Privacy Policy for Espacer

Last Updated: January 10, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how Espacer ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you use our website located at www.espacer.net (the "Site").

1. Information We Collect

• Information You Provide Directly:
  • Account Information: When you create an account, we collect your email address. We do not collect or store passwords. Authentication is handled using magic links, one-time links sent directly to your provided email address.
  • Profile Information: You may choose to provide additional information for your profile, such as your name, profile picture, bio, and other details.
  • Content You Post: We collect the content you post on the Site, including text, images, videos, and other media.
  • Messages: Messages sent between users are end-to-end encrypted (E2EE). This means that only the sender and recipient(s) can decrypt and read the messages. To facilitate synchronization of messages across multiple devices, we may temporarily encrypt your private key and transmit it to our servers so it can be securely delivered to your other devices. We do not store the encrypted private key on our servers after it has been successfully delivered.
  • Communications: We collect information when you communicate with us, such as through email or support requests.
• Information We Collect Automatically:
  • Usage Information: We collect limited usage information essential for site functionality, such as login times and basic session management. We do not track your activity across the Site for personalization or advertising purposes.
  • Device Information: We collect information about the device you use to access the Site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system. This information is primarily used for security and technical support.
  • Advertisement IDs: When we're operating an advertisemnt campaign through our partners such as Microsoft ads (not limited to them), and you use the ad to sign up we collect the information provided by our partners to measure conversion goals.
  • Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies and similar technologies (such as session cookies) only when strictly necessary for essential website functionality, such as user authentication and maintaining your session. We do not use cookies for tracking or advertising purposes. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings, though disabling essential cookies may impact your ability to use the Site.

2. How We Use Your Information

• Provide and Maintain the Site: To operate the Site, provide you with access to its features, and ensure its proper functioning.
• Personalize Your Experience: We do not personalize content or recommendations based on your activity on the Site.
• Communicate with You: To respond to your inquiries, provide support, and send you important updates and notifications related to the Site, including magic links for authentication.
• Facilitate E2EE Messaging: To enable and support the end-to-end encrypted messaging feature, including the temporary transmission of encrypted private keys for device synchronization.
• Improve our advertisemnt campaigns: To improve our ad campaigns we send advertisement ids (See 1. Information We Collect - Advertisement IDs) to our partners when you sign up or install our application (i.e. a conversion occurs) so they can improve targeting based on our campaign & conversion goals.
• Improve the Site: To analyze how the Site is used at an aggregate level and make improvements to its features and functionality. We do not use individual user data for this purpose.
• Protect Our Rights and Others: To protect our rights and the rights of others, such as by preventing fraud and abuse.
• Comply with Legal Obligations: To comply with applicable laws and regulations.

3. How We Share Your Information

• Service Providers: We share information with service providers who assist us with operating the Site, such as hosting providers.
• Legal Authorities: We may disclose your information to legal authorities if required by law or legal process.
• Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

4. Your Choices

• Account Information: You can access and update your account information through your account settings.
• Cookies: You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.
• Communications: You can opt out of receiving promotional emails from us by following the unsubscribe instructions in those emails.

5. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. This includes the security of the magic links we generate and send to your email address.

6. Children's Privacy

Our Site is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, please contact us.

7. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes on this page and encourage you to review it periodically.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@espacer.net.