Bondz Privacy Policy

Bondz Privacy Policy

Last updated: 2023/08/31

Thank you for using Bondz.  We are committed to protecting your privacy and, for that reason, we have adopted this Privacy Policy to explain our data collection, use, and disclosure practices for the Bondz services (including its website, and mobile and web-based applications, and any other tools, products, or services provided by Bondz that link to or reference this Privacy Policy) (collectively, “Bondz,” or the “Services”).  The Services are owned and operated by Kyosuke Togami .

If you reside in the State of California, please click here to learn more about your privacy rights. To the extent that there is a conflict between this Privacy Policy and the Privacy Notice for California Residents, the Privacy Notice for California Residents will prevail with respect to California Residents (as defined below) only.

This Privacy Policy applies to information Bondz collects through the Services, as well as other information provided to us online or offline by third parties, when we associate that information with customers or users of the Services; however, it does not apply to information collected from our employees, contractors, or vendors.  It also does not apply to information that you ask us to share with third parties or is collected by Online Tool Providers (as defined in Section 4 below).  You acknowledge and agree that Kyosuke Togami is not responsible for the data collection or use practices of any other Services user, and the use of your information by third parties utilized in providing the Services may be governed by such third parties’ own privacy policies.

This Privacy Policy describes, among other things:

1. Consent

By accessing or using the Services, you consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Services. Information gathered through the Services may be transferred, used, and stored in the United States or in other countries where our Service Providers (as defined in Section 4 below) or we are located. If you use the Services, you agree to the transfer, use, and storage of your Personal Information (as defined in Section 2 below) in those countries. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. You agree that all transactions relating to the Services or Bondz are deemed to occur in the United States, where our servers are located.

2. Collection of Your Personal and Other Information

When you register for, or use our Services, we collect Personal Information.  By “Personal Information” we mean information that can identify or reasonably be linked to an individual, such as:

Our Services may integrate with social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.  When you connect a social media account to our Services, then we may collect information about that social media account and share information with that social media account as described in the connection process. This collected information may include, but is not limited to, your name, email address, demographic information from your profile, friend lists, postings or other content, and your profile picture.  You acknowledge and agree that Kyosuke Togami  is not responsible for the data collection or use practices of any such connected social media platform.  You should read each social media platform’s privacy policy before connecting that social media account.

Certain aspects of the Services may also access certain features of your mobile device, including its camera, location services (GPS), microphone, contacts / address book, and calendar, and collect information from those features, such as photographs, videos, your precise location, audio recordings, and contact information.

If you permit the Services to access your contacts / address book, the Services will periodically and automatically sync with your contacts / address book and update your contact list on the Services. The Services enable you to invite your contacts to join the Services, show you which of your contacts already use or have joined the Services, and show other users the number of contacts in your address book who are also users of the Services.  You can disable contact syncing and remove your contacts from the Services whenever you like.  You consent to the access described in this paragraph, and our use of the foregoing information.  More information about how the Services use location services (GPS) is provided in Section 4 below.

You may choose not to provide Personal Information or prevent the Services from accessing certain features of your mobile device, (subject to the controls offered by your mobile device’s operating system), but this may prevent you from receiving certain features of the Services.

We also collect non-Personal Information relating to the Services, that is, information that does not personally identify an individual.  The non-Personal Information we collect includes how you interact with the Services, information generally collected or “logged” by Internet websites or Internet services when accessed or used by users, and information about your web browser or device accessing or using the Services.

Examples of the non-Personal Information we collect are:

We may use non-Personal Information to deliver interest-based advertisements to you on third-party websites and applications that are not part of the Services, and if we associate any non-Personal Information with information that personally identifies you, then we will treat it as Personal Information. As discussed in more detail below, we sometimes use cookies and other automatic information gathering technologies to gather non-Personal Information.  Section 6 of this Privacy Policy describes how you can opt-out from receiving interest-based advertisements.

Information collected by the Services may be collected by us or one of our Service Providers or Online Tool Providers.

3. Use of Your Information

We may use the information we collect to:

We may also use the information we collect to send or display offers and other content that is customized to your interests or preferences.  For example, the Services use text recognition on the content of messages you send via the Services to display a calendar of upcoming activities and plans you make through the Services, and to suggest other activities that may suit your interests.  In addition, we (or our Service Providers or Online Tool Providers) may deliver interest-based advertisements to you on third-party websites or applications that are not part of the Services.

When you’ve submitted Personal Information to us that includes your telephone number (which submission you understand and agree to constitute making an “inquiry” to us and our affiliated entities), you consent to allow us to contact you via text message. You expressly consent to receive text messages whether or not you are on the Do Not Call list (federal or state). By including your telephone number and/or email address in any submission, you are extending an express invitation and providing your express written consent to us (i) to contact you by telephone at the numbers you have provided (including through text messages) so we may assist you with your transaction or other request, and you hereby consent to receive any such text messages even if your phone number is on any Do Not Call list; and (ii) to contact you by email at any email address you provide. By submitting your Personal Information to us, you are providing your written and signed consent to receive telemarketing calls. You agree that Kyosuke Togami has obtained your consent to receive text messages in a manner permitted by the Electronic Signatures In Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN Act).  Text “STOP” or “Do Not Send” to stop receiving text messages, and “HELP” for help.

4. Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties as described below.

We may disclose Personal Information to provide the Services, or when you authorize or instruct us to do so, for example when you use the Services to submit content or profile information.

The Services are a social experience, so we may disclose your interactions with the Services to social media platforms, as described in Section 2, above.

Direct (i.e., one-to-one) messages between users (“Direct Messages”) are only visible to the Direct Message participants.

However, please note that even Private Chats and Direct Messages can be seen by us and our Service Providers and Online Tool Providers, so you should not have private, confidential, or sensitive conversations with others through Direct Messages or in Private Rooms.

We may also disclose Personal Information and non-Personal Information to Service Providers.  By “Service Providers” we mean companies, agents, contractors, service providers, or others engaged to perform functions on our behalf (such as processing of payments, provision of data storage, hosting of our website, marketing of our products and services, and conducting audits).   When we use a Service Provider, we require that the Service Provider use and disclose the Personal Information and non-Personal Information received from us only to provide their services to us or as required by applicable law.

We may also disclose Personal Information and non-Personal Information to Online Tool Providers.  By “Online Tool Provider” we mean a licensor of software that we include in, or use with, the Services, including an API or SDK, that provides a specialized function or service to us and that requires the transmission of Personal Information and/or non-Personal Information to the Online Tool Provider.  Online Tool Providers may have the right to use Personal Information and non-Personal Information about you for their own business purposes.  Use and disclosure of Personal Information and non-Personal Information by an Online Tool Provider is described in its privacy policy.  See Section 5 below for some of the key Online Tool Providers we use.

We may partner with advertisers to provide you with special offers, or to advertise products or services to you.  If you redeem or respond to an offer, we may provide your Personal Information to the advertising partner, including your name, email address, gender (as applicable), and year of birth. If you answer questions or fill out surveys from an advertiser, we may share information with that advertiser. The advertising partner’s privacy policy will govern their use of your information, which may include marketing of other products or services to you.  You should read each advertiser’s privacy policy before providing information to that advertiser.

We may also disclose your Personal Information to third parties when we believe, in good faith and in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) enforce or apply the terms and conditions of the Services, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (b) comply with legal or regulatory requirements or an enforceable governmental request, (c) protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or other third parties, (d) prevent a crime or protect national security, or (e) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.

Finally, we reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personal Information) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company relating to the Services, or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or receivership of our business. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of such transfer, for example via email or by posting notice on our website.

Lastly, we may also disclose non-Personal Information, aggregated with information about our other users, to our clients, business partners, merchants, advertisers, investors, potential buyers and other third parties if we deem such disclosure, in our sole discretion, to have sound business reasons or justifications.

5. Cookies and Automatic Information Gathering Technologies

Every time you use the Services (e.g., access a Service webpage, navigate to a specific location within the Service mobile app), we (and certain of our Service Providers and Online Tool providers) collect Personal Information and non-Personal Information (discussed above in Section 2) regarding that use.  For example, to improve our Services, we collect how, when, and which parts of the Services or its features you use, including which Interactive Areas you access, which other users you interact with, how frequently you use the Services, which social media platforms you connect to the Services, and when, how, and what you post to the social media platforms through the Service app.  Also, we may use your device’s unique identifier (UDID) or other unique identifiers to assist us in collecting and analyzing this data.

To assist us in collecting and storing this non-Personal Information, we may employ a variety of technologies, including “Cookies,” local browser storage, and “web beacons,” “pixels,” or “tags.”  A “Cookie” is a small amount of data a website operator, or a third party whose content is embedded in that website, may store in your web browser and that the website operator or, as applicable, the third party, can access when you visit the website.  A Cookie may also refer to web-browser-based storage provided by Adobe’s Flash plugin (a “Flash Cookie”).  A web beacon, pixel or tag is a small, usually-transparent image placed on a web page that allows the operator of that image, which may be the operator of the website you visit or a third party, to read or write a Cookie.

Your operating system and web browser may allow you to erase information stored in Cookies, Flash Cookies, and local browser storage. But if you do so, you may be forced to login to the Services again and you may lose some preferences or settings.  You may also be able to set your browser to refuse all website storage or to indicate when it is permitted, but some features of our Services may not function properly without it.  We may use Cookies to keep you logged in, save your preferences for the Services, and to collect information about how you use our Services.

More information about managing Cookies is available here. Cookie management tools provided by your browser may not affect Flash Cookies. More information about managing Flash Cookies is available here. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for your local browser storage, please refer to the end user documentation for your browser.

