Privacy policy

(Last updated May 01, 2021)

 

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT CAREFULLY

 

Selfiebook respect every User privacy, and we are committed to being transparent with you about how we handle personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how Selfiebook collects, shares, and uses personal data you provide to us when you use the Selfiebook Platform or otherwise interact with us. We also offered some sections for you to learn how you can exercise your privacy rights and choices.

 

This Privacy Policy applies when you access or use the services and tools offered through our site and Application ("Selfiebook products") or otherwise interact with us. Our Terms of Use also govern your access to our Platform and use of Selfiebook Services. Capitalized terms used but not defined in this Privacy Policy can be found in our Terms of Use.

 

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before accessing our Platform and using the Selfiebook Services. If you have any questions, please contact us at

 

  1. Introduction

 

This Privacy Policy and statement is created to explain to you how we (www.Selfiebook.co, or our mobile application) collect your data, how we process them, how we secure them, how we might share them as regards to providing our services and how we store them. This Privacy Statements also describe what right you have as regards to your personal data, how you give your consent and how you withdraw your consent. If you are user who resides in the European Union Region, we also explain what rights you have as a data subject.

 

  1. Introduction

  2. Acceptance and Use

  3. Sensitive Personal Information

  4. Data Protection Principles

  5. Types of Data We Collect From You

  6. Non-Personal Information

  7. UK and EU Cookie Law

  8. Information Collected Through Technology

  9. How We Use Your Data

  10. Google Adwords or Admobs

  11. Community Forums, And Posted Content

  12. With Whom We Share Your Data

  13. EEA Data Subjects

  14. Your Privacy Choices

  15. Our Policy towards Children

  16. Legal Bases for Processing (For EEA Users):

  17. Security Measures for Safeguarding Your Information

  18. Emails Communications

  19. GDPR Statement for (EEA Users)

  20. Data Controller and Complaints

  21. Security of Personal Information

  22. Terms and Conditions

  23. Jurisdiction

  24. Changes to our Privacy Policy

  25. Contact Us

 

 

  1. Acceptance and Use

 

This privacy policy covers Selfiebook and its subsidiaries including (collectively, "Selfiebook," "we" "us" or "our"). We facilitates the submission of memoirs, eBook and biographies via the Selfiebook website and mobile application.

 

By using Selfiebook website and mobile application, you signify acceptance to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Where your acceptance via clicking on [ACCEPT], is considered as your official consent to process your personal information, your consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described further below.

If you do not agree with or you are not comfortable with any aspect of this Privacy Policy, you should immediately discontinue access or use of Selfiebook website and mobile application and its related services.

 

  1. Sensitive Personal Information

 

We do not collect or otherwise Process Personal Information about race or ethnicity, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual life, any actual or alleged criminal offences or penalties, or any other information that may be deemed to be sensitive under GDPR (collectively, “Sensitive Personal Information”) in the ordinary course of our business. Where it becomes necessary to Process Sensitive Personal Information under GDPR, we would rely on one of the following legal bases:

 

  • Compliance with applicable law: We may Process your Sensitive Personal Information where the Processing is required or permitted by applicable law;

  • Detection and prevention of crime: We may Process your Sensitive Personal Information where the Processing is necessary for the detection or prevention of crime (including the prevention of fraud);

  • Establishment, exercise or defense of legal rights: We may Process your Sensitive Personal Information where the Processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal rights; or

  • Consent: We may Process your Sensitive Personal Information where we have, in accordance with applicable law, obtained your prior, express consent prior to Processing your Sensitive Personal Information.

 

Children. Selfiebook complies with the European Union GDPR Children’s Online Privacy Regulation and does not permit registration by, and will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from, anyone under 13. The Services are directed to teenagers and adults and are not directed to children under the age of 13 and 18 for an Adult. You must be 13 years of age or older to use the Services outside of the European Union and European Economic Area.

 

  1. Data Protection Principles

 

“Personal data” means any information that enables us to identify you or the beneficiary of your relationship with us, directly or indirectly, such as name, email, address, telephone number, any form of identification number or one or more factors specific to your or your beneficiary’s identity. We are committed to complying with applicable data protection laws and will ensure that personal data is:

 

  • Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way;

  • Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes;

  • Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes;

  • Accurate and kept up to date;

  • Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about;

  • Kept securely.

 

  1. Types of Data We Collect From You

 

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to.

