Terms of Use
Date Last Modified: May 7, 2023
Terms of Use
Please read carefully the following provisions of this Terms of Use (¡°Terms of Use¡±). This is a legal agreement between you and Chitchit. Regarding the use of (i) the Chitchit software programs and related documentation being installed or used by you on any of your devices (the ¡°Software¡±), and/or (ii) any of the services enabled by the Software (the ¡°Services¡±). By downloading or otherwise accessing the Software and/or Services, however accessed, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS (INCLUDING ANY ADDITIONAL GUIDELINES AND FUTURE MODIFICATIONS), BY Chitchit¡¯S PRIVACY POLICY (¡°Privacy Policy¡±), COPYRIGHT TERMS (¡°Copyright Terms¡±), BROADCASTER AGREEMENT (¡°Broadcaster Agreement¡±) AND THIRD PARTY LICENSE (¡°Third Party License¡±), EACH OF WHICH IS INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE AND CAN BE FOUND AT
This Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy, Copyright Terms, Broadcaster Agreement, and Third Party License are referred to herein collectively as the ¡°Terms and Conditions.¡± IF AT ANY TIME YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ANY OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU MAY NOT USE THE SOFTWARE OR SERVICES AND MUST IMMEDIATELY TERMINATE YOUR USE OF THE SOFTWARE AND ALL SERVICES.
1. Acknowledgment. This paragraph is intended to apply to you if you have downloaded the Software from the Apple App Store. Chitchit and you acknowledge that this Terms of Use is concluded between Chitchit and you only, and not with Apple Inc. (¡°Apple¡±), and as between Chitchit and Apple, Chitchit, not Apple, is solely responsible for the Software and Services and the content thereof. This Terms of Use is not intended to provide for usage rules for the Software and Services that are less restrictive than the Usage Rules set forth for Licensed Applications in, or otherwise be in conflict with, the App Store Terms of Service as of the date hereof (which you further acknowledge you have had the opportunity to review).
2. License Grant. Subject to your compliance with the Terms and Conditions, Chitchit grants you a personal, limited, non-commercial, non-exclusive, non-unserviceable, non-assignable, non-transferable, freely revocable license to download, install and/or use one (1) copy of the Software, in object code format, only on your personal computers or personal mobile devices (if you have downloaded the Software from the Apple App Store, then only on your Apple computer, iPhone, iPod touch, iPad or iWatch) (each, a ¡°Device¡±) for the sole purpose of personally using the Services through use of the Software, and if you have downloaded the Software from the Apple App Store, as permitted by the Usage Rules set forth in the App Store Terms of Service as of the date hereof.
3. Ownership. The Software is protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties, as well as other intellectual property laws and treaties. The Software includes trade secrets and information that is confidential and proprietary to Chitchit and you agree to take all necessary actions to protect the confidentiality of such information. All ownership rights in the Software and Services, including any related documentation and any new releases, modifications, and enhancements thereto belong solely to Chitchit and its licensors, if any, including all intellectual property rights therein. The Software is licensed, not sold. Title does not pass to you. There is no implied license, right or interest granted in any copyright, patent, trade secret, trademark, invention or other intellectual property right. Chitchit hereby expressly reserves all rights in the Software and Services which are not expressly granted to you hereunder.
4. Restrictions. You may use the Software solely for purposes of enabling you to use and enjoy the Services, and only as permitted by the Terms and Conditions. You only obtain a license to use the object code version of the Software. You shall not (i) copy, modify, adapt, translate into any language, distribute, or create derivative works based on the Software or any of the Services; (ii) incorporate any portion of the Software of Services into your own programs or compile any portion of the Software in combination with your own programs or transfer it for use with another service or program; (iii) sublicense, sublease, lease, lend, assign, sell, license, distribute, rent, export, re-export or grant other rights in the Software or Services and any attempt by you to take such action shall be void; (iv) decompile, disassemble, reverse engineer, or attempt to reconstruct, identify, or discover any source code, underlying ideas, underlying user interface techniques, or algorithms of the Software or any of the Services by any means whatsoever; (v) remove, obscure or alter any copyright and/or other proprietary notices contained on or in or otherwise connected to the Software or any of the Services; (vi) use the Software or any of the Services to create or proliferate a virus or to circumvent any copy protection or other digital rights management mechanism.
5. Additional Restrictions. You further represent and agree that you shall not (i) use the Software or any of the Services in violation of any applicable law or for any illegal or unauthorized purpose, (ii) use the Software or any of the Services in any manner which could damage, disable, overburden or impair any of the Services, (iii) use any automated system, including without limitation ¡°robots,¡± ¡°spiders,¡± ¡°offline readers,¡± etc., to access the Software or any of the Services in a manner that sends more request messages to the Chitchit servers than a human can reasonably produce in the same period of time manually; (iv) transmit invalid data, worms, viruses or any code of a destructive nature, (v) transmit spam, chain letters, materials related to any political campaigns, commercial solicitations, mass mailings, or any form of spam or other unsolicited texts or emails; (vi) display, transmit or share any content consisting of data, text, sounds, audio, pictures, photos, video, sound recordings, musical works, narration, Broadcast Content (as defined in Section 20 below), works of authorship and/or any type of materials, information or communications (collectively, ¡°Content¡±) deemed unlawful, harmful, threatening, pornographic, obscene, sexually explicit, abusive, racially or ethnically or otherwise offensive, libelous or defamatory, infringing, invasive of personal privacy or publicity rights, harassing, bullying, depicting or inciting violence (including suicide), hate speech, humiliating to other people (publicly or otherwise), profane, injurious or otherwise objectionable, or any Content that encourages conduct that would be considered a criminal offense or bring forth civil liability, (vii) attempt to hack, destabilize, adapt or otherwise interfere with Chitchit¡¯s website, the Software (or its source code) or any of the Services, or alter another website or mobile app so as to falsely imply that it is affiliated with Chitchit, (viii) collect or harvest any personally identifiable information, including account names, from the Software or any of the Services, (ix) use a false phone number or email, or impersonate another person or entity, or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity, conduct fraud, hide or attempt to hide your identity; or (x) use or access any of the Services by any means other than through the interface provided by Chitchit.
6. Sanctions. Users are required to comply with all applicable economic sanctions laws, including those administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (¡°OFAC¡±). These laws generally prohibit or restrict transactions involving: (i) certain countries or regions, including Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Syria, as well as any individual or entity from, located in, ordinarily resident in, or affiliated with the governments of those countries or regions; (ii) certain individuals or entities, including those identified on lists published by OFAC, such as the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (¡°SDN¡±) List; (iii) nationals of Cuba; and (iv) the Government of Venezuela. Users may only access the Software and Services in compliance with these laws. Persons who are from, located in, or ordinarily resident in countries or regions subject to U.S. sanctions, who are associated with or acting on behalf of the governments of those countries or regions, who are SDNs or other denied or blocked parties under U.S. law, or who are otherwise subject to sanctions are prohibited from accessing or using the Software or Services absent a license or other government approval or authorization. Chitchit has the right to deny access to, or terminate its relationship with, any person that fails to comply with these laws.
