Privacy Policy
Welcome to VB Short. This Privacy Policy applies to VB Short services (the ??Platform??), which
include VB Short apps, websites, software and related services accessed via any platform or
device that link to this Privacy Policy.
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we
collect, use, share, and otherwise process the personal information of users, and other individuals
in connection with our Platform. If you do not agree with this policy, you should not use the
Platform.
1. What information we collect
We may collect the following information about you:
Information You Provide
● Your profile information. You give us information when you register on the Platform, including your username, password, date of birth (where applicable), email address,
information you disclose in your user profile, and your photograph or profile video.
● User content. We process the content you generate on the Platform, including
photographs, audios and videos you upload or create, comments, hashtags, feedback,
reviews, and livestreams you make, and the associated metadata, such as when, where, and by whom the content was created (??User Content??). Even if you are not a user, information
about you may appear in User Content created or published by users on the Platform. We
collect User Content through pre-loading at the time of creation, import, or upload,
regardless of whether you choose to save or upload that User Content, in order to
recommend audio options and provide other personalized recommendations. If you apply an effect to your User Content, we may collect a version of your User Content that does not
include the effect.
● Messages. We collect information you provide when you compose, send, or receive
messages through the Platform??s messaging functionalities. They include messages you send or receive through our chat functionality when communicating with merchants who sell
goods to you, and your use of virtual assistants when purchasing items through the Platform. That information includes the content of the message and information about the message,
such as when it was sent, received, or read, and message participants. Please be aware that messages you choose to send to other users of the Platform will be accessible by those users and that we are not responsible for the manner in which those users use or share the
messages.
● We may access content, including text, images, and video, found in your
device??s clipboard, with your permission. For example, if you choose to initiate content
sharing with a third-party platform, or choose to paste content from the clipboard into the
Platform, we access this information stored in your clipboard in order to fulfill your request.
● Purchase information. When you make a purchase or payment on or through the
Platform, including when you buy VB Short Coins or purchase goods through our shopping features, we collect information about the purchase or payment transaction, such as
payment card information, billing, delivery, and contact information, and items you purchased.
● Your phone and social network contacts. If you choose to sync your phone contacts, we
will access and collect information such as names, phone numbers, and email addresses, and match that information against existing users of the Platform. If you choose to share your
social network contacts, we will collect your public profile information as well as names and profiles of your social network contacts.
● Proof of your identity or age. We sometimes ask you to provide proof of identity or age in order to use certain features, such as livestream or verified accounts, or when you apply for a Business Account, ensure that you are old enough to use the Platform, or in other instances where verification may be required.
● Information in correspondence you send to us, including when you contact us for support or feedback.
2. Automatically Collected Information
● Usage Information. We collect information regarding your use of the Platform, e.g., how you engage with the Platform, including how you interact with content we show to you, the advertisements you view, videos you watch and problems encountered, browsing and search history, the content you like, the content you save to ??My Favourites??, the users you follow
and how you engage with mutual followers.
● Inferred Information. We also infer your attributes, including your interests, gender and age range for the purpose of personalising content.
● Technical Information we collect about you. We collect certain information about the
device you use to access the Platform, such as your IP address, user agent, mobile carrier,
time zone settings, identifiers for advertising purposes, model of your device, the device
system, network type, device IDs, your screen resolution and operating system, app and file names and types, keystroke patterns or rhythms, battery state, audio settings and connected audio devices. Where you log-in from multiple devices, we will be able to use your profile
information to identify your activity across devices. We may also associate you with
information collected from devices other than those you use to log-in to the Platform.
● Location Information. We collect information about your approximate location, including location information based on your SIM card and/or IP address. With your permission, we may also collect precise location data (such as GPS). In addition, we collect location
information (such as tourist attractions) if you choose to add location information to your User Content.
● Cookies. We and our service providers and business partners use cookies and other similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, flash cookies, etc.) (??Cookies??) to automatically collect
information, measure and analyze how you use the Platform, including which pages you view most often and how you interact with content, enhance your experience using the Platform, improve the Platform, provide you with advertising, and measure the effectiveness of
advertisements and other content. We and our partners also use Cookies to promote the
Platform on other platforms and websites. Cookies enable the Platform to provide certain features and functionality. Web beacons are very small images or small pieces of data
embedded in images, also known as ??pixel tags?? or ??clear GIFs,?? that can recognize Cookies, the time and date a page is viewed, a description of the page where the pixel tag is placed, and similar information from your computer or device.
3. Information From Other Sources
We may receive the information described in this Privacy Policy from other sources, such as:
● If you choose to register or use the Platform using a third-party social network account
details (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google) or login service, you will provide us or
allow to provide us with your username, public profile, and other possible information
related to such account. We will likewise share certain information with your social network such as your app ID, access token and the referring URL. If you link your VB Short account to another service, we may receive information about your use of that service.
● Advertisers, measurement and other partners share information with us about you and
the actions you have taken outside of the Platform, such as your activities on other websites and apps or in stores, including the products or services you purchased, online or in person. These partners also share information with us, such as mobile identifiers for advertising,
hashed email addresses and phone numbers, and cookie identifiers, which we use to help match you and your actions outside of the Platform with your VB Short account.
● We may receive information about you from others, including where you are included or mentioned in User Content, direct messages, in a complaint, appeal, request or feedback
submitted to us, or if your contact information is provided to us. We may collect information about you from other publicly available sources.
