PRIVACY
POLICY
Last updated as of April 12th, 2024
1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy explains how Egor Golovnin (hereinafter referred to as "I", "me", or "my") collects, stores, uses, transfers, and shares (hereinafter "processes") information, including personal data, from our users ("you") in connection with the www. kind-factory.com web-site (the "Site"), if applicable.
When you use the Site, you are trusting us with intimate personal data and other information.
By providing to us your information, including personal data, through the Site, you expressly acknowledge, agree and consent to processing of your personal information as specified in this Privacy Policy. The processing of your information is necessary for providing the services to you and supporting the Site.
The purpose of our Privacy Policy is to explain what data we collect, how it is used and shared, and how you can control it.
In case of changes in this Privacy Policy, we will notify you on the e-mail address provided when you register or through the Site. Your continued use of the Site after the effective date of an updated version of the Privacy Policy will indicate your acceptance of the Privacy Policy as modified.
If you do not accept the terms of the Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site.
2. What data we collect
We collect your information in many ways. See below what information we collect from you directly and what information we collect automatically.
Information you give us directly:
General information:
Username
E-mail address
Date of Birth
Password or passcode
Minimum place of residence (state, town)
Image (if you give us permission)
Health and well-being information:
Menstrual cycle dates
Details of your pregnancy
Various symptoms related to your menstrual cycle, pregnancy and health
Other information about your health (including sexual activities), physical and mental well-being, and related activities, including personal life (if necessary)
Information collected to provide better services:
Your goals in the Site
The topics you may find interesting in the Site
Your messages in the Site’s chatbot
Information we collect automatically:
Device Information:
Device model, ID and type
Device storage information
Information about the operating system and its version
Mobile operator and network information
Site settings and characteristics
Site crashes and reports
Advertising IDs
Cookies or other tracking technologies that may uniquely identify a device or browser
Location Information:
IP address
Time zone
Information about your mobile service provider
Geolocation (if you give us permission)
Usage information:
Activity in the Site: when you logged in, features you’ve been using, actions taken, etc.
Areas and features of the Site that you access, visit or use
Engagement with particular features
Information you provide to chatbot in the Site
Actions with the content of the Site
information shown to you, referring webpages address and ads that you interacted with)
your interactions with other members (e.g., members you connect and interact with, when you exchanged with them, number of messages you send and receive)
information you provide to our Support team
information you provide in the chats with other members
3. How we use your information
We will not collect and use your personal data without letting you know. All information is collected according to this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. We will notify you in case we need additional information and — where applicable — ask for your consent.
The main reason we use your information is to deliver and improve our services. Additionally, we use your information to help keep you safe. We take reasonable and appropriate measures to protect your information from loss, theft, misuse or unauthorized access. See more in Section 7 hereof.
To process your personal data correctly, we rely on one or more of the following legal bases:
Consent. For example, on the registration screen when you give us permission to process your personal data, which may also include some sensitive personal data.
In some cases, you may withdraw your consent by adapting your settings or by deleting your content if possible. In any case, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at the address provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.
To provide our service to you. The reason we process your information is to let you use the Site in full. We use your information to maintain your account and your profile, including but not limited to create and manage your account, to provide you support services, etc.
Legitimate interest. We may process your personal data in relation to our interests in providing the services to you, our commercial interests, including our interest in protecting the security and integrity of the services, and wider societal benefits.
For example, we analyze users' behavior on our services to operate advertising and marketing campaigns, to measure their effectiveness, to improve our services and features and develop new ones, to prevent, detect and fight fraud and other illegal or unauthorized activities, to administer market studies and surveys; we review interactions of users with support team to improve the quality of the services, to simplify the Site, to find and prevent violations of our Terms of Use and fulfill other actions in order to maintain the Site and comply with the Terms of Use, to send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages; we process information to help keep our users safe and to enforce our rights, assist law enforcement and enable us to defend ourselves in the event of a legal action.
