Sqwid Privacy Policy

Our Services instantly connect people everywhere to what’s most meaningful to them. 

Irrespective of which country you live in, you authorize us to use your information in, and as a result to transfer it to and store it in, the United States and any other country where we operate. Privacy and data protection laws in some of these countries may vary from the laws in the country where you live.

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@sqwidapp.com

Information Collection and Use

Basic Account Information: When you create or reconfigure an account, you provide some personal information, such as your name, username, password, email address, or phone number. On the Sqwid Services, your name and username are listed publicly, including on your profile page and in search results, and you can use either your real name or a pseudonym.

Some Sqwid Services, such as searching and viewing public user profiles and Content, do not require registration.

Contact Information: You may use your contact information, such as your email address or phone number, to customize your account or enable Services. If you provide Sqwid with your phone number, you agree to receive text messages to that number from Sqwid. We may use your contact information to send you information about our Services, to market to you, to help prevent spam, fraud, or abuse, and to help others find your account, including through third­party services and client applications. You may also unsubscribe from a notification by following the instructions contained within the notification or the instructions on our website. 

Additional Information: You may provide us with profile information to make public on the Sqwid Services, such as a short biography, your location, your website, date of birth, or a picture. If you provide us with profile information and you don’t see a visibility setting, that information is public. You may choose to upload and sync your address book so that we can help you find and connect with users you know or help other users find and connect with you. We may later tailor content, such as making suggestions or showing user accounts and Sqwids for you and other users, based on imported address book contacts. If you email us, we may keep your message, email address and contact information to respond to your

request. If you connect your account on our Services to your account on another service in order to cross­post between our Services and that service, the other service may send us your registration or profile information on that service and other information that you authorize. This information enables cross­posting, helps us improve the Services, and is deleted from our Services within a few weeks of your disconnecting from our Services your account on the other service. Providing the additional information described in this section is entirely optional.

Sqwids and other Public Information: Our Services are primarily designed to help you share information with the world. Most of the information you provide us through the Sqwid Services is information you are asking us to make public. Your public information includes the Content you post, your location when you post the Content, the metadata provided with such Content, such as when you posted, the people you follow, Content you mark as liked or followed, and many other bits of information that result from your use of the Sqwid Services. We may use this information to make inferences, like what topics you may be interested in, and to customize the content we show you, including ads. Our default is almost always to make the information you provide through the Sqwid Services public for as long as you do not delete it. The Sqwid Services broadly and instantly disseminate your public information to a wide range of users, customers, and services. You should think carefully about what you are making public.

Location Information: Sqwid is designed to receive information about your location and share it with other users. We may also determine location by using other data from your device, such as precise location information from GPS, information about wireless networks or cell towers near your mobile device, or your IP address. We may use and store information about your location to provide features of our Services, such as posted Content with your location, and to improve and customize the Services, for example, with more relevant content like local trends, stories, ads, and suggestions for people to follow. 

Links: Sqwid may keep track of how you interact with links across our Services, including our email notifications, third­party services, and client applications, by redirecting clicks or through other means. We do this to help improve our Services, to provide more relevant advertising, and to be able to share aggregate click statistics such as how many times a particular link was clicked on. 

Log Data: When you use our Services, we may receive information (“Log Data”) such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, and cookie information. We receive Log Data when you interact with our Services, for example, when you visit our websites, sign into our Services, interact with our email notifications, use your account to authenticate to a third­party website or application, or visit a third­party service that includes a Sqwid button or widget. We may also receive Log Data when you click on, view or interact with links on our Services, including links to third­party applications, such as when you choose to install another application through Sqwid. Sqwid uses Log Data to provide, understand, and improve our Services, to make inferences, like what topics you may be interested in, and to customize the content we show you, including ads. 

Commerce Services: You may provide your payment information, including your credit or debit card number, card expiration date, CVV code, and billing address (collectively, “Payment Information”), along with your shipping address, to complete a commerce transaction through our Services. To facilitate future purchases, we store your Payment Information (excluding CVV code) and shipping address, which you can remove from your account at any time using your account settings. We consider your Payment Information and shipping address private and do not make such information public. We collect and store information created by your purchases made through our Services (“Transaction Data”). Transaction Data may include the merchant’s name and the date, time, and amount of the transaction.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

User Consent or Direction: We may share or disclose your information at your direction, such as when you authorize a third­party web client or application to access your account. Other users may share or disclose information about you, such as when they mention you, share a photo of you, or tag you in a photo. If you’ve shared information, like direct messages or Sqwids, with another user who accesses the Sqwid Services through a third­party service, keep in mind that the information may be shared with the third­party service.

Service Providers: We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to us in the United States and other countries. We may share your private personal information with such service providers subject to obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures, and on the condition that the third parties use your private personal data only on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions. 

Law and Harm: Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Policy, we may preserve or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process or government request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect Sqwid’s rights or property. However,

nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including a government’s, request to disclose your information.

Business Transfers and Affiliates: In the event that Sqwid is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. This Privacy Policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity. We may also disclose information about you to our corporate affiliates in order to help provide, understand, and improve our Services and our affiliates’ services, including the delivery of ads.

