Privacy Policy of appscreens.com

Full policy

Owner and Data Controller

Salty Bytes Pty Ltd, PO Box 505, Coolum Beach, QLD, 4573. (ABN 88 651 300 015)

Owner contact email: hello@appscreens.com

Types of Data collected

Among the types of Personal Data that appscreens.com collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: Cookies; Usage Data; first name; last name; phone number; email address; username; password; profile picture; social media accounts ; unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example); device information; geography/region; number of Users ; number of sessions; session duration; Application opens; Application updates; first launches; operating systems; website; User ID; Data communicated while using the service.

Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection.
Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using appscreens.com.
Unless specified otherwise, all Data requested by appscreens.com is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for appscreens.com to provide its services. In cases where appscreens.com specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without consequences to the availability or the functioning of the Service.
Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner.
Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools — by appscreens.com or by the owners of third-party services used by appscreens.com serves the purpose of providing the Service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the Cookie Policy.

Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through appscreens.com.

Mode and place of processing the Data

Methods of processing

The Owner takes appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Owner, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of appscreens.com (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Owner at any time.

Place

The Data is processed at the Owner's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located.

Depending on the User's location, data transfers may involve transferring the User's Data to a country other than their own. To find out more about the place of processing of such transferred Data, Users can check the section containing details about the processing of Personal Data.

Retention time

Unless specified otherwise in this document, Personal Data shall be processed and stored for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for and may be retained for longer due to applicable legal obligation or based on the Users’ consent.

The purposes of processing

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its Users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as well as the following: Analytics, Registration and authentication, Handling payments, Hosting and backend infrastructure, Registration and authentication provided directly by appscreens.com, Contacting the User, Content performance and features testing (A/B testing), Displaying content from external platforms, Infrastructure monitoring, SPAM protection, Tag Management, Managing contacts and sending messages, Interaction with live chat platforms, User database management and Advertising.

For specific information about the Personal Data used for each purpose, the User may refer to the section “Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data”.

Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data

Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

• Advertising

  This type of service allows User Data to be utilized for advertising communication purposes. These communications are displayed in the form of banners and other advertisements on appscreens.com, possibly based on User interests. This does not mean that all Personal Data are used for this purpose. Information and conditions of use are shown below. Some of the services listed below may use Trackers to identify Users or they may use the behavioral retargeting technique, i.e. displaying ads tailored to the User’s interests and behavior, including those detected outside appscreens.com. For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services. Services of this kind usually allow Users to opt out of such tracking. Users may learn how to opt out of interest-based advertising more generally by visiting the relevant opt-out section in this document.

  Google Ads conversion tracking (Google LLC)

  Google Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing, that connects data from the Google Ads advertising network with actions performed on appscreens.com.

  In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult their partner policy and their Business Data page.

  Personal Data processed: Trackers; Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

• Analytics

  The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.

  Google Analytics (Universal Analytics) (Google LLC)

  Google Analytics (Universal Analytics) is a web analysis service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing, (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of appscreens.com, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
  Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

  In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.

  Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out; Ireland – Privacy Policy – Opt Out.

  Google Analytics for Firebase (Google LLC)

  Google Analytics for Firebase or Firebase Analytics is an analytics service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing.
  In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.

  Firebase Analytics may share Data with other tools provided by Firebase, such as Crash Reporting, Authentication, Remote Config or Notifications. The User may check this privacy policy to find a detailed explanation about the other tools used by the Owner.

  Appscreens.com uses identifiers for mobile devices and technologies similar to cookies to run the Firebase Analytics service.

  Users may opt-out of certain Firebase features through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or by following the instructions in other Firebase related sections of this privacy policy, if available.

  Personal Data processed: Application opens; Application updates; Cookies; device information; first launches; geography/region; number of sessions; number of Users ; operating systems; session duration; unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example); Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

• Contacting the User

  Contact form (appscreens.com)

  By filling in the contact form with their Data, the User authorizes appscreens.com to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.

  Personal Data processed: email address; first name; last name; User ID.

  Mailing list or newsletter (appscreens.com)

  By registering on the mailing list or for the newsletter, the User’s email address will be added to the contact list of those who may receive email messages containing information of commercial or promotional nature concerning appscreens.com. Your email address might also be added to this list as a result of signing up to appscreens.com or after making a purchase.

  Personal Data processed: email address; Usage Data.