Legal obligation. We may be obligated to process some of your personal data to comply with applicable laws and regulations and to assist law enforcement where it is necessary for us to comply with applicable laws and regulations and evidence our compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Note that we will not disclose your sensitive personal data if such disclosure may cause you harm.
4. Principles of processing
Data minimization and purpose limitation. We will process your personal data only in accordance with the purposes for which it has been collected. For any new purpose of processing (new feature, etc.) we will ask your separate consent. We collect only that personal data from you which is necessary for the declared purposes.
No sale of personal data. We will not sell or rent your personal data. We will not disclose your personal data except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
5. Disclosure of your information
As our main goal is to provide you the proper services, we can share some of your information with other users, our partners or state bodies. We will ask your separate informed consent in case we need to disclose your information to any third parties.
We will not share your personal data with third parties except as specified below.
Our service providers and partners
We may share your personal data with our service providers who are bond with us by strict contractual obligations solely as described in this Privacy Policy.
Here is the list of our main processors upon which we rely:
1.Amplitude (Amplitude, Inc.) Amplitude is an analytical tool used to collect data on app usage to understand how the Site is used, how you engage with particular features and what you like or dislike the most; to generate statistical reports. Amplitude privacy policy — amplitude.com/privacy.
2.SitesFlyer (SitesFlyer, Inc.) SitesFlyer is a data integration tool used to collect data relating to device model, language and operating system. SitesFlyer privacy policy — www.appsflyer.com/legal/privacy-policy/.
3.Firebase. Firebase is a hosting service for databases, content, social authentication, and notifications. Firebase privacy policy — firebase.google.com/support/privacy.
4.OpenAI.
OpenAI trains an artificial intelligence model called ChatGPT which interacts in a dialogue format which makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.
We may transfer your chatbot messages to OpenAI in order to answer your questions regarding health, pregnancy and maternity. Such messages may contain your health data. Please note that we do not transfer any other information that may identify you.
DISCLAIMER: chatbot answers can not be considered any kind of special medical care. OpenAI privacy policy — openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
We will update this Privacy Policy in case any other personal data processors are engaged in processing of your data in the Site.
State bodies
We may disclose your information if reasonably necessary:
(i) to comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, government / law enforcement investigation or other legal requirements;
(ii) to assist in the prevention or detection of crime (subject in each case to applicable law);
(iii) to protect the safety of any person.
(iv) if disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit;
(v) as necessary to protect our legal rights and legal rights of our members, business partners or other interested parties;
(vi) to enforce our agreements with you;
(vii) (iv) to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.
6. Your privacy rights
We stand by high European and international standards on personal data protection so that we comply with your personal data rights regardless of your location. You have the following rights regarding our processing of your personal data:
Access to your personal data
You have a right to request information about what personal data we process about you, to access all your personal data, and receive a copy of it, including in a structured and portable form.
Correction of your personal data
If you believe that your personal data is inaccurate, you have a right to contact us and ask us to correct such personal data.
Restriction of processing
You have a right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted in some circumstances. For example, you have the right to request the restriction of your personal data if you contest the accuracy of your personal data and we need some time to verify its accuracy.
Erasure of your personal data
You may ask us to erase your personal data if you withdraw your consent to processing, if you believe such processing is unlawful. Please be aware that erasing some personal data may affect your experience using certain features of the Site.
Right to object to the processing of your personal data
In some cases, you can object to the processing of your personal data, for example, if we process it under the legitimate interest basis, by contacting us atﾠfounder@kind-factory.com.
Uninstall
You can stop all information collection by the Site 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 contact us atﾠfounder@kind-factory.comﾠin free form.
7. Retention of your information
We will retain your personal data as long as needed to provide you with the services in the Site or otherwise fulfill the purposes for which it was collected.
If you choose to deactivate your account, we will delete all your personal data and it will not be recoverable should you later create another account.
If you choose to delete the Site from your device or your account becomes inactive, we will retain your personal data for a period of 3 years in case you decide to re-install the Site.
