Overview

This Privacy Policy describes how Messenger treats information that it collects and receives related to your use of Messenger's products, services, and websites. Our primary goal in collecting information is to provide and improve our products and services.

General

1. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to all products/software, services and websites of Messenger. (Messenger, “our”, “we” or “us”) (collectively, the “Services”). You (“you” or “your”) consent to this Privacy Policy for collecting, using, disclosing and handling of your information (personal and device information) in connection with your access to, and use of, the Services.

2. Messenger provides “Free” Services for users. In order to pay for the “Free” Service, personalized advertisements are placed before you. Your information is used to personalize the advertisements.

3. The Services are not intended for use by anyone who is not able to enter into a legally binding contract. In any event, if you under 13 years old or if you are not able to legally form binding contracts, you may not use any of the Services or submit information about yourself to Us. If you have objections to this Privacy Policy, you should not access, sign up for, or use any of the Services.

4. Messenger reserves the right to modify these policies at any time. We invite you to periodically consult this section for possible updates and changes. Notification of any major changes will not be sent to your account, and you are obliged to check the changes section of the privacy policy regularly.

5. If you wish to contact our Privacy Officer, you may contact with Email: messagescontact@gmail.com.

Acceptance

Please read the policy carefully before you use or access our Services. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you agree with our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your information as described in the following sections. Please note that if you disagree with anything in this Privacy Policy, you must not use the Service.

I. What Information Do We Collect or Access?

1. Personal Information: When you sign up for a user account for any of the Services, We collect personal information, such as your phone number.

2. Device Information: When you access our website or use our software, the information we collect include IP Addresses, location data, Device ID, Advertiser ID, browser type and settings, device type and settings, and operating system (such as iOS and Android).

3. User communications: When you use our Services to make and receive telephone calls or send and receive messages, we are required to collect telephony log information (telephone toll records) like your calling-party number, receiving-party number, forwarding numbers, time and date of calls and messages, duration of calls, routing information, and types of calls.

4.Third Party Applications or Services: We may collect information about you or others from third party applications or services available on our Service. For example, when you register for an account with us, you may do so by choosing to connect your already existing social media account with our Service (e.g., Facebook, Google+, etc.). We receive certain information from your social media account depending on your permissions and which information you have made public. We use this information to make an account for you on our Service.

5. In order to ensure that you can use product features and services normally, we may use the following permissions:

Access and change your network and WIFI status: For you to be able to use Messenger Pro；
Allow Messenger Pro to access the network connection, which may generate GPRS traffic;
Allow products to be presented in a floating window state：Help you quickly open the app;
Allow Messenger Pro to get information about current or recently running tasks；
When using the clean function, it is allowed to end other background processes；
Allow the program to get the activities of other apps；
Read contacts;
Read phone state;
Allow the program to run automatically after startup;
Allow programs to read or write system settings；
Allow background processes to still run after the phone screen is turned off；
Allows an application to broadcast an Intent to set an alarm for the user.

II. How we use and share your information?

We DO NOT collect, store or use any personal information while you visit, download or upgrade our products.

1. We use your information to communicate with you, to ensure our services are working as intended, to make improvements to our services, to develop our business, and to protect against fraud and spam.

2. We provide the information we collect to third parties, such as advertisers, in order to provide you with commercial advertisements. The provision of such information generate revenue to pay in part or in whole for the Services. We do not provide personal information to third parties except for billing purposes.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here ( http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp ) .

3. We may use different technologies to process your information for these purposes. We may use automated systems to analyze your information to provide you with personalized services and personalized advertisements. And we may analyze your information to help us detect abuse such as spam, malware, and illegal content.

III. Other instances in which we may use your information

In addition to certain specific uses of the information described in this privacy policy, we may use the information we receive to:

• Make our services available. We use the information you submit and automatically processed information to provide you with all requested services.

• Improve, test and monitor the effectiveness of our applications. We use automatically processed information to better understand user behavior and trends, detect potential outages and technical issues, to run, protect, improve and optimize our applications. For example, the application uses Firebase to analyze related SDK to understand user behavior and trends. For related privacy policies, please refer to: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

• Communicate with you. We use the information that we must communicate with you through the newsletter, that is, to send you marketing notices, to receive your feedback on our app experience, and to let you know our policies and terms. When you contact us, we will also use your information to respond to you.

