HopWit provides messaging, Internet calling, and other travel related (flight booking, hotel
booking, event bookings, cab bookings services to users around the world. Our Privacy Policy
helps explain our information (including message) practices. For example, we talk about what
information we collect and how this affects you. We also explain the steps we take to protect
your privacy
When we say “HopWit,” “our,” “we,” or “us,” we’re talking about MYLINGOZ
TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED. HopWit is a trademark owned by MYLINGOZ
TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to all of
our apps, services, features, software, and website (together, “Services”) unless specified
otherwise.
Information We Collect
HopWit receives or collects information when we operate and provide our Services, including
when you install, access, or use our Services.
Information You Provide
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Your Account Information.
You provide your mobile phone number to create a HopWit
account. You provide us the phone numbers in your mobile address book on a regular
basis, including those of both the users of our Services and your other contacts. You
confirm you are authorized to provide us such numbers. You may also add other
information to your account, such as a profile name, profile picture, and status message.
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Your Messages.
We do not retain your messages in the ordinary course of providing our
Services to you. Once your messages (including your chats, photos, videos, voice
messages, files, and share location information) are delivered, they are deleted from our
servers. Your messages are stored on your own device. If a message cannot be delivered
immediately (for example, if you are offline), we may keep it on our servers for up to 90
days as we try to deliver it. If a message is still undelivered after 90 days, we delete it. To
improve performance and deliver media messages more efficiently, such as when many
people are sharing a popular photo or video, we may retain that content on our servers for
a longer period of time.
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Your Connections.
To help you organize how you communicate with others, we may
create a favorites list of your contacts for you, and you can create, join, or get added to
groups and broadcast lists, and such groups and lists get associated with your account
information.
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Customer Support.
You may provide us with information related to your use of our
Services, including copies of your messages, and how to contact you so we can provide
you customer support. For example, you may send us an email with information relating
to our app performance or other issues.
Automatically Collected Information
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Usage and Log Information.
We collect service-related, diagnostic, and performance
information. This includes information about your activity (such as how you use our
Services, how you interact with others using our Services, and the like), log files, and
diagnostic, crash, website, and performance logs and reports.
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Transactional Information.
If you pay for our Services, we may receive information
and confirmations, such as payment receipts, including from app stores or other third
parties processing your payment.
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Device and Connection Information.
We collect device-specific information when you
install, access, or use our Services. This includes information such as hardware model,
operating system information, browser information, IP address, mobile network
information including phone number, and device identifiers. We collect device location
information when you use our location features, such as when you choose to share your
location with your contacts, view locations nearby or those others have shared with you,
and the like, and for diagnostics and troubleshooting purposes such as if you are having
trouble with our app’s location features.
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Cookies.
We use cookies to operate and provide our Services, including to provide our
Services that are web-based, improve your experiences, understand how our Services are
being used, and customize our Services. For example, we use cookies to provide HopWit
for web and desktop and other web-based services. We may also use cookies to
understand which of our FAQs are most popular and to show you relevant content related
to our Services. Additionally, we may use cookies to remember your choices, such as
your language preferences, and otherwise to customize our Services for you.
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Status Information.
We collect information about your online and status message
changes on our Services, such as whether you are online (your “online status”), when you
last used our Services (your “last seen status”), and when you last updated your status
message.
Third-Party Information
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Information Others Provide About You.
We receive information other people provide
us, which may include information about you. For example, when other users you know
use our Services, they may provide your phone number from their mobile address book
(just as you may provide theirs), or they may send you a message, send messages to
groups to which you belong, or call you.
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Third-Party Providers.
We work with third-party providers to help us operate, provide,
improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services. For example, we work
with companies to distribute our apps, provide our infrastructure, delivery, and other
systems, supply map and places information, process payments, help us understand how
people use our Services, and market our Services. These providers may provide us
information about you in certain circumstances; for example, app stores may provide us
reports to help us diagnose and fix service issues.
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Third-Party Services.
We allow you to use our Services in connection with third-party
services. If you use our Services with such third-party services, we may receive
information about you from them; for example, if you use the HopWit share button on a
news service to share a news article with your HopWit contacts, groups, or broadcast lists
on our Services, or if you choose to access our Services through a mobile carrier’s or
device provider’s promotion of our Services. Please note that when you use third-party
services, their own terms and privacy policies will govern your use of those services.
How We Use Information
We use all the information we have to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize,
support, and market our Services.
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Our Services.
We operate and provide our Services, including providing customer
support, and improving, fixing, and customizing our Services. We understand how people
use our Services, and analyze and use the information we have to evaluate and improve
our Services, research, develop, and test new services and features, and conduct
troubleshooting activities. We also use your information to respond to you when you
contact us. We use cookies to operate, provide, improve, understand, and customize our
Services.
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Safety and Security.
We verify accounts and activity, and promote safety and security
on and off our Services, such as by investigating suspicious activity or violations of our
Terms, and to ensure our Services are being used legally.
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Communications About Our Services.
We communicate with you about our Services
and features and let you know about our terms and policies and other important updates.
We may provide you marketing for our Services and those of the third party services
providers we work with.
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No Third-Party Banner Ads.
We do not allow third-party banner ads on HopWit. We
have no intention to introduce them, but if we ever do, we will update this policy.
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Commercial Messaging.
We will allow you and third parties, like businesses, to
communicate with each other using HopWit, such as through order, transaction, and
appointment information, delivery and shipping notifications, product and service
updates, and marketing. For example, you may receive flight status information for
upcoming travel, a receipt for something you purchased, or a notification when a delivery
will be made. Messages you may receive containing marketing could include an offer for
something that might interest you. We do not want you to have a spammy experience; as
with all of your messages, you can manage these communications, and we will honor the
choices you make.
Information You And We Share
You share your information as you use and communicate through our Services, and we share
your information to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and
market our Services.
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Account Information.
Your phone number, profile name and photo, online status and
status message, last seen status, and receipts may be available to anyone who uses our
Services
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Your Contacts and Others.
Users with whom you communicate may store or reshare
your information (including your phone number or messages) with others on and off our
Services. You can use your Services settings and the block feature in our Services to
manage the users of our Services with whom you communicate and certain information
you share.
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Third-Party Providers.
We work with third-party providers to help us operate, provide,
improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services. When we share
information with third-party providers, we require them to use your information in
accordance with our instructions and terms or with express permission from you.
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Third-Party Services.
When you use third-party services that are integrated with our
Services, they may receive information about what you share with them. For example, if
you book a flight, hotel or an event, they will receive information about what you share
with them. If you interact with a third-party service linked through our Services, you may
be providing information directly to such third party. Please note that when you use third-
party services, their own terms and privacy policies will govern your use of those
services.
Assignment, Change Of Control, And Transfer
All of our rights and obligations under our Privacy Policy are freely assignable by us to any of
our affiliates, in connection with a merger, acquisition, restructuring, or sale of assets, or by
operation of law or otherwise, and we may transfer your information to any of our affiliates,
successor entities, or new owner.
Contact Us
If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us.
HopWit.Me, MYLINGOZ TECHNOLOGIES PRIVATE LIMITED,
7, Friends Colony,
Taylor Road,
Amritsar – Punjab – 143001
India
Email: app@hopwit.net
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