Effective: January 16, 2023
Privacy Policy
Hii is developed by Zinger Media Limited. This Privacy Policy applies to the Hii app, and to avoid
confusion, we refer to Hii as the relevant entity throughout this policy. However, Zinger Media
Limited is the business that collects and stores your information. Hii - and Zinger Media Limited-
knows that you take your privacy seriously. Your data and privacy is important to us and our
affiliated companies (collectively, “Hii”, “us”, “our”, or “we”). This privacy policy (the “Privacy
Policy”) explains how we collect, use, and share data from or about individuals who use the Hii
App (“app”) . By using our Services, you agree to the collection, use, disclosure, and procedures
this Privacy Policy describes. Beyond the Privacy Policy, your use of our Services is also subject
to our Terms of Service.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect a variety of information from or about you or your devices from various sources, as
described below.
Information you give us directly.
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Registration information. When you sign up to use the app, you provide us with basic
information like your phone number, name, age, country, and gender.
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Profile information. When you create a profile on the app, you provide us with information
such as profile pictures, name (first and/or last), and any other information you choose to provide.
Please see the “Other users” section under “HOW IS INFORMATION SHARED” below for
important details about how your profile information is viewable by other users.
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Messages. When you send or receive a message through the app, we collect the contents of
the message, any attachments to the message (including, for example, voice messages and
photos), and information about the message (such as who you are communicating with).
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Hii communications. When you reach out to us (through, for example, an in-app report or
email, we collect and store the contents and details of that communication, including things like
date, time, method of communication, and resolution (if applicable).
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Polls, surveys, and questionnaires. When you voluntarily respond to polls, surveys, and
questionnaires, we receive the contents of your responses and any other information you provide,
such as your address and basic demographic information.
Information we collect when you use our Services.
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Log and data usage information. We collect information about your activity on the Services
and how you use the Services, such as the date and time you send a message, who you chat
with, your internet protocol ("IP") address, and how you use third-party websites or services
accessed through the app.
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Device and browser information. We collect information from and about the device you use
to access our Services, which may include information like your hardware model, operating
system version, device model and/or carrier, web browser type and settings, push notification
tokens, advertising identifiers (e.g. Apple IDFA or Google Advertising ID), unique device
identifiers, and mobile network information.
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Location information. We use your IP address to infer your general location when you use the
Services.
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Information collected from cookies and similar technologies. We and our third party
partners, such as advertising partners, may collect information through the use of cookies and
similar technologies. Cookies are small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters.
We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you
close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used
by your browser on subsequent visits to our Services.
Please review your web browser’s “Help” file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie
settings. Please note that if you delete or choose not to accept cookies from the Service, you
maynot be able to utilize the features of the Service to their fullest potential.
Information we get from Third Parties.
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Information from third parties. We may receive information about you from third parties,
including third parties that integrate with the Services or that provide services to us. This may
include information such as log and data usage information collected from our Services or other
online services, device and browser information, location information, and information collected
through cookies or other similar technologies. We may combine this information with
demographic and other interest-based segment information we receive from third parties.
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Information from third party services. If you created your account using a third party
account,such as your Google account, we may receive certain information about you from these
third parties such as your first name, last name, and profile picture. If you wish to limit the
information we receive, you should visit the privacy settings of your third party accounts to learn
about your options.
HOW WE USE INFORMATION
We use the information we collect to:
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Provide, maintain, improve, and enhance the Services. We use information we collect
about you to provide the Services you request from us and to provide the functionality of the app
and the features you choose to use. For example, we use the information we collect to facilitate
your use of the app’s features, to allow you to connect with other users, to deliver your
messages, and to display your intended themes and profile images.
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Personalize your experience on the Services. For example, we use the information we
collect to personalize content and make suggestions that are relevant to you.
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Understand and analyze how you use the Services. We aim to continuously improve our
offerings to bring you the best way to make meaningful connections. Accordingly, we are
continuously analyzing how users access and use the app and its features in order to improve
existing Services and develop new ones. Our analysis of how you use the app can help us do
things like evaluate the popularity and functionality of certain features, identify and fix potential
bugs, and understand what our users want.
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Communicate with you. The information we collect lets us respond to your comments and
questions or otherwise provide customer support, and keep you updated on other
information such as Hii’s latest product announcements, software updates, and upcoming events.
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Enable social functionality. We use the information we collect to support the social
functionality of the Services, including to allow you to post content on third party services, such
associal media networks.
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Promote safety and security. We also use information to find and prevent fraud and promote
trust and safety on the Services. For example, we may scan your messages for inappropriate
content to protect the safety and integrity of our Services and users.