If there is any new purpose for processing your personal data, we will make corresponding changes to this privacy policy to let you know that we have started processing information about that other purpose.

IV. Disclosure of Your Information

1. If you violate laws and regulations (such as sending harassment messages), we will legally disclose your personal information.

2. In the following circumstances, we may disclose your personal information according to your wish or regulations by law:

1) Your prior permission;

2) By the applicable law within or outside your country of residence, legal process, litigation requests;

3) By requests from public and governmental authorities;

4) To protect our legal rights and interests.

V. Security

We implement industry standard security measures intended to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Please be aware that no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit on or through the Service and you do so at your own risk.

VI. Transfers of Your Information

If you choose to use the Service or provide your information to us, your information may be transferred to, processed and maintained on servers or databases located outside of the country or jurisdiction where you are located, including the United States. Such countries may have laws that are less protective than the country in which you reside. If you do not want your information transferred to or processed or maintained outside of the country or jurisdiction where you are located, you should not use the Site or Service.

VII. Links to other Web sites and Third Party Ads

The Services may include advertisements regarding or otherwise contain hyperlinks to other websites, including those of our business partners, vendors and advertisers. Advertisements for third parties and their products may be included with the Services and those third party advertisements and web sites may include a cookie, web beacons, or other device(s) of the third party. We do not have control over the cookies, web beacons, or other devices used by third parties and do not have access to whatever information they may collect. You acknowledge and agree We are not responsible for the content or for the privacy practices employed by third parties.

Messenger allows third-party companies to collect certain information from users of Messenger. These companies may utilize cookies, pixels or other technologies to collect and use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., hashed data, click streaming information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other website in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit the websites of the Digital Advertising Alliance at www.aboutads.info and Networking Advertising Initiative at www.networkadvertising.org/choices .

VIII. Search service

Messenger may have partnerships with third-party service providers, such as search results providers, advertising partners, etc. This may or may not include switching the default search results provider to make your online experience more convenient, rich and personalized. Such third party service providers may collect information and notify you of what information is collected in accordance with their own terms of service, privacy policies and other applicable policies. By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you authorize us to pass certain information to such third party service providers. For example, all information contained in your search query will be passed to the applicable third party search results provider; if you include any such information in your search query or provide such information directly to a third party service provider, such information may include personal information. You acknowledge and agree that: you are not responsible or liable for the privacy policies or other actions of any third party websites or services or providers that may be used or enabled in the Application, not limited to any other search result providers. If you are using a version of the Application that allows viewing of search results, we recommend that you review the terms of service and privacy policy for that address, as well as any other relevant terms.

IX. Search URL:

When you type a URL or query in the address bar, the letters you type are sent to the default search engine so that the search engine's autocomplete/prediction feature can automatically suggest the term or URL you are looking for. if a default search engine is provided on your version of Messenger, the application will contact your default search engine when you start or change networks to determine the best local address. For example, if Google is set as the default search engine, the application will contact Google as described here unless you change this default setting. When you type a URL or query into the application, the letters you type may be sent to the applicable search engine so that the search engine's prediction feature can automatically suggest the term or URL you are looking for (if applicable). If you accept a predicted query or URL, the application may also send that information to the applicable search engine of your choice. The privacy policies of third-party search engine providers apply to any information you provide to them (including, but not limited to, information you provide through the Application). Please read these policies carefully before providing any personal information to them.

X. Children’s Privacy

These Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.

XI. Retention

1. Personal data shall be processed and stored as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.

Therefore:

1) Personal data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between us and you shall be retained until such contact has been fully performed.

2) Personal Data collected for the purposes of the Company’s legitimate interests shall be retained as long as needed to fulfill such purposes. Users may find specific information regarding the legitimate interests pursued by the Company within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the Company.

2. The company may be allowed to retain personal data for a longer period whenever the User has given consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn. Furthermore, the Company may be obligated to retain personal data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

3. Once the retention period expires, personal data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.

XII. For Individuals in European Economic Area, Switzerland and/or the United Kingdom

1. This section only applies to individuals that access or use our Service while located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and/or United Kingdom (collectively, the “Designated Countries”) at the time of data collection. We may ask you to identify which country you are located in when you use some of the Services, or we may rely on your IP address to identify which country you are located in.

