Yaza Chat privacy policy

Scope of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to how Yaza Chat handles personally identifiable information that you leave when you log in to websites and servers, as well as other personally identifiable information that is shared with our business partners

This Privacy Policy forms part of the Yaza Chat User Agreement and must be read in conjunction with the Yaza Chat User Agreement.

What Information Do We Collect

We obtain information about you through the means discussed below when we provide the Yaza Chat Services. Please note that we need certain types of information so that we can provide the Yaza Chat Services to you.

i.User-provided Information ii.Collected Information for Legitimate Interests iii.Information connect with third-party social media

User-provided Information

You consent to provide some or all of the following Personal Information when you create an account on the App or use Yaza Chat Services, such as uploading contents on the App or contact us for technical support:

Registration information, such as your date of birth, phone number (or email, if applicable), password, user identifier and language; Profile information, such as your alias, profile images, gender, hometown, self-introduction, social media information, education, and career; User-generated contents (“UGC”), such as comments, texts, messages, pictures, images, videos, sounds, code or other data or materials that you upload, distribute or stream on the App when you use Yaza Chat Services; Payment information, such as full name, billing address, billing zip code, billing country, date of birth, purchase amount, payment method, credit or debit card number or other payment information where required for payment; Transaction information such as the transaction serial number and transaction historical records after you purchased Paid Services; Your Global Positioning System (GPS) information, after you permit us to do so but you may change the access to your GPS information via the settings on your mobile device; Your opt-in choices and correspondence with us, such as information used to verify with your account or to resolve your feedback or complaints; Information you provide when participating in in-app surveys and activities. Information provided when you create a Yaza Chat account by connecting with a third-party service, such as Apple, Google, Facebook or if you link a Yaza Chat account with a third-party social media account;

Collected Information for Legitimate Interests

We may collect some or all of the following Personal Information about you when you use Yaza Chat Services for legitimate interests:

Network activity information, such as your browsing history, search history, the videos or pages you visited, the date and time of your visits, other users’ accounts that you subscribed to, and information regarding your interaction with other users; Information from Other Sources: We may obtain additional information from third parties and sources other than the Yaza Chat Services. For example, we may obtain additional information from games or services you use, or social media networks (such as Facebook) for which you have approved our access. When you access the Yaza Chat Services through social media networks or when you connect the Yaza Chat Services to social media networks, you are authorizing Yaza Chat to collect, store, and use such additional information and content in accordance with this Privacy Policy Device identifiers, such as your operating system, browser type, brand, model and serial number of your mobile device, Internet Protocol (IP) address, mobile carrier, screen resolution, language setting, IMEI number, IMSI number, and media access control address; Information regarding your access to and use of other apps; Other location information, such as the information based on your SIM card; Mobile advertising identifiers, which are used by mobile operating systems and made available to advertising providers to gather metrics on mobile apps (Apple’s IDFA or Google’s AAID) to help us and advertisers provide ads that may be more relevant to your interests; Metadata, associating with the UGC you provided us, which describes other data and provides information about how, when, and by whom the piece of UGC was collected and how that UGC was formatted, such as hashtags used to label the keywords to the video and captions; and Cookies, small pieces of data to enable us to provide certain features, which are collected by us or our business partners to measure and understand the web pages you click on and how you use Yaza Chat Services, enhance your experience using Yaza Chat Services.

We may also collect, use and share your information to produce and share aggregated insights that do not identify you. Aggregated data may be derived from your Personal Information but is not considered Personal Information as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your usage data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature, to generate statistics about our users, to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature, or to calculate ad impressions served or clicked on.

Information connect with third-party social media

We collect the information such as Avatar，Nick Name，Email，user identifier and language when user trying to register or connect with Yaza Chat account by social media

How We Use Your Information

We will only use your Personal Information when the applicable laws allow us to. In general, we use your Personal Information for the following purposes:

