Effective Date: 05/01/2021
Octet Interactive is dedicated to protecting its users’ ( “you”, “your” or “user”) privacy. This policy (hereinafter, “Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) applies to your use of any mobile applications (“Octet Application(s)”), or associated websites and services (collectively the “Services”) owned by Octet Interactive (“us”, “we” or “our”).
Our Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, store, and transfer your information. We encourage you to read this Policy carefully to understand the information provided on the aforementioned activities and your associated rights. If you do not agree with or accept our Privacy Policy in its entirety, you must not visit, install, or otherwise use the Services.
By visiting, installing, or otherwise using the Services, you acknowledge and represent that (i) you have read, understood, and agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy; and (ii) you are at least 18 years old.
We may, from time to time, update or modify this Policy due to technology updates, new business practices, in order to comply with applicable law(s) or to improve our users’ experience. Any material changes to this Policy that may adversely impact your privacy will be communicated through a notice on our Service, and where required by law, we may take your prior consent. We recommend you to review this page periodically to stay updated about our information collection and processing practices.
Information Collection
We collect information that you provide to us when you contact us or share feedback related to your use of the Services. The information we collect under this section may vary based on the nature of our interaction and what you choose to share with or disclose to us, but may include, without limitation, personal information such as your name, email address, and any other information such as the content of your message or email that you choose to share with us. This information shall only be used to respond to your queries, address your feedback, or otherwise communicate with you and shall not be shared with any third party without your prior consent.
When you visit, install, and/or use our Services, we use automated technologies to collect user information. This information includes but is not limited to your IP address, operating system (OS) version and type, software version, Android advertising ID, application launch details, application crash and error reports, information regarding other applications that may be in use or are otherwise open the when the Octet Application is active or in use (we do not collect any information related to the use of other applications installed on your device), your interactions with the features offered by the Services, your searches from the pre-bundled browser, search terms entered by you on the Octet Applications and associated websites, device configuration & identifiers, geolocation derived from your IP address, user device type, screen resolution and size, traffic source, anonymous user identifiers, search terms, the time & date of such searches, user configuration and settings for the Octet Applications.
Where applicable, when you purchase the paid features offered by the Octet Application from the application listing platform (Eg. Google Play Store) (“Application Listing Platform”), we may receive some processed information related to such purchase at a device level from the Application Listing Platform. Such information may include, without limitation, purchase information and purchase history (details of the package you subscribed to, time and date of your subscription, etc.). We receive this information in a manner that does not allow us to identify any specific user.As per the provisions of California Consumer Privacy Act, the information collected by us can be categorized as follows
Information Processing:
The information we collect is used for the following purposes:
Information Sharing
We may disclose your information for the following purposes:
Some of the Octet Applications allow users to search the Internet using Yahoo search engine. When you use the search feature offered on the Octet Application, we may share your search query with the said search engine, to return results specific to your query. Please note that information related to your search queries may be stored and processed by Yahoo in accordance with their privacy policy. Please read Yahoo's Privacy Policy, to understand they collect and process and store your information.
Information Retention and deletion:
Any information collected on or through the Services is retained by us only for as long as is necessary for the purposes described in ‘Information Processing’ section above. Any information that we store is disposed off once it is no longer required or upon receiving an explicit written request from you, as and where applicable.
Information Security:
The security of your information is important to us. We ensure that reasonable and appropriate technical, physical, and organizational measures are implemented and maintained to prevent any unauthorized access, alteration, loss, misuse, or destruction of your information and to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your personal information.
To protect your information in transit, we encrypt any information transmitted to or from our web servers using the Secure Socket Layer ("SSL") software.
You understand and acknowledge that due to the inherent risk involved in the transmission of information over the internet, we cannot guarantee 100% security and confidentiality of any information transmitted to or from our web servers via the internet.
Transfer of Information
We store and process the personal information collected by us in the country where we or our partners, affiliates and third-party providers maintain the servers. Where your personal information is transferred outside your country of residence, you understand and acknowledge that the data protection laws of such a country may vary from the data protection laws of your country. By using the Services or providing us with your personal information, you agree to the overseas transfer of your information.
‘Do Not Track’ notifications
Certain browsers have activated a "Do Not Track" (DNT) feature that enables users to restrict the tracking technologies deployed by websites. These browsers send signals to websites to restrict tracking of users. If our server receives a DNT signal from your browser, we will stop tracking your activity on the Services, where applicable.
Push Notifications
The Octet Applications may request for your permission to send notifications to update you about changes that we make to our Applications and regarding promotional and/or advertorial content or material curated as per your interest. You can, at any time, choose to opt-out of receiving such push notifications by modifying the permissions from the settings page of your device.
Third-Party Links and Services:
Third Party Links:
The Services may contain links to third-party websites, products, software, and other services. We have no control over such third-party websites, their products, content, and any other services. All third-party links and content on or through the Services are offered solely for your reference and convenience. We claim no endorsements by or affiliation with such third parties. You may access such third-party content and websites at your own risk. We encourage you to read their Policy and Terms and Conditions to understand their business and privacy practices. We shall not be held liable for any loss or damage suffered by you as a result of your use of such third-party websites, products, or any other services.
Affiliate Links:
The Octet Applications may also provide links to affiliated websites that may pay us a small commission, at no cost to you, each time you access or interact with such links through the Octet Applications.
Once you leave the environment of the Services, you shall no longer be governed by this Policy. You understand and acknowledge that Octet does not control, manage, or otherwise administer the collection and processing of your information by such third-party websites and/or affiliate websites and shall not be held liable for their privacy practices.
