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SunDate Privacy policy

Dear users, welcome to the SunDate world Privacy policy. The entire team and family of SunDate thank you for taking the time to read this document.

We trust you with our product and give you the freedom to use it, and you trust us with your information, your personal data. We will tell you how and why we use personal information, where we store it, and how we protect it. All your actions and each of our joint steps are aimed at developing the world of SunDate. To ensure confidentiality, we use the expertise of cybersecurity specialists, as well as GDPR and CCPA regulations.

Just as the SunDate app is simple and easy to use, our language is simple and concise, meaning any user without technical or special knowledge can understand the essence of SunDate app Privacy policy.

This SunDate Privacy Policy, its first version, comes into effect today, which means the effective date is announced as June 1, 2024.

May this day mark the beginning of a new era without loneliness, and most importantly, the beginning of a new era in your life, an era of new pleasant experiences, sensations, meetings, and acquaintances.

For users from the USA, and specifically from the State of California, we will describe the nuances of the Privacy policy in separate sections.

1. Who are the SunDate family

We are small international team, we are family. Our main team is from Ukraine, a country of golden fields and talented people. Our company, lawyers, and part of the technical team are from the United States of America, the land of freedom and opportunities, inventors, and pioneers.

While we work with personal information, we primarily use the norms and requirements of the European GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and the American CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), as well as common sense principles.

We do not have numerous companies and servers responsible for your personal information, but we have our small team of talented specialists who work hard every day to ensure the protection of your personal information. We use highly secure servers. Overall, our main and so far, only one company is responsible for the protection and confidentiality of your information:

SunDate Inc.

8 The Green, STE A.

Dover, Kent, DE 19901

Delaware

United States of America

We mainly treat your information as our own. We want maximum protection and confidentiality for our own information, so we do the same for you.

2. Scope of the SunDate Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to all products and services of SunDate Inc., except when a specific service has its own privacy policy, in which case that specific policy takes precedence.

Currently, the SunDate Inc. family includes the website https://sundate.app and the SunDate mobile application available on the two main platforms, AppStore and Google Play.

As new services and mobile applications are introduced, we will notify you and add them to this document, and collectively they will be referred to as "Applications" or "Services".

3. Information Flow in the SunDate World

Information exchange in the digital world is akin to verbal communication in the physical world. In the SunDate world, we also communicate by exchanging information. You provide us with information about yourself so that we can process it and make your experience in the SunDate world as effective and interesting as possible. In turn, we help other users see you through the information you provide, and we show you other users based on your preferences. Everything is interconnected, and our main goal is to help users find these connections.

While in the SunDate world, you may provide us with the following information about yourself:

If you post materials that do not comply with our SunDate Terms of Service, we have the right to restrict or block access to your account.

We may also receive information about you from third parties, namely:

Using our services, you also share the following information with us:

If you reside in California, we are pleased to inform you that all the information we collect about you is categorized as "personal information" according to the definition provided in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):

  1. A. Identifiers, such as name and location;
  2. B. Personal data, under the California Customer Records Act, such as contact details (including email and phone) and payment data;
  3. C. Data protected by California or federal law (if you provide it), such as age, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, health data;
  4. D. Commercial data, such as transaction information and purchase history;
  5. E. Biometric data, such as a thermal face print;
  6. F. Internet and social media usage data, such as search history and interaction with our websites and applications;
  7. G. Geolocation data, such as mobile device location data;
  8. H. Electronic, visual, and audio data, such as photos and videos;
  9. I. Professional data, related to employment, such as work history and previous employer;
  10. J. Education information, and
  11. K. Inferences made from personal data listed above to understand, for example, user preferences or characteristics.

ATTENTION! Always remember that videos or photos you post in the SunDate app world and other SunDate services may also reveal information about you. If you provide or upload personal information about yourself, you automatically consent to its processing and publication in the public domain.

4. SunDate Technologies for Collecting Information

Unlike our app user functionalities, where we have many original innovations, regarding information collection technologies, we won’t surprise you. Like all similar services, we use Cookie technology and other technologies to recognize you as a user and for other identifications. You can read more about cookies in our SunDate “Cookie Policy”.

All our services are mobile applications, so we won't go into detail about DNT technology – a function to block information collection via web browsers. We will simply say that our services may not currently respond to DNT signals, just like other similar products and companies.

5. How Information is Used in the SunDate World

There are three main purposes for using information: improving our services, ensuring your safety, and providing and personalizing advertising.

These three directions include the blocks of "where," "how," and "for what" we use the information:

We work to make our service as interesting and effective for you as it possible, but in order to achieve this, we need your feedback. Thus, we engage in a fair exchange: we provide you with the service, and you share with us all the information that interests us, which we can use to improve the services. The principle of fair exchange and mutual assistance.

