Privacy policy.

Jan 05, 2022

Effective from February 5, 2022

Privacy policy

This privacy policy is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information.

You can use our products or services in a variety of ways to manage your privacy. For example, you can sign up for a Lefoka account if you want to create and manage content. You can adjust your privacy settings to control what we collect and how your information is used.

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you can contact us.

We want you to understand the types of information we collect as you use our services

We collect information to provide better services to all our users. The information Lefoka collects, and how that information is used, depends on how you use our products or services and how you manage your privacy controls.

Things you create or provide to us

When you create a Lefoka account, you provide us with personal information that includes your name and a password. Even if you are not signed in to a Lefoka account, you might choose to provide us with information — like an email address to receive updates about our products or services.

We also collect the content you create, upload, or receive from others when using our products or services. This includes things like photos and videos you save, comments, and feedback.

Information we collect as you use our products or services

The information we collect includes unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device type and settings, operating system, mobile network information including carrier name and phone number.

Your activity

We collect information about your activity in our products or services, which we use to do things like recommend you to other products or services Lefoka has. The activity information we collect may include:

• Terms you search for
• Purchase activity
• People with whom you communicate or share content
• Activity on third-party sites and apps that use our products or services

We use data to build better services

We use the information we collect from all our products or services for the following purposes:

Provide our products or services
We use your information to deliver our products or services, like processing the terms you search for in order to return results or helping you share content by suggesting recipients from your contacts.

Maintain & improve our products or services
We also use your information to ensure our products or services are working as intended, such as tracking outages or troubleshooting issues that you report to us. And we use your information to make improvements to our products or services.

Develop new products or services
We use the information we collect in existing products or services to help us develop new ones. For example, understanding how people organised their photos.

Provide personalized products or services, including content and ads
We use the information we collect to customise our products or services for you, including providing recommendations and personalised content.

Communicate with you
We use information we collect, like your email address, to interact with you directly. Or we may let you know about upcoming changes or improvements to our products or services. And if you contact Lefoka, we will keep a record of your request in order to help solve any issues you might be facing.

Protect Lefoka, our users, and the public
We use information to help improve the safety and reliability of our products or services. This includes detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud, abuse, security risks, and technical issues that could harm Lefoka, our users, or the public.

Managing, reviewing, and updating your information

When you are signed in, you can always review and update information by visiting the products or services you use.

Removing and deleting your information
You can request to remove content from your from specific Lefoka products or services based on applicable law or by simply contacting us.

When you share your information

Some of our products or services let you share information with other people, and you have control over how you share. For example, you can share photos on LefokaStock publicly or you can decide to keep your videos private. Remember, when you share information publicly, your content may become accessible through search engines.

When Lefoka shares your information

We do not share your personal information with companies, organisations, or individuals outside of Lefoka except in the following cases:

With your consent
We will share personal information outside of Lefoka when we have your consent.

For external processing
We provide personal information to our affiliates and other trusted businesses or persons to process it for us, based on our instructions and in compliance with our privacy policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. For example, we use service providers to help us with customer support.

For legal reasons
We will share personal information outside of Lefoka if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation, or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to:

• meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental request.
• enforce applicable terms of service, including investigation of potential violations.
• detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues.
• protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Lefoka, our users, or the public as required or permitted by law.

If Lefoka is involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, we will continue to ensure the confidentiality of your personal information and give affected users notice before personal information is transferred or becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

We build security into our products or services to protect your information

All Lefoka products are built with strong security features that continuously protect your information. The insights we gain from maintaining our products or services help us detect and automatically block security threats from ever reaching you. And if we do detect something risky that we think you should know about, we will notify you and help guide you through steps to stay better protected.

We work hard to protect you and Lefoka from unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of information we hold, including:

• we use encryption to keep your data private while in transit
• we review our information collection, storage, and processing practices, including physical security measures, to prevent unauthorised access to our systems
• we restrict access to personal information to Lefoka employees, contractors, and agents who need that information in order to process it. Anyone with this access is subject to strict contractual confidentiality obligations and may be disciplined or terminated if they fail to meet these obligations.

When this policy applies

This privacy policy applies to all of the products or services offered by Lefoka Pty (Ltd) and its affiliates. This privacy policy does not apply to products or services that have separate privacy policies that do not incorporate this privacy policy.

This privacy policy does not apply to:

• the information practices of other companies and organizations that advertise our products or services
• services offered by other companies or individuals, including products or sites that may include Lefoka services

Changes to this policy

We change this privacy policy from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this privacy policy without your explicit consent. We always indicate the date the last changes were published. If changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of privacy policy changes).

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