 

  1. Personal Identifiable Information (PII). We acquire PII that may include, in certain contexts, your

  • Email Address

  • User Name

  • Password

Which certain jurisdictions consider to be PII because it could be used to identify an individual or Device if it were combined with other identifying information.

  1. Books, Memoires and Materials. We will collect your materials when you submit your book, memoires and materials for publication via the Selfiebook website. Please note that Selfiebook, complies with the United Kingdom Data protection methods and the GDPR to collect this type of information from you, and will also be used accordingly.

  2. Sensitive PII: Information about the transactions you make on our Services, such as the names, billing information, email address and other information.

  3. Correspondence: You may choose to provide us with additional personal Information. For example, we may collect your name, email address, and other personal Information when you fill out a survey, participate in a promotion, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us.

 

  1. Non-Personal Information

 

Non-personal information refers to information that, by itself, does not identify you as a specific individual (e.g. demographic information or web site visitations). Selfiebook may collect non-personal information through any of the methods discussed above as well as automatically through use of industry standard technologies.

 

  1. UK and EU Cookie Law

 

The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 as amended by the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011; Cookies is a small text file placed on your computer by this Website and mobile application when you visit certain parts of the Website and mobile application and/or when you use certain features of the Website and mobile application. Details of the cookies used by this Website and mobile application are set out in the (Cookies policy page);

 

  1. Information Collected Through Technology

 

While you are able to visit the Selfiebook site and remain anonymous, Selfiebook or its third party service providers may still collect non-personal information about your use of the Selfiebook materials (e.g. your internet browser, operating system, ip address, connection speed, and the domain name of your internet service provider). Such information may be gathered by the following methods:

 

  1. Cookies. Cookies, including local shared objects, are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your device’s hard drive which work by assigning to your computer a unique number that has no meaning outside of the Selfiebook site. Cookies do not generally contain any personal information. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually configure your browser to prevent this. Not accepting cookies may make certain features of the Selfiebook materials unavailable to you.

  2. IP address. You may visit many areas of the Selfiebook site anonymously without the need to become a registered user. Even in such cases, Selfiebook may collect ip addresses automatically. An IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you begin services with an internet services provider. Each time you access the Selfiebook site and each time you request one of Selfiebook’ pages, the server logs your ip address.

  3. Beacons. Beacons are small pieces of data that are embedded in web pages and e-mails. Selfiebook may use these technical methods in html e-mails that Selfiebook sends to users to determine whether they have opened those e-mails and/or clicked on links in those e-mails. The information from use of these technical methods may be collected in a form that constitutes personal information.

  4. Tracking content usage. If you use the Selfiebook services and you post audio visual materials including, without limitation, text, logos, artwork, graphics, pictures, advertisements, sound and other related intellectual property contained in such materials (collectively, “content”) to your app site or to a third party site, Selfiebook tracks and captures non-personal information associated with user accounts and the use of content.

 

  1. How We Use Your Data

 

In general, we collect, use and store ("process") your data to provide the Services, to fix and improve the Services, to develop new services, and to market our companies and their products and services. Some specific examples of how we use information are:

 

  • Communicate with you

  • Publish your Book, Memoires and material in to our Public Domain.

  • Advertise and market the Services, including in email or other channels

  • Provide support, including addressing questions and problems users may have with the Services

  • Prevent, detect, investigate and respond to fraud, unauthorized access/use of the Services, breaches of terms and policies, or other wrongful behavior

  • Comply with any procedures, laws, and regulations which apply to us, including those that set retention periods.

  • We use your data for research and development.

 

We may use algorithms and other automated means to implement any of the above.

 

  1. Google Adwords/Admobs

 

Google AdWords or admobs enables Google, through the use of cookies, to identify the fact that you have visited the site, to identify aspects of your usage of the site and App and combine that with what it knows about your usage of other site in the Google ad network.

 

We use these services to advertise to visitors of Google ad network site who have previously visited our site or who Google deems to have shared interests with visitors of our site. Google’s collection and use of your personal data is covered by the Google privacy policy. You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page.

 

  1. Community Forums, And Posted Content

 

The Sites may provide you the opportunity to participate and post content publicly in forums, through interactive features and through other communication functionality ("Community Forums"). You may choose, through such features or otherwise, to submit or post photographs, videos, questions, comments, suggestions or other content, (collectively, "User Content").

