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VIBES PRIVACY Policy

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VIBES PRIVACY Policy Our Privacy commitments This Privacy Policy outlines the information we may collect about you in relation to your use of our websites, events, related publications and services (“personal data”) and how we may use that personal data. It also outlines the methods by which we and our service providers may (subject to necessary consents) monitor your online behavior to deliver customized advertisements, marketing materials and other tailored services. This Privacy Policy also tells you how you can verify the accuracy of your personal data and how you can request that we delete or update it. This Privacy Policy applies to all websites operated by Vibes App (as indicated on the relevant website). This privacy statement extends to and covers the activities of third parties on the Vibe App and in affiliation with or actions carried out in the course of using or accessing data and other information on the Vibes App.

Who are we

Established in 2022 and with Registered office in the United States and in Nigeria to cover the African market. Vibes App is the world’s Class Social Media and Interpersonal Networking Application/Website developed using the State of the Art ICT Technologies and services to effectively bring different people of legal adult age together in a safe and verified space to interact, date and have business, casual or other relations in the process.

Our principal services include but not limited to:

Social Media Networking
Adult Dating
Social Interations
Healthy Conversations and matured exchanges and conversations within the bounds of mutual consent manifestly granted by all data subjects from time to time.
Personal Interactive AI for recording and keeping events and activities; amongst others.

The Vibe App and the VibesMeet.com is a company registered under the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria with company Registration Number RC No: 1987551.

Data Protection Policy

This Data Protection Policy explains when and why we collect personal information about people who visit our website, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure. Why do we collect information from you? Our primary goal in collecting personal data from you is to give you an enjoyable customized experience whilst allowing us to provide services and features that will meet your needs. We collect certain personal data from you, which you give to us while using our App/Site and/or registering or subscribing for our products and services. However, we also give you the option to access our Sites’ home pages without subscribing or registering or disclosing your personal data. We also collect certain personal data from other sources where such are disclosed to our App or linked up by the User/Data Subject. In the course of processing your Data, we will not disclose your data to any other website or App without your consent first sought and obtained. Special Category Data would be utmostly protected in line with the Provisions of the UKDPR, Article 8 of the ECHR and Article 9 of the General Data Protection Regulations applicable within the Council of Europe Section 35 of the Nigerian Constitution, 1999 (As amended) and all other relevant laws pertaining to Data protection, including the Data Protection Act, Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Strict rules will apply to these sensitive data and would only be processed or reused as far as the Data Subject consent sand other conditions in the above laws are complied with.

Why this policy exists

This Data Protection Policy ensures Vibes App:

Engaging

Complies with data protection law and follow International Best Practice
Protects the rights of Data Subjects manifesting as Users, Guest or Subscribers as well as Data Controllers such as the Vibe Team, Investors and Partners.
Is open about how it stores and processes individuals’ data within the ambit of the law.
Protects and prepares itself from the risk of a data breach We may change this Policy from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. By using our App and its website, you are agreeing to be bound by this Policy.

Data protection law

The Nigerian Constitution 1999 as well as other Data Protection legislation across the world (some of which we have mentioned above) described how organizations – and in this case, Vibes App – must collect, handle and store personal information. These rules apply regardless of whether data is stored electronically, on paper or on other materials. To comply with the law, personal information collected must be stored safely, not disclosed unlawfully and used fairly. Our Data Protection undertaking as a Company is at par with other standards and law across the world and to this effect has been conceptualized by these eight important principles. The principles states that Personal data shall:

Be processed fairly and lawfully.
Be obtained only for specific, lawful purposes.
Be adequate, relevant and not excessive.
Be accurate and kept up to date.
Not be held for any longer than necessary.
Processed in accordance with the rights of data subjects.
Be protected in appropriate ways.
Not be transferred outside the operative jurisdictional territory from which it is obtained on a case to case basis except the jurisdiction of destination or country of transfer also ensures an adequate level of protection provided that the retention and use of such private information for the execution of instructions or assignments for the owners of such private information in any part of the world within the working space or network of the company’s mainstream shall not qualify as transfer for the purpose of this clause.

