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Privacy Policy

In order to use the Service (as defined below), we will ask you to enter your preferences,
which include desired area of your search, your age, habits. We also automatically collect
from your device: language settings, IP address, time zone, type and model of a device,
device settings, operating system, Internet service provider, mobile carrier, hardware ID,
Facebook ID, and some other unique identifiers (such as IDFA and AAID). We need this
data to provide our services, enable a proper selection of profiles for your attention
depending on your preferences, analyze how our customers use the Service, to serve ads.
For improving the service and serving ads, we use third party solutions. We share this data
to (1) analyze different interactions (how often users make interactions, how many users
chose a particular preference etc.); (2) serve ads (and are able to show them only to a
particular group of users, for example, to subscribers).
Transfer of your data to third parties for the purposes that are described above is optional.
You may choose to opt out of such transfer by contacting us at support@meetdarlings.com.
Please read our Privacy Policy below to know more about what we do with data (Section
2), what data privacy rights are available to you (Section 5) and who will be the data
controller (Section 12). If any questions will remain unanswered, please contact us at
support@meetdarlings.com.


PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy explains what personal data is collected when you use Darlings
(“Darlings”, “Application” or “App”) and the services provided through it (together with the
Application, the “Service”), how such personal data will be used, shared.
BY USING THE SERVICE, YOU PROMISE US THAT (I) YOU HAVE READ,
UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, AND (II) YOU ARE OVER 18
YEARS OF AGE OR OTHER APPLICABLE LEGAL AGE, DEPENDING ON
JURISDICTION (OR HAVE HAD YOUR PARENT OR GUARDIAN READ AND AGREE TO
THIS PRIVACY POLICY FOR YOU).
If you do not agree, or are unable to make this promise, you must not use the Service. In
such case, you must delete your account using the functionality found in “Settings” in your
profile at the Application.
“GDPR” means the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European
Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with
regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (as
amended).
“EEA” includes all current member states to the European Union and the European
Economic Area.
“Process”, in respect of personal data, includes to collect, store, and disclose to others.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. 1. CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

  2. FOR WHAT PURPOSES WE PROCESS PERSONAL DATA

  3. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA (Applies only to EEA-based users)

  4. SHARING YOUR PERSONAL DATA

  5. HOW YOU CAN EXERCISE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

  6. AGE LIMITATION

  7. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

  8. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

  9. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

  10. DATA RETENTION

  11. HOW “DO NOT TRACK” REQUESTS ARE HANDLED

  12. PERSONAL DATA CONTROLLER

  13. CONTACT US

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1. CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT
We collect data you give us voluntarily (for example, when you provide us with your
preferences or send us an email). We also may receive data about you from third parties
(for example, when you sign in via Facebook or use other social media credential). Finally,
we collect data automatically (for example, your IP address).
1. Data you give us
You provide us information about yourself when you register for and/or use the Service. For
example: name, data on physical characteristics (age, habits), search preferences, email
address.
2. Data provided to us by third parties
When you decide to log in using Facebook, we get personal data from your Facebook
account. This includes your profile image, name, and Facebook ID. Unless you opt out on
the Facebook Login screen, we will also collect other data, such as email address.
For more information, please refer to the Facebook Permissions Reference (describes the
categories of information, which Facebook may share with third parties and the set of
requirements) and to the Facebook Data policy. In addition, Facebook lets you control the
choices you made when connecting your Facebook profile to the Application on their Apps
and Applications page.
3. Data we collect automatically:
3.1. Data about how you found us
We collect data about your referring URL (that is, the place on the Web where you were
when you tapped on our ad).
3.2. Device and Location data.
We collect data from your mobile device. Examples of such data include: language
settings, IP address, time zone, type and model of a device, device settings, operating
system, Internet service provider, mobile carrier, hardware ID, and Facebook ID.
3.3. Usage data
We record how you interact with our Service. For example, we log your taps on certain
areas of the interface, communication with AI assistant, the features, and content you
interact with, the time and duration of your sessions on the Service, how often you use the
Service, how much time do you spend on the Service. We also record the ads on our
Service with which you interact (and the Internet links to which those adds lead).