 

Note that anything you post to a Community Forum is public -- others will have access to your User Content and may use it or share it with third parties. Information or other content you choose to post or make available in the Community Forums may be viewed, collected and used by others. If you choose to voluntarily disclose Personally Identifiable Information, that information will be considered public information and the protections of this Privacy Policy will not apply. Think carefully before you post and use caution before disclosing any Personally Identifiable Information. Also, functionality on the Sites may permit interactions between the Sites and a third party web site, such as enabling you “like” or review a product on our Sites or “share” content to other web sites. If you choose to “like,” review, or “share” content through the Sites or to otherwise post information from or via the Sites to a third party web site, feature or application, that information may be publicly displayed and the third party web site may have access to information about you and your use of our Web Site and mobile application.

 

  1. With Whom We Share Your Data

 

We share data with third parties as follows:

 

  • With your consent: we may share your data with third parties where we have obtained your express consent to do so. You may revoke these consents.

  • Authorized vendors: we may share your data with third-party vendors that help us operate our services, process payments, and comply with your instructions and our contractual obligations. This includes payment processors, content delivery networks (cdns), cloud-based hosting services, monitoring services, email service providers, quality assurance and testing vendors, fraud and abuse prevention vendors, customer relations management (crm) vendors

  • Advertising: we may share your data with advertising companies to display relevant ads to you. Unless you expressly agree, we will not share or sell your name, email address, or physical address with such persons.

  • Analytics: we may share your data with persons who provide analytics showing how customers are using our services.

  • Affiliates and advisors: we may share your data with our affiliates company, and our auditors and advisors for planning, financial reporting, accounting, auditing, tax filings, and legal compliance. Unless you expressly agree, we will not share your data with our parent or any affiliate for other purposes, such as direct marketing.

  • Certain legal situations: we may share your data where we believe disclosure is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or in connection with a corporate transaction.

 

  1. Do Not Track

 

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers and devices. DNT is a way for users to inform website and mobile applications and services that they do not want certain information about their webpage visits collected over time and across website and mobile applications or online services. Please note that we do not respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers.

 

  1. EEA Data Subjects

 

For individuals who are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom or Switzerland (collectively “EEA Residents”) at the time their personal data is collected, we rely on legal bases for processing your information under Article 6 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). We generally only process your data where we are legally required to, where the processing is necessary to perform any contracts we entered with you (or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with you), for our legitimate interests to operate our business or to protect Selfiebook application and website and mobile application or your, property, rights, or safety, or where we have obtained your consent to do so.

 

  1. Your Data Privacy Rights

 

We enable you to make numerous choices about your data: Below is the following data protection rights you have when you use our services.

 

  • You may choose not to provide us with certain Information.

  • Suppose you wish to access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal Information. In that case, you can do so at any time by contacting us through the customer services portal or at the Information provided at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

  • If you request access to your data, we will confirm whether we hold your Information and provide you with a copy, explaining how we process it and why, how long we store it for, and your rights associated with it.

  • If you request the deletion of your personal Information, we will erase it. Please note that we will need to retain any information that we require to fulfill our legal obligations or establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim.

  • You can object to your personal information processing, ask us to restrict the processing of your personal Information, or request portability of your personal Information. Again, you can exercise these rights by contacting us through the customer services portal or at the Information provided at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.

  • You have the right to opt-out of email marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the "unsubscribe" or "opt-out" link in the marketing emails we send you.

  • Opting out Of Messages from Us: To opt-out of any future promotional messages from us, you should unsubscribe in the body of the promotional message sent to you (found at the bottom of the email) or send an unsubscribe request to us. We will process your request within a reasonable time after receipt.

  • Similarly, if we have collected and processed your personal Information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted before your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal Information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

  • You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal Information. Please contact us for more Information, and we will send you a link or our data protection officer address.

  • The easiest way to submit your request to us is through our Customer support email found at the bottom of this Privacy Policy. We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights under applicable data protection laws.

 

  1. Our Policy towards Children

 

Selfiebook respects the privacy of children, and we are committed to complying with the European Union GDPR Children's Online Privacy Regulation. This Children's Policy describes our practices concerning the collection of personal information from children under the age of 18. This site does not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal information from children under the age of 18 without prior parental consent, or do we provide Selfiebook services to children under 18 years of age except as permitted by COPPA. However, we may provide our service to children under 13 years of age but in the supervision of a parental guardian.

