Privacy Notice
Ekatox Singapore Private
Limited (“Ekatox
”, “
we
”, “
our
” or “
us
”) is committed to respecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice sets out how we
collect, store, process, transfer, share and use information that identifies or is associated with
you (“
personal information ”).
This Privacy Notice applies to your use of our keyboard personalization service and Artificial
Intelligence Generated Content (“AIGC”) services such as the ChatGPT chatbot that we make available
through a mobile application available for download on your device (the " Facemoji App ").
Please ensure that you have read this Privacy Notice to understand how we collect, store, use and
disclose your personal information when you use the Facemoji App and the personalized keyboards that you
create using the Facemoji App (the " Facemoji Keyboard").
Region Specific Disclosures
We may choose
or be required by law to provide different or additional disclosures relating to the processing of
personal information about residents of certain countries, regions or states. Please refer below for
disclosures that may be applicable to you
-
If you are a resident of
the State of California in the United States, please click for additional California-specific privacy
disclosures.
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If you are based in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), please click for additional
EEA-specific privacy disclosures.
Table of Contents
1.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
2.
SHARING INFORMATION WITH OTHER PARTIES
3.
ADVERTISING AND AFFILIATE LINKS
4.
AIGC SERVICES
5.
YOUR CHOICES REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION
6.
SECURITY AND STORAGE OF INFORMATION
7.
CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
8.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
9.
UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
10.
CONTACTING US
11.
LAST REVISION DATE
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND USE
In general.
We collect personal information from you when you submit information directly to us when you use
the Facemoji App, for example:
·
Your activity on the Facemoji App , such as when you create or choose a new theme for your Facemoji Keyboard or when you
create and share custom skins for your Facemoji Keyboard with others. We use this for purposes that
include providing you with the functionalities of the Facemoji App, like personalizing your Facemoji
Keyboard, and with certain social features of the Facemoji App.
·
Your settings and preferences with regard to the Facemoji App and Facemoji
Keyboard , such as your settings with regards to the level of access that the Facemoji Keyboard has
to the information on your device and the data that is shared with us. We use this for purposes that
include ensuring that the Facemoji Keyboard collects and sends to us data only in accordance with your
preferences, and to provide you with the various features and functionality.
·
Your account information, which you submit to us when
you set up an account on the Facemoji App, including your username and password. We use this information
to authenticate you when you access the Facemoji App.
·
The personalized theme you choose for your Facemoji Keyboard, such as the background picture,
text color, font and any custom skins or other features that you choose for your Facemoji Keyboard. We
use this information to operate and provide you the Facemoji Keyboard in accordance with your settings.
Where you subscribe to certain premium features of the Facemoji App, we will also use this information
to provide you with certain social features of the Facemoji App, such as the ability to share your
custom skins with other users of the Facemoji App.
·
Your photos. You can grant us access to
your photos in order to create a personalized background for your Facemoji Keyboard. We use this
information to operate and provide you the features and functionality of the Facemoji App.
·
Installed apps on your device. We use this information to
provide you with the capacity of switching and setting default input methods.
·
Information you type when you use the Facemoji Keyboard. We collect certain information
that you type using the Facemoji Keyboard. We use the information to determine your frequently used
words and phrases, your particular writing style, how often you backspace, and how you press the keys on
the Facemoji Keyboard in order to provide you with the smart predictive text functionality, auto-reply
functionality, emoji suggestion functionality, and ChatGPT service that we must forward to OpenAI /
Microsoft necessary to provide you with the ChatGPT service. We also use this information to simplify
how you use the Facemoji Keyboard and improve the functionality of the Facemoji Keyboard. We also
transfer this information from your device to our servers and use it to create language models and help
us optimize and improve the word prediction functionality of the Facemoji Keyboard and the accuracy of
key presses.
Please note that we do not collect
text that is comprised solely of numbers, or a combination of letters and numbers, or that contains the
"@" symbol. We also do not collect information from fields which the website or application developer
has indicated as being for password or payment card data.