User Information receive from other Platforms with Users Permission

Social Media Connected Platforms: User may choose to share personal information vide their social media account such as Facebook, Google or Apple or to upload onto the Vibes App services, information such as photos from one of your social media accounts as the case may be as well as Other legitimate Sources available and avail the Vibes Team by the User in the course of using the App or Website.

Information from other Subscribers: Subscribers and other Users may provide information about a Co-Users by way of reviews, a report or any other industry acceptable means in the course of using the App.

Information collected when A User uses the Vibes App services:

Device information: Information from and about the devices used to access the Vibes App services, including hardware and software information as we as IP address, device ID, type, apps settings or customization, app crashes, advertising IDs and other data associated with cookies or other applicable technologies that may naturally identify the unique particulars and characteristics of a device or browser.

Usage Information: In the course of using the Vibes App services, data is generated naturally about User’s activity on the App services and the User’s interactions with other members whom the User may have connect and interact with whilst using the App. Vibes App obtain information about you when you use our website, for example, when you contact us about products and services, when you register for an event, register to receive eNewsletters, subscribe or register for a trial to our Vibes App magazine/website.

With law enforcement / when required by law

We may disclose your information if it has been established to be reasonably necessary in the circumstances where:

Such information is required to comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena, Notice to Produce Documents or search warrant from an authorized Law Enforcement Agency or Competent Court as the case may be in the course of an investigation or other legal requirements
To assist in the prevention or detection of crime or any criminal activities as permitted by law.

Provided that the above section is in each respective case subject to applicable laws or to protect the safety of any person including the data subject.

To enforce legal rights:We may also share information:

Where it has become expedient in the circumstance and disclosure would effectively mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit;
It has become necessary to protect our legal rights and legal rights of our members, business partners or other interested parties;
To investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding any suspicious or reported illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.
To enforce our agreements with you.

Inter-Jurisdictional Data Transfers: Sharing of information laid out on a Social Networking Platform such as Vibes requires a large amount of data interface, data discipline and proper safeguards interacting at the same time across different territories, jurisdictions and borders in the United States of America and other jurisdictions that may have different or similar legal regime about data processing. Transfer personal information/Sensitive Data protected under the GDPR, UKDPR, the American legislation on Data Protection and other relevant laws outside of the Council of Europe, the United Kingdom, Switzerland,Nigeria and other countries which data protection laws have been deemed adequate by the European Commission or other competent governmental body, we use standard contract clauses (standard contractual clauses are commitments between companies transferring personal data, binding them to protect the privacy and security of your data) or other appropriate transfer mechanism.

Your Rights as a User and Data Subject: We want you to be in control of your information, so we want to remind you of the following options and tools available to you:

Access and Update tools in the service: Tools and account settings can help you access, rectify or remove information that you provided to us and that’s associated with your account directly within the service

Device permissions. The workability of the Vibes App Privacy setting is subject to the permission granted by the User on the Users device upon signing up with Vibes App. Mobile platforms possess a permission systems section for specific types of device data and notifications, such as phone contacts, pictures, location services, push notifications and advertising identifiers. User may make changes to its device Permission settings to reflect consent or otherwise to Vibes on the collection or processing of the corresponding information or the display of the corresponding notifications. Of course, if you do that, certain services may lose functionality.

Uninstall. User may halt all information collection by Vibes by uninstalling it using the standard uninstall process for your device. Remember that uninstalling an app does NOT close your account. To close your account, please click on the dialogue box on the service.

Account closure. You can close your account by clicking on the necessary dialogue box on the App. User may use the Self services or check out the FAQs to get clarity where necessary

User may equally review information, including persona data, initial submitted in the event that certain changes have occurred. Continuous Updates User information is equally encouraged In the event that the information submitted by the User is inchoate or inconclusive, the User is encourage to update such information in order to enjoy the full functionalities of the App.

