Welcome to the Meet7 Privacy Policy (“Policy”)! This explains how we collect, store, protect, and share your information, and with whom we share it. We suggest you read this in conjunction with our Meet7 Terms and Conditions of Use.

Whilst you’re enjoying the Meet7 mobile application (including the desktop version) (“App”), our websites or using our digital products and services (such as our competitions or surveys) (together, referred to in this Privacy Policy as our “Sites”), we collect some information about you. In addition, you may choose to use the App or Sites to share information with other users, including your friends and contacts (“Users”). We may also need to share your information sometimes.

The App and Sites are India based, and your information will be sent to and used in the Mumbai, India. This Policy explains how we protect your personal data, so please read very carefully!

Who we are

The App and Sites are operated by “Zipdate Private Limited” (also referred to in this policy as “we” or “us”) which includes Meet7, all of which are controllers of personal information collected and processed through the Meet7 App and Sites.

Meet7 has designated a Data Protection Officer and they can be reached by emailing [email protected]

  1. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION.

Registration Information

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

  • Name;
  • Username;
  • Email address;
  • Mobile number;
  • Gender identity;
  • Date of birth;
  • Sexual preference;
  • Photographs;
  • Location; and
  • Login information for social media accounts that you connect to your Meet7 Account (this could include, for example, your Facebook and Instagram accounts). For more information about this, see “Linking other Accounts to Meet7” in section 7 below.

Once you register, you will be able to review and change this information at any time just by logging in to Meet7 (other than your date of birth and location (which, if you have given Meet7 access to your location in your device settings, is automatically updated based on the location of your device)). It is your responsibility to ensure that your account details are kept up to date. If your phone number changes, please ensure that you update this in your account.

The information we collect helps to enhance the App and verify our Users (robots are not welcome!). Registration Information such as your sexual preference, name and username may be visible to other Users who view your profile page.

Profile Information

We recommend and encourage you (and all our members) to think carefully about the information you disclose about yourself. We also do not recommend that you put email addresses, URLs, instant messaging details, phone numbers, full names or addresses, credit card details, national identity numbers, drivers’ licence details and other sensitive information which is open to abuse and misuse on your profile.

When you post information about yourself or use the messaging function to communicate with other Users, the amount of personal information you share is at your own risk. Please see Section 4 below for more information on who can access what you post on Meet7.

Profile Verification Information (Including Biometric Information)

For safety and security and to ensure you have the best possible user experience, we require Users to verify their accounts and might ask for your phone number and photo verification. We want to make sure you are not a robot! And we also want to avoid fake Meet7 accounts being created which can be used for malicious activities and cybercrime – they threaten the Meet7 network and spoil things for everyone. This verification might be required by us for the prevention of fraud. You can also verify your photo on a voluntary basis (to add the blue ‘verified’ badge to your profile).

If you choose to verify your profile photo, we will scan each photo that you submit. The scan may include the use of facial recognition technology so that we can compare the photo you submit to your profile photo, to help ensure that you are who you say you are. We do not add the verification photos to your profile. We retain the scans so that we can verify you in the future and for our record-keeping purposes until we no longer need them for such purposes or for three years after your last interaction with us, whichever occurs first. After the applicable retention period expires, we take commercially reasonable steps to permanently and securely delete the scans from our systems.

Purchases Information

If you decide to purchase any of our premium services, we will process your payment information and retain this securely for the prevention of fraud and for audit/tax purposes.

Meet7 uses automated decisions to prevent fraudulent payment transactions being processed as part of its anti-fraud procedures. In order to do this, our systems check payment transactions for behaviour that indicates breaches of our Terms and Conditions of Use. If a transaction meets certain criteria that demonstrate that the Terms and Conditions of Use are likely to have been breached and the transaction is likely to be fraudulent, the relevant transaction may automatically be blocked. Where a transaction is blocked, the user will be notified that their transaction cannot be processed and affected Users can contact Meet7 to contest the decision.

