Privacy Policy
Effective Date: 12 December 2018
Welcome to the Kindred Privacy Policy. This document explains how Kindred, Inc. collects, stores, uses, shares, and protects your information. This must be read along with the Kindred Terms of Use Agreement. In this document, we refer to the company who owns and operates the mobile application and website (www.kindred.biz) for Kindred as the “Company” and the mobile application, the website, and any related services as the “App”, “Service”, and “Network”. These may be used interchangeably. You, the user, will be referred to as “You” and the “User”, or collectively as “Users”.
By downloading and installing the App, you agree that and consent to the Company that it may collect, transfer, store, disclose, and use your information as described in the Policy. Kindred, Inc. is a United States-based company, and the third party services that the Company uses, including servers, are located, to the best of its knowledge, in the United States. That being said, your data and information will pass through U.S.-based servers no matter where you are in the world, which may make you subject to U.S. data laws and protections, sometimes depending on your country’s own data laws and protections.
Please take the time to read the following carefully.
1. Information Collected
In order to use Kindred, you must sign up using a valid first name, last name, birthday indicating that you are 18 or older, email address, password, and phone number.
The Company collects various types of information about you throughout the use of the App and across App sessions.
Your information and data, identifiable and non-identifiable, will be used, directly and indirectly, in conjunction with third party analytics tools and services to track and store all associated usage information of all users in order for the Company to continue to build and better its business practices.
2. Registration
When registering for a Kindred account for the first time, you are required to sign up with a valid email address, password, and phone number that can receive SMS.
Access to information and Content we ask for from your device on which the App is installed includes access to your
Two-factor registration, i.e., using both your email and password in conjunction with a valid phone number, is required.
By using the Service, you consent to allow other registered users of the Service to search for you within the Service using your registered name, phone number, and email address.
In App
Within the App itself, the Service collects information on:
Data Storage
Your data is stored using a third party server service provider, located to the best of the Company’s knowledge and as of this writing, in the United States. The third party adheres to the best of its abilities to the industry standards in data protection (otherwise the Company wouldn’t be using it!). By registering with the Company and creating an account, and thereby submitting any personal information, you agree to the transfer of your personal information to, and storage and processing of your personal information in, any such countries or destinations where you may access the Service, whether such countries provide laws for data protection or not.
The Company will protect your stored data to the best of its ability and in conjunction with its third party server service provider(s) and analytics services. The nature of the service in and of itself as contact-sharing platform means that any data submitted to the app, including personally identifiable information may be visible or made visible by you to or by other authenticated users of the Service. You agree, understand, and consent that the Company cannot and will not be held liable or accountable in any way for the misuse, theft, leaking, destruction, tampering of, interception of, or in any way altering of this data, whether incidental, accidental, or intentional by the Company or any affiliated or non-affiliated third parties.
Geo-location Information
The Service requires access to your current location, locations you have been to, and locations you will go to. The App will automatically store and update your current location at the beginning of each session, and periodically throughout each session.
Log and usage data
The Service saves and stores log and usage data automatically. This information may include, but may not be limited to your IP address, your mobile carrier, your browser type, a referring domain, pages visited, an advertising identifier, and search terms. Interaction with the Service itself, including other user and third parties may also be included in Log and Usage Data.
Device information
The Service may collect identifying information about the device with which you access the Service, including your unique device identification number, device model, operating system, MAC address, and IP Address. With your expressed permission, the Service may also access your photos, contacts/address book, and location with the Service. These settings can be managed in the Settings app on your device.
Account suspension, and information and data deletion
You may delete your account in its entirety at anytime from within the Account section in the App’s settings. The Company reserves the right at any time to maintain and keep certain information it deems necessary to protect itself and the service from abuse.
Despite deleting your account at any time, which may be done only if your account has not been suspended or blocked by the Service (upon which a deletion request must be made to hello@kindred.biz), all terms of the Terms of Use Agreement and this Privacy Policy survive such deletion and continue in full force and effect, except for terms that expire based on their nature or which become fully satisfied.
Links
We may track links that you visit via the Service and website, including third party advertisements. We may share aggregated, non-identifiable information of link clicks/taps/interactions with third parties.
