Babei Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Babei Development Company ("Babei," "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects personal information when you swipe through profiles, follow interests and hobbies, explore shared topics and different perspectives, use direct chats or one-to-one video conversations, shape your profile, and share daily moments, short updates, selected photos, or video clips you choose or create (together, the "Services"). By using the Services, you acknowledge the practices described here. This Policy is intended to reflect applicable requirements under laws such as the GDPR, CCPA, VCDPA, LGPD, and other relevant privacy frameworks.

Data Controller Identification

You may contact the Data Controller or privacy team at any time with questions, concerns, or requests relating to your personal information.

Core Privacy Principles

• Transparency: We describe the information we collect, why we use it, and when it may be shared.
• Data Minimization: We seek to collect only information reasonably needed to operate the Services.
• Security: We apply administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards.
• User Control: Eligible users may access, correct, delete, or object to certain processing.
• Accountability: We remain responsible for personal information processed on our behalf.

1. Information We Collect

1.1 Information You Provide

• Account and profile details, such as your name, email address, birthdate, username, profile image, biography, interests, hobbies, and other personal expression you choose to provide.
• Messages, chat communications, support requests, reports, and other information you send through the Services.
• User content, including profile media, selected photos, video clips you choose or create, daily moments, short updates, captions, and other material you decide to share.
• Audio and video streams, along with connection metadata, needed to establish and operate a one-to-one video conversation when you choose to start or accept one.

1.2 Information Collected Automatically

• Device and technical data, including device type, operating system, app version, device identifiers, network information, and camera or microphone permission status.
• Usage and discovery data, such as swipes, profiles you pause on, connections, skipped suggestions, interests, shared topics, feature activity, conversation events, and session duration.
• Log information, including IP address, access time, diagnostics, and pages or features viewed.
• Aggregated analytics used to understand performance and improve the Services.

2. Legal Bases for Processing

Where the GDPR or similar law applies, we process personal information on one or more of the following grounds:

• Consent: You have agreed to optional processing, such as camera or microphone access, profile media, or a chosen audience for shared content.
• Contract: Processing is necessary to create and manage your account or deliver requested Services.
• Legitimate Interests: Processing supports security, fraud prevention, moderation, analytics, and service improvement without overriding your rights.
• Legal Obligations: Processing is required for lawful requests, recordkeeping, tax, safety, or regulatory duties.

3. How We Use Information

• Create, administer, verify, and protect your Babei account and profile.
• Support swipe-based discovery, profile exploration, interest-based suggestions, direct chats, and one-to-one video connections.
• Transmit direct chats, live audio and video, daily moments, short updates, selected photos, chosen or created clips, and other media you share.
• Provide support and respond to questions or rights requests.
• Detect misuse, verify identity, prevent fraud, and maintain platform safety.
• Personalize discovery using interests, choices, and interaction signals and improve reliability and performance.
• Apply your profile, media-sharing, blocking, reporting, and conversation-control choices.
• Enforce our policies and satisfy applicable legal requirements.

4. Data Sharing Transparency

Depending on applicable law, you may ask whether, how, and with whom your personal information is shared. We disclose information only as described in this Policy or with your permission.

4.1 Types of Information We May Share

• Profile details and shared content with the audience or person you select, subject to the controls available in the Services.
• Live audio, video, messages, and reactions with the person participating in the relevant conversation.
• Device and usage data for hosting, security, analytics, and operational support, with de-identification where reasonably possible.
• Aggregated or anonymized information that does not reasonably identify an individual.

4.2 Categories of Recipients

• Vendors supporting cloud hosting, real-time communications, content delivery, moderation, analytics, security, and customer care.
• Authorities or other parties when disclosure is required by law, legal process, or a valid government request.
• Professional advisers and transaction participants in connection with a merger, financing, acquisition, or similar business event.
• Business partners for a clearly disclosed purpose and, where required, with your consent.

5. Sale of Personal Information

Babei does not sell personal information for money or other valuable consideration as those terms are defined under applicable privacy laws. If our practices change, we will update this Policy and provide any notice or opt-out method required by law before the change takes effect.

6. Profile, Media, and Conversation Controls

6.1 Profile and Sharing Choices

• You decide which profile details, interests, hobbies, photos, clips, moments, captions, and updates to provide.
• Review the audience or sharing choice presented before posting media where such a control is available.
• Remove content or update profile expression through the controls made available for that content or profile field.

6.2 Video and Conversation Choices

• You may choose whether to swipe onward, pause on a profile, begin a direct chat, enter one-to-one video, continue in the same format, or end an exchange.
• Blocking and reporting controls can be used to limit unwanted contact and notify Babei of safety or policy concerns.
• Camera and microphone access can be reviewed or withdrawn through your device settings. Disabling a required permission may prevent video or audio functionality from working.

6.3 Privacy Requests

Email kingleslye62@gmail.com with the subject "Babei Privacy Request" and include the registered email address and user ID associated with your account. We aim to process valid requests within the period required by applicable law.

7. Your Privacy Rights

Your jurisdiction may provide some or all of the following rights:

• Access or obtain a copy of personal information we maintain about you.
• Correct inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
• Request deletion, subject to lawful retention exceptions.
• Receive eligible information in a portable, machine-readable format.
• Object to or restrict certain processing, including some direct marketing.
• Withdraw consent without affecting processing lawfully performed before withdrawal.
• Request information about collection, use, disclosure, sale, or sharing practices.
• Appeal an eligible rights-request decision or complain to a supervisory authority.

To submit a request, contact kingleslye62@gmail.com. We may verify your identity before acting and will respond within the period required by applicable law, generally within 30 days where the GDPR applies.

8. Data Retention

We keep personal information only for the period reasonably necessary to provide the Services, maintain your account, comply with legal and recordkeeping duties, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and address fraud or security threats. Following a valid account-deletion request, information is deleted or anonymized within a reasonable period unless continued retention is legally permitted or required.

9. Data Security

Our safeguards may include encryption in transit and at rest, access restrictions, protected storage, security reviews, system updates, and incident-response procedures. No internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure, so we cannot promise absolute security.

10. Children's Privacy

The Services are not intended for children under 18, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If we learn that a child provided personal information without valid authorization, we will take reasonable steps to remove it. A parent or guardian may contact kingleslye62@gmail.com with a related concern.

11. International Transfers

Information may be processed in countries other than the one where you reside. When required, we use recognized transfer safeguards, such as approved Standard Contractual Clauses or another lawful transfer mechanism.

12. Changes to This Policy

We may revise this Policy to reflect legal, technical, or operational changes. For material revisions, we may provide notice through Babei, by email, on our website, or through another prominent method. The date at the top shows when this Policy was last updated.

13. Contact Us

We aim to respond to privacy-related inquiries within 48 business hours.