Limitations: You should be aware that, although we will anonymize or otherwise de-identify your data where possible, we may retain cetain information, including personal data, after your account has been terminated or deleted as necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
8. Security of your information
General security measures
We implement technical and organizational measures in an effort to protect your information, including personal data, from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the nature of the information that we process, and risks associated with special categories of personal data we collect (information about health). These measures include:
Pseudonymizationﾠandﾠtokenizationﾠof certain categories of your personal data.
Encryptionﾠof your personal data in transit and in rest.
Systematic vulnerability scanning and penetration testing.
Protectionﾠof data integrity.
Organizational and legal measures.ﾠFor example, our employees have different levels of access to your personal data and only those in charge of data management get access to your personal data and only for limited purposes required for the operation of the Site. We impose strict liability on our employees for any disclosures, unauthorized accesses, alterations, destructions, misuses of your personal data.
Conducting periodical data protection impact assessmentsﾠin order to ensure that the Site fully adhere to the principles of ‘privacy by design', ‘privacy by default' and others.
Please understand that you can help keep your information secure by choosing and protecting your password appropriately, not sharing your password and preventing others from using your mobile device. However, no security system is perfect and, as such, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of the Site, or that your information will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us.
Security breaches
If we learn of a security systems breach, we may either post a notice, or attempt to notify you by email and will take reasonable steps to remedy the breach as specified in this Privacy Policy. If we learn of a potential personal data breach, together with other actions referred to in the Privacy Policy (such as notifying you in certain cases), we will also undertake particular actions to remedy the breach as appropriate under the circumstances, which may include, logging you out from all the devices, resetting a password (sending a temporary password for you to apply) and performing other reasonably necessary activities and actions.
If you want to report a security incident related to the Site please contact us atﾠfounder@kind-factory.com
9. Contact us
If you have any comments or questions on any part of the Site, or any part of these Terms of Use, require support, or have any claims, please contact us at:
by e-mail: founder@kind-factory.com
You may also contact your local data protection authority.
1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy explains how Egor Golovnin (hereinafter referred to as "I", "me", or "my") collects, stores, uses, transfers, and shares (hereinafter "processes") information, including personal data, from our users ("you") in connection with the www. kind-factory.com web-site (the "Site"), if applicable.
When you use the Site, you are trusting us with intimate personal data and other information.
By providing to us your information, including personal data, through the Site, you expressly acknowledge, agree and consent to processing of your personal information as specified in this Privacy Policy. The processing of your information is necessary for providing the services to you and supporting the Site.
The purpose of our Privacy Policy is to explain what data we collect, how it is used and shared, and how you can control it.
In case of changes in this Privacy Policy, we will notify you on the e-mail address provided when you register or through the Site. Your continued use of the Site after the effective date of an updated version of the Privacy Policy will indicate your acceptance of the Privacy Policy as modified.
If you do not accept the terms of the Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site.
2. What data we collect
We collect your information in many ways. See below what information we collect from you directly and what information we collect automatically.
Information you give us directly:
General information:
Username
E-mail address
Date of Birth
Password or passcode
Minimum place of residence (state, town)
Image (if you give us permission)
Health and well-being information:
Menstrual cycle dates
Details of your pregnancy
Various symptoms related to your menstrual cycle, pregnancy and health
Other information about your health (including sexual activities), physical and mental well-being, and related activities, including personal life (if necessary)
Information collected to provide better services:
Your goals in the Site
The topics you may find interesting in the Site
Your messages in the Site’s chatbot
Information we collect automatically:
Device Information:
Device model, ID and type
Device storage information
Information about the operating system and its version
Mobile operator and network information
Site settings and characteristics
Site crashes and reports
Advertising IDs
Cookies or other tracking technologies that may uniquely identify a device or browser
Location Information:
IP address
Time zone
Information about your mobile service provider
Geolocation (if you give us permission)
Usage information:
Activity in the Site: when you logged in, features you’ve been using, actions taken, etc.