Cookies
We may employ the use of cookies throughout the Service in order to collect website usage data and thereby improve the Service experience. You may easily opt out of cookies with your browser, but this may affect the performance of the Service.
2. Use of Information
We use the information that you provide to the Service primarily to build, expand, and improve the Service. Your profile/account/registration information is the way in which you identify yourself to the Service and its community. Information and the data that you add to the service is/are aggregated and utilized depending on which features it pertains to. This information is both identifying and non-identifying. This allows the Company to identify the users contributing to the service.
As mentioned in Section 1, your information and data, identifiable and non-identifiable, will be used, directly and indirectly, in conjunction with third party analytics tools and services to track all associated usage information of all users in order for the Company to better its business practices.
3. Disclosure of Information
The company will never disclose your registration or account information to other users of the Service other than the information that is made available to the Service’s users and community. More sensitive information, such as your last name, including all other session, log, and usage data, will be kept private EXCEPT under the following conditions:
4. Who can access your information
You may access all of your personal account information with the Options feature of the Service, apart from your log, usage, and session data.
5. Modifying your registration and personally identifiable information (PII)
To ensure and protect the integrity of the Kindred community and in order to avoid any abuse or misuse of the Service, the Company reserves the right to maintain possession of certain identifying information in order to prevent users in violation of the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, or any laws and regulations, from re-creating accounts on the Service.
You may modify your personally identifiable information within the Account section of the app.
6. Security
We take security incredibly seriously. The Company and its third party service providers apply industry standard techniques and take the most commercially reasonable measures to protect your data and information. That being said, nothing is completely secure, especially when being transmitted over the Internet. You may take great steps to protect yourself by logging out of your account after each session and not sharing your login credentials.
The nature of the service in and of itself as contact-sharing platform means that any data submitted to the app, including personally identifiable information may be visible or made visible by you to or by other authenticated users of the Service.
The Company, its owners, agents, officers, investors, employees, affiliates, and third party partners shall not be held liable or accountable in any way for the accidental dissemination of your personally identifiable information.
7. Third Parties
This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by any third parties.
The Company is not required in any way to disclose any personal information relating to users of the Service.
8. Your Rights
The Company is ready and willing to provide information to anyone who asks for it regarding our practices of disclosing personal information to any third parties for their marketing purposes.
The Company reserves the right to disclose certain account information about the Service’s users, including any information in your account, to third parties to allow them to market to you. This includes the ability to share your email address with third party marketers. If you would like opt out of the Service, please contact us at hello@kindred.biz. We do not disclose account information for marketing purposes to third parties at this time.
Regarding DO NOT TRACK (DNT) Signals– At this time, we do not track your online activities over time and across different online services when you use the Service.
GDPR
In accordance with the EU’s GDPR and the Company’s position on personal privacy and data protection, a user may request to have certain identifiable information disabled or deleted, or the user may do so themselves from within the Account section of the app.
Regarding DO NOT TRACK (DNT) Signals – At this time, we do not track your online activities over time and across different online services when you use the Service.
9. Changes to this policy
The Company reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time for any reason. The Company will always use the most current Privacy Policy to govern its practices. The Company may announce changes to this Agreement via Push Notification, MMS, SMS, Email, standard mail, social media, and/or via updates to the Service. You agree, understand, acknowledge and consent fully and completely that you willingly and knowingly may and will receive messages and correspondence from the Company about the Service and related matters, and have taken the appropriate steps to maintain all channels of communication such that you may receive such update notifications.
10. Final
This Privacy Policy is governed by the State of California. Please refer to the Terms of Use Agreement Section 24 regarding governing law. Kindred, Inc. is a California S-Corporation.
Effective Date: 12 December 2018
Welcome to the Kindred Privacy Policy. This document explains how Kindred, Inc. collects, stores, uses, shares, and protects your information. This must be read along with the Kindred Terms of Use Agreement. In this document, we refer to the company who owns and operates the mobile application and website (www.kindred.biz) for Kindred as the “Company” and the mobile application, the website, and any related services as the “App”, “Service”, and “Network”. These may be used interchangeably. You, the user, will be referred to as “You” and the “User”, or collectively as “Users”.