Provision of services: to present Yaza Chat Services and its contents to you, including any interactive features on Yaza Chat Services, and to provide you with information, products or services that you allow us to; we also collect and use Personal Information to verify your eligibility and deliver prizes in connection with promotion activities and sweepstakes; Improvement of services: to improve and personalize our services by presenting new services, information, recommendations, and feedback; Customer management: to manage a registered user’s account, to provide customer support and notices to the registered user about his account or subscription, and notices about changes to Yaza Chat Services or any other product or service we offer or provide through it; Marketing: to market Yaza Chat Services to our users, to contact you about Yaza Chat services, events, products, updates and features. We may do so via email, text messages, push notifications, in-app messages or by any other reasonable means. You will be provided with the opportunity to withdraw consent for marketing communications at any time, please see the section "Your Rights – Right to withdraw consent"; Content review: to review pictures, images and contents posted or generated on Yaza Chat Services to ensure that we comply with any applicable content regulations in any relevant jurisdiction; Customization of content: to perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest in contents, products, advertising, or services available on Yaza Chat Services in order to develop and display content tailored to your interests on our Website and App; Performance Analysis: to determine whether users of Yaza Chat Services are unique, or whether the same user is using Yaza Chat Services on multiple occasions, and to monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, number of videos viewed, demographic patterns; Functionality and security: to identify users not meeting the age limit, to diagnose or fix technology problems, and to detect, prevent, and respond to actual or potential fraud, illegal activities, or intellectual property infringement; Compliance: to enforce our terms of use and to comply with our legal obligations; Aggregation: to aggregate information we collect about you to which one or more purposes described above. Cookie: We and our vendors and service providers use cookies and other similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, flash cookies, etc.) (“Cookies”) to automatically collect information, measure and analyze which web pages you click on and how you use the Platform, enhance your experience using the Platform and improve our services. Cookies are small files which, when placed on your device, enable the Platform to provide certain features and functionality. Web beacons are very small images or small pieces of data embedded in images, also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs,” that can recognize Cookies, the time and date a page is viewed, a description of the page where the pixel tag is placed, and similar information from your computer or device. By using the Platform, you consent to our use of Cookies.

Additionally, We link your contact or subscriber information with your activity on our Platform across all your devices, using your email or other log-in or device information. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties, and the information practices of these third parties are not covered by this Privacy Policy.

You may be able to refuse or disable Cookies by adjusting your browser settings. Because each browser is different, please consult the instructions provided by your browser. Please note that you may need to take additional steps to refuse or disable certain types of Cookies. In addition, your opt-out selection is specific to the particular browser or device that you are using when you opt out, so you may need to opt-out separately for each of browser or device. If you choose to refuse, disable, or delete Cookies, some of the functionality of the Platform may no longer be available to you.

Note that we may process your Personal Information for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we use your Personal Information.

How We Share Your Information

Please note that if your profile is public, your content will be visible to anyone on the Platform and may also be accessed or shared by your friends and followers as well as third parties such as search engines, content aggregators and news sites. You can change who can see a video or a picture each time you upload a video

We may also share your information with other members, subsidiaries, or affiliates of our corporate group, to improve, optimize the Platform and to prevent illegal use.

We may share your Personal Information outside of Yaza Chat Services when we have your consent, either express or implied.

We may disclose your Personal Information to members of our corporate group (that is, entities that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with us) to the extent this is necessary for services, customer management, customization of content, advertising, analytics, verifications, functionality and security, and compliance.

We may disclose your Personal Information to our authorized service providers that perform certain services on our behalf. These services may include fulfilling orders, processing credit card payments, customization of content, analytics, security, map navigation, data storage and cloud services, supporting our functionality, and other features offered through Yaza Chat Services. These service providers may have access to Personal Information needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes. However, if you connect to a third-party service through Yaza Chat Services or otherwise links your Yaza Chat account with a third-party service, you are requesting and authorizing us to share or grant access to information on your behalf with such third party. We may also send information about the content that you watched or your activities on Yaza Chat Services to such third party in order to upgrade your experience on Yaza Chat Services.

We may disclose or share your Personal Information to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us about our users is among the assets transferred. If such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to ensure that the entity to which we transfer your Personal Information uses information in a manner that is consistent with this privacy policy.

We access, preserve and share your Personal Information with regulators, law enforcement or others where we reasonably believe such disclosure is needed to (a) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, (b) enforce applicable terms of use, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address illegal or suspected illegal activities, security or technical issues, (d) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or other third parties; or (e) to maintain and protect the security and integrity of Yaza Chat Services or infrastructure.

We may disclose aggregated information about our users. We also may share aggregated information with third parties for conducting general business analysis. This information does not contain any Personal Information and may be used to develop content and services that we hope you and other users will find of interest.

International Data Transfers

Your Personal Information may be processed by us, our trusted third party suppliers outside of the country (s) in which you reside, including in countries where data protection and privacy laws or regulations may be equivalent to, or as protective as, the data protection laws and regulations in your country. In accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws and regulations, we will implement appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information remains protected and secure when it is transferred outside of your country to a jurisdiction that has a less adequate level of protection of personal data. These measures include (where applicable) transferring pursuant to data transfer agreements implementing standard data protection clauses.

We may also transfer your personal information outside of your country as permitted by applicable data protection and privacy laws and regulations. Examples include where we need to transfer your personal information: (a) to perform a contract with you (or to take steps before the contract at your request); (b) perform a contract in your interests; or (c) in relation to legal claims.

Links to Other Websites or Application

When you click on a link to any other website, mobile application or third-party content through Yaza Chat Services, you will go to another website or other mobile application and another entity may collect information from or about you. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these third-party websites or mobile applications or their contents. Please be aware that the terms of this privacy policy do not apply to these third-party websites or mobile applications or content, or to any collection of information after you click on links to these third-party websites, mobile applications or content.