Areas and features of the Site that you access, visit or use
Engagement with particular features
Information you provide to chatbot in the Site
Actions with the content of the Site
information shown to you, referring webpages address and ads that you interacted with)
your interactions with other members (e.g., members you connect and interact with, when you exchanged with them, number of messages you send and receive)
information you provide to our Support team
information you provide in the chats with other members
3. How we use your information
We will not collect and use your personal data without letting you know. All information is collected according to this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. We will notify you in case we need additional information and — where applicable — ask for your consent.
The main reason we use your information is to deliver and improve our services. Additionally, we use your information to help keep you safe. We take reasonable and appropriate measures to protect your information from loss, theft, misuse or unauthorized access. See more in Section 7 hereof.
To process your personal data correctly, we rely on one or more of the following legal bases:
Consent. For example, on the registration screen when you give us permission to process your personal data, which may also include some sensitive personal data.
In some cases, you may withdraw your consent by adapting your settings or by deleting your content if possible. In any case, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at the address provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.
To provide our service to you. The reason we process your information is to let you use the Site in full. We use your information to maintain your account and your profile, including but not limited to create and manage your account, to provide you support services, etc.
Legitimate interest. We may process your personal data in relation to our interests in providing the services to you, our commercial interests, including our interest in protecting the security and integrity of the services, and wider societal benefits.
For example, we analyze users' behavior on our services to operate advertising and marketing campaigns, to measure their effectiveness, to improve our services and features and develop new ones, to prevent, detect and fight fraud and other illegal or unauthorized activities, to administer market studies and surveys; we review interactions of users with support team to improve the quality of the services, to simplify the Site, to find and prevent violations of our Terms of Use and fulfill other actions in order to maintain the Site and comply with the Terms of Use, to send you technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages; we process information to help keep our users safe and to enforce our rights, assist law enforcement and enable us to defend ourselves in the event of a legal action.
Legal obligation. We may be obligated to process some of your personal data to comply with applicable laws and regulations and to assist law enforcement where it is necessary for us to comply with applicable laws and regulations and evidence our compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Note that we will not disclose your sensitive personal data if such disclosure may cause you harm.
4. Principles of processing
Data minimization and purpose limitation. We will process your personal data only in accordance with the purposes for which it has been collected. For any new purpose of processing (new feature, etc.) we will ask your separate consent. We collect only that personal data from you which is necessary for the declared purposes.
No sale of personal data. We will not sell or rent your personal data. We will not disclose your personal data except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
5. Disclosure of your information
As our main goal is to provide you the proper services, we can share some of your information with other users, our partners or state bodies. We will ask your separate informed consent in case we need to disclose your information to any third parties.
We will not share your personal data with third parties except as specified below.
Our service providers and partners
We may share your personal data with our service providers who are bond with us by strict contractual obligations solely as described in this Privacy Policy.
Here is the list of our main processors upon which we rely:
1.Amplitude (Amplitude, Inc.) Amplitude is an analytical tool used to collect data on app usage to understand how the Site is used, how you engage with particular features and what you like or dislike the most; to generate statistical reports. Amplitude privacy policy — amplitude.com/privacy.
2.SitesFlyer (SitesFlyer, Inc.) SitesFlyer is a data integration tool used to collect data relating to device model, language and operating system. SitesFlyer privacy policy — www.appsflyer.com/legal/privacy-policy/.
3.Firebase. Firebase is a hosting service for databases, content, social authentication, and notifications. Firebase privacy policy — firebase.google.com/support/privacy.
4.OpenAI.
OpenAI trains an artificial intelligence model called ChatGPT which interacts in a dialogue format which makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.
We may transfer your chatbot messages to OpenAI in order to answer your questions regarding health, pregnancy and maternity. Such messages may contain your health data. Please note that we do not transfer any other information that may identify you.
DISCLAIMER: chatbot answers can not be considered any kind of special medical care. OpenAI privacy policy — openai.com/policies/privacy-policy
We will update this Privacy Policy in case any other personal data processors are engaged in processing of your data in the Site.