·
Information you submit into search fields using the Facemoji Keyboard. We collect words and phrases that
you enter in search fields, including any text entered into search fields that has been converted from
voice. We use this information to operate and provide you the features and functionality of the Facemoji
Keyboard. We also transfer this information from your device to our servers and use this information to
analyze your searches to identify products and services that may be of interest to you for the purposes
of interest-based advertising.
·
Information you submit to AIGC services such as the ChatGPT chatbot using the Facemoji
Keyboard.We
collect words and phrases that you submit to AIGC services such as the ChatGPT chatbot, including any
text submitted that has been converted from voice. We use this information to operate and provide you
the features and functionality of the Facemoji Keyboard. We also transfer this information from your
device to our third party AIGC service providers such as Microsoft Corporation and use this information
to analyze your submissions to identify products and services that may be of interest to you for the
purposes of interest‐based advertising.
·
Information collected from third party apps, such as third party app development and analytics
platforms. The information may include
your IP address, where you downloaded the Facemoji App from, statistics regarding your use of the
Facemoji Keyboard and Facemoji App and any crashes or problems experienced while using the Facemoji
Keyboard and Facemoji App.
·
Your use of any social features of the Facemoji App that we may make available, such as information about the
content you have shared with others or any content that you use that has been created by other users. We
use this information to provide you with the social features of the Facemoji App.
·
Information collected from third party social media companies. Where you choose to connect to
the Facemoji App using a social network (for example to login to the Facemoji App), we will collect
personal information from that social network, such as your username and profile image, in accordance
with your privacy settings on that social network. We use this information to operate, maintain and
provide to you the features and functionality of the Facemoji App, such as allowing you to log in to
your account on the Facemoji App, to access your Facemoji Keyboard from other devices, to customize your
profile and to associate your social media account with your use of the social features of the Facemoji
App.
·
Voice recordings and related information. When you enable this feature,
we will access your device’s microphone and collect voice recordings, the text transcription of those
voice recordings and the date and time of those transcriptions. We use this information to provide the
voice-to-text functionality of the Facemoji Keyboard. We also transfer this information from your device
to our servers and use this information to improve the Facemoji Keyboard’s voice input function, and to
develop, create, improve, optimize, maintain, and otherwise enhance its automatic speech recognition and
voice transcription technology, and natural language understanding software products, services or
platforms.
·
Messages. Where you enable our automatic
reply feature, we collect the content of messages you receive via some social media applications of your
device in order to generate suggested replies. We use this information to provide the automatic reply
functionality of the Facemoji Keyboard. We also transfer this information from your device to our server
and use this information to create a better automatic reply model, which helps us improve precision and
accuracy in the replies.
·
Text submitted for translation. When you use the text
translation function, the original text will be uploaded to our server and saved in an encrypted format.
Such data will only be stored for a period of 7 days on our server and will then be deleted. We transfer
this information from your device to our server and use the text inserted by you in the translation
interface to translate this text into the target language. We may share the original text you uploaded
to our server with our third party service provider, Google LLC, Amazon Web Services, Inc., and such
service provider will be bound only to process the original text you uploaded on our behalf and under
our instructions.
·
Search logs. The search terms you input in search fields using the Facemoji Keyboard. We use this for purposes
that include analyzing your search terms in order to provide you with predictive search functionalities
of the Facemoji Keyboard.
We will indicate to you where the provision of certain personal information is required in order
for us to provide you certain features and functionalities of the Facemoji App and/or Facemoji Keyboard.
If you choose not to provide or share such personal information, it may affect or even disable those
features and functionalities. Please see the “Your Choices Regarding Your Information
” section of this Privacy Policy for more information.
We may link or combine the personal information we collect about you and the information we
collect automatically. This allows us to provide you with a personalized experience regardless of how
you interact with us.
Who is responsible for The Use of Your Personal Information
Ekatox may use proprietary software
licensed to it by third party entities for the purpose of login, stability analysis and data statistics.
