We ( “Maktoub“) recognize that your privacy is very important and take it seriously. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy“) sets out how we collect, use and disclose your data when you use our website (www.maktoubapp.com) (“Website“) and/or mobile application called Maktoub (“App“). The Website and App are collectively referred to as the “Platform“. References to “we“, “our” or “us” or the “Company” shall mean the Platform and. Any references to “you“, “your” or “user” shall mean any person using our Platform. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy is a part of and is to be read with the Maktoub Terms of use (“Terms“). By using this Platform, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. You also consent to our use and disclosure of your Personal Information (as defined below) in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. The capitalized words used in this Privacy Policy but not defined herein, shall have the meaning given to such words in the Terms. If you do not agree with the General terms and conditions of this privacy policy, please do not use this platform.
Although Maktoub is provided in three different languages, English language is the official language of the platform. Therefore, the English text of this privacy policy is the only text considered for interpretations.
The information we collect:
Log-in Data:
User ID, mobile phone number, password, gender, and IP address. We may collect an indicative age range which tells us that you are of the appropriate age to access our Platform and certain features of our Platform (collectively, “Log-in Data“).
Additional Profile Information:
Alongside the Log-in Data, we also collect your photo and the biography provided by you on your user profile.
Content You Share:
This comprises all of the information you make available to other users via Platform, comprising such as:
– Information about you or relating to you that is voluntarily shared by you on the Platform, including without limitation, any quotes, images, political opinions, religious views, etc.
– Any posts that you make on the Platform (including your public profile, and photos, videos and voice recordings and photos through your device’s camera and/or microphone sensor), any postings from others that you react or comment on and Location Data and Log Data associated with such postings.
– This also includes information about you (including Location Data and Log Data) that other users of the Platform share about you or any communications they make to you.
Information we receive from other sources:
We may also be working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, analytics providers, search information providers) and may receive information about you from such sources. Such data may be shared internally and combined with data collected on this Platform.
Log Data:
“Log Data” is information that we automatically collect when you use the Platform, whether through the use of cookies, web beacons, log files, scripts, including, but not limited to:
– technical information, such as your mobile carrier-related information, configuration information made available by your web browser or other programs you use to access the Platform, your IP address and your device’s version and identification number;
– information about what you have searched for and looked at while using the Platform, such as web search terms used, social media profiles visited, mini applications used, and details of other information and content accessed or requested by you while using Platform;
– general information about communications on the platform, such as the identity of a user that you have communicated with and the time, data and duration of your communications; and metadata, which means information related to items you have made available through the Platform, such as the date, time or location that a shared photograph or video was taken or posted.
Cookies:
Our Platform uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Platform. This helps us to provide you with a good user experience when you browse our Platform and also allows us to improve the Platform. We collect the cookie data from the cookies on your device.
Surveys:
If you choose to participate in a survey, we may request you to provide certain Personal Information i.e. any information that could be used to identify you (“Personal Information”). We may use a third-party service provider to conduct these surveys and this will be notified to you prior to you completing the survey.
User Search Data: 
Any searches you make on the Platform.
Additional Account Security:
We collect your phone number and request access to the SMSs on your phone by sending you a One-Time-Password (“OTP”), which you confirm by entering the OTP to confirm your identity, while registering with our Platform.
Chat Data:
We collect the content of any communications between you and another user, when you use any chat feature on the Platform. This is stored on your device and the devices of the users that you have sent communications to. However, we do not monitor your chat data, take any action based on your chat data or disclose it to any third party.
Location Information. 
“Location Data” is information that is derived from your GPS, IP address, and/or public posts that contain location information. You will disclose certain location information to us and to other Platform users:
– when you use certain location-based features on the Platform and/or any other feature or mini applications that we may introduce on our Platform from time to time, and when you share your location with other Platform users; and
– when you access the Platform, as we derive location information from your IP address, device, or internet service to prevent multiple or fraudulent log-ins to your account.
Customer Support Information:
Any information that you provide to our customer support team regarding any assistance or support that you may require for using our Platform from time to time.
Device Data:
“Device Data” includes without limitation, the following:
Device attributes:
 information such as the operating system, hardware and software versions, battery level, signal strength, available storage space, browser type, app and file names and types, and plugins.
Device operations:
 information about operations and behaviours performed on the device, such as whether a window is foregrounded or backgrounded.
Identifiers:
 unique identifiers, device IDs, and other identifiers, such as from games, apps or accounts you use.
Device signals:
 We may collect your Bluetooth signals, and information about nearby Wi-Fi access points, beacons, and cell towers.
Data from device settings:
 information you allow us to receive through device settings you turn on, such as access to your GPS location, camera or photos.
Network and connections:
 information such as the name of your mobile operator or ISP, language, time zone, mobile phone number, IP address and connection speed.
