Metwork

Privacy Policy

Effective: August 15, 2023

Database of Everything Inc. is a technology company. Our products and services — including Docs AI, Sourdough Recipe, Metwork and others that link to this Privacy Policy — provide ways to improve your everyday tasks! 

When you use these services, you’ll share some information with us. So we want to be upfront about the information we collect, how we use it, how it’s shared, and the controls you have.

Information We Collect

There are three basic categories of information we collect:

• Information you provide.

• Information we get when you use our services.

Here’s a little more detail on each of these categories.

Information You Provide

When you interact with our services, we collect information that you provide to us. For example, many of our services require you to set up an account, so we’ll need to collect a few important details about you, such as your name, username, password, email address. We may also ask you to provide us with some additional information that will be publicly visible on our services, such as a profile picture or avatar. 

Of course, you’ll also provide us with whatever information you send through our services, such as Chats, conversations with Docs AI, Public Profile information, Memories, and more. Keep in mind that the users who view your Profile, Chats, and any other content can always save that content or copy it outside the app. So, the same common sense that applies to the internet at large applies to our services as well: don’t send messages or share content that you wouldn’t want someone to save or share.

When you contact Support or communicate with us in any other way, we’ll collect whatever information you volunteer or that we need to resolve your question.

Information We Get When You Use Our Services

When you use our services, we collect information about which of those services you’ve used and how you’ve used them. Here’s an explanation of the types of information we collect when you use our services:

• Content Information. The content you post to your own private account is yours.  You will have the option of sharing it with others. 

• Device Information. We collect information from and about the devices you use. For example, we may collect:

  • information about your hardware and software, such as the hardware model, operating system version, device memory, advertising identifiers, unique application identifiers, apps installed, unique device identifiers, device usage data, browser type, keyboards installed, language, battery level, and time zone;

• Device Phonebook. Because our services are all about communicating with friends, we may — with your permission — collect information from your device’s phonebook, such as your contacts and related information.

• Camera, Photos, and Audio. Many of our services require us to collect images and other information from your device’s camera, photos, and microphone. For example, you won’t be able to upload photos from your camera roll unless we can access your camera or photos.

• Location Information. When you use our services we may collect information about your location. With your permission, we may also collect information about your precise location that includes methods such as GPS signals.

• Information Collected by Cookies and Other Technologies. Like most online services and mobile applications, we may use cookies and other technologies, such as web beacons, web storage, and unique advertising identifiers, to collect information about your activity, browser, and device. Keep in mind, though, that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our services. 

• Log Information. We may also collect log information when you use our website, such as:

  • details about how you’ve used our services;

  • device information, such as your web browser type and language;

  • access times;

  • pages viewed;

  • IP address;

  • identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser; and

  • pages you visited before or after navigating to our website.

• Other information, with your permission. There may be instances when you interact with our services that we will ask your permission to collect additional information. Where certain data is considered sensitive we will ask your permission and give you a heads up on what data, including sensitive data, if any, we’re collecting. 

Information We Collect from Third Parties

We do not collect information about you from parties. 

How We Use Information

What do we do with the information we collect? The short answer is: provide you with an amazing set of products and services that we relentlessly improve. Here are the ways we do that:

• develop, operate, improve, deliver, maintain, and protect our products and services.

• provide, personalize, and improve our services through the use of your content and precise location information (again, if you’ve given us permission to collect precise location information), both on and off our services.

• add context to your experience. 

• develop and improve our algorithms and machine learning models, including for personalization, augmented reality, fairness and inclusivity, and to prevent abuse or other Terms of Service violations. 

• conduct research to better understand our customers and general consumer interests and trends, including the ways our services are used. 

• enhance the safety and security of our products and services.

• verify your identity and prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity.

• use information we’ve collected from cookies and other technology to enhance our services and your experience with them.

• enforce, investigate, and report conduct violating our Terms of Service and other usage policies, respond to requests from law enforcement, and comply with legal requirements.

• send you communications, including by email, SMS, or other messaging platforms, where permitted. For example, we may use email, SMS, or other messaging platforms to respond to support inquiries or to share information about our products, services, and promotional offers that we think may interest you.

