BANTOO LINK Privacy Statement

 

Last updated: September 7th, 2023

 

This statement describes the personal data we collect and/or process (which may include collecting, organizing, structuring, storing, using, or disclosing) to provide products and services offered directly by Bantoo Link Pay Africa Digital Communications, Division. (BANTOO LINK ), including BANTOO LINKs websites and its meetings, webinars, and messaging platform (BANTOO LINK Products or Products).

• What Personal Data Do We Receive?

 

• How Do We Use Personal Data?

 

• How Do We Share Personal Data?

 

• Who Can See and Share My Personal Data When I Use BANTOO LINK?

 

• Privacy Rights and Choices

 

• Children

 

• How to Contact Us

 

• Retention

 

• European Data Protection Specific Information

 

• California Privacy Rights

 

• Changes to This Privacy Statement

 

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What Personal Data Do We Receive?

 

Personal data is any information from or about an identified or identifiable person, including information that BANTOO LINK can associate with an individual person. We may collect, or process on behalf of our customers, the following categories of personal data when you use or interact with BANTOO LINK Products:

• Account Information: Information associated with an account that licenses BANTOO LINK Product, which may include administrator name, contact information, account ID, billing information, and account plan information.

 

• Profile and Participant Information: Information associated with the BANTOO LINK profile of a user who uses BANTOO LINK Products under a licensed account or that is provided by an unlicensed participant joining a meeting, which may include name, display name, picture, email address, phone number, job information, stated locale, user ID, or other information provided by the user or their account owner.

 

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• Contacts and Calendar Integrations: Contact information added by accounts or their users to create contact lists on BANTOO LINK, which may include contact information a user integrates from a third-party app. Users can also integrate their calendars from other services with their BANTOO LINK profile or account.

 

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• Settings: Information associated with the preferences and settings on the account or user profile, which may include audio and video settings, recording file location, screen sharing settings, and other settings and configuration information.

 

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• Registration Information: Information people provide when registering for a BANTOO LINK calls, chat, VOD, trade, meeting, webinar or recording, which may include name and contact information, responses to registration questions, and other registration information requested by other BANTOO LINK users.

 

• Device Information: Information about the computers, phones, and other devices people use when interacting with BANTOO LINK Products, which may include information about the speakers, microphone, camera, OS version, hard disk ID, PC name, MAC address, IP address (which may be used to infer general location at a city or country level), device attributes (like operating system version and battery level), WiFi information, and other device information (like Bluetooth signals).

 

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• Meeting, Webinar, and Messaging Content and Context: Content generated in meetings, webinars, or messages that are hosted on BANTOO LINK Products, which may include audio, video, in-meeting messages, chat messaging content, transcriptions, written feedback, responses to polls and Q&A, and files, as well as related context, such as invitation details, meeting or chat name, or meeting agenda. Content may contain your voice and image, depending on the account owners settings, what you choose to share, your settings, and what you do on BANTOO LINK Products.

 

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• Product and Website Usage: Information about how people and their devices interact with BANTOO LINK Products, such as: when participants join and leave a meeting; whether participants sent messages and who they message with; performance data; mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes or actions (such as mute/unmute or video on/off), and other user inputs that help BANTOO LINK to understand feature usage, improve product design, and suggest features; which third-party apps users add to a meeting or other Product and what information and actions the app is authorized to access and perform; features used (such as screen sharing, emojis, or filters); and other usage information and metrics. This also includes information about when and how people visit and interact with BANTOO LINK s websites, including what pages they accessed, their interaction with the website features, and whether or not they signed up for a BANTOO LINK Product.

 

• Communications with BANTOO LINK: Information about your communications with BANTOO LINK, including relating to support questions, your account, and other inquiries.

 

• Information from Partners: BANTOO LINK obtains information about account owners and their users from third-party companies, such as market data enrichment services, including information about an account owners company size or industry, contact information, or activity of certain enterprise domains.

 

 

How Do We Use Personal Data?

