last updated: March 22, 2022
Privacy Policy At Bubbl, Inc. (“Bubbl, Inc,” “Bubbl,” “our,” “we,” or “us”), our goal is to provide you (“you,” “your,” or the “User”) a safe, efficient, and effective group messaging platform. In order to do that, we collect, use, and share some of your personal information. This Privacy Policy is a guide to explain how Bubbl does that, and your rights as a member of our community.
This Privacy Policy covers Bubbl’s treatment of your personally identifiable information and any other information you may provide us when using our website and/or our mobile application (referred to herein as the “Services”).
Bubbl focuses on using your personal information to provide and improve our Services, respond to your requests, service user accounts connected to our Services, provide you with services or information you may request, communicate with you, and inform you about new products and services that may be of interest and to improve our site. We collect the following types of information: • Information You Provide Us: First and Last Name, Photo, College Attended, Graduation Year, City, Personal Bio, Birthday, Answers to Profile Prompts, Phone Number, GPS Location, Email Address • Information We Collect from Users of our Services: Amount of time spent on the app and each of its screens, Interactions with buttons and features in the app, App load time, App crashes, App latency, Number of groups and channels subscribed to, Number of groups and channels formed, Number of messages sent and received, Number of images sent and received, Number of emoticons sent and received, Number of events created, Number and type of responses to events, Events viewed, Events searched for • Information We Collect from Third Parties: None
We may use the information that we collect for any of the following purposes: • Improve Service functionality and efficiency • Provide, maintain and improve our services • Provide assistance to users • Personalize our services • Measure and better understand Bubbl’s performance • Communicate with users • Protect users, the community, Bubbl and other legal reasons such as complying with applicable laws, assisting with law enforcement agencies if legally mandated, to find instances of abuse or misuse of Bubbl’s services or illegal activity, maintain security and safety when using our ServicesIn the event that we determine we need to use your personal information for a reason not included in this Privacy Policy, we will ask for your consent first.
Bubbl does not sell your personal information. To better provide Services, Bubbl may share your personal information with other Users of the Services, third parties (like social networks), and Bubbl’s service providers.We may share your information with third parties in other cases such as: • If a government body requests information and we deemed it to be necessary to disclose such information in order to comply with applicable laws and legal processes; • To cooperate with law enforcement or other government authorities as it relates to any investigations or other inquiries to the extent, we deem it necessary to protect either our users, the public, or Bubbl. • To defend or pursue legal claims as required or permitted by law. • Enforcing our Terms of Service. • Responding to any legal process including court orders and search warrants. • To detect or protect against fraud, security, technical or legal issues associated with the use of our Services. • At any time that you consent to such sharing.
You have control over the information that you share with Bubbl subject to certain limitations. Bubbl’s Services have been built in a way to minimize the amount of information that is stored within them. Nonetheless, if you want to review, update, change or delete the information that you have shared with Bubbl, including deletion of your account, you may send a request to do so to [email protected]
Even in the event that Bubbl deletes your information, Bubbl still may retain previous messages you sent and the profile associated with those messages. Bubbl may also retain certain information for legitimate business purposes such as maintenance of security of the Services or to comply with applicable laws or regulations, depending on the circumstances of such deletion. You understand and agree that Bubbl may have responsibility to law enforcement or other governmental entities or to its stakeholders, to maintain information if there is the possibility of any unsafe or illegal behavior to ensure the Services are not exploited in the future.