We also use technology to track your use of the Services from device to device. This technology can track your use of the Services from your desktop computer, to your laptop, to your mobile device. We use the information we get from this technology to provide a seamless user experience across multiple devices, analyze traffic behavior and to improve our Services.  We (or our Service Providers or Online Tool Providers) may also use this technology to deliver interest-based advertisements to you on third-party websites. You can opt-out from receiving interest-based advertising as described in Section 6 below. You must opt out separately on each device and each browser that you use.   Please note that if you opt out from cross-device tracking for advertising purposes, we may still conduct cross-device tracking to provide a seamless user experience, analyze traffic, and improve our services.

An Online Tool Provider may collect information automatically, in which case Personal Information and non-Personal Information it receives are subject to the Online Tool Provider’s privacy policy.  Some Online Tool Providers may allow you to opt out of certain collection and/or uses of your information.  You can read more here:

Google Analytics

Sentry

Microsoft AppCenter

PaperTrail (Solarwinds)

SendGrid and Twilio

Branch.io

Amplitude

Ably

6. Transparency and Choice; Do Not Track Signals

You may request access to your Personal Information by sending an email to contact@bondz.group .  We will try to locate and provide you with your Personal Information and give you the opportunity to correct this data, if it is inaccurate, or to delete it, at your request.   But, in either case, we may need to retain it for legal reasons or for legitimate business purposes. You may also remove any content that you post to the Services using the deletion or removal options within the Service.  However, we (and you) are not able to control information that you have already shared with other users or made available to third parties through the Services.

If you need further assistance with removing any content you posted through the Services, you can email us at contact@bondz.group and we will try to assist you. Removal of your posted content may not ensure complete or comprehensive removal from our computer systems.

We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected, or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, would be impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backups), or relate to information that is not associated with your Personal Information.  In any case, where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.

You may permanently delete your Personal Information by navigating to Delete Account in the settings for the Services. Please be aware that if you request us to delete your Personal Information, you may not be able to continue to use the Services. Also, even if you request that we delete your Personal Information, we may need to retain certain information for a limited period of time to satisfy our legal, audit and/or dispute resolution requirements.

We may use Service Providers and Online Tool Providers that collect information for interest-based advertising purposes (advertisements that are tailored to your likely interests, based on categories in which you have shown an interest).  In some cases, we (or our Service Providers or Online Tool Providers) may use Cookies and other technologies as discussed in Section 5 above to deliver these interest-based advertisements to you on third-party websites or applications that are not part of the Services.  As further described in Section 6, some Online Tool Providers may allow you to opt out of certain collection and/or uses of your information.  To learn more about these third parties and the choices they offer users, please visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s choices page or the Digital Advertising Alliance’s choices page.  If you are reading this Privacy Policy from a mobile device, you can learn more about the DAA’s mobile choices program here.

We support the development and implementation of a standard “do not track” browser feature that provides customers with control over the collection and use of information about their web-browsing activities. Once a standardized “do not track” feature is released, we intend to adhere to the browser settings accordingly.

You can opt out of receiving marketing e-mails from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in the e-mails.  Please note that it may take up to ten (10) business days for your opt-out request to be processed.  Also, even if you opt out of marketing e-mails, we may continue to send you certain account-related e-mails, such as notices about your account and confirmations of transactions you have requested. You can disable push notifications from the “Settings” page.

8. Children

The Services are not intended for users under 17 years of age.  We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from users under 17 years of age.  We do not authorize users under 17 years of age to use the Services.

9. Information Security

We utilize reasonable information security measures to safeguard your Personal Information against unauthorized access, modification, or destruction.  For example, we utilize Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Transport Layer Security (TLS), or similar encryption technology when sensitive data is transmitted over the Internet, and use firewalls to help prevent external access into our network.  However, no data transmission over the Internet and no method of data storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its security.

We restrict access to Personal Information in our possession to our employees, Service Providers, and Online Tool Providers who need to know that information in order to operate, develop, improve or support our Services. If we share Personal Information with Service Providers or Online Tool Providers, we require that they also use reasonable information security measures to safeguard your Personal Information and only use your Personal Information for the purposes for which we share it with them.

10. Third Party Websites

Please note that the Services may link or integrate with third-party sites, services or apps. We are not responsible for the privacy or security policies or practices or the content of such third parties. Accordingly, we encourage you to review the privacy and security policies and terms of service of those third parties so that you understand how those websites collect, use, share and protect your information.

11. Changes to this Policy

We may modify or update this Privacy Policy periodically with or without prior notice by posting the updated policy on this page. You can always check the “Last Updated” date at the top of this document to see when the Privacy Policy was last changed. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by reasonable means, which may be by e-mail or posting a notice of the changes on our website or through the Service’s mobile app prior to the changes becoming effective. We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy from time to time. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST STOP USING THE SERVICES AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH CHANGES (WHICH IS THE “LAST UPDATED” DATE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY).

12. Questions

To ask questions about our Privacy Policy or to lodge a complaint, contact us at:

Kyosuke Togami

1 St Francis Pl, San Francisco, CA 94107

Email:  contact@bondz.group