PRIVACY POLICY HIGHLIGHTS

Introduction

Hyperconnect LLC ("Company", “we”, “our”, or “us”) 20F, ASEM Tower, 517, Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea respects your concerns about privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to the personal information we process in the context of the operation of our video communication service AZAR ("Service") and is incorporated into and is subject to our Terms of Service which can be found at  [link]. Please find below a summary of the key topics addressed in this Privacy Policy. For more detailed information on how we process your information, please click on the headings or continue to read below. Your use of the Service signifies that you agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, you may not use the Service and must immediately terminate your use of the Service.

Note that the "Supplementary Terms" contain specific additional regulations for certain jurisdictions such as the EU or California.  

1. Personal Information We Collect

2. How We Use this Information

3. Sharing of Information

4. Retention of Personal Information

5. Your Choices

6. Your Rights

7. How We Protect Personal Information

8. Personal Information of Children

9. Contact Us

10. Updates to Our Privacy Policy

Supplementary Terms


PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: October 4, 2023

1. Personal Information We Collect

When we refer to “personal information” in this Privacy Policy, we mean information that relates to an identifiable individual. The following types of personal information are collected in connection with our Service:

Information You Provide Directly to Us or we receive from Third Parties 

We may collect information directly from you or from other companies with whom you have a relationship. For example:

Information about Your Use of Our Service

In addition to the information you provide, we will collect information about your use of our Service through software on your devices and by other electronic means, including by the use of cookies (For more information, please see our Cookie Policy.

This includes:

Information about Your Use of Our Service

Links to Other Websites, Devices, Apps and Features

Our Service may enable you to connect to other websites, devices, apps and other features, which may operate independently from us and have their own privacy notices or policies. If you accessed a website, product or service provided by a third party, including through the Service or Company's website, such third party may also collect information about you. Please see the privacy policies of each such third party for more information about how they use the information they collect. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any exchange of information between you and any third party.

2. How We Use this Information

Provision of our Service based on your contractual relationship with us

We process your personal information when this is necessary under our contract with you, to:

Use of information for further purpose

Other

3. Sharing of Information

We transfer or disclose your personal information to third parties as described below:

Any information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to the Service ("User Contents") may become available to the public. Once you have shared User Contents or made it public, that User Contents may be re-shared by others. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such public information.

4. Retention of Personal Information

We take appropriate steps to ensure that we process and retain information in accordance with the following principles:

Please note that we will close your account automatically if you are inactive for a period of two years.

5. Your Choices

Where permitted we may contact you via email, phone call, text messages or push notifications through our mobile apps. To submit a request concerning the receipt of such communications from us, please contact us using the information specified in the “Contact Us” Section below.

You can unsubscribe from our marketing communications at any time by contacting us directly (see “Contact Us” section below). As noted in the Your Rights section below, you have the right to object to use of personal data for direct marketing purposes at any time.

Please note that if you unsubscribe from our marketing communications, we will still send you service messages to provide you with necessary information in relation to your contract and the Service you use (for example, to update you on changes to our Terms of Use).

6. Your Rights

To the extent provided by applicable law, you can request access to your personal information, or correct or update out-of-date or inaccurate personal information we hold about you. You may also have the right to request that we delete personal information that we hold about you. You may access and update some of your information through your account settings. You are responsible for keeping your personal information up-to-date.

To the extent provided by applicable laws, you can also ask us to restrict or limit the processing of your personal information, as well as to provide you with personal information that we have collected from you so that you may use it for your own purposes, and to ask us to share (port) this data to another controller.

In addition, to the extent provided by applicable law, you can object to the processing of your personal data in some circumstances (in particular, where we don’t have to process the data to meet a contractual or other legal requirement).

You also may have the right under applicable law to object at any time to the use of your personal information for direct marketing purposes, including profiling relating to direct marketing.

However, these rights may be limited, for example if fulfilling your request would reveal personal data about another person, where they would infringe the rights of a third party (including our rights) or if you ask us to delete information which we are required by law to keep or have compelling legitimate interests in keeping. We will inform you of relevant exemptions we rely upon when responding to any request you make. To make a request concerning your rights or to make an inquiry, use the contact details under the “Contact Us” section below.

 

7. How We Protect Personal Information

We take the protection of your information seriously and we have in place safeguards designed to protect the information we collect through our Service. However, please note that although we take reasonable steps to protect your information, no website, Internet transmission, computer system, or wireless connection is completely secure.

Please note, however, that the Service allows you to share text messages, photos, screenshots, videos and other communications in the Service with other users, and if you choose to share these items with other Service users, we may not be able to remove them from our servers or make them unavailable to anyone you have shared them with. Sending and sharing text messages, photos, screenshots, videos or other communications in the Service is your decision. By choosing to share that information, you should understand that you may no longer be able to control how that information is used and that it may become publicly available (depending in part on your actions or the actions of others with whom you have shared the information). The Service is not responsible for any use or misuse of information you share.

8. Personal Information of Children

The Service is not directed to children under the age of fourteen (14) and we do not knowingly solicit or collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of fourteen (14) as part of the Service. Additionally, we do not knowingly sell the personal information of children under the age of sixteen (16). If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable information from a user under the age of fourteen (14) as part of the Service, we will immediately delete such information from our records. If you believe that a child under the age of fourteen (14) may have provided us with personal information, please contact us using the information specified in the “Contact Us” section below.

9. Contact Us

For more information about our privacy practices, or to exercise any rights you may have pursuant to applicable law, please contact us at [email protected] or via post 20F, ASEM Tower, 517, Yeongdong-daero, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea. In addition, our Data Protection Officer can be contacted at [email protected].          

10. Updates to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right at our discretion to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you before we make changes to this Privacy Policy. You may also review updates to our Privacy Policy at any time via links on our website. You agree to accept electronic communications and/or postings of a revised Privacy Policy on the Service and our website, and you agree that such electronic communications or postings constitute notice to you of the Privacy Policy.

If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you by publishing a revised Privacy Policy or by means of a notice on our website, or as required by law. You agree that your continued use of the Service after we publish a revised Privacy Policy or provide a notice on our website constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of the Privacy Policy, you may not use the Service at any time.


Supplementary Terms

The following additional terms apply respectively to users having residence in or nationality of certain countries. In the event of any conflict between the following additional terms and the provisions of the main body of this Privacy Policy, the following terms shall prevail.

1. For Singapore

This section supplements this Privacy Policy and applies solely to any collection, use and disclosure of personal information to which the Singapore Personal Data Protection Act (No. 26 of 2012) applies:

  1. The first sentence of Section 1 of the Privacy Policy shall be deleted and replaced with: "When we refer to "personal information" in this Privacy Policy, we mean data, whether true or not, about an individual who can be identified from that data alone or with other information which we have or are likely to have access to".