Geolocation Information

If you have given Meet7 access to your location in your device settings, when you use your mobile, we will collect information about WiFi access points as well as other location information about your longitude and latitude and may save your device’s coordinates to offer certain features to you. This information helps us identify your physical location and we use it to personalise the App and make it easier for you to interact with other Users, by enabling the general locality information to be displayed to Users seeing your profile and showing you the profiles of other Users who are near you.

If you have given Meet7 access to your location, but wish to turn this off, you can do so by the following methods:

  1. iPhone app — settings, privacy, location services, Meet7
  2. Android — settings, location, Meet7, permissions, location

Device Information

We may collect information about your device when you use the App including the unique device identifier, device model, and operating system, for a few purposes, as set out in this policy. In addition, if you permit us to do so, the App may access your device’s address book solely in order to add someone to your contacts.

Links

We may keep track of how you interact with links available on Meet7 including third party services by redirecting clicks or through other means. We may share aggregate click statistics such as how many times a particular link was clicked on.

Meet7 Success Stories, Surveys and other Contributions

From time to time, we run surveys for research purposes and we may contact you to find out if you would like to take part. We may also contact you to find out if you would like to provide feedback, a testimonial or take part in marketing campaigns (for example, if you let us know that you have found a match on the App, we may contact you to ask if you would be happy to feature in advertising for Meet7). Such surveys and marketing campaigns are optional and more information will be provided at the point of contact.

When you Contact Customer Support

If you contact our Customer Support team, we will receive your email address, and may track your IP address, as well as the information you send to us to help resolve your query. We will keep records of our communications with you, including any complaints that we receive from you about other Users (and from other Users about you) for 6 years after deletion of your account.

Cookies and similar technologies

When you visit our Sites or when you use our App, we may collect personal data from you automatically 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.

If you would like to find out more about cookies, including how we use them and what choices are available to you, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

  1. USE OF YOUR INFORMATION.

Our main goal is to ensure your experience on Meet7 is an enjoyable one and you don’t end up getting stung! In order to deliver an enjoyable experience to you, we may use your Registration and other information to:

  • offer you our services and features;
  • contact you with information about the App (e.g., updates and new features);
  • personalise the App/Sites and the content we deliver to you;
  • conduct research and analytics about how you use and interact with the App/Sites;
  • resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and to enforce our Terms & Conditions;
  • investigate fraud, protect our legal rights, and to enforce our Terms & Conditions.
  • to send you information about the promotions and offers we have available - if you’ve signed up for our communications or otherwise told us it’s OK (you can withdraw from marketing at any time via Settings in the App or by using the opt-out mechanisms and links provided in each message); and
  • protect our Users and third parties from harm.

Moderation Practices

We use a combination of automated systems and a team of moderators to monitor and review accounts (including photos and any other information uploaded onto user profiles) and messages for content that indicates breaches of our Terms and Conditions of Use. If an account or message meets certain criteria that demonstrate that the Terms and Conditions of Use are likely to have been breached, the relevant account will be subject to a warning and the user’s access restricted and/or blocked. Affected Users can contact Meet7 to contest the decision.

If you post anything that is inconsistent with our Terms and Conditions of Use, we reserve the right to terminate or restrict access to your Account.

  1. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION.

Our policy is to not disclose your Registration Information or personal data, except in the limited circumstances described here:

Circumstances where data may be disclosed

Disclosed data

Service Providers – We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us. We may share your Registration Information or personal data with these third parties, but only for the purposes of performing these functions and providing such services. More information about this is available directly below.

This could include all data, including all CCPA Categories listed above

Moderators – To monitor activity on the App and approve content.

Name and user registration details, profile information, content of messages and photographs (CCPA Categories A, B, C, and H)

Payment Processing and Telecommunications Companies – To facilitate payments for our premium services.

