Effective Date: August 11, 2025
This
Privacy Notice (“Notice”) applies to the processing of Personal
Information by ADVERTEX ADVERTISING RESEARCHES AND CONSULTANCIES
LLC. (“GossipDrop,” “Company,” “We,” “Our”) in the context of the
“GossipDrop App” mobile application (the “GossipDrop App”) and the
GossipDrop website,
gossipdrop.app (the
“Website”), (collectively the “Services”). Please read this Notice
carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your
personal information. By using or registering with our Services, you
acknowledge that your personal information will be collected, used,
processed and disclosed as outlined in this Notice. Beyond the
Notice, your use of our Services is also subject to our Terms of
Use.
California, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Texas,
and Virginia residents can find more information about their
specific privacy rights in the Additional Information for Residents
of California and Additional Information for Residents of Certain
Other U.S. States sections.
1) Personal Information We Collect and How We Collect It
2) Use
of Personal Information We Collect
3) How We Disclose Personal
Information We Collect
4) Data Retention
5) Security of
Your Personal Information
6) Additional Information for
Residents of California
7) Additional Information for Residents
of Certain Other U.S. States
8) Your Choices
9)
Third-Party Disclosure and Links
10) Notice Concerning the
Information of Minors
11) Additional Information About the
GossipDrop App
12) International Data Transfers
13)
Changes to This Notice
14) Contact Us
1. Personal Information We Collect and How We Collect It
The term "Personal Information" as used in this Notice means
any information relating to an identified or identifiable
individual.
We may collect and process Personal
Information about you in the ways outlined below. Where applicable,
we indicate whether and why you must provide us with your Personal
Information, as well as the consequences of failing to do so. If you
do not provide Personal Information when requested, you may not be
able to benefit from our Services if that information is necessary
to provide you with them or if we are legally required to collect
it.
A. Personal Information You Provide to Us
When you sign up to the GossipDrop App.
When you
sign up, we ask you to provide Personal Information such as your
email address, phone number, date of birth, location (city and
state), photograph (your selfie), your username, and your
relationship status. If you sign up using a social media or third
party account, we will also receive information from those social
media services or third party accounts such as your name and email
address.
When you use our paid features.
If you use our premium paid features, you will have to
provide payment information in order to complete your purchase. We
use third party payment processors to handle payment information,
and those services are subject to separate terms and conditions and
privacy policies.
When you contact us.
If you contact us using a contact form, via
email, or by other means, you may provide us with Personal Data,
such as your name and contact details (including email address), the
content, date and time of our communications, and other information
you choose to provide. When you communicate with us online, third
party vendors receive and store these communications on our behalf.
When we send you emails, we may use embedded pixels or other
technologies to track information about your receipt and interaction
with our emails, such as whether and when you open them, whether you
access any links included in our emails, how long you read our
emails, whether you forward our emails and to whom, your Location
Information (described below), and your Device Information
(described below), to learn how to deliver a better customer
experience and improve our Services.
B. Personal Information Collected Automatically
When you interact with our Services, we and our vendors collect
information about your activities on our Services using cookies, web
beacons, pixels, APIs, SDKs, tags and other similar technologies
(collectively, “Cookies”). We and our vendors may use these Cookies
to collect Personal Information about your device, usage, and
activities (such as your IP address and device identifiers, device
type, the browser you are using, and the length and time of visit
and pages visited), Apple ID, (non-precise) geolocation data and
details about how you interact with our Services.
This
data is used by us and our vendors for various purposes, including
to: operate, enable and improve our online Services; analyze usage
and performance; track bugs and errors; verify account credentials
and enable logins; to protect and secure our services; and to detect
and prevent identify fraud. Our third-party partners may also use
these technologies to collect information about your online
activities over time and across different services.
We
use the following Cookies on our Services:
-Strictly Necessary Cookies: Some Cookies are strictly necessary to make our
Services available to you and you cannot use them without this type
of Cookie. We use this information to provide you with our Services,
prevent misuse, and ensure our Services are working properly.
-Functional Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our Services.
This enables us to personalize our content for you, to provide you
with a customized experience on our Services, and to remember your
preferences and various settings (for example, your choice of
language or region).
-Analytics or Performance Cookies: We also use Cookies for analytics purposes to better understand how
you use our Services, to measure the effectiveness of our customer
communications, to diagnose and fix technology problems, and
otherwise enhance our Services. We may use our own analytics Cookies
or third-party analytics providers to collect and process certain
data analytics on our behalf.
