Privacy Policy

1. Information Collection

1.1 Information you provide us.

To use some of our products and services you need to have an account. To create an account, you need to provide us with certain information.

Account Information.

If you create an account, you must provide us with some information so that we can provide our services to you. This includes a display name, a username, an email address, a password. Your profile information, which includes your display name and username, is always public, but you can use either your real name or a pseudonym. It is optional for users to complete the additional profile questions called “Who Am I? - 28 Questions” and this information is always public.

Preferences.

When you set your preferences using your Settings, we collect that information so that we can respect your preferences.

1.2 Information we collect when you use @SplashMind.

When you use our services, we collect information about how you use our products and services. We use that information to provide you with products and services, to help keep @SplashMind more secure and respectful for everyone, and more relevant to you.

Usage Information.

We collect information about your activity on @SplashMind including:

  • Links posted and other content you post like comments.
  • The Folders in which you store your links if you choose to save them.
  • Your interactions with other users' content, such as reposts, likes, shares, comments and if other users mention or tag you in content or if you mention or tag them.
  • How you interact with others on the platform, such as people you follow and people who follow you.
  • If you communicate with us, such as through email, we will collect information about the communication and its content.
  • We collect information on links you interact with across our services.

Device Information.

We may collect information from and about the devices you use to access @SplashMind including:

  • Information about your connection, such as your IP address, browser type, and related information.
  • Information about your device and its settings, such as device and advertising ID, operating system, carrier, language, memory, apps installed, and battery level.

Inferred Identity.

We may collect or receive information that we use to infer your identity as detailed below:

  • When you sign into @SplashMind on a device, we may associate that browser or device with your account. Subject to your settings, we may also associate your account with browsers or devices other than those you use to sign into @SplashMind.
  • When you provide other information to @SplashMind, including an email address or phone number, we associate that information with your @SplashMind account. Subject to your settings, we may also use this information in order to infer other information about your identity, for example by associating your account with hashes of email addresses that share common components with the email address you have provided to @SplashMind.

Log Information.

We may receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our products and services, including your IP address and related information; browser type and language; operating system; the referring webpage; access times; pages visited; location; your mobile carrier; device information (including device and application IDs); search terms and IDs (including those not submitted as queries); We may also receive log information when you click on, view, or interact with links on our services.

2. How We Use Information

We think it is most useful to describe the five main ways we use information:

2.1 Operate, improve, and personalize our services.

We use the information we collect to provide and operate @SplashMind products and services. We may also use the information we collect to improve and personalize our products and services so that you have a better experience.

2.2 Foster safety and security.

We use information we collect to provide for the safety and security of our users, our products, services, and your account. This includes verifying your identity, authenticating your account, and defending against fraud, unauthorized use, and illegal activity.

2.3 Measure, analyze and improve our services.

We use the information we collect to measure and analyze the effectiveness of our products and services and to better understand how you use them in order to make them better.

2.4 Communicate with you about our services.

We use the information we collect to communicate with you about our products and services, including about product updates and changes to our policies and terms. If you’re open to hearing from us, we may also send you marketing messages from time to time.

2.5 Research.

We use information you share with us, or that we collect to conduct research, surveys, product testing, and troubleshooting to help us operate and improve our products and services.

3. Sharing Information

You should know the ways we share your information, why we share it, and how you can control it.

3.1 When you post and share.

When a post is flagged as “Public”, you are directing us to disclose that information to all @SplashMind users that are Following you (your Followers), including your profile information e.g., name/pseudonym, username, profile picture etc.

3.2 When required by law, to prevent harm, or in the public interest.

We may preserve, use, share, or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to:

  • comply with a law, regulation, legal process or government request.
  • protect the safety of any person, protect the safety or integrity of our platform, including to help prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actors on our services;
  • explain why we have removed content or accounts from our services (e.g., for a violation of our Rules).
  • address fraud, security, or technical issues; or
  • protect our rights or property, or the rights or property of those who use our services.

We may also use different signals and your data to infer, preserve, use, share, or disclose your age and identity information in order to comply with regulatory requirements as well as for safety, security, fraud, know-your-customer, know-your-business, and identity verification, as the case may be. We may also share or disclose your age and identity information with our partners, service providers, and others for these purposes.

3.3 With our Affiliates.

We may share information amongst our affiliates who provide our products and services.

3.4 As a result of a change in ownership.

We may share, sell, or transfer information about you in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or bankruptcy. This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal information that is shared with (before and after the close of any transaction) or transferred to the new entity.

4. How Long We Keep Information

We keep different types of information for different periods of time, depending on how long we need to retain it in order to provide you with our products and services, to comply with our legal requirements and for safety and security reasons.

5. Take Control

You can access, correct, or modify the information you provided to us by editing your profile and adjusting your account settings.

5.1 Access, Correction, Portability.

You can access, correct, or modify the information you provided to us by editing your profile and adjusting your account settings. To protect your privacy and maintain security, we take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with a deletion, portability, or other related request. We may, in certain situations, reject your request for access, correction, or portability, for example, we may reject access where you are unable to verify your identity.

5.2 Deleting your Information.

If you request your account to be deleted in Settings, it will be deactivated and your data will be queued for deletion. When deactivated, your @SplashMind account, including your display name, username, and public profile, will no longer be viewable on @SplashMind for iOS, and @SplashMind for Android. For up to 30 days after deactivation it is still possible to restore your @SplashMind account if it was accidentally or wrongfully deactivated.

5.3 Objecting to, Restricting, or Withdrawing your Consent.

If you change your settings it may take some time for your choices to be fully reflected throughout our system.

5.4 Authorized Agent Requests.

To submit a request related to access, modification, or deletion of your information, or someone else’s information if you are their authorized agent, you may also contact us as specified in the How To Contact @SplashMind section of our Privacy Policy below. We may require you to provide additional information for verification.

6. Your Rights and Ours

We aim to provide SplashMind to people in different countries and provide many of the same privacy tools and controls to all of our users regardless of where they live. However, your experience may be slightly different than users in other countries to ensure SplashMind respects local requirements.

6.1 We have specific legal bases to use your information.

SplashMind has considered the legal reasons it is permitted to collect, use, share and otherwise process your information. We do NOT sell your personal information.

6.2 We move your data to make SplashMind work for you.

Just as users may use SplashMind to seamlessly participate in global conversations with people in countries all over the world, SplashMind must move information across borders and to different countries around the world to support the safe and reliable service you depend on. For example, if you live in Europe and are having a conversation with someone in the United States, information has to move between those countries to provide that experience – it’s what you expect from us. We also use data centers and cloud providers located in many parts of the world to help us provide our services. Before we move data between countries we look at the risks that may be presented to the data and rely on standard contractual clauses (SCCs), where applicable, to ensure your data rights are protected.

7. @SplashMind's Audience

Our services are not directed to children, and you may not use our services if you are under the age of 13. You must also be old enough to consent to the processing of your personal data in your country. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us at admin@splashmind.com. 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.

8. Changes To This Privacy Policy

The most current version of this Privacy Policy governs our processing of your personal data and we may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time as needed. If we do revise this Privacy Policy and make changes that are determined by us to be material, we will provide you notice and an opportunity to review the revised Privacy Policy before you continue to use SplashMind.

9. General

The @SplashMind Privacy Policy is written in English. You acknowledge that English shall be the language of reference for interpreting and constructing the terms of the @SplashMind Privacy Policy.

10. How To Contact Us

We want to hear from you if you have thoughts or questions about this Privacy Policy. You can contact us by email at admin@splashmind.com