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Privacy Policy for Wimbli

Effective Date: May 9, 2025

1. Introduction

Welcome to Wimbli! This Privacy Policy explains how Wimbli ("we," "our," or "us") collects, uses, discloses, and safeguards your information when you use our mobile application (the "App"). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using the App, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms, please do not access or use the App.   

We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect via the App depends on the content and materials you use, and includes:   

  • Account and Profile Information:
    • When you register for an account, we collect your email address and chosen username.
    • You may optionally provide additional profile information, such as a profile picture, a bio, and your interests. This information helps personalize your experience and allows other users to learn more about you.
  • User-Generated Content:
    • Posts: Information you provide when creating event posts, including title, description, physical location text, category, associated fee (if any), and the date/time of the event.
    • Chat Messages: Content of messages you send and receive in group chats associated with events or other group formations within the App.
    • Saved Events: A list of event posts you choose to save or bookmark.
  • Location Data:
    • With your explicit permission, we collect your device's precise or approximate location data (latitude and longitude). This is used to provide location-based services, such as filtering events near you, suggesting relevant local content, and for features like geohash-based queries for event discovery. You can change your location permissions at any time through your device settings.
  • Authentication Information:
    • We use Firebase Authentication (a Google service) to manage user sign-up, login, password management, and account deletion securely. This service handles your authentication credentials.
  • Usage Data and Device Information:
    • App Activity: We may collect information about your interactions with the App, such as features used, screens viewed, and actions taken. This data is primarily used in an aggregated or anonymized form to help us understand how our App is being used and to improve its functionality.
    • Device Information: We may collect basic information about your mobile device, including device type, operating system version, and app version, for troubleshooting, support, and to optimize the App for different devices.
    • Crash Reports: If the App crashes, we may collect diagnostic information (e.g., via Firebase Crashlytics) to help us identify and fix bugs. This information is typically anonymized.

3. How We Use Your Information

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the App to:

  • Create and manage your Wimbli account.   
  • Provide, operate, and maintain the App and its features, including displaying event posts and facilitating chat.
  • Personalize your App experience by showing you content, such as event suggestions, that may be relevant to your interests and location.
  • Enable user-to-user communications (e.g., chat).
  • Facilitate the creation and sharing of event posts.
  • Process your interactions, such as saving events or joining group chats.
  • Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve the App's functionality, user experience, and to develop new features.
  • Provide customer support and respond to your requests or inquiries.
  • Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support messages.
  • Detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions, abuse, and other illegal activities and protect the rights, property, and safety of Wimbli, our users, and others.   
  • Comply with legal obligations.

4. How We Share Your Information

We are committed to not selling or renting your personal data to third parties. However, we may share information we have collected about you in certain situations as described below:

  • With Other Users (as part of App functionality):
    • Your username, profile picture (if provided), and any posts you create will be visible to other users of the App as intended by the App's features.
    • Your participation in group chats and messages you send will be visible to other members of those chats.
  • With Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include:   
    • Google (Firebase): We use Firebase services for backend infrastructure, including:
      • Firebase Authentication: For user sign-up, login, and account management.
      • Cloud Firestore: For storing data such as user profiles, posts, and chat messages.
      • Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM): If and when we implement push notifications.
      • Firebase Crashlytics: For collecting crash reports to help us improve app stability.
      • Cloud Functions for Firebase: For backend logic and processing. You can find Google's Privacy Policy here: https://policies.google.com/privacy
    • Expo (Potentially): If we utilize Expo services for build processes, updates, or push notifications (Expo Push Notifications rely on FCM and APNS). Expo's Privacy Policy: https://expo.dev/privacy
  • By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.   
  • Aggregated or Anonymized Data: We may share aggregated or anonymized information that does not directly identify you with third parties for analysis, research, or other purposes.   

5. Data Security

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.

6. Data Retention and Deletion

We will retain your personal information only for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you with the App's services and to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. We will also retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.   

You may delete your account at any time from within the App's settings. When you delete your account, we will take steps to permanently erase your personal information, including your profile, posts, and chat messages, from our active databases in a timely manner, subject to any legal retention requirements or limitations. Please note that some information may remain in our backup systems for a limited period.   

7. Your Rights and Choices

You have certain rights regarding the personal information we hold about you:

  • Access and Update: You can review and change information in your user profile at any time through the App.
  • Account Deletion: You can delete your account through the App's settings, as described in the "Data Retention and Deletion" section.
  • Location Permissions: You can manage your location permissions through your mobile device's settings menu, choosing to opt-in or opt-out of location tracking for our App. Disabling location services may affect the functionality of certain features.
  • Communication Preferences (if applicable in the future): If we implement email newsletters or other direct marketing communications, we will provide you with an option to opt-out.
  • Contact Us for Other Rights: Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have other rights, such as the right to request copies of your personal data or to object to certain processing. Please contact us using the details below to make such requests.

8. Children's Privacy

Wimbli is not directed to or intended for use by children under the age of 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in the relevant jurisdiction). 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 without verifiable parental consent, we will take steps to delete such information from our files. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.   

9. Third-Party Websites and Services

The App may contain links to third-party websites or services that are not affiliated with us (e.g., if a user posts a link in a chat or event description). Any personal information you provide on third-party sites or services is provided directly to that third party and is subject to that third party's privacy policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such third-party websites or services, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of third-party sites or services. We encourage you to learn about their privacy and security practices and policies before providing them with personal information.   

10. International Data Transfers   

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to the United States (where Firebase servers are predominantly located) and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.   

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy within the App and updating the "Effective Date" at the top of this Privacy Policy. We may also notify you of significant changes through an in-app alert or via email if we have your email address.   

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted. Your continued use of the App after any modifications to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.   

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:   

 

Email: oscasavia@gmail.com

App Name: Wimbli