User Verification is equally required for an Account to be properly and effectively create on Vibes. This can equally be found in the Terms of Use. It is essential for the protection of all users as well as other members, thus, proof of identity may be required for such verification as at when required.

How Long Can Vibes App Retain Your Information: Personal Information are only kept for as long as it is necessary and needed for legitimate business purposes and as permitted by applicable law. If you decide to stop using our services, you can close your account and your profile will stop being visible to other members. Note that Vibes may close your account automatically if you are inactive for a period of Thirty Months. To protect the safety and security of our members, we implement a safety retention window of three months following account closure, or one year following an account ban. During this period, we keep your information in the event that it might be necessary to investigate unlawful or harmful conducts. The retention of information during this safety retention window is based on our legitimate interest as well as that of potential third-party victims. Finally, we maintain information on the basis of our legitimate interest where there is an outstanding or potential issue, claim or dispute requiring us to keep information (in particular if we receive a valid legal subpoena or request asking us to preserve data (in which case we would need to keep the data to comply with our legal obligations) or if data would otherwise be necessary as part of legal proceedings).

Children’s Privacy Protection: This Platform is for Adults and persons who are of sound minds and capable of forming the intention both physically and mentally to enter into any form of contract legally. As a result, Vibes has restricted access to its services to individuals who are 18 years of age or older. Individuals under the age of 18 are not permitted on the Vibes Platform. If you suspect that a member is under the age of 18, please kindy report such underage user immediately.

Types of Personal Data Held and its Use

1. Special Category Sensitive Information

The GDPR and other international legislation tailored after Article 8 of the ECHR which also extends to other local legislation by Member States under the Council of Europe and other bodies such as the UKDP Act and its Nigerian counterpart. Article 9 of the GDPR categories certain personal data as sensitive and special and prohibits the processing of same except as permitted or consented to by the Data Subjects by an unequivocal and clearly communicated consent. This Privacy Policy complies strictly with these legal standards in dealing with all sensitive and special category personal data as defined in Article 9 of the GDPR and safeguards the data subjects in dealing with such data within the ambit of the law.

2. Customer Services and Administration

On some Sites, Vibe collects personal data such as your name, job title, department, company, e-mail, phone, work and/or home address, in order to register you for access to certain content, subscriptions and events. In addition, we may also store information including IP address and page analytics, including information regarding what pages are accessed, by whom and when. This information is used to administer and deliver to you the products and/or services you have requested, to operate our Sites efficiently and improve our service to you, and to retain records of our business transactions and communications. By using the Sites and submitting personal information through the registration process you are agreeing that we may collect, hold, process and use your information (including personal information) for the purpose of providing you with the Site services and developing our business, which shall include (without limitation) the purposes described in the below paragraphs.

3. Monitoring use of our Sites

Where, as part of our Site services, we enable you to post information or materials on our Site, we may access and monitor any information which you upload or input, including in any password-protected sections. Subject to any necessary consents, we also monitor and/or record the different Sites you visit and actions taken on those Sites, e.g. content viewed or searched for. If you are a registered user (e.g. a subscriber or taking a trial), when you log on, this places a cookie on your machine. This enables your access to content and services that are not publicly available. Once you are logged on, the actions you take – for example, viewing an article – will be recorded (subject to any necessary consents). We may use technology or a service provider to do this for us. This information may be used for one or more of the following purposes:

to fulfil our obligations to you;
to improve the efficiency, quality and design of our Sites and services;
to see which articles, features and services are most read and used.
to track compliance with our terms and conditions of use, e.g. to ensure that you are acting within the scope of your user licence;
for marketing purposes (subject to your rights to opt-in and opt-out of receiving certain marketing communications) – see paragraph 3 below;
for advertising purposes, although the information used for these purposes does not identify you personally. Please see paragraph 5 below for more details;
to protect or comply with our legal rights and obligations; and
to enable our journalists to contact and interact with you online in connection with any content you may post to our Sites.