Application:
 Any mobile applications that are stored on your mobile device.
Media:
 We access the media gallery on your mobile device, including without limitation, images, videos and audio files and the storage space on your phone. However, we shall always obtain your consent before accessing your images and you shall have the option to deny us such access.
Contest Information:
Any information that you provide to us in submitting an entry to any contest which may be offered on the Platform from time to time.
Disclosure of your information:
Public content i.e. any content you post on your user profile or on another user’s profile, such as a post comment, is accessible to everyone. Any information you voluntarily disclose for posting to the Platform, including your profile page information, is accessible to anyone. Also, when you comment on someone else’s post or like their content, your comment or like is visible to anyone who can see the other person’s content. Please note that these users will only be able to see your nickname and not your full name.
Users can also use our Platform to create and share content with the audience that they choose, such as posting a photo or a video. We reserve the right to share all public content on any social media site or any other online or offline platform. We will never rent or sell your Personal Information to third parties, except on an anonymized basis, unless expressly provided in these Terms.
Sharing with our group of companies:
We may share your Personal Information with any member of our Group. The term “Group” shall mean any entity that is controlled by us, or any entity that is in control of us, or any entity that is under common control with us, whether directly or indirectly.
Sharing with Third Parties:
We may share your information (including Personal Information) with select third parties including:
Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors (“Affiliates“). Affiliates may use this information to help provide, understand, and improve the Service and Affiliates’ own services for the performance of any contract we enter into with you.
Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others. We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that any given number of women in a specified age group clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target.
Government bodies or law enforcement agencies, if we have good-faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to share your personal data or information in order to comply with any legal obligation or any government request; or to protect the rights or prevent any harm to the property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or public; or to detect, prevent or otherwise address public safety, fraud, security or technical issues.
We may also disclose your information (including Personal Information) to select third parties in the following circumstances:
If the Company or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, reorganization or sale of assets such that your information would be transferred or become subject to a different Privacy Policy, we will notify you in advance so you can opt out of any such new policy by deleting your account before transfer.
In order to enforce or apply our Terms and/or any other agreements.
Security Practices:
We have in place appropriate technical and security measures to secure the information collected by us. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a username and password which enables you to access the Platform, you are responsible for keeping these details confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Changes To this policy:
The Company may periodically update this Privacy Policy. Whenever we make any changes to this Privacy Policy that are important for you to know about, we will post the updated Privacy Policy at this link. It is your responsibility to keep checking this page from time to time in order to be aware of any changes made to this Privacy Policy.
Disclaimer:
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Platform; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.
Your Rights:
You are free to remove or delete content from your user account/profile at any point in time. However, the history of your activities and account on our Platform remains available to us. You may correct, amend, add or delete Personal Information from your account at any time by logging in and visiting your profile page. However, until your account is deleted you will continue to receive all system e-mails. However, please note that revoking your consent may negatively affect your use of the Platform. For instance, we need access to your mobile device’s media folder and camera so that you can click pictures from your mobile device and post them on the Platform, which functionality will not be available to you if you do not provide us such access. You may also ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. You can exercise any of these rights at any time by contacting us at 
support@maktoubapp.com
or by using the contact form on
www.maktoubapp.com
. However, we require a reasonable period of at least 30 (thirty) days to comply with any of your requests.
Data Retention:
We do not retain your Sensitive Personal Information (defined below in this paragraph) for longer than is required for the purposes for which the information may be lawfully used. For any other content, we will entertain your request for deletion, however, there is a strong possibility that copies of any public content will be retained indefinitely in our systems, including in cached and archived pages of the Platform, or if other users have copied or saved that information. In addition, due to the nature of the internet, copies of your content, including content that you have removed or deleted from your account, may also exist elsewhere on the Internet and be retained indefinitely.
Third Party Links:
The Platform may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers, Affiliates and/or any other websites or mobile applications. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites or mobile applications.
Third-Party Embeds:
Some of the content that you see displayed on the Platform is not hosted by the Platform. These “
embeds
” are hosted by a third-party and embedded in the Platform. These files send data to the hosted site just as if you were visiting that site directly (for example, when you load a Platform post page with a YouTube video embedded in it, YouTube receives data about your activity).
Privacy concerns with third party embeds:
The Platform does not control what data third parties collect or what they will do with it. So, third-party embeds on the Platform are not covered by this Privacy Policy. They are covered by the privacy policy of the third-party service.
Communications from us:
We may from time to time send you service-related announcements when we consider it necessary to do so (such as when we temporarily suspend the Platform for maintenance, or security, privacy, or administrative-related communications). We send these to you via email, SMS or via a direct message in Maktoub app. You may not opt-out of these service-related announcements, which are not promotional in nature and used solely to protect your account and keep you informed of important changes to the Platform.