Stickers Privacy Policy

Terms and Definitions

1. "Application" or "App" means Stickers - Sticker Maker that is also the means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.
2. "Cookies" means small sets of data stored in the User's device.
3. "Data Controller" (or "Owner") means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of the Application. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of the Application.
4. "Data Processor" means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.
5. "Data Subject" means the natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.
6. "Personal Data" (or "Data") means any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information – including a personal identification number – allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.
7. "Usage Data" means information collected automatically through the Application (or third-party services employed in the Application), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use the Application, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.
8. "User" means the individual using the Application who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.
9. "Service" means the service provided by the Application as described in it and in the relative terms (if available).
10. Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Data collected

1. Owner collects information about your activities on the Service, stickers you create and share to improve the service.
2. Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by the Application is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for the Application to provide the Service. In cases where the Application specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service.
3. Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner.
4. Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through the Application and confirm that they have the third party's consent to provide the Data to the Owner.

Face Data used, but not collected

For use of Stickers app users may provide and upload to App their face images. In order to make possible for users to use certain functions of App, Stickers will process (provided by users) human face images through Apple Vision API technologies that will provide information about such human faces’ position, orientation and their topology on users’ images. For more information about Apple Vision API technology Stickers app use, you may visit: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision. Images, that users provide in or through Stickers, and/or other information related to human faces obtained from your images and/or through the use of Apple Vision API technologies, are the “Face Data”. The Face Data shall be considered the Personal Data. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in other Sections of this Privacy Policy in relation to the Personal Data, Stickers:

1. do not collect, store, share or transfer the Face Data off the User devices;
2. do not use the Face Data to identify any particular individual User;
3. do not use the Face Data for authentication, advertising, or marketing purposes, or to otherwise target a User in a similar manner;
4. do not use the Face Data to build a User profile, or otherwise attempt, facilitate, or encourage third parties to identify anonymous Users or reconstruct User profiles based on the Face Data;
5. transfer, share, sell, or otherwise provide the Face Data to advertising platforms, analytics providers, data brokers, information resellers or other such parties.

Mode of processing the Data

1. Methods of processing
   1. The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
   2. The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of this (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.
2. Legal basis of processing
   1. The Owner may process Personal Data relating to Users if one of the following applies:
      1. provision of Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;
      2. processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject;
      3. processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party.
   2. In any case, the Owner will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
3. Retention time
   1. Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for. Therefore:
      1. Personal Data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between the Owner and the User shall be retained until such contract has been fully performed.
      2. Personal Data collected for the purposes of the Owner’s legitimate interests and compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes.
   2. The Owner may be obliged to retain Personal Data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.
   3. Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.

The purposes of Personal Data processing

1. The purposes of Personal Data processing are as follows:
   1. To provide the Service.
   2. For remarketing and behavioral targeting. This type of service allows the Application and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use of the Application by the User. This activity is performed by tracking Usage Data that is transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity. The User may opt out of these practices by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page. The User may also opt out from remarketing and behavioral targeting provided by Facebook, as provided here.
2. The Owner may also provide User with information of commercial or promotional nature concerning other Owner`s products.

Data transfer to third parties

1. The Owner may share Personal Data with service providers for hosting, analytical or advertising purposes so that the Owner can better consider new features or otherwise tailor or enhance the Service, particularly:
2. Facebook Analytics for Apps, which is an analytics service. Personal Data collected: Usage Data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service. Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.
3. Facebook Audience Network, which is an advertising service. In order to understand Facebook's use of Data, consult Facebook's data policy. One of the ways Audience Network shows ads is by using the User's ad preferences. The User can control this in the Facebook ad settings. Personal Data collected: Cookies, Usage Data.
4. Firebase Analytics, which is an analytics service provided by Google. In order to understand Google's use of data, consult Google's partner policy. Firebase Privacy information. Google’s Privacy Policy.
5. Appsflyer, to perform research and analysis about how users interact with our App. Privacy Policy, Opt Out.
6. Amplitude to perform research and analysis about how users interact with our App. Privacy Policy.

Data transfer outside the EU

1. The Owner may transfer Personal Data to Data Processors around the world in accordance with this privacy policy. Personal Data collected by the Owner will be transferred to the United States and Ukraine for the purposes as described in this privacy policy. These data transfers are necessary to provide the Service to the User.
2. The Owner is allowed to transfer Personal Data collected within the EU to third countries (i.e. any country not part of the EU) only pursuant to a specific legal basis. Any such Data transfer is based on one of the legal bases described below:
   1. Data transfer abroad based on standard contractual clauses. If this is the legal basis, the transfer of Personal Data from the EU to third countries is carried out by the Owner according to "standard contractual clauses" provided by the European Commission. This means that Data recipients have committed to process Personal Data in compliance with the data protection standards set forth by EU data protection legislation. For further information, Users are requested to contact the Owner through the contact details provided in the present document.
   2. Data transfer abroad based on consent. If this is the legal basis, Personal Data of Users shall be transferred from the EU to third countries only if the User has explicitly consented to such transfer, after having been informed of the possible risks due to the absence of an adequacy decision and appropriate safeguards. In such cases, the Owner shall inform Users appropriately and collect their explicit consent via this Application.
   3. Data transfer from the EU to the U.S based on Privacy Shield. If this is the legal basis, the transfer of Personal Data from the EU or Switzerland to the US is carried out according to the EU - U.S. Privacy Shield. In particular, Personal Data is transferred to services that self-certify under the Privacy Shield framework and therefore guarantee an adequate level of protection of such transferred Data.

The rights of EU Users

Children’s Privacy

The Owner respect the privacy of children under the terms of COPPA and does not knowingly process personal data from persons under 13 years of age. If you learn that anyone younger than 13 years or anyone that has not reached the age, which allows to accept these Terms on their own as established by their respective state or country of residence, has provided the Owner with personal data, please contact us.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page. If a User objects to any of the changes to the policy, the User must cease using the Application and can request that the Owner remove the Personal Data. Unless stated otherwise, the then-current privacy policy applies to all Personal Data the Owner has about Users.

Contact us:

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact animatedstickers@outlook.com