Privacy policy

Last updated on January 7, 2024


Introduction

Welcome! You have arrived at a website, mobile app or other service provided by Capsule, LLC (“Company” or “we,” “our” or “us”). This “Privacy Policy” governs your use of the website located at matey.app (the “Website”), which will be available in the near future, the Matey mobile application that can be downloaded from app stores and also applies to your use of all features, applications, content, downloads and other services that we make available through the site and/or that post a link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, referred to herein as the “Site”), regardless of how you access or use the Site, whether via personal computers, mobile devices or otherwise. This Privacy Policy does not apply to our data collection activities offline or otherwise outside of our Site (unless otherwise stated below).

To the extent we provide you notice on our Site of different or additional privacy policies or practices (e.g., at the point of our collection), those additional terms shall govern such data collection and use.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we treat it. In addition, please review the Site’s Terms of Use, which govern your use of the Site. If you are located outside of the European Economic Area, by using our Site you consent to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use and our collection, use and sharing of your information and data, and other activities, as described below. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not provide us with any Personal Information and do not use this Site.

 

Table of Contents

It is important that you read and understand the entire Privacy Policy before using the Site.

  1. What Information Does the Site Collect?

  2. How Do We Use the Information Collected?

  3. How and When Do We Disclose Information to Third Parties?

  4. Do Third-Party Content, Links to Third-Party Sites and/or Third-Party Apps Appear on the Site?

  5. How Do I Change My Information and Communications Preferences?

  6. What About Transfer of Information to the United States?

  7. What Should Parents Know About Children?

  8. What About Security?

  9. What About Changes to the Privacy Policy?

 

The Full Detailed Privacy Policy

1) What Information Does the Site Collect?

(a) Information You Provide to Us

Personal Information. On the Site, we may ask you to provide certain categories of information, including, but not limited to, the following categories of information, that are collectively referred to in this Privacy Policy as “Personal Information:”

1) information that identifies you specifically, such as your first and last name, email address and phone number;

2) demographic information, such as information about your age and city; and

3) usage information (“Usage Information”), such as:

  • your unique device identifier (“Device Identifier”). A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your Device used to access the Site, and our computers identify your Device by its Device Identifier;

  • your Device functionality (including browser, operating system, hardware, mobile network information);

  • the areas within our Site that you visit and your activities there, including remembering you and your preferences;

  • your Device location;

  • your Device characteristics; and

  • certain other Device data, including the time of day, among other information.

We may collect this information through various forms and in various places on the Site, including on “contact us” forms, when you register for an account or when you otherwise interact with the Site.

User Contributions. You may also provide information and media, including video, photo and audio files, for publication or display on public areas of the Site, or through the Site, may be shared directly with other users of the Site (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are uploaded to the Site and shared by you with other users and/or published publicly by you at your own risk. Although you may set certain privacy settings for such information, including making your account private, hiding your account from appearing in search results and blocking certain users, by accessing and editing the information listed in the “Edit Profile” menu in your account profile, the “Edit Project” menu from the Project screen, and the “Edit Event” menu from the Event Screen, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of third parties with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions, via the platform or otherwise. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

(b) Information We Collect and Store As You Access and Use the Site

In addition to any Personal Information or other information that you choose to submit to us via our Site, we and our third-party service providers may use a variety of technologies that automatically (or passively) collect and store certain Personal Information, including Usage Information, whenever you visit or interact with the Site. This information may be stored or accessed using a variety of technologies that may be downloaded to your personal computer, browser, laptop, tablet, mobile phone or other device (a “Device”) whenever you visit or interact with our Site.

When the Website becomes available, we may use various methods and technologies to collect and store Usage Information (“Tracking Technologies”). Tracking Technologies may set, change, alter or modify settings or configurations on your Device. A few of the Tracking Technologies include, without limitation, the following (and subsequent technology and methods later developed):

  • Cookies. A cookie is a data file placed on a Device when it is used to visit the Site. A Flash cookie (or locally shared object) is a data file placed on a Device via the Adobe Flash plug-in that may be built-in to or downloaded by you to your Device. HTML5 cookies can be programmed through HTML5 local storage. Unlike Flash cookies, HTML5 cookies do not require a plug-in. Regular cookies may generally be disabled or removed by tools that are available as part of most commercial browsers, and in some but not all instances can be blocked in the future by selecting certain settings. Each browser you use will need to be set separately and different browsers offer different functionality and options in this regard. Also, these tools may not be effective with regard to Flash cookies or HTML5 cookies. For information on disabling Flash cookies, go to Adobe’s web site www.adobe.com. Please be aware that if you disable or remove cookies, Flash cookies, or HTML5 cookies on your Device, some parts of our Site may not function properly, and that when you revisit our Site your ability to limit cookies is subject to your browser settings and limitations.

  • Web Beacons. Small graphic images or other web programming code called web beacons (also known as “1×1 GIFs” or “clear GIFs”) may be included in our Site’s pages and messages. Web beacons may be invisible to you, but any electronic image or other web programming code inserted into a page or e-mail can act as a web beacon. Web beacons or similar technologies may be used for a number of purposes, including, without limitation, to count visitors to the Site, to monitor how users navigate the Site, to count how many e-mails that were sent were actually opened or to count how many particular articles or links were actually viewed.