 

BANTOO LINK employees do not access calls, chats, trade and business transactions, meeting, webinar, or messaging content (specifically, audio, video, files, and messages) unless directed by an account owner, or as required for legal, safety, or security reasons, as discussed below. BANTOO LINK uses personal data to conduct the following activities:

• Provide BANTOO LINK Products and Services: To provide Products, features, and services to account owners, their users, and those they invite to join meetings and webinars hosted on their accounts, including to customize Product features and recommendations for accounts or their users. BANTOO LINK also uses personal data, including contact information, to route invitations and messages to recipients when people send invitations and messages using BANTOO LINK Products. This may also include using personal data for customer support, which may include accessing audio, video, files, and messages, at the direction of the account owner or their users. We also use personal data to manage our relationship and contracts with account owners, including billing, compliance with contractual obligations, and related administration.

 

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• Product Research and Development: To develop, test, and improve BANTOO LINK Products, including, for example, content-related features (such as background filters), and to troubleshoot products and features.

 

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• Marketing and Promotions: To market, advertise, and promote BANTOO LINK Products, features, and services, including marketing products or features based on your product usage or information we receive from third-party partners. If you visit our websites, we may log information about how and when you visit, and your interactions with them, and use this information to provide advertisements to you relating to BANTOO LINK Products, features, and services or to engage third-party marketing partners to log your interactions on our website or deliver advertising to you.

 

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• Authentication, Integrity, Security, and Safety: To authenticate accounts and activity, detect, investigate, and prevent malicious conduct or unsafe experiences, address security threats, protect public safety, and secure BANTOO LINK Products.

 

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• Communicate with You: We use personal data (including contact information) to communicate with you about our Products, features, and services, including product updates, your account, and changes to our policies and terms. We also use your information to respond to you when you contact us.

 

• Legal Reasons: To comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process, including from law enforcement or government agencies, to investigate or participate in civil discovery, litigation, or other adversarial legal proceedings, and to enforce or investigate potential violations of our Terms of Service or policies.

 

 

BANTOO LINK uses advanced tools to automatically scan content such as virtual backgrounds, profile images, and files uploaded or exchanged through chat, for the purpose of detecting and preventing violations of our terms or policies and illegal or other harmful activity, and its employees may investigate such content where required for legal, safety, or security reasons.

 

How Do We Share Personal Data?

 

BANTOO LINK provides personal data to third parties only with consent or in one of the following circumstances (subject to your prior consent where required under applicable law):

• Resellers: If an account owner licensed BANTOO LINK from a third-party reseller of BANTOO LINK Products, the reseller may be able to access personal data and content for users, including meetings, webinars, and messages hosted by the account owner.

 

• Vendors: BANTOO LINK works with third-party service providers to provide, support, and improve BANTOO LINK Products and technical infrastructure. BANTOO LINK may also work with third-party service providers to provide advertisements and business analytics regarding BANTOO LINK Products. These vendors can access personal data subject to contractual and technical requirements for protecting personal data and prohibiting them from using personal data for any purpose other than to provide services to BANTOO LINK or as required by law.

 

• For Legal Reasons: BANTOO LINK may share personal data as needed to: (1) comply with applicable law or respond to, investigate, or participate in valid legal process and proceedings, including from law enforcement or government agencies; (2) enforce or investigate potential violations of its Terms of Service or policies; (3) detect, prevent, or investigate potential fraud, abuse, or safety and security concerns, including threats to the public; 4) meet our corporate and social responsibility commitments; (5) protect our and our customers rights and property; and (6) resolve disputes and enforce agreements.

 

• Marketing and Analytics Partners: BANTOO LINK uses third-party marketing and advertising providers to provide statistics and analysis about how people are using our website and to provide advertising and marketing, including targeted advertising based on your use of our website. These third-party partners may receive information about your activities on BANTOO LINK s website through third-party cookies placed on BANTOO LINK s website. To opt out of our use of third-party cookies that share data with these partners, visit our cookie management tool. Where required by law, BANTOO LINK will first obtain your consent before engaging in the activities described here.

 

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• Corporate Affiliate: BANTOO LINK shares personal information with corporate affiliates, such as Bantoo Pay Africa Digital Communications, Division, to provide integrated and consistent experiences across BANTOO LINK Products (such as enabling a user to integrate a BANTOO LINK Phone call into a meeting) and to detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, abuse, and threats to public safety.

