How Our Service Works
MessagePitara.com, a Messaging Platform (“we”, “us” or “our”) is dedicated to respecting the privacy of its visitors, customers, and users (“Members”), as well as other Company brands, products and services (the “Services”). When you visit and interact with the Services you may provide information about yourself or your opinions, and it is wise and prudent to be aware of the personal information that you are sharing. We understand this and we have established this Privacy Policy (“Policy) to explain how we collect information from you and how this information is used.
To use the Services, you must be 18 years of age or older. If you are under age 18, you may only use the Services with the involvement of a parent or legal guardian. By registering on the Services, you represent and warrant that you are not required to register as a sex offender with any local, state or central government entity. No User may participate where doing so would be prohibited by any applicable law or regulation.
The Services are a general audience website for Users who are 18 years of age or older. The safety and privacy of children is extremely important to us and we use the safeguards described below to protect children.
Our registration process is designed to restrict children under age 18 from becoming Users of the Services without the involvement of a parent or legal guardian. If we receive information suggesting that a User of one of our Sites is under age 18, we require the User to provide evidence, the nature of which is determined by us, confirming that the User is at least 18 years old, and we reserve the right to suspend the User’s account while we review the evidence and verify the User’s age. If the User fails to provide such evidence within 48 hours, we may terminate the User's account and delete all personal information displaying on the Services.
We do not knowingly collect or solicit any information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register for the Service. The Services and its content are not directed at children under the age of 18. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 18 without parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at support@messagepitara.com
Parents: If your child is under the age of 18 and has joined the Services using a false age, please notify us at support@messagepitara.com, and we will terminate your child's account and delete all personal information displaying on the Services. If you would like to know more about our site, stored information about your child, or how to terminate your child's account, please send your request to support@messagepitara.com. We will happily respond to all communications from parents with privacy questions or concerns.
When you register to become a User, you will be asked to provide us with some personal information, which may include, without limitation, your first and last name, gender, email address, a home or other physical address, (or country and city), profile picture, date of birth and other contact information (“Personal Information”). You may also be required to select a password for accessing your account. To complete the registration process, we send you a validation message. Once you receive the validation message, you must follow the instructions so that we can authenticate your identity and registration. If you register using our mobile application you will have the option to use our “nearby” feature, which will allow you to search for your GPS location and will fill in your country and city on the registration form.
We use certain of your personal information to enable you to interact, or to enhance your experience, with the Services and their features. We allow Users to provide information to a personal profile that is accessible to other Users. We publicly display some of your personal information, such as your picture and name, in your User profile. To make searching and finding other users on the Services easier we may allow Users to search for other Users using a first and last name or an email address. If you opt into sharing your location through your mobile device, we may display your location within your profile. We may update your location to the city and state associated with the location of your mobile device upon each login. In addition, we may display your distance from other users within our Browse feature.
All registered Users will be able to view any personal information that you disclose in your public profile, including, without limitation, your photos and videos, which may include personal information (including responses to survey questions). For your privacy and safety, please do not post direct contact information in your profile, such as your email addresses, URLs, instant messenger IDs, phone numbers, full names, or mailing addresses. Posting of such information to Profile pages shall be considered a violation of our Terms and Conditions. We also caution you not to share sensitive information (such as full names, Aadhaar or Voter ID Card numbers, credit card numbers, and driver's license numbers) with other Users whom you do not know well, or place such information in your profile. Be aware that when you publish content or information on the Services you are allowing everyone, including non-Users and people off the Services, to access that information and to associate it with you.
We use your profile information for the purposes of providing our services to you, such as to analyse demographics, to better personalize our various offerings for you and other Users, and to enable other Users to find your profile. We also use your email address to communicate with you about the Services and its features. From time to time, we may share your email address [and/or other personal information] with third parties for marketing purposes. You can opt out of having your email address shared with third parties for marketing purposes by sending your request by mail to support@messagepitara.com . In addition, we may share your email address with third parties to target advertising and to improve your user experience on the Services. We also may use the email addresses that are in your address books, or that you otherwise provide, to invite your friends to join the Services, as detailed in the Invitations section below.
When you use our Services, we store certain information that you may actively or passively share or disclose, including your User ID, name, location, email address, photos, videos, friend connections, incoming and outgoing messages, incoming and outgoing comments and login information. When you visit particular pages within a Site, you may be allowed to customize features on those pages and we may keep track of your customized preferences. We also use various technologies to remember you and create a more personalized experience for you on the Services, as detailed in the Clickstream Data, Cookies and Other Technology section below. We also track your use of the Services, including the pages that you visit once you sign in, how much time is spent on each page, features that you click on and other behaviour. We use this information to improve our Services and may also share this information with third parties for the purposes of enhancing your user experience.