As a result of the use of such software, your personal information may also be collected and processed
by Meta, Apple, and Appsflyer in accordance with their own policies regarding privacy which you can
access below:
(a)Meta, Inc. (to access Meta’s
privacy policy click here)
(b)Apple, Inc. (to access Apple
privacy policy click here)
(c)Appsflyer, Ltd. (to access
Appsflyer’s privacy policy click here).
While using the aforementioned
software, the third parties that license this software may be an independent entity from us. We would
advise you to inspect their privacy policies beforehand.
Ekatox is the controller of the
personal information we hold about you in connection with your use of the Facemoji Keyboard Service.
This means that we determine and are responsible for how your personal information is used.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.
We and our third-party partners and
providers may use cookies to automatically collect certain types of information when you visit or
interact with our email communications, websites and other online services. For example, we may collect
log data about your device and its software, such as your IP address, operating system, browser type,
date/time of your visit, and other similar information. We may collect analytics data or use third-party
analytics tools such as Google Analytics to help us measure usage and activity trends for our online
services and better understand our customer base.
Third-party partners and providers
may also collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different
websites when you use our websites and online services.
We use or may use the data collected
through tracking technologies to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter
it during your visit or the next time you visit the site; (b) provide custom, personalized content and
information, including targeted content and advertising; (c) recognize and contact you across multiple
devices; (d) provide and monitor the effectiveness of our services; (e) monitor aggregate metrics such
as total number of visitors, traffic, usage, and demographic patterns on our services; (f) diagnose or
fix technology problems; and (g) otherwise to plan for and enhance our services.
If you would prefer not to accept
cookies, most browsers will allow you to: (i) change your browser settings to notify you when you
receive a cookie, which lets you choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or
(iii) set your browser to automatically reject cookies. Please note that doing so may negatively impact
your experience using our online services, as some features and services on our online services may not
work properly. Depending on your device and operating system, you may not be able to delete or block all
cookies. In addition, if you want to reject cookies across all your browsers and devices, you will need
to do so on each browser on each device you actively use. You may also set your email options to prevent
the automatic downloading of images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether
you have accessed our email and performed certain functions with it.
We also permit third party online
advertising networks to collect information about your use for the Facemoji App and Facemoji Keyboard
over time so that they may play or display advertising on the Facemoji App and Facemoji Keyboard, on
other devices you may use, or on other websites, apps or services. See the “Advertising and Affiliate Links
” section of this Privacy Policy for more information.
2. SHARING INFORMATION WITH OTHER PARTIES
You may share personal information you upload to the Facemoji App with third parties. For
example, you may have the option to share your activities on the Facemoji App with your friends on
various social media sites.
We may share your personal information among the Ekatox group, or with third parties (i) where
they are subcontractors or advertisers, or (ii) to comply with legislation, to carry out a contract with
you or to defend Ekatox against any type of harm. Please find a detailed explanation of how we share
your personal information under ‘further information’ below.
Further information
We may share your personal information with:
a.
The Ekatox group . This includes other brands owned or controlled by Ekatox and other entities owned by or
under common ownership as Ekatox, which also includes our subsidiaries (i.e., any entity we own or
control) or our ultimate holding company (i.e., any organization that owns or controls us) and any
subsidiaries it owns;
b.
Subcontractors . This includes third party vendors, consultants and other service providers that perform
services on our behalf, in order to carry out their work for us, which may include identifying and
serving targeted advertisements, content or service fulfilment, assisting with voice recognition
technology, or providing analytics services;
c.
Future parties to the Ekatox group . Other parties in connection with any company transaction, such as a merger, sale of all
or a portion of company assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of
all or a portion of our business by another company or third party or in the event of bankruptcy or
related or similar proceedings; and
d.
Third parties as required to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, subpoena/court order, legal
process or other government request, (ii) enforce our Terms of Use Agreement, including the
investigation of potential violations thereof, (iii) investigate and defend ourselves against any third
party claims or allegations, (iv) protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of Ekatox, its
users or the public as required or permitted by law and (v) detect, prevent or otherwise address
criminal (including fraud or stalking), security or technical issues.