State bodies
We may disclose your information if reasonably necessary:
(i) to comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, government / law enforcement investigation or other legal requirements;
(ii) to assist in the prevention or detection of crime (subject in each case to applicable law);
(iii) to protect the safety of any person.
(iv) if disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit;
(v) as necessary to protect our legal rights and legal rights of our members, business partners or other interested parties;
(vi) to enforce our agreements with you;
(vii) (iv) to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.
6. Your privacy rights
We stand by high European and international standards on personal data protection so that we comply with your personal data rights regardless of your location. You have the following rights regarding our processing of your personal data:
Access to your personal data
You have a right to request information about what personal data we process about you, to access all your personal data, and receive a copy of it, including in a structured and portable form.
Correction of your personal data
If you believe that your personal data is inaccurate, you have a right to contact us and ask us to correct such personal data.
Restriction of processing
You have a right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted in some circumstances. For example, you have the right to request the restriction of your personal data if you contest the accuracy of your personal data and we need some time to verify its accuracy.
Erasure of your personal data
You may ask us to erase your personal data if you withdraw your consent to processing, if you believe such processing is unlawful. Please be aware that erasing some personal data may affect your experience using certain features of the Site.
Right to object to the processing of your personal data
In some cases, you can object to the processing of your personal data, for example, if we process it under the legitimate interest basis, by contacting us atﾠfounder@kind-factory.com.
Uninstall
You can stop all information collection by the Site 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 contact us atﾠfounder@kind-factory.comﾠin free form.
7. Retention of your information
We will retain your personal data as long as needed to provide you with the services in the Site or otherwise fulfill the purposes for which it was collected.
If you choose to deactivate your account, we will delete all your personal data and it will not be recoverable should you later create another account.
If you choose to delete the Site from your device or your account becomes inactive, we will retain your personal data for a period of 3 years in case you decide to re-install the Site.
Limitations: You should be aware that, although we will anonymize or otherwise de-identify your data where possible, we may retain cetain information, including personal data, after your account has been terminated or deleted as necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
8. Security of your information
General security measures
We implement technical and organizational measures in an effort to protect your information, including personal data, from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction, taking into account the nature of the information that we process, and risks associated with special categories of personal data we collect (information about health). These measures include:
Pseudonymizationﾠandﾠtokenizationﾠof certain categories of your personal data.
Encryptionﾠof your personal data in transit and in rest.
Systematic vulnerability scanning and penetration testing.
Protectionﾠof data integrity.
Organizational and legal measures.ﾠFor example, our employees have different levels of access to your personal data and only those in charge of data management get access to your personal data and only for limited purposes required for the operation of the Site. We impose strict liability on our employees for any disclosures, unauthorized accesses, alterations, destructions, misuses of your personal data.
Conducting periodical data protection impact assessmentsﾠin order to ensure that the Site fully adhere to the principles of ‘privacy by design', ‘privacy by default' and others.
Please understand that you can help keep your information secure by choosing and protecting your password appropriately, not sharing your password and preventing others from using your mobile device. However, no security system is perfect and, as such, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of the Site, or that your information will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us.
Security breaches
If we learn of a security systems breach, we may either post a notice, or attempt to notify you by email and will take reasonable steps to remedy the breach as specified in this Privacy Policy. If we learn of a potential personal data breach, together with other actions referred to in the Privacy Policy (such as notifying you in certain cases), we will also undertake particular actions to remedy the breach as appropriate under the circumstances, which may include, logging you out from all the devices, resetting a password (sending a temporary password for you to apply) and performing other reasonably necessary activities and actions.
If you want to report a security incident related to the Site please contact us atﾠfounder@kind-factory.com
9. Contact us
If you have any comments or questions on any part of the Site, or any part of these Terms of Use, require support, or have any claims, please contact us at:
by e-mail: founder@kind-factory.com
You may also contact your local data protection authority.