VITAL INFORMATION
In order to use the App, you have to enter your real name or a nickname, whichever you like. Additionally, we automatically collect your language settings, IP address, time zone, device type and model, settings, operating system, Internet provider, mobile phone provider, hardware ID, Facebook ID, and other unique identifiers (such as IDFA and AAID) from your device. This data is necessary to provide our services and show ads, analyze the ways our customers use the app.
In order to improve the app performance and show ads, we may share this data with third parties. These parties include Facebook, Google, Firebase, Apple. After we share this data with third parties, we can (I) analyze different interactions (how often users subscribe); (II) show ads (we do it only for a certain group of users, for subscribers).
Be sure to read our Privacy Policy below to learn more about what we do with your data (Item 3), what rights for data privacy you have (Item 6), and who will manage the data (Item 1). If you still have any questions, please contact us: work@appmediaco.com.
SCREEN ART
PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy defines what personal data the ScreenArt mobile app (the “App”) can collect while you use it, and what services it provides (the “Service”), the ways such personal data can be used and shared.
BY USING THE SERVICE, YOU CONFIRM THAT (I) YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, (II) YOU ARE OVER THE AGE OF 16 (OR YOUR PARENT OR GUARDIAN HAVE READ јService, if you do not agree to this policy, or you cannot confirm that. If this is the case, you must (a) delete your account using the feature that you can find in the “Settings” of the App, or contact us and request to delete you data; (b) cancel all subscriptions with the feature provided by Apple; and (c) delete the App from your device.
“GDPR” stands for the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April, 2016 on the protection of private individuals in relation to the personal data processing and on the free movement of such data.
“EEA” includes all current member governments of the European Union and the European Economic Area.
“Process”, in relation to personal data, includes collection, storage, and disclosure of it to others.
CONTENTS
CONTROLLER OF PERSONAL DATA
TYPES OF PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT
LEGAL GROUNDS WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON (Applies only to EEA-based users)
WAYS YOU CAN USE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSMISSION
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
WAYS THE “DO NOT TRACK” REQUESTS ARE PROCESSED
WHY WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA
PARTIES WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITH
AGE RESTRICTION
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
DATA STORAGE
CONTACT US
1. CONTROLLER OF PERSONAL DATA
AppMedia FZE LLC, registered at AMC - BOULEVARD-B BUILDING, Ajman Media City, United Arab Emirates, registration License No.3189, will be your personal data controller.
2. TYPES OF PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT
We collect the data you provide on a voluntary basis (for example, your name) and we collect the data automatically (for example, your IP address).
2.1. Data you provide
You might be asked to provide information about yourself, particularly, your name, when you sign up for and/or use the Service. You may specify your real name or a nickname.
When you reach our Support Team, they may ask you to provide your email address or other information in order to perform your request.
2.2. Data we automatically collect:
2.2.1. Data on how you learned about us
We collect the data about your referral app or URL (the app or website you were on when you tapped on our ad).
2.2.2. Data on your Device and Location.
We collect the data from your mobile device. This data includes: your language settings, IP address, time zone, your device’s type and model, settings, operating system, Internet provider, mobile phone provider, hardware ID, and Facebook ID.
2.2.3. Use of data
Your interaction with our Service is tracked. For example, we log the features and content you interact with, how often you use the App, how much time you spend in the App, your subscriptions and what sections you use.
2.2.4. Advertising IDs
We collect your Apple Identifier for Advertising (“IDFA”) or Google Advertising ID (“AAID”) (depending on your device’s operating system). You can reset this information by using the settings of your device’s operating system (however, we have no control over this).
LEGAL GROUNDS WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON (Applies only to EEA-based users)
Here we inform you about the legal grounds we use for each particular purpose of your data processing. Please see Item 2 for more information. This item applies only to EEA-based users.
We process your personal data on the following legal grounds:
3.1. your consent;
3.2. in order to contract you;
On these legal grounds we:
Provide our Service (in accordance with our Terms and Conditions of Use)
Personalize your experience
Manage your account and provide customer support
Contact you regarding your use of our Service
3.3. for our (or others') legitimate interests, unless those interests interweave with your interests or basic rights and freedoms that require protection of your personal data; We rely on legitimate interests to:
contact you regarding your use of our Service
This includes sending you push notifications that invite you to see our new themes, for example. The legitimate interest here is our motivation to encourage you to use our Service more often.
research and analyze your use of the Service
The legitimate interest here is our motivation to improve our Service so that we understand our users’ preferences and are able to provide better experience for our clients (for example, to make our App easier and more pleasant to use, or to implement and test new features).
send you marketing messages
The legitimate interest here is our motivation to promote our Service deliberately and appropriately.
customize our ads
The legitimate interest here is our motivation to promote our Service in a targeted way.
ensure compliance with our Terms and Conditions of Use and prevent and combat fraud
Our legitimate interest for this purpose is to ensure compliance with our legal rights, preventing and fighting fraud and unauthorized use of the Service, and non-compliance with our Terms and Conditions of Use.
