Privacy Policy.

The terms(“we” or “us” or “our”) refers to “HilalSocial” on this entire page (whenever used within the below document).

The terms above refers to “hilalsocial.com.

The above terms refer to you or any person whomsoever visiting our website, ordering a paid service, or accessing any of our service.

Third-Party means any website, firm, company, group, service provider etc. which may be a partner or affiliate to our platform, or of which we use services to run our platform in any means.

This Privacy Policy applies to the visitors and users from "EEA and the UK", as well as to users in California, and is written in accordance to California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as well as, GDPR.

This Privacy Policy governs whoever choose to visit hilalsocial.com (includes: https://hilalsocial.com, http://hilalsocial.com).

We may collect your personal data as a 'data controller', 'data processor' (any one or both, in order to process your request on our website) if you sign up on our platform [website, web app (PWA.)].

This privacy policy (the "Policy") describes how [HilalSocial] ("Company") collects, uses, and shares personal data about you when you visit our website, [hilalsocial.com] (the "Website").

We are committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and share your personal information when you use our social media platform.

What information do we collect?

We collect the following information from you:

Account information: When you create an account on our platform, we collect your name, email address, and username.

Profile information: You can optionally provide additional information about yourself, such as your age, gender, location, and interests.

Content: You can create and share content on our platform, such as posts, photos, and videos.

Activity: We collect information about your activity on our platform, such as the pages you view, the posts you like, and the people you follow.

How do we use your information?

We use your information to:

Provide you with our services.

Personalize your experience on our platform.

Communicate with you about our services and updates.

Show you relevant ads.

Prevent fraud and abuse.

How do we share your information?

We share your information with the following parties:

Other users on our platform: We share your public profile information and content with other users on our platform.

Service providers: We share your information with service providers who help us operate our platform, such as web hosting providers and email marketing providers.

Advertisers: We share your information with advertisers so that they can show you relevant ads.

Law enforcement: We may share your information with law enforcement if we are required to do so by law.

Your choices:

You have the following choices about your personal information:

You can choose how we use your information. You can opt out of receiving marketing emails from us.

You can access and correct your information. You can view and edit your profile information at any time. You can also request a copy of your personal information.

How do we protect your information?

We take steps to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We use encryption and other security measures to protect your personal information.

Changes to this privacy policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. If we make any changes, we will post the updated privacy policy on our website.

Contact us:

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at help@dedaandsons.com

Personal Data:

• Personal data is any information that can be used to identify you, such as your name, email address, or IP address. We collect personal data about you (when it legally required).

• We collect personal information primarily through your interactions with our website (such as when you visit), create a free account, and through any other channels you may choose to interact with our business.

• Personal data will be used by our advertising and data analytics partners for personalization of ads and that cookies may be used for personalized and non-personalized advertising.

• If you choose to register for an account on our Website and/or Subdomain.

• If you make any sort of "Digital service" purchase on our Website.

• If you contact us through the Website.

• We may also collect information through cookies and similar technologies for the purpose of analyzing your browsing behavior.

• We may use your personal data to provide you with the services you request, such as creating your public profile, letting you use our platform, etc.

• We may use your personal data to improve our Website and services.

• We may use your personal data to send you marketing communications, such as emails about new products or promotions, engaging with you to resolve issues related to your public profile, like forget reset, delete account, letting you know of impotant changes involving your account on our platform.

• We may use your personal data to provide comply with our legal obligations.

Your data you choose to share on our website will be shared with third parties who help us provide our services, such as payment processors, shipping companies, and marketing partners, Google (advertising service like Adsense), Microsoft Clarity (analytics providing service by Microsoft). We also may share your personal data if we are required to do so by law or if we believe that sharing is necessary to protect our rights or the rights of others.

We share your information legally when it is required, subject to your consent and the requirements of the CCPA, and/or GDPR.

See the link given here on how Google will use your personal data when you give consent on our site/app (PWA) HOW GOOGLE USES INFORMATION FROM SITES OR APPS THAT USE OUR SERVICES

Under the GDPR, you have certain rights with respect to your personal data, including the right to:

Request access to your personal data.