3. ADVERTISING AND AFFILIATE LINKS
We partner with Amazon Services, Inc., and other third parties to suggest products or services in
response to your search queries. If you click on such link, you will be taken to a third party site or
service and this Privacy Notice will no longer apply to information you provide to the third party site
or service.
We participate in interest-based advertising and use third party advertising companies to serve
you targeted advertisements based on your use of the Facemoji App and Facemoji Keyboard. We may share,
or we may permit third party online advertising networks, social media companies and other third party
services to collect information about your use of the Facemoji App and Facemoji Keyboard over time so
that they may play or display ads on other websites, apps or services you may use (including Facebook),
and on other devices you may use.
These third parties may collect mobile identifiers, such as the ID for Advertising for iOS
(IDFA), Google Advertising ID, as well as your device's IP address, information about other applications
on your device, your location, information about your use of the Facemoji App and Facemoji Keyboard and
information about which adverts you have seen or clicked on.
We and our third party partners use this information to make the advertisements you see online
more relevant to your interests, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting,
attribution, analytics and market research.
We and our third party partners may also link your various devices so that content you see on one
device can result in relevant advertising on another device. We do this by collecting information about
each device you use when you are logged in to the Facemoji App and Facemoji Keyboard. We may also work
with third party partners who employ tracking technologies, or the application of statistical modelling
tools, to determine if two or more devices are linked to a single user or household. We may share a
common account identifier (such as user ID) with third party advertising partners to help recognize you
across devices. We and our partners can use this cross-device linkage to serve interest-based
advertising and other personalized content to you across your devices, to perform analytics and to
measure the performance of our advertising campaigns.
You may be able to limit the use of these identifiers for interest-based advertising on a
particular device through the settings on your device by selecting "limit ad tracking" (iOS) or "opt out
of interest based ads" (Android). You may also be able to opt-out of some, but not all, interest-based
ads served by mobile ad networks by visiting http://youradchoices.com/appchoices and downloading the mobile AppChoices app.
To learn more about interest-based advertising and how you may be able to opt-out of some of this
advertising, you may wish to visit:
a.
the Network Advertising Initiative’s online resources, at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices;
b.
the DAA’s resources at www.aboutads.info/choices; and/or
c.
Your Online Choices at www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Please note that opting-out of receiving interest-based advertising through the NAI’s and DAA’s
or Your Online Choices online resources will only opt you out from receiving interest-based ads on that
specific browser or device, but you may still receive interest-based ads on your other devices. You
would need to perform the opt-out on each browser or device you use.
Some of these opt-outs may not be effective unless your browser is set to accept cookies. If you
delete cookies, change your browser settings, switch browsers or devices, or use anotherA operating
system, you will need to opt-out again.
Please note that opting out of interest-based advertising does not mean you will no longer see
advertising on your device – it just means that adverts may no longer be tailored to your
interests.
We partner with Microsoft Corporation, and other third parties to provide you with AIGC services
such as the ChatGPT chatbot and Microsoft’s Bing Chat. If you use an AIGC service, you will submit your
information to a third party site or service and receive from Microsoft content that may contain
advertisements or suggest links to third party websites, and this Privacy Notice will no longer apply to
information you provide to the third party site or service. By following a link to a third party
website, you will be subject to the third party website’s privacy policy, and we hold no responsibility
or liability. Please check their policies before submitting any information to any third party website.
For your convenience, Microsoft’s Bing Chat is subject to Microsoft’s privacy policy, which is available
at the following link: https://privacy.microsoft.com/privacystatement.
5. YOUR CHOICES REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION
We will retain your information for as long as needed to provide you the functionalities of the
Facemoji App and Facemoji Keyboard and for thirty days thereafter for the purpose of analyzing or
further improving our technology, the Facemoji App and Facemoji Keyboard, after which the personal
information will be deleted or anonymized.
You may control the Facemoji App and Facemoji Keyboard’s access to your device information
through your “Settings” app on your device. For instance, you can disable the Facemoji Keyboard's access
to your microphone, photo stream and camera roll.
