Argot is committed to protecting the privacy of personal information of any users of its App on theApple Store and Google Play Store or visit argot.com and use the services thereon (the “Services”).Amendments to this Privacy Policy will be posted on argot.com and will be effective when posted.Your continued use of the Services following the posting of any amendment to the Privacy Policyshall constitute your acceptance of such amendment. You should periodically review this PrivacyPolicy and check the "Last Updated" date at the top of the document to familiarize yourself with themost recent version of this Privacy Policy.
Consent and Information Collection and Use
When you join us as a user of our Services, we ask for personal information that will be used to activate your account, provide the Services to you, communicate with you about the status of your account, and for other purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Your name, twitter handle, profile photo, messages, media, read message history, twitter followers, twitter followings, bio information, tweets, links, retweets, quoted tweets, media, tagged locations, device information, and certain other information about you may be required by us to provide the Services or disclosed by you during your use of the Services of from your Twitter profile once you have provided access, which will become part of your account information.
By providing personal information to us and by requesting us to provide you with the Services, you voluntarily consent to the collection, use and disclosure of such personal information as specified in this Privacy Policy. Without limiting the foregoing, we may on occasion ask you to consent when we collect, use, or disclose your personal information in specific circumstances. Sometimes your consent will be implied through your conduct with us if the purpose of the collection, and our expected use or disclosure of your information, is or should be obvious and you voluntarily provide the information.Please be assured, however, that all collection, use and disclosure of personal information will be in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
We may use your personal information and other information collected from you for the following purposes:
We may occasionally communicate with you regarding our products, services, news and events. We will update this policy with regards to marketing communications and only then shall use your information for any marketing purposes.
Children's Privacy
The login requirements of our site limit its access to Twitter users which requires our users to be above the age of 13. We do not knowingly provide the Services to and will not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of consent. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us through our support page.
Accessing and Deleting Your Information
When you use our Services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. You can access and edit your personal information at any time through the web interface provided as a part of theServices. If you would like to delete your personal information, please contact us. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be deleted before processing all such requests, and we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backups), or for which access is not otherwise required. Please email us at su@argot.com with any questions, if you need assistance accessing or changing your personal information, or if you would like to have your personal information deleted. Please be aware that if you delete your personal information, you may not be able to continue to use the Services.
Sharing Your Information
Except as permitted in this Privacy Policy, we do not and will not sell, rent, share or disclose your personal information without first receiving your permission.
We will only share your information with third parties in accordance with your instructions or as necessary to provide you with a specific Service or otherwise in accordance with applicable privacy laws. In addition, we may disclose your personal and non-personal information to our agents, contractors and service providers who are engaged to perform functions on our behalf (such as provision of data storage, managing our services, hosting of our website, conducting audits, and performing web analytics). These third-party contractors and service providers (i) shall be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to provide the service, and (ii) must protect personal information to the same extent as Argot, including not using it for any improper purpose.
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties when we believe, in good faith and in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) enforce or apply our Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (b) comply with legal or regulatory requirements or cooperate with a law enforcement or regulatory investigation, (c) protect the rights, property or safety of Argot, our users or other third parties, (d) prevent a crime or protect national security, or (e) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
We may also disclose non-personally identifiable information on an aggregated, anonymous basis(see "Aggregated Data" section below) to our business partners, merchants, investors, potential buyers and other third parties if we deem such disclosure, in our sole discretion, to have sound business reasons or justifications.
Aggregated Data
We may also use your personal information and information about your activity to generateAggregated Data for internal use and for sharing with others on a selective basis. "Aggregated Data"means records which have been stripped of information potentially identifying Site users, and which have been manipulated or combined to provide generalized, anonymous information. AggregatedData will not disclose you as the source or subject of the information.
Links
The Service may contain links to other sites and we are not responsible for the privacy or securitypractices or the content of such sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of linked sites.Their privacy policies and practices differ from our policies and practices.
Cookies and Other Information-Gathering Technologies
We reserve the right to use cookies to track user activity. In addition to cookies, we or our service providers may use web beacons, pixels and similar technologies on our Site and in email messages or notifications. These tiny electronic images can be used to assist us in determining how many users have visited certain pages or opened messages or newsletters. However, we do NOT use these images to collect personal information.
Your Tweets and Messages
A large part of the service allows you to post tweets to Twitter and communicate with others, which can include media, messages, and geolocations. Whenever you disclose personal information publicly (such as on publicly viewable web pages), that information becomes public and can be collected and used by others, including for the sending of unsolicited messages. We can't control who reads your public posts or what others may do with information you voluntarily post, so we encourage you to use your discretion with respect to posting personal information. Also, such postings are governed by our Terms of Service, so be sure to review them before posting.
Your Privacy Rights
All information that we collect and how it is used has been disclosed in this policy. Argot doesn’t use any personal information other than to provide the Service. The messages you post to the Service are stored with the sole intention of maintaining message histories. We do not intend to use this information other than to keep it available to the people you publicly disclose these messages to at the time of posting. All other personal information is gathered in real time from Twitter and not stored with Argot other than metric and usage data. Any request for your private information can be forwarded to su@argot.com.
Storage of your Data
Argot uses the following third parties to store its information; Google Analytics, DynamoDB, andFirebase Authentication. This Service is operated and hosted in the United States. If you are visiting the Site from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our servers and third party service provider’s servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and privacy laws of theUnited States may not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By using the Service, which are provided exclusively from the United States, You hereby consent to the transfer of your information to the United States and its collection, storage, sharing and use as described in this Privacy Policy.You further agree that all transactions relating to the Site and our Services shall be deemed to have occurred in the United States.
Security
We will strive to prevent unauthorized access to your personal information; however, no data transmission over the Internet, by wireless device or over the air is guaranteed to be 100% secure.We will continue to enhance security procedures as new technologies and procedures become available.
Please remember that you control what personal information you provide while using the Services.Ultimately, you are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your identification, passwords and/or any personal information in your possession for the use of the Services. Always be careful and responsible regarding your personal information. We are not responsible for, and cannot control, the use by others of any information which you provide to them, and you should use caution in selecting the personal information you provide to others through the Services. Similarly, we cannot assume any responsibility for the content of any personal information or other information which you receive from other users through the Services, and you release us from any and all liability in connection with the contents of any personal information or other information which you may receive using theServices. We cannot guarantee, or assume any responsibility for verifying, the accuracy of the personal information or other information provided by any third party. You release us from any and all liability in connection with the use of such personal information or other information of others.
If you have a question about this privacy policy, please contact us or write to us at su@argot.com.