Please see paragraph 5 below for more information on cookies and similar technologies and a link to a page where you can turn them on or off.

4. Marketing

Some of your personal data collected under paragraphs 1 and 2 above may be used by us to contact you by e-mail, telephone and/or post for sending information or promotional material on our products and/or services and/or those of our other group companies. We give you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving marketing communications. Further detail can be found on the applicable Site and in the footer of each marketing communication sent by us, our group companies or service providers. See also “Consents and opt-outs” section below. We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.

5. Profiling

We may analyse your personal information to create a profile of your interests and preferences so that we can contact you with information relevant to you.

6. Cookies and similar technologies

All our Sites use cookies and similar technical tools to collect information about your access to the Site and the services we provide.

What is a cookie?

When you enter some sites, your computer will be issued with a cookie. Cookies are text files that identify your computer to servers. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their site in order to track traffic flows, recording those areas of the site that have been visited by the computer in question, and for how long. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. Selecting not to receive means that certain personalized services Vibe offers cannot then be provided to that user.

Why do we use cookies?

1. Log In – Where we provide log in mechanisms for site users a cookie is created at login and for the duration of the session. Each cookie contains a unique reference number only (no personal information) which is used to confirm you are authorized.

2. Analytics – To allow us to keep track of traffic to our website we use cookies. The cookies simply tell us if you have previously visited our website so we can get more accurate figures for New vs Returning visitors

We may use cookies to:

remember that you have used the Site before; this means we can identify the number of unique visitors we receive to different parts of the Site. This allows us to make sure we have enough capacity for the number of users that we get and make sure that the Site runs fast enough
remember your login session so you can move from one page to another within the Site;
store your preferences or your user name and password so that you do not need to input these details every time you visit the Site;
customise elements of the layout and/or content of the pages of Site for you;
record activity on our Sites so that we understand how you use our Sites enabling us to better tailor our content, services and marketing to your needs;
collect statistical information about how you use the Site so that we can improve the Site; and
gather information about the pages on the Site that you visit, and other information about other websites that you visit, so as to place you in a “market segment”. This information is only collected by reference to the IP address that you are using, but does include information about the county and city you are in, together with the name of your internet service provider.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that, or to notify you each time a cookie is set. You can also learn more about cookies in general by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org which includes additional useful information on cookies and how to block cookies using different types of browser. Please note however, that by blocking, deleting or turning off cookies used on the Site you may not be able to take full advantage of the Site.

7. E-mail tracking

E-mail tracking is a method for monitoring the e-mail delivery to those subscribers who have opted-in to receive marketing e-mails from Vibedomain.com, spanning across Africa, Asia, Americas, Europe, and Third party engagements, e-mails and other Vibe activities.

Why do we track e-mails?

So that we can better understand our users’ needs, we track responses, subscription behaviour and engagement to our e-mails – for example, to see which links are the most popular in newsletters. They enable us to understand the consumers journey through metrics including open rate, click-through rate, bounces and unsubscribes. Any other purposes for which Vibe wishes to use your personal data will be notified to you and your personal data will not be used for any such purpose without obtaining your prior consent.

How do you track Vibe eNewsletters?

To do this, we use pixel GIFs, also known as “pixel tags” – these are small image files that are placed within the body of our e-mail messages. When that image is downloaded from our web servers, the e-mail is recorded as being opened. By using some form of digitally time-stamped record to reveal the exact time and date that an e-mail was received or opened, as well the IP address of the recipient.