7. United States Services. Chitchit makes no representations that the Services are appropriate or available for use in any location outside the United States. Those who access or use the Software and/or Services from other jurisdictions are entirely responsible for compliance with all local laws.
8. Your Utilization of Your Device: If your use of the Software or Services is dependent upon the use of bandwidth owned or controlled by a third party, you acknowledge and agree that your license to use the Software is subject to your obtaining consent from the relevant third party for such use and by using the Software you warrant that you have obtained such consent. In addition, you warrant that you own the Device to which you are downloading the Software, or that you have the legal right to control the use of that Device. You further agree to ensure that any other person whom you permit to use the Software or Services on your Device will do so in accordance with the Terms and Conditions. You must delete any Software from the Device if you sell the Device, or if you cease to have the legal right to control use of the Device.
9. Third-Party Sites, Products and Services; Links.
(a) The Services may include links or references to third-party web sites or applications offering products or services, including games, applications, third party shopping merchants, images, special offers, or other events or activities, that are operated and maintained by other persons and/or that are not owned by Chitchit (¡°Reference Sites¡°). The Terms and Conditions do not apply to Reference Sites. Please be aware of when you visit or use any Reference Sites, and we encourage you to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any Reference Sites that you visit or use.
(b) Chitchit does not assume any responsibility for Reference Sites. ACCESS AND USE OF REFERENCE SITES, INCLUDING THE INFORMATION, MATERIALS, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES ON OR AVAILABLE THROUGH REFERENCE SITES IS SOLELY AT YOUR OWN RISK. You expressly relieve Chitchit from any and all liability arising from your use of any Reference Sites. Chitchit is not responsible for and does not control or guarantee: (i) the pricing, quality, performance, availability or terms and conditions of purchase of products or services provided by Reference Sites; (ii) any payment transactions, shipping charges, deliveries, returns or after sales activities related to the products or services purchased on Reference Sites; (iii) the availability of Reference Sites; or (iv) the completeness, truth or accuracy of any advertising or other materials on, or available from, Reference Sites, nor any listing or other content about such products or services displayed on Reference Sites. Any questions, complaints, or claims related to any product or service provided by a Reference Site should be directed to the applicable third party responsible for the Reference Site.
10. Content. Content transmitted by the use of the Software and Services is entirely the responsibility of the person from whom such Content originated. You use the Software and Services at your own risk and understand that by using the Software or any of the Services, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, harmful to minors, indecent or otherwise objectionable. Any use or reliance on any Content is solely at your own risk. Chitchit does not endorse any Content and expressly disclaims any and all liability in connection with any and all Content transmitted or displayed using the Software and/or Services. You hereby release and discharge the Chitchit Parties (as defined below) from any and all claims and demands arising out of or relating to any Content.
11. Your Content. You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for your conduct and any Content that you transmit or display through the Software or Services and that Chitchit (and Apple if you downloaded the Software from the Apple App Store) is not responsible to you or any third party in connection with any Content. Chitchit reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove, edit or refuse to transmit any Content for the purpose of enforcing the Terms and Conditions, or for any other reason in Chitchit¡¯s sole discretion, but does not regularly review Content. You further agree to pay for all royalties, fees, and any other monies owing any person by reason of any of your Content. In addition, you represent, warrant and agree that: (a) you are the creator and owner of or have the necessary rights to transmit or display the Content; and (b) the Content you transmit or you display does not and will not: (i) infringe, violate, or misappropriate any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, mask work right, moral right, privacy right, right of publicity, trade dress and service mark right, goodwill, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right as may now exist or hereafter come into existence, (ii) require Chitchit to obtain any further licenses from or pay any royalties, fees, compensation or other amounts or provide any attribution to any third parties, (iii) result in a breach of contract between you and a third party or will not be in violation of any applicable law or regulation, (iv) contain any information that is confidential or proprietary to a third party, or (v) slander, defame, libel, or invade the right of privacy, publicity or other property rights of any other person. VIOLATORS OF THESE THIRD-PARTY RIGHTS MAY BE SUBJECT TO CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LIABILITY. Chitchit RESERVES ALL RIGHTS AND REMEDIES AGAINST ANYONE WHO VIOLATES ANY OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
12. Grant of Rights to Chitchit.
(a) If you transmit or share your Content in the Services or otherwise share your Content with or link your Content to the Services, for example, through Reference Sites or other third-party applications connected to your Chitchit account, you represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant, and you hereby expressly grant, to Chitchit, its licensors and other Chitchit partners a royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, list information regarding, edit, translate, distribute, syndicate, publicly perform, publicly display, transmit, communicate to the public, make available, make derivative works of, and otherwise exploit and use, all such Content and any name, voice, image and/or likeness as contained in your Content, in whole or in part, and in any form, media or technology, whether now known or hereafter developed, for use in connection with the Software and Services and Chitchit¡¯s (and its successors¡¯ and affiliates¡¯) businesses, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Software or Services (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. For clarity, the rights granted by you in this Section to Chitchit include the right to reproduce your Content on a royalty-free basis and that Chitchit will have no obligation to pay royalties to you or any third party involved in the creation of your Content. Further, you understand that the license grants by you to Chitchit hereunder will survive any termination of your use of the Software or Services.
(b) Any Content transmitted by you will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, and treated as such by Chitchit, and may be used by Chitchit in accordance with these Terms and Conditions without notice to you and without any liability. You waive any rights to prior inspection or approval of any marketing or promotional materials related to any Content. You also waive any and all rights of privacy, publicity, or any other rights of a similar nature in connection with your Content, or any portion thereof. To the extent any moral rights are not transferable or assignable, you hereby waive and agree never to assert any and all moral rights, or to support, maintain or permit any action based on any moral rights that you may have in or with respect to any Content you transmit or display through the Services.
(c) You agree and acknowledge that Content you transmit through the Services may be distributed, viewed and accessed and commented by other users of the Software or Services and that Chitchit will not be held liable for any unauthorized use of Content or any comment thereon by any person.
(d) You acknowledge and agree that Chitchit may collect, use and share information related to your use of the Services as described in the Privacy Policy, and including certain information contained in the Devices to which you have downloaded the Software for purposes of your use of the Services, such as the address books and unique phone identifiers (IMEI, Google Advertisements ID, or other) contained in such Devices.
(e) You hereby acknowledge and agree that Chitchit may contact you via email or SMS, through the Services, or otherwise for the purpose of informing you about new products, services or promotions offered by Chitchit . Please see our Privacy Policy for additional information on how we may contact you.
13. Third Parties. The Software may be incorporated into, and may incorporate itself, software and other technology owned and controlled by third parties. Any such third party software or technology that is incorporated in the Software falls under the scope of this Agreement.
14. Availability and New Versions of the Software. Chitchit may, without prior notice, stop providing the Software, features of the Software, and/or any of the Services, to you or to users generally, or create usage limits for the Software or any of the Services. Chitchit, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to add additional features or functions, or to modify or provide programming fixes, updates and upgrades, to the Software or Services without notice. Chitchit has no obligation to make available to you any additional features or functions or any modifications, updates, support, maintenance or subsequent versions of the Software or any of the Services. You may have to agree to a renewed version of some or all of the Terms and Conditions in the event you want to download, install or use any additional features or functions or any modifications, updates or new versions of the Software or Services. You acknowledge that Chitchit may automatically issue any additional features or functions or modifications, updates or upgraded versions of the Software or Services and, accordingly, may modify, update or upgrade the version of the Software or Services that you are using or have installed on your Device. You hereby agree that your Device may automatically request and/or receive such modifications, upgrades or updates.
