Together, an application published by SKININTHEGAME TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED and its affiliates (referred to as "Together," "Skininthegame," "worktogether"), is a pseudonymous social network available on the Google Play Store or Apple App Store or on Web. It caters to working professionals and students, offering various communities within the app.
At Together, we highly value your privacy and have taken measures to safeguard it. This Privacy Policy aims to provide you with a clear understanding of how we collect, use, process, and share your personal information. It also empowers you to exercise your privacy rights.
We prioritize the protection of your privacy. Hence, Together does not retain any data, such as your phone number or email address, that could reveal your true identity to us or any third party.
Table of contents
- Scope
- Data we collect
- How do we use your data?
- Provide our services
- Administrative
- Marketing and Advertising our Products and Services
- With your Consent
- How do we share your data?
- To provide you our services
- To protect us or others in good faith
- In case of change of control
- Policy pertaining to children’s data
- Choices regarding your personal information
- Security safeguards
- How long do we keep your personal information?
- Updates to our privacy policy
Scope
This Privacy Policy pertains to the handling of personal information within our application, which can be downloaded from the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
We act as the controller for the personal information we process unless otherwise specified. If you need to get in touch with us, please refer to the "Contact Us" section below.
- Third-party websites, applications, content, or landing pages ("Third Party Content") that you may access through Together.
- Your interactions with Third Party Content.
- Information you provide to or collected by any third party ("Third-Party Data"). The collection and usage of your information by third parties are governed by their respective privacy policies, which may be accessible through the settings page of your smart device. For any inquiries or requests regarding Third-Party Data, kindly contact the relevant third party.
However, please note that this Privacy Policy does not extend to:
Data we collect
Categories of Information Collected
The information collected by Together can be categorized as follows:
- Profile Information: This includes your username, company, and professional title.
- Device Information: We collect details such as Google Advertising ID (GAID), Apple ID (if applicable), device model, operating system version, and other related information.
- Content You Contributed: This pertains to the posts and comments you have contributed to the platform, including multimedia like image, video, audio and document uploaded as part of the aforementioned contribution.
- App Activity: Information regarding your interactions with the app, including the communities you visited and joined, posts you viewed, reactions, crash reports, diagnostic reports, and other related app activities.
- Security & Login Information: We may collect your phone number for security and login purposes.
- Customer Support Information: If you reach out to us for customer support, we may additionally collect your email address.
Please note that the above information is collected as described in our Privacy Policy and is used in accordance with the outlined purposes and safeguards.
How do we use your data?
We use your information for a variety of business purposes, including to provide our Services, for administrative purposes, and to market our products and Services, as described below.
Provide our services
We utilize your information to fulfill our contractual obligations and provide you with our Services, including:
- Managing your information and accounts: This involves administering your personal information and accounts within our Services.
- Providing access to specific areas, functionalities, content, and features: We grant you access to relevant parts of our Services, allowing you to utilize specific functionalities, access content, and utilize various features.
- Proving access to your content contribution (refer to in Point 3. of Data we collect), to other members and contributors within the right of scope of the content generated by you.
- Tailoring our content: We may personalize our services, such as tailoring posts on your feed, based on the information we collect. However, it is important to note that we do not engage in content customization based on factors such as caste, creed, sex, race, or community.
- Addressing customer or technical support requests: We respond to your inquiries and provide assistance in resolving any customer or technical issues you may encounter.
- Communication regarding your account and activities: We keep you informed about your account details, notify you of your activities on our Services, provide updates or upgrades to the application, and inform you about any policy changes.
- Processing job applications: If you apply for a job posted on our Services, we process your application accordingly.
- Event registration: We facilitate your registration for events hosted by us.
These actions are undertaken in accordance with our contractual obligations and to ensure the proper functioning and delivery of our Services to you.
Administrative
We employ your information based on our legitimate interests, which include:
- Network and information security: We use your information to maintain the security of our network and protect against security incidents. This involves detecting and preventing malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activities and taking necessary actions, including prosecution if required.
- Market and user research: We utilize your information to gauge interest and engagement in our Services, helping us improve and tailor our offerings to better meet your needs.
- Product or service development: We may use your information to develop new products, as well as make upgrades and enhancements to our existing offerings, ensuring that we provide you with an improved user experience.
- Internal quality control and safety: We utilize your information for internal purposes such as quality control, ensuring the safety of our Services, and addressing any errors or issues that may arise.
- Authentication and identity verification: We use your information to authenticate and verify individual identities, especially when handling requests related to your rights under this policy.
- Auditing and compliance activities: Your information may be used for auditing purposes, including tracking interactions, and transactions, and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and policies.
- Sharing information with third parties: We may share your information with third parties as necessary to provide our Services to you effectively.
- Enforcement of agreements and policies: We utilize your information to enforce our agreements and policies, ensuring compliance and addressing any violations.
- Other legal obligations: We may use your information as required to comply with our legal obligations.
These uses of your information are carried out in our legitimate interests while ensuring that your privacy rights and protections are maintained.
