This Privacy Policy applies to apps, and other services that Honies operates. For simplicity, we refer to all of these as our “Services” or the “Honies Services” in this Privacy Policy. Our Privacy Policy is displayed prominently on our website and is easily accessible to all Data Subjects.
Honies collects Personal Data related to you when you use or access our Services. We respect your privacy and are strongly committed to keeping your Personal Data secure. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your Personal Data. It also explains your rights and how you can exercise them.
We do not sell or rent your Personal Data. We will only share or otherwise disclose your Personal Data as necessary to provide our Services, or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
IF YOU ARE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE, DO NOT USE OR ACCESS THE HONIES SERVICES AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY MANNER.Honies is restricted to individuals who are 18 years of age or older. Our Services are not directed to, or intended for, children or individuals under the age of 18. For that reason, we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children or individuals under the age of 18. We verify the age of our users to ensure compliance with applicable laws.
If we learn that we are engaged in the processing of Personal Data from children or individuals under the age of 18, we will halt such processing immediately and promptly take steps to delete the Personal Data.
If you have reason to believe that a child or individual under the age of 18 has provided Personal Data to us through our Services, please email us at mouradmaghribi5@gmail.com. We will investigate any notification and, if appropriate, promptly delete the Personal Data from our systems.
By using our Services, you consent to the collection and use of your Personal Data for the specified purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. You can manage your consent preferences through your account settings or by contacting us directly. Where required by law, we will obtain your express or explicit consent before collecting or using your Personal Data or if we collect Sensitive Personal Information.
We take reasonable steps to ensure the Personal Data we collect is accurate, complete, and up-to-date. We ensure that the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Data is reasonable and necessary for the purposes identified in this Privacy Policy.
Please note that we need certain types of Personal Data so that we can create your account and provide our Services to you. If you do not provide us with such Personal Data, or ask us to delete it, you may not be able to access or use our Services. We outline in more detail the Personal Data we collect below.
We collect Personal Data from you when you provide it to us while creating or updating an account, using our Services, or communicating with us. This includes:
Account information: When you create an account with us, we collect your name, date of birth, and gender. Depending on the method you use to create an account we may also collect your email address, a password you create for your account, phone number, third-party authorization token, social media account ID, social media account information you give us permission to access, and GPS location, if you allow us permission to access your device’s GPS.
User Content: When you use our Services, we collect the user content you upload including chat messages, photos, voice messages, videos, bio information, social media usernames, and location.
Communication Information: If you communicate with us through email, or our online social media accounts, we collect your name, contact details, and the contents of any messages you send.
Other Information You Provide: We collect other information that you may provide to us, such as when you provide us with information to establish your age or identity.
Personal Data we receive automatically when you use our Services includes:
Log Data: Information that your device automatically sends when you use our Services. Log data includes your Internet Protocol (IP) address and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interact with our Services.
Usage Data: We may automatically collect information about your use of the Services, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use and the actions you take, as well as your time zone, country, the dates and times of access, user agent and version, and type of mobile device.
Device Information: Information about your device including make, model, operating system, device identifiers, advertising identifiers, push notification tokens, and permissions. Information collected may depend on the type of device you use and its settings.
Purchase information: When you make a purchase through our Services, we receive information regarding your purchase such as, which purchase you made, third-party payment processor name, receipt data including order ID, amount, and expiry date.
We collect information from other sources, such as from our trusted business partners, including security partners to protect against fraud, abuse, and other security threats to our Services, or our marketing vendors who provide us with information about potential customers.
When you take certain actions on other sites, we may receive information about you. For example, when we advertise on third-party platforms, if you click on the ad, we may receive information about which ad you saw and on which platform. Similarly, we may also receive certain information when you click on a referral link, such as which website you came from.
