Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy for DiVine App
Last Updated: October 26, 2023
DiVine App is your ultimate destination for bite-sized entertainment, offering a vibrant world of captivating short-form looping videos. Discover an endless stream of engaging content, perfect for quick breaks, catching up on trends, or simply enjoying a laugh. Whether you're an aspiring creator or just looking for instant amusement, DiVine provides a seamless platform to explore and share. Its unique looping format ensures your favorite clips repeat effortlessly, providing continuous enjoyment. Dive into a dynamic community where creativity knows no bounds and every loop brings a new discovery, making boredom a thing of the past. As a reboot of the iconic Vine app, funded by Jack Dorsey, DiVine is committed to fostering a creative and secure environment for its users.
This Privacy Policy describes how DiVine App ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and shares your information when you use our mobile application and related services (collectively, the "Service"). By using the DiVine App, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.
1. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information to provide and improve our Service to you. This includes:
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Information You Provide to Us:
- Account Information: When you create an account, you provide us with your username, password, email address, date of birth, and optionally a profile picture or other personal details.
- User Content: The videos, images, comments, messages, and other content you create, upload, or share on the DiVine App. This content may include metadata such as the date and time of creation.
- Communications: When you communicate with us (e.g., through customer support, feedback forms, or surveys), we collect the content of your communications.
- Voluntary Information: Any other information you choose to provide, such as details for a contest entry or survey responses.
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Information Collected Automatically:
- Usage Data: We collect information about how you access and use the Service, including the types of content you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, the time and duration of your activities, and referring/exit pages.
- Device Information: We collect information about the device you use to access the Service, including the device's unique identifiers (e.g., IMEI, MAC address), operating system, mobile network information, device model, and settings.
- Log Data: When you use our Service, our servers automatically record information, including your IP address, browser type, referring URLs, access times, and activities within the app.
- Location Information: With your permission, we may collect precise or approximate location information from your mobile device. This can be used to tag your content with a location or to offer localized content. You can disable location services through your device settings.
- Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activities, remember your preferences, and improve your user experience. More details are provided in Section 3.
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Information from Third Parties:
- Social Media: If you choose to link your DiVine account with a third-party social media service (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram), we may receive information from those services, such as your public profile information.
- Advertisers and Partners: We may receive information about you from our advertising partners and other third parties to help us understand how you interact with our advertisements and to measure the effectiveness of our campaigns.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:
- Provide and Maintain the Service: To operate, maintain, and provide all features of the DiVine App, including allowing you to create, upload, share, and view looping videos.
- Personalize Your Experience: To tailor the content and recommendations you see, remember your preferences, and customize your overall experience on the app.
- Improve and Develop the Service: To understand user behavior, perform analytics, identify trends, and develop new products, features, and functionalities.
- Communicate with You: To send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, support and administrative messages, and to respond to your comments and inquiries.
- Ensure Safety and Security: To detect, prevent, and address fraud, abuse, security issues, and technical errors, and to enforce our Terms of Service.
- Marketing and Advertising: To provide you with personalized advertisements and promotions for DiVine App or third-party products and services, and to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
- Comply with Legal Obligations: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or governmental requests.
- Business Transfers: In connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.
- What are Cookies? Cookies are small data files stored on your device that uniquely identify your browser or device.
- How We Use Cookies: We use cookies for various purposes:
- Essential Cookies: Necessary for the operation of our Service, enabling core functionalities like security, network management, and accessibility.
- Performance and Analytics Cookies: To collect information about how you use our Service, such as which pages you visit and if you experience any errors. These cookies help us improve the performance and design of the App.
- Functionality Cookies: To remember choices you make (like your username, language, or region) and provide enhanced, more personal features.
- Advertising and Targeting Cookies: To deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns.
- Your Choices: You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. Most mobile devices also allow you to control settings related to advertising identifiers.
4. How We Share Your Information
We may share your information in the following circumstances:
- With Other Users and Publicly: Your username, profile picture, the content you post (videos, comments), and certain activity (e.g., likes) are publicly visible to other users of the Service and potentially to the general public, depending on your privacy settings.
- With Service Providers: We work with third-party service providers who help us operate, provide, improve, integrate, and customize our Service. These include hosting providers, analytics providers, customer support services, and payment processors. These providers only have access to your information to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
- With Business Partners: We may share information with business partners for co-marketing efforts, promotional activities, or other collaborations.
- For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency). This includes complying with legal obligations, protecting our rights or property, preventing fraud, or ensuring the safety of our users or the public.
- In Case of Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers: If DiVine App is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, your information may be sold or transferred as part of such a transaction.
- With Your Consent: We may share your information in other ways when you have given us explicit consent to do so.
5. Your Rights and Choices
You have certain rights regarding the personal information we hold about you:
- Access and Update Your Information: You can review and update most of your account information directly within the app settings.
- Delete Your Account and Content: You have the right to delete your DiVine App account and the content you have posted. Please note that deleting your account may result in the permanent deletion of your content and data, and some residual information may remain in our backups for a limited time as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.
- Opt-Out of Marketing Communications: You can opt-out of receiving promotional communications from us by following the unsubscribe instructions in those messages or by adjusting your notification settings in the app. Even if you opt-out, we may still send you non-promotional messages, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.
- Location Information: You can enable or disable location services when you use our Service at any time, through your device settings.
- Cookie Controls: As mentioned in Section 3, you can manage your cookie preferences through your browser or device settings.
- Data Portability: In some jurisdictions, you may have the right to request a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected].
6. Data Security
We are committed to protecting the security of your information. We implement a variety of technical and organizational security measures designed to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
7. Children's Privacy
The DiVine App is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without verifiable parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
8. Third-Party Links and Services
Our Service may contain links to third-party websites, products, or services that are not owned or controlled by DiVine App. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these third-party sites or services. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites or services you visit.
9. International Data Transfers
Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. By using the DiVine App, you consent to this transfer. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Your continued use of the Service after any modifications to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
- By email: [email protected]