3.4. fulfill legal obligations.
WAYS YOU CAN USE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
You have the following rights to manage your personal data:
Accessing / updating / reviewing / editing your personal data. You have the right to request to review, edit, or change your personal data by sending us an email: work@appmediaco.com . You may also request a copy of your personal data we collect when you use the App by sending us an email: work@appmediaco.com.
Deletion of your personal data. You can request deletion of your personal data by sending us an email: work@appmediaco.com.
We use required measures to fulfill your request to delete your personal data. In some cases, we may be legally obliged to store some of your data for a certain time; in this case, we fulfill your request after we comply with our obligations.
Objection or restriction of your personal data use. You can request us to stop using all or part of your personal data or to restrict our use thereof by sending us an email: work@appmediaco.com.
5. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSMISSION
We may transfer your personal data to countries alongside the country where the data was originally collected in order to provide the Service contained in the Terms and Conditions of Use and for purposes specified in this Privacy Policy. If these countries do not have the same data protection laws as the country where you specified the information originally, we employ special safety measures.
Including, if we transfer your personal data originating from the EEA to countries with insufficient level of data protection, we turn to one of the following legal grounds: (I) Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission (you can see the details here), or (II) the European Commission adequacy decisions on certain countries (you can see the details here).
6. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California’s Shine the Light law gives the residents of California the right to ask companies what personal information they share with third parties for those third parties' direct marketing goals once a year. Learn more about what information is considered to be personal under the law.
If you want us to give you this information, please send an email at work@appmediaco.com with “Request for California Privacy Information” in the email subject field, specifying your state of residence and email address in your email. If you reside in California, we will provide the information you request by sending you an email at your email address.
WAYS THE “DO NOT TRACK” REQUESTS ARE PROCESSED
Except in cases specified in this Privacy Policy, our App does not support “Do Not Track” requests. In order to determine whether any of the third-party services fulfill the “Do Not Track” requests, please see their privacy policies.
WHY WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA We process your personal data to:
8.1. Provide our Service
This makes it possible for you to use the Service without hindrance, and it prevents or fixes Service errors or technical issues.
We use Firebase Services, which is a hosting and backend service, for personal data hosting and our App’s operation and distribution.
We use Firebase Performance Monitoring and Firebase Crash Reporting, Google’s monitoring services. If you want to learn more, please visit Google’s Privacy policy and Privacy and Security in Firebase.
8.2. Personalize your experience
We process your personal data in order to correct the Service’s content and make offers considering your personal preferences.
8.3. Manage your account and provide customer support
We process your personal data to reply to your requests for technical support, Service information or to any other dialogue on your initiative. This includes access to your account to respond to your technical support requests. In order to do this, we may send you notifications or emails about our Service’s performance, payment transactions, security, notifications on our Terms and Conditions of Use or this Privacy Policy.
8.4. Contact you on your use of our Service
We send you push notifications to contact you. These may contain information on special offers or other information about the App. For example, we may send you a push notification that offers you to see our recently added themes. Please change the settings on your device, if you want to unsubscribe from receiving push notifications.
We use the services that may collect the data about the date and time when the users of our App’s viewed the message, as well as when they interacted with it, for example, by clicking on the links in the message.
Additionally, we use Firebase Cloud Messaging and Firebase Notifications, services for sending messages provided by Google, to contact you. We use Firebase Cloud Messaging to send messages and notifications to our App’s users on Android and iOS. We incorporate Firebase Notifications with Firebase Analytics to create analytics-based user communication and track opening and conversion events. Thus, we can send notifications only to those users who work with the App more frequently. The privacy policy of Google.
We also use Apple Push Notification service (“APNs”), which is a notification service provided by Apple. We use this service to send information to devices on iOS. The privacy policy of Apple.
Learn more on how to manage notifications on iOS devices.
8.5. Research and analyze your use of the Service
Research and analysis allow us to get a better understanding of our business, analyze our performance, improve, maintain, plan, innovate, design, and develop our App and new products. This data is also used for statistical evaluation in order to review and improve our offers. Thus, we can see what App’s features and sections our users prefer and what type of users work with our App. Therefore, processing this data helps us improve our App. For example, if we see that our users prefer working with dark-themed keyboards, we pay special attention to adding more options for dark keyboards.
We use Facebook Analytics, a Facebook service that provides different tools for analysis. Facebook Analytics provides us with aggregated demographics and data on how many people launch our App, how often our users make purchases, how many users were born in Berlin, and other user interactions. Lean more about this approach to data from Facebook Privacy Policy.
We use Firebase Remote Config to manage and analyze our users’ behavior (for example, how they react to changes of the App structure, text or any other section). Firebase Remote Config is an A/B testing and configuration service provided by Google, which allows us to manage the content that our App’s users see (for example, we can show different sign-up screens to different users). Privacy Policy and Privacy and Security in Firebase.
Additionally, we work with Firebase Analytics, which is an analytics service provided by Google. If you want to understand how Google use data, please consult Google's partner policy. Firebase Privacy information. Google’s Privacy Policy.