C. Personal Information We Collect When You Use Our Services
Location Information When you use our Services, we receive
your location information. For example we infer your location
information by using your IP address.
Device Information Access with Your Permission
When you download, access or use the GossipDrop App, the GossipDrop
App may request certain permissions from your device, which you can
choose to authorize or not. These include access to your:
-Camera. You are required to take a new photo (selfie) using the camera
app on your device for verification purposes.
-Microphone.
The GossipDrop App may access your microphone to capture audio
(sound) if you would like to add audio to your posts and
comments.
-Contacts.The GossipDrop app may
access your contacts if you choose to invite a friend to use the
GossipDrop App
-Photos. The GossipDrop App
may access your photos and the associated metadata to allow you to
upload photos on your posts and comments.
-Face ID.
If you choose to enable this feature, the GossipDrop App will use
your phone’s native Face ID features to control access to the app.
Your use of Face ID to access the GossipDrop App is voluntary. All
Face ID data is processed and stored locally on your device.
-Push Notifications.
If you choose to enable this feature, the GossipDrop app will be
able to send you notifications about your registration status and
keep you up to date on content on the GossipDrop App. You can change
these settings within your account at any time.
However,
please note that if you choose not to authorize the above
permissions, some of the functionality on the GossipDrop App may be
affected.
Usage Information. You may
provide personal information when you use certain interactive
features on the GossipDrop App. We automatically receive information
about your interactions with our Services, like the pages or other
content you view, referrer information (the website you visited
before coming to our Services), the dates and times of your visits
and posts, the searches you conduct, purchases you make, your
comments (including through voice features, gifs, and images), your
interactions with other posts (e.g., “likes”, reactions, shares,
whether you bookmark the post, add a red or green flag), posts or
search results for which you set up notifications, friends you
invite, submit a user report, block another user and third-party
services providers you use through the Service.
User Content: You may choose to upload images, voice recordings, gifs,
polls, videos, comments, and other posts or engage in forums related
to relationship-related content.
Messages Between Users.
When you communicate with other users through our Services, we and
our third-party partners receive the content of the messages you
send and receive and information about those messages, such as when
it was sent or received.
AI Chatbot. We
may offer an interactive AI chat feature on the GossipDrop App to
help you navigate your dating and relationship questions. We and our
service provider will retain a copy of your conversations with our
AI chatbot for the purposes set out below, to the extent permitted
by applicable law.
D.
Personal Information Collected From Other Sources
-Information from our users. We also receive and analyze content,
communications and information that users provide when they use our
Services. This can include information about other individuals, such
as when users share or comment on a photo or video of an individual,
or screenshots of conversations they had with other
individuals. If you access our app based on a referral, we
will also process basic information such as your email address so
that we can activate the referral link.
-Background
Information in the U.S. We work with third-party partners to perform
recurring background checks on U.S. individuals identified in our
Service upon a user’s request, and we also may receive information
from third parties such as criminal history and records, phone
numbers, marriage records, and other court records.
2) Use of Personal Information We Collect
We
may use the Personal Information we collect from you in the
following ways:
-To set up and verify your account with us (for
example, users of the GossipDrop App are required to submit a selfie
photo to verify their eligibility for the Services).
-To enable
you to make posts and comments.
-To process and manage your
subscription.
-To send you emails, text messages, and push
notifications
-To personalize your user experience and to
allow us to deliver the type of content and offerings in which you
are most interested, including experiences based on data you have
provided to us such as your relationship status.
-To deliver
messages and other services and content you request and send
information related to your account and the Services, including
confirmations, technical notices, updates, security alerts, support
and administrative messages, and enable user-to user
communication.
-To train, develop, and improve the artificial
intelligence, machine learning, and models that we use to support
our Services
-To generate anonymized information that we may
use for any lawful purpose such as to publish reports
-To
understand and analyze how you use our Services and develop new
products, services, features, and functionality.
-To conduct an
analysis of the performance of our Services, including referral data
if you arrive at our Website from an external source.
-To
provide, maintain, and improve the Services.
-To track and fix
bugs and errors
-To facilitate the connection of third-party
services or applications, such as connecting you with background
check service providers, court records, sex offender registry lists,
and “reverse image search” service providers, to the extent
permitted by applicable law
-To provide you with relevant
marketing materials. For example, we may contact you regarding
products, services, and offers, both from ourselves and from third
parties, that we believe you may find of interest, which may be
tailored to you, based on information such as your interests and
preferences
-To process your payments if you are using a paid
feature. We may process details about your subscription and your
transaction and payment information, for billing purposes.
