Privacy Policy

  • General

    PhraseShare, we care about your personal data, so we have prepared this Privacy Policy to explain how we collect, use and share it.

    This Privacy Policy (" Policy ") details the personal data PhraseShare, Inc. ("PhraseShare", "we", "us" or "our") receives about you, how we process it and your rights and obligations in relation to your personal data. PhraseShare, Inc., a Texas, United States of America based company, is the data controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") and any relevant local legislation ("Data Protection Laws").

    By using or accessing the Service, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Capitalized terms not defined here have the meanings set forth in the terms and conditions (the "Terms and Conditions"), located at www.phraseshare.com/terms-of-service. We may update our Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our information practices. Changes to the Privacy Policy will posted on the Website for at least 7 days before the changes are made, and we will indicate the date these terms were last revised at the bottom of the Privacy Policy. Any revisions to this Privacy Policy will become effective at the end of that 7 day period.

  • Information We Collect

    This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and share your personal data.

    1. Information you provide

      Through the registration process, you will provide us with your name, e-mail address, and age or date of birth.

    2. Activity Data

      When you use the Service, you will submit information and content to your profile. We will also generate data about your use of our Services including your activities on the Service, or your sending of messages and otherwise transmitting information to other users ("Activity Data"). We also collect technical data about how you interact with our Services.

      We only collect the data we need which means we don’t record:

      • Usernames

      • Names

      • Profile Images

      • Email addresses

      • Locations or bios on the Profile page

      • Passwords

      We do record the following data: Usage Patterns

      • Clicks

      • Mouse movements

      • Scrolling

      • Typing

      Tech Specs

      • Browser

      • Device type

      • Operating system

      • Viewfinder size

      • Script errors

      • IP address

      Navigation

      • Pages Visited

      • Referrers

      • URL parameters

      • Session duration

    3. Third Party Data

      We also collect information about you from third parties. For more information, see Information obtained by Third Parties.

    4. Product Research and Development

      We may contact you to participate in product research activities. These may include surveys, interviews, and other types of feedback sessions. When you participate in these research activities, the information you provide will be used to test, improve, and develop our products. We will record the video, audio and text transcriptions of this feedback together with any additional contact information you provide and will retain this data for two years.

  • Cookies

    When you enter the Website, we collect your browser type and your IP address (a unique address that identifies your computer on the Internet). When you use our mobile Application, we collect your device type, your device ID, and your IP address.

    In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies." A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use session ID cookies to confirm that users are logged in. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, you should note that cookies may be necessary to provide you certain features available on the Website (e.g., customized delivery of information).

    You can find more information about cookies and how to manage them at http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

  • Information Obtained by Third Parties

    To support and enhance the Service, we work with a variety of third party advertising networks, marketing analytics service providers and website analysis firms, such as Google, Facebook, Oath, and Unity (collectively, "Third Party Advertising Service Providers"). These Third Party Advertising Service Providers collect and use personal data about your visits to and use of the Website and mobile Application, as well as other websites in order to serve you with advertisements and content tailored to meet your preferences and likely interests or better understand ad effectiveness. Aggregate demographic and interest data will also be used for market research purposes.

  • Use of information obtained by PhraseShare

    PhraseShare may occasionally send you service related and product change announcements through the general operation of the Service. We process your data to help provide you with the Service and offer personalized features, to understand and improve our Service and to keep our Service safe and secure.

    PhraseShare may use or share anonymous data collected through the Service, including Activity Data without limitation. As a business, it is critical that we perform our contract with you with the best service possible, and it is in our legitimate interests to perform these processing functions and to enable service e-mails by default to keep your data secure and provide our Service.

    We may also use your contact information to send you notifications regarding new services, offers and promotions offered by PhraseShare if you affirmatively consent to receive such communications.

    When you register with PhraseShare, some of your information is made public and available at various locations. This will include the data from your PhraeShare Profile and Account (Name, Location, Bio, Username, User ID, Profile picture, our followers and the people you follow; and Your PhraseShare account email address is not shown publicly. Third party websites may be able to read, collect and use your public information for their own purposes.

    Profile information is used by PhraseShare to be presented back to and edited by you when you access the Service and to be presented to other users. In some cases, other users may be able to supplement your profile, including by submitting comments. PhraseShare uses this information to provide you with support, to send you essential notifications, to enforce our terms, conditions and policies, to communicate with you, to administer the Services, and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes. PhraseShare’s Terms and Conditions provide the contractual lawful basis for these processing activities.

