Privacy Policy

iOSGods Privacy Policy
Last updated: 21 July 2023

This iOSGods privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use the website https://iosgods.com and the related services (collectively, the “Service”) and the choices you have associated with that data. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is properly protected. Any personal data provided by you through the Service will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. 

Changes. We may change this Privacy Policy as and when necessary. If we have your email address, we will send you a notification about the changes that we plan to implement. Please check this Privacy Policy periodically to ensure you are aware of our data processing practices. 

Access to the Privacy Policy. To make this privacy Policy easy to find, we make it available in our footer and at every point where personal data may be requested.

 

Information Collection And Use
We collect several different types of information from you for various purposes to provide our Service to you and improve it, as described below. 

Personal Data
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personal data that can be used to contact or identify you:

• Sign up. When you sign up, we collect your birth date, display name, email address, password, information about your device and operating system. If you choose to register by using your Google, Facebook, or Twitter accounts, we will have access to the personal data that Google, Facebook, or Twitter shares with us like your full name, email address, and image. We use the said information to verify your age, register and maintain your user account, enable you to use the Service, contact you, if necessary, and maintain our business records. The legal bases on which we rely are ‘performing a contract with you’ and ’pursuing our legitimate interests’ (i.e., operate, analyze, grow, and administer the Service). We will store this data until you delete your user account.
• Payments. When you make a payment (e.g., for a subscription or a donation), our third-party payment processors Stripe and PayPal collect your personal data, such as name, billing and delivery addresses, and payment details (e.g., credit card or PayPal details). We do not have access to your full payment data; only a part of your personal data is made available to us by the payment processors. Your payment data is used to process payments and maintain our accountancy records. The legal bases on which we rely are ‘performing our contractual obligations’ and ‘pursuing our legitimate interests’ (i.e., to administer our business). We store such data for the time period prescribed by law.
• Enquiries. When you contact us by email, we collect your first name, last name, email address, and any information that you decide to include in your message. When you contact us by using the contact form, we collect any information that you decide to include in your message. We use such data to respond to your enquiries and provide you with the requested information. The legal bases on which we rely are ‘pursuing our legitimate interests’ (i.e., to grow and promote the Website) and ‘your consent’ (for optional personal data). We will store this data until you stop communicating with us.

Usage Data
Additionally, whilst using the Service, we collect your usage and analytics data (the “Usage Data”). The Usage Data includes the following information:

• Internet Protocol (IP) address;
• Geographical location;
• Browser type and version;
• Operating system;
• Referral source;
• Length of visit, page views, website navigation and any other related browsing activity. 

When you access the Service by or through a mobile device, this Usage Data may include information such as the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We use the Usage Data to analyze what kind of users access and use the Service, measure your engagement with the Service, see which products are interesting to you, improve our content, develop new products and services, and investigate and prevent security issues and abuse. In most cases, such analytics data is non-personal and it does not allow us to identify you as a natural person. However, some of such data like your IP address or device ID may be considered personal data and we will make sure that we have the necessary legal basis for processing such data. When we process your Usage Data that is personal data, we rely on the ‘legitimate interest’ (i.e., to analyze and improve the Service) and ‘your consent’ bases. 

Tracking & Cookie Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information. We use such information to analyze the technical aspects of your use of the Service, prevent fraud and abuse, and ensure the security of the Service.

Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.

The legal bases on which we rely are ‘pursuing our legitimate interests’ (i.e., to analyze our content and protect the Service) and ‘your consent’. We will store this data as long as analytics records are necessary for our activities or you withdraw your consent. For more information regarding the Cookies we set, please read the “Cookie Policy" page linked below in this Privacy Policy.

Sensitive Data
We do not collect or use any special categories of personal data (“sensitive data”) from you, unless you decide, at your own discretion, to provide such data to us. Sensitive data refers to your health, religious and political beliefs, racial origins, membership of a professional or trade association, or sexual orientation.    

 

Security Of Personal Data
We are committed to ensuring that any information you provide through the Service is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place procedures to safeguard and secure the personal data we collect. The security measures taken by us include proper authentication, secured networks, strong passwords, limited access to your personal data by our staff, anonymization of personal data (when possible), and carefully selected data processors.

The security of your personal data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. 

 

Disclosure Of Personal Data
We do not sell, distribute or lease your personal data to third parties, unless it is necessary for the provision of the Service, we have your explicit permission or are required by law to do so. The disclosure of your personal data is limited to the situations when it is required for the following purposes:

• Ensuring the proper operation of the Service;
• Processing your payments;
• Responding to your enquiries;
• Pursuing our legitimate interests;
• Enforcing our rights, preventing fraud, and security purposes;
• Carrying out our contractual obligations;
• Law enforcement purposes; or 
• If you provide your prior consent to such a disclosure.

