Privacy Policy
This SERVICE
is provided by Bible Helper Apps
at no cost and is intended for use as is.
This page is
used to inform visitors regarding policies with the collection, use, and
disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use my Service.
If you
choose to use Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information
in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that the app collect is
used for providing and improving the Service. I will not use or share your
information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
What does
this document contain?
For the
proper functioning of this app, it is necessary to collect and process certain
information obtained from the device where it has been installed. This information
enables us to improve the app, to optimally tailor the content to each user, or
to contact the user if necessary. In order to make our concern for our users’
privacy clear, we have adopted this Privacy Policy which explains in a simple
and comprehensible language the manner in which we collect, store, use and
disclose the information users entrust us with.
These
Privacy Policies attempt to cover the widest possible range of scenarios,
including many cases in which the app does not even collect nor process the
information described within these Privacy Policies.
1. What
information does the app collect?
This
application collects the necessary information for the normal functioning of
our business. Under no circumstance do we collect personal information with
malicious intentions.
The app does
not collect your name, last name, email, phone number, etc., unless you are
asked to enter that information intentionally.
We may
combine this information with other information about you collected from other
sources (e.g. apps or websites).
Information Collection and Use
For a better
experience, while using our Service, I may require you to provide us with
certain personally identifiable information. The information that I request
will be retained on your device and is not collected by me in any way.
The app does
use third-party services that may collect information used to identify you.
Link to the
privacy policy of third-party service providers used by the app
Cookies
Cookies are
files with a small amount of data that are commonly used as anonymous unique
identifiers. These are sent to your browser from the websites that you visit
and are stored on your device's internal memory.
This Service
does not use these “cookies” explicitly. However, the app may use third-party
code and libraries that use “cookies” to collect information and improve their
services. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know
when a cookie is being sent to your device. If you choose to refuse our
cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of this Service.
Service
Providers
I may employ
third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:
To
facilitate our Service;
To provide
the Service on our behalf;
To perform
Service-related services; or
To assist us
in analyzing how our Service is used.
I want to
inform users of this Service that these third parties have access to their
Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on
our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information
for any other purpose.
Security
I value your
trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use
commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of
transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure
and reliable, and I cannot guarantee its absolute security.
2. What
information does this privacy policy cover?
The App may
collect two types of information: (1) non-personal, anonymous information
collected automatically, or (2) personally identifiable information (PII)
collected manually after receiving the user’s consent.
Non-personal
information collected automatically
Technical
information, which includes certain information or characteristics regarding
the operating system, including the type of ISP or the type of browser used,
the Internet Protocol (IP), the IP address and the names and versions of the
applications installed on the device, as well as the geographical location of
the device (including GPS coordinates). Technical information such as the
foregoing stays anonymous; in other words, it does not personally identify you
or is stored together with any other information that may link it to the user
itself, except when the user submits additional information voluntarily.
This
information shall be used to improve the application, learning how, when and
where the user browses on it.
Information
freely provided by the user
If at any
moment the app were to request Personally Identifiable Information (PII) that
would allow us to contact him, such as his name or mobile phone number, the
user shall be free to provide such information. However:
If you share
your PII over an open format (for example, over social networks), the
information we obtained will not be protected by this privacy policy.
The PII will
not include any type of information collected by the application by any means
other than this application which contains the privacy policy. This means that
the information collected anyplace else other than on this application will not
be protected by this Privacy Policy. It is worth noting that, in any case the
app were to offer links to other applications, we shall
not be liable for the content, activity or information contained therein.
The
following shall be considered Personal Information:
User
information such as the username or password, confidential replies to certain
security questions, or similar information that enables us to uniquely identify
your account or authenticate it before providing personal information about the
user account.
Most of
these data may be obtained when the app offers a social login functionality,
and the user accepts such a login in the app by using a social account. In some
cases, the app automatically logs into the user’s social account associated
with the device, and the user accepts to perform such a login by using this
app.
3. What
happens with the information we collect from minors?