-For
compliance purposes, including enforcing our terms and conditions or
other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and
regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental
agency.
-To find and prevent fraud and abuse, and respond to
trust and safety issues that may arise.
-To analyze content
provided by our users to identify potentially deceptive or harmful
behavior.
-For other purposes for which we provide specific
notice at the time the information is collected.
-To conduct
our business-related operations and functions, such as
record-keeping and risk management.
3) Legal
Bases for Processing Your Personal Information
If you are located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland or
the United Kingdom (“Europe”), we only process your Personal
Information where we have a legal basis to do so. The legal bases we
rely on include:
-Necessary to perform a contract.
We will process your Personal Information where it is necessary to
give effect to a contract between you and us, for example when you
subscribe to our Services, or otherwise accept our Terms of
Use.
-Necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are
subject. We may process your Personal Information where we are required to
do so to comply with our legal obligations, for example to comply
with tax and accounting obligations or to comply with a court
order.
-Necessary for a legitimate interest that we pursue. Where we or a third party have a legitimate interest in processing
your Personal Information, we may do so provided that our interest
is not overridden by your rights and interests. We may rely on this
legal basis to, for example, keep business records, respond to
unsolicited communications from you, assert our legal rights and
obtain professional advice.
-Consent. We may
also process your Personal Information on the basis of consent in
some circumstances. For example, we may ask for your consent to sign
up to direct marketing. You may withdraw your consent at any time by
contacting us.
We will only process criminal data to the
extent permitted under local law. We may process sensitive Personal
Information that was made public by the individual concerned, or
where this is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest
as provided by UK, EU or EU member state law. We may also process
sensitive Personal Information if the individual concerned provided
their explicit consent.
4) How We Disclose Personal Information We Collect
We may disclose Personal Information as follows:
-With our affiliates. We may disclose any Personal Information we receive to our
current or future affiliates for any of the purposes described in
this Notice.
-With our Vendors and Service Providers. We may disclose any information we receive to vendors and service
providers retained in connection with the provision of our
Services.
-Data Providers. Upon a user’s
request, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, we disclose
information that the user provides about a person to data providers,
such as providers of criminal history information, in order to
provide background information to the user about that person.
-With our AI Service Providers. We may disclose Personal Information we receive to vendors that
provide artificial intelligence services that provide support for
our Services.
-With our Analytics Partners:
We use analytics services [such as Google Analytics] to collect and
process certain analytics data. [You can learn more about Google’s
practices by visiting
https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can opt out by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out
browser add-on, available at
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.]
-With other users. As a media
sharing app, we allow users to share information they upload with
other users to help women feel safe while dating online and offer
dating advice. Our users may use our Services to create and share
content about other individuals with other users. For example, users
may share a photo of an individual on our app with a ‘green flag’ or
‘red flag’ and a positive or negative comment. Users’ username and
location (city and state) will always be viewable by other users
when you post content. The content users post to the Services will
be displayed on the Services and viewable by other users. We may
also share content with other users via push notifications,
consistent with user settings. We are not responsible for the other
users’ use of available information, so you should carefully
consider whether and what to post or how you identify yourself on
the Services.
-If we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business
assets. We may disclose Personal Information when we do a business deal,
or negotiate a business deal, involving the sale, liquidation, or
transfer of all or a part of our business or assets. These deals can
include any merger, financing, acquisition, or bankruptcy
transaction or proceeding. The use of your information following any
of these events will be governed by the provisions of this Notice in
effect at the time the applicable information was collected.
-As Required By Law and Similar Disclosures. We may access, preserve, and disclose your Personal Information if
we believe doing so is required or appropriate to: (a) comply with
law enforcement requests and legal process, such as a court order or
subpoena; (b) respond to your requests; or (c) protect your, our, or
others’ rights, property, or safety. For the avoidance of doubt, the
disclosure of your Personal Information may occur if you post any
objectionable content on or through the Services.
-Consent.
We may also disclose your Personal Information with your permission.