8. Consents and opt-outs

You can give your consent to opt-out of all or any particular uses of your data as indicated above by:

Indicating at the point on the relevant Site where personal data is collected
Informing us by e-mail, post or phone
Updating your preferences on the applicable Site or eNewsletter (unsubscribe and preference options are available in the footer of each eNewsletter)

To turn cookies and similar technologies on and off, see the information in paragraph 5 above. Any questions regarding consents and opt-outs should be sent by e-mail to privacy@vibedomain.com or by writing to Data Protection Officer

9. Disclosures

Information collected at one Site may be shared between Vibe and other group companies for the purposes listed above. We may disclose any of the information described in this policy to third parties as a result of a sale, merger, consolidation, change of control, transfer of assets or re- organisation of our business.

10. Public forums, message boards and blogs

Some of our Sites may have a message board, blogs or other facilities for user generated content available and users can participate in these facilities. Any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should always be careful when deciding to disclose your personal information.

11. Data outside the Nigerian Jurisdictional Framework

Services on the Internet are accessible globally so collection and transmission of personal data is not always limited to one country. Vibe may process your personal data, for the above-listed purposes to other third parties subscribers or users of the vibe App or the Vibedomain.com website, having obtained the requisite consent to so do in the preliminary points of subscribing to the website or App which may be located outside the Nigerian Jurisdictional Framework and/or with a different level of personal data protection with particular focus on the laws and regulations already taken cognizance of and acknowledged as enforceable herein in the course of this Policy implementation. However, while processing all kinds of data including the individual sensitive data of respective Data Subjects, we take all necessary steps to ensure that your data is treated reasonably, securely and in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

Who has access to your information?

Confidentiality and Security of Your Personal Data

We are committed to keeping the data you provide us secure and will take reasonable precautions to protect your personal data from loss, misuse or alteration. However, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best in line with international best practice to protect your personal data, we cannot entirely guarantee the security of your data processed or transmitted on any website and hyperlinked to our site under any circumstances as this does not represent the full substance of data processed directly on our platform which we are committed to protect and safeguard; any further transmission outside the generic foundation of our Vibe platform is processed at the respective data subjects risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features described above to try to prevent unauthorized access.

We have implemented information security policies, rules and technical measures mentioned above to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

unauthorised access
improper use or disclosure
unauthorised modification
unlawful destruction or accidental loss

All our employees, contractors and data processors (i.e. those who process your personal data on our behalf, for the purposes listed above), who have access to, and are associated with the processing of your personal data, are obliged to keep the information confidential and not use it for any other purpose than to carry out the services they are performing for us. To this end, all the above mentioned persons and staff have executed a Non-Disclosure Agreement/Confidentiality Agreement to keep your information under strict confidence.

Responsibilities

Everyone who works for or with the Vibe Team has some responsibility for ensuring data is collected, stored and handled appropriately. Each team handling personal data must ensure that it is handled and processed in line with this policy and international best practices on data protection principles. It is hereby provided for the avoidance of doubt that the Vibes App Team shall not be held responsible for any video, audio or other data leak of End Users on the Vibes App or from the Vibes App to other similar or allied Apps. End Users are provided with sufficient security on the Vibes App but where such security measures are eroded by reason of acts of the End User there leading to the leaking out of private, personal and sensitive data and other such forms of Data into other accounts or other Apps or Social Platforms or Internet Platforms, the End User shall bear full responsibility of such leakages or data compromise and shall hold Vibes App blameless on such issues forthwith. Deep fake Content The Vibes Team has advised and recommended that content created within the Vibes Community be held and kept discreetly within the Vibes App and online Platform as the case may be. To this end, the following is hereby established hereunder as a matter of course: The Vibes App or online Platform shall not be responsible for any digital manipulations or other form of falsification of persons data subject to various data Protection laws regime across several jurisdictions where such use or sharing outside the platform or sharing for other parties within the Platform for profit would or at a cost or in the course of a business transaction, exposes such materials, digital contents, videos and other persona data to Artificial intelligence falsification, amendments, recreations and possible digital augmentation, in order to replace the person of a particular end user thereby compromise the persona of the said user by reason of such actions with intent to mislead, deceive and misdirect other Vibes App users and other internet users generally is and shall always remain the responsibility of such end User who had made room for such exposure. All End Users are advised to secure within the protective walls of thee Vibes App all their Content and where such contents are share in Usable form outside the wall of the Vibes App, such uses,sharing or further disposal or use shall be and remain the responsibility of of the respective End User from time to time. The Vibes App is hereby held blameless of any and all issues arising from deep fake issues in any form or manifestation.