Cardholder name, cardholder address, card number, payment amount, transaction date/time (CCPA Categories A, B, and D)

Law and Harm – As we mentioned in the Terms & Conditions, we think it is very important that all Users behave whilst using the App. We will cooperate with all third parties to enforce their intellectual property or other rights. We will also cooperate with law enforcement enquiries from within or outside your country of residence where we are required to by law, where there is an investigation into alleged criminal behaviour or to protect the vital interests of a person. This may include preserving or disclosing any of your information, including your Registration Information, if we believe in good faith that it is necessary to comply with a law or regulation, or when we believe that disclosure is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues e.g. through anti-spam providers to protect the service from criminal activity or to protect our rights or property or those of third parties. In such cases we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.

This could include any personal data that Meet7 holds about you, depending on the nature of the request or the issue that we are dealing with, including all CCPA Categories listed above

Business Transfers – In the event that a Meet7 entity or any of its affiliates undergoes a business transition or change of ownership, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, re-organisation, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, or in the event of insolvency or administration, we may be required to disclose your personal data.

This could include all personal data that Meet7 holds about you, including all CCPA Categories listed above

Marketing Services Providers – To help us serve marketing and advertising on third party websites and applications and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. More information on this is available below

Advertising identifier associated with your device (Device ID), estimated location (based on your IP address), age, gender and data about your visit to our Sites or App and action taken on those (for example if you downloaded our App or created an account with our App), hashed email address (for ‘custom audiences’ only) (CCPA Categories B, C, G, F and K)

Anti-Spam and Anti-Fraud – Your data may be shared with other Meet7 Group companies, for example, to block accounts and suspected fraudulent payment transactions as part of our anti-spam and anti-fraud procedures.

Email address, phone number, IP address and IP session information, social network ID, username, user agent string, and transaction and payment data (CCPA Categories B, F and D).

Aggregated Information – We may share aggregated information with third parties that includes your personal data (but which doesn’t identify you directly) together with other information including log data for industry analysis and demographic profiling.

Meet7 does not sell your data and has not sold your personal data in the previous 12 months.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT DISCLOSURES

Service Providers

We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us (“Service Providers”). The suppliers with which Meet7 shares User personal data vary depending on a variety of factors, such as which of our App, Sites and services a User engages with. For example, to provide our services to Users, we typically use the following suppliers:

  • Billing services – to allow customers to purchase paid features of our App (for example, Google Play)
  • Authentication services – to allow customers to authenticate their account (for example, 2Factor)
  • Social media providers – to allow customers to create/connect their Meet7 account with their account(s) on such platforms (for example Facebook, Instagram)
  • Product improvement and market research – we use third party platforms and agencies to carry out customer surveys and market research to improve our products and services
  • IT services – some of the third-party software providers used in the operation of our business may process Users’ personal data

We carry out due diligence on all Service Providers we engage to ensure they have adequate data protection and information security measures in place and only provide them with the personal data necessary to the service they are providing. Measures are taken to ensure that the data shared is non-attributable to the greatest extent possible and our suppliers are also subject to extensive obligations under our contractual arrangements, including strict data retention limits.

Marketing Services Providers

We partner with providers of marketing services (such as Facebook for example) (‘Marketing Services Providers’) to help us market and advertise our App and services on third party websites and applications and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. For example:

  • to exclude you from advertising campaigns aimed at finding new users, if you already have a Meet7 account;
  • to show Meet7 adverts to users who have visited the Meet7 App/Sites but haven’t yet created a Meet7 account;
  • to create an audience for our advertisements of other potential users who have similar characteristics to you based on the information the Marketing Service Providers holds about you (also known as a Lookalike Audience); or
  • to include you in a ‘custom audience’ that will receive Meet7 advertising content (a custom audience is essentially a list of people who we think are most likely to be interested in a particular advertisement).

We share a limited amount of your personal data with these Marketing Services Providers, such as:

  • the advertising identifier associated with your device (this is a random number assigned by your mobile device manufacturer (for example Apple or Google) to your device to help advertisers (including the manufacturer) know when an ad has been viewed or clicked in an app, and when an ad causes a ‘conversion’ (for example, downloading the app advertised to you))
  • your estimated location (based on your IP address)
  • age and gender
  • data about your visit to our Sites or App and action taken on those (for example if you downloaded our App or created an account with our App)
  • a hashed* version of your email address (to create ‘custom audiences’).