Marketing and Advertising our Products and Services
We may utilize our data in the following ways:
- Tailoring content and advertisements: We use data to personalize and deliver content and advertisements that are relevant to you, based on your preferences, interests, and demographic information.
- Improving marketing and advertising efforts: The data we collect helps us enhance our marketing and advertising strategies by analyzing user preferences, engagement patterns, and the effectiveness of campaigns.
- In our advertisements: We incorporate our data into advertisements to ensure they are targeted and relevant to the intended audience.
We employ various marketing techniques, including:
- Email campaigns: We may send targeted emails to communicate with you about our products, services, and promotions.
- Custom audiences advertising: We may use our data to create custom audience segments for advertising purposes, ensuring that our advertisements reach specific groups of individuals who may have expressed interest or fit certain criteria.
- "Interest-based" or "personalized advertising": We may deliver advertisements based on your interests, as inferred from your interactions with our platform and other websites or apps. This may involve utilizing cross-device tracking to provide a consistent advertising experience across different devices.
Please note that these marketing practices are subject to applicable laws and regulations, and we take necessary measures to protect your privacy and provide options to manage your preferences regarding personalized advertising.
With your Consent
We may use personal information for other purposes that are clearly disclosed to you at the time you provide personal information or with your consent.
How do we share your data?
We only disclose your personal information to third parties as follows:
To provide you with our services
We prioritize the protection of your information and only share it when absolutely necessary to provide and maintain our services. We collaborate with trusted partners who assist us in delivering our services under strict data agreements.
For the purpose of this policy, "partners" refers to entities that process customer data on behalf of Together, either currently or in the future, to support the provision of services to end customers.
Below are the categories of third parties we may engage with and the associated data that might be shared:
We will disclose data in the following circumstances:
Please be assured that we exercise caution and adhere to legal obligations when sharing your data, ensuring the utmost protection of your privacy and rights.
- Analytics providers:
- Data shared: Profile information, App activity
- Cloud Storage & Computing Platforms and Associated Tools and Software Providers:
- Data shared: Content you contributed, Profile Information, Security & Login Information
- Compliance with relevant laws or legal processes:
- This includes responding to subpoenas, warrants, or legal process served on us. We reserve the right to take action on behalf of our users and their right to anonymity if there is a legitimate basis to do so.
- Enforcement of Terms of Use and this Policy:
- We may disclose data to enforce our Terms of Use and the provisions outlined in this Privacy Policy.
- Prevention of harm and investigation of illegal activity:
- We may disclose data to prevent physical harm, financial loss, or in connection with the investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity.
- Protection of rights and property:
- We may disclose data if it is necessary to protect and defend our rights, the rights of our users, or the rights of third parties, as permitted by applicable laws.
- Compliance with public, national security, and similar requirements:
- We may disclose data as permitted under applicable laws to meet public, national security, and similar requirements.
In case of change of control
If we sell or otherwise transfer part or all of SKININTHEGAME technologies private limited or our assets to another entity (e.g., in the course of a transaction such as a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution or liquidation), your information, such as username and encrypted email address, Content and any other information collected through the Service may be among the items sold or transferred. You will continue to own your User Content. The purchaser or transferee will be required to honor the commitments we have made in this Privacy Policy.
Policy pertaining to children’s data
Together is designed as a platform exclusively for individuals who are working professionals and students of legal age according to the data privacy laws in their specific jurisdiction.
We are committed to not knowingly collecting or requesting any information from individuals under the age of consent. Our services are intended solely for users who meet the age requirements determined by the data protection laws applicable in their country.
If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from an individual below the age of consent defined by the data protection law in their relevant country, we will take immediate and reasonable steps to promptly delete such information. If you suspect that we may possess any information provided by or relating to a minor, please contact us.
Choices regarding your personal information
Please note that this application is currently available for download exclusively in India, and therefore we are not legally obligated to fulfill requests under CCPA or GDPR.
However, we strive to assist users of our Services by offering additional rights regarding the processing and retention of their personally identifiable information.
If you are a user and wish to exercise any of the following rights:
- Request a copy of your personally identifiable information,
- Request correction or deletion of your personally identifiable information,
Please reach out to us at support@worktogether.io.
If you no longer wish for us to collect any further data, you can uninstall this application from your device.
Furthermore, we want to emphasize that we do not discriminate against users of our Services based on whether they have exercised their rights under any privacy laws.
Security safeguards
We take steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. However, no company can fully eliminate security risks, so we cannot make guarantees about any part of our services.
How long do we keep your personal information?
We store the personal information we collect as described in this Privacy Policy for as long as you use our Services, or as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected, provide our Services, resolve disputes, establish legal defenses, conduct audits, pursue legitimate business purposes, enforce our agreements, and comply with applicable laws.
Updates to our privacy policy
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time at our sole discretion. If there are any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you as required by applicable law. You understand and agree that you will be deemed to have accepted the updated Privacy Policy if you continue to use our Services after the new Privacy Policy takes effect.