Privacy Policy

Full policy

Data Controller and Owner

Cheekd Inc.
175 Varick St
New York, NY 10014

Owner contact email: [email protected]

Types of Data collected

Among the types of Personal Data that this Application collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: Cookies, Usage Data, geographic position, phone number, first name, last name, email address, username, Contacts permission, Camera permission, Precise location permission (continuous), Approximate location permission (continuous), Bluetooth sharing permission, various types of Data, profession, company name, country, state, province, picture, city, address, ZIP/Postal code, field of activity and website.

Other Personal Data collected may be described in other sections of this privacy policy or by dedicated explanation text contextually with the Data collection.
The Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or collected automatically when using this Application.
Any use of Cookies - or of other tracking tools - by this Application or by the owners of third party services used by this Application, unless stated otherwise, serves to identify Users and remember their preferences, for the sole purpose of providing the service required by the User.
Failure to provide certain Personal Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide its services.

Users are responsible for any Personal Data of third parties obtained, published or shared through this Application and confirm that they have the third party's consent to provide the Data to the Owner.

Mode and place of processing the Data

Methods of processing

The Data Controller processes the Data of Users in a proper manner and shall take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Data Controller, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of the site (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Data Controller at any time.

Place

The Data is processed at the Data Controller's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved with the processing are located. For further information, please contact the Data Controller.

Retention time

The Data is kept for the time necessary to provide the service requested by the User, or stated by the purposes outlined in this document, and the User can always request that the Data Controller suspend or remove the data.

The use of the collected Data

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its services, as well as for the following purposes: Access to third party accounts, Analytics, Hosting and backend infrastructure, Location-based interactions, Contacting the User, Advertising, Content commenting, Device permissions for Personal Data access, Infrastructure monitoring, Managing landing and invitation pages, Remarketing and behavioral targeting, Social features and Traffic optimization and distribution.

The Personal Data used for each purpose is outlined in the specific sections of this document.

Device permissions for Personal Data access

This Application requests certain permissions from Users that allow it to access the User's device Data as described below.

By default, these permissions must be granted by the User before the respective information can be accessed. Once the permission has been given, it can be revoked by the User at any time. In order to revoke these permissions, Users may refer to the device settings or contact the Owner for support at the contact details provided in the present document.
The exact procedure for controlling app permissions may be dependent on the User's device and software.

Please note that the revoking of such permissions might impact the proper functioning of this Application.

If User grants any of the permissions listed below, the respective Personal Data may be processed (i.e accessed to, modified or removed) by this Application.

Approximate location permission (continuous)

Used for accessing the User's approximate device location. This Application may collect, use, and share User location Data in order to provide location-based services.

Bluetooth sharing permission

Used for accessing Bluetooth related functions such as scanning for devices, connecting with devices, and allowing data transfer between devices.

Camera permission

Used for accessing the camera or capturing images and video from the device.

Contacts permission

Used for accessing contacts and profiles on the User's device, including the changing of entries.

Precise location permission (continuous)

Used for accessing the User's precise device location. This Application may collect, use, and share User location Data in order to provide location-based services.

Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data

Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

• Access to third party accounts

  This type of service allows this Application to access Data from your account on a third party service and perform actions with it.
  These services are not activated automatically, but require explicit authorization by the User.

  Stripe account access (Stripe Inc)

  This service allows this Application to connect with the User's account on Stripe, provided by Stripe, Inc.

  Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy

• Advertising

  This type of service allows User Data to be utilized for advertising communication purposes displayed in the form of banners and other advertisements on this Application, possibly based on User interests.
  This does not mean that all Personal Data are used for this purpose. Information and conditions of use are shown below.
  Some of the services listed below may use Cookies to identify Users or they may use the behavioral retargeting technique, i.e. displaying ads tailored to the User’s interests and behavior, including those detected outside this Application. For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services.

  Google AdSense (Google Inc.)

  Google AdSense is an advertising service provided by Google Inc. This service uses the “Doubleclick” Cookie, which tracks use of this Application and User behavior concerning ads, products and services offered.
  Users may decide to disable all the Doubleclick Cookies by clicking on: google.com/settings/ads/onweb/optout.

  Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

  Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out

• Analytics

  The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.

  Google Analytics (Google Inc.)

  Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
  Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

  Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

  Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out

  Flurry Analytics (Flurry, Inc.)

  Flurry Analytics is an analytics service provided by Yahoo! Inc.
  This service is designed for mobile apps analytics and can collect various information about your phone, highlighted in the Flurry Analytics privacy policy.
  If the User chooses to opt-out, Flurry will stop tracking data for the device identified by the provided MAC address and/or device identifier going forward. The analytics service tracking will stop across all applications within the Flurry network.

  Personal Data collected: Cookies, Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out

  Facebook Ads conversion tracking (Facebook, Inc.)

  Facebook Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects data from the Facebook advertising network with actions performed on this Application.

  Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

  Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy

  Facebook Analytics for Apps (Facebook, Inc.)

  Facebook Analytics for Apps is an analytics service provided by Facebook, Inc.

  Personal Data collected: Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy

• Contacting the User

  Phone contact (This Application)

  Users that provided their phone number might be contacted for commercial or promotional purposes related to this Application, as well as for fulfilling support requests.

  Personal Data collected: phone number.

  Contact form (This Application)

  By filling in the contact form with their Data, the User authorizes this Application to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.

  Personal Data collected: address, city, company name, country, email address, field of activity, first name, last name, phone number, profession, province, state, various types of Data, website and ZIP/Postal code.

• Content commenting

  Content commenting services allow Users to make and publish their comments on the contents of this Application.
  Depending on the settings chosen by the Owner, Users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the Personal Data provided by the User, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their own comments.
  If a content commenting service provided by third parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when Users do not use the content commenting service.

  Comment system managed directly (This Application)

  This Application has its own internal content comment system.

  Personal Data collected: Cookies, email address, first name, last name and username.

• Device permissions for Personal Data access

  This Application requests certain permissions from Users that allow it to access the User's device Data as described below.

  Device permissions for Personal Data access (This Application)

  This Application requests certain permissions from Users that allow it to access the User's device Data as summarized here and described within this document.

  Personal Data collected: Approximate location permission (continuous), Bluetooth sharing permission, Camera permission, Contacts permission and Precise location permission (continuous).

• Hosting and backend infrastructure

  This type of service has the purpose of hosting data and files that enable this Application to run and be distributed as well as to provide a ready-made infrastructure to run specific features or parts of this Application. Some of these services work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the Personal Data are stored.

  Heroku (Heroku, Inc.)

  Heroku is a hosting service provided by Heroku, Inc.

  Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy

  Amazon Web Services (Amazon)

  Amazon Web Services is a hosting service provided by Amazon.com Inc.

  Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

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  Layer (Layer, Inc.)

  Layer is a hosting and backend service provided by Layer, Inc.

  Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy

• Infrastructure monitoring

  This type of service allows this Application to monitor the use and behavior of its components so its performance, operation, maintenance and troubleshooting can be improved.
  Which Personal Data are processed depends on the characteristics and mode of implementation of these services, whose function is to filter the activities of this Application.

  Crashlytics (Crashlytics, Inc.)

  Crashlytics is a monitoring service provided by Crashlytics, Inc.

  Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy

• Location-based interactions

  Geolocation (This Application)

  This Application may collect, use, and share User location Data in order to provide location-based services.
  Most browsers and devices provide tools to opt out from this feature by default. If explicit authorization has been provided, the User’s location data may be tracked by this Application.

  Personal Data collected: geographic position.

• Managing landing and invitation pages

  This type of service helps with building and managing landing and invitation pages, i.e., pages for presenting a product or service, where you may add your contact information such as an email address.
  Managing these pages means that these services will handle the Personal Data collected through the pages, including Usage Data.

  Launchrock (Launchrock Inc.)

  Launchrock is an invitation page management service provided by Launchrock Inc., that allows this Application to collect the email addresses of Users interested in its service, to share this Application with other platforms, e.g., social networks, to keep track of Users who view the invitation page and those who subscribe upon invitation by other Users.

  Personal Data collected: Cookies, email address and Usage Data.

  Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy

• Remarketing and behavioral targeting

  This type of service allows this Application and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use of this Application by the User.
  This activity is performed by tracking Usage Data and by using Cookies, information that is transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity.
  In addition to any opt out offered by any of the services below, the User may opt out of a third-party service's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

  AdWords Remarketing (Google Inc.)

  AdWords Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Google Inc. that connects the activity of this Application with the Adwords advertising network and the Doubleclick Cookie.

  Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

  Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out

  Facebook Custom Audience (Facebook, Inc.)

  Facebook Custom Audience is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of this Application with the Facebook advertising network.

  Personal Data collected: Cookies and email address.

  Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out

  Facebook Remarketing (Facebook, Inc.)

  Facebook Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of this Application with the Facebook advertising network.

  Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

  Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy – Opt Out

• Social features

  Inviting and suggesting friends (This Application)

  This Application may use the Personal Data provided to allow Users to invite their friends - for example through the address book, if access has been provided - and to suggest friends or connections inside it.

  Personal Data collected: various types of Data.

  Public profile (This Application)

  Users may have public profiles that other Users can display. In addition to the Personal Data provided, this profile may contain Users' interactions with this Application.

  Personal Data collected: city, company name, country, email address, first name, last name, picture, profession, province and state.

• Traffic optimization and distribution

  This type of service allows this Application to distribute their content using servers located across different countries and to optimize their performance.
  Which Personal Data are processed depends on the characteristics and the way these services are implemented. Their function is to filter communications between this Application and the User's browser.
  Considering the widespread distribution of this system, it is difficult to determine the locations to which the contents that may contain Personal Information User are transferred.

  CloudFlare (Cloudflare)

  CloudFlare is a traffic optimization and distribution service provided by CloudFlare Inc.
  The way CloudFlare is integrated means that it filters all the traffic through this Application, i.e., communication between this Application and the User's browser, while also allowing analytical data from this Application to be collected.

  Personal Data collected: Cookies and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy

Further information about Personal Data

• Push notifications

  This Application may send push notifications to the User.

• Access the address book

  This Application may request access to your address book.

• The Service is not directed to children under the age of 13

  Users declare themselves to be adult according to their applicable legislation. Minors may use this Application only with the assistance of a parent or guardian. Under no circumstance persons under the age of 13 may use this Application.

• Unique device identification

  This Application may track Users by storing a unique identifier of their device, for analytics purposes or for storing Users' preferences.

• User identification via a universally unique identifier (UUID)

  This Application may track Users by storing a so-called universally unique identifier (or short UUID) for analytics purposes or for storing Users' preferences. This identifier is generated upon installation of this Application, it persists between Application launches and updates, but it is lost when the User deletes the Application. A reinstall generates a new UUID.

Cookie Policy

This Application uses Cookies. To learn more and for a detailed cookie notice, you may consult the Cookie Policy.

Additional information about Data collection and processing

Legal action

The User's Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Data Controller, in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this Application or the related services.
The User declares to be aware that the Data Controller may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

Additional information about User's Personal Data

In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this Application may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.

System logs and maintenance

For operation and maintenance purposes, this Application and any third party services may collect files that record interaction with this Application (System logs) or use for this purpose other Personal Data (such as IP Address).

Information not contained in this policy

More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Data Controller at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.

The rights of Users

Users have the right, at any time, to know whether their Personal Data has been stored and can consult the Data Controller to learn about their contents and origin, to verify their accuracy or to ask for them to be supplemented, cancelled, updated or corrected, or for their transformation into anonymous format or to block any data held in violation of the law, as well as to oppose their treatment for any and all legitimate reasons. Requests should be sent to the Data Controller at the contact information set out above.

This Application 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.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Data Controller reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom. If a User objects to any of the changes to the Policy, the User must cease using this Application and can request that the Data Controller remove the Personal Data. Unless stated otherwise, the then-current privacy policy applies to all Personal Data the Data Controller has about Users.

Information about this privacy policy

The Data Controller is responsible for this privacy policy, prepared starting from the modules provided by Iubenda and hosted on Iubenda's servers.