You can also control the information
that we receive at any time by changing your settings in the Facemoji App (by turning off the "share
data" toggle in Settings > Input Settings). Note that certain features require personal information
input to function and the overall effectiveness of the Facemoji Keyboard or various other features and
functionalities may deteriorate or be disabled if you decide to turn-off data sharing. For instance, if
you turn off data sharing, it may affect the word prediction functionality of the Facemoji Keyboard, the
translation functionality of the Facemoji Keyboard, ChatGPT and other AIGC functionality,or your ability
to customize certain elements of the Facemoji Keyboard like fonts and key sounds.
You can modify your account
information at any time from the account management menu in Facemoji, or delete their account. By
deleting an account, you can delete the information on the SNS used to create the account.
If you would like to request the
deletion of your personal data, please follow the steps below:
·
Contact Us: Send an email to facemojikeyboard.service@gmail.com with the subject line "Data Deletion
Request."
·
Provide Identification: Include your full name, email address, and any other information that can help us verify
your identity and locate your data.
·
Specify the Data: Clearly state which data you would like to be deleted. This can include your account
information, usage data, or any other personal information you have shared with us.
·
Confirmation: Upon receiving your request, we will verify your identity and process your request. You
will receive a confirmation email once your data has been deleted.
6. SECURITY AND STORAGE OF INFORMATION
Ekatox cares about the security of your information and uses commercially reasonable physical,
administrative, and technological safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of all information
we collect and that we share with our service providers. In the event that any information under our
control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate
the situation and where appropriate, notify those individuals whose information may have been
compromised and take other steps, in accordance with any applicable laws and
regulations.
Ekatox does not knowingly collect or solicit any information through the Facemoji App or the
Facemoji Keyboard from anyone under the age of 13. In the event that we learn that we have inadvertently
collected personal information from a child under age 13, we will delete that information as quickly as
possible. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under 13, please contact us
at facemojikeyboard.service@gmail.com.
8. LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
The Facemoji App and the Facemoji Keyboard may contain or suggest links to third party websites
provided by our business partners, advertisers, and social media sites. Our users may also post links to
third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites
have their own privacy notices and policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability
for their policies. Please check the individual policies before you submit any information to those
websites.
9. UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Notice from time to time. If we make any changes to
this Privacy Notice, we will change the "Last Revision" date below and will post the updated Privacy
Notice on this page. However, in case the modifications are significant, we will provide you with a more
prominent notice.
If you have questions about this Policy Notice, please contact us at facemojikeyboard.service@gmail.com .
This Policy Notice was last revised on, and effective
as of, July 29, 2024.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY NOTICE
Last Updated: November 15, 2024
This California Privacy Notice (the “CA Disclosures
”) supplements the information contained in our
Privacy Notice and applies solely to individual residents of the State of California ("consumers" or
"you").
Unless otherwise expressly stated, all terms in these CA Disclosures have the same meaning as
defined in our Privacy Notice or as otherwise defined the CCPA.
1. SCOPE
When we use the term “personal information” in these CA Disclosures, we mean information that
identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably
be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.
For the purposes of these Disclosures, personal information does not include:
·
Publicly available information from government records.
·
Deidentified, aggregated or anonymized information that is maintained in a form that is not
capable of being associated with or linked to you.
·
Information excluded from the CCPA's scope, such as health or medical information covered by the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality
of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data; or information covered by certain
sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
(GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver's Privacy Protection Act
of 1994.
·
Information relating to our employees (including applicant data), contractors and other
personnel.
2. COLLECTION AND USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect personal information from and about you for a variety of purposes. For example,
we use personal information:
·
To fulfill your requests, process your transactions and provide our Services to you;
·
To communicate with you
·
For marketing and advertising purposes
·
To protect the security and integrity of our business, comply with legal requirements and
obligations, and as otherwise permitted or required by law
·
To monitor and improve the Facemoji Keyboard’s function, and to develop, create, improve,
optimize, maintain, and otherwise enhance our software products, services or platforms, including
automatic speech recognition and voice transcription technology, natural language understanding,
accuracy of keyboard input, facial recognition, and augmented reality technologies
To learn more about the types of personal information we collect and the purposes for which we
use this information, please refer to Information We Collect and Use section of our Privacy Notice.
