Last Updated: August 18, 2024
Welcome to Networky, the professional networking platform powered by an AI chatbot designed to enhance your professional connections within companies, communities, and events. Your privacy is of paramount importance to us.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website mynetworky.com, use our web application, or engage with our AI chatbot via emails or/and Messenger. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not use our services.
1.Information We Collect
It goes without saying, we can’t help you develop meaningful connections without you providing some information about yourself, like basic profile details and the types of people you’d like to meet. Using our service also generates some information, such as when you logged in and how you used the service. We may also collect data from third parties, like when you access the service through an account you have on another platform (e.g., Facebook, Google or Apple) or when you upload information from your account on another platform to complete your profile. If you're interested in all the details, be sure to check out the description below.
Account Data
When you create an account, you give us basic information for your account to be set up such as your email address, and date of birth.
Profile Data
When you complete your profile, you share additional details about you, such as your communication language, interests, professional data, seniority level, approximate location, social media links, etc. If you choose to provide this data, you consent to us using it as laid out in this Privacy Policy.
Marketing, Survey and Research Data
We sometimes run surveys, focus groups, or market studies for research purposes and promotions, events or contests for marketing purposes. When you choose to participate, you give us information to process your entry and participation, as well as your responses to our questions and your feedback.
Customer Support Data
When you contact us, you provide us with information that may be necessary to help address your inquiry. Other people may also submit queries or reports involving you. Finally, our moderation tools and teams can collect additional data as part of their investigations.
Social Media Data
You may decide to share data with us through your accounts on other platforms (e.g., Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Apple), for instance if you decide to create and log into your account via these platforms or if you decide to upload data such as photos onto our service from these platforms.
Usage Data
Using the service generates data about your activity, including how you use it (e.g., when you logged in, features you’ve been using, actions taken, information shown to you, referring webpages, ads you interacted with). We may also receive data related to interactions you had with our ads on third party’s websites or apps.
Technical Data
Using the service involves the collection of data from and about the device(s) you use to access our service, including hardware and software information such as IP address, device ID and type, apps settings and characteristics, app crashes, advertising IDs and identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify a device or browser. For more information about cookies, see our Cookie Policy.
2.How We Use Your Information
The main reason we process your data is to provide our service to you and improve it over time. That includes connecting you with relevant professionals or friends, personalizing your experience, and just helping you make the most of our service. We also process your data to keep you and all of our members safe and secure while using our service. We take this responsibility very seriously and we’re always working to improve our systems and processes to help protect you.
Purposes for processing your data
To enable you to use our service, including:
Creating and maintaining your account and profile on our service
Operating and maintaining the various features on our service
Recommending other members to you and recommending you to them
Responding to your requests and questions
Monitoring the well functioning of our service and troubleshooting and fixing issues as needed
To enable your purchases on our service, including:
Processing payments
Offering discounts and promotions, customizing prices
To operate advertising and marketing campaigns, including:
Performing and measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns run on our service
Performing and measuring the effectiveness of marketing campaigns promoting our own service on third-party platforms
Communicating with you about products and services we believe may interest you
To improve our service and create new features and services, including:
Running focus groups, market studies and surveys
Analyzing how our service is used
Reviewing interactions with customer care teams to improve service quality
Developing and improving new features and services, including through machine learning and other technologies, and testing them out
Conducting research and publishing research papers
To keep you and other members safe on our service and across Match Group, including:
Preventing, detecting and fighting against violations and other illegal or unauthorized activities
Developing and improving tools to prevent, detect and fight against violations, fraud and other illegal or unauthorized activities
Preventing recurrences, notably by preventing individuals who violate from creating a new account
Letting individuals who submit a report know what we’ve done about it
Verifying your identity
Securing payments and fighting against financial fraud
To comply with applicable law, establish, exercise and defend legal claims & rights, including:
Preserving data to comply – and evidence compliance – with applicable law
Supporting investigations and defending potential or ongoing litigation, regulatory action or dispute
Responding to lawful requests from law enforcement, courts, regulators, and other third parties
Reporting illegal or infringing content to law enforcement, government or other authorities
Establishing, exercising, or defending ongoing or threatened claims
Sharing data with law enforcement or partners to combat abusive or illegal behavior
3.Sharing Your Information
Since our goal is to help you make meaningful connections, some of your information is of course visible to other members on the service. Read on for more details about Recipients and Reasons for sharing.
Other members
You share data with other members within community you join.
Service providers/partners
We share data with vendors and partners who help us operate, promote and improve our service. They provide us services such as data hosting and maintenance, integrations, analytics, customer care, marketing, advertising, payment processing, legal support, and security operations.
Advertising Partners
We may publish ads about third-party advertisers’ products and services on our service, and publish ads promoting our own service on third-party sites and apps. To help improve the relevance of these ads, we provide certain info about you to third parties, including advertising partners, or allow them to collect such data from our services (such as via cookies, SDKs, or similar technologies).
Law enforcement authorities
We may disclose your data to: (i) comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, government / law enforcement investigation or other legal requirements; (ii) assist in the prevention or detection of crime; (iii) protect the safety of any person; and (iv) establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
4.Security of Your Information
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. However, please note that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure.
5.Your Rights
At Networky, we respect your privacy rights and provide you with reasonable access to the Personal Data that you may have provided through your use of our services. Your principal rights under data protection law are:
Access, Portability or To Know
Right to be informed of the personal data we process about you and/or ask for a copy of it
Rectification or Correction
Right to amend or update your personal data where it’s inaccurate or incomplete
Deletion or Erasure
Right to delete personal data
Objection (Opt-out) or Restriction
Right to object to us processing personal data or to request that we temporarily or permanently stop processing personal data
Consent Withdrawal
Right to withdraw a consent you’ve given us to process your personal data for a specific purpose
For your protection and the protection of all of our members, we may ask you for information to verify your identity or authority to act on behalf of a member before we can answer the above requests. We wouldn’t want someone else to get in control of your data!
Keep in mind, we may reject requests, including if we are unable to authenticate you, if the request is unlawful or invalid, or if it may infringe on trade secrets or intellectual property or the privacy or other rights of someone else. If you wish to receive information relating to another member, such as a copy of any messages you received from them, the other member will have to make a request themselves.
In certain countries, including in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority if you have concerns about how we process your personal data. You can find information about your data protection regulator in the European Economic Area here, and in the United Kingdom here. The data protection authority you can lodge a complaint with may be that of your habitual residence, where you work or where an alleged infringement took place.
If you have any questions on your rights and how to exercise them, please contact our support team directly at contact@mynetworky.com. Please provide your account information and a brief description of your request for a quicker resolution.
6.Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective.
7.Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at contact@mynetworky.com.