Deep fake Content

The Vibes Team has advised and recommended that content created within the Vibes Community be held and kept discreetly within the Vibes App and online Platform as the case may be. To this end, the following is hereby established hereunder as a matter of course:

The Vibes App or online Platform shall not be responsible for any digital manipulations or other forms of falsification of personal data subject to various data protection laws regime across several jurisdictions where such use or sharing outside the platform or sharing for other parties within the Platform for profit would or at a cost or in the course of a business transaction, exposes such materials, digital contents, videos and other persona data to Artificial intelligence falsification, amendments, recreations and possible digital augmentation, in order to replace the person of a particular end user thereby compromise the persona of the said user by reason of such actions with an intent to mislead, deceive and misdirect other Vibes App users and other internet users generally is and shall always remain the responsibility of such end User who had made room for such exposure.

All End Users are advised to secure within the protective walls of the Vibes App all their Content and where such contents are shared in Usable form outside the wall of the Vibes App, such uses, sharing, or further disposal or use shall be and remain the responsibility of the respective End User from time to time. The Vibes App is hereby held blameless of any and all issues arising from deep fake issues in any form or manifestation.

Name of Data Controller

he Data Controller is Vibe App or Vibedomain.com. Vibe is subject to the Nigerian Constitution and the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria and is registered in the Federal Republic of Nigeria with the Corporate Affairs Commission.

How to access, update and erase your personal information

If you wish to know whether we are keeping personal data about you, or if you have an enquiry about our privacy policy or your personal data held by us, in relation to any of the Sites, you can contact the Data Protection Officer via: E- mail: privacy@vibedomain.com

Upon request, we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you in a readable and portable form. We shall require proof of your identity to ascertain the veracity of the recipient of such sensitive info and may charge a small fee to cover administration and postage.

Vibe App allows you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate in accordance with applicable laws, you may have your personal information:

erased
rectified or amended
Completed

Disclosing data for other reasons

In certain circumstances, the law allows personal data to be disclosed to law enforcement agencies without the consent of the data subject. Under these circumstances, Vibe App will disclose requested data. However, the Data Controller will ensure the request is legitimate and go further to seeking assistance from the board and from the company’s legal advisors where necessary.

Changes to this Privacy Statement

We will occasionally update this Privacy Statement to reflect new legislation or industry practice, group company changes and customer feedback. We encourage you to review this Privacy Statement periodically to be informed of how we are protecting your personal data.

Providing information

Vibe App aims to ensure that individuals are aware that their data is being processed, and that they understand.

How the data is being used
How to exercise their rights

To this end, the company has a privacy statement, setting out how data relating to individuals is used by the company. This is available on request and available on the company’s website.

Review of this policy

We keep this Policy under regular review

Data leakages and Circulation on the Internet and Social Media

It is hereby provided for the avoidance of doubt that the Vibes App Team shall not be held responsible for any video, audio or other data leak of End Users on the Vibes App or from the Vibes App to other similar or allied Apps. End Users are provided with sufficient security on the Vibes App but where such security measures are eroded by reason of acts of the End User there leading to the leaking out of private, personal and sensitive data and other such forms of Data into other accounts or other Apps or Social Platforms or Internet Platforms, the End User shall bear full responsibility of such leakages or data compromise and shall hold Vibes App blameless on such issues forthwith.

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