“KingsChat”, a messaging application which allows for one-on-one
chat, group messaging, and multimedia sharing in real-time (hereinafter
referred to as the “Application”) and the website, located at
www.joinkingschat.com (the “Site”), are a copyrighted product (i)
of Kinging LLC, a United States limited liability company established
and registered under the relevant laws of the state of Delaware
(hereinafter referred to as the “Company”, “we”,
“us”, or “our”), and (ii) operated by the Company. We are
committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how
we collect, store, use and disclose Personal Information (defined below)
from individuals who use the Application or the Site.
By accessing and using the Application or the Site, you acknowledge that
you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy
and you hereby consent that we will collect, store, use, and disclose
your Personal Information in the following ways.
We reserve the right, in its sole discretion, to modify this Privacy
Policy at any time by posting a notice inside the Application or on the
Site. You shall be responsible for reviewing and becoming familiar with
any such modifications. Your access and use of the Application or the
Site following such notification constitutes your acceptance of the
practices of this Privacy Policy as modified.
"Personal Information" shall mean any personally identifiable
information such as your name, telephone number or e-mail address and
any other non-public information about you that is associated with or
linked to any of the foregoing information.
We collect Personal Information from you when you use the Application or
the Site in a manner as described below.
We will ask you to provide your full name, profile picture, and a phone number upon your registering for account associated with the Application or the Site (“Account”). After downloading the Application you will also be asked to verify your phone number in order to complete the process of creating the Account. We will send a verification code to your phone number. You will need to enter this verification code into the Application in order to complete the process of creating your account. We will retain your phone number in an encrypted format only.
The contacts of people (“Friend(s)”) in your mobile device’s phone book, who have accounts with the Company (associated with the Application or the Site), will be automatically added to your contact list within the Application. You may elect to remove any such friend by visiting the “Block Contact” feature that is under the Settings tab. This feature enables us to easily provide you with the access to your existing friends from your mobile device’s phone book.
The Application includes a profile picture feature that allows you to add a picture to your profile in your Account. If you elect to use this feature, other users will be able to see your profile picture.
The Application may be used to send messages between users of the Application. If you send a message to one or more other user(s), we will retain the message, the sender and recipient data, and associate it with your phone number or account.
The Application may be used to send pictures, videos, audio files, and data on any user’s location (“Media File(s)”), between users of the Application. If you send any such Media File to one or more other user(s), we will retain such file or data on your behalf and disclose it to the intended recipient(s).
The Application allows you to send Media Files to more than one user at a time by sending any such Media File to a group of users (“Group”). You can create Groups by inviting other users or be invited to a Group. Once a user is added to a conversation/group, such user will receive all messages and Media Files sent by you as part of that conversation.
We may permit certain third-party applications to provide content
through the Application (“Third Party Application(s)”). The
Application may be used to send content provided by Third Party
Application(s) between users who have the Third Party Application
installed on their mobile devices. For example, if you have a Third
Party Application installed, you may choose to share the Third Party
Application’s content with another user.
When you elect to do so, the Third Party Application will have access to
your name and the intended recipient’s name and will send a message to
the intended recipient.
When the intended recipient receives the message, the recipient will be
directed to the Third Party Application (if the recipient has the Third
Party Application installed on his/her mobile device) or to the Third
Party Application’s download page (if the recipient does not have the
Third Party Application installed on his/her mobile device).
If the recipient loads the Third-Party Application, the
recipient will have access to your name and the Third-Party
Application’s content sent by you. For information on third party
information collection policies and practices, you must contact such
third parties.
The Application may display your full name, phone number, and profile picture associated with your Account. Your public profile will be shown to anyone who knows your phone number within the Application.
We may also collect Personal Information from time to time through (i) other communications with you (ii) information downloads, (iii) product or service purchases, (iv) user support, (v) feedback, and (vi) surveys and forums. If you post any information to a public forum, you understand that other users will be able to see it.
To make our Application and Site more useful to you, we may collect
certain information about you and your mobile device via technologies
(“Technology Data”). Like most companies, we may automatically
gather the Technology Data and store it in log files each time you visit
our Site or use the Application. Such Technology Data may include, but
is not limited to, the type of device you have, your device ID and push
tokens (if you have a device from Apple), a generated device ID internal
to the Application (if you have a Android device), Internet Protocol
(IP) address of the TCP connection for each authentication request, the
date/time stamp for various Application activities, and other similar
diagnostic logs.
We may also use Cookies (as defined below) and navigational data like
Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to gather information regarding the date
and time of your visit on the Site or of your use of the Application and
the solutions and information which you searched and which you
viewed.
“Cookies” are tiny text files which identify
your mobile device or computer to our server as a unique user when you
visit certain pages of the Application or the Site and they are stored
by your Internet browser on your mobile device’s or computer's hard
drive. Cookies can be used to (i) recognize yourInternet Protocol (IP)
address, and/or (ii) help you save you time (a) while you are
visiting/using the Application or the Site, or (b) when you want to
enter, the Application or the Site.
We only use cookies for
your convenience in using the Application or the Site and not for
obtaining or using any other information about you (for example targeted
advertising).
Your browser can be set to not accept cookies,
but if you elect to do so, some parts of the Application or the Site may
not work properly on your mobile device.
2.1. Generally, we collect, store, use and disclose information to enable us to (i) improve your experience when you use the Application and visit the Site, (ii) create/open your Account, (iii) identify you as a user, (iv) respond to your inquiries and emails, (v) improve the Application and the Site, (vi) send you administrative and service related communications, and (vi) send you newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials. Except as set out in this Privacy Policy, your Personal Information will not be used for any other purpose without informing you first by updating this Privacy Policy.