 

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• Change of Control: We may share personal data with actual or prospective acquirers, their representatives and other relevant participants in, or during negotiations of, any sale, merger, acquisition, restructuring, or change in control involving all or a portion of BANTOO LINK s business or assets, including in connection with bankruptcy or similar proceedings.

Who Can See and Share My Personal Data When I Use BANTOO LINK?

 

When you send messages or join group meetings and webinars on BANTOO LINK, other people and organizations, including third parties outside the meeting, webinar, or message, may be able to see content and information that you share:

 

 

• Account Owner: An account owner is the organization or individual that signs up for a BANTOO LINK account. Typically, an account owner designates one or more people (called an administrator) to manage their account and can grant privileges to users on the account. Depending on their license with BANTOO LINK, the account owner can authorize additional users on their account, and the account owner can create and/or access the profile information for all users on their account. The account owner and their users can invite others (including guests not on their account) to meetings or webinars hosted on their account.
  
  BANTOO LINK gives account owners controls and features that they can use to determine whether certain types of content, such as recordings or out-of-meeting messages, can be created or sent, and what third-party apps can be used, for meetings and webinars hosted on their account. Depending on their settings, account owners and the people they designate can access personal data for people who join meetings and webinars on their account or send messages to users on their account. Specifically, account owners may have access to:

• Account Usage:

 

• Product Usage: Information about how people and their devices interact with their account, which may include who sent messages to their users in chat, email addresses, IP addresses, device information, and other information about who joined meetings or webinars on their account, whether users viewed or downloaded a recording, how long people participated in their meetings, the time a message was sent, information about BANTOO LINK Phone integrations, and other usage information and feedback metrics.

 

• Participant List:Information about the participants in a BANTOO LINK meeting, webinar, or chat, which may include name, display name, email address, phone number, and participant or user ID.

 

• Registration Information: Information provided during registration for a webinar, meeting, or recording hosted by the account.

 

• BANTOO LINK Chat Out-of-Meeting Messages: If enabled on their account, account owners can see information about who sent and received out-of-meeting messages to users on their account along with information about the message (for example, date and time, and number of participants). Depending on their settings, account owners also can see sender and receiver information, and other messaging data, along with the content of messages sent to and from users on their account, unless the account owner has enabled Advanced Chat Encryption.

 

• In-Meeting/Webinar Messages: Depending on their settings, account owners can see sender and receiver information, along with the content of messages sent to and from users on their account, in the following circumstances:

• Messages sent to Everyone in a meeting that is recorded

 

• Messages sent to panelists in a webinar that is recorded

 

• Direct messages if the account owner has enabled archiving

• Recordings: Account owners can watch the content of recordings of meetings and webinars hosted on their account. They can also view a transcript of meeting audio, if enabled.

 

• Polling, Q&A, and Feedback: Account owners can see information about who provided responses to their polls, Q&A, or post meeting or webinar feedback requests, including name and contact information, together with the responses or feedback, unless responses are submitted anonymously.

 

• Meeting Hosts and Participants: Hosts and other participants in a meeting may be able to see your email, display name, and profile picture. Meeting hosts and participants can also see and (depending on the account owners settings) record or save meeting content, audio transcripts, messages sent to everyone or to them directly, and files, whiteboards, or other information shared during a meeting. Hosts may also be able to see responses to Q&A and polls generated during the meeting.

 

• Webinar Panelists and Attendees: Only panelists may be visible to attendees during a webinar, but attendees who agree to unmute can be heard by other attendees. If an attendee agrees to become a panelist during a webinar, they may be visible to other attendees, depending on settings. Panelists and attendees may be able to see the name of a participant who asks a question during a Q&A, along with their question, unless the participant submits the question anonymously.

 

• Live streams: Meeting and webinar hosts can choose to live stream to a third-party site or service, which means anyone with access to the live stream will be able to see the meeting or webinar.