15. Third Party Fees. For particular Devices, Chitchit may ask your permission to use your native SMS application to deliver messages or invitations to people who are not registered users of the Services and with whom you choose to communicate. Some of these services may charge additional fees.
16. Eligibility; Termination. The license to use the Software and Services is not valid in any jurisdiction where prohibited. The Software and Services are intended solely for users who are seventeen (17) years of age or older, and any registration, use or access to the Software or Services by anyone under seventeen (17) is unauthorized, unlicensed, and in violation of the Terms and Conditions. Chitchit may terminate your account, delete any content or information that you have posted on the Services, and/or prohibit you from using or accessing the Software or Services (or any portion, aspect or feature of the Services) for any reason or for no reason, at any time in its sole discretion, with or without notice, including without limitation if it believes that you are under the required age in the prior sentence. If you are under the age of majority in your jurisdiction you may not use the Software and Services. The Software and Services are not intended for use by any user previously removed from any of the Services by Chitchit.
17. No Access to Emergency Services. The Software and Services are not intended to support or carry emergency calls to any type of hospitals, law enforcement agencies, medical care unit or any other kind of services that connect a user to emergency services personnel or public safety answering points pursuant to applicable local and or national regulatory requirements (¡°Emergency Services¡±). There are important differences between traditional telephone services and the Software and Services. You acknowledge and agree that: (i) Chitchit is not required to offer access to Emergency Services under any applicable local and/or national rules, regulations or law; (ii) it is your responsibility to purchase, separately from the Software, traditional wireless (cellular) or fixed line telephone services that offer access to Emergency Services, and (iii) Chitchit is not a replacement for your primary telephone service.
18. Prevention of Unauthorized Use. Chitchit reserves the right to exercise whatever lawful means it deems necessary to prevent unauthorized use of the Software or Services, including, but not limited to, technological barriers, IP mapping, and directly contacting your wireless (cellular) carrier regarding such unauthorized use.
19. Mobile Alerts and Optout. Chitchit may use carrier distributed mobile messaging (SMS) to verify ownership of a registered mobile phone number.
Additional Information: To receive information or technical support for a campaign, reply HELP to the last message received or to short code 82646. Msg&Data Rates May Apply.
Optout: To be removed from any Chitchit.me mobile messaging program, reply STOP to the last message received or to short code 82646. Msg&Data Rates May Apply.
Carriers supported: ACS, AT&T, Bluegrass Cellular, Dobson/ Cellular One, Cellular One (IL), Cellcom, Cellular South, Centennial Wireless, Cincinnati Bell, Cox Communications, East Kentucky Network, ECIT, GCI, Immix Wireless, MetroPCS, Midwest Wireless, Nex-Tech Wireless, Nextel, nTelos, Revol Wireless, Rural Cellular, Sprint, T-Mobile, U.S. Cellular, Thumb Cellular, United Wireless, Verizon Wireless, Virgin, and West Central Cellular.
20. Live Streaming.
(a) The Services enable you to view live stream audiovisual content (¡°Broadcast Content¡±) which created and transmitted by another user (¡°Broadcaster User¡±). You acknowledge and agree that Chitchit does not pre-screen any Broadcast Content transmitted by any user. Chitchit uses automated, semi-automated, and manual checks of Broadcast Content, however you understand and agree that Chitchit cannot find all objectionable Broadcast Content and makes no warranties to you with respect to any Broadcast Content. If you do find any problems in any Broadcast Content, we want your help to solve them. Please notify Chitchit immediately.
(b) The Services may offer a feature allowing you to ¡°purchase¡± (i) virtual currency, including virtual coins (¡°Coins¡±) for use in the Service, or (ii) virtual in-Service items (¡°Gifts¡± and together with Coins, ¡°Digital Gifts¡±). You acknowledge and agree that the purchase of any Digital Gifts by you must be made lawfully and with actual currency. Any Digital Gifts that are gifted to a Broadcaster User (or received thereby) are converted in the Broadcaster User¡¯s account to, and are referred to herein as, ¡°Diamonds¡±. Notwithstanding your purchase or possession of Digital Gifts, you acknowledge and agree that you do not in fact own the Digital Gifts, and the amounts of any Digital Gifts in your Chitchit account do not refer to any credit balance of real currency or its equivalent. Instead, you understand that the license to you from Chitchit hereunder to use the Software and Services includes the right to use certain software programs included in the Services that may manifest themselves as these Digital Gifts.
(c) Any distribution of Digital Gifts by you is made solely in your discretion. Once you have made a distribution of a Digital Gift to another user, such action cannot be refunded or undone, and the Digital Gift cannot be withdrawn.
(d) You acknowledge and agree that your distribution of Digital Gifts to a Broadcaster User may result in some revenue to the Broadcaster User. Chitchit makes no representation or guarantee that the amount or value in your Chitchit account of any Digital Gift you distribute to a Broadcaster User will correlate in any way to the value of the Diamonds received by the Broadcaster User, or to the revenue such Broadcaster User may receive from Chitchit. The amount of revenue delivered to a Broadcaster User in exchange for Diamonds or otherwise, if any, is determined by Chitchit in its sole discretion.
(e) The purchase of a Digital Gift is considered a completed transaction when Chitchit provides confirmation of receipt of an electronic payment from you via the online application store from which you downloaded the Software or via the Chitchit¡¯s electronic payment provider with respect to the web product (the ¡°Application Store¡±). The purchase of Digital Gifts requires actual money. If you disagree with any part of, or do not fully understand Chitchit¡¯s exchange rate policy as described below, please refrain from purchasing or using any Digital Gifts.
(f) The value (i.e. the exchange rate) of Digital Gifts is determined by Chitchit in its sole discretion, and Chitchit further reserves the right to modify the exchange rate between actual currency and Digital Gifts from time to time, with or without reason, in its sole discretion. By your use of the Services, you confirm your understanding of and accept the then-current exchange rate of any Digital Gifts at the time of your purchase.
(g) Any virtual currency balance shown in your Chitchit account does not constitute a real world balance or reflect any stored value. You will not be able to sell Digital Gifts, whether in exchange for virtual or real currency credited back to your Chitchit account or otherwise, nor will you be able to receive a refund of virtual or real currency for Digital Gifts (including any virtual currency), including if your access to the Services has been suspended, limited or terminated by you or by Chitchit.
(h) In the event your Chitchit account balance with respect to Digital Gifts is incorrect due to system maintenance or other technical failures as determined by Chitchit in its sole discretion, Chitchit will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct your Chitchit account balance. You may contact us regarding your Chitchit account balance, purchases of Digital Gifts and/or distributions of Digital Gifts at live@Chitchit.me.
(i) Your use of any Digital Gifts must be solely for legitimate purposes within the Services, and must comply with these Terms and Conditions and with all applicable laws at all times. You acknowledge and agree that Chitchit may change, modify or update the terms of sale in connection with Digital Gifts from time to time, and that such revised terms will apply to all subsequent purchases of any Digital Gifts, and you further agree that you will review these Terms and Conditions and any terms regarding the sale of Digital Gifts prior to making any purchase.