In the last 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information:
Category of Personal Information Collected
|
Collected
|
Categories of Sources
|
Identifiers,
such as your name, address, phone number, email address, photos, username, or other
similar identifiers.
|
X
|
·
Directly
from you
·
Your
browser or device
·
Our
business partners and affiliates
·
Third
parties you direct to share information with us
·
Social
networks
·
Data
providers
|
California Customer Records (Cal. Civ. Code §
1798.80(e)), such as birthdate, contact information and payment information.
|
X
|
·
Directly
from you
·
Your
browser or device
·
Our
business partners and affiliates
·
Third
parties you direct to share information with us
·
Social
networks
·
Data
providers
|
Protected Classification Characteristics, such as age and
gender.
|
X
|
·
|
Commercial Information, such as shopping and
purchase history, including premium content that you have subscribed for through the
Facemoji App.
|
X
|
·
|
eBiometric Information, such as face, eye or
other biometric scans.
|
X
|
|
Internet/Network Information, such as device
information, logs and analytics data.
|
|
·
Your
browser or device
·
Our
business partners and affiliates
·
Third
party apps
|
Geolocation Data, such as precise
location information from your device or generated based on IP address.
|
X
|
·
Your
browser or device
|
Sensory Information, such as voice
recordings and background noise and acoustic environments when you enable the
voice-to-text functionality of the Facemoji Keyboard.
|
|
·
Directly
from you
·
Third
parties you direct to share information with us.
|
Profession/Employment Information, such as your
employment history.
|
X
|
|
Non-Public Education Information (20 U.S.C. § 1232g, 34
C.F.R. Part 99), such as educational history, degree (for applicants)
|
X
|
|
Other Personal Information, including
information you submit into the search fields, certain information that you type using
the Facemoji Keyboard, your use of any social features of the Facemoji App that we may
make available, information you post on our social media pages or otherwise provide to
us.
Please note we do not collect text that is comprised solely of numbers, or a combination of
letters and numbers, or that contains the "@" symbol, to avoid as far as possible
the collection of account information, email addresses or other similar sensitive
data.
We also do not collected information from fields which the website or application developer has
indicated as being for password or payment card data.
|
|
·
Directly
from you
·
Your
browser or device
·
Third
parties you direct to share information from us
|
Inferences, such as predictions
about your interests and preferences including the personalized themes you choose for
your Facemoji Keyboard.
|
|
·
Directly
from you
·
Your
browser or device
·
Information generated
or derived from your purchases, online browsing and usage activity
|
3. DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
As described in the Sharing Information With Other Parties section in our Privacy Notice, we share personal information with third parties for
business purposes or we may sell your personal information to third parties, subject to your right to
opt out of those sales (see The Right to Opt-Out of Personal Information Sales below).
The categories of third parties to whom we sell or disclose your personal information for a
business purpose include:
·
Other Brands and our affiliates, including the Ekatox group.
·
Subcontractors that perform services for us, on our behalf, which may include providing marketing and
advertising services, providing mailing or email services, billing, data enhancement services, fraud
prevention, web hosting, or similar services;
·
Select marketing and strategic partners who use this information to market to you, to perform analytics and conduct research, or for
other purposes;
·
Ad networks and advertising partners to deliver advertising and personalized content to you on our Service, on other sites and
services you may use, and across other devices you may use, as well as provide advertising-related
services such as reporting, attribution, analytics and market research;
·
Analytics providers to better understand the demographics of our users and visitors, and to personalize,
enhance and improve our Service;
·
Social networks for advertising or personalization purposes, or to engage with you
·
Future parties to the Ekatox group and other parties in connection with any company transaction, such as a merger, sale of all
or a portion of company assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of
all or a portion of our business by another company or third party or in the event of bankruptcy or
related or similar proceedings.
·
We may also disclose personal information to other third parties at your direction or upon your
request, or to comply with legal process or contractual obligations, as described in our Privacy Notice.