 

• Third-Party Apps and Integrations:

• Account owners can choose to add third-party apps to their account and the BANTOO LINK Products they use, and they can also give their users permission to add and use specific third-party apps, including in meetings, webinars, and chats hosted on their account. Depending on their settings, account owners and their users and guests can share your personal data and content with third-party apps and integrations they approve, which may include all of the personal data available to account owners, hosts, and participants listed above, such as account information, profile and contact information, registration information, participants list, settings, content, product usage, and device information.

 

• Other participants in the meeting may be able to see the third-party app that you are using in a meeting, if the third-party app is receiving real-time features and information from the meeting.

 

• Third-party developers may also integrate or embed BANTOO LINK meetings into their website or app experiences or build versions of BANTOO LINK that enable access to BANTOO LINK Products from a third-party app.

 

• Personal information shared by account owners and users with third-party apps and integrations is collected and processed in accordance with the app developers terms and privacy policies, not BANTOO LINK s.

 

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Privacy Rights and Choices

 

If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, or the UK, or a resident of California, please refer to the respective dedicated sections below. Otherwise, at your request, and as required by applicable law, we will:

• Inform you of what personal data we have about you that is under our control;

 

• Amend or correct such personal data or any previous privacy preferences you selected, or direct you to applicable tools; and/or

 

• Delete such personal data or direct you to applicable tools.

In order to exercise any of your rights as to personal data controlled by BANTOO LINK, or if you have any other questions about our use of your personal data, please send a request to [email protected] Please identify yourself and, for information relating to BANTOO LINK Products, specify your account and/or user information and other information to enable us to authenticate and respond to your request. Where legally permitted, we may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, or jeopardize the privacy of others. As an account owner or a user under a licensed account, you may also take steps to affect your personal data by visiting your account and modifying your personal data directly.

 

Children

 

BANTOO LINK does not allow children under the age of 16 to sign up for a BANTOO LINK account.

 

How to Contact Us

 

To exercise your rights or if you have any privacy-related questions or comments related to this Privacy Statement, please send an email to [email protected]

 

You can also contact us by writing to the following address:

 

Bantoo Pay Africa Video Communications.

 

Attention: Data Privacy Officer

 

Frejgatant 13, 11479

 

Stockholm, Sweden

 

email: [email protected]

 

You can contact our Data Protection Officer by sending an email: [email protected]

 

Retention

 

We retain personal data for as long as required to engage in the uses described in this Privacy Statement, unless a longer retention period is required by applicable law.

 

The criteria used to determine our retention periods include the following:

• The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide BANTOO LINK Products to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using our Products);

 

• Whether account owners modify or their users delete information through their accounts;

 

• Whether we have a legal obligation to keep the data (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or

 

• Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to the enforcement of our agreements, the resolution of disputes, and applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigation).

 

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European Data Protection Specific Information

 

Data Subjects Rights

 

If you are in the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK, your rights in relation to your personal data processed by us as a controller specifically include:

• Right of access and/or portability: You have the right to access any personal data that we hold about you and, in some circumstances, have that data provided to you so that you can provide or port that data to another provider;

 

• Right of erasure: In certain circumstances, you have the right to the erasure of personal data that we hold about you (for example, if it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was originally collected);

 

• Right to object to processing: In certain circumstances, you have the right to request that we stop processing your personal data and/or stop sending you marketing communications;

 

• Right to rectification: You have the right to require us to correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data;

 

• Right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict processing of your personal data in certain circumstances (for example, where you believe that the personal data we hold about you is not accurate or lawfully held).

In order to exercise any of your rights as to personal data controlled by BANTOO LINK, or if you have any other questions about our use of your personal data, please send a request at the contact details specified in the How to Contact Us section of this Privacy Statement. Please note that we may request you to provide us with additional information in order to confirm your identity and ensure that you are entitled to access the relevant personal data.