Third Party Services:
We may employ third-party tools or service providers (“Analytical Service Providers”) to monitor and analyze the use of the Services. Analytical Service Providers place their own tracking technologies on the Services to gather information related to your use of the Services. Links to the privacy policies of our Analytical Service providers are given below and we recommend that you to read their policies to understand their data collection and processing policies:
Certain features on the Services are offered with the assistance of third-party service providers. Please note that such third-party service providers may place their own tracking technologies on the Services to collect and process information including, but not limited to, your use of the Services, device information, browsing activities, etc.
We use the services offered by the Application Listing Platform to process all payments related to in-application purchases. The Application Listing Platform shall be responsible for the processing of payments related to the Octet Applications and any personal and sensitive information in connection with such transactions. To enable us to manage user subscriptions and determine the number of users using our paid features, the Application Listing Platform may share some information (as explained in “Information Sharing” above).
Please be informed that we do not control, manage, or otherwise administer the collection and processing of your information by such Analytical Service Providers, Application Listing Platform and other third-party service providers and shall not be held liable for their privacy practices.
California User Rights
If you are a California resident, as defined in Section 17014 of Title 18 of the California Code of Regulations, you have the choice to exercise the following rights available under the CCPA.
Right to Access data collected: You may request to access your personal information using one of the designated methods given below. Once we receive a request, which can satisfactorily verify your identity, we shall provide you with the following details:
Right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information: You have the right to request us to not “sell” as defined under section 1798.140, your personal information to any third party. We will act per your request, in the event we are selling such personal information belonging to you. Please use either of the two methods provided here to exercise this right.CCPA Form or emailing us at the address given below.
Right to deletion of personal information: You have the right to request us to delete your personal information, with the exception of the following circumstances, and we shall honor this request, to the extent required by law.
Where we are not able to fulfill your request due to any of the above-mentioned reasons, we will inform you about our reason(s) for not deleting your information.
Right to equal treatment: You have the right to be treated without any discrimination. We assure you that your choice to exercise your rights under CCPA, will not, in any way, impact your access to or use of the Services.
You may exercise your rights yourself or through the use of an authorized person registered with the California Secretary of State. We will honor your requests within 45 days from date of receipt of such a request. If due to any reason we are unable to process the information within these timelines, we will inform you in writing and honor the request no later than 90 days from the date of original request. Please note that we are only obligated to comply with two requests made in a 12-month period.
Designated methods to exercise rights under CCPA:
Toll-free number: 855-539-8253
Raise a request form on: Here
Email: [email protected]
As per Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code, California residents have the right to receive information about third parties with whom information about them or their family is shared, for the purpose of direct marketing, during the previous year. They also have the right to request a description of the type and categories of personal information shared with such third parties.
If you are a California resident, you may request this information by contacting us at the email address provided below. Please note that we are only required to respond to one request per customer, each year and that we are not bound to respond to any requests made by means other than through the email address shared below.
Nevada User Rights
Nevada law (SB 220) provides Nevada residents with certain rights pertaining to the sale of covered information ( i.e. exchange of information by the operator, for a monetary consideration, to a person for the person to further sell or license the covered information to additional persons), as defined under the said law. If you are a Nevada resident, you can exercise your rights by writing to us at the email address provided below. To the extent we sell your covered information, we will do our best to process your verifiable request within 60 days of receiving it. In case we need more time to process your request, we may extend the said timeline by an additional 30 days.
EU User Rights
Right to access- You may contact us to get confirmation as to whether we are collecting and processing your personal information. If we do collect and process your personal information, we will inform you of what categories of such personal information are collected and processed, the processing purposes, the categories of recipients with whom personal information has been or will be disclosed and the envisaged storage period or criteria to determine that period.
Right to withdraw consent - You may withdraw your consent to the collection and processing of your personal information at any time by writing to us at the email address provided below. Withdrawing consent may result in the unavailability of certain features of our Services.
Right to rectification – You have the right to seek rectification or completion of your personal information stored with us, that in your opinion is inaccurate or incomplete.
Right to data portability -You have the right to receive your personal information from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to transmit that information to a third party, should you so require.
Right to restrict processing - In the following circumstances, you have the right to limit the ways in which we use your personal information:
Where processing of your information has been restricted on the above-mentioned basis, we may continue to store your personal information.
Right to object - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information, if such an objection is based on (a) an activity or task performed by us to execute public interest or in exercise of the official authority vested in us; (b) the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, excluding cases where your fundamental rights or interests, which require the protection of your personal information, disregard such interests; or (c) processing of your personal information with regards to profiling for direct marketing purposes.
Where you object to such processing, we will cease to process your personal information unless (i) we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for such processing which override your rights, interests, and freedoms; or (ii) the processing of your information is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Right to erasure -You have the right to have your personal information that we collect and process, erased from our systems, without undue delay, if: (a) your personal information is no longer necessary for the related purposes, (b) we have unlawfully processed your personal information or; (c) if you object to processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes. Further, you have the right to request for erasure of such personal information if you withdraw consent or object to our collection and processing of your personal information as meant above.
Notwithstanding the above, we reserve the right to deny your request for erasure if we have a legitimate ground to not erase the personal information.
To exercise your rights, please contact us at the email address given below. Note that we have one (1) month to respond to your request.
Children’s Privacy:
We do not solicit or knowingly collect any information from children of or under the age of 13. If you believe that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child who is 13 or under, please write to us at [email protected].
Contact Us:
For further information regarding our data collection practices and/or to exercise any of your rights, you may reach out to us at
Octet Interactive
251 Little Falls Drive, Wilmington, DE 19808, USA