In the previous 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information to
third parties for a business purpose:
·
Internet/Network Information.
In the previous 12 months, we have sold the following categories of personal information to third
parties, subject to your settings and preferences and your Right to Opt Out:
·
Internet / Network Information
·
Other Information
As is common practice among companies that operate online, we have permitted third party
advertising networks, social media companies and other third party businesses collect and disclose your
personal information (including Internet / Network Information, Commercial Information, and Inferences)
directly from your browser or device through cookies or tracking technologies when you visit or interact
with our websites, use our apps or otherwise engage with us. To learn more, please see the section of
our Privacy Notice.
4. YOUR CALIFORNIA CONSUMER RIGHTS
As a California resident, you may be able to exercise the following rights in relation to the
Personal Information about you that we have collected (subject to certain limitations at law):
The Right to Know
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You have the right to
request any or all of the following information relating to your personal information we
have collected and disclosed in the last 12 months, upon verification of your identity:
·
The
specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you;
·
The
categories of personal information we have collected about you;
·
The
categories of sources of the personal information;
·
The
categories of personal information that we have disclosed to third parties for a
business purpose, and the categories of recipients to whom this information was
disclosed;
·
The
categories of personal information we have sold about you (if any), and the categories
of third parties to whom the information was sold; and
·
The
business or commercial purposes for collecting or, if applicable, selling the personal
information.
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The Right to Request Deletion
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You have the right to
request the deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to
certain exceptions.
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The Right to Opt Out of Personal Information Sale or Sharing
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You have the right to
direct us not to sell or share personal information we have collected about you to third
parties now or in the future.
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The Right to Non-Discrimination
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You have the right not
to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising these rights.
However, please note
that if the exercise of these rights limits our ability to process personal information
(such as in the case of a deletion request), we may no longer be able to provide you our
products and services or engage with you in the same manner.
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“Shine the Light”
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California residents
that have an established business relationship with us have rights to know how their
information is disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes under
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civ. Code § 1798.83).
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5. TO EXERCISE YOUR CALIFORNIA CONSUMER RIGHTS
To Exercise Your Right to Know or Right to
Deletion
To exercise your Right to Know or your Right to Request Deletion, please submit a request by:
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Filling out our California
Consumer Rights Request Form , or
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Emailing us at facemojikeyboard.service@gmail.com
We will need to verify your identity before processing your request, which may require us to
request additional personal information from you or require you to log into your account, if you have
one. We will only use personal information provided in connection with a Consumer Rights Request to
review and comply with the request.
In certain circumstances, we may decline a request to exercise the rights described above,
particularly where we are unable to verify your identity or locate your information in our systems. If
we are unable to comply with all or a portion of your request, we will explain the reasons for declining
to comply with the request.
To Exercise Your Right to Opt Out of Personal Information Sale
or Sharing
Unless you have exercised your Right to Opt Out of personal information sale or sharing, we may
sell personal information to third parties for monetary or other valuable consideration. The third
parties to whom we sell personal information may use such information for their own purposes in
accordance with their own privacy statements, which may include reselling this information to additional
third parties.
To exercise the Right to Opt Out of Personal Information Sales, you may submit a request by
clicking the following link:
Do Not Sell or Share My Information
Third Party Tracking and Online Advertising
We do allow certain third-party partners and providers to collect information about consumers
directly through our services, from your browser or device through cookies or similar tracking
technology when you visit or interact with our website, use our apps or otherwise
engage with us online. For example, they may collect Internet/Network information, such as a cookie
or device ID, browsing history and website usage, Geolocation Data, and Inferences generated from
your browsing history and interactions with our service as well as other sites and services.
These third parties use your personal information for purposes of analyzing and optimizing our
services and ads on our site, on other websites or mobile apps, or on other devices you may use, or
to personalize content and perform other advertising-related services such as reporting,
attribution, analytics and market research. These third-party businesses may use such
information for their own purposes in accordance with their own privacy statements, which may include
reselling this information to additional third parties, including other advertising
networks.