Data Security

We take appropriate administrative, technical and physical security measures to safeguard your Personal Information from unauthorized access and disclosure. For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access Personal Information, and they may do so only for permitted business functions. In addition, we use encryption in the transmission of certain your Personal Information between your system and ours, and we use firewalls to help prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to your Personal Information. Please be advised, however, that we cannot fully eliminate security risks associated with the storage and transmission of your Personal Information. You should use caution whenever submitting information through Yaza Chat Services and take special care in deciding which information you provide us with.

You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your password and account information at all times.

Information you share

Most of the communications on Yaza Chat are public and some may be viewed immediately by others. Therefore, you should think twice before sharing any sensitive information.

We may also monitor your group and private messages to prevent illegal activity. If we are asked, your group and private messages (including any images or videos included) may be shared with law enforcement.

Child protection

Yaza Chat is not for children. If you do not meet the minimum age specified in the Yaza Chat User Agreement, you may not be able to create a Yaza Chat account or use the Yaza Chat service.

Yaza Chat is not tolerant of any form of abuse or exploitation of children. If we have reasonable grounds to believe that you are involved in child pornography, or if law enforcement agencies ask us to do so, your data (including group information and private messages) may be shared with law enforcement agencies.

Global operation

In order to provide services to users around the world, we conduct business on a global scale. You hereby authorize us to transfer, store and use your data in any country or region in which we operate (including Singapore, the People's Republic of China and the European Union). In doing so, we will ensure the security of your data.

Your Right

• Right to manage your information

Privacy settings allow you to control whether certain information is shared and whether certain Yaza Chat features can find you.

You can edit your account information on your profile page.

If you believe that the personal information we provide about you is inaccurate, you can also email us to update such inaccurate information

• Right to withdraw consent

You may withdraw your consent and ask us not to continue to collect or process your Personal Information at any time if that information is collected on the basis of your consent by (a) using Help or Feedback function on Yaza Chat Services or (b) by sending your request to us via email. Your exercise of this right will not affect the processing activities that occurred before your withdrawal.

• Right to restrict processing

You may request us to stop processing your Personal Information if you believe such information is collected unlawfully or you have other reason by (a) using Help or Feedback function on Yaza Chat Services or (b) by sending your request to us via email at feedback yazateam@yazachat.com.We will examine your request and respond accordingly.

• Right to Delete your Account & Data

You may submit a request to revise or erase the Personal Information we collect about you by these steps：

(1) Using Setting-Feedback function on Yaza Chat Services or sending your request to us via email, yazateam@yazachat.com (2) Include the information below in your request： - Describe the request to delete the account and data; - Your Yaza Chat account ID with 8 digital Number; - The phone number/google e-mail address connecting with the account ID you provided； (3)Your request will be processed in 3 working day. Once the identity be confirmed, both the account and data would be permanently erased and not be able to restored anymore

Please note that even if your account is disabled, third parties may retain a copy of your information.

If your account is suspended for violating our Terms of Use, we may retain certain information (such as device information, phone number) to prevent you from accessing our services again.

• Data Deletion Callback（Facebook Connection）

The data deletion callback is called whenever an Yaza Chat app user removes Yaza Chat app and requests that Yaza Chat delete their data. Yaza Chat app users can do this by going to their Facebook profile and clicking the Send Reuqest button on the Setting & Privacy>Settings>Apps and Websites page.

Give way

I. Protecting user privacy is the basic policy of Yaza Chat . Yaza Chat guarantees that you will not publicly disclose or provide your non-public information to third parties, except in the following circumstances:

a) when you have prior express authorization; b) in accordance with the requirements of current laws and / or regulations; c) the requirements of the relevant government authorities; d) must protect the public interest; e) when it is necessary to protect the safety of anyone (including you); f) when it is necessary to address fraud, security or technical issues; g) When it is necessary to maintain the legal rights of Yaza Chat .

II. Yaza Chat may work with third parties (alliance members or other parties) to provide you with relevant services. In this case , Yaza Chat has the right to share your information with third parties if the third party agrees to provide responsibility for providing no less than Yaza Chat privacy protection .

III. Without revealing the personal information of individual users, Yaza Chat has the right to analyze the entire user database and use the database for commercial purposes.

Contact information

You can contact us at the following email address:

Law enforcement

Yaza Chat is willing to work with law enforcement agencies to fight crime.

If requested by law enforcement agencies, we will keep confidential the existence of the request. However, we may take action on any account that violates the User Agreement, including disabling the account.

We encourage law enforcement agencies to contact us via email (yazateam@yazachat.com )before providing a formal request for availability of user information.