● We may receive information from merchants and payment and transaction fulfillment providers about you, such as payment confirmation details, and information about the
delivery of products you have purchased through our shopping features.
4. How we use your information
As explained below, we use your information to improve, support and administer the Platform, to allow you to use its functionalities, and to fulfill and enforce our Terms of Service. We may also use your information to, among other things, personalise content you see on the Platform, promote
the Platform, and customize your ad experience. We generally use the information we collect in the following ways:
● To fulfill requests for products, services, Platform functionality, support and information
for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes and to solicit your feedback.
● To personalise the content you see when you use the Platform. For example, we may provide you with services based on the country settings you have chosen or show you content that is similar to content that you have liked or interacted with.
● To send promotional materials, including by instant messaging or email, from us or on behalf of our affiliates and trusted third parties.
● To improve and develop our Platform and conduct product development.
● To measure and understand the effectiveness of the advertisements and other content we serve to you and others, and to deliver advertising, including targeted advertising, to you on the Platform.
● To support the social functions of the Platform, including to permit you and others to
connect with each other (for example, through our Find Friends function) and to share
whether you are active on the Platform (and other information which you choose to share) with your friends, to provide our messaging service if you choose to use this function, to
suggest accounts to you and others, and for you and others to share, download, and otherwise interact with User Content posted through the Platform.
● To allow you to participate in interactive features of the Platform, such as enabling your content to be used in other users?? videos.
● To use User Content as part of our advertising and marketing campaigns to promote the Platform, to invite you to participate in an event, and to promote popular topics, hashtags and campaigns on the Platform.
● To understand how you use the Platform, including across your devices.
● To infer additional information about you, such as your age range, gender, and interests.
● To help us detect and combat abuse, harmful activity, fraud, spam, and illegal activity on the Platform.
● To ensure content is presented in the most effective manner for you and your device.
● To promote the safety, security of the Platform, including by scanning, analyzing, and
reviewing User Content, messages and associated metadata for violations of our Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, or other conditions and policies.
5. How we share your information
Service Providers
We provide information and content to service providers who support our business, such as cloud service providers and providers of content moderation services to ensure that the Platform is a
safe and enjoyable place and service providers that assist us in marketing the Platform.
● Payment processors and transaction fulfillment providers: If you choose to buy Coins or conduct other payment related transactions, we will share data with the relevant payment provider to facilitate this transaction. For Coin transactions, we share a transaction ID to
enable us to identify you and credit your account with the correct value in coins once you have made the payment.
● Analytics providers: We use analytics providers to help us in the optimisation and
improvement of the Platform. Our third-party analytics providers also help us serve targeted advertisements.
6. For Legal Reasons
We will share your information with law enforcement agencies, public authorities or other organisations if legally required to do so, or if such use is reasonably necessary to:
● comply with legal obligation, process or request;
● enforce our Terms of Service and other agreements, policies, and standards, including investigation of any potential violation thereof;
● detect, prevent or otherwise address security, fraud or technical issues; or
● protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users, a third party or the public as
required or permitted by law (including exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction).
7. Your rights and choices
You have rights and choices when it comes to your information. You may be afforded certain rights under applicable laws, which may include the right to access, delete, update, or rectify your data, to be informed of the processing of your data, to file complaints with authorities, and potentially other rights.
You can access and edit most of your profile information by signing into VB Short. You can delete the User Content you uploaded. We also provide a number of tools in Settings that allow you to
control, among others, who can view your videos, send you messages, or post comments to your videos. Should you choose to do so, you may delete your entire account in Settings.
You may be able to refuse or disable Cookies by adjusting your device browser settings. Because each browser is different, please consult the instructions provided by your browser. Please note that you may need to take additional steps to refuse or disable certain types of Cookies. For
example, due to differences in how browsers and mobile apps function, you may need to take
different steps to opt out of Cookies used for targeted advertising in a browser and to opt out of
targeted advertising for a mobile application, which you may control through your device settings or mobile app permissions. In addition, your opt-out selection is specific to the particular browser or device that you are using when you opt out, so you may need to opt-out separately for each of browser or device. If you choose to refuse, disable, or delete Cookies, some of the functionality of the Platform may no longer be available to you.
8. The security of your information
We take steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this
policy. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will use reasonable measures to protect your personal data, for example, by
encryption, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted via the Platform; any transmission is at your own risk.
We have appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security
appropriate to the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of you and
other users. We maintain these technical and organizational measures and will amend them from time to time to improve the overall security of our systems.
We will, from time to time, include links to and from the websites of our partner networks,
advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these
websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any information to these
websites.
9. How long we keep your information
We retain information for as long as necessary to provide the Platform and for the other purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We also retain information when necessary to comply with
contractual and legal obligations, when we have a legitimate business interest to do so (such as improving and developing the Platform, and enhancing its safety, security and stability), and for the exercise or defence of legal claims.
The retention periods are different depending on different criteria, such as the type of information and the purposes for which we use the information. For example, when we process your
information such as your profile information to provide you with the Platform, we keep this
information for as long as you have an account. If you violate our Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, or other conditions or policies, we may remove your profile and User Content from public view immediately, but may keep other information about you to process the violation.
10. Privacy Policy update
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we update the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the ??Last Updated?? date at the top of this policy and posting the new
Privacy Policy or providing any other notice required by applicable law. Your continued access to or use of the Platform after the date of the updated policy constitutes your acceptance of the
updated policy. If you do not agree to the updated policy, you must stop accessing or using the Platform.
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