  • Sharing your personal data with third parties

    PhraseShare shares your personal data only when it is necessary to offer the Service, legally required, or permitted by you.

    We will be required to access and disclose personal data in response to lawful requests, such as subpoenas or court orders, or in compliance with applicable laws. Additionally, we will access and share account or other personal data when we believe it is necessary to comply with law, to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through the Service or using the PhraseShare name, or to prevent imminent harm. This will include accessing and sharing personal data with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies.

    PhraseShare will share aggregate or anonymous data collected through the Service, including Activity Data, for purposes such as understanding or improving the service.

  • Data subject rights and data retention

    You can manage your account settings at www.phraseshare.com to update, amend, and correct your information.

    You also have the following rights in relation to the personal data we hold about you, unless provided otherwise by local law:

    • To request access to, or erasure of, the personal data we hold about you.

    • To request us to restrict the processing of the personal data we hold about you.

    • To object to us processing personal data relating to you.

    • Where you have given us consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

    • To export the personal data you have provided to PhraseShare in a format that can be transferred electronically to a third party.

    • To delete your account with PhraseShare by following the instructions available through the Service.

    PhraseShare will retain your data until your account is deleted, after which point we will retain anonymous data collected through the Service, including Activity Data, which may be used by PhraseShare and shared with third parties in any manner.

    Please note that some of these rights are not absolute. In some cases, we may refuse a request to exercise particular rights if complying with it meant that we are no longer able to meet our contractual obligation to provide you with particular products and services. We will keep you informed as to the actions that we can take when you make your request.

    You may also have the right to make a GDPR complaint to the relevant Supervisory Authority. A list of EEA Supervisory Authorities is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm and the UK here: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/. If you need further assistance regarding your rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable law. In some cases our ability to uphold these rights for you may depend upon our obligations to process personal information for security, safety, fraud prevention reasons, compliance with regulatory or legal requirements, or because processing is necessary to deliver the services you have requested. Where this is the case, we will inform you of specific details in response to your request.

  • Third party websites and links

    Please note that you may have cookies placed on your computer by third party websites that refer you to our Service. Although we do not share your personal data with these third party websites unless it is reasonably necessary to offer the Service, they may be able to link certain non-personally identifiable information we transfer to them with personal data they previously collected from you. Please review the privacy policies of each website you visit to better understand their privacy practices. In addition, PhraseShare would like to inform you that anytime you click on links (including advertising banners), which take you to third party websites, you will be subject to the third parties’ privacy policies.

    Our Services contain links to other sites operated by third parties. PhraseShare does not control such other sites and is not responsible for their content, their privacy policies, or their use of personal data, including any personal or financial information collected by our third party payment processor to process payments for in-app purchases. PhraseShare’s inclusion of such links does not imply any endorsement of the content on such sites or of their owners or operators except as disclosed on the Services. Any information submitted by you directly to these third parties is subject to that third party’s privacy policy.

  • California privacy rights

    Residents of California have the right to:

    • Know what personal information we collect about you and from where we collect it.

    • Access a copy of the personal information we hold about you.

    • Understand how we process your personal information and how it may be shared.

    • Understand how we process your personal information and how it may be shared.

    • Request we delete your PhraseShare account and personal information.

    To make such a request, please send an email to privacy@phraseshare.com.

  • Children under age of digital consent

    We know that children deserve extra privacy protection. That’s why we treat child users differently to ensure their parents are in control and we only collect the bare minimum information we need to make PhraseShare

  • Links

    The Service may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage users to be aware when they leave the Service to read the privacy statements of other websites that collect personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by PhraseShare via the Service.

  • Information security

    PhraseShare has implemented administrative and technical safeguards it believes are appropriate to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your personal data, User Photo, and access credentials. However, given sufficient resources, a determined attacker could defeat those safeguards and may, as a result, gain access to the data we seek to protect.

  • Do Not Track

    The Service is not designed to respond to “do not track” signals sent by some browsers.

  • Contact Us

    For all data privacy inquiries and any questions or concerns you have about this Privacy Policy, please contact our Data Protection Officer at privacy@phraseshare.com For all support inquiries, please go to https://support.phraseshare.com.