  • Embedded Scripts. An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Site, such as the links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your Device from our web server or a third party service provider, is active only while you are connected to the Site, and is deactivated or deleted thereafter.

  • Browser Fingerprinting. Collection and analysis of information from your Device, such as, without limitation, your operating system, plug-ins, system fonts and other data, for purposes of identification.

  • ETag, or entity tag. A feature of the cache in browsers. It is an opaque identifier assigned by a web server to a specific version of a resource found at a URL. If the resource content at that URL ever changes, a new and different ETag is assigned. Used in this manner ETags are a form of Device Identifier. ETag tracking may generate unique tracking values even where the consumer blocks HTTP, Flash and/or HTML5 cookies.

  • Recognition Technologies. Technologies, including application of statistical probability to data sets, which attempt to recognize or make assumptions about users and devices (e.g., that a user of multiple devices is the same user).

We may use Tracking Technologies for a variety of purposes, including:

  • Strictly Necessary. We may use cookies or other Tracking Technologies that we consider are strictly necessary to allow you to use and access our Site, including cookies required to prevent fraudulent activity, improve security or allow you to make use of Site functionality.

  • Performance Related. We may use cookies or other Tracking Technologies that are useful in order to assess the performance of the Site, including as part of our analytic practices or otherwise to improve the content, products or services offered through the Site.

  • Functionality Related. We may use cookies or other Tracking Technologies that are required to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing the Site, including identifying you when you visit our Site or keeping track of our specified preferences, including in terms of the presentation of content on our Site.

There may be other Tracking Technologies now and later devised and used by us in connection with the Site. Further, third parties may use Tracking Technologies in connection with our Site, which may include the collection of information about your online activities over time and across third-party web sites or online services. We may not control those Tracking Technologies and we are not responsible for them. However, you consent to potentially encountering third-party Tracking Technologies in connection with use of our Site and accept that our statements under this Privacy Policy do not apply to the Tracking Technologies or practices of such third parties.

(c) Information Third Parties Provide About You

We may receive information about you from your friends and others that use the Site, such as when they submit your information to us about you. Additionally, we may, from time to time, supplement the information we collect directly from you on our Site with outside records from third parties for various purposes, including to enhance our ability to serve you. To the extent the information we receive from those sources includes Personal Information or is combined with your Personal Information, it will be treated as Personal Information and we will apply this Privacy Policy to such information.

(d) Interactions with Third Party Services

The Site may include functionality that allows certain kinds of interactions between the Site and your account on a third-party web site, application or other service. The use of this functionality may involve the third-party operator providing certain information, including Personal Information, to us. For example, we may provide third-party sites’ interfaces or links on the Site to facilitate your sending a communication from the Site, including, but not limited to, communications sent to or published on social media. These third parties may retain any information used or provided in any such communications or other activities and these third parties’ practices are not subject to our Privacy Policy. We may not control or have access to your communications through these third parties. Further, when you use third-party sites or services, you are using their services and not our services and they, not we, are responsible for their practices. You should review the applicable third-party privacy policies before using such third-party tools on our Site.

(e) Information You Provide About a Third Party

You may send someone else a communication from the Site, such as sending an invitation to a friend. If so, the information you provide (names, email addresses, phone number, etc.) is used to facilitate the communication and is not used by us for any other marketing purpose unless we obtain consent from that person or we explicitly say otherwise. Please be aware that when you use any send-to-a-friend functionality on our Site, your email address, phone number, name or user name and message may be included in the communication sent to your addressee(s). If you provide us with the information of another person, you must have their consent to do so.

(f) Do Not Track Disclosures

Various third parties are developing or have developed signals or other mechanisms for the expression of consumer choice regarding the collection of information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across third-party web sites or online services (e.g., browser do not track signals). Currently, we do not monitor or take any action with respect to these signals or other mechanisms.

2) How Do We Use the Information Collected?

We may use your Personal Information for various purposes, including:

  • to enable you to participate in a variety of the Site’s features;

  • to improve the Site, marketing endeavors or our Site offerings;

  • to customize your experience on the Site or to serve you specific content that we believe is relevant to you;

  • to provide user support;

  • to contact you with regard to your use of the Site and, in our discretion,

    changes to the Site and/or Site’s policies;

  • to improve the overall experience at the Site;

  • for internal business purposes; and

  • for purposes disclosed at the time you provide your information or as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy.

3) How and When Do We Disclose Information to Third Parties?

We may share non-Personal Information, such as aggregated user statistics, with third parties. In addition, we may share the information we have collected about you, including Personal Information, as disclosed at the time you provide your information and as described below or otherwise in this Privacy Policy. We may disclose your information as follows:

(a) Third Parties Providing Services on our Behalf. We may use third-party vendors to perform certain services on behalf of us or the Site, including to achieve the purposes listed in Section 2 above. We may provide these vendors with access to user information, including Personal Information, to carry out the services they are performing for you or for us. Third-party service providers may set and access their own Tracking Technologies on your Device and they may otherwise collect or have access to information about you, potentially including Personal Information, about you. We are not responsible for those third party technologies or activities arising out of them.