Request that we correct any inaccurate personal data about you.

Request that we delete your personal data.

Object to the processing of your personal data.

Port your personal data to another organization.

Opt-Out of the Sale of Personal Information: You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information by contacting us and requesting that your personal information not be sold.

Access to Personal Information and Privacy Preferences: You have the right to request access to your personal information and any information we have collected about you, as well as the right to ask that we correct or delete your personal information.

Data Security: We will use commercially reasonable measures to protect the security of your personal information, including encryption of your sensitive personal information. However, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you send over the internet.

Changes to This Policy:

We may update this Policy from time to time. The most current version of the Policy will always be posted on the Website.

How to Contact Us:

If you have any questions about this Policy or your rights, please contact us at help@dedaandsons.com or business@dedaandsons.com.

Effective Date:

This Policy is effective as of 22-07-2023.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS OUR WEBSITE, PWA.

We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will update the date on this page see “Last updated” at the start of this page, and put a notice on the website for you.

You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates. You may opt out of your acceptance of our privacy policy at any time, to do so you will be required to email us at our provided contact email address. Your data will be deleted under 45 Business Days permanently from our website, not some of your data may not be entirely deleted in order to keep the platform secure of spam, etc, or if required by the governing body.

NOTE: Your data on third party partners cannot be deleted by HilalSocial.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the third-party app store, browser from which you visit the website, install our PWA or visit our PWA, and we are not responsible for any of the data collected by any such third party.

Log Data:

We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

Cookies:

Cookies are files with small amount of data that is commonly used an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer's hard drive.

Our website uses these “cookies” to collection information and to improve our Service. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Our website uses Google advertising cookies to deliver more relevant ads to you (personalized and non-personalized, depends on your preferences you choose with Google Ads Settings). These cookies collect information about your browsing activity, such as the pages you visit and the ads you click on. This information is used to show you ads that are more likely to be of interest to you.

You can opt out of Google advertising cookies by visiting the Google Ads Settings

Service Providers:

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

To facilitate our Service;

To provide the Service on our behalf;

To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

Security:

We 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 we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites:

Our Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link (such as advertising links, social media links, other website links), you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children's Privacy:

Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children. In the case we discover that a child has provided us with personal information or themselves or their parents or any one else, we immediately delete this from our platform's database. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.

Privacy Policy regarding services, which may include account creation on our platform:

At HilalSocial is a social platform, which offer user posting text, images, videos, interacting with other users, with comments, likes (enlighten), follow. The platform also offers news section for the users, so that users get latest news and happenings from around the world.

The below Privacy Policy governs specific account creation on our platform, and the services you intend to receive.

NOTE: When you create an account on our platform, you will need to accept our terms and conditions and this privacy Policy.

NOTE: We will store your personal information in order to create an account for you on our platform. The personal information may include but not limited to Phone Contact, Email Address, Password [for the account on our platform. Hashed version (a password which even we cannot read on our database.), Your Name, Business Address (optional), Website Address (if any), Social Media account links (if any), Business Name (if any.)]

We have rights to reject your sign-up request, without any notice to you.

An email to you may be sent on your successful account creation.

Your public profile, and your posts and other activities on our platform will be stored by us until you ask for its removal from our databases. In some cases we might not be able to remove your data entirely if it is subject to any legal issue, legal conflict, or any other governing body involving reasons.

Your submitted data will be double-checked by our team to check if the data is dubious or false or not. To do so we will contact you with your provided contact details such as phone number, email address, WhatsApp contact [If you use our advertisement service on our platform, in order to run a ad campaign at our platform for you, your brand/service].

• You are allowed to use our platform, in compliance with our Terms and Conditions, and this Privacy Policy you agree prior to sign up.

• If you choose to create an account on our platform and use any of our service, please be advised that all data you disclose will be available on the internet in a public read only web page profile, and that profile will also be accessible by anyone who visit our website.

• You can request your account deactivation at any time, the link to the account settings is given on HilalSocial, and can be find with ease.

Information our servers automatically collect when you access the website, such as your native actions that are integral to the services we provide, including button clicks (on website UI), navigation, as well as other interactions.