(j) You must distribute the Digital Gifts in your Chitchit account by no later than 90 days after such Digital Gifts have been purchased (¡°Distribution Period¡±). Chitchit reserves the right to permanently confiscate from your Chitchit account any Digital Gifts not distributed within the Distribution Period or in the event that Chitchit determines, in its sole discretion, that you have not logged in to your Chitchit account during such 90-day period.
(k) Chitchit takes fraud seriously. Please note that in addition to taking any desirable or necessary legal action, Chitchit reserves the right to terminate your use of the Software and Services and/or to permanently confiscate any Digital Gifts from your Chitchit account that it determines, in its sole discretion, were acquired using fraudulent or otherwise improper means. Chitchit will notify you prior to such confiscation in order to provide an opportunity for you to make an appeal via the Services; provided, however, that Chitchit¡¯s determination, in its sole discretion, shall be final and binding on you.
21. Premium Services.
(a) From time to time in its sole discretion, Chitchit may provide additional features and/or Services that you pay for (¡°Premium Services¡±). Chitchit may also offer from time to time in its sole discretion, certain Premium Services for free, whether on a limited basis, for a trial period or otherwise. Unless expressly stated otherwise, references to the Services in the Terms and Conditions include the Premium Services.
(b)
(i) From time to time in its sole discretion, Chitchit may provide you with a Premium Service that allows you to connect to recipients outside of the Service from your Device(¡°Free Voice Premium Services¡±).
(ii) Free Voice Premium Services are provided at no cost to you and are for personal use only. Chitchit may limit the amount of call time available per call or for all calls. If Chitchit puts in place any such limit, once an applicable limit set by Chitchit has been reached, the Free Voice Premium Services may no longer be available to you. In addition, availability of the Free Voice Premium Services may be limited to certain countries or other geographies as Chitchit may determine from time to time. Chitchit reserves the right to change the terms of, and any fees associated with, the Free Voice Premium Services at any time without prior notice to you.
(iii) Use of the Free Voice Premium Services is for individual use only in accordance with the Terms and Conditions. You agree to use the Free Voice Premium Services only in accordance with the Terms and Conditions and not to abuse the terms of any offer regarding the Free Voice Premium Services. By way of example and without limitation, you agree not to: (a) use for telemarketing or call center operations; (b) resell minutes; (c) call numbers (whether singly, sequentially or automatically) to generate income for yourself or others as a result of merely placing the call; or (d) make unusual calling patterns inconsistent with normal, individual use, for example, regular calls of short duration or calls to multiple numbers in a short period of time. Other practices may be relevant in determining whether use of the Free Voice Premium Services is in accordance with the Terms and Conditions and Chitchit reserves the right to take any unlawful, prohibited, abnormal or unusual activity into account in making its determination.
(iv) Chitchit may, as part of the technical setup of the Free Voice Premium Services, pair you with one or more phone numbers. These phone numbers may be shared by multiple Chitchit users. You expressly acknowledge and agree that this pairing of phone numbers with you shall not constitute a transfer of property or sale of numbering rights by Chitchit to you. As a result, you will not be entitled to claim any such rights to these phone numbers. This means, without limitation, that you may not port-out any such phone number to any third party.
(v) Free Voice Premium Services do not support Emergency Services, including calls to 911, and are not a replacement for your primary telephone service. See Section 15 above.
22. Termination by You. You may terminate your use of the Services at any time by uninstalling and deleting the Software from all of your Devices. If you have subscribed to any Premium Services, you agree that you are solely responsible for directly terminating all payment obligations you may have with any Application Store and/or payment processing service in connection with the Premium Services.
23. Termination by Chitchit. Without limiting any other remedies, Chitchit may modify, limit, suspend, discontinue or terminate any of the Terms and Conditions and/or your use of all or any part of the Software and/or Services, with immediate effect, automatically, with or without notice and without recourse to the courts or other tribunals, for any reason or for no reason, including without limitation if Chitchit believes that you are (i) in breach of any of the terms of any of the Terms and Conditions, (ii) creating problems or legal liabilities (actual or potential), (iii) delinquent with respect to any charges due for a Premium Service, (iv) infringing a third party¡¯s intellectual property rights, or (v) engaging in fraudulent, immoral or illegal activities. You agree that Chitchit is under no obligation to provide the Services, including without limitation any Premium Services, and that no Chitchit Party shall be liable to you or to any other party for any limitation, suspension, discontinuance, termination or modification of the Software and/or any of the Services.
24. Storage of Content. Storage space is inherently limited and as a result we are careful not to overload our servers. Accordingly, you acknowledge and agree that no Chitchit Party is under any obligation to preserve, provide access to or return to you any Content and that Chitchit shall have no responsibility for the modification, loss, deletion or destruction of any Content, including any stored Content. You further understand and agree that Chitchit may remove certain Content from its storage systems periodically in its discretion without notice to you.
25. Indemnification. YOU HEREBY AGREE TO INDEMNIFY, DEFEND AND HOLD HARMLESS, Chitchit, ITS LICENSORS, ITS AGENTS, ITS PARTNERS, AND ITS AND THEIR RESPECTIVE AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, CONTRACTORS AND SUPPLIERS (INCLUDING Chitchit, COLLECTIVELY THE ¡°Chitchit PARTIES¡±), FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, OBLIGATIONS, ACTIONS, LOSSES, LIABILITY, DAMAGES AND COSTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO REASONABLE ATTORNEYS¡¯ FEES INCURRED BY SUCH PARTIES, IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF (A) YOUR VIOLATION OR BREACH OF ANY TERM OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OR ANY APPLICABLE LAW, RULE OR REGULATION, WHETHER OR NOT REFERENCED HEREIN, OR (B) YOUR VIOLATION OF ANY RIGHTS OF ANY THIRD PARTY, OR (C) YOUR USE OR MISUSE OF THE SOFTWARE AND/OR ANY OF THE SERVICES, OR (D) YOUR CONTENT OR OTHER COMMUNICATION DISPLAYED OR TRANSMITTED BY MEANS OF THE SOFTWARE AND/OR ANY OF THE SERVICES, OR (E) ANY OTHER PARTY¡¯S ACCESS AND USE OF THE SOFTWARE, SERVICES AND/OR CONTENT WITH YOUR PHONE NUMBER OR USERNAME, OR (F) ANY TAXES RELATED TO YOUR PURCHASE AND/OR USE OF ANY OF THE SERVICES (OTHER THAN TAXES BASED ON THE INCOME OF Chitchit). If you downloaded the Software from the Apple App Store, you acknowledge that, in the event of any third party claim that the Software or Services or your possession and use of the Software or Services infringes any third party¡¯s intellectual property rights, as between Chitchit and Apple, Chitchit, not Apple, will be solely responsible for the investigation, defense, settlement and discharge of any such intellectual property infringement claim. Chitchit reserves the right, at your expense, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify Chitchit, and you agree to cooperate with Chitchit¡¯s defense of these claims. You agree not to settle any matter without the prior written consent of Chitchit.
