Privacy Policy – Dating Square

Last updated: Dec. 13, 2023

1. This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, store, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service/mobile app known as “Dating Square by 65square” and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

2. We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

3. The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
• Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
• Application means the software program provided by the Company downloaded by You on any electronic device, named Dating square by 65square. 
• Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our ” in this Agreement) refers to 15461812 Canada Inc. SUITE 281, 2949 17 Ave SE Calgary, AB T2A 1B7. It also includes 65square, its entities or subsidiaries.
• Country refers to: Alberta, Canada
• Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. It may also include sensitive data.
• Sensitive personal data is a specific subset of personal information that includes certain government identifiers, biometric data, sexual orientation.
• Service refers to the Application and may also include other services like 65square’s full social media application.
• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
• You means the individual accessing or using the Service of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal information

4. While using Our Service for the first time, We will ask You to provide Us personal information which may be considered sensitive for verification (to prevent fake accounts). That includes First Name, Date of birth, Gender, photo in passport, passport identification number, passport Nationality. 

5. While setting up an account, We will ask You to provide Us with basic information including Username, password, email address, age, personalized preference, sexual orientation, Profile image.  After creating Your profile on Our dating platform, You have the option to share additional information such as photos, bio, interests, and videos in Your profile page. We recommend not to put information which is open to abuse or misuse on Your profile. 

6. When You contact Us via the Service, or You send Us a report or complaint, We collect Personal Information, such as: Your name, Email address to provide You with support, or respond to Your complaint. Even if Your complaint is about the user inside the system, We will not share Your personal information with that User unless it is in regards to a copyright complaint.

Information Collected while Using the Application

7. While using Our Application, We will collect certain information, with Your prior permission:

• Mobile Device Access: We may request access or permission to certain features from Your mobile device, including Your mobile device’s camera, microphone, photo gallery, and other features. We will capture screenshots and/or video clips from logins which will be stored securely and possibly used for training of our AI models in the future. We will not allow any other parties to have access to this data unless specified herein. 

8. We use this information to provide features of Our Service, to improve and customize Our Service. Primarily it will be used for account security (making sure the person logging in is the person that should be logging in). The information will be uploaded to our Company’s servers and/or a Service Provider’s server. You can stop the usage of Your data at any time by contacting Us by using the contact information provided at the end of this policy and include the email address associated with Your account. Alternatively, you may delete your account inside the Dating Square application which is located in the Settings / Location Menu. 

Use of Your Personal Data

9. The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To facilitate account creation: We may use Your information so You can create and log in to Your account, as well as keep Your account in working order.
• To ensure account security: We will use Your information to make sure the person logging in is the person that should be logging in.
• To enable user-to-user communications: If You choose to use any of Our Services that allow for communication with another user.
• To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
• For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

With Service Providers

10. We work with Service Providers to provide chat services and to monitor, analyze the use of Our Service. These third parties may have access or process your Personal Information as part of providing their services for Us. We limit the information provided to these service providers to that which is necessary for them to perform their functions. At all times, Your data, except the additional information You share on Your Dating profile, will remain private and will not be accessible to the general public or via the world wide web.  If You are interested in knowing what personal information Service Providers collect and process when providing services, please refer to the Agora Privacy Policy

For business transfers

11. We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

With Affiliates

12. We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case We will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.

With Other Users

13. When You share personal information (for example, by posting pictures or while chatting in public chat rooms), or otherwise interact with public areas of the Services,  certain personal information like  first name, gender, age may be viewed by other users in Our Service. Similarly, other users will be able to communicate with You within Our Services, and view Your profile.

Law enforcement

14. Under certain circumstances the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law (a court order or in extreme emergencies) but in very strict circumstances. 

Other legal requirements

15. The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

16. The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Retention of Your Personal Data

17. The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if We are required to retain Your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. Unless required by law, we will delete your data after one year beyond your account becoming inactive (subscription is not renewed) or one year after You have indicated for us to delete Your data.

18. The Company will also retain anonymized Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

19. Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. All of the parties involved in the processing of this data (including our AI Engineers) have been verified, vetted and have executed non-disclosure agreements so that they are obligated to not share information they are not permitted to.

20. They may transfer Your data to computers  or servers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from Your jurisdiction.

21. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

22. The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Age requirement

23. Our Service is strictly for individuals ages 18 years and above. We do not permit anyone under the age of 18. If You become aware of any member under age 18, please contact Us. If we can verify that someone under 18 has attempted to access our service, we will deactivate the account (or the account that has been used to allow a minor to access our services) and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from Our records. If an adult 18 years or older has knowingly permitted a minor to access our services, we may terminate their account without refund and depending on the circumstances, we may report them to appropriate authorities. 

Your privacy rights

24. You have rights that allow You greater access to and control over Your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate Your account at any time. These may include the right 

• to request access and obtain a copy of Your personal information, 
• to request rectification or erasure; 
• to restrict the processing of Your personal information; 
• if applicable, to data portability; and 
• not to be subject to automated decision-making. 

25. In certain circumstances, You may also have the right to object to the processing of Your personal information and by using our Service and Your account You consent unless You specifically opt out. You can make such a request by contacting Us. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

26. Withdrawing Your consent: If We are relying on Your consent to process Your personal information, You have the right to withdraw Your consent at any time. You can withdraw Your consent at any time by contacting Us.

27. Account Information change / termination: If You would like to review or change the information in Your account or terminate Your account, You can log in to Your account settings and update Your user account. Upon Your request to terminate Your account, We will deactivate or delete Your account and information from our active databases. However, We may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our legal terms and/or comply with applicable legal requirements. There are some pieces of information that cannot be modified (such as birthday, name and the gender found on the person’s passport) although only certain information will be public to other users inside the system (like first name/gender from passport/age). The rest of the information extracted from the person’s passport on signup will be kept private. 

28. Do Not Track: There will be no advertising and tracking of people’s behavioral data for advertising inside or outside of the Dating Square system. There will be no advertising served inside Dating Square. Any performance-related analytics collected will be strictly related to the performance of the system.  As such, we will not have the capacity to respond to any Do Not Track signals.

California Residents

29. If You are a resident of California You are granted specific rights regarding access to Your personal information. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, The California Code of Regulations defines a “residents” as:

• Every individual who is in the State of California for other than a temporary or transitory purpose and
• Every individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is outside the State of California for a temporary or transitory purpose

30. California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law permits Our users who are California residents to request and obtain from Us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) We disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which We shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If You are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit Your request in writing to Us using the contact information provided at the end of this policy.

Your rights with respect to Your personal data

31. Right to request deletion of the data – If You ask us to delete Your personal information, We will respect Your request and delete Your personal information, subject to certain exceptions provided by law.

32. Right to be informed – Depending on the circumstances, You have a right to know:

• whether We collect and use Your personal information;
• the categories of personal information that We collect;
• the purposes for which the collected personal information is used;
• whether We sell or share personal information to third parties;
• the categories of personal information that We sold, shared, or disclosed for a business purpose; and
• the specific pieces of personal information We collected about You.

33. Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights

We will not discriminate against any User in response to the decision to exercise any of the privacy rights granted to you under the CPRA

34. Other privacy rights

• You may object to the processing of Your personal information.
• You may request correction of Your personal data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant, or ask to restrict the processing of the information.
• You may request to opt out from future selling or sharing of Your personal information to third parties. Upon receiving an opt-out request, We will act upon the request as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than fifteen (15) days from the date of the request submission.

35. If You have questions or comments about Your privacy rights, You may email us at info@helpusdefend.com.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

36. We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

37. We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

38. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

39. If You have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact Us:

• By email: info@helpusdefend.com