Financial Data:

We may require to collect or ask for any financial information from you, if you order an paid service on this platform, the data you provide would only be used to recieve payment from you for the service you order at our platform, and to check and conform the payment process.

Mobile Device Access

We may or may not request access or permission to certain features from your mobile device. If you wish to change our access or permissions, you may do so in your device’s settings.

Push Notifications

We may request your permission to send you push notifications for various reasons, you can opt out from receiving notifications at any time.

Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience.

Offer new products, services, recommendations to you or to perform other business activities as needed.

Request feedback and contact you about your use of the service.

Resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems.

Respond to product and customer service requests.

Solicit support for the service.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION:

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may disclose as follows:

By Law or to Protect Rights:

If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others. We may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation. This includes exchanging information with other entities for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Third-Party Service Providers:

We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.

Marketing Communications:

With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.

Interactions with Other Users:

If you interact with other users on our platform, HilalSocial PWA (web app). Those users may see your name, profile photo (if you set one), and other information related to your profile, including contact details (ex. email address), social media links, address, and any publically visible information about you.

Third-Party Advertisers:

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the website, PWA. These companies may use information about your visits to our website and other websites that are contained in web cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

Affiliates:

We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. 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.

Other Third Parties:

We may share your information with advertisers and investors for the purpose of conducting general business analysis. We may also share your information with such third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.

Sale or Bankruptcy:

If we reorganize or sell all or a portion of our assets, undergo a merger, or are acquired by another entity, we may transfer your information to the successor entity.

If we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, your information would be an asset transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that the transferee may decline to honor commitments we made in this Privacy Policy.

We are not responsible for the actions of third parties with whom you share personal or sensitive data, and we have no authority to manage or control third-party solicitations.

If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails or other communications from third parties, you are responsible for contacting the third party directly.

TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES:

Cookies and Web Beacons

We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on our website to help customize our website and improve your experience.

When you access our website, your personal information not collected through the use of tracking technology. Most browsers set to accept cookies by default.

You can remove or reject cookies, but be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the our website, PWA.

However, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or by modifying your web browser’s settings to notify you each time a cookie tendered, permitting you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.

Internet-Based Advertising:

Additionally, we may use third-party software to serve ads on the our website, PWA, implement email marketing campaigns, and manage other interactive marketing initiatives.

This third-party software may use cookies or similar tracking technology to help manage and optimize your online experience with us. For more information about opting-out of interest-based ads, visit the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.

Website Analytics:

We may also partner with selected third-party vendors, such as [ Google Analytics, Microsoft Clarity] to allow tracking technologies and remarketing services on the website through the use of first party cookies and third-party cookies. Among other things, analyze and track users’ use of the website, determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand online activity.

By accessing the website, you consent to the collection and use of your information by these third-party vendors. You are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions.

You should be aware that getting a new computer, installing a new browser, upgrading an existing browser, or erasing or otherwise altering your browser’s cookies files may also clear certain opt-out cookies, plug-ins, or settings.

* THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES:

The website may contain links to third-party websites and applications of interest, including advertisements and external services, that are not affiliated with us.

Once you have used these links to leave the website, any information you provide to these third parties not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information.

Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, You should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for that website, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your information.

We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other sites, services or applications that may be linked to or from the website.

* SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION:

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information.

We have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us. Please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.

POLICY FOR CHILDREN:

• We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 16. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 16, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES:

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privareference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized.

As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.

From our platform, we do not track your online browsing activities or monitor it. Hence, there is no need for the feature to be implemented on our platform.

OPTIONS REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION:

Account Information:

You may at any time request us via our “contact us” page or “help” page, for any update, alteration, modification, or removal of your account on our platform, that you choose to register under with our platform. Any Such process would be dealt within 45 business days.

Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, some information may retain in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use and/or comply with legal requirements.

Emails and Communications:

If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails, or other communications from us, you may opt out by: simply contacting our team via “contact us” or “help” page easily accessible on our platform.

CONTACT US:

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please Email us:

help@dedaandsons.com or business@dedaandsons.com

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