26. No Warranties.
The Software and Services are provided to you ¡°AS IS¡± and ¡°AS AVAILABLE¡± with no warranties. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Chitchit Parties hereby disclaim all warranties, terms, and conditions, express or implied, either in fact or by operation of law, statutory or otherwise, including, without limitation, warranties, terms or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, satisfactory quality, correspondence with description, title, non-infringement, and accuracy of information generated. You further acknowledge that the Chitchit Parties (and if you downloaded the Software from the Apple App Store, Apple) have no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance or support services with respect to the Software and/or Services.
THE Chitchit PARTIES DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICES OR THE CONTENT DISPLAYED OR TRANSMITTED ON OR THROUGH ANY OF THE SERVICES, WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, UP-TO-DATE, COMPLETE OR FREE OF ERRORS, VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS, AND DO NOT WARRANT THAT ANY OF THE FOREGOING WILL BE CORRECTED. THE Chitchit PARTIES DO NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF, OR THE RESULTS FROM THE USE OF, THE SOFTWARE OR SERVICES.
27. Harm to Your Device. YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOU TRANSMIT, DISPLAY, STORE, VIEW OR RECEIVE CONTENT THROUGH THE SERVICE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE THAT RESULTS FROM THE SERVICE OR ANY CONTENT, INCLUDING ANY LOSS OF DATA OR DAMAGE TO YOUR PROPERTY (INCLUDING YOUR DEVICE AND COMPUTER SYSTEM).
28. Limitations of Liability. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE Chitchit PARTIES BE LIABLE, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE), OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES OR LOSSES OF ANY NATURE, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY DAMAGES OR LOSSES FOR LOST REVENUE OR PROFITS, LOSS OF BUSINESS, LOSS OF GOODWILL, LOSS OF DATA, WORK STOPPAGE, ACCURACY OF RESULTS OR DEVICE OR COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTIONARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE AND/OR ANY OF THE SERVICES, THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OR THE PERFORMANCE, SUSPENSION, TERMINATION OR BREACH HEREOF, EVEN IF Chitchit OR ANY OTHER Chitchit PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF OR SHOULD HAVE KNOWN OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AGGREGATE LIABILITY OF THE Chitchit PARTIES EXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO Chitchit FOR ANY PRODUCTS OR SERVICES PURCHASED FROM Chitchit ON ANY OF THE SERVICES DURING THE SIX (6) MONTH PERIOD IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING ANY CLAIM. The foregoing limitations will apply even if the above stated remedy fails of its essential purpose. As some jurisdictions do not allow some of the exclusions or limitations set forth above, some of these exclusions or limitations may not apply to you. In such event the liability of the Chitchit Parties will be limited to the maximum extent possible under applicable law. THESE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY ALSO APPLY WITH RESPECT TO DAMAGES INCURRED BY YOU BY REASON OF ANY PRODUCTS, SOFTWARE, SERVICES OR CONTENT SOLD OR PROVIDED BY THIRD PARTIES AND RECEIVED THROUGH OR ADVERTISED ON ANY OF THE SERVICES.
29. Claims. YOU AND Chitchit AGREE THAT ANY CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO ANY OF THE SERVICES OR SOFTWARE MUST COMMENCE WITHIN ONE (1) YEAR AFTER THE CAUSE OF ACTION ACCRUES. OTHERWISE, SUCH CAUSE OF ACTION IS PERMANENTLY BARRED. If you downloaded the Software from the Apple App Store, you further acknowledge that Apple has no responsibility for addressing any claims relating to the Software or Services or your possession and/or use of the Software or Services, including, but not limited to: (i) product liability claims; (ii) any claim that the Software or Services fail to conform to any applicable legal or regulatory requirement; and (iii) claims arising under consumer protection or similar legislation.
30. Basis of the Bargain. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT Chitchit HAS OFFERED ITS SOFTWARE AND SERVICES AND SET ITS PRICES IN RELIANCE UPON THE WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS AND THE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SET FORTH HEREIN, THAT THE WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS AND THE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SET FORTH HEREIN REFLECT A REASONABLE AND FAIR ALLOCATION OF RISK BETWEEN YOU AND Chitchit, AND THAT THE WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS AND THE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SET FORTH HEREIN FORM AN ESSENTIAL BASIS OF THE BARGAIN BETWEEN YOU AND Chitchit. Chitchit WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THE SOFTWARE OR SERVICES TO YOU ON AN ECONOMICALLY REASONABLE BASIS WITHOUT THESE LIMITATIONS.
31. Feedback. You acknowledge and agree that any comments, suggestions, or feedback relating to the Software or any of the Services (¡°Feedback¡°) submitted to Chitchit are gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction, and shall become the property of Chitchit. Chitchit will have exclusive ownership of all rights to the Feedback. Chitchit will be entitled to use the Feedback for any commercial or other purpose whatsoever, without any compensation to you or any other person. Chitchit will not be required to treat any Feedback as confidential. You agree that you do not acquire any right in or to the Software or any of the Services (or any changes, modifications or corrections thereto) by virtue of any Feedback. You acknowledge that you are responsible for whatever material is submitted by you, including its legality, reliability, appropriateness, originality, and copyright.
32. Export. The Software and Services may only be operated, exported or re-exported in compliance with all applicable laws and export regulations of the United States and the country in which you obtained them. The Software and Services are specifically subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations; diversion contrary to United States law is prohibited. You may not export, directly or indirectly, the Software, Services or technical data licensed hereunder or the direct product thereof to any country, individual or entity for which the United States Government or any agency thereof, at the time of export, requires an export license or other government approval, without first obtaining such license or approval.
33. U.S. Government Rights. All Software, the Services and technical data are commercial in nature and developed solely at private expense. The software program and documentation are deemed to be ¡°commercial computer software¡± and ¡°commercial computer software documentation¡±, respectively, pursuant to DFAR Section 227.7202 and FAR Section 12.212(b), as applicable. Any use, modification, reproduction, release, performance, display or disclosure of the software program and/or documentation by the U.S. Government or any of its agencies shall be governed solely by the Terms and Conditions and shall be prohibited except to the extent expressly permitted by the Terms and Conditions. Any technical data provided that is not covered by the above provisions is deemed to be ¡°technical data-commercial items¡± pursuant to DFAR Section 227.7015(a). Any use, modification, reproduction, release, performance, display or disclosure of such technical data shall be governed by the terms of DFAR Section 227.7015(b).
34. General
34.1 International Users. The Software and Services are hosted in the United States and by using the Software and/or any of the Services, if you are located in the European Union, Asia or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use and disclosure that differ from United States laws, then you understand and consent to the processing of personal information in the United States.
34.2 Notices. Chitchit may provide you with notices, including those regarding changes to the Terms and Conditions, by email, via the Services or postings on the Chitchit website. Notice will be deemed given twenty-four (24) hours after email is sent. Notice posted on the Chitchit website or via the Services is deemed given ten (10) days following the initial posting. Chitchit reserves the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to our users.