By downloading and installing the App, you agree that and consent to the Company that it may collect, transfer, store, disclose, and use your information as described in the Policy. Kindred, Inc. is a United States-based company, and the third party services that the Company uses, including servers, are located, to the best of its knowledge, in the United States. That being said, your data and information will pass through U.S.-based servers no matter where you are in the world, which may make you subject to U.S. data laws and protections, sometimes depending on your country’s own data laws and protections.
Please take the time to read the following carefully.
1. Information Collected
In order to use Kindred, you must sign up using a valid first name, last name, birthday indicating that you are 18 or older, email address, password, and phone number.
The Company collects various types of information about you throughout the use of the App and across App sessions.
Your information and data, identifiable and non-identifiable, will be used, directly and indirectly, in conjunction with third party analytics tools and services to track and store all associated usage information of all users in order for the Company to continue to build and better its business practices.
2. Registration
When registering for a Kindred account for the first time, you are required to sign up with a valid email address, password, and phone number that can receive SMS.
Access to information and Content we ask for from your device on which the App is installed includes access to your
- Photos: to upload a profile image
- Location: in order to show you people around you
- Contacts: in order to see others on the Service
Two-factor registration, i.e., using both your email and password in conjunction with a valid phone number, is required.
By using the Service, you consent to allow other registered users of the Service to search for you within the Service using your registered name, phone number, and email address.
In App
Within the App itself, the Service collects information on:
- Your current location, and updates this from time to time throughout each App session
- Your notification preferences, which can be modified at any time
- Contacts that you choose to add. Allowing access to your Contacts is not enough to save them to your account. You must explicitly select your contacts.
- A profile picture
- Your status and or availability to others on the Service
- Chats and introductions with other users, including all text and data sent between you and another user and among other users.
- Any and all feedback submitted to the Service via the Settings may be posted to the Service’s placement in the digital market place in which it has been made available to the public. Feedback given in this manner will become publicly viewable, and may be used in other properties of the Company. Please see Section 15 of the Terms of Use Agreement for more information.
Data Storage
Your data is stored using a third party server service provider, located to the best of the Company’s knowledge and as of this writing, in the United States. The third party adheres to the best of its abilities to the industry standards in data protection (otherwise the Company wouldn’t be using it!). By registering with the Company and creating an account, and thereby submitting any personal information, you agree to the transfer of your personal information to, and storage and processing of your personal information in, any such countries or destinations where you may access the Service, whether such countries provide laws for data protection or not.
The Company will protect your stored data to the best of its ability and in conjunction with its third party server service provider(s) and analytics services. The nature of the service in and of itself as contact-sharing platform means that any data submitted to the app, including personally identifiable information may be visible or made visible by you to or by other authenticated users of the Service. You agree, understand, and consent that the Company cannot and will not be held liable or accountable in any way for the misuse, theft, leaking, destruction, tampering of, interception of, or in any way altering of this data, whether incidental, accidental, or intentional by the Company or any affiliated or non-affiliated third parties.
Geo-location Information
The Service requires access to your current location, locations you have been to, and locations you will go to. The App will automatically store and update your current location at the beginning of each session, and periodically throughout each session.
Log and usage data
The Service saves and stores log and usage data automatically. This information may include, but may not be limited to your IP address, your mobile carrier, your browser type, a referring domain, pages visited, an advertising identifier, and search terms. Interaction with the Service itself, including other user and third parties may also be included in Log and Usage Data.
Device information
The Service may collect identifying information about the device with which you access the Service, including your unique device identification number, device model, operating system, MAC address, and IP Address. With your expressed permission, the Service may also access your photos, contacts/address book, and location with the Service. These settings can be managed in the Settings app on your device.
Account suspension, and information and data deletion
You may delete your account in its entirety at anytime from within the Account section in the App’s settings. The Company reserves the right at any time to maintain and keep certain information it deems necessary to protect itself and the service from abuse.
Despite deleting your account at any time, which may be done only if your account has not been suspended or blocked by the Service (upon which a deletion request must be made to hello@kindred.biz), all terms of the Terms of Use Agreement and this Privacy Policy survive such deletion and continue in full force and effect, except for terms that expire based on their nature or which become fully satisfied.
Links
We may track links that you visit via the Service and website, including third party advertisements. We may share aggregated, non-identifiable information of link clicks/taps/interactions with third parties.