Non­Private or Non­Personal Information: We may share or disclose your non­private, aggregated or otherwise non­personal information, such as your public user profile information, public Sqwids, the people you follow or that follow you, or the number of users who clicked on a particular link (even if only one did), or reports to advertisers about unique users who saw or clicked on their ads after we have removed any private personal information (such as your name or contact information).

Accessing and Modifying Your Personal Information

If you are a registered user of our Services, we provide you with tools to access, correct, delete, or modify the personal information you provided to us and associated with your account. 

Our Policy Towards Children

Our Services are not directed to persons under 13. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us at info@sqwidapp.com. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account. 

Changes to this Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will always be available here. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.

The Sqwid Rules

We believe that everyone should have the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers. In order to protect the experience and safety of people who use Sqwid, there are some limitations on the type of content and behavior that we allow. All users must adhere to the policies set forth in the Sqwid Rules. Failure to do so may result in the temporary locking and/or permanent suspension of account(s).

Please note that we may need to change these rules from time to time and reserve the right to do so. The most current version will always be available here.

Content Boundaries and Use of Sqwid

In order to provide the Sqwid service and the ability to communicate and stay connected with others, there are some limitations on the type of content that can be published with Sqwid.

• Trademark: We reserve the right to reclaim usernames on behalf of businesses or individuals that hold legal claim or trademark on those usernames. Accounts using business names and/or logos to mislead others may be permanently suspended.
• Copyright: We will respond to clear and complete notices of alleged copyright infringement. Our copyright procedures are set forth in the Terms of Service.
• Graphic content: You may not use pornographic or excessively violent media in your profile image, header image, or background image. Sqwid may allow some forms of graphic content, however, in our discretion, for instance violent images related newsworthy events. When content crosses the line into gratuitous images of death, Sqwid may ask that you remove the content out of respect for the deceased.
• Unlawful use: You may not use our service for any unlawful purposes or in furtherance of illegal activities. International users agree to comply with all local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content.

Abusive Behavior

We believe in freedom of expression and in speaking truth to power, but that means little as an underlying philosophy if voices are silenced because people are afraid to speak up. In order to ensure that people feel safe expressing diverse opinions and beliefs, we do not tolerate behavior that crosses the line into abuse, including behavior that harasses, intimidates, or uses fear to silence another user’s voice.

Any accounts and related accounts engaging in the activities specified below may be temporarily locked and/or subject to permanent suspension.

• Violent threats (direct or indirect): You may not make threats of violence or promote violence, including threatening or promoting terrorism.
• Harassment: You may not incite or engage in the targeted abuse or harassment of others. Some of the factors that we may consider when evaluating abusive behavior include:
• if a primary purpose of the reported account is to harass or send abusive messages to others;
• if the reported behavior is one­sided or includes threats;
• if the reported account is inciting others to harass another account; and
• if the reported account is sending harassing messages to an account from multiple accounts.
• Hateful conduct: You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease. We also do not allow accounts whose primary purpose is inciting harm towards others on the basis of these categories.
• Multiple account abuse: Creating multiple accounts with overlapping uses or in order to evade the temporary or permanent suspension of a separate account is not allowed.
• Private information: You may not publish or post other people's private and confidential information, such as credit card numbers, street address, or Social Security/National Identity numbers, without their express authorization and permission. In addition, you may not post intimate photos or videos that were taken or distributed without the subject's consent. 
• Impersonation: You may not impersonate others through the Sqwid service in a manner that is intended to or does mislead, confuse, or deceive others. 
• Self­harm: You may encounter someone considering suicide or self harm on Sqwid. When we receive reports that a person is threatening suicide or self harm, we may take a number of steps to assist them, such as reaching out to that person expressing our concern and the concern of other users on Sqwid or providing resources such as contact information for our mental health partners.

Spam

We strive to protect people on Sqwid from technical abuse and spam. Any accounts engaging in the activities specified below may be temporarily locked or subject to permanent suspension.

• Username Squatting. You may not engage in username squatting. Accounts that are inactive for more than six months may also be removed without further notice. Some of the factors we take into consideration when determining what conduct is considered to be username squatting are:
• the number of accounts created;
• creating accounts for the purpose of preventing others from using those account names;
• creating accounts for the purpose of selling those accounts; and
• using feeds of third­party content to update and maintain accounts under the names of those third parties.
• Invitation spam: You may not use Sqwidapp.com's address book contact import to send repeat, mass invitations.
• Selling usernames: You may not buy or sell Sqwid usernames.
• Malware/Phishing: You may not publish or link to malicious content intended to damage or disrupt another person’s browser or computer or to compromise a person’s privacy.
• Spam: You may not use the Sqwid service for the purpose of spamming anyone. What constitutes “spamming” will evolve as we respond to new tricks and tactics by spammers. 

Accounts under investigation may be removed from search for quality. Sqwid reserves the right to immediately terminate your account without further notice in the event that, in its judgment, you violate these Rules or the Terms.