PRIVACY POLICY

Last revised on November 2023

• The terms (“us”, “we”, the “Company” or “Kalamanta”) refer to Kalamanta Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales (registration number 13341358) having its registered office at 5 St John’s Lane, London EC1M 4BH.
• “User(s)” and “you” means the individual(s) using the products or services.

Welcome to Kalamanta’s Privacy Policy.

Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at Kalamanta.

We are happy that you put trust in us when you provide us with your information. Our dedicated teams are committed to protecting your personal data and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or our practices with regard to your personal information, please contact us [email protected].

 

This Privacy policy explains how we collect, store, protect, and share your information, and with whom we share it.

The purpose of this privacy notice is to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. So overly complicated language will not be used. We want you to read the policy and be aware of your rights. If there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Services immediately.

 

Please read this privacy notice carefully, as it will help you understand what we do with the information that we collect.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?

4. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?    

5. IS YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED INTERNATIONALLY?    

6. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

7. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

8. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

9. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

10. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?     

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Personal information you disclose to us:

In Short:  We collect personal information that you provide to us.

When you download the App and create an account (“Account”), we may collect certain information (“Registration Information”) about you, such as:

• Name
• Username
• User’s description about himself/herself
• phone number
• Gender
• Profession
• Passions
• Sexual Orientation
• Profile Image
• Gallery Images
• Email
• Birth Date
• Location( Latitude, Longitude, City, Country, Region),

Personal Information Provided by You. The personal information that we collect helps you develop meaningful connections through Kalamanta based on profile details, that will give people overall impression of you. It’s said similarities attract people!

Payment Data. We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument.

Social Media Login Data. To make interaction easier with Kalamanta we provide you with the option to register with us using your existing social media account details, like your Facebook. If you choose to register in this way, we will collect the information described in the section called "HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?" below.

For Users who are California residents, the data we may collect falls within the following categories of “personal information”, as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):

1. Identifiers, such as name and location;
2. Personal information, as defined in the California customer records law, such as contact (including email and telephone number) and financial information;
3. Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law (if you choose to provide them), such as age, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, race, ancestry, national origin, religion, and medical conditions;
4. Commercial information, such as transaction information and purchase history;
5. Biometric information (not relevant here);
6. Internet or network activity information, such as browsing history and interactions with our Sites and App;
7. Geolocation data, such as mobile device location;
8. Audio, electronic, visual and similar information, such as photos and videos;
9. Professional or employment-related information, such as work history and prior employer;
10. Non-public education information; and
11. Inferences drawn from any of the personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics.

All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

We automatically collect certain information by using cookies or similar technologies. A cookie is a small file that can be placed on your device or browser that allows us to recognise and remember you. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of the App, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

In Short: We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent.

We use personal information primly to give you enjoyable experience with Kalamanta. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform Terms and Conditions, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.

We use the information we collect or receive:

• To facilitate account creation and logon process. If you choose to link your account with us to a third-party account (such as Facebook account), we use the information you allowed us to collect from those third parties to facilitate account creation and logon process for your activity an App. 
• Request feedback. We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of the App.
• To enable user-to-user communications. We use your information in order to enable user-to-user communications with each user's consent.
• To manage user accounts. We may use your information for the purposes of managing our account and keeping it in working order.
• To send administrative information to you. We may use your personal information to send you product, service and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
• To protect our Services. We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Service safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).
• To enforce our terms, conditions and policies for business purposes, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements or in connection with our contract.
• To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.
• Fulfill and manage your orders. We may use your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, purchases, subscriptions.

3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?

In Short: We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.

We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:

• Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for giving you an opportunity to meet new people who share similar interests with you.
• Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
• Performance of Terms and conditions: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the Terms and Conditions.
• Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
• Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:

• Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy notice. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
• Business Partners. We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
• To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may use your information to provide you with the requested service.
• To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.

4. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS?     

In Short: If you choose to register or log in to our services using a social media account, we may have access to certain information about you.

You are able to register and login using your third-party social media account details like your Facebook account. Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider. The profile information we receive may vary depending on the social media provider concerned, but will often include your name, email address, friends list, profile picture as well as other information you choose to make public on such social media platform. 

We will use the information we receive only for the purposes that are described in this Privacy Policy. Please note that we do not control, and are not responsible for, other uses of your personal information by your third-party social media provider. We recommend that you review their privacy notice to understand how they collect, use and share your personal information, and how you can set your privacy preferences on their sites and apps.

5. IS YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED INTERNATIONALLY?     

In Short: We may transfer, store, and process your information in countries other than your own.

Sharing of information laid out in this Privacy Policy sometimes involves cross-border data transfers, for instance to the United States of America and other jurisdictions. If you are accessing our service from outside EEA, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us in our facilities and by those third parties with whom we may share your personal information in other countries.

If you are a resident in the European Economic Area (EEA) or United Kingdom (UK), then these countries may not necessarily have data protection laws or other similar laws as comprehensive as those in your country. We will however take all necessary measures to protect your personal information in accordance with this privacy notice and applicable law

6. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

We keep your personal information only as long as we need it for the legal basis relied upon and as permitted by applicable law.

You may permanently delete your Account at any time.

When your Account is deactivated, we take reasonable efforts to make sure it is no longer viewable on the App. For up to 28 days, it is still possible to restore your Account if it was accidentally or wrongfully deactivated. After 28 days, we begin the process of deleting your personal information from our systems, unless:

1. we must keep it to comply with applicable law (for instance, if you make purchases within the App, some personal data may need to be kept for accounting purposes);
2. we must keep it to evidence our compliance with applicable law;
3. there is an outstanding issue, claim or dispute requiring us to keep the relevant information until it is resolved; or
4. the information must be kept for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention and enhancing Users’ safety and security. For example, information may need to be kept to prevent a user who was banned for unsafe behaviour or security incidents from opening a new account.

To prevent abuse and/or misuse of Kalamanta by a User following termination or deletion of a profile/Account we shall retain such information because it may be necessary to ensure that User does not open a new Account and profile in breach of our Terms and Conditions of Use and to ensure compliance with all laws and regulations.

Warning: Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your Account, copies of that information may still be viewable and/or accessed to the extent such information has been previously shared with others, or copied or stored by others. We cannot control this, nor do we accept any liability for this. If you have given third party applications or websites access to your personal information, they may retain such information to the extent permitted under their terms of service or privacy policies.

7. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

In Short:  We aim to protect your personal data through a system of organizational and technical security measures managed by our dedicated teams.

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security, and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Service is at your own risk. You should only access the App within a secure environment.

8. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.

We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using Kalamanta, you represent that you are at least 18 years of age. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at [email protected]

9. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.

If you are a resident in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.

If you are a resident in Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection authorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.

If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email our Data Protection Officer at email: [email protected]

Account Information

If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or delete your account, you can:

Upon your request to delete your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms and Conditions and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.

For your protection and the protection of all of our users, we may ask you to provide proof of identity before we can answer the above requests.

Keep in mind, we may reject requests for certain reasons, including if the request is unlawful or if it may infringe on trade secrets or intellectual property or the privacy of another user. If you wish to receive information relating to another user, such as a copy of any messages you received from him or her through our service, the other user will have to contact our Privacy Officer to provide their written consent before the information is released.

10. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short:  Yes, if you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?     

In Short:  Yes, we will update this Privacy Policy as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.