Cookies
We may employ the use of cookies throughout the Service in order to collect website usage data and thereby improve the Service experience. You may easily opt out of cookies with your browser, but this may affect the performance of the Service.
2. Use of Information
We use the information that you provide to the Service primarily to build, expand, and improve the Service. Your profile/account/registration information is the way in which you identify yourself to the Service and its community. Information and the data that you add to the service is/are aggregated and utilized depending on which features it pertains to. This information is both identifying and non-identifying. This allows the Company to identify the users contributing to the service.
As mentioned in Section 1, your information and data, identifiable and non-identifiable, will be used, directly and indirectly, in conjunction with third party analytics tools and services to track all associated usage information of all users in order for the Company to better its business practices.
3. Disclosure of Information
The company will never disclose your registration or account information to other users of the Service other than the information that is made available to the Service’s users and community. More sensitive information, such as your last name, including all other session, log, and usage data, will be kept private EXCEPT under the following conditions:
- The Company receives your consent to disclose certain registration information
- The Company engages with a trusted Third Party to enhance the Service
- The Company becomes aware that you have violated the Terms of Use Agreement or partook in any illegal activity. The Company may be obligated to comply with local, State, and Federal laws and report your information to the proper authorities. This may be necessary to protect the users, The Company, and its affiliates
- Bankruptcy, mergers, acquisition, reorganizations, sale of assets are all instances in which your information may be sold or transferred
- We may share all non-private, personally or non-personally identifiable information, aggregated or utilized in any way with third parties for any purpose.
4. Who can access your information
You may access all of your personal account information with the Options feature of the Service, apart from your log, usage, and session data.
5. Modifying your registration and personally identifiable information (PII)
To ensure and protect the integrity of the Kindred community and in order to avoid any abuse or misuse of the Service, the Company reserves the right to maintain possession of certain identifying information in order to prevent users in violation of the Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, or any laws and regulations, from re-creating accounts on the Service.
You may modify your personally identifiable information within the Account section of the app.
6. Security
We take security incredibly seriously. The Company and its third party service providers apply industry standard techniques and take the most commercially reasonable measures to protect your data and information. That being said, nothing is completely secure, especially when being transmitted over the Internet. You may take great steps to protect yourself by logging out of your account after each session and not sharing your login credentials.
The nature of the service in and of itself as contact-sharing platform means that any data submitted to the app, including personally identifiable information may be visible or made visible by you to or by other authenticated users of the Service.
The Company, its owners, agents, officers, investors, employees, affiliates, and third party partners shall not be held liable or accountable in any way for the accidental dissemination of your personally identifiable information.
7. Third Parties
This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by any third parties.
The Company is not required in any way to disclose any personal information relating to users of the Service.
8. Your Rights
The Company is ready and willing to provide information to anyone who asks for it regarding our practices of disclosing personal information to any third parties for their marketing purposes.
The Company reserves the right to disclose certain account information about the Service’s users, including any information in your account, to third parties to allow them to market to you. This includes the ability to share your email address with third party marketers. If you would like opt out of the Service, please contact us at hello@kindred.biz. We do not disclose account information for marketing purposes to third parties at this time.
Regarding DO NOT TRACK (DNT) Signals– At this time, we do not track your online activities over time and across different online services when you use the Service.
GDPR
In accordance with the EU’s GDPR and the Company’s position on personal privacy and data protection, a user may request to have certain identifiable information disabled or deleted, or the user may do so themselves from within the Account section of the app.
Regarding DO NOT TRACK (DNT) Signals – At this time, we do not track your online activities over time and across different online services when you use the Service.
9. Changes to this policy
The Company reserves the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time for any reason. The Company will always use the most current Privacy Policy to govern its practices. The Company may announce changes to this Agreement via Push Notification, MMS, SMS, Email, standard mail, social media, and/or via updates to the Service. You agree, understand, acknowledge and consent fully and completely that you willingly and knowingly may and will receive messages and correspondence from the Company about the Service and related matters, and have taken the appropriate steps to maintain all channels of communication such that you may receive such update notifications.
10. Final
This Privacy Policy is governed by the State of California. Please refer to the Terms of Use Agreement Section 24 regarding governing law. Kindred, Inc. is a California S-Corporation.