 

You also have the right to lodge a complaint to a data protection authority. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

 

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data

 

We only use your information in a lawful, transparent, and fair manner. Depending on the specific personal data concerned and the factual context, when BANTOO LINK processes personal data as a controller for individuals in regions such as the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK, we rely on the following legal bases as applicable in your jurisdiction:

• As necessary for our contract: When we enter into a contract directly with you, we process your personal data on the basis of our contract in order to prepare and enter into the contract, as well as to perform and manage our contract (i.e., providing BANTOO LINK Products, features and services to account owners, their users, and those they invite to join meetings and webinars hosted on their accounts, and manage our relationship and contract, including billing, compliance with contractual obligations, and related administration). If we do not process your personal data for these purposes, we may not be able to provide you with all Products, features, and services;

 

• Consistent with specific revocable consents: We rely on your prior consent in order to utilize cookies to engage advertising and analytics partners to deliver tailored advertising and analysis of our website usage. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by visiting our cookie management tool;

 

• As necessary to comply with our legal obligations: We process your personal data to comply with the legal obligations to which we are subject for the purposes of compliance with EEA laws, regulations, codes of practice, guidelines, or rules applicable to us, and for responses to requests from, and other communications with, competent EEA public, governmental, judicial, or other regulatory authorities. This includes detecting, investigating, preventing, and stopping fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, or illegal activity (fraud and abuse detection) and compliance with privacy laws;

 

• To protect your vital interests or those of others: We process certain personal data in order to protect vital interests for the purpose of detecting and preventing illicit activities that impact vital interests and public safety, including child sexual abuse material; and

 

• As necessary for our (or others') legitimate interests, unless those interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms, which require protection of personal data: We process your personal data based on such legitimate interests to (i) enter and perform the contract with the account owner and/or reseller providing you with the Products (which includes billing, compliance with contractual obligations, and related administration and support); (ii) develop, test, and improve our Products and troubleshoot products and features; (iii) ensure authentication, integrity, security, and safety of accounts, activity, and Products, including detect and prevent malicious conduct and violations of our terms and policies, prevent or investigate bad or unsafe experiences, and address security threats; (iv) send marketing communications, advertising, and promotions related to the Products; and (v) comply with non-EEA laws, regulations, codes of practice, guidelines, or rules applicable to us and respond to requests from, and other communications with, competent non-EEA public, governmental, judicial, or other regulatory authorities, as well as meet our corporate and social responsibility commitments, protect our rights and property and the ones of our customers, resolve disputes, and enforce agreements.

 

 

International Data Transfers

 

BANTOO LINK operates globally, which means personal data may be transferred, stored (for example, in a data center), and processed outside of the country or region where it was initially collected where BANTOO LINK or its service providers have customers or facilities including in countries where meeting participants or account owners hosting meetings or webinars that you participate in or receiving messages that you send are based.

 

Therefore, by using BANTOO LINK Products or providing personal data for any of the purposes stated above, you acknowledge that your personal data may be transferred to or stored in the United States where we are established, as well as in other countries outside of the EEA, Switzerland, and the UK. Such countries may have data protection rules that are different and less protective than those of your country.

 

We protect your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Statement wherever it is processed and take appropriate contractual or other steps to protect it under applicable laws. Where personal data of users in the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK is being transferred to a recipient located in a country outside the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK which has not been recognized as having an adequate level of data protection, we ensure that the transfer is governed by the European Commissions standard contractual clauses. Please contact us if you would like further information in that respect.

 

 

 

California Privacy Rights

 

California Consumer Privacy Act

 

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA), California residents may have a right to:

• Access the categories and specific pieces of personal data BANTOO LINK has collected, the categories of sources from which the personal data is collected, the business purpose(s) for collecting the personal data, and the categories of third parties with whom BANTOO LINK has shared personal data;

 

• Delete personal data under certain circumstances; and

 

• Opt out of the sale of personal data. We do not sell your personal data in the conventional sense. However, like many companies, we use advertising services that try to tailor online ads to your interests based on information collected via cookies and similar technologies about your online activity. This is called interest-based advertising. The CCPAs statutory definition of the term sale is broad and may include interest-based advertising. You can get more information and opt out of the use of cookies on our sites for interest-based advertising purposes by clicking the Do Not Sell My Personal Information link, in the webpage footer, and setting your preferences. You will need to set your preferences from each device and each web browser from which you wish to opt out. This feature uses a cookie to remember your preference, so if you clear all cookies from your browser, you will need to reset your settings.

 

 

BANTOO LINK will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights, which is further in line with your rights under the CCPA.