We ensure your Personal Data is processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently in accordance with applicable laws, and for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We rely on the following lawful bases to process your Personal Data:
a. Consent
We process your Personal Data on the basis of your express, clear, and freely given consent for specific purposes that we communicate to you. Depending on the consent given, you can revoke your consent at any time through your account settings, your device’s permissions settings, or by contacting us at mouradmaghribi5@gmail.com.
b. To Honor Our Contractual Commitments
Much of our processing of your Personal Data is to meet our contractual obligations to you, or to take steps at your request in anticipation of entering into a contract with you. For example, to create your account or provide you with customer support.
c. Legal Obligations
We need to use and disclose Personal Data in certain ways to comply with our legal obligations, e.g. we retain Personal Data where we are required by law or if we are compelled to do so by a court order or regulatory body.
d. Legitimate Interests
In many cases, we process your Personal Data on the basis that it furthers our legitimate business interests in ways that are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. This includes:
To provide a safe and enjoyable user experience;
To prevent misuse, and to enforce our Terms of Use and other policies against users who violate them;
To provide customer support;
To engage in Marketing or Advertising, e.g. advertising on third-party services or sending emails or other communications to let you know about new features or services;
To track the fundamental metrics of our business, to perform financial reporting, and to respond to regulatory obligations; and
To analyze and improve our business, e.g. collecting information about how you use our Services to optimize the design and placement of certain features or add new features.
Honies follows the principle of data minimization, meaning we only collect the personal data necessary to provide and improve our Services, support users, and meet legal requirements. We avoid collecting excessive or unrelated information and regularly review our data practices to ensure they remain limited, relevant, and secure.
We collect your Personal Data exclusively through lawful and fair means, and for various purposes. These purposes are communicated to you at the time of collection or are publicly disclosed in this Privacy Policy. We ensure that you are fully informed about both the primary and secondary purposes of collection. Additionally, we ensure that the Personal Data collected is adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary to fulfill the following purposes:
To provide, administer, maintain and/or analyze our Services;
To improve our Services and conduct research;
To communicate with you, including to send you information or marketing about our Services;
To develop new programs and Services;
To process transactions and send related information;
To personalize your user experience and deliver tailored content;
To carry out business transfers;
To prevent fraud, criminal activity, or misuses of our Services, and to protect the security of our systems and Services; and
To comply with legal obligations and to protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of our users, us, our affiliates, or any third party.
When you use our products or services, certain information may be collected by third-party SDKs. This information can include, but is not limited to, device identifiers, usage data, and network information.
We employ Bugly for aiding in the resolution of crash issues, as well as for the analysis and precise identification of the underlying problem. Some data collected, such as Device ID and UID, along with performance crash logs, will be uploaded to https://android.bugly.qq.com as part of this process. For insights into its privacy policy, kindly consult https://privacy.qq.com/document/preview/fc748b3d96224fdb825ea79e132c1a56
In certain circumstances we may share or disclose your Personal Data to third parties without further notice to you, unless required by law. We ensure that any third-party recipients are subject to data protection obligations. We may share or disclose your Personal Data for various purposes and under the following circumstances:
Vendors and Service Providers: To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may provide certain Personal Data to vendors and service providers, including providers of hosting services, customer service vendors, cloud services, email communication software, web analytics services, and other information technology providers. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store Personal Data only in the course of performing their duties to us.
Business Transfers: If we are involved in strategic transactions, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, or transition of service to another provider (collectively, a “Transaction”), your Personal Data and other information may be disclosed in the diligence process with counterparties and others assisting with the Transaction and transferred to a successor or affiliate as part of that Transaction along with other assets. In such cases, we would require any such business entity to honor the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Legal Requirements: We may share your Personal Data, including information about your interaction with our Services, with government authorities, industry peers, or other third parties (i) if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, (ii) to protect and defend our rights or property, (iii) if we determine, in our sole discretion, that there is a violation of our terms, policies, or the law; (iv) to detect or prevent fraud or other illegal activity; (v) to protect the safety, security, and integrity of our products, employees, or users, or the public, or (vi) to protect against legal liability.
Other Users and Third Parties You Share Information With: Certain features allow you to display or share information with other users or third parties. For example, you may share Live Streams with other users via shared links or send information to third-party applications via shared links. Be sure you trust any user or third party with whom you share information.