This
application does not collect personal information from children under 13 years
old. We take the privacy of minors seriously, and encourage the parents to play
an active role in their children’s online education at all times. Children
under 13 should not install our application on any device of their belonging,
and if they do, it will be under the full responsibility of their parents or
guardians. In case we obtain personal information from a child under 13 years
old, we shall take measures to erase the information supplied from our server.
In case the content of this application has been rated as suitable for children
under 13, it should be installed exclusively on devices belonging to the
parents, guardians, or any other person over 13 years old. If the application
were to request personal information at any time, children under 13 should
never enter such information.
4. How do we
collect personal information?
We collect
personally identifiable information (PII), demographic information and user
information from our users when they:
Participate
in surveys, studies or questionnaires.
Participate
in offers or promotions.
In addition
to the aforementioned information, we use cookies to collect user information
when they visit our application. Cookies are information that a website or
application sends to the device while browsing the application. For example,
when you decide to return to our application after signing up, cookies provide
us information so that our server remembers who you are. You are offered the
opportunity to accept or reject cookies depending on the configuration of your
device through the configuration options. If you reject receiving, or decide to
delete the cookies, access to certain services may not work properly.
5. How do we
use the information you provide us?
We use the
information we collect on the application as follows:
Personalize
and improve you experience, and enable us to supply you with the type of
contents and offers that best suit your interests.
Deliver,
provide and repair products or services.
Send notices
such as welcome letters, purchase confirmations, payment warnings or
administrative regulations.
Create and
maintain user accounts and your history.
Contact you
in regards to our products or services and send you the best offers and
promotions depending on your interests.
Study the
statistics of our online platform.
Inform our
customer service employees.
Create your
online account and authenticate it during your user login.
Swiftly
process your information requests.
Enable us to
efficiently reply to your inquiries.
Analyse a promotion or survey.
Send you
promotional material.
Enable us to
share the information with third party companies under the terms set forth by
these privacy policies and with the purposes described in the foregoing items,
as permitted by the law.
6. Who do we
share the information with?
This
application may monetize your information (in some cases), by giving it up to
third parties in the following situations:
When we
employ independent advertisement networks to display our application’s
advertising banner when visiting third party websites. In order to make it more
efficient, the advertisement network may use and incorporate into your device
certain technology, such as cookies, in order to collect non-personal
information from you when you visit our application. This information is used
to display advertisements involving goods and services that best suit your
interests when visiting other websites.
We often
evaluate (sometimes with the assistance of outsourced companies) how our online
content and services are performing. The information disclosed for this purpose
will remain at the company’s server and will be limited to use for professional
purposes. Under no circumstance the PII or the user information shall be shared
except for the purposes mentioned above.
When
disclosure of information is required by law, or is targeted at protecting
application security, this application has the right to disclose any
information collected, no matter when such information was collected. We will
just perform such an information disclosure when permitted or required by law,
or when we consider there are motives that are in good faith: (I) in order to
protect your security, even that of your property, (ii) to protect the security
of your applications or third parties, and (iii) to enforce the terms of use,
updates or promotions.
7. Will
there be third parties who collect information from your applications?
There are
certain situations where a third party may collect information about the
application. This app uses third-party libraries that offer certain features:
analysis tools, communication tools, social networks, advertisers, etc.
Analysis
tools: in order to improve the application, we sometimes use tools that analyse the behaviour of users.
In this way, we can better learn which parts of the application are more
important and which need to be improved.
Communication
tools: in case we need to communicate with users at any time, we integrate
third-party tools that provide such a communication, whether via push
notifications, e-mails, in-app alerts, etc.
Social
networks: if your app connects to any social network at any time, it will
request your authorization. Once the connection has been authorized, the social
network shall be able to access certain information.
Advertising
networks: in case this app were to show
advertisements, they normally originate from advertising networks that connect
with the advertisers. These networks need certain information in order to offer
the most appropriate ad to you.
This
application reserves the right to provide certain user information to companies
who collaborate with us, or to software developers who provide some app
feature. We provide this type of access to such companies with the purpose of
generating interest in our products among the members with whom we have some
form of agreement, so as to be able to offer the kind of product we offer to
you and your friends. The information collected by us shall be treated as per
the terms of this Privacy Policy, but the use of the information by a third
party shall be treated as per their own standards. This application does not
guarantee that the other party complies with its security policy.