34.3 Amendments. Chitchit reserves the right to amend any of the Terms and Conditions at any time by publishing the revised Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Copyright Terms, Broadcaster Agreement and/or Third Party License on the Chitchit website or by otherwise providing notice of such amendment pursuant to the notice provisions above. The revised Terms and Conditions shall become effective following the applicable notice period, unless you expressly accept the revised Terms and Conditions earlier by clicking on the accept button. Your express acceptance or continued use of the Software or Services after the applicable notice period shall constitute your acceptance to be bound by the revised Terms and Conditions.
34.4 Ability to Contract. You hereby affirm that you are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations and warranties set forth in the Terms and Conditions, and to abide by and comply with the Terms and Conditions.
34.5 Entire Agreement. The Terms and Conditions (consisting of the Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, Copyright Terms, Broadcaster Agreement and Third Party License) represent the complete agreement between you and Chitchit and may only be amended as set forth under Amendments above or as otherwise expressly provided therein. If any provision of the Terms and Conditions is held to be unenforceable, such provision shall be modified only to the extent necessary to make it enforceable and shall not affect the enforceability or validity of the remaining provisions, which shall remain in full force and effect.
34.6. Assignment. You are not allowed to assign any of the Terms and Conditions or any rights or obligations thereunder. Any attempted transfer or assignment in violation thereof shall be null and void. Chitchit is allowed at its sole discretion to assign or transfer any of the Terms and Conditions and any rights thereunder to any third party, without giving of notice.
34.7 Waiver. The failure of any Chitchit Party to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms and Conditions will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. Any waiver of any provision of the Terms and Conditions will be effective only if in writing and signed by Chitchit.
34.8 Headings. The heading references herein are for convenience purposes only, do not constitute a part of the Terms and Conditions, and will not be deemed to limit or affect any of the provisions hereof.
34.9 Governing Law and Disputes. The Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of the State of California as such laws are applied to agreements entered into and to be performed entirely within California between California residents, and by the laws of the United States. The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1980) is hereby excluded in its entirety from application to the Terms and Conditions. You agree that the Services shall be deemed solely based in California and each a passive Service that does not give rise to personal jurisdiction over Chitchit, either specific or general, in jurisdictions other than the State of California. Any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to any of the Terms and Conditions, or the breach, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof, including the determination of the scope or applicability of any of the Terms and Conditions to arbitrate, shall be determined by arbitration. The arbitration shall be administered by the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service (JAMS), and the arbitration shall be conducted with a single arbitrator. Furthermore, you agree that neither you nor Chitchit will join any claim with the claim of any other person or entity in arbitration; that no claim will be resolved on a class-wide basis; and that neither you nor Chitchit will assert any claim in a representative capacity on behalf of anyone else. Notwithstanding the foregoing, you agree that Chitchit shall be allowed to apply for injunctive remedies (or an equivalent type of urgent legal relief) in any jurisdiction. If you file an arbitration complaint against Chitchit, Chitchit agrees to pay for any portion of the initial filing fee that exceeds $250; after the initial filing fees, the parties will share the costs of arbitration equally. You agree not to commence or prosecute any action against any Chitchit Party other than by filing an arbitration complaint in accordance with this paragraph. IMPORTANTLY, BY AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, YOU ARE WAIVING ANY RIGHT YOU HAVE TO SEEK RELIEF IN A COURT OF LAW AND ANY RIGHT YOU HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY.
34.10 Injunctive Relief. You acknowledge that the obligations made hereunder to Chitchit are of a unique and irreplaceable nature, the loss of which shall irreparably harm Chitchit and which cannot be replaced by monetary damages alone so that Chitchit shall be entitled to injunctive or other equitable relief (without the obligations of posting any bond or surety) in the event of any breach or anticipatory breach by you. You irrevocably waive all rights to seek injunctive or other equitable relief.
34.11 Third Party Beneficiaries and Agreements. If you downloaded the Software from the Apple App Store, you acknowledge and agree that Apple, and Apple¡¯s subsidiaries, are third party beneficiaries of the Terms and Conditions, and that, upon your acceptance of the Terms and Conditions, Apple will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce the Terms and Conditions against you as a third party beneficiary hereof. You agree to comply with, and your license to use the Software and Services is conditioned upon your compliance with, all applicable third-party terms of agreement, including those of any Application Store, as may be applicable, when using the Software and/or Services.
34.12 No Partnership, Agency, Joint Venture. The Terms and Conditions do not create or imply any partnership, agency or joint venture.
34.13 Terms of Use. You can find the latest version of this Terms of Use at https://www.Chitchit.me/terms-of-use.
34.14 Privacy Policy. You can find the latest version of Chitchit¡¯s Privacy Policy at https://www.Chitchit.me/privacy-policy.
34.15 Copyright. You can find the latest version of Chitchit¡¯s procedures for making claims of copyright infringement at https://www.Chitchit.me/copyright.
34.16 Broadcaster Agreement. You can find the latest version of Chitchit¡¯s Broadcaster Agreement at https://www.Chitchit.me/broadcaster-agreement.
34.17 Third Party Licenses. You can find the relevant licensing information for software used by the Software or Services at https://www.Chitchit.me/third-party-license.
34.18 Severability. If any of the provisions of the Terms and Conditions shall be deemed invalid, void, or for any reason unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Information We Collect
When you access or use the Service or third party games that were developed using a Chitchit SDK pursuant to a separate agreement between Chitchit and the game developer (¡°Third Party Games¡±) from or through your smart phone, tablet, computer or other device (each, a ¡°device¡±), or when you install the Service on your device and register with Chitchit, personally identifiable information about you may be collected. This collection may occur at different times, and for different purposes as explained below.
Download and Registration When you download an application that is part of the Service you are requested to register with us. For registration through Chitchit, you are only required to provide your mobile phone number or your email address, depending on the device(s) you are using on the Service. You may also provide other personally identifiable information, but that is optional. When you log in using your Facebook account, we collect additional information you make available to us (see ¡°Your User Profile¡±) below.
Address Book
If you are not already a user of the Service, when you first install an application that is part of the Service on your device, you are invited to register with Chitchit and as part of this initial registration, you will be asked to allow us access to your address book. If you consent, we will have access to contact information in your address book on the devices you use for the Service (names, numbers, emails, and Facebook ID, but not notes or other personally identifiable information) and we will store it on our servers and use it to improve the Service and help you use the Service. If you do not want Chitchit to store this information, you may opt-out at any time through your account settings in the Chitchit mobile app, or in your device¡¯s privacy settings, in which case we will delete that information from our servers. However, in this case, we may not be able to offer some of the features that require this information. See also ¡°How We Use the Information We Collect¡± below.
Location Information
We may request access to your current location ¨C provided by your mobile device using GPS or similar technologies ¨C so that we can provide content that is more suitable to your location. For example, we may use information about the location of your device for certain calling features or share information about the location of your device with advertisers to tailor the advertising you see to your interests or present you with offers from the businesses around you. You are free to accept or block access to your location information. You can switch off access to your location at any time through your device settings.
This mobile app may collect and pass to third parties precise geolocation information linked to your mobile device or advertising identifiers and may do when you use the app or when the app runs in the background on your device. That information may be used by third parties to customize ads in this app or in other apps: for instance, if your device is often located at or near music venues, you might receive offers for music tickets (even when you are not at a music venue). The information also may be used for market or other research regarding aggregated traffic patterns: for instance, a company that analyzes shopping trends might use the information to learn whether more or fewer devices are seen near malls or in other shopping districts.