 

To exercise your rights, contact us by emailing: [email protected]

 

To opt out of the use of cookies on our sites for interest-based advertising purposes, follow the instructions above.

 

We will acknowledge receipt of your request within 10 business days, and provide a substantive response within 45 calendar days, or inform you of the reason and extension period (up to 90 days) in writing.

 

Under the CCPA, only you or an authorized agent may make a request related to your personal data. Note that to respond to your requests to access or delete personal data under the CCPA, we must verify your identity. We may do so by requiring you to log into your BANTOO LINK account (if applicable), provide information relating to your account (which will be compared to information we have, such as profile information), give a declaration as to your identity under penalty of perjury, and/or provide additional information. You may designate an authorized agent to submit your verified consumer request by providing written permission and verifying your identity, or through proof of power of attorney.

 

Californias Shine the Light Law

 

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as Shine The Light law, permits California residents to annually request information regarding the disclosure of your Personal Information (if any) to third parties for the third parties direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. We do not share Personal Information with third parties for the third parties direct marketing purposes.

 

Changes to This Privacy Statement

 

We may update this Privacy Statement periodically to account for changes in our collection and/or processing of personal data, and will post the updated Privacy Statement on our website, with a Last Updated date at the top. If we make material changes to this Privacy Statement, we will notify you and provide you an opportunity to review before you choose to continue using our Products.

 

Bantoo Link Data Policy

 

This policy describes the information we process to support Bantoolink and other products and features offered by Bantoo World (Bantoo Products or Products). You can find additional tools and information in the website Bantoo World.

 

 

 

What kinds of information do we collect?

 

To provide the Bantoo products, we must process information about you. The types of information we collect depend on how you use our Products. You can learn how to access and delete information we collect by visiting the Bantoo World.

 

 

 

Things you and others do and provide.

• Information and content you provide. We collect the content, communications and other information you provide when you use our Products, including when you sign up for an account, create or share content, and message or communicate with others. This can include information in or about the content you provide (like metadata), such as the location of a photo or the date a file was created. It can also include what you see through features we provide, such as our camera, so we can do things like suggesting masks and filters that you might like, or give you tips on using portrait mode. Our systems automatically process content and communications you and others provide to analyze context and what's in them for the purposes described below. Learn more about how you can control who can see the things you share.

• Data with special protections: You can choose to provide information in your Bantoo profile fields or Life Events about your religious views, political views, who you are "interested in," or your health. This and other information (such as racial or ethnic origin, philosophical beliefs or trade union membership) is subject to special protections under EU law.
  
  

• Networks and connections. We collect information about the people, Pages, accounts, hashtags and groups you are connected to and how you interact with them across our Products, such as people you communicate with the most or groups you are part of. We also collect contact information if you choose to upload, sync or import it from a device (such as an address book or call log or SMS log history), which we use for things like helping you and others find people you may know and for the other purposes listed below.
  
  

 

• Your usage. We collect information about how you use our Products, such as the types of content you view or engage with; the features you use; the actions you take; the people or accounts you interact with; and the time, frequency and duration of your activities. For example, we log when you're using and have last used our Products, and what posts, videos and other content you view on our Products. We also collect information about how you use features like our camera.
  
  

 

• Information about transactions made on our Products. If you use our Products for purchases or other financial transactions (such as when you make a purchase in a game or make a donation), we collect information about the purchase or transaction. This includes payment information, such as your credit or debit card number and other card information; other account and authentication information; and billing, shipping and contact details.
  
  

 

• Things others do and information they provide about you. We also receive and analyze content, communications and information that other people provide when they use our Products. This can include information about you, such as when others share or comment on a photo of you, send a message to you, or upload, sync or import your contact information.

 

 

Device Information

 

As described below, we collect information from and about the computers, phones, connected TVs and other web-connected devices you use that integrate with our Products, and we combine this information across different devices you use. For example, we use information collected about your use of our Products on your phone to better personalize the content (including ads) or features you see when you use our Products on another device, such as your laptop or tablet, or to measure whether you took an action in response to an ad we showed you on your phone on a different device.

 

 

 

Information we obtain from these devices includes:

 

 

• 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 behaviors performed on the device, such as whether a window is foregrounded or back grounded, or mouse movements (which can help distinguish humans from bots).