8. What kind
of security measures do we take to safeguard your personal information?
Safety and
confidentiality of your information are extremely important for us. Therefore,
we have technical, administrative and physical security measures with the
purpose of protecting your personal information against unauthorized access and
fraudulent use. We also periodically revise our security system in order to
incorporate technological novelties and updating methods. However, in spite of
our efforts, no security measure is completely perfect or infallible.
You can also
play an important role in keeping your information stored securely. If you are
requested to create a unique password in order to restrict access to your
account, choose a password that is difficult to find out by other users, and be
careful not to disclose it to anyone. It is your responsibility to keep your
password and account information at all times. If you use a public or shared
mobile device, never opt to save your user and always close your account’s
session once you no longer use the device.
Lastly, in
regards to the companies that have an agreement in place with this application,
we require them to accept to protect our confidentiality, integrity and
security terms over any personal information we disclose to them. When your
personal information is disclosed or simultaneously collected by a third party
as mentioned above, it will either be obvious to you considering the context
(such as the appearance of a third party on the phone’s screen), or you will be
notified when the personal information is requested. Furthermore, you will be
given the opportunity to accept or decline these kinds of practices before they
begin. As set forth in section 3 of this Privacy Policy, we do not collect
personal information of minor children under 13 years old, and we inform them
that under no circumstance should they use our tool. In this manner, this
application shall not disclose information collected from children under 13 to
any company that has signed a collaboration agreement.
In case we
detected that some of our technological partners endangered your integrity or
used your information to perform any illegal action, we shall take the proper
measures to sever the relationship with such a provider.
9. How can
you make an inquiry or send us comments about our privacy policy?
If you have
any sort of inquiry or wish to contact us in order to clarify any matter,
please send us an e-mail at the developer’s address, which you will find at the
website where you downloaded this app.
10.
Clarification regarding the use of the Android Advertisement ID (AAID)
Version 4.0
of Google Play services has introduced new APIs and an identifier code (ID)
that analysis and advertisement providers may use. The terms of use of these
APIs and this ID are detailed below:
Use. The
advertising identifier is used for advertising and user analysis purposes. The
state of the option to disable advertisement based on user interests must be
checked in each access to the ID.
Association
with personally identifiable information or other identifiers. The advertising
identifier is not connected to personally identifiable information or
associated with any persistent device identifier (for example, SSAID, MAC
address or IMEI) without explicit consent of the user.
Respecting
users' selections. After reset, a new advertising identifier is not connected
to a previous advertising identifier or data derived from a previous
advertising identifier without the explicit consent of the user. Additionally,
an option to disable advertisement based on user interests is offered. If a
user has enabled this setting, the advertising identifier for creating user
profiles for advertising purposes or for targeting users with interest-based
advertising is not used. Allowed activities include contextual advertising,
frequency capping, conversion tracking, reporting and fraud detection and
security.
Abiding by
the terms of use. The advertising identifier may only be used in accordance
with these terms, including the use by any party that you may share it with
during your business activities. Beginning August 1st, 2014, all updates and
new applications uploaded to the Play Store must use the advertising ID (when
available on a device) in lieu of any other device identifier with advertising purposes.
11.
Clarification regarding the access to the phone number
This app was
not developed with the purpose of obtaining the phone number on your device, so
it doesn't include any functionality that accesses your phone number. The app
doesn't include any line of code that grants access to the phone number.
However, the
app includes some SDKs from 3rd parties. For example, those used to monetize
the app with advertisement. We don't have access to the source code of those
SDKs, while they could be accessing and collecting the phone number. In case we
detected that any of those ad networks could be accessing and collecting your
phone number, we would remove that SDK and publish a new version of the app, in
order to protect your privacy.
12.File
access permissions
Providing
users with pictures of Bible verses to download is our core function. We will
use the Permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, Permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permissions and cooperate
with the MediaStore API to download the pictures of
Bible verses to the local storage of the phone and synchronize them to the
phone's photo album.
13. Contact
Us
If you have
any questions or suggestions about the Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to
contact me at [email protected].