Our data processors
If necessary for the intended purpose of your personal data, we will disclose your personal data to entities that provide services on our behalf (our data processors). Your personal data may be shared with entities that provide technical support services to us, such as hosting, payment processing, and email distribution services. We choose our data processors carefully and make sure that they ensure an adequate level of protection of personal data that is consistent with this Privacy Policy and the applicable data protection laws. The data processors that will have access to your personal data are: 

• Our hosting service provider OVH located in France;
• Our payment service providers Stripe and PayPal located in the United States; 
• Our email service provider Sendgrid located in the United States;
• Our community platform service provider Invision Power Services located in the United States;
• Our spam defense service provider from Invision Power Services located in the United States;
• Our analytics service provider Google Analytics located in the United States; and
• Our independent contractors and consultants.

International transfers
We and some of our data processors may be based outside the country where you reside. For example, if you reside in the EEA or the UK, we may need to transfer your personal data outside the EEA or the UK. In case it is necessary to make such a transfer, we will make sure that the country in which our data processor is located guarantees an adequate level of protection for your personal data or we conclude an agreement with it that ensures such protection (e.g., a data processing agreement based pre-approved standard contractual clauses).

Disclosure of non-personal data
Your non-personal data may be disclosed to third parties for any purpose as it does not identify you as a natural person. For example, we may share it with prospects or partners for business or research purposes, for improving the Service, responding to lawful requests from public authorities or developing new products and services. 

Legal requests
If requested by a public authority, we will disclose information about the users of the service to the extent necessary for pursuing a public interest objective, such as national security or law enforcement. We may also disclose information to local authorities if we find that any form of bullying, harassment, terrorism, sexual hate and other crimes that may have been committed or heard of.

 

Links To Other Sites
The Service, any associated websites and sub-domains, may contain links to other websites. These websites may or may not be affiliated with us.

We have no control over any external websites. Therefore, before clicking any link which results in you visiting an external website will result in this Privacy Policy no longer applying.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services. We strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.

 

Children's Privacy
Our Service is not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

 

Your Rights
You have the right to control how we process your personal data as explained in this section.

The list of your rights. Subject to any exemptions provided by law, you have the following rights:

• Right of access: you can get a copy of your personal data that we store in our systems and a list of purposes for which your personal data is processed;
• Right to rectification: you can rectify inaccurate personal data that we hold about you;
• Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’): you can erase your personal data from our systems by vising your Account Settings > Security & Privacy;
• Right to restriction: you can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data;
• Right to data portability: you can ask us to provide you with a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and move that personal data to another processor;
• Right to object: you can ask us to stop processing your personal data;
• Right to withdraw consent: you have the right to withdraw your consent, if you have provided one; or
• Right to complaint: you can submit your complaint regarding our processing of your personal data.

How to exercise your rights? If you would like to exercise any of your legitimate rights, please contact us by using our contact details available at the end of the Privacy Policy and explain in detail your request. In order to verify the legitimacy of your request, we may ask you to provide us with an identifying piece of information, so that we can identify you in our system. We will answer your request within a reasonable time frame but no later than 30 days.

Complaints. If you would like to launch a complaint about the way in which we handle your personal data, we kindly ask you to contact us first and express your concerns. After you contact us, we will investigate your complaint and provide you with our response as soon as possible (no later than 30 days). If you are not satisfied with the outcome of your complaint, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

 

Storage of Your Data

Storage of personal data
We and our data processors store your personal data only for as long as such personal data is required for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or until you request us to update or delete your personal data, whichever comes first. For more details about the period for which each type of personal data is stored, please refer to section “Information Collection and Use” above. After your personal data is no longer necessary for its purposes and there is no other legal basis for storing it, we will immediately securely delete your personal data from our systems. We do not store any personal data longer than strictly necessary.

Storage of non-personal data
We retain non-personal data pertaining to you for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. This may include storing non-personal data for the period of time needed for us to examine our activities, fulfil our contractual obligations, pursue our legitimate interests, conduct audits, comply with (and demonstrate compliance with) legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

Storage as required by law. When we are obliged by law to store your personal data for a certain period of time (e.g., for keeping accounting records), we will store your personal data for the time period stipulated by the applicable law and delete the personal data as soon as the required retention period expires.

 

Newsletter and Notices

Newsletters
If you opt-in for our newsletter or subscribe for a newsletter by giving us your email address, we will inform you about the news related to the Service and our special offers. The legal basis on which we rely is ‘your consent’. You can opt-out from receiving our commercial communication at any time free of charge by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link included in our newsletters or by contacting us directly.

Transactional notices
If we have your email address and it is necessary to do so, we may send you important informational messages, such as order updates, payment receipts, invoices, and other technical or administrative emails. Please note that such messages are sent on an “if-needed” basis and they do not fall within the scope of commercial communication that may require your prior consent. You cannot opt-out from service-related notices.

Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy our data protection practices, please contact us by using the following contact details:
Email: [email protected]

 

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