 

• Identifiers: unique identifiers, device IDs, and other identifiers, such as from games, apps or accounts you use, and Family Device IDs (or other identifiers unique to Bantoo Company Products associated with the same device or account).

 

• Device signals: 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, connection speed and, in some cases, information about other devices that are nearby or on your network, so we can do things like help you stream a video from your phone to your TV.

 

• Cookie data: data from cookies stored on your device, including cookie IDs and settings. Learn more about how we use cookies in the Bantoolink Cookies Policy and Bantoo Share Cookies Policy.

 

 

Information from partners.

 

Advertisers, app developers, and publishers can send us information through Bantoo Business Tools they use, including our social plug-ins (such as the Like button), Bantoo Login, our APIs and SDKs, or the Bantoo pixel. These partners provide information about your activities off Bantoolinkincluding information about your device, websites you visit, purchases you make, the ads you see, and how you use their serviceswhether or not you have a Bantoo account or are logged into Bantoolink. For example, a game developer could use our API to tell us what games you play, or a business could tell us about a purchase you made in its store. We also receive information about your online and offline actions and purchases from third-party data providers who have the rights to provide us with your information.

 

 

 

Partners receive your data when you visit or use their services or through third parties they work with. We require each of these partners to have lawful rights to collect, use and share your data before providing any data to us. Learn more about the types of partners we receive data from.

 

 

 

To learn more about how we use cookies in connection with BantooBusiness Tools, review the Bantoo Cookies Policy and Bantoo share Cookies Policy.

 

 

 

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How do we use this information?

 

We use the information we have (subject to choices you make) as described below and to provide and support the BantooProducts and related services described in the Bantoo Terms of Services and Bantoo Share Terms. Here's how:

 

 

 

Provide, personalize and improve our Products.

 

We use the information we have to deliver our Products, including to personalize features and content (including your News Feed, Bantoo Share Feed, BantooLink Stories and ads) and make suggestions for you (such as groups or events you may be interested in or topics you may want to follow) on and off our Products. To create personalized Products that are unique and relevant to you, we use your connections, preferences, interests and activities based on the data we collect and learn from you and others (including any data with special protections you choose to provide where you have given your explicit consent); how you use and interact with our Products; and the people, places, or things you're connected to and interested in on and off our Products. Learn more about how we use information about you to personalize your Bantoo and BantooLink experience, including features, content and recommendations in BantooProducts; you can also learn more about how we choose the ads that you see.

• Information across BantooProducts and devices: We connect information about your activities on different BantooProducts and devices to provide a more tailored and consistent experience on all BantooProducts you use, wherever you use them. For example, we can suggest that you join a group on Bantoo that includes people you follow on BantooLink or communicate with using Bantoo Chat. We can also make your experience more seamless, for example, by automatically filling in your registration information (such as your phone number) from one BantooProduct when you sign up for an account on a different Product.
  
  

 

• Location-related information: We use location-related information-such as your current location, where you live, the places you like to go, and the businesses and people you're near-to provide, personalize and improve our Products, including ads, for you and others. Location-related information can be based on things like precise device location (if you've allowed us to collect it), IP addresses, and information from your and others' use of BantooProducts (such as check-ins or events you attend).
  
  

 

• Product research and development: We use the information we have to develop, test and improve our Products, including by conducting surveys and research, and testing and troubleshooting new products and features.
  
  

 

• Face recognition: If you have it turned on, we use face recognition technology to recognize you in photos, videos and camera experiences. The face-recognition templates we create are data with special protections under EU law. Learn more about how we use face recognition technology, or control our use of this technology in Bantoolink Settings. If we introduce face-recognition technology to your BantooLink experience, we will let you know first, and you will have control over whether we use this technology for you.
  
  

 

• Ads and other sponsored content: We use the information we have about you-including information about your interests, actions and connections-to select and personalize ads, offers and other sponsored content that we show you. Learn more about how we select and personalize ads, and your choices over the data we use to select ads and other sponsored content for you in the BantooLink Settings.and Bantoo Settings.

 

 

Provide measurement, analytics, and other business services.

 

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