If you create an account, you will provide us with certain information that can be used to identify you, such as your name, email address, and phone number (“Personally Identifiable Information” or “PII”). We may also collect non-identifying demographic information (such as your gender or date of birth), zip code, school, grade level, and other information that is not considered PII because it cannot be used by itself to identify you.
On heyyy, we only want you to receive friend requests from people know. So we use phone numbers for finding your friends. To do this, you give us authorization to access and store your contacts information from your address book on your mobile device (“Contacts”). We will use your Contacts in order to identify other Users that you may know and to provide you with suggestions for other Users with whom you may want to connect.
Additionally, if you invite a Contact to the service by tapping invite beside their name, we will send an invitation on your behalf via SMS text message. This will include your name and sometimes the recipients name, along with a link to the app. You agree that the Contacts who you invite to heyyy are ages 13 or over and are eligible to sign up for heyyy.
Our primary goals in collecting information are to provide and improve our Services, to administer your use of the Services (including your account, if you are a User), and to enable you to enjoy and easily navigate our Services. In addition, we may use your information to send you information about our Services, respond to your requests and facilitate your use of the Services. We may also use your information to send you text messages that directly promote our Services. However, we will aim to minimize any direct contact.
In addition to profile information, we may access your location by converting your IP address into a rough geolocation or by accessing your mobile device’s GPS coordinates or coarse location. We only use this information to determine if you are within a state where heyyy is available and to find schools that are nearby to join. Joining your school allows you to find friends more easily and show your school network on your profile. If you do not want us to have access to your location information after signing up, you may disable this feature and it will not impact your service. However, it is necessary during the initial registration process.
We use “Cookie” technology to collect additional information, including usage data to provide and improve our Services. A Cookie is a small data file that is placed on your computer’s hard disk when you access our Services. heyyy may use both session Cookies and persistent Cookies to identify that you’ve logged in to the Services, to better understand how you interact with our Services, to monitor aggregate usage and web traffic routing on our Services and to customize and improve our Services. Unlike persistent cookies, session Cookies are deleted when you log off from the Services. Most Internet browsers automatically accept Cookies. If you do not want cookies from heyyy or other services, you can change your settings to stop accepting Cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the services you visit. However, some Services may not function properly if you disable Cookies.
Our servers automatically record information (“Log Data”) created by your use of the Services. Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, location, your mobile carrier, device and application IDs, the Users with whom you chat, access date and time spent on features of the Services and other statistics and Cookie information. We receive Log Data when you interact with our Services, for example, when you visit our websites, sign into our Services, participate in a chat session, or interact with our email notifications. heyyy uses Log Data to provide our Services and to measure, customize, and improve them. For instance, heyyy may provide you with recommendations based on your use of the Services.
As part of our Services, you may communicate with other Users through group chat sessions. You will be able to participate in a group chat session with your Connections and the Connections of any other User that is participating in a current session. Any friend may join a chat session, with or without an invite from you if you've accepted their friend request. However, if a User that isn’t your Connection is about to join a chat session you are in, you’ll receive a notice that such a participant is joining. When you participate in a group chat session, the content of your communications will be visible and available to any User participating in that session. We encourage you to use your judgment in communicating and sharing information with other Users.
In addition, your Connections and other Users may view your profile information on the Services. Your Connections will be able to see your name, username, the last time you were online, your other Connections and a list of your top Connections. Other Users (i.e., people who are not part of your Connections) will only be able to see your name and username.
For example, we utilize Google Analytics, a service provided by Google, Inc., that we use to gather information about how Users and visitors engage with our Services. For more information about Google Analytics, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
Information that we collect from our users, including PII, is considered to be a business asset. In the event that heyyy is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets or if our assets are acquired by a third party in the event we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, some or all of our assets, including your PII, may be sold or transferred to a third party as part of that transaction.
If you are a User, we may provide you with tools and account settings to access or modify your PII associated with your account, such as your profile picture , name, username, email address and phone number. If the functionality for modifying your account is not available you can contact us at support@theheyyyapp.com with your request. You can also permanently delete your account or request that we delete your PII, by contacting us at support@theheyyyapp.com. We’ll take steps to delete your information as soon we can, but some information may remain in archived/backup copies for our records or as otherwise required by law.
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