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Compliance purposes. We may use the information we collect to enforce our Terms of
Service, and other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or
requested by any judicial process or governmental agency.
● Deliver ads and other sponsored content. We use the information we collect, including
information about your interests, actions and connections, -to select, personalize, and deliver
ads,offers and other sponsored content.
● Send you push notifications. We may use the information we collect to send you push
notifications.
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Other purposes. We may also use the information we collect for other purposes for which we
provide notice at the time the information is collected.
HOW IS INFORMATION SHARED
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Other users. Our Service is a social service intended to help you make new friends and
interactwith them. Please be aware that your profile information will always be viewable by other
users. You may edit your profile information within the app through your profile settings. We are
not responsible for other users’ use of available information, so you should carefully consider
whether and what to include in your profile or otherwise share through the Services. We also
share your information if you ask us to. For example, we send the messages and other content
you ask us to send to other users either directly or within a group chat. Please be aware that
anyone you send a message to will have their own copy of the message and any content
attached to that message. Therefore, even if you delete your copy of the message from your
account, they may duplicate, store, or re-share at their own discretion.
● Social networks. Our services allow you to share information with social networking services,
such as Facebook. You understand and agree that the use of your information by any social
networking websites will be governed by the privacy policies of these third party platforms and
your settings on that platform. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before sharing
any information with them.
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Third party integration. Certain features you use through Hii are offered by third parties such
as logging in with Google. Those features may include things such as GIFs, emojis, smileys,web
pages optimized for Hii. When you choose to use these third-party features, or other services
that use, or are integrated with, our Services, those third parties (and other users of those third
party services) may be able to see things like your user profile and receive information about
what you post or share. These third parties may use this information as described in their privacy
policies,w hich can include advertising. You understand and agree that the use of your
information by these third parties will be governed by the privacy policies of these third party
platforms and your settings on that platform. We encourage you to review their privacy policies
before sharing any information with them.
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Our service providers. We share the information we collect with third-party service providers
that help operate our business. Examples include suppliers who host our data or provide
customer service.
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Our related companies. We may share some or all of your information with our affiliated
companies, subsidiaries, or joint ventures.
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To protect Hii and its users, or for legal purposes. We may access, preserve, and disclose
your information if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to: (a) detect, prevent or
address fraud or other illegal activity (b) respond to your requests; (c) comply with law
enforcement requests and legal process, such as subpoenas, warrants, production orders, or
similar instruments; or (d) protect your, our, or others’ rights, property, or safety, including when
there is an emergency involving potential harm, loss of security or serious injury to people or
threats of such emergencies. For the avoidance of doubt, we may disclose your information if
you post any objectionable content on or through the Services.
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Merger, financing or sale. We may share your information with service providers, advisors,
potential transactional partners, or other third parties in connection with the consideration,
negotiation, or completion of a merger, financing, acquisition, dissolution transaction, bankruptcy
or proceeding involving the sale, transfer, or divestiture of all or a portion of our business or
assets.
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Advertising partners. We work with third party advertising partners to show you ads that we
think may interest you. Please see the “USER CONTROLS” section below for information about
how to opt-out of receiving interest-based ads from some of these partners.
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Consent. We may also share your information with your permission.
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Update your information. You can update your profile information through your app settings.
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Delete your account. You can request to delete your account by emailing
hiidev.zinger@gmail.com or you can delete your account directly in the Hii app. You should be
aware that even if you delete your account, some of your information may still be available to
other users through the app and will not be deleted by us.
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Blocking and reporting users. You can block users or report users who are engaging in
harmful or offensive conduct to us through the controls provided in the app.
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Marketing and promotional communications. You may unsubscribe from emails in the
footer of any marketing or promotional email. Please note that even if you opt-out of receiving
marketingor promotional messages from us, you will continue to receive administrative messages
from us.
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Interest-based advertising. We adhere to the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) Self-
Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising. You may opt out of interest-based
advertising as follows:
1. You may opt out of seeing interest-based ads from us or our third party advertising partners
on your desktop browser and/or mobile web browser by visiting the DAA at
http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) at
http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.
2. You may opt out of seeing interest-based ads in the App by downloading the DAA’s
AppChoices application, which is available at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices.
3. Certain versions of your device’s operating system permit you to opt out of interest based
advertising. Please visit your device settings to limit such tracking.
Please note that when you opt out of interest-based ads, you will still see ads, but they will no
longer be based on your interests or behavior.
SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION
We make reasonable efforts to protect your information by using safeguards designed to
improve the security of the information we maintain. Despite these efforts, you should know that
we cannotguarantee the privacy or security of your information because we cannot fully eliminate
the security risks associated with online transmissions.
INTERNATIONAL USERS
Our App and all of our data, including your Data, are hosted on servers in the United States. If
you are using or accessing the Services from outside of the United States, your Data will be
transferred to, processed and stored in the United States. As a result, United States federal and
state governments, courts, or law enforcement or regulatory agencies may be able to obtain your
Data through laws applicable in the United States. United States laws may not offer the same
privacy protections as the law of your jurisdiction.
Personal information collected in the EU may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination
outside of the EU and processed by employees operating outside of the EU who work for us,
one of our business partners, or service providers. We utilize standard contract clauses (see
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32010D0087), rely on the
European Commission's adequacy decisions about certain countries, as applicable, and obtain
your consent for these data transfers to the United States and other countries. When we transfer
personal information across country borders, we will make sure there is a transfer mechanism in
place to transfer the data in a manner consistent with that described this Privacy Policy.
For citizens of the European Union, you should know that Hii is a controller and a processor of
your personal information. The legal bases for which we collect and use the information
described above depends on what the information is and why we collected it. The four bases
upon which werely include:
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Contract. This means we need the information to perform our contract with you. For example,
when you want to send a message, we use information to carry out your request to transmit that
message to its intended recipient.
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Legitimate Interests. This means we have a legitimate interest that does not outweigh your
privacy rights. When we collect and process information based on our legitimate interests, we
consider how we can accomplish what we need to in a way that is the least obtrusive on your
privacy. For example, it is in our interest to protect your safety and security in the app, so we
collect and use information that has been flagged by users or requested by law enforcement; to
make sure you are satisfied with how the Services work, troubleshoot technical problems or
develop new features, we collect and use information about how you and others use the
Services;and to respond to your service inquiries, we collect and use information in that request
and, if relevant to the inquiry, information about how you access and use the Services.
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Legal Obligations. We may need to use your personal information to comply with a law
enforcement preservation request, subpoena, or other legal process or to protect the rights of
other users.
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Consent. If we have no other legal basis for collecting or using your information, we will ask
you for consent for a specific purpose. If we do, you have the right to withdraw consent at any
time. Withdrawing your consent will not apply to any processing conducted in reliance on lawful
processing bases other than consent.
EU Users' Rights
In addition to other rights detailed in the policy (such as requesting deletion, correction or
updating of your personal information), EU citizens have certain rights regarding your personal
information,including:
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Right to Object and Restrict Processing. You have the right to object to or restrict our use of
your personal information for direct marketing purposes or under certain circumstances when
the legal bases for using your information is based upon our legitimate interest. If you wish to
object to our use of your information, you can send us a request to delete your account by
emailing us athiidev.zinger@gmail.com.
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Right to Erasure. You have the right to have your personal data erased and no longer
processed. You can send us a request to delete your account by clicking here. Upon receiving
the request, we will make a reasonable effort to delete your personal information from the app
and from our internal network within a reasonable period of time as long as we are not
obligated to
preserve your information due to things like law enforcement preservation requests, subpoenas,
investigations, litigation, or otherwise meet any of our other legal obligations. We may also retain
depersonalized information after deletion.
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Data Portability. You can exercise your right to export your personal data by
emailing hiidev.zinger@gmail.com.
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File a complaint. You have the right to complain to the data protection authority located in
your Member State. To find contact details, click here.
CALIFORNIA USERS
If you are a California user, please refer to our California Resident Privacy Notice for additional
information about the data we collect and your rights.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and no part of our
Services is directed to children under 13. If we learn that we have inadvertently collected the
personal information of a child under 13, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as
possible. If you learn that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information in violation
of this Privacy Policy , you may alert us at hiidev.zinger@gmail.com.
THIRD PARTIES
This Privacy Policy does not apply to services offered by other companies or individuals,
includingproducts or services that we link to or display on the Services. We are not responsible
for the privacy practices of these third parties. We encourage you to read their privacy policies
before providing any information to them.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, and the updated version will be effective
when posted. We encourage you to regularly check this page to review any changes we might
make. If we make material changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an
announcement on our Services, or by sending you an email or other communication
CONTACT US
If you have any questions, comments, complaints or suggestions, please contact us at: Zinger
Media Limited, Inc.
Email: hiidev.zinger@gmail.com
California Resident Privacy Notice
This California Resident Privacy Notice supplements the information and disclosures contained
in our Privacy Policy. It applies to individuals residing in California from whom we collect
Personal Information as a business under California law.
