Privacy Policy

Effective date: June 10, 2019

Privacy Policy

Melpot (“Melpot,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) takes your information’s privacy very seriously. Regarding our privacy practices, our privacy policy illustrates how we treat the data we gather when you visit or utilize our site, iOS and Android applications. When you utilize our services, you likewise agree to the collection, transfer, manipulation, storage, disclosure and other uses of your information as described in this Privacy Policy; please read it cautiously.

What This PrivacyPolicy Covers

This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of data assembled when you are utilizing or getting to the Services. This Privacy Policy likewise covers our treatment of any data about you that our partners share with us or that we share with our partners. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own, control, or manage, including yet not restricted to any to any third-party websites, services, applications, or businesses (“Third Party Services”). While we endeavor to work just with those Third-Party Services that share our regard for your privacy, we do not take liability for the Third-Party Services. We urge you to cautiously review the security strategies of all Third-Party Services you get to. Additionally, This Privacy Policy does not govern what our users do on their Melpot usage and we are not responsible for the information collection and use practices of our individual users.

What We Collect and How We Use It

Account Information: You will be asked when you create an account on Melpot for informations. For example, your name, username, password, age, phone number and email address (“Account Information”). We may utilize Account Information, alone or together with other data, to upgrade and improve the Services, for example, by personalization. We utilize your age to confirm that you can legally utilize the Services. We utilize your email address to check your Account and to communicate with you, as portrayed in more detail beneath. We additionally enable clients to search for their companions by username. – Note that we never email you to ask for your password or other Account Information.

User Content: Posting on Melpot is considered to be private since the posts will be viewable only for Chums (Friends), except for the media posts (videos and images) chums can repost them and they will be viewable for their friends and so on. Since the media posts can be reposted, you may lose any privacy rights you might have regarding that content. Also, please keep in mind that anything you share privately may be posted publicly by another user. Please note that, the check-in feature allows Everyone to view who has checked-in on that particular location on that same day. Meaning that whenever you check-in a location, your username and time of checking-in will be listed on “people who checked-in” list for that particular location in every check-in post on that same location for the whole day, unless you delete the post.

Actions: The Services allow you to perform native actions that are integral to our products, such as reacting to a post, reposting a post, commenting to a post. Note that anyone can view such actions not necessarily chums. For example, when you comment on your chum’s post, your comment will be viewable to the chums of the poster even though you and them are not chums.

Information About User Content: We may, in some cases collect data about content you provide to the Services. This data allows us to improve the Services and provide additional features and functionality.

Financial Information: We could sometimes collect financial information, such as information related to your payment method (valid credit card number, type, expiration date or other financial information). This happens when you choose to purchase a paid Service.

Information Related to the Use of the Services: We gather data about how users utilizing the Services. This kind of data might be gathered in our log documents each time you interact with (i.e., make a request to) the Services. Some of this data may likewise be related with the Internet Protocol Address (“IP Address”) used to get to the Services; some might be associated with your Account; and some may just be gathered and utilized in total structure (as a statistical measure that would not identify you or your Account). We may use these informations about how you and others interact with the Services for a number of things generally related to enhancing, improving, protecting, and developing Services, including yet not restricted to: providing users with targeted advertising; fighting spam, malware, identity theft and generally keeping our users and community safe; and for legal and safety reasons as set forth in “Information Disclosed for Our Protection and the Protection of Others.”

Location Information: We gather, in some cases and store data about where you are, such as by converting your IP Address into a rough geolocation. We may likewise ask you to provide information about your location, for example to use your geolocation information from your mobile device to geotag a post and to find nearby chum (“Friend”).

Information Related to Your Mobile Device: We may gather, and store data identified with your mobile device. In some cases, we may receive, generate, or assign your mobile device a unique identifier for the purposes described above in “Information Related to Use of the Services.” We may likewise request that you give your phone number to empower new products and improve the Services.

Personalized Advertising on Melpot

Melpot runs advertisement, so as to furnish you with the majority of Melpot’s services for free. We work to provide you with advertising that is as relevant and useful as possible based on the information we have.

With Whom Your Information Is Shared

Information Shared with the Public Through the Services: as mentioned above, posts are by default shared privately (meaning only for Chums “Friends”) unless if a user chooses a post to be public. You should be careful about what you choose to disclose publicly and make sure it’s information you want to share with everyone.
Bear in mind, the check-in feature allows Everyone to view who has checked-in on that particular location on that same day. Meaning that whenever you check-in a location your username will be listed on “people who checked-in” list for that location for every check-in post on that location for the whole day unless you delete the post.

Information You Share with Third Party Services: This Privacy Policy only covers information we collect, and you are responsible for reading and understanding those Third-Party Services’ privacy policies. Third-Party Services you may access through the Services, for example by clicking on externally-pointing links.

Information Shared with Our Agents in Order to Operate and Improve the Services: In some cases, we share data that we store (such as IP Addresses) with third parties, such as service providers, consultants, and other agents (“Agents”), for the purposes of operating, enhancing, and improving the Services, and developing new products and services. For example, we may share information with service providers in order to fight spam, and third-party consultants may have access to information in the process of improving our processes and technology. Agents with whom we offer such data to are commonly bound by secrecy commitments and confidentiality obligations and, unless we inform you differently, our Agents don’t reserve any privilege to utilize data we share with them past the degree and term of what is necessary to assist us.

Information Disclosed for Our Protection and the Protection of Others: Freedom of speech is something we believe in, and, to the extent reasonable, we try protecting our community from baseless legal demands. With that said, we likewise reserve the right to access, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably believe is necessary, in our sole discretion, to
(i) Satisfy any law, regulation, legal process, governmental request, or governmental order.
(ii) Enforce this Privacy Policy and our Terms of service, including investigation of potential violations hereof.
(iii) Detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, trust and safety, or technical issues (including exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of improving security and preventing fraud, spam, and malware).
(iv) Respond to user support requests.
(v) Protect the rights, property, health or safety of us, our users, any third parties or the public in general, including but not limited to situations involving possible violence, suicide, or self-harm.

Information Shared with Other Third Parties: We may share non-private data, Aggregate Information, or other non-personally identifying information with individuals and entities that we do business with.

Security and Retention of Your Information

Melpot will retain your information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, for as long as your Melpot account is active or as needed to provide you with the Services. You can end this permit whenever you want, by deleting the content or account. You should realize that, for technical reasons, content you erase may remain for a restricted timeframe in backup copies (though it will not be visible to other users). Moreover, content you erase may keep on showing up in the event that you have imparted it to other people, and they have not erased it.

What Information You Can Access

If you are a registered user, you can access most information associated with your Account by logging into the Services and checking your Account Settings page.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We work always to improve our services and develop new features to make our services better for the user. Accordingly, we may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, using the process for modifications set forth in our terms of service to precisely reflect our services and practices.