) twelve months falls into the following categories as established by the California Consumer Privacy Act:
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Identifiers such as your name, email address, billing address, or IP address;
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Personal information, such as a credit card number, for example, if we use a third-party payment processor;
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Your age, age range, gender, or other protected classifications, for example, if you choose to participate in a survey distributed by us or fill the User Content form;
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Geolocation data from your IP address
Access request rights
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past twelve (12) months. But only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. Agents must submit proof that the consumer has authorized them to act on their behalf. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request. If you wish to do any of these things, please contact us. Once we receive and verify your request, we will disclose it to you. You may make up to two (2) requests, no more than twice in a twelve-month period for information as to:
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The categories of personal information we collected about you or shared with our service providers for business purposes.
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The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
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Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information.
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The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.
Right to deletion of personal information
You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act to request the deletion of your personal information. If you wish to do this, please contact us. Depending on your data choices and subject to applicable regulations, certain services may be limited or unavailable.
We may, however, deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers(s) to:
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Complete the purpose for which we collected the personal information, provide a service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
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Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
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Exercise free speech; ensure another consumer's right to exercise their free speech rights or exercise another right provided for by law.
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Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq. or other legal obligation.
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Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
No discrimination
You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of your rights under the CCPA, and we will not discriminate against any consumer for exercising their rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act.
10. Children under the age of 13/Age restriction
FlashFeed's Services are not directed to and do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from, children under the age of thirteen (13). If it is determined that such information has been inadvertently collected on anyone under the age of thirteen (13), we shall immediately take the necessary steps to ensure that such information is deleted from our system's database. Also, for users between the age of thirteen (13) and eighteen (18), you must have your parent's or legal guardian's permission in order to be able to make use of our website and the services that we offer.
11. Your choices; unsubscribe or opt-out
Account information: You may update certain information you provide to us (such as your password, name and email address) by logging into your FlashFeed account or contacting us through our support channel at info@flashfeed.news. Also, if you decide to delete your FlashFeed account, please contact us at info@flashfeed.news, but note that we may retain certain information where required or permitted by law. We may also retain cached or archived copies of certain information about you and your usage of the Services for a certain period of time.
Emails Newsletters: If you have subscribed to our email and electronic newsletter communications, you will always have the opportunity to unsubscribe from future communications. You will also have the opportunity to "opt-out" of commercial email from the applicable FlashFeed Service by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the email you receive or by contacting us directly. FlashFeed will continue to adhere to this Policy with respect to any personal information previously collected.
12. Links to other sites
FlashFeed does not claim nor accept responsibility for any privacy policies, practices and/or procedures of other third-party sites or resources. Therefore, we encourage all users and visitors to be aware when they leave our App and to read the privacy statements of every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy Agreement applies only and solely to the information collected by our App.
13. Acceptance of Terms
By using this Service, you are hereby accepting the terms and conditions stipulated within the Privacy Policy Agreement. If you do not agree with our terms and conditions, you should refrain from further use of our Services. In addition, your continued use of our Service following the posting of any updates or changes to our Terms shall mean that you agree and acceptance of such changes.
14. How to contact us
Feedback, comments, requests for technical support, and other communications relating to the App and the services should be directed to us at info@flashfeed.news.