We also process information to ensure compliance with human norms and decency within our services from users. To ensure our legal rights and freedoms, and the rights and freedoms of other users. The principle of legality.

For processing certain information, we may request additional consent from you, and if you give it, you can naturally withdraw your permission by making a request through any of our specified contact sources. For us, the most important thing is constant interaction with you, constant communication and analysis of your actions, so that your experience in the SunDate services is as comfortable and effective as possible. The principle of connectivity.

In accordance with GDPR and CCPA, we inform you about the legal basis for using your personal information, which we summarize in the table below:

Purpose of Using Your Data Specification of Data Source of This Data Legal Basis for Use
Provide you with SunDate application services and products Your name, email address, date of birth, location (categories A, B in CCPA classification) You provide us with your name, email address, and date of birth. We obtain your location from the device you use to access our services Contractual necessity between us
Provide opportunities for matchmaking and communication in SunDate applications Information you may include in your profile for using our search modes, including information about your sexual preferences, gender identification, religion, ethnicity, video materials, etc. (categories C, H, I, J in CCPA classification) You provide this data yourself Your consent
Verify your identity, prevent fraud, and ensure user safety in the SunDate world Phone number, email, verification video (categories B and H in CCPA classification) You provide this data yourself Our legitimate interests. It is in our legitimate interest to ensure that accounts are not created for fraudulent or deceptive purposes and to generally protect SunDate services users, including you
Process payments for additional services (not applicable to users making payments through App Store and/or Google Play) Payment card data (categories B and D in CCPA classification) You provide this data yourself Contractual necessity between us
Enable advertising partners to display targeted ads to SunDate apps users Advertising identifier linked to your device (device ID), age, gender, and IP address (and your estimated location based on the IP address) (categories A, C, G in CCPA classification) We obtain age and gender information from you, and device ID and IP address information from the device you use to access our services Your consent as specified in your privacy/cookie management settings, as well as in the privacy settings of your internet browser or device
Provide ads to users on thirdparty platforms and evaluate the effectiveness of these ads Information about your visits to websites or apps and your interactions with them, IP address (and your estimated location based on the IP address), age, gender, device ID (categories B, C, F, G, J in CCPA classification) We obtain age and gender information from you, and other information from the device or browser you use to access our services Your consent as specified in your privacy/cookie management settings, as well as in the privacy settings of your internet browser or device
Display ad cards and ads in the application Location, gender, age, and other information you provide in your profile and search modes (categories A, C, G in CCPA classification) We obtain age, gender, and profile information from you, and location information exclusively from the device you use to access our services Our legitimate interests to provide targeted advertising so that users see relevant publications and allow us to earn revenue from ads
Provide you with marketing information about our various offers and additional services Your email address and mobile phone number (category B in CCPA classification) You provide this data yourself Your and our consent
Contact you for conducting surveys for various purposes, including game and research purposes, and obtaining feedback, as well as for offering participation in advertising campaigns Your email address and mobile phone number (category B in CCPA classification) You provide this data yourself Our legitimate interests, namely, it is in our legitimate interests to conduct research in various ways to develop and improve the application and services
Enable users to create and develop a SunDate profile and log in to the application through accounts on other platforms Various data from other third-party accounts (categories A, B, C, H in CCPA classification) We may obtain this data from the providers of other accounts you use to log into your SunDate account Our legitimate interests, namely, it is in our legitimate interests to create the easiest access to our services
Show you users nearby, online, around the world Wi-Fi access points and location data when using the application (if you give consent) (category G in CCPA classification) We obtain this information from the device you use to access our services (if you give consent) Our legitimate interests, namely, it is in our legitimate interests to provide this functionality along with other services
Conduct research and analysis to improve application performance Logs and usage data, including IP address, browser type, referrer domain, viewed pages, mobile operator, and search terms, video images (categories F, H in CCPA classification) You provide video or other data. We obtain logs and usage data from the device you use to access the services Our legitimate interests, namely, we are entitled to analyze how users access and use our services to further develop the application, implement security measures, and improve our services
Respond to your messages and requests that you send us, including social media requests Email address, IP address, social media accounts, and phone number (categories B, F in CCPA classification) You provide your email address, social media name, and phone number when contacting us, and we obtain your IP address from the device you use to communicate with us Our legitimate interests, namely, it is in our legitimate interests to respond to your requests to ensure we offer quality service and successfully address all issues and bugs
Block accounts to combat spam and other illegal activities Your email address, phone number, IP address, and IP session data, social media ID, username, user-agent string (categories B, F in CCPA classification) You provide your email address, phone number, and username, and we obtain the rest of the information from the device you use to access our services Our legitimate interests, namely, we are entitled to prevent illegal behavior and ensure the safety and reliability of our services for all our users
Investigate violations and block users for violating our Terms of Service and other rules User's name and credentials, profile information, content of video messages and other video materials (categories A, B, C, E, H in CCPA classification) You provide us with your name, profile content, and information about your actions in the application Our legitimate interests, namely, it is in our legitimate interests to prevent illegal behavior and ensure the safety and reliability of our services for all users
Block transactions to combat fraud Name, IP address, email address, phone number, cardholder name, received payments, payment type, user ID, country (categories A, B, D in CCPA classification) You provide the name, email address, phone number, and card details by yourself. We obtain your IP address from the device you use to communicate with us. We obtain your payment data when interacting with the service Our legitimate interests, namely, to prevent fraudulent transactions and ensure the security of our services
Enable voice and video call features and send video messages Your data on the use of voice and video call features, as well as video exchange (categories F, H in CCPA classification) We obtain this data from the device you use to access our services Our legitimate interests, namely, it is in our legitimate interests to provide this functionality along with other services
Get the most complete picture of you to personalize the provided services and show you the most suitable profiles Applications installed on your device (categories F, K in CCPA classification) We obtain this information from the device you use to log into our applications Your and our consent
Protect our legal interests and rights, as well as protect the interests of all our users This concerns any information related to this issue Depending on the type of data and information, we may receive it directly from you, from your device, or from third parties Our legitimate interests, namely, it is in our legitimate interests to protect our rights, defend against legal claims and lawsuits, as well as protect the interests of our users and thirdparty representatives