5) Data Retention
We endeavor to retain
your Personal Information for as long as your account is active as
needed to provide you the Services, or where we have an ongoing
legitimate business need. Additionally, we will retain and use your
Personal Information as necessary to comply with our legal
obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
When determining the specific retention period, we take
into account various criteria, such as the type of service provided
to you, the nature and length of our relationship with you, and
mandatory retention periods provided by law and the relevant statute
of limitations. In some cases, the length of time we retain data
depends on your settings.
When we no longer need to use
or retain your Personal Information, we will either remove it from
our systems or anonymize it so that it no longer identifies you.
5) Security of Your Personal Information
Safeguarding personal information is important to us. We take
reasonable and appropriate steps to help protect your personal
information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration,
and destruction by using physical and electronic safeguards designed
to improve the security of the information we maintain. However,
because no electronic transmission or storage of information can be
entirely secure, we can make no guarantees as to the security or
privacy of your information. To help us protect Personal
Information, we request that you take the necessary steps to make
sure your account is as secure as possible such as by using a strong
password, never disclosing your password to anyone, or using the
same password with other sites or accounts.
6) Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights under
applicable data privacy laws. For example, in Europe, to the extent
applicable, you have the following legal rights:
-Access and portability.
You may ask us to provide you with a copy of the Personal Data we
maintain about you, including a machine-readable copy of the
Personal Data that you have provided to us, and request information
about its processing.
-Rectification and deletion. You may ask us to update and correct inaccuracies in your Personal
Data, or to have the information anonymized or deleted, as
appropriate.
-Restriction and objection. You
may ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Data, or
object to such processing.
-Consent withdrawal.
You may withdraw any consent you previously provided to us regarding
the processing of your Personal Data, at any time and free of
charge. We will apply your preferences going forward and this will
not affect the lawfulness of the processing before you withdrew your
consent.
-Complaint. You may lodge a complaint
with a supervisory authority, including in your country of
residence, place of work, or where an incident took place. We would,
however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you
approach a supervisory authority, so please contact us in the first
instance.
You may exercise these rights by contacting us
using the contact information set out below. Please note that there
are exceptions and limitations to each of these rights
7) Additional Information for Residents of California
California Notice at Collection
This section
supplements the other parts of this Notice and provides additional
disclosures for residents of California. This notice at collection
is meant to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (as
amended, and together with related regulations the “CCPA”).
A. Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information
As explained above, we and our vendors may collect personal
information from and about users of our Services from the following
sources:
-Directly from you when you provide it to us.
-Automatically
when you use the Services.
-From the GossipDrop App.
-From
your contacts when they refer you to the GossipDrop App.
-From
our vendors who help us provide the Services such as Apple, Facebook
and Google during the signup process on the GossipDrop App.
We
collect, use, and disclose personal information about California
consumers as described in the table below. This section covers our
current collection practices as well as our practices over the past
12 months. Please note that the personal information we collect
about you may vary depending on the nature of your interactions with
us and may not include all of the examples listed below.
| Categories of Personal Information Collected | Purposes for Collection, Use, and Disclosure |
|---|---|
| Identifiers, including name, username, unique personal identifier, online identifier, telephone number, Internet Protocol address, email address, or other similar identifiers |
|
| Customer Records (described in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)), including name, physical characteristics or description, telephone number, and email address |
|
| Commercial Information / Purchase Details, including purchase history and consumption tendencies |
|
| Internet or other electronic network activity information, including browsing and search history |
|
| Geolocation Data, collected when you use the GossipDrop App |
|
| Audio and Visual Information, including images and voice recordings |
|
| Inferences drawn from other personal information |
|
| Sensitive Personal Information, such as direct messages |
|
We also collect some personal information that does not
directly fit within one of the categories defined by the CCPA. For
example, we collect the information you provide when you send us an
email or contact us through our chat functionality, and your
relationship status.
In addition, we may collect, use,
and disclose your personal information as required or permitted by
applicable law. We do not treat deidentified data or aggregate user
information as personal information, and we reserve the right to
convert, or permit others to convert, your personal information into
deidentified data or aggregate consumer information. Where we
collect and use deidentified data, we commit to maintaining and
using that data in deidentified form without attempting to
reidentify it.
Subject to the CCPA's restrictions and
obligations, we may disclose your personal information for some or
all of the above-listed business purposes to certain recipients who
help us to run our business.
For information on our data
retention practices please see our Data Retention section above.
B. Sales and Sharing of Personal Information
While we do not sell personal information for monetary
consideration, some of the ways we disclose personal information
collected through the GossipDrop App may constitute a “sale” under
the CCPA. However, we do not engage in “sharing” for cross-context
behavioral advertising via the GossipDrop App and we do not sell
and/or share personal information with third parties for
cross-context behavioral advertising collected on the Website.