We automatically collect usage information that does not identify an individual user (¡°Usage Data¡±). For example, when you download and use the Services on a mobile device, we automatically collect information such as your device type, operating system version and type, certain device settings, device time zone, device carrier, current IP address, applications installed on the device, and platform-specific advertising identifiers. We may also collect location information, such as your device GPS coordinates unless you configure your device operating system settings to prevent our collection of location information. Additionally, each time you use the Site we automatically collect the type of web browser you use, your operating system, your Internet Service Provider, your IP address, the pages you view, and the time and duration of your visits to the Site. We use this information to enhance the services we offer, provide targeted advertising, and to help us understand how people use the Site and Services.
Aggregated device data, including location and usage data, is also measured for the purposes of market research by Placed, Inc. For further information, please see the Placed Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. If you do not want this information to be linked to your device, you may go to your device ¡°settings¡± (which are somewhat different for iOS and Android devices) and opt out of interest-based or personalized advertising. You may also prevent the location from being collected by this or other apps, through your device settings (but this may affect the functionality of certain app features).
Profile Information
We collect and store certain profile information including your name, phone number, email address, picture, country of residence and preferences.
Usage Information
We may collect and store information about your usage of, and interaction with, the Service and Third Party Games (whether or not played on the Service), including calls, messages, posts, information relating to games played (such as games played, your game scores, how often you play and how much money you spend on the games), usage of the Service by geographies, device and connection information (such as a device advertising identifier or MAC address), IP address, device capability, bandwidth, web browser software, referring website, statistics on page views, network type and traffic to and from our websites.
Advertisements
When we serve an advertisement to your device, we collect information about your interaction with this advertisement to help us evaluate the performance of the advertisement that we show, such as whether you clicked on it, or installed the advertised product. The third parties that serve these advertisements may also collect other information about your interaction with an advertisement and about your browser or device. This collection and the subsequent use of this information by these third parties is subject to these third parties¡¯ privacy policies over which Chitchit has no control.
Shared Text, Photos, Videos and Other Communications
The Service allows you to share text messages, photos, videos and other communications (such as interactions during games) with other users, and if you choose to share your text messages, photos, videos and other communications, such items will be stored on our servers in accordance with our data retention policies. In addition, if you choose to share these items with other Service users, we may not be able to remove them from our servers or make them unavailable to anyone you have shared them with. Sending text messages, photos, videos or other communications through the Service is your decision. By choosing to share that information, you should understand that you may no longer be able to control how that information is used and that it may become publicly available (depending in part on your actions or the actions of others with whom you have shared the information). Chitchit is not responsible for any use or misuse of information you share. There is no tolerance for objectionable or abusive content, including nudity, illegal products, services, or activities, misleading, deceptive, sensational or excessively violent content, discriminatory practices, tobacco products, drugs, and drug-related products, unsafe supplements, adult content, adult products or services, surveillance equipment, hacking or cracking, work at home schemes. Promoting external links for users to purchase digital content or services outside the app is prohibited. All violators will be banned. For questions, please contact support@Chitchit.me.
Device and Log Information
If you use our Service, we collect information about your device and browser. This may include device information (type of device, operating system version, unique device identifier (such as an advertising identifier), browser type and version, mobile network information) or log information (IP address, MAC address, screen resolution, and referring domain).
Error Reporting Information
We also collect error-reporting information if the Service crashes or hangs up so that we can investigate the error and improve the stability of the Service for future releases. In general these reports do not contain personally identifiable information, or only incidentally. As part of these error reports, we receive information about the type and version of your device and browser, the device identifier, the time the error occurred, the feature being used and the state of the application when the error occurred. We do not use this information for any purpose other than investigating and remedying the error.
How We Use Information
In addition to using your information to provide you with the Services that you request, we use or may disclose your personally identifiable information as follows: To verify your identity; To connect you with your Chitchit contacts and others as enabled by the Service; To share your Profile with your Chitchit contacts and others on the Service in accordance with your account settings; To allow your use of certain features of the Service that may be offered from time to time (such as Premium Services (see our Terms of Use), games, greeting cards, animations, etc.) and to help customize your user experience; To show you the names and profiles of the Chitchit contacts with whom you communicate and to show your name and profile to persons with whom you communicate on the Service; To manage your account, deliver to you any administrative notices, updates, notifications, alerts and communications relevant to your use of the Service; To provide you with relevant content that you requested, using information that you allow us to collect from you or that you provide to a social media provider with which your Chitchit account is connected, such as information regarding your and your Chitchit contacts¡¯ respective locations; To share information about the games you play on our Service, your score or your experience, with your Chitchit contacts ¨C according to your settings; To understand (i) how you use the different features of the Service, (ii) what your preferences are ¨C for example, what type of games you like to play, what type of music you like to attach to your pictures or what type of products you like to view or purchase, and (iii) how to make suggestions and recommendations of things (for example, games, music and products) you may be interested in; To keep your list of Chitchit contacts up to date ¨C for example, when new users join Chitchit; To solicit information from you, including through surveys; To contact you via email, SMS or otherwise for the purpose of informing you about new products, services or promotions offered by Chitchit (you can opt-out of such emails by clicking on the unsubscribe link, withhold your consent to receive an SMS or reply stop to an SMS in order not to receive future SMSs); For internal operations, including troubleshooting problems, data analysis, testing, research, improvements to the Service, detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other illegal activity; When we believe it is appropriate to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal or suspected illegal activities.
With Whom We Share Your Information Service Providers
In certain instances, Chitchit may have contracts with third parties to provide Chitchit with products and/or services in connection with the Service. In those cases, Chitchit may share your personally identifiable information with these third-party service providers, or authorize them to collect information on its behalf, but only in connection with providing the services to you or Chitchit. For example, these third party service providers include: Third party SMS and email providers who deliver the authentication SMS or email to you when you register with the Service and with whom Chitchit shares your phone number or email. Third party vendors who provide services or functions on our behalf, such as hosting, business analytics, customer service, collecting or processing credit and debit card information and payments, marketing, distribution of surveys or sweepstakes programs, and fraud prevention. Third party vendors who provide outbound calling services for Chitchit users and with whom Chitchit shares your call detail records if you use that service (such as your phone number, the destination you are calling and information related to the initiation and termination of such calls).
Business Partners
We have relationships with other companies, such as game developers, where we serve as the publisher or distributor of the applications, products, or services developed by those third parties. In this case, both Chitchit and that third party may have access to certain information about your use of that third party¡¯s application, product, or service. For example Chitchit may host a third party¡¯s game through its Service, and would have access to some information about your use of that game (such as whether you play it or not, your game scores, how often you play and how much money you spend on the game), while the third party would have access to your score, other information about your use of that game and your Chitchit profile. In this case, the information that we collect is subject to this Privacy Policy and the information that the third party collects is subject to that third party¡¯s privacy policy.