2. FOR WHAT PURPOSES WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We process your personal data:
2.1.To provide our Service
This includes enabling you to use the Service in a seamless manner and preventing or
addressing Service errors or technical issues.
2.2.To customize your experience
We process your personal data, such as physical characteristics and social preferences, to
adjust the content of the Service and provide content tailored to your personal preferences.
As a result of such processing, you get access, for example, to profiles of our female
members matching your preferences.
2.3.To manage your account and provide you with customer support
We process your personal data to respond to your requests for technical support, Service
information or to any other communication you initiate. This includes accessing your
account to address technical support requests. For this purpose, we may send you, for
example, notifications or emails about the performance of our Service, security, payment
transactions, notices regarding our Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy.
The services that we use for these purposes may collect data concerning the date and time
when the message was viewed by our App’s users, as well as when they interacted with it,
such as by clicking on links included in the message.
2.4.To research and analyze your use of the Service
This helps us to better understand our business, analyze our operations, maintain,
improve, innovate, plan, design, and develop the App and our new products. We also use
such data for statistical analysis purposes, to test and improve our offers. This enables us
to better understand what features and training plans of the App our users like more, what
categories of users use our App. As a consequence, we often decide how to improve the
App based on the results obtained from this processing. For example, if we discover that
users more often engage in workouts designated for legs, we may develop and introduce a
new workout for this area into the App.
2.5.To send you marketing communications
We process your personal data for our marketing campaigns. We may add your email
address to our marketing list. As a result, you will receive information about our products,
such as special offers. If you do not want to receive marketing emails from us, you can
unsubscribe following instructions in the footer of the marketing emails.
We may also show you advertisements in our App, and send you push notifications for
marketing purposes. To opt out of receiving push notifications, you need to change the
settings on your device.
2.6.To personalize our ads
We and our partners, including Facebook and Google, use your personal data to tailor ads
and possibly even show them to you at the relevant time. For example, if you have installed
our App, you might see ads of our products, for example, in your Facebook’s feed.
How to opt out or influence personalized advertising
iOS: On your iPhone or iPad, go to “Settings,” then “Privacy” and tap “Advertising” to select
“Limit Ad Track”. In addition, you can reset your advertising identifier (this also may help
you to see less of personalized ads) in the same section.
Android: To opt-out of ads on an Android device, simply open the Google Settings app on
your mobile phone, tap “Ads” and enable “Opt out of interest-based ads”. In addition, you
can reset your advertising identifier in the same section (this also may help you to see less
of personalized ads).
To learn even more about how to affect advertising choices on various devices, please look
at the information available here.
2.7.To enforce our Terms of Use and to prevent and combat fraud
We use personal data to enforce our agreements and contractual commitments, to detect,
prevent, and combat fraud. As a result of such processing, we may share your information
with others, including law enforcement agencies (in particular, if a dispute arises in
connection with our Terms of Use).
2.8.To comply with legal obligations
We may process, use, or share your data when the law requires it, in particular, if a law
enforcement agency requests your data by available legal means.


3. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA (Applies only to EEA-based users)
In this section, we are letting you know what legal basis we use for each particular purpose
of processing. For more information on a particular purpose, please refer to Section 2. This
section applies only to EEA-based users. If you are a user from the State of California,
please refer to Section 9 below for detailed information regarding privacy rights available to
Californian residents.
We process your personal data under the following legal bases:
3.1.your consent;
3.2.to perform our contract with you;
Under this legal basis we:
• Provide our Service (in accordance with our Terms of Use)
• Customize your experience
• Manage your account and provide you with customer support
• Communicate with you regarding your use of our Service
3.3.for our (or others') legitimate interests, unless those interests are overridden by
your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms that require protection of
personal data;
We rely on legitimate interests:
• to communicate with you regarding your use of our Service
This includes, for example, sending you push notifications regarding . The legitimate
interest we rely on for this purpose is our interest to encourage you to use our Service
more often.
• to research and analyze your use of the Service
Our legitimate interest for this purpose is our interest in improving our Service so that
we understand users’ preferences and are able to provide you with a better experience
(for example, to make the use of the Service easier and more enjoyable, or to introduce
and test new features).
• to send you marketing communications
The legitimate interest we rely on for this processing is our interest to promote our
Service in a measured and appropriate way.
• to personalize our ads
The legitimate interest we rely on for this processing is our interest to promote our
Service in a reasonably targeted way.
• to enforce our Terms of Use and to prevent and combat fraud
Our legitimate interests for this purpose are enforcing our legal rights, preventing and
addressing fraud and unauthorised use of the Service, non-compliance with our Terms
of Use.
3.4.to comply with legal obligations.


4. SHARING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We share information with third parties that help us operate, provide, improve, integrate,
customize, support, and market our Service. We may share some sets of personal data, in
particular, for purposes indicated in Section 2 of this Privacy Policy. The types of third
parties we share information with include, in particular:
4.1.Service providers
We share personal data with third parties that we hire to provide services or perform
business functions on our behalf, based on our instructions. We share your personal
information with the following types of service providers:
• marketing partners (in particular, social media networks, marketing agencies, email
delivery services; Facebook, Google)
• data analytics providers
• communication services providers
• cloud storage providers
4.2.Law enforcement agencies and other public authorities
We may use and disclose personal data to enforce our Terms of Use, to protect our rights,
privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others, and to respond to
requests from courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and
government authorities, or in other cases provided for by law.
4.3.Third parties as part of a merger or acquisition
As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customers’
information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of
transactions. We may also share such information with any affiliated entity (e.g. parent
company or subsidiary) and may transfer such information in the course of a corporate
transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset
sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.