Personal Information Collection, Disclosure, and Sale
For the purposes of this notice, Personal Information means information that identifies,
relatesto, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be
linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household, or as otherwise defined
by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (California Civil Code §§ 1798.100 to
1798.199) and its implementing regulations, as amended or superseded from time to time
(“CCPA”).
Personal Information does not include information that is:
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Lawfully made available from government records.
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Deidentified or aggregate information.
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Otherwise excluded from the scope of the CCPA.
In the preceding twelve months since this notice was last updated, we have collected Personal
Information from you, your devices, our affiliates, third parties, and from categories of sources
otherwise described in our Privacy Policy. The examples of Personal Information provided for
each category reflect each category’s statutory definition and may not reflect all of the specific
types of Personal Information associated with each category.
We have collected, disclosed for a business purpose, or sold the following categories of
Personal Information in the preceding twelve months since this notice was last updated:
Category We Collect We Disclose We Sell
A. Identifiers
Examples: Name, postal address,
unique personal identifier, online
identifier, internet protocol address,
email address, account name, or
other similar identifiers.
Yes
Yes
No
B. Categories of Personal
Information in Cal. Civ. Code
Section 1798.80(e)
Examples: Name, signature,
address, telephone number.
Yes
No
No
C. Characteristics of Protected Classifications under California or Federal Law
Examples: Sex (including gender and pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical
conditions).
D. Commercial Information
E. Biometric Information
F. Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information
Examples: Browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction
with an internet website, application or advertisement.
G. Geolocation Data
Example: Precise physical location.
H. Sensory Information
Examples: Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
I. Professional or employment-related information.
J. Non-Public Education Information (as defined in 20 U.S.C. 1232g; 34 C.F.R. Part 99).
K. Inferences Drawn from Personal Information
Examples: Consumer profiles reflecting a consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological
trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
In the preceding twelve months, we have not sold any California resident’s Personal Information.
Use of Personal Information
We collect, use, and disclose your Personal Information in accordance with the purposes
disclosed in our Privacy Policy and for the specific business purposes below:
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Auditing Interactions: Auditing related to a current interaction with you and concurrent
transactions, including, but not limited to, counting ad impressions to unique visitors, verifying
positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with this specification
and other standards.
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Fraud and Incident Prevention: Detecting security incidents, protecting against malicious,
deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity.
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Debugging: Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
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Transient Use: Short-term, transient use.
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Contracting Vendors: Contracting with service providers to perform services on
our behalf or on their behalf, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer
service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information,
processingpayments, providing financing, providing advertising or marketing services, providing
analytic services, or providing similar services on behalf of the business or service provider.
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Product Improvement: Undertaking activities to verify or maintain the quality or safety of our
services, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance our services.
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Notified Purpose: For other purposes for which we provide specific notice at the time the
information is collected.
Disclosure of Your Personal Information
Pursuant to our Privacy Policy, we disclose your Personal Information to our affiliates, service
providers, and third parties for which you have authorized us to disclose your information.
Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you may exercise the following rights.
Right to Know and Access. You may submit a verifiable request for information regarding the:
(1) categories of Personal Information (as defined by the CCPA) collected, sold, or disclosed by
us; (2) purposes for which categories of Personal Information are collected or sold by us; (3)
categories of sources from which we collect Personal Information; and (4) specific pieces of
Personal Information we have collected about you.
Right to Equal Service and Price. You have the right not to receive discriminatory
treatment for the exercise of your CCPA privacy rights, subject to certain limitations.
Right to Delete. Subject to certain exceptions, you may submit a verifiable request that we
delete Personal Information about you that we have collected from you.
Submit Requests. To exercise your rights under the CCPA, please send an email to
hiidev.zinger@gmail.com . Requests for access to or deletion of Personal Information are subject
to our ability to reasonably verify your identity in light of the information requested and pursuant
to relevant CCPA requirements, limitations, and regulations.
Verification. To verify your access or deletion request, please log into your account and
navigate to our online form. Alternatively, please provide us with a screenshot of your Hii
account. The screenshot should display your [name, user name, and account settings ]
so we can verify your identity in our records. We may provide you with a temporary user
name which we will ask you to change your user name to before sending us a
screenshot of your account.,
Do Not Track
There is no accepted standard on how to respond to Do Not Track signals, and we do not
respond to such signals.
Contact Information
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about our processing activities, or you would
like to exercise your privacy rights please email us at hiidev.zinger@gmail.com.
