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Privacy Policy – Sensitive Information that Collected by Websites and Mobile Applications

privacy policy is a statement that discloses some of the ways a party gathers, uses, discloses, and manages a customer or client’s data.

While we install applications in mobile or sign up for social network or dating websites etc.We never read the privacy policy, instead, we Click I AGREE and Install Applications. Let me readout Some Interesting facts about Mobile Applications to Dating websites privacy policy that user forgets to read.

Due Privacy policy issue, Recent Facebook admitted that Cambridge Analytica may have gained 37 Million More Facebook Users data along with previous 50 Million affected Facebook users.

Also Read: Intrusion Prevention System(IPS) and Its Detailed Function – SOC/SIEM

Collection of Device Information:

  • Location Information that allows us to periodically determine your location, including your location relative to and within third-party merchant locations, so its recommended to turn off your locations if applications are not in the scope.
  • Collecting of device usage information, operating system details, battery level, and more technical data collected.
  • Above Figure shows collections of device information.

Storage of Personal Information:

  • Website ensures that your data is protected with firewalls etc, but Website cannot guarantee that its security measures will prevent computers from being illegally accessed, and your information from being stolen or altered.

Visiting Websites From Different Country:

  • Users information transferred to, stored and processed in Denmark where a central database is located and operated.
  • The data protection and other laws of Denmark and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. Please be assured that we seek to take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected.

Data Retention:

  • If you removed your profile details in a website, your data is no longer available to other users, but technical members of the website having your data in servers.
  • Users, data will be provided to the Third party remain in servers and retention of users data subject with Third party Policies.

Changes to this Privacy Policy:

  • The website has right to change privacy policy of users any anytime.

Sharing Users Data With Partner Websites:

  • Apps or sites duplicate users profiles across partners websites. so, Users information shared across different servers.

So, Its always recommended reading privacy statement and terms of use of your personal information.

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