Please see the section of our Privacy Notice for more information about how third parties use
cookies and related technologies to collect information automatically on our websites and other online
services, and the choices you may have in relation to those activities.
Minors Under Age 16
We do not sell the personal information of consumers we know to be less than 16 years of age,
unless we receive affirmative authorization (the "Right to Opt In") from either the minor who is between
13 and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a minor less than 13 years of age. Please
contact us at facemojikeyboard.service@gmail.com to inform us if you, or your minor child, are under the
age of 16.
California’s “Shine the Light” Law
California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section §1798.83) provides certain rights to
California residents that have an established business relationship with us with regard to the
disclosure of certain types of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing
purposes. To opt-out of having your personal information disclosed to third parties for their direct
marketing purposes, please click Do Not Sell My Information and provide your contact information to be added to our suppression list.
6. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Updates to These CA Disclosures
We will update these CA Disclosures from time to time. When we make changes to these CA
Disclosures, we will change the "Last Updated" date at the beginning of these Disclosures. All changes
shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided in the
notification.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or requests in connection with this Notice or other privacy-related
matters, please send an email to facemojikeyboard.service@gmail.com .
FACEMOJI KEYBOARD
EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA PRIVACY NOTICE
Last Updated: November 15, 2024
This European Economic Area Privacy Notice (the “EEA Disclosures
”) supplements the information contained in our
Privacy Notice and applies solely to individual residents of the European Economic Area ("consumers" or
"you").
Unless otherwise expressly stated, all terms in these EEA Disclosures have the same meaning as
defined in our Privacy Notice or as otherwise defined the GDPR.
1.
SCOPE
When we use the term “personal information” in these EEA Disclosures, we mean information that
identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably
be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.
For the purposes of these Disclosures, personal information does not include:
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Publicly available information from government records.
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Deidentified, aggregated or anonymized information that is maintained in a form that is not
capable of being associated with or linked to you.
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Information excluded from the CCPA's scope, such as health or medical information covered by the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality
of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data; or information covered by certain
sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act
(GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver's Privacy Protection Act
of 1994.
·
Information relating to our employees (including applicant data), contractors and other
personnel.
2.
USER
CONSENT
Ekatox uses proprietary software
in Facemoji App and
Facemoji Keyboard, and is required to comply with Google’s EU user consent policy for users based in
EEA. Specifically, we are required to obtain your consent for the use of your personal data.
If you choose not to provide such consent, it may affect or even disable features and
functionalities of Facemoji App and Facemoji Keyboard. Please see the “Your Choices Regarding Your Information
” section
of our Privacy
Notice for more information.
3. DATA CONTROLLER
The data controller responsible for your personal data is Ekatox Singapore Private Limited with
its office at 137 Telok Ayer Street, #08-01, Singapore 068602. The Data Protection Officer is Ye
Zhexin. The contact email is facemojikeyboard.service@gmail.com .
4. CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED
We collect a variety of catageories of personal data from and about you. Please refer to the
“Collection and Use of Personal Information” section for more information.
5. DATA RETENTION
We retain your personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes stated in the Policy and
to comply with legal obligations. When your personal data is no longer needed, we will securely
delete it or anonymize it.
6. YOUR RIGHTS
As a user in the European Economic Area, you have the following rights under GDPR:
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The Right to Access: You may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
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The Right to Rectification: You can ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
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The Right to Erasure (“Right to Be Forgotten”): You can request deletion of your personal
data.
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The Right to Restrict Processing: You can request that we limit how your data is
used.
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The Right to Data Portability: You can request a copy of your data in a structured,
machine-readable format.
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The Right to Object: You can object to our processing of your data based on legitimate
interests.
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The Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing: Individuals have
the right to avoid automated decision-making.
To exercise your GDPR rights, please submit a request by emailing us at facemojikeyboard.service@gmail.com .
7. CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS
Your data may be transferred to and processed in countries outside the European Region, including
the United States. We ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your data, such as strong
encryption and strict access control.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or requests in connection with this Notice or other privacy-related
matters, please send an email to facemojikeyboard.service@gmail.com .