The
categories of personal information we have sold to third parties
over the past 12 months includes the following categories of
personal information collected on the GossipDrop app:
-Identifiers;
-Internet
or other electronic network activity information; and
-Geolocation data.
We sell this personal
information to third-party analytics vendors.
The
purposes for which we sell this personal information include for
analytics purposes and to provide Services within the GossipDrop
App.
As explained below, our Services are designed for
users aged 18 and older. We do not have actual knowledge that we
sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years
of age.
C. California Privacy Rights
The CCPA provides California consumers with specific rights
regarding their personal information. To exercise any of these
rights, you or your authorized representative may submit a request
by contacting us at
support@tea-app.com.
If you are a California resident, you have the following rights:
-Right to Know (Categories): You have
the right to request we disclose to you the categories of personal
information about you that we collected, including:
(a) the
categories of sources from which personal information was
collected;
(b) the business or commercial purposes for
collecting, selling, sharing, or disclosing personal information;
(c)
the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed personal
information;
(d) the categories of personal information
that we sold, and for each category identified, the categories of
third parties to which we sold that particular category of personal
information;
(e) the categories of personal information that we
disclosed for a business purpose in the prior 12 months, and for
each category identified, the categories of recipients to which we
disclosed that particular category of personal information.
-Right to Know (Specific Pieces): You have the right to request we disclose to you free of charge the
specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.
-Right to Delete:
You have the right to request we delete personal information we
collected from you, unless the CCPA recognizes an exception.
-Right to Correct:
You have the right to request that we correct the personal
information we have about you if you believe that your personal
information is inaccurate.
-Right to Opt Out of Sales:
You have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal
information. To opt out, please contact us, or have your authorized
agent contact us at,
support@tea-app.com.
-Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive personal
information:
We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information in ways to
which the right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal
information applies. As such, we do not offer this right.
-Right to appeal. If you are unsatisfied with our
decision not to take action on your request to exercise one of your
privacy rights, you may appeal our decision.
Shine the Light:
California's "Shine the Light" law permits California residents to
request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal
information to third parties for their own direct marketing
purposes. However, we do not disclose personal information to third
parties for their own direct marketing purposes. If you are a
California resident, you may request information about our
compliance with the Shine the Light law by contacting us at
support@tea-app.com.
Any such request must include "California Shine the Light Request"
in the first line of the description and include your name, street
address, city, state, and ZIP code. Please note that we are only
required to respond to one request per customer each calendar
year.
Consistent with California law, if you choose to
exercise your applicable CCPA rights, we won’t charge you different
prices or provide you a different quality of services.
Our
Services are not configured to respond to “Do Not Track” (DNT)
signals.
8.
Additional Information for Residents of Certain Other U.S.
States
This section of the Notice supplements the other parts
of our Notice and provides additional information for residents of
Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia. “Personal information” as
described above also describes our practices with respect to
“personal data,” as defined under these state consumer privacy
laws.
Sales and Targeted Advertising
While
we do not sell personal information for monetary consideration, some
of the ways we disclose personal information collected through the
GossipDrop App may constitute a “sale” under certain state privacy
laws. We do not engage in targeted advertising via the GossipDrop
App. We do not sell or engage in targeted advertising on our
Website.
We may “sell” (as that term is defined under
applicable state privacy laws) the following categories of your
personal information for certain analytics purposes:
-Identifiers;
-Internet
or other electronic network activity information; and
-Geolocation
data.
We sell this personal information to third-party
analytics vendors. The purposes for which we sell this personal
information include for analytics purposes and to provide Services
within the GossipDrop App.
Privacy Rights
Residents of Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia have the
following rights with regard to their personal information:
-Right to access.
You have the right to request access to and obtain a copy of any
personal information that we may hold about you.
-Right to correct.
You have the right to request that we correct inaccuracies in your
personal information.
-Right to delete.
You have the right to request we delete personal information we
collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
-Right to opt out of the sale of personal data.
You may request that we stop disclosing or making your personal
information available in a way that is considered a “sale” under
your state privacy law.
-Right to opt out of profiling.
We do not profile in a manner that would result in legal or
similarly significant effects and as such do not offer this
right.
-Right to appeal. If you are unsatisfied with our
decision not to take action on your request to exercise one of your
privacy rights, you may appeal our decision.