2. These Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers.

3. We act as a data controller with regard to any personal information collected from individuals accessing or using its Service. A “data controller” is an entity that determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information is processed. Any third parties that act as our service providers or are otherwise acting on our behalf are “data processors” that handle your personal information in accordance with our instructions.

4. Legal Bases for Processing Your Personal Information. We describe our legal bases for processing throughout this Policy. Below is a list of the purposes described in our policy with the corresponding legal bases for processing:

1) Users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes;

2) provision of Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the User and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;

3) processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Owner is subject;

4) processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Owner;

5) processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Owner or by a third party.

In any case, we will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

5. Your Individual Rights. We provide you with the rights described below when you use our Service. If you would like to exercise your rights under applicable law, please contact us at messagescontact@gmail.com . Please note, we may seek to verify your identity when we receive an individual rights request from you in order to ensure the security of your personal information.

1) Right to Withdraw Your Consent. If we ever asked for your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. A withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of our processing or the processing of any third parties based on consent before your withdrawal.

2) Right of Access. Upon your request, we will provide you with a copy of your personal information in our files without undue delay and free of charge, unless we permitted by law to charge a fee. Your access may be limited to the extent it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other individuals.

3) Right to Rectification (or “Correction”). You may request to correct or update any of your personal information in our files. We may provide you with the ability to update some or all of your personal information directly via the Services.

4) Right to Erasure (or the “Right to be Forgotten”). Upon your request, we will erase any of your personal information in our files that: is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed; was collected in relation to processing that you previously consented to, but later withdrew such consent; or was collected in relation to processing activities to which you object, and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for our processing.

5) Right to Restriction. You have the right to restrict our processing of your personal information under certain conditions. During the time which restriction of processing applies, we will only process your restricted personal information with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest. We will inform you if or when the restriction is lifted.

6) Right to Object. You may object to our processing at any time and as permitted by applicable law if we process your personal information on the legal bases of: consent; contract; or legitimate interests. We may continue to process your personal information if it is necessary for the defense of legal claims, or for any other exceptions permitted by applicable law.

7) Right to Data Portability. If we process your personal information based on a contract with you or based on your consent, or the processing is carried out by automated means, you may request to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to have us transfer your personal information directly to another “controller,” where technically feasible, unless exercise of this right adversely affects the rights and freedoms of others. You right to data portability only applies to personal information provided by you to us.

8) Notification to Third Parties. When we fulfill your individual rights requests for correct (or rectification), erasure or restriction of processing, we will notify third parties also handling the relevant personal information unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. Upon your request, we will identify such third parties.

9) Automated Individual Decision-Making, Including Profiling. You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing of your personal information, including profiling, which produces legal or similarly significant effects on you, unless an exception applies under applicable law.

10) Limitations to Individual Rights Requests. We may limit your individual rights requests in the following ways:

i.Where denial of access is required or authorized by law;

ii.When granting access would have a negative impact on others’ privacy;

iii.To protect our rights and properties; and

iv.Where the request is frivolous or burdensome.

11) Transfer of Your Personal Information. We transfer your personal information subject to appropriate safeguards as permitted under the applicable data protection laws. Specifically, when your personal information is transferred out of the Designated Countries, we have the required contractual provisions for transferring personal information in place with the third-parties to which your information is transferred. For such transfers, we rely on legal transfer mechanisms such as Standard Contractual Clauses or we work with U.S. based third parties that are certified under the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework.

12) Right to Lodge Complaints. If you believe that we have infringed or violated your privacy rights under applicable law or this Policy, please contact us at messagescontact@gmail.com , so that we can work with you to resolve your concerns. You also have a right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority situated in a Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of alleged infringement.

Messenger team provides this Privacy Policy to help you understand how we collect, use and disclose information, including what you may provide to us or that we obtain from our products and services. We treat your privacy very seriously. Your privacy is important to Messenger team.

XIII. Your California Privacy Rights

Messenger collects various types of personal information about you both online and one, as described in this privacy policy. Under California law, Messenger customers who are residents of California may request certain information about our disclosure of personal information during the prior calendar year to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please write to us at the following address: messagescontact@gmail.com.