With Your Consent: If you specifically give us consent to share your Personal Data.
We retain your Personal Data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by law. How long we retain your Personal Data will depend on a number of factors, such as:
Our purpose for processing the Personal Data (such as whether we need to retain the Personal Data to provide our Services);
The amount, nature, and sensitivity of the Personal Data;
The potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the Personal Data; and
Any legal requirements that we are subject to.
After such time, your Personal Data will be securely deleted or anonymized.
We maintain a comprehensive data security program which includes encryption, secure user authentication protocols, access controls, and regular security audits. We implement technical, physical, and organizational safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your Personal Data from unauthorized or unlawful processing, access, disclosure, alteration, destruction, theft, loss, damage, copying, use, or modification, and we regularly review our security measures to consider any new available technologies and/or methods.
However, please note that no data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via our Services or through email. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any Personal Data you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. We cannot guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. In addition, we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our Service, or third-party websites.
Depending on your local jurisdiction and applicable laws, you may have certain statutory rights in relation to your Personal Data. For example, you may have the following:
Right to Be Informed: To be informed about the collection and use of your Personal Data.
Right to Access: To request access to or obtain a copy of your Personal Data and information relating to how it is processed.
Right to Rectify: To correct inaccurate or incomplete Personal Data, or update your Personal Data.
Right to Erase or Delete: To request deletion of your Personal Data from our records and systems.
Right to Restrict Processing: To restrict how we process your Personal Data.
Right to Object to Processing: To object to how we process your Personal Data.
Right to Data Portability: To obtain, transfer, and reuse your Personal Data in a portable format for your own purposes across different services.
Right to Consent: To consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your data, except where permitted or required by law.
Right to Withdraw Consent: To withdraw consent at any time where we rely on consent as the legal basis to process your Personal Data.
Right to Opt-Out: To Opt-out of the sale of your Personal Data, or the processing of your Personal Data for targeted advertising.
Right to Be Free From Discrimination: Not to be discriminated against for exercising any of your privacy rights.
Right to Not be Subject to Automated Decision Making and Profiling: To not be subject to a decision when it is based on automated processing and it produces an adverse legal effect or significantly affects you.
Right to Cessation of Use: Request that we cease the use of your Personal Data.
Right to Lodge a Complaint: To lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
You may exercise some of your rights through your Honies account settings at any time. If you are unable to exercise your rights through your account settings, you may submit a rights request using one of the contact methods listed in the Contact Information section of this Privacy Policy.
In order to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, change, or deletion, we may require you to verify your credentials before we process your request. You do not usually need to pay a fee to exercise your rights.
You may request to delete your Honies account at any time through the app. To do so, go to Me > Settings > Delete Account and follow the on-screen instructions. Once your request is confirmed, your account and associated personal data will be permanently removed from our active systems.
However, we may retain certain information as required by law or for legitimate business purposes, such as fraud prevention, legal compliance, or dispute resolution. Any retained data will be handled securely and used only for these limited purposes.
Please note that account deletion is irreversible. Once completed, your profile, messages, and content cannot be recovered.
Our Service may contain links to other services or websites not operated or controlled by Honies , including social media services (collectively, “Third-Party Sites”). The information that you share with Third-Party Sites will be governed by the specific privacy policies and terms of service of the Third-Party Sites and not by this Privacy Policy. By providing these links we do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed these sites. Please contact the Third-Party Sites directly for information on their privacy practices and policies.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. When we make any changes, we will post the revised version on this page and update the “Effective Date” at the top of the policy. In some cases, where required by applicable law or if the changes are material, we may also provide additional notice—such as through a notification within the app or by email—to give you the opportunity to review the updated policy.
We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how your personal data is being handled. Your continued use of Honies following the posting or notification of any changes constitutes your acceptance of those changes. If you do not agree to the revised policy, you should stop using the Services and, if necessary, delete your account.
For any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or matters related to our processing of your Personal Data, please contact our Data Protection Officer via Email: mouradmaghribi5@gmail.com
If you have any complaints regarding our privacy practices, you can contact our Data Protection Officer or lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.