This Privacy Policy describes how PeriodBuddy (the “Site”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit, use our services from https://www.periodbuddy.com (the “Site”) or otherwise communicate with us regarding the Site (collectively, the “Services”). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, “you” and “your” means you as the user of the Services, whether you are a customer, website visitor, or another individual whose information we have collected.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, including to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Site, update the “Last updated” date, and take any other steps required by applicable law.

How We Collect and Use Your Personal Information

To provide the Services, we collect personal information about you from various sources, as outlined below. The information that we collect and use varies depending on how you interact with us.

In addition to the specific uses outlined below, we may use the information we collect about you to communicate with you, improve the Services, comply with applicable legal obligations, enforce terms of service, and protect the Services, our rights, and the rights of our users.

When you sign up for our waitlist or interact with the Site, we may collect personal information directly from you or through third-party tools we use for analytics.

Personal Information We Collect

The types of personal information we collect depend on how you interact with our Site and use our Services. When we use the term “personal information,” we refer to information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can be associated with you. Below are the categories and specific types of personal information we collect:

Information We Collect Directly from You

Information you submit to us through our Services may include:

Contact Details: Username, email.
Customer Support Information: Information you provide during communications with us.

Information We Collect About Your Usage

We may automatically collect certain information about your interaction with the Services (“Usage Data”). This may include device information, browser information, IP address, and other details about your interaction with the Services.

Information We Obtain from Third Parties

We may obtain information from third parties, such as service providers, payment processors, and other business partners who may collect data on our behalf.

Analytics Data: We collect data to improve our website and services, including device and browser information, usage statistics, and IP address via third-party analytics tools.

Legal Basis for Processing

If you are in the EEA or the UK, we process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:

Consent: When you provide your email to join the waitlist or receive updates. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at info@periodbuddy.com.
Legitimate Interests: Where we rely on legitimate interests as the legal basis for processing personal data, we have considered whether or not those interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights or freedoms of the individuals whose data are being processed and concluded that the processing is, on balance, fair. Where the legal basis is legitimate interests, you have a right to object to our use of your data.
Legal Obligations: In some cases, we may need to process your data to comply with applicable laws and regulations.

How We Use Your Personal Information

We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

Providing products and services: Managing our waitlist, send updates about future products or services, and provide any related information that may interest you.
Security and Fraud Prevention: Detecting, investigating, and addressing potential fraudulent activities.
Communication and Service Enhancement: Offering customer support and improving our Services.
Analytics and Statistics: Analyse, maintain, improve, modify, customize, and measure the Services.

When and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information

We may need to share your personal information in the following situations:

Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your 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.
Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Notice. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
Business Partners. We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.

Cookies

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to gather information when you interact with our Services. Some online tracking technologies help us maintain the security of our Services, prevent crashes, fix bugs, save your preferences, and assist with basic site functions.

We allow third parties and service providers to use tracking technologies for analytics and advertising, including managing ads, personalizing content, and sending cart reminders. They may display tailored ads on our Services or other websites.

Your choices. Most browsers and devices are set to accept cookies and similar tracking technologies by default. However, you may have the option to set your browser and device settings to limit these technologies. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

For users in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and United States, you can opt out from the processing of Personal Data via cookies, SDKs, and other tracking technologies by sending a request to info@periodbuddy.com.

Third-Party Websites and Links

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites. Please review their privacy policies before providing any personal information.

Children's Data

The Services are not intended for use by children under the age of 13 (or the applicable age of digital consent in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal information from children under this age. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under the applicable age of consent, we will take immediate steps to delete this information from our records.

Minimum age for European Economic Area (EEA) residents: If you reside in EEA you must be at least 16 years old in order to use Services.

Parental Rights and Controls. If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us immediately at info@periodbuddy.com. We will work with you to verify your relationship to the child and promptly remove any unauthorized personal information from our systems.

Data Sharing and Sales

We do not have actual knowledge that we “share” or “sell” (as those terms are defined in applicable laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act) personal information of individuals under 16 years of age. We are committed to protecting the privacy of minors and complying with all relevant data protection regulations.

Security and Retention of Your Information

We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information but cannot guarantee perfect security. We retain your information as long as necessary to provide the Services and comply with legal obligations.

Where is your information processed

We may transfer your personal information to our group companies, suppliers and other third parties in countries different to your country of residence.

In addition, data may be transferred to our subsidiaries or processors in third countries or subcontractors of our processors in third countries.

Some of our service providers are based in the United States, which means your personal data may be transferred to and stored in the United States.

Where required under the EEA GDPR, in case of transfers of personal data from the EEA to countries outside the EEA, where we cannot rely on adequacy decisions adopted by the European Commission (for more information, please see here) we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to guarantee the continued protection of your personal data, particularly by signing the Standard Contractual Clauses of the European Commission (article 46(2)(c) GDPR). For more information on these Standard Contractual Clauses, please see here.

Where required under the UK GDPR, in case of transfers of personal data to countries outside the United Kingdom, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place to guarantee the continued protection of your personal data, particularly by signing the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses or the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, whichever is more appropriate in the given situation. For more information on UK Addendum and the UK International Data Transfer Agreement please see here. We may also guarantee the protection of your personal data by relying on adequacy decisions adopted or approved by the authorities in the United Kingdom.

Electronic Communications

As a user of our service, your agreement includes receiving electronic communications from us, which could be via email or push notifications. All interactions between us will occur electronically, whether you are using our Services, sending us emails, or we are posting notices on our service or sending you emails. These communications may involve service-related notices as part of your relationship with us. It's important to note that you agree to receive communications from us electronically for contractual purposes, and you accept that all terms and conditions, agreements, notices, disclosures, and any other communications we provide to you electronically meet any legal requirement as though they were in writing. This does not affect your statutory rights. Communications from us and our affiliated companies may encompass operational communications about your account or the use of our Services, for example, technical and security notices, updates to this Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions, and updates about new and existing features such as changes/updates to features of our Services, and their scope, prices of in-app subscriptions.

If legally required, we'll seek your consent to send promotional materials about new products, features, or offers from us and our affiliates.

You have the option to unsubscribe from receiving promotional emails from us at any time by:

Following the unsubscribe links in any promotional email sent to you.
Reaching out to us anytime at info@periodbuddy.com.

Your Rights

In some regions (like the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; (iv) if applicable, to data portability; and (v) not to be subject to automated decision-making. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us at info@periodbuddy.com.

We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent at info@periodbuddy.com.

Right to lodge a complaint with your country's supervisory authority. Subject to the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a local data protection authority in the country of your residence, where you work or where an alleged infringement of the applicable data protection law took place. Please see a list of EU member states' supervisory authority here, and the UK's supervisory authority (ICO) here.

Contact

For any questions regarding our privacy practices or to exercise your rights, please contact us at:

Email: info@periodbuddy.com