(b) Administrative and Legal Reasons. We may access, use, preserve, transfer and disclose your information (including Device Identifiers and Personal Information) to third parties: (i) to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, subpoenas, governmental requests or legal process if in our good faith opinion such is required or permitted by law; (ii) to protect and/or defend the Site’s Terms of Use or other policies applicable to the Site, including investigation of potential violations thereof; (iii) to protect the safety, rights, property or security of the Site or any third party; and/or (iv) to detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues. Further, we may use Device Identifiers to identify users and may do so in cooperation with third parties such as copyright owners, internet service providers, wireless service providers and/or law enforcement agencies, including disclosing such information to third parties, all in our discretion, subject to applicable law. Such disclosures may be carried out without notice to you.

(c) Affiliates and Business Transfer. We reserve the right to disclose and transfer all such information: (i) to a subsequent owner, co-owner or operator of the Site or applicable database; or (ii) in connection with a merger, consolidation, restructuring, the sale of substantially all of our interests and/or assets or other corporate change, including, during the course of any due diligence process.

(d) Sweepstakes, Contests and Promotions. We may offer sweepstakes, contests, and other promotions (any, a “Promotion”) through the Site that may require registration. By participating in a Promotion, you are agreeing to official rules that govern that Promotion, which may contain specific requirements of you, including, allowing the sponsor of the Promotion to use your name, voice and/or likeness in advertising or marketing associated with the Promotion. If you choose to enter a Promotion, Personal Information may be disclosed to third parties or the public in connection with the administration of such Promotion, including, in connection with winner selection, prize fulfillment, and as required by law or permitted by the Promotion’s official rules, such as on a winners list.

4) Do Third-Party Content, Links to Third-Party Sites and/or Third-Party Apps Appear on the Site?

The Site may contain content, links or apps that are supplied by a third party, and those third parties may collect Usage Information and your Device Identifier when pages from the Site are served to you for their own commercial purposes. In addition, when you are on the Site you may be directed to other sites and apps that are operated and controlled by third parties that we do not control. We are not responsible for the data collection and privacy practices employed by any of these third parties or their sites or apps and they may be tracking you across multiple online services and may be sharing the results of that tracking with us and/or others. These third parties may have their own terms of service, privacy policies or other policies and ask you to agree to the same. For example, if you “click” on a link, the “click” may take you off the Site onto a different location. These other online services may associate their Tracking Technologies with you, independently collect information about you, including Personal Information, and may or may not have their own published privacy policies. We are not responsible for these third-party privacy policies or the practices of Third-Party Owners. Be sure to review any available policies before submitting any personally identifiable information to a third-party application or otherwise interacting with it and exercise caution in connection with these applications. We also encourage you to note when you leave our Site and to review the third-party privacy policies of all third-party locations and exercise caution in connection with them.

5) How Do I Change My Information and Communications Preferences?

You are responsible for maintaining the accuracy of the information you submit to us, such as your contact information provided as part of registration. The Site may allow you to review, correct or update Personal Information you have provided through the Site’s forms, and you may provide updates and changes by logging into the Site and visiting your account profile page. You may also contact us via email at support@matey.app. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. You may delete your user account at any time. We will make good faith efforts to make requested changes in our then active databases as soon as reasonably practicable (but we may retain prior information as business records as permitted by applicable law).

If you delete your User Contributions from the Site, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages maintained by third-parties over which we have no control, or might have been copied or stored by other users of the Site. Proper access and use of information provided on the Site, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.

6) What About Transfer of Information to the United States?

Our Site is operated in the United States and is primarily intended for users located in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that information we collect, including Personal Information, will be transferred to, and processed, stored and used in the United States. The data protection laws in the United States may differ from those of the country in which you are located, and your Personal Information may be subject to access requests from governments, courts, or law enforcement in the United States according to laws of the United States. By using the Site or providing us with any information, you consent to the transfer to, and processing, usage, sharing and storage of your information, including Personal Information, in the United States as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

7) What Should Parents Know About Children?

The Site is not intended for children under 18 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at support@matey.app.

8) What About Security?

We endeavor to incorporate commercially reasonable safeguards to help protect and secure your Personal Information. However, no data transmission over the Internet, mobile networks, wireless transmission or electronic storage of information can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please note that we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to us, and you use our Site and provide us with your information at your own risk.

9) What About Changes to the Privacy Policy?

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time without notice to you. Any changes will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Privacy Policy and, if you are located outside the European Economic Area, your use of our Site indicates your consent to the Privacy Policy posted at the time of use. However, we will not use your previously collected Personal Information in a manner materially different than indicated at the time it was collected without your consent. To the extent any provision of this Privacy Policy is found by a competent tribunal to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be severed to the extent necessary for the remainder to be valid and enforceable.