*Hashing is a way of encrypting information by turning it into a combination of random numbers and letters - this code cannot be traced back to the email address. When hashed email addresses are sent to a Marketing Service Provider, they’re then matched against the Provider’s own existing list of their own users’ hashed information and our ads are served to those of our users who have successfully been matched with the Provider’s. Matched and unmatched hashes are then deleted by the Provider.

In some cases, these third parties will also use the data that they collect for their own purposes, for example they may aggregate your data with other data they hold and use this to inform advertising related services provided to other clients.

Facebook

Where we share data with Facebook as our Marketing Service Provider (including via the Facebook “Like” function), we are Joint Data Controllers with Facebook India for this processing. This arrangement means that Meet7 has to provide you this notice, but you should contact Facebook if you wish to exercise your data protection rights. Further information, including how Facebook enables you to exercise your data protection rights, and subsequently processes your information as independent data controller can be found in Facebook India’s Data Policy.

This data referred to above can include actions that you take on our website such as your interactions with our Sites or other information collected from cookies or similar technologies including the Facebook pixel. This allows us to measure the effectiveness of our advertising, improve our marketing practices, and helps us deliver more relevant advertising to you and people like you (including on social media such as Facebook).

  1. WHAT OTHERS MAY SEE ABOUT YOU.

We think our Users are awesome, and we want you to share how awesome you are with the world, so we have built certain features to enable this. Our App is designed to make it easier for you to connect with other Users and to interact with them.

When using the Meet7 App, you should assume that anything you post or submit on the App may be publicly-viewable and accessible, both by Users and non-users of the App. We want our Users to be careful about posting information that may eventually be made public.

Please be careful about posting sensitive details about yourself on your profile such as your religious denomination and health details. You may also choose to add sensitive information about yourself when you add certain Meet7 badges to your profile, such as your religion and political leanings. While you may voluntarily provide this information to us when you create your profile, including your sexual preferences, there is no requirement to do so. Please remember that photographs that you post on Meet7 may reveal information about yourself as well. Where you do upload and choose to tell us sensitive information about yourself, including through the addition of badges to your profile, you are explicitly consenting to our processing of this information and making it public to other Users.

Your Meet7 profile and other information you make available via the App, including certain information added to your profile through third party accounts (such as Facebook, Instagram – see section 7 of this Privacy Policy for more information about this) may be viewed and shared by Users with individuals who may or may not be users of the App. For example, a User may recommend you as a match to his or her Facebook friend(s) by taking a screenshot of your profile picture and sharing it, regardless of whether such friend(s) is also a User of the App.

If you log in to or access the App through your Facebook account or another third-party account on a device which you share with others, remember to log out of the App and the relevant third-party account when you leave the device in order to prevent other users from accessing your Meet7 account.

  1. OUR POLICY TOWARDS AGE.

Although we want as many people as possible to enjoy our creation, you have to be at least 18 years old to use the App - sorry kids, we know Meet7 is cool, but you’ll have to come back when you’re old enough!

Meet7 does not knowingly collect any information about or market to children, minors or anyone under the age of 18. If you are less than 18 years old, we request that you do not submit information to us. If we become aware that a child, minor or anyone under the age of 18 has registered with us and provided us with personal information, we will take steps to terminate that person’s registration.

  1. SECURITY.

Here at meet7, we pride ourselves on taking all appropriate security measures to help protect your information against loss, misuse and unauthorised access, or disclosure. We use reasonable security measures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information such as secured servers using firewalls.