• monitor and analyze trends and usage.

How We Share Information

Why do we share the information we collect? Most of the time, it’s because you ask us to. Sometimes we share it because we need to. Here are the ways we may share information about you:

• With other users. With your permission, we may share the following information with other users:

  • information about you, such as your name, professional title, industry experience.

  • your interest and skills to others in your group, if you've decide to make them visible to them.  You may leave the group, and this information will no longer be visible.

  • information about your device, such as the operating system and device type, to help you receive Chats and other content in the optimal viewing format.

  • if enabled, we will share your approximate location with users in your group Map (but only for the duration you have chosen to share it).

  • content you post or send. How widely your content is shared depends on your personal settings and the type of service you are using.

• With all users, our business partners, and the general public. We will not share your information to anyone in the general public.

• With our affiliates. We may share information with entities within the DBOE family.

• With third parties. We may share information with third parties in the following ways:

  • We may share information about you with service providers who perform services on our behalf, including to facilitate payments.

  • We may share information about you, such as device and usage information, to help us and others prevent fraud.

  • We may share information about you for legal, safety, and security reasons. We may share information about you if we reasonably believe that disclosing the information is needed to:

    • comply with any valid legal process, governmental request, or applicable law, rule, or regulation.

    • investigate, remedy, or enforce potential Terms of Service and Community Guidelines violations.

    • protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, or others.

    • detect and resolve any fraud or security concerns.

• Non-personal information. We may also share with third parties that provide services to us or perform business purposes for us aggregated, non-personally identifiable, or de-identified information.

How Long We Keep Your Information

Your information are stored until you decide to delete the account.

We store other information for longer periods of time. For example:

• We store your basic account information — like your name, phone number, and email address — and list of friends until you ask us to delete them.

• We store location information for different lengths of time based on how precise it is and which services you use. For meetup groups, your location be stored for as long as you are using the app and you are inside of the group's location parameters.

If you ever decide to stop using our app, you can just ask us to delete your account.. Keep in mind that, while our systems are designed to carry out our deletion practices automatically, we cannot promise that deletion will occur within a specific timeframe. There may be legal requirements to store your data and we may need to suspend those deletion practices if we receive valid legal process asking us to preserve content, if we receive reports of abuse or other Terms of Service violations, or if your account, content created by you, or content created with other users is flagged by others or our systems for abuse or other Terms of Service violations. Finally, we may also retain certain information in backup for a limited period of time or as required by law.

Control Over Your Information

We want you to be in control of your information, so we provide you with the following tools.

• Access, Correction, and Portability. You can access and edit most of your basic account information right in our apps.  We may also reject your request to access or update your personal information for a number of reasons, including, for example, if the request risks the privacy of other users or is unlawful.

• Revoking permissions. In most cases, if you let us use your information, you can simply revoke your permission by changing the settings in the app or on your device if your device offers those options. Of course, if you do that, certain services may lose full functionality. 

• Communicating with other users. It’s important to us that you stay in control over whom you communicate with. That’s why we’ve built a number of tools in Settings that let you indicate, among other things, who you may contact you and who you can block.

International Data Transfers

We may collect your personal information from, transfer it to, and store and process it in the United States and other countries outside of where you live. Whenever we share information outside of where you live, when we are legally required to do so, we make sure an adequate transfer mechanism is in place. 

State and Region Specific Information

You may have specific privacy rights in your state or region. For example, in the United States, residents of California and other states have specific privacy rights. Users in the European Economic Area (EEA), the UK, Brazil, the Republic of Korea, and other jurisdictions also have specific rights. 

Our Audience

Our services are not intended for — and we don’t direct them to — anyone under 13. And that’s why we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13. In addition, we may limit how we collect, use, and store some of the information of users under 18. In some cases, this means we will be unable to provide certain functionality to these users.

Updates to the Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. But when we do, we’ll let you know one way or another. Sometimes, we’ll let you know by revising the date at the top of the Privacy Policy that’s available on our website and mobile application. Other times, we may provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our websites’ homepages or providing you with an in-app notification).