6. Information Sharing in the SunDate World

It's logical that to find people, we need to see them. Therefore, to help you find interesting people and for them to find you, we make it so that users share their information and content with other users. If necessary, we will share certain information with our partners to provide specific services. In some cases, we may share information with judicial or other government authorities if required by law.

How SunDate Displays Information to Other Users:

We recommend uploading only the information you wish to share with other users to our services. Similarly, we advise uploading and creating only the content you want to share with all users. None of us can control what other users do with the information and content you share with them.

All information about you will be displayed in your profile according to your settings.

How SunDate Shares Information with Partners:

Before sharing any information with partners, they undergo strict scrutiny for integrity. We may involve and share information with some of our partners to improve our services, advertising campaigns, payment processing, analytics, and other operations. Information sharing occurs strictly within the scope of the task being performed.

How SunDate Shares Information Within Its Ecosystem:

As our services evolve and our ecosystem expands with new products, we may share information within our services to ensure your comfortable and safe use of our services and products and facilitate a seamless transition from one service to another. Information sharing will be carried out according to internal guidelines and solely for technical operations related to data processing for marketing, hosting, advertising, operational support, spam prevention, fraud prevention, and other illegal activities, as well as to better understand our users and improve our services.

To ensure interaction between our services, we may also share information within our structure for business purposes in the future when it includes various companies. Additionally, if we identify users who persistently violate the rules and norms of our services, we may use information to block the user across all our services.

How SunDate Shares Information for Corporate Purposes:

In the event of a merger, acquisition, purchase, or sale of specific services and companies, or any other corporate activity, we may share information to facilitate this activity.

How SunDate Shares Information to Ensure Its Legal Rights or If Required by Law:

In cases where required by the law of any country, we may disclose information to comply with court orders or legal requirements from other government authorities. We may also disclose information to assist in the detection or prevention of crimes and to ensure the safety of our users, which is our priority.

We may disclose and share information to defend our interests in court or other institutions if it restores justice and reduces our liability under a lawsuit or claim, ensures the legitimate interests of our partners and users, and ensures our agreements with you. To prevent fraud and other illegal activities within the SunDate world.

How SunDate Shares Information with Your Consent or at Your Request:

If we need to share certain information that we cannot share without your consent, we may ask for your permission to share such information, explaining the reasons for the disclosure.

We may share and use non-personal information, meaning information that does not identify you in any way and does not contain your personal data, as well as personal information in a hashed, unreadable form, under any of the circumstances mentioned above. We may also use and share this information with third parties for advertising purposes. We have the right to process and combine non-personal and personal information in a hashed, unreadable form, collected from various sources.