5. HOW YOU CAN EXERCISE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
To be in control of your personal data shared with us, you have the following rights:
Accessing / reviewing / updating / correcting your personal data. You may review,
edit, or change the personal data that you had previously provided to us in the profile
section of the App.
You may also request a copy of your personal data collected during your use of the App at
support@meetdarlings.com.
Deleting your personal data. You can request erasure of your personal data by sending
us an email at support@meetdarlings.com.
When you request deletion of your personal data, we will use reasonable efforts to honor
your request. In some cases, we may be legally required to keep some of the data for a
certain time; in such event, we will fulfill your request after we have complied with our
obligations.
Objecting to or restricting the use of your personal data. You can ask us to stop using
all or some of your personal data or limit our use thereof by requesting its erasure as
described above or sending a request at support@meetdarlings.com.
Additional information for EEA-based users
If you are based in the EEA, you have the following rights in addition to the above:
The right to lodge a complaint with supervisory authority. We would love you to
contact us directly, so we could address your concerns. Nevertheless, you have the right to
lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority, in particular in
the EU Member State where you reside, work or where the alleged infringement has taken
place.
The right to data portability. If you wish to receive your personal data in a machine-
readable format, you can do so by requesting a copy of your personal data as described
above (or send respective request at support@meetdarlings.com).


6. AGE LIMITATION
No part of our Service is directed at persons under the age of 13. IF YOU ARE UNDER
THE AGE OF 13, YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICE AT ANY TIME AND IN ANY
MANNER.
By using the Service, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age or
have already reached the proper legal age of your country of residence.
We do not knowingly process personal data from persons under 18 years of age. If you
learn that anyone younger than 18 has provided us with personal data, please contact us
at support@meetdarlings.com.


7. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS
Darlings is a global App and does business throughout the world. We may transfer
personal data to countries other than the country in which the data was originally collected
in order to provide the Service set forth in the Terms of Use and for purposes indicated in
this Privacy Policy. If these countries do not have the same data protection laws as the
country in which you initially provided the information, we deploy special safeguards.
In particular, if we transfer personal data originating from the EEA to countries with not
adequate level of data protection, we use one of the following legal bases: (i) Standard
Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission (details available here), or (ii)
the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (details available here), or (iii) the European
Commission adequacy decisions about certain countries (details available here).


8. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we decide to make material
changes to this Privacy Policy, you will be notified through our Service or by other available
means and will have an opportunity to review the revised Privacy Policy. By continuing to
access or use the Service after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by
the revised Privacy Policy.


9. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
This section provides additional details about how we process personal data of California
consumers and the rights available to them under the California Consumer Privacy Act
(“CCPA”) and California’s Shine the Light law. Therefore, this section applies only to
residents of California, United States.
For more details about the personal information we have collected, including the categories
of sources, please see Section 1 above. We collect this information for purposes described
in Section 2 of this Privacy Policy. We may also share your information with certain
categories of third parties as indicated in Section 4. We do not sell (as such term is defined
in the CCPA) the personal information we collect.
Subject to certain limitations, the CCPA provides California consumers the right to request
to know more details about the categories or specific pieces of personal information we
collect (including how we use and disclose this information), to delete their personal
information, to opt-out of any “sales” that may be occurring, and to not be discriminated
against for exercising these rights.
California consumers may make a request pursuant to their rights under the CCPA by
contacting us at support@meetdarlings.com. We will verify your request and inform you
accordingly. You may also designate an authorized agent to exercise these rights on your
behalf.
Access rights under California’s Shine the Light
California also provides its residents with additional access rights. Under Shine the Light
law, the residents the right to ask companies once a year what personal information they
share with third parties for those third parties' direct marketing purposes. Learn more about
what is considered to be personal information under the statute.
To obtain this information from us, please send an email message to us
support@meetdarlings.com, which includes “Request for California Shine the Light Privacy
Information” on the subject line and your state of residence and email address in the body
of your message. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by the “Shine
the Light” requirements and only information on covered sharing will be included in our
response.


10. DATA RETENTION
We will store your personal data for as long as it is reasonably necessary for achieving the
purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy (including providing the Service to you), but at all
times in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations. This includes (but is
not limited to) the period during which you have an account with the Service. We will also
retain and use your personal data as necessary to comply with our legal obligations,
resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.


11. HOW “DO NOT TRACK” REQUESTS ARE HANDLED
Except as otherwise stipulated in this Privacy Policy, this App does not support “Do Not
Track” requests. To determine whether any of the third-party services it uses honor the “Do
Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.


12. PERSONAL DATA CONTROLLER
K-Data LLC, registered at 18401 Collins Ave 100-241, Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160 will be
the controller of your personal data.


13. CONTACT US
You may contact us at any time for details regarding this Privacy Policy and its previous
versions. For any questions concerning your account or your personal data please contact
us at support@meetdarlings.com
Effective as of: 12 March 2024

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