• Content performance and features testing (A/B testing)

  The services contained in this section allow the Owner to track and analyze the User response concerning web traffic or behavior regarding changes to the structure, text or any other component of appscreens.com.

  Firebase Remote Config (Google LLC)

  Firebase Remote Config is an A/B testing and configuration service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing.

  Personal Data processed: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

• Displaying content from external platforms

  This type of service allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of appscreens.com and interact with them.
  This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.

  Adobe Fonts (Adobe Systems Incorporated)

  Adobe Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Adobe Systems Incorporated that allows appscreens.com to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

  Personal Data processed: Usage Data; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

  Font Awesome (Fonticons, Inc. )

  Font Awesome is a typeface visualization service provided by Fonticons, Inc. that allows appscreens.com to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

  Personal Data processed: Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

  Google Fonts (Google LLC)

  Google Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing, that allows appscreens.com to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

  Personal Data processed: Usage Data; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

• Handling payments

  Unless otherwise specified, appscreens.com processes any payments by credit card, bank transfer or other means via external payment service providers. In general and unless where otherwise stated, Users are requested to provide their payment details and personal information directly to such payment service providers. Appscreens.com isn't involved in the collection and processing of such information: instead, it will only receive a notification by the relevant payment service provider as to whether payment has been successfully completed.

  Stripe (Stripe Inc)

  Stripe is a payment service provided by Stripe Inc.

  Personal Data processed: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

• Hosting and backend infrastructure

  This type of service has the purpose of hosting Data and files that enable appscreens.com to run and be distributed as well as to provide a ready-made infrastructure to run specific features or parts of appscreens.com.

  Some services among those listed below, if any, may work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the Personal Data are stored.

  Firebase Cloud Firestore (Google LLC)

  Firebase Cloud Firestore is a hosting and backend service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing.

  Personal Data processed: Usage Data; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

  Firebase Cloud Functions (Google LLC)

  Firebase Cloud Functions is a hosting and backend service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing.

  Personal Data processed: Usage Data; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

  Firebase Cloud Storage (Google LLC)

  Firebase Cloud Storage is a hosting service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing.

  Personal Data processed: Usage Data; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

  Firebase Hosting (Google LLC)

  Firebase Hosting is a hosting service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing.

  Personal Data processed: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

• Infrastructure monitoring

  This type of service allows appscreens.com to monitor the use and behavior of its components so its performance, operation, maintenance and troubleshooting can be improved.
  Which Personal Data are processed depends on the characteristics and mode of implementation of these services, whose function is to filter the activities of appscreens.com.

  Firebase Performance Monitoring (Google LLC)

  Firebase Performance Monitoring is a monitoring service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing.

  Personal Data processed: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

• Interaction with live chat platforms

  This type of service allows Users to interact with third-party live chat platforms directly from the pages of appscreens.com, for contacting and being contacted by appscreens.com support service.
  If one of these services is installed, it may collect browsing and Usage Data in the pages where it is installed, even if the Users do not actively use the service. Moreover, live chat conversations may be logged.

  Crisp Widget (Crisp IM SARL)

  The Crisp Widget is a service for interacting with the Crisp live chat platform provided by Crisp IM SARL.

  Personal Data processed: Cookies; Data communicated while using the service; Usage Data; various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: France – Privacy Policy.

• Managing contacts and sending messages

  This type of service makes it possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts or any other contact information to communicate with the User.
  These services may also collect data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by the User, as well as when the User interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message.

  Mailchimp (The Rocket Science Group LLC)

  Mailchimp is an email address management and message sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC.

  Personal Data processed: email address.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

• Registration and authentication

  By registering or authenticating, Users allow appscreens.com to identify them and give them access to dedicated services.
  Depending on what is described below, third parties may provide registration and authentication services. In this case, appscreens.com will be able to access some Data, stored by these third-party services, for registration or identification purposes.
  Some of the services listed below may also collect Personal Data for targeting and profiling purposes; to find out more, please refer to the description of each service.

  Firebase Authentication (Google LLC)

  Firebase Authentication is a registration and authentication service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing. To simplify the registration and authentication process, Firebase Authentication can make use of third-party identity providers and save the information on its platform.

  Personal Data processed: email address; first name; last name; password; phone number; profile picture; social media accounts ; username.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

  GitHub OAuth (GitHub Inc.)

  GitHub OAuth is a registration and authentication service provided by GitHub Inc. and is connected to the GitHub network.

