Privacy

Effective Date: Aug 4, 2023

Welcome to Flambeaux Ventures dba Hoozir ("we," "us," or "our"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose information about you when you use our social app, Hoozir. By using our services, you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

1.1 Information You Provide

When you create an account on Hoozir, we collect the following information:

Email Address: Used for account registration and communication purposes.
Display Name: The name you provide as your public identity on the app.
Date of Birth: To verify that you meet the minimum age requirement for using Hoozir.
Gender Information: To help us deliver appropriate matches based on your preferences.
Preferences: Information about the types of connections you are looking to meet (e.g., dating, friendship).

1.2 Location Information

Hoozir uses location services to allow you to check in to your favorite places and meet others nearby. We collect and store records of the places you have checked in. If you choose to enable background location detection for nearby venues, this data is not stored.

1.3 User-Generated Content

You may create a profile that includes text and pictures. Additionally, you can engage in chats with other users. Please be aware that any information you share in these areas may be viewed, collected, or used by other users.

1.4 Information from Other Sources

We may receive information about you from other users of Hoozir when they interact with you through the app.

2. How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including but not limited to:

Providing and improving our services.
Delivering matches based on your preferences.
Facilitating communication between users who have mutual interest.
Customizing the app experience and content for you.
Analyzing usage patterns and trends to enhance our app's functionality.

3. Information Sharing and Disclosure

We do not share your personal information with third parties except in the following circumstances:

With Other Users: We share information about you with other users when there is mutual interest for communication.
Service Providers: We may engage third-party service providers to assist us in providing the app's features, subject to confidentiality obligations.
Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information to comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal processes, or to respond to lawful requests from public authorities.
Protection of Rights: We may disclose your information if we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of Hoozir, its users, or the public.

4. Your Choices

4.1 Account Information

You can access and update your account information by logging into the app and navigating to your profile settings.

4.2 Location Information

You can control the app's access to location services through your device settings. If you disable location services, certain features of the app may not function properly.

4.3 Communications

You may receive communications from Hoozir, such as service announcements and administrative messages. You can opt out of promotional communications by following the instructions in the messages.

5. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your information from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

6. Children's Privacy

Hoozir is not intended for use by individuals under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without parental consent, we will take steps to delete such information.

7. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the updated Privacy Policy on the app.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at help@hoozir.com.

‍

Privacy Policy

Flambeaux Ventures built the Hoozir app as a Freemium app. This SERVICE is provided by Flambeaux Ventures at no cost and is intended for use as is.

This page is used to inform visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use our Service.

If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that we collect is used for providing and improving the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which are accessible at Hoozir unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience, while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to name, email, gender, social preferences, geolocation, age group, photos, messages, IP address & device information. The information that we request will be retained by us and used as described in this privacy policy.

The app does use third-party services that may collect information used to identify you.

Link to the privacy policy of third-party service providers used by the app

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you use our Service, in a case of an error in the app we collect data and information (through third-party products) on your phone called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your device Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the app when utilizing our Service, the time and date of your use of the Service, and other statistics.

Payment Processing

We use Stripe for payment, analytics, and other business services. Stripe collects and processes personal data, including identifying information about the devices that connect to its services. Stripe uses this information to operate and improve the services it provides to us, including for fraud detection and prevention. You can learn more about Stripe and its processing activities via privacy policy at Stripe Privacy

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are commonly used as anonymous unique identifiers. These are sent to your browser from the websites that you visit and are stored on your device's internal memory.

This Service does not use these “cookies” explicitly. However, the app may use third-party code and libraries that use “cookies” to collect information and improve their services. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your device. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of this Service.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

To facilitate our Service;
To provide the Service on our behalf;
To perform Service-related services; or
To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

We want to inform users of this Service that these third parties have access to their Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Security

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

This Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

These Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do the necessary actions.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

This policy is effective as of 2022-08-23

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at team@hoozir.com.