If you
live in Maryland, you also have the right to obtain a list of the
categories of third parties to which we have disclosed personal
data.
To exercise any of the above privacy rights, you or
your authorized agent may contact us at
support@tea-app.com .
If you decide to exercise any of the privacy rights described above,
we won’t charge you different prices or provide you with a different
quality of services.
9) Your Choices
Deleting Your Account. If you wish to delete your account you may do so through your
account settings. You can request that your account be deleted,
however, certain information may be maintained in our systems when
we have a legal requirement to maintain such information.
Updating your Information. If your personal information changes, you may request to correct or
update your information within the app or by contacting us at
support@tea-app.com.
Deleting Your Data. You can submit a
request for deletion of your Personal Information by contacting us
at
support@tea-app.com.
We will honor these requests where required by law.
Mobile Application Device Permissions. When you download, access or use the GossipDrop App, the GossipDrop
App may request certain permissions from your device, which you can
choose to authorize or not. These include access to your: camera,
microphone, photos, biometric authentication system (e.g., FaceID),
and push notifications.
You can use your mobile device
settings to change your permissions. Please note that some
GossipDrop App features may not function properly if certain
permissions are disabled or settings are changed.
10) Third-Party Disclosure and Links
The
Services may include links or integrations that lead to other
websites and software platforms whose privacy practices may differ
from those of GossipDrop including, but not limited to, third-party
websites used for background checks and sex offender registries, to
the extent permitted by applicable law. Your use of these
third-party sites is governed by their privacy statements. We
encourage you to carefully read the privacy statement of any
third-party websites or software you use.
11) Notice Concerning the Information of Minors
GossipDrop is not directed to children under the age of 18 and does
not intentionally collect any personal information from children
under the age of 18. Please contact us if you believe a child has
provided personal information to us in violation of this Notice.
12) Additional Information About the GossipDrop App
Content Moderation
Our team employs both
automated systems and human moderation to monitor content shared on
our platform. These systems are designed to detect, review, and
remove content that violates our policies. All reported content is
reviewed, and we may take necessary action, including removal of
content, termination and banning of offending accounts, and, where
appropriate, reporting to relevant authorities.
User Reporting Mechanisms
We provide tools within the GossipDrop App for users to
report prohibited and inappropriate content and behavior. Our
support team investigates reports and takes appropriate action in
accordance with our policies.
12) International Data Transfers
Our Services are hosted in the United States (“U.S.”). If you
choose to use the Services from Europe or other regions of the world
with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from
U.S. law, then please note that your Personal Information is
processed and stored in the U.S.. We may also transfer your Personal
Information from the U.S. to other countries or regions in
connection with its storage and processing, fulfilling your
requests, and operating the Services.
The countries to which we transfer Personal
Information
may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which
you initially provided the personal information. If you are located
in Europe, we will comply with applicable data protection laws when
we transfer your Personal Information to countries outside of
Europe. In particular, we will rely on (i) an EU Commission, UK or
Swiss government adequacy decision, (ii) contractual protections for
the transfer of your Personal Data, (iii) transfer to recipients who
have adopted Binding Corporate Rules, (iv) rely on an appropriate
legal derogation, or (v) use another valid data transfer mechanism,
to the extent necessary to comply with applicable European data
protection laws. If you are located in Europe, you may contact us as
specified below for more information about the safeguards we use to
transfer Personal Information outside of Europe.
13) Changes to This Notice
GossipDrop may change this Notice from time to time. If we make any
changes to this Notice, we will change the "Effective Date" above.
If we materially change the ways in which we use or disclose
personal information previously collected from you through the
Services, we will notify you through the Services, by email, or
other communication. We encourage you to review this Notice whenever
you visit the Services to understand how your personal information
is used.
14) Contact Us
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RESEARCHES AND CONSULTANCIES LLC. is the entity responsible for the
processing of your Personal Information. If you have any questions
about this Notice, or if you would like to exercise your rights to
your Personal Information, please feel free to contact us at support@tea-app.com. If you are in Europe and you are not satisfied with our
response to your complaint or if you believe that the processing of
your Personal Information does not comply with data protection laws,
you can lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority.
The competent supervisory authority in the UK is the Information
Commissioner’s Office (https://ico.org.uk/). You can find a list of European supervisory authorities
here. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your
concerns before you approach a supervisory authority, so please
contact us in the first instance.