Outbound Links
If you choose to access optional services, such as a website, product or service provided by a third party, including through the Service, such third party may also collect information about you. Please see the privacy policies of each such third party for more information about how they use the information they collect. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any exchange of information between you and any third party. These third parties include business partners with whom we may jointly offer products or services, or whose products or services may be offered on our Service. You can tell when a third party is involved in a product or service that you have requested because their name will appear, either alone or with ours. Legal Process We also may share your information with third parties: In response to facially valid subpoenas, search warrants, court orders, or other legal process when we have a good faith belief that the law, any legal process, law enforcement, national security or issue of public importance requires disclosure; To resolve disputes, trouble shoot problems, protect and defend our rights or property (including to enforce our Terms of Use and other agreements) or the safety of Chitchit, the Service, or that of our customers or others; To establish or exercise our legal rights, or as otherwise required by law; In connection with a corporate transaction involving Chitchit or the Service, such as the purchase or sale of a business unit, an acquisition, merger, sale of assets, corporate reorganization, liquidation, or other similar event.
Aggregate and Anonymous Information
We may also share aggregate or anonymous information with third parties, including advertisers and investors. Aggregate or anonymous information is information that does not, on its own, identify you personally. For example, we may tell our advertisers the number of users our app receives or share anonymous identifiers (such as device advertising identifiers or hashed email addresses) with advertisers and business partners. This information does not contain any personally identifiable information.
Other
Other than as stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not share our users¡¯ personally identifiable information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. If in the future, we plan to share personally identifiable information with any third party for its direct advertising purposes other than as stated in this Privacy Policy, you will be notified in accordance with applicable law.
Display of Tailored Advertising
We allow third parties with whom we have a separate agreement to use certain technologies to collect information about your browser or device and the placement, views, and clicks of their advertisements, so that they can better serve interest-based advertisements to our users and visitors. These third parties include (1) business partners, who collect information when you view or interact with one of their advertisements on the Service; (2) attribution partners who help us measure effectiveness of certain advertisements; and (3) advertising networks, which collect information about your browser or device and your interests when you view or interact with one of their advertisements. The information gathered by these third parties is used to make predictions about your interests or preferences so that they can display advertisements on the Service and on other sites across the Internet tailored to your apparent interests. We do not share with these third parties any information that would personally identify you (such as email address) for purposes of such advertising; however, these third parties may have access to information about your device (such as an advertising identifier or MAC address). We do not have access to, or control over, the technologies that these third parties may use to collect information about your interests, and the information practices of these third parties are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you would like to opt out of receiving tailored advertising in the Chitchit app, please follow the instructions available in our Support Center, here.
Do Not Track Policy
California law requires that operators of websites and online services disclose how they respond to a Do Not Track signal and whether other third parties may collect personally identifiable information about an individual¡¯s online activities from their site or service. Some browsers have incorporated ¡°Do Not Track¡± features. Most of these features, when turned on, send a signal or preference to the website or online service that a user visits, indicating that the user does not wish to be tracked. Because there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret Do Not Track signals, the Service does not currently respond to Do Not Track signals. We continue to work with the online industry to define a common understanding of how to treat Do Not Track signals.
Your User Profile
The information you enter into your user profile (your ¡°Profile¡±) may be shared with your Chitchit contacts. You control your Profile and you can access and modify your Profile from the Chitchit application at any time. In addition, if you register with Chitchit using your Facebook account (e.g. Facebook Connect), we may store your Facebook ID and corresponding token on our servers and, if you give us your express consent, we will have access to and may collect certain information that you make available on Facebook (for example, your first and last names, email address, profile picture, your friend lists and birthdays). Your Profile is available to other users of the Service who are connected to you on Chitchit. In addition, unless you opt-out (which you may do at any time in the Chitchit application), your Profile is discoverable by other Chitchit users, including by way of example in listings of contacts that will include your proximity to other users (however, Chitchit will not share your location with any users). You may also ¡°block out¡± any Chitchit user in your contact list from discovering your Profile at any time.
Data Access and Removal
You can always control what information you choose to share with us on the Service. To do so, you can change your settings in the Service or in your mobile device. Alternatively, you can remove the Service from your mobile device entirely. You can remove your data anytime you want by clicking here and submitting a request. Your data will no longer be available to your Chitchit contacts. If you ask us to delete your account, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to remove your data from our servers, however certain information may be retained in our back-up or archival systems. Please note that, after your account is closed, we may retain certain information associated with your account, including for analytical purposes as well as for record keeping integrity. Notwithstanding the foregoing, If you request, we will delete or anonymize your personal data so that it no longer identifies you, unless, we are legally allowed or required to maintain certain personal data, including situations such as the following: If there is an unresolved issue relating to your account, such as an outstanding credit on your account or an unresolved claim or dispute we will retain the necessary personal data until the issue is resolved; (ii) Where we are required to retain the personal data for our legal, tax, audit, and accounting obligations, we will retain the necessary personal data for the period required by applicable law; and/or, (iii) Where necessary for our legitimate business interests such as fraud prevention or to maintain the security of our users. Any personally identifiable information and any content that you share in text messages, photos, videos or otherwise in or through the Service with other users, or (ii) submit on a blog, bulletin board or chat room on our website or elsewhere, can be viewed and used by others, including to send you unsolicited messages or to commit identity theft. Chitchit is not responsible for any use or misuse of your information that might result from your disclosure of information.
Opt-Out ¨C Promotional Communications
Chitchit allows you to choose not to receive promotional email messages from the Service or its service providers. You may opt-out by following instructions in the message sent by Chitchit or its service providers on how to unsubscribe from that particular mailing. You may also opt-out by contacting us at privacy@Chitchit.me.
Security
Protecting user privacy and personally identifiable information is a top priority for Chitchit. We make substantial efforts to ensure the privacy and security of all personally identifiable information you provide to us. Access to all personally identifiable information is restricted to those individuals who need to know that information in order to provide, operate, develop, maintain, support or improve the Service. Chitchit uses password protection, access logs, and system monitoring to safeguard the confidentiality and security of all member information. However, due to the inherent nature of the Internet and related technology, we do not guarantee the protection of information under our control or in transit against loss, misuse, or alteration.
Data Transfer
Your information may be stored and processed in any country in which Chitchit maintains facilities, including outside of the United States. In this regard, or for purposes of sharing or disclosing data as described in this Privacy Policy, Chitchit reserves the right to transfer information outside of your country. By using the Service, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. In addition, by using the Service (which is governed by California law, this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use), you consent to be governed by California law for these purposes and in connection with your use of the Service.
Age
The Service is not directed to children under the age of seventeen (17) and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of seventeen as part of the Service. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personally identifiable information from a user under the age of seventeen as part of the Service, we will delete such information from our records. If we change our practices in the future, we will obtain prior, verifiable parental consent before collecting any personally identifiable information from children under the age of seventeen as part of the Service.
Notification of Changes
We reserve the right at our discretion to make changes to this Privacy Policy. You may review updates to our Privacy Policy at any time via links on our website. You agree to accept electronic communications and/or postings of a revised Privacy Policy on the Chitchit website, and you agree that such electronic communications or postings constitute notice to you of the Privacy Policy.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@Chitchit.me. Any personally identifiable information provided in connection with inquiries related to this Privacy Policy will be used solely for the purpose of responding to the inquiry and consistent with our Privacy Policy.
Governing Law
These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of Cyprus.
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