We do everything we can to protect your personal information and not disclose it to anyone. However, in some cases, we have to share certain information with third parties. Below, we provide a summary of the cases in which we share certain information with third parties:

Cases in Which Data Disclosure is Permitted Data involved
Third-Party Service Providers.
SunDate engages certain third parties to perform specific tasks and provide services. Our team may disclose your personal data to these third parties, but solely for the purpose of performing these tasks or providing services.
Any data, including all categories listed under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) mentioned above.
Moderators and Administrators.
They are provided with information to monitor behavior on the site or app and approve content.
Name and registration details, profile data, video messages, videos, and photos (categories A, B, C, E, H of CCPA classification).
Advertising Partners.
When our advertising partners provide targeted ads in our app and on websites (including video ads).
Advertising identifier linked to your device (device identifier), age, gender, and IP address (and your estimated location based on IP address) (categories A, C, G of CCPA classification).
Law Enforcement and Judicial Authorities.
To protect the legal rights of our users and third parties, SunDate will cooperate with third parties to enforce their intellectual property rights or other rights. We will also need to cooperate with law enforcement agencies, both domestically and internationally, when required by law, during the investigation of a potential crime, and if necessary, to protect someone's vital interests. In such cases, we may store or disclose your personal information, including your credentials, if we have reasonable grounds to believe that this is necessary to comply with the law or legal norm or to carry out legal proceedings, a court order, or a response to a request from a judicial body, as well as to protect the safety of any person, respond to fraud, security threats, or technical issues, for example, through spam protection service providers to protect against illegal activities or to ensure the security of our rights or property or the rights and property of third parties. For these purposes, we may assert or waive any legal objection available to us.
Any personal data provided to the SunDate team, depending on the nature of the request or issue we face, including all CCPA categories listed above.
Marketing Service Providers.
They help perform marketing and advertising tasks on third-party websites and apps and assess the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
Advertising identifier linked to your device (device identifier), estimated location (based on IP address), age, gender, and data on your visits to websites or apps and your interactions with them (e.g., downloading the app or creating an account) (categories B, C, F, G of CCPA classification).
Payment and Other Telecommunication Companies.
Necessary for paying for our premium, additional services.
Cardholder name, cardholder address, card number, transaction amount, transaction date, and time (categories A, B, D of CCPA classification).
Business and Corporate Transactions.
If SunDate changes its corporate structure, i.e., in the case of acquisition, merger, sale, or any other corporate transaction, as well as in the event of insolvency, we may be required to disclose your personal data to the buyer of all or part of the business, as well as to the insolvency administrator.
All data, including all CCPA data listed above.
Spam and Fraud Prevention.
Your data may be transferred to other SunDate representatives or products and services, for example, to block an account or prevent potentially fraudulent transactions as part of our anti-spam and anti-fraud work.
It can be an Email address, phone number, IP address and IP session information, social media identifier, username, user-agent string, transaction details, and payment data (categories D, E, G of CCPA classification).
Compiled Information.
Our team may disclose aggregated compiled information, including your personal data (excluding those that directly identify you), as well as other information, such as event log data, for industry analysis and demographic profiling.
Any necessary data related to this category.

7. SunDate and International Data Transfers

To ensure the security of personal data, we will use the most secure storage facilities, which may be located in different jurisdictions, meaning in different countries, and consequently, data may be transferred from one country to another. Similarly, the information described in more details in the section 6 "Information Sharing in the SunDate World" may also be transferred. All information will have the highest possible level of protection ensured by appropriate agreements and technologies. For instance, for data transfers from European Union (EU) countries, we use standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission and other appropriate safeguards for data transfer. If you want to know more about how data is stored and protected, you can contact us in any way convenient for you, and we will gladly provide you with more detailed information.

8. User Rights in the SunDate World

To ensure you have free access to your account, can see and manage your information, we provide users with special tools in our services, which you can explore by downloading our services or contacting us.

You can also manage the data we collect and give permission for notifications. You may restrict, for example, the collection of data about your location, but please be aware that any restrictions on the necessary data collection may limit the functionality of our services for you.

If, for any reason, you are not satisfied with our service or product and wish to delete it, we recommend contacting us, and perhaps we can persuade you otherwise. However, if you still need to delete your account, you can do so in the corresponding Settings. For some time, your data will be stored in an archived form so that if you wish to restore your account, you can do so without any problems.

Your capabilities are in line with your rights in the SunDate world.

Some laws regulating the processing of personal information allow users to request information we hold about them. You can request information in any way convenient for you, confirming your identity.

You have the right to manage your information that we store and use, so you can decide to change it, make corrections, or make other decisions regarding your information by contacting us and making a request in any way convenient for you.

To secure your information, in the case of the above or other requests regarding personal information, we may conduct an identity verification procedure (request for documents confirming identity, video call, etc.).

