Privacy Policy

Understanding how we handle your data at IDDIAS.

At IDDIAS Ltd, we highly value your privacy and are dedicated to safeguarding all your personal data. This Privacy Policy is intended to provide you with insights into the data we collect, use, disclose, how we process it, when it's shared, and the rights and choices you have regarding your data. We kindly ask you to carefully read this policy to FULLY understand how we use and handle your data with respect. By using our Services, you agree to the terms outlined in this policy.

1. Data Collection

We collect the following types of information:

  • Personal Data: Name, email address, and other contact information.
  • Facial Data: Images and characteristics for search functionality.

2. Data Use

We use your data to provide, maintain, and improve the services of our App. This includes:

  • Facilitating face characteristic searches.
  • Communicating with users about updates and changes to the App.

3. Third-Party Disclosure

We may share your data with third-party service providers that assist us in operating the App and conducting our business. All third parties are required to comply with our data protection standards.

4. Data Security

We implement appropriate security measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure.

5. User Rights

By accessing the App you consent that your picture will be included in the Data App and be part of the App. You have the right to access, correct, or delete the personal data we hold about you. To exercise these rights, please contact us at info@iddias.com.

We use and collect various types of data from you to provide and enhance our Services for various purposes to provide and improve the Service to you. This data falls into two main categories:

1. Data You Provide to Us

Account Creation Data

  • To create an account using facial recognition, we require your profile picture, email address, phone number, first and/or last name, date of birth, country, username, role or profession.
  • During account creation, you may also choose to share additional data with us, such as a biography, location.

Content Data

  • We receive content you create when you use our Services, including but not only profile photos, photos, videos, emojis, captions, comments, messages, or geolocation. Please note that other users can copy your content and share it through other services.

Communications with us

  • When you contact us for support, report a concern, request assistance, or exercise your rights, we collect data necessary to assist you. This may include the content of your messages, photos, government-issued identification copies, identifiers (e.g., phone numbers or email addresses), or other relevant data.

2. Data We Collect When You Use Our Services

As is common with internet-based services, we automatically receive data about you and your device when you use our Services:

Connection and Technical Data

  • We collect your IP address, account creation date, last login, terminal equipment, and port data.

Interaction Data

  • This includes details about yourself, your friends, friend invitations, reactions, comments on others' content, and friends you interact with the most.

Usage Data

  • Data about your actions on our platform, including posting times, content interactions, deletions, blocking, hiding, screenshotting, application crashes, and event logs. This usage data may include information such as your computer internet protocol address (e.g. IP address), your phone ID, browser, the pages of our Service you visited.

Device and Equipment Data

  • Details about your device, such as device type, operating system version, language preference, and installed applications.

We may also collect additional data if you choose to use specific features of our services, such as:

  • Cameras and Photos Library: Enabling access to your device's camera and photo library.
  • Geolocation Data: Sharing your location when posting content.
  • Address Book Data: Allowing access to your address book to find friends on [--].
  • Integrations with partners: When you connect partner applications to our services, we receive data for feature integration.

We do not collect certain categories of Personal data about yourself that are not linked to the Service (This includes, but not only, details related to your religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, political opinions, information about your health nor we collect any information regarding criminal convictions or offences.

We process your individual and personal data carefully and thoughtfully to provide and improve our Services. Here are the primary purposes for which we process your data:

Operation, Improvement, and Provision of Our Services

  • Creating and managing your account.
  • Providing access to and usage of our IDDIAS app.
  • Personalizing your experience on the IDDIAS app.
  • Processing product orders and deliveries.
  • Enforcing our terms and policies.

Safety and Security

  • Ensuring your safety and the security of our IDDIAS app.
  • Compliance with relevant laws and regulations and best practices.

Measurement and Analytics

  • Measuring the effectiveness and performance of our Services.
  • Providing recommendations for accounts and content.

Communications

  • Responding to your queries, claims, or disputes.
  • Conducting research and product testing.
  • Sending important service-related messages.

Research

  • Gathering real user feedback for research purposes.
  • Letting you participate in research if you choose to.

We only share your data when it is absolutely necessary to provide our Services or when required by applicable law or regulations to enable the IDDIAS App. Here are the categories of sharing:

Our Employees

  • Authorized our employees may access your data to provide support and maintain our services.

Other Users

  • Your content is available to your friends on the app.

Service Providers

  • We work with partners to provide technical and hosting support, notifications, user analytics, and more. We may share your data with them to deliver our Services.

Partner Integrations

  • When integrating features from partner applications, we may share data to enable these features.

Legal and Statutory Purposes

  • We may share data to comply with legal requests or protect user safety, prevent fraud, or address specific content concerns.

Change in Ownership

  • In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, we may share, sell, or transfer data about you.

Our goal is to retain your data for as long as needed to provide our Services to yourself and the other users, subject to legal requirements. Here are our general retention periods:

  • Account Creation Data: Pictures and images included are retained indefinitely as long as you have an active account.
  • Content Data: Retained indefinitely or until the content is deleted by you.
  • Communications with us: Retained for no longer than [--] months.
  • Connection and Technical Data: Retained for no longer than [--] months.
  • Interaction Data and pictures: Retained indefinitely or until interactions are suspended or deleted by you.
  • Usage Data: Retained for no longer than [--] months.
  • Device and Equipment Data: Retained for no longer than [--] months.

We process your data based on various legal grounds, including contractual necessity, legitimate interests, your consent the moment you access the IDDIAS App or compliance with legal obligations. Here, we detail the legal bases for processing, the associated processing activities, and your rights.

Contractual Necessity

We use data provided by you, automatically collected data, and data related to you from other sources where it is necessary to perform the contract you enter into (our Terms) when you register for, access, and use the IDDIAS app.

Legitimate Interests

We use your data where this is necessary to achieve legitimate interests - whether belonging to us, you, or a third party - provided these interests are not outweighed by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.

Consent

The moment you access the IDDIAS App you give us your free and informed consent to collect, process, access or use your data for the use and operation of the app, as well as to share it with third parties in accordance with this policy. You may revoke your consent at all times by suspending or closing your account.

Compliance with a Legal Obligation

We may use your data including your profile data and pictures stored where it is necessary to comply with a legal obligation. This includes situations where we have obligations to take measures to ensure the safety of our users or comply with a valid legal request such as an order from law enforcement agencies or courts.

You have rights and choices regarding your data. These rights may be subject to certain limitations and apply in various circumstances. You can:

Access your data

  • Confirm the data we process about you.
  • Request a copy of your data.

Delete your data

  • Delete your content posted on your profile.
  • Delete your full account will be retained where only your picture.

Rectify your data

  • Change or correct data when it's inaccurate.

Portability of your data

  • Receive your data in a machine-readable format for sharing with third parties.

Object to the processing of your data

  • Object to processing for certain purposes.

Restrict the processing of your data

  • Request restrictions under specific circumstances.

We have implemented security measures that are adequate to the risk of the data being processed in accordance with industry standards.

We may transfer your data-to-data controllers, data processors or third parties located in countries not providing for an adequate level of protection. Should we carry out such transfers, we will implement adequate safeguards, such as the use of the EU model clauses for the transfer of data.

We may use data processors that will act as per our instructions and in accordance with international best practices. These data processors may be located in countries not providing for an adequate level of protection.

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or your data, please contact us at info@iddias.com. We are here to assist you with any inquiries or requests.

In the event you are dissatisfied with our response to your rights requests, you have the option to file a complaint with the Portuguese Data Protection Commission (our lead supervisory authority) or with your local supervisory authority.