Unfortunately, no website or Internet transmission is ever completely 100% secure and even we cannot guarantee that unauthorised access, hacking, data loss or other breaches will never occur, but here are some handy tips to help keep your data secure:

  1. Please make sure you log out of your Account after use as you never know who may stumble onto your Account!

If you ever think someone has had access to your Account, please write to us at [email protected] . We cannot guarantee the security of your personal data while it is being transmitted to our site and any transmission is at your own risk.

  1. LINKING OTHER ACCOUNTS TO Meet7.

Using your social media details to sign in to Meet7

When you sign in to our App using your Facebook account, you give permission to Facebook to share with us your name and profile picture. Unless you opt-out, you also give permission to Facebook to share with us your email address (if there is one associated with your Facebook account), date of birth, profile photos, gender, Page likes and current town/city.

If you register or sign in with your Apple ID, you give Apple permission to share your Apple login, a name (that can be edited by you) and an email (you can choose to hide your email and Apple will create a random email address so your personal email can stay private). This email address will be linked to your Meet7 account and will be used to retrieve your Meet7 account.

We will then use this personal data to form your Meet7 account. If you remove the Meet7 app from your Facebook settings, or from your Apple ID, we will no longer have access to this data. However, we will still have the personal data that we received when you first set up your Meet7 account using your Facebook or Apple ID (you must delete your Meet7 account entirely for us to no longer have access to this data).

Linking social media accounts to your Meet7 account

You may link your Meet7 account with your Instagram, or Facebook accounts. This allows you to share some information from those accounts directly to your Meet7 account (for example, Instagram photos, or your top Spotify artists).

We only receive the limited information that Instagram permits to be transferred (as detailed by Instagram/Facebook and agreed by you when you first connect your account from such platforms with your Meet7 account).

If you no longer want to link your Meet7 account to your Instagram, or Facebook account, please visit the settings in your Instagram, or Facebook account and follow the instructions to remove the Meet7 app access permissions. Please note that any information already added to your Meet7 account from those platforms will not be deleted unless you delete it within your Meet7 account as well.

  1. YOUR RIGHTS.

Privacy laws applicable in your country may give you the following rights:

  1. Right to be informed: what personal data an organisation is processing and why (we provide this information to you in this Privacy Policy).
  2. Right of access: you can request a copy of your data.
  3. Right of rectification: if the data held is inaccurate, you have the right to have it corrected.
  4. Right to erasure: you have the right to have your data deleted in certain circumstances.
  5. Right to restrict processing: in limited circumstances, you have the right to request that processing is stopped but the data retained.
  6. Right to data portability: you can request a copy of certain data in a machine-readable form that can be transferred to another provider.
  7. Right to object: in certain circumstances (including where data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests or for the purposes of marketing) you may object to that processing.
  8. Rights related to automated decision-making including profiling: there are several rights in this area where processing carried out on a solely automated basis results in a decision which has legal or significant effects for the individual. In these circumstances your rights include the right to ensure that there is human intervention in the decision-making process.

The particular rights which are applicable to you (which might include other rights not listed above) may vary depending on your country. You should make yourself aware of the rights you have under applicable privacy laws in your country.

If you want to exercise any of your rights listed above please visit email us at [email protected]. For your protection and the protection of all of our Users, we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity before we can answer the above requests.

If you have a concern about how we have processed your request or your personal data, you should contact us in the first instance via the contact details listed above.

  1. DATA RETENTION AND DELETION.

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

When you delete or deactivate your Account, or it is deactivated by us, we make sure it is no longer viewable in the App. All your information is achieved for 28 days and then deleted permanently if there is no objection or complaint from any user or admin. In case We decide to retain your data for more time, we will inform and keep the user updated about the same. However, your data is not visible to anyone the moment you delete your account.

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. Though we have restricted screen recording or screenshot capturing for Meet7 App.

Thanks for reading, we hope we didn’t drone on for too long!

  1. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY.

As Meet7 evolves, we may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will always be in the Meet7 App or Site. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you, for example, via an email to the email associated with your Account or by posting a notice within Meet7.

Effective date

This Privacy Policy was last updated 1 Jul 2022.