We may also reject a request if it violates laws, our rights, or the rights of third parties. We do not recommend requesting information about third parties, but if you do, you must have legal grounds or the permission of the person whose information you are requesting.

It is also important that if you take any actions or make requests to prohibit the collection of information that is essential for providing our services, know that we may either reject such requests or cease providing you with our services.

You have the right to delete our services yourself; you can delete the app, delete your account, or do both. In any case, the collection of your information will be suspended. If you delete your account, the information will be temporarily stored in case you want to restore your account without losing data. Also, if you delete the services from your device, we will retain certain identifiers so that you can download our services again and resume their operation without losing personal data.

We will strive to fully meet your and international requirements for the processing and protection of personal information. However, if you have any doubts about the quality of data storage and processing, you can always, if allowed by the laws of your country, as is permitted in the European Union, file a relevant complaint with the local authority defined by your country's laws.

According to Article 27 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), any company that works with the personal data of EU citizens or those who reside most of the time in EU countries must appoint an authorized representative regarding GDPR in the EU. We strive to meet all GDPR requirements, so we will soon appoint an authorized GDPR representative in EU countries and will immediately provide you with the appropriate contact details in the updated version of this document. In the meantime, if you have any questions, you can contact us directly via email or social media, and we will try to answer all your questions.

9. Special Provisions for California Residents (USA) in the SunDate World

The sunny state of California takes special care of its residents, and therefore, users from California have a special status, allowing you to request disclosure of the information we have shared with third parties for marketing purposes during the previous calendar year. You can make this request by emailing us. Once we receive it and verify your identity, we will gather and provide you with the relevant information. We have 30 days to respond, so you'll need to wait a bit. But 30 days isn't that long in the grand scheme of things.

In accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California residents, as mentioned above, have the right to know certain data and to understand how their personal data has been collected, used, and shared over the past 12 months. Accordingly, California residents have the right to request the deletion of personal data, with some exceptions.

Under Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code known as the "Shine the Light Act", certain businesses are required to respond to requests from California residents regarding the disclosure of their personal information to third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. You can learn more about your rights under Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code by emailing us.

Sometimes, as part of promotional activities conducted jointly with third parties, we may disclose your contact information to these third parties so that they can offer you their products or services, if you agree to participate in such a promotion. If the disclosure of your contact information is a mandatory condition for participation in the promotion, we will inform you in advance. Follow the third party's instructions if you wish to unsubscribe from their mailing list.

10. Data Protection in the SunDate World

We are a small but talented and hardworking team, we are SunDate family, and if you are with us, that means you are part of our family too. As Lilo said “Ohana” means family in Hawaiian, and family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. Therefore, we make every effort to keep your information safe and to ensure our services bring you maximum enjoyment and benefit.

Naturally, there may be someone who could hack and steal your information; we cannot guarantee it will be completely invulnerable, but we do our utmost to make it truly secure.

If you suspect that a data breach has occurred or that your information is not sufficiently protected, please contact us immediately in any way convenient for you.

If you are a security specialist and can help us improve our security system in the SunDate world, we would be happy to hear your suggestions and collaborate with you.

11. Data Retention Periods in the SunDate World

For marketing and other purposes, as well as in accordance with applicable laws, we retain your data for as long as necessary.

If you delete your account, your data will no longer be visible to anyone, but we reserve the right to keep your data for up to 3 months or longer if required by law, in a dormant state. This will also help you restore your account if you decide to return to the SunDate world.

After three months, we may permanently delete your information or archive it in case of account restoration, but there are also cases where we are required to retain information, namely: if it is provided by law or necessary for legal compliance, necessary for dispute resolution or ongoing matters requiring such information, and necessary to protect other users and our legitimate interests.

We reserve the right to extend the above periods if technically necessary. In any case, when an account is deleted, all data becomes invisible to other users.

12. Protecting Children's Interests in the SunDate World

The SunDate world is not for children or teenagers. Only adults, those who are 18 years old or older, are allowed in our world. We do not welcome content featuring children and will take measures to ensure such content does not appear. We take all necessary steps to prevent the collection of information about minors, although this may occur if a user has misled us about their age, for which we cannot and do not assume responsibility. If you become aware that there are underage users among us, please notify us immediately.

13. Making Changes and Informing You in the SunDate World

We strive to develop and improve our SunDate world and our services, making them more convenient and, most importantly, effective and interest. Naturally, with development and the passage of time, we may make changes to this Privacy Policy. We will do our best to keep you informed of all changes.

14. Our Contact Information

We are always available and at your service. You can contact us at any time via email at:

Admin@sundate.app

or through the social networks listed on our website:

https://sundate.app

Best regards,

SunDate Family

Dated 01.06.2024