 

  1. Legal Bases for Processing (For EEA Users): 

 

If you are an individual in the European economic area (EEA), we collect and process information about you only where we have legal bases for doing so under applicable EU laws.  The legal bases depend on the services you use and how you use them. This means we collect and use your information only where:

  • We need it to provide you the services, including to operate the services, provide customer support and personalized features and to protect the safety and security of the services;

  • It satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as for research and development, to market and promote the services and to protect our legal rights and interests;

  • You give us consent to do so for a specific purpose; or

  • We need to process your data to comply with a legal obligation.

 

If you have consented to our use of information about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place.  Where we are using your information because we or a third party (e.g. your employer) have a legitimate interest to do so, you have the right to object to that use though, in some cases, and this may mean no longer using the services

 

  1. Emails Communications

 

By creating an account, you consent to receive commercial emails from us. This includes newsletters and offers. Users from certain countries may have the ability to opt out or opt in at the time of account creation. All users may decline to receive commercial messages in their account settings. Please note that any opt-out request may take several days to process and you will continue to receive transactional emails from us (e.g., emails confirming transactions and/or providing information about your account).

 

  1. Data Security

 

We are committed to maintaining the security of your personal data and have measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the data under our control. We employ modern and secure techniques to protect our systems from intrusion by unauthorized individuals, and we regularly upgrade our security as better methods become available.

 

  1. GDPR Statement for (EEA Users)

 

This applies only to natural persons residing in the European economic area (for the purpose of this section only, "you" or "your" shall be limited accordingly). It is Selfiebook's policy to comply with the EU'S general data protection regulation (GDPR). In accordance with the GDPR, we may transfer your personal information from your home country to the United Kingdom (or other countries) based upon the following legal frameworks:

 

  • Legitimate business interests: we could not provide our services or comply with our obligations to you without transferring your personal information to the United Kingdom

  • Consent: we may transfer your personal information when we receive your express, revocable consent.

  • Our use of standard contractual clauses (also known as "model clauses") where appropriate.

  • You have the right to: opt out of non-essential cookies (see our cookie policy); access, correct, delete, restrict, or object to our use of your personal information; be forgotten; port your data; and withdraw consents.

 

We enable exercise of these rights primarily through our services (which we reserve the right to modify). We also fulfil our obligations in response to direct requests. We will endeavor to process requests within one month. Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to the extent that they would cause us to violate any law or infringe any other person's rights. We reserve the right to request appropriate identification. We will process requests free of charge unless they would impose an unreasonable cost on us.

 

If you have a request, complaint or inquiry, please contact our data protection officer at the address listed below. We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution of any issue. You also have the right to file a complaint with the supervisory data protection authority of your jurisdiction.

 

  1. Data Controller and Complaints

 

Selfiebook are the data controllers for the personal data collected in connection with use of Selfiebook’s services in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom. Selfiebook is also the data controller for the personal data collected in connection with use of Selfiebook’s services anywhere else. For Questions, comments, and complaints about our data practices please send a message or complaints to our Data Protection Officer.

 

  1. Security of Personal Information

 

The Site uses its best endeavors to store all Personal Information on servers with restricted access, and all electronic storage and transmission of Personal Information are secured with appropriate security technologies. Not to withstand the foregoing, the app cannot guarantee that such precautions would render the Site and its servers immune to security breaches.

 

  1. Changes to our Privacy Policy

 

Selfiebook continually strives to implement new technologies and processes to better protect you, your privacy and your use of the Selfiebook service. As a result, changes to this privacy policy may be made by Selfiebook from time to time. In no event will these changes result in the degradation of any of the security measures designed to protect you from unauthorized disclosure, as such measures are described in this privacy policy.

 

  1. Terms and Conditions

 

To learn more about our terms and conditions, please visit our Terms and Conditions page establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website and mobile application

 

  1. Jurisdiction

 

This privacy policy, and terms of service, cookies, and other policies of Selfiebook Platform or services is governed by the United Kingdom Laws

 

  1. Contact us

 

If you have any questions about this privacy policy please contact us at contact@Selfiebook.co

 

 

Selfiebook Limited is registered with the UK Data Protection Agency (DPA).

Data Protection Registrar, registration number ZB391250