  Personal Data processed: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

  Facebook Authentication (Facebook, Inc.)

  Facebook Authentication is a registration and authentication service provided by Facebook, Inc. and is connected to the Facebook social network.

  Personal Data processed: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.

  Google OAuth (Google LLC)

  Google OAuth is a registration and authentication service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing, and is connected to the Google network.

  Personal Data processed: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

• Registration and authentication provided directly by appscreens.com

  By registering or authenticating, Users allow appscreens.com to identify them and give them access to dedicated services. The Personal Data is collected and stored for registration or identification purposes only. The Data collected are only those necessary for the provision of the service requested by the Users.

  Direct registration (appscreens.com)

  The User registers by filling out the registration form and providing the Personal Data directly to appscreens.com.

  Personal Data processed: email address; password; profile picture; username; website.

• SPAM protection

  This type of service analyzes the traffic of appscreens.com, potentially containing Users' Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as SPAM.

  Google reCAPTCHA (Google LLC)

  Google reCAPTCHA is a SPAM protection service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing.
  The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google privacy policy and terms of use.

  In order to understand Google's use of Data, consult Google's partner policy.

  Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

• Tag Management

  This type of service helps the Owner to manage the tags or scripts needed on appscreens.com in a centralized fashion.
  This results in the Users' Data flowing through these services, potentially resulting in the retention of this Data.

  Google Tag Manager (Google LLC)

  Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on how the Owner manages the Data processing.

  Personal Data processed: Usage Data.

  Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.

• User database management

  This type of service allows the Owner to build user profiles by starting from an email address, a personal name, or other information that the User provides to appscreens.com, as well as to track User activities through analytics features. This Personal Data may also be matched with publicly available information about the User (such as social networks' profiles) and used to build private profiles that the Owner can display and use for improving appscreens.com.
  Some of these services may also enable the sending of timed messages to the User, such as emails based on specific actions performed on appscreens.com.

  Data Erasure/Deletion

  You are entitled to request us to erase any personal data we hold about you.
  
  We will do our best to respond promptly and in any event within one month of the following:
  
  Our receipt of your written request; or
  Our receipt of any further information we may ask you to provide to enable us to comply with your request, whichever happens to be later.
  
  To request data erasure, send a written request to hello@appscreens.com from your registered email address, confirming all personal data you wish to be erased. The information you supply in this request will only be used for the purposes of identifying the personal data you are requesting that we erase and responding to your request.

Information on opting out of interest-based advertising

In addition to any opt-out feature provided by any of the services listed in this document, Users may learn more on how to generally opt out of interest-based advertising within the dedicated section of the Cookie Policy.

Further information about the processing of Personal Data

• Selling goods and services online

  The Personal Data collected are used to provide the User with services or to sell goods, including payment and possible delivery.
  The Personal Data collected to complete the payment may include the credit card, the bank account used for the transfer, or any other means of payment envisaged. The kind of Data collected by appscreens.com depends on the payment system used.

• Personal Data collected through sources other than the User

  The Owner of appscreens.com may have legitimately collected Personal Data relating to Users without their knowledge by reusing or sourcing them from third parties on the grounds mentioned in the section specifying the legal basis of processing.
  Where the Owner has collected Personal Data in such a manner, Users may find specific information regarding the source within the relevant sections of this document or by contacting the Owner.

• The Service is not directed to children under the age of 13

  Users declare themselves to be adult according to their applicable legislation. Minors may use appscreens.com only with the assistance of a parent or guardian. Under no circumstance persons under the age of 13 may use appscreens.com.

Cookie Policy

Appscreens.com uses Trackers. To learn more, Users may consult the Cookie Policy.

Additional information about Data collection and processing

Legal action

The User's Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Owner in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of appscreens.com or the related Services.
The User declares to be aware that the Owner may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

Additional information about User's Personal Data

In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, appscreens.com may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular Services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.

System logs and maintenance

For operation and maintenance purposes, appscreens.com and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with appscreens.com (System logs) or use other Personal Data (such as the IP Address) for this purpose.

Information not contained in this policy

More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Owner at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Owner reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by notifying its Users on this page and possibly within appscreens.com and/or - as far as technically and legally feasible - sending a notice to Users via any contact information available to the Owner. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom.

Should the changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of the User’s consent, the Owner shall collect new consent from the User, where required.