PRIVACY POLICY

As a TellaTina user, we encourage you to read this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”), which sets out our methods of handling personal information, including how and when we use and handle personal information collected and created through your visit to the App (as defined below) owned and operated by by TellaTina resources LLP. By visiting our App you consent to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. When this Privacy Policy mentions the terms “we”, “our” or “us”, it refers to TellaTina Resources LLP. 

Policy Description

This Privacy Policy forms part of the TellaTina Terms & Conditions of Use (“T & Cs”) and it prevails in case of conflicts between the two. By visiting, joining, using the App, or indicating that you agree to this Privacy Policy, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to us using your information as described hereunder, please stop using the App, including deleting your account, if you have one. Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

What we do

TellaTina is a social network enabling a curated group of people to share contacts, resources, information and engage with the members of the App globally through IOS, Android or other mobile devices. We refer to “TellaTina” here as the "App" or as "TellaTina"

Basic Privacy Guidelines

We have set out a few indicative rules to help protect users' personal information and prevent misuse of that information:

• We restrict access to the App, to enable private communication between users and members.
• As a user or member it is your duty to ensure that information or Content (as defined in the T&Cs) shared between members is not disclosed outside of the App without the disclosing member’s permission.
• Don’t share your personal account with someone else.
• Don’t gather information from TellaTina, either manually or using automation (such as through scripts, robots, crawlers or spiders).
• Violating any of the above or other guidelines of the TellaTina T & Cs may lead to a deletion of your account with TellaTina, amongst other appropriate actions.
• All data collected by us and generated in the course of your use of the App shall remain our property. We may share and use in any manner whatsoever the data collected by us and generated in the course of your use of the App with third parties.

Information Collection

TellaTina may collect information from you in the following ways:

• Collection of information from you directly, such as your name, profile photo, email address, and similar information. If you wish to invite new members to join TellaTina, we can send them an invitation and follow-up reminders on your behalf, based on information shared by you.
• You may authorize TellaTina to notify you about its services and availability by sharing your contact information with us.
• TellaTina may collect all content that you create, share or post in audio, video, text, images and other media or software files that you provide on or through the App. We may also collect information that other users provide about you.
• TellaTina may also collect demographic as well geographic location details about you.
• TellaTina may collect technical information generated from your use of TellaTina including:
  • Device information, which includes information such as the type of device you are using, it’s model, operating system and unique device identifier. Your device and software settings affect what information your device makes available to us.
  • Log data, which is automatically recorded by our servers when you use the App. This typically includes the date and time you visited the App version you used (and its settings).
  • Cookie data, arising from “cookies” (small data files stored on your mobile device) and similar technologies. This helps us provide you with better services through recognition and storage of preferences.

We collect information from public sources, such as census data, addresses, property maps, and postal address change information.

This helps us understand our members and potential areas for expansion.

Use of the information collected by us

• We use all the information collected by us to effectively operate the App and also to improve, customize, market and support and provide our services and to better understand users
• We use information collected by us to identify potential new members and invite them in order create a larger community of TellaTina members.
  • If you wish to invite new members to join TellaTina, you may share their email address with us, to enable us to send them invitations and reminders on your behalf.
  • In case a member registers or or logs in via Facebook , we may give such member an option to invite their Facebook friends to TellaTina.
  • We may also use information which is publicly available to identify potential new members and invite them to use TellaTina.
  • We may allow third party ads on TellaTina.
  • We may communicate with you about any new services and features that we may introduce in future and let you know about any changes or updates in the terms and policies of our App and any other important updates.
  • We use information to help you effectively publish Content and view and respond to the Content shared or posted by other members, based on your settings.
  • We use information to understand the demographics of the members registered with TellaTina.
  • We use information to respond to your support requests, diagnose problems and provide resolutions to such problems.
  • We use information for testing and evaluating new products and features to be introduced on TellaTina.

Choices available to the members

• Members have control over what and how they choose to share on TellaTina as they use and communicate through the App.
  • Member’s phone number, profile name and photo, online status, last seen status may be available to other members, although members can configure and change their settings to manage certain information available to other members.
• Choices about invitations and reminders:
  • If you are not a member and not willing to receive invitations or reminders from us, please contact us to opt-out of future email invitations or reminders.
• Choices about how and with whom members share Content:
  • A member can share Content with other TellaTina members, in the form of a private message to another member, or with a Group.
  • Members can edit the Content posted by them or delete it from TellaTina as long their account is active, with the limited exceptions noted below.
    • Private messages to a specific member or members cannot be individually deleted, whether from the members’ side or from the inbox of the recipient(s). (In case of deletion of the account, private messages are deleted along with all other posted Content.)
    • If Content is shared with a group, then it cannot be removed from the group recipients.
    • Please note that deleting a post will result in removal of all replies to that post too.
• If members grant TellaTina, access to geolocation information from their mobile devices, they can revoke that grant at any time by changing the settings on their mobile devices.
• Members can deactivate their account through their account settings, with immediate effect. For reactivation of such accounts, members have to log back in to TellaTina and indicate that they wish to reactivate their account.
  • All email notifications end after account deactivation;
  • Content shared before deactivating will be available to other members.
• Members should contact us at support@tellatina.com to request deletion of their account. ; Deletion of the account may take up to forty (40) days. Once an account is deleted it cannot be undone.
  • Account deletion deletes all of the previously posted Content and all the member specific data except that: (a) private messages may remain visible to the recipient(s) but attributed without member’s identity; and (b) account records may be retained by us to the extent we believe it necessary for any legal, safety, or other legitimate reasons.
  • Because deletion removes the account information from our systems, members may receive fresh invitations to join TellaTina in the future.

Sharing of information with third parties?

• We make the Content shared by you on TellaTina, such as posts, replies, messages, and profile information, available to other TellaTina members based on the preferences in the settings selected by you and as described in this Privacy Policy.
• We avail a few third party services to effectively operate, improve, customize, support, market and provide our service. However, we require these third party service providers to use your information in accordance with our instructions and terms or with your prior permission. These third party service providers are required to use it only to provide their services to us, and are not allowed to use it for their own purposes.
• Legal and Compliance. We may retain, preserve, or share your personal information if we believe that (a) we are legally required to do so in compliance to a request from a governmental, regulatory or judicial authority or (b) that it is in our opinion necessary to protect our rights or property or to enforce our T & Cs or any other policies we have with you.

Other things to understand about your information and TellaTina

• Account Security. TellaTina uses various measures and applies best practices to keep your data secure. However, the virtual and internet related environment is not fully secure and TellaTina cannot guarantee that your personal information will not be improperly accessed. You should ensure that you keep your password safe and not share it with anyone.

• Accessing Your Information. By logging into your account with TellaTina, you can access the information shared by you.

• Other Services. While using TellaTina, you may come across various links to websites and services provided by third parties. If you click on the link and access the third party website or services then the privacy policies of these third parties will apply to your activity. TellaTina is not responsible for such third party service providers’ privacy and security practices.

• Amendment. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time, and it would be prudent to keep visiting this Privacy Policy regularly. If we materially change this Privacy Policy we will send a prior notification of the change. Any access or use of TellaTina after the effective date of any revised Privacy Policy shall be deemed to be consent to the revised Privacy Policy.

• Assignability. All the rights and obligations of TellaTina under this Privacy Policy are assignable by us to any of its affiliates or other third parties without prior notice to the members at its sole discretion.