8.6. Send you marketing messages
We process your personal data for our marketing campaigns. We send you notifications about our products and special offers. You may see ads on our App, and we may send you push notifications for marketing purposes. If you want to opt out of receiving push notifications, be sure to change the settings on your device as described in subitem 3.4.
8.7. Customize our ads
We and our partners, Facebook and Google, use your personal data to manage ads and show them to you at the appropriate time. For example, you might see ads of our products in your Facebook’s feed, if you install our app.
How to opt out or manage personalized ads
iOS: Go to “Settings,” then “Privacy” and tap on “Advertising” to select “Limit Ad Track”. Additionally, you can reset your advertising ID (this helps you see less personalized ads) in the same section.
If you want to learn more about how to manage your ads choices on various devices, please see the information here.
Moreover, you may get useful information and opt out of some personalized ads by visiting the following links:
Network Advertising Initiative – http://optout.networkadvertising.org/ Digital Advertising Alliance – http://optout.aboutads.info/
Digital Advertising Alliance (Canada) – http://youradchoices.ca/choices
Digital Advertising Alliance (EU) – http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ DAA AppChoices – http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices
We value your right to manage the ads you see, thus we send you information on the service providers we use and how some of them allow you to manage your ads preferences.
We use Facebook Ads Manager and Facebook Custom Audience, which allows us to choose what type of users will see our ads on Facebook or other Facebook’s products (for example, Instagram). With the help of Facebook Custom Audience we create a list of users with certain sets of data, such as an IDFA, choose users who did certain actions in our App (for example,
installed it). Thus, we may ask Facebook to show certain ads to a particular list of users. As a result, you may see more of our ads while you use Facebook or other Facebook’s products (for example, Instagram). You can see information on how to opt out of ads provided to you via Facebook Custom Audience here.
Facebook also allows its users to manage the categories of ads they see on Facebook. If you want to learn how to manage your ads on Facebook, please go here or change your ads settings on Facebook.
Google Ads is a service provided by Google that shows ads to users. Google allows us to manage the ads so that, for example, only users who conducted certain actions with our App can see our ads (for example, only users with subscription will see these ads). Some other examples of ads management events include: installation of our App, or completion of a free trial. Google allows its users to opt out of Google’s personalized ads and to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics.
8.8. Ensure compliance with our Terms and Conditions of Use and prevent and combat fraud
We use personal data to observe our agreements and treaty obligations, to expose, prevent, and combat fraud. In order to do this, we may share your information with other parties, including law enforcement agencies (for example, if there is a dispute related to our Terms and Conditions of Use).
8.9. Fulfill legal obligations
We may process, use, or share your data when it is required by law. For example, if a law enforcement agency requests your data by available legal means.
PARTIES WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITH
We share information with third parties that help us operate, provide, improve, implement, customize, support, and sell our Service. We may share some parts of your personal data for purposes and with parties mentioned in Item 3 and 5 of this Privacy Policy. The types of third parties we share information with are:
9.1. Service suppliers
We share personal data with those third parties that we hire to provide services or fulfil business functions on our behalf, in accordance with our instructions. Your personal information may be shared with the following types of service suppliers:
cloud storage suppliers (Amazon)
data analytics suppliers (Facebook, Google, Firebase)
marketing partners (social media networks, email services, marketing agencies; Facebook, Google)
9.2. Law enforcement agencies and other government agencies
We may use and disclose your personal data to comply with our Terms and Conditions of Use, to protect our rights, safety, privacy, or property, and/or that of our affiliated persons, you or others entities, and to reply to requests from courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory authorities, and other public and government agencies, or in other cases required by law.
9.3. Third parties in the course of a merger or acquisition
We have the right to buy or sell assets or business propositions while developing our business. The information about clients is considered one of the transferred business assets in these transactions. We may also share such information with any affiliated company (e.g., parent or subsidiary company) and may transfer such information in the process of a corporate deal, such as a sale of our business, divestiture, consolidation, merger, or asset sale, or in the unlikely case of bankruptcy.
AGE RESTRICTION
We deliberately do not process personal data from users under 16 years of age. If you learn that some person under the age of 16 has provided us with their personal data, please contact us: work@appmediaco.com.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We have the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at times. If we decide to make significant changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you via our Service or by other available means, so that you have an opportunity to review the changes to this Privacy Policy. You agree to comply with the revised Privacy Policy by continuing to access or use the Service after those changes come into force.
DATA STORAGE
We store your personal data for as long as it is necessary for achieving the goals specified in this Privacy Policy (including providing the Service), which includes (but not limited to) the period, during which you have an account on the App. Additionally, we store and use your personal data as and when required to comply with our legal obligations, settle disputes, and ensure compliance with our agreements.
CONTACT US
You may contact us at any time for details in relation to this Privacy Policy and its previous versions. If you have any questions regarding your account or your personal data, please be sure to contact us: work@appmediaco.com.
Effective from: July 1, 2021