2.2. Except for the limited disclosures described in this Privacy Policy, we don't sell customer lists and we will endeavor to keep your Personal Information private.
2.3. Anonymous aggregate statistics that do not personally identify a user will be kept and used by us for various purposes including analysis and reporting of usage patterns. We reserve the right to use and disclose anonymous aggregate statistics for any purpose and to any third party in its sole discretion.
In addition to the disclosures described in Sections 2 and 3, we may additionally disclose your information as follows:
3.1. Our servers are located in the United States, and as such, your Personal Information may be available to the U.S. government or its agencies under a lawful order, irrespective of the safeguards we have put in place for the protection of your Personal Information.
3.2. From time to time we may employ third parties to help us provide or improve the Application and/or the Site. These third parties may have limited access to databases of the Application’s and the Site’s user information or registered member information solely for the purpose of helping us provide or improve the Application and the Site and they will not be able to use the information about our registered users or visitors for any other purpose.
3.3. We may disclose Personal Information in some other limited circumstances, but we will specifically describe them to you by revising this Privacy Policy.
3.4. We may, and you hereby authorize us to, disclose your Personal Information (including messages) to a third party without your consent: (a) if we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property, other website users, or anyone else (including the rights or property of anyone else) that could be harmed by such activities, (b) in connection with any legal investigation, and/or (c) when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is required by and in accordance with the law or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on the Company.
3.5. We may also disclose your Personal Information in connection with a corporate reorganization, a merger or acquisition with another entity, or a sale of all or a substantial portion of our assets or stock provided that the information disclosed continues to be used for the purposes as permitted by this Privacy Policy by the entity acquiring the information. Although we currently do not have a parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (collectively, “Affiliates”), we may in the future. We may share some or all of your Personal Information with these Affiliates, in which case we will require our Affiliates to comply with this Privacy Policy.
4.1. The security of your Personal Information is important to us. We use commercially reasonable efforts to store and maintain your Personal Information in a secure environment and have implemented commercially reasonable procedures designed to limit unauthorized access, use or disclosure of your Personal Information. Despite these measures, you should know that we cannot fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information.
4.2. You are also responsible for helping us protect the security of your Personal Information. For instance, never give out your password, and remember to log out of your Account when you are finished using the Application.
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to open an account associated with the Application and/or the Site. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to open any such account or to send any information about yourself to us. No one under the age of 13 may provide any personal information to the Company, on the Site or via the Application. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 13 without any prior parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under the age of 13, please contact us at support@joinkingschat.com
You have choices regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal
Information:
a. Opting out of receiving electronic communications from us. If
you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us, you may
opt-out via the unsubscribe link included in such emails. We will try to
comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please
note that if you opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us,
we may still send you important administrative messages that we are
required to provide you in connection with your Account, or your use of
the Application.
b. How you can see or change your Account Personal Information.
If You would like to review, correct, or update Personal Information
that You have previously disclosed to us, You may do so by contacting
us.
c. Your data protection rights. Depending on your location and
subject to applicable law, you may have the following rights with regard
to the Personal Information we control about you:
We make reasonable efforts to ensure a level of security appropriate to
the risk associated with the processing of Personal Information. We
maintain organizational, technical and administrative measures designed
to protect Personal Information within our organization against
unauthorized access, destruction, loss, alteration or misuse. Your
Personal Information is only accessible to a limited number of personnel
who need access to the information to perform their duties.
Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed
to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction
with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security
of your Account has been compromised), please contact us immediately.
We retain your Personal Information as long as you maintain an
Account, and/or you utilize the Application. We retain Personal
Information after we cease providing services directly or indirectly to
you, even if you close your Account, or delete the Application, to the
extent necessary to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations,
and for the purpose of fraud monitoring, detection and prevention. We
also retain Personal Information to comply with our tax, accounting, and
financial reporting obligations, where we are required to retain the
data by our contractual commitments to our financial partners, and where
data retention is mandated by the payment methods that we support. Where
we retain data, we do so in accordance with any limitation periods and
records retention obligations that are imposed by applicable law.
We are a global business. Personal Information may be stored and
processed in any country where we have operations or where we engage
service providers. We may transfer Personal Information that we maintain
about you to recipients in countries other than the country in which the
Personal Information was originally collected, including to the United
States. Those countries may have data protection rules that are
different from those of your country. However, we will take measures to
ensure that any such transfers comply with applicable data protection
laws and that your Personal Information remains protected to the
standards described in this Privacy Policy. In certain circumstances,
courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security
authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your
Personal Information.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the UK
or Switzerland, we comply with applicable laws to provide an adequate
level of data protection for the transfer of your Personal Information
to the US. By submitting your Personal Information, you agree to the
transfer, storing or processing of it outside of your jurisdiction.
United States - California residents. This section provides additional
details about the personal information we collect about California
consumers as well as the rights of California consumers under the
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
a. How We Collect, Use, and Disclose your Personal Information.
The Personal Data We Collect section describes the personal information
we may have collected over the last 12 months, including the categories
of sources of that information. We collect this information for the
purposes described in the How We Use Personal Data section. We share
this information as described in the How We Disclose Personal Data
section. KingsChat uses cookies, including advertising cookies, as
described in our How We Use Cookies section.
b. Your CCPA Rights and Choices. As a California consumer and
subject to certain limitations under the CCPA, you have choices
regarding our use and disclosure of your personal information:
Should you have any query in relation to this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, please email us at support@joinkingschat.com