We receive different types of data from or about the computers, phones or other devices where you install or access our Services. We may associate the information we collect from your different devices, which helps us provide consistent Services across your devices. Here are some examples of the device information we may collect:
A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent by our Services or its advertisers to your Internet browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive, and that delivers information about you and your activity on the Services. Pixel tags are tiny graphic files that can function in various ways (such as allowing us to track how you view an email that we send you) and are commonly used in conjunction with cookies. Local storage is similar to a cookie but is instead located on your browser and can store more information.
Like many other services, we use the information we receive and technologies such as cookies, pixel tags and local storage to allow enhanced features, enable customizable content, and provide you with the best possible user experience. We may also share your information and information collected from cookies, pixel tags and local storage with our vendors and partners for the purposes of enhancing your user experience.
You can configure your Internet browser, to accept all cookies, reject all cookies or notify you before accepting a cookie. Many Internet browsers also allow you to disable local storage or delete information contained in local storage. Each Internet browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. For information on disabling or deleting information contained in local storage, please click here. If you choose not to accept cookies and/or to disable or delete local storage, be aware that you may not be able to access and enjoy all the features of the Services.
Some of our advertisers may also use cookies for various reasons, including to monitor the effectiveness of their advertising. We do not have access to or control over how our advertisers use cookies. To opt-out of certain targeted advertising, visit www.aboutads.info/choices. Once you click the link, you may choose to opt-out of such advertising from all participating advertising companies or only advertising provided by specific advertising companies. If you opt-out of this type of advertising, you may still see advertising on the Internet and advertising from us, but those ads may not be tailored to your Site usage and may be less relevant to you.
From time to time we may extend to you information and offers from our partner companies, including news and additional details on products and services. Your usage history may result in offer screens or products specifically tailored to you. We may also produce reports for advertisers that aggregate, in an anonymous manner, information about your and other Site users’ activity on the Services. For example, we may report to advertisers the number of Users who clicked on an ad, or the number of Users that visited different portions of the Services. This information will not include your personal information, or specify your individual online usage patterns.
We collect your location when you register for our Site and each time that you log in on a mobile device, if you grant us permission to do so. In your profile and privacy settings, you can control whether other users see your log in location, identified as a city or state or as a distance from another user. We may still use your location (such as for advertising purposes) even if you choose not to display it to other users.
Certain websites that are not affiliated with us might place a code or other identifying user information in your browser address when you visit their websites. If you visit the Services after you have visited one of those websites we may store this identifying information from your browser address.
At this time, we do not respond to Do Not Track Signals and similar mechanisms. Any such signal sent to our Services automatically by a web browser will not be recognized and no action will be taken. You may exercise certain choices regarding online tracking by following the instructions in this privacy policy. Third party advertisers may be collecting information about User behaviour across different websites. We have no control over third parties and their collection or use of such information. You may be able to opt out of certain collection of information across browsers and by advertisers by going to the links provided in the “Device Information, Cookies and Other Technology” section.
When using the Site, you may encounter links to websites that are not owned, controlled or affiliated with us and/or ads delivered by third party ad servers. Please be aware that any third party websites and ad server ads that are found on the Site may use cookies, pixel tags, local storage and similar technologies. We are not responsible for, or have any control over, the privacy policies of those third party websites and ad servers, and we encourage you to read the privacy policies of each and every website visited when linking directly from the Site.
We work with third party companies who help us provide and improve our Services or who use advertising or related products, which makes it possible to operate our companies and provide free services to people around the world.
Here are the types of third parties we can share information with about you: Advertising, Measurement and Analytics Services (Non-Personally Identifiable Information Only).
We want our advertising to be as relevant and interesting as the other information you find on our Services. With this in mind, we use all of the information we have about you to show you relevant ads. We do not share information that personally identifies you (personally identifiable information is information like name or email address that can by itself be used to contact you or identifies who you are) with advertising, measurement or analytics partners unless you give us permission.
We transfer information to vendors, service providers, and other partners who globally support our business, such as providing technical infrastructure services, analysing how our Services are used, measuring the effectiveness of ads and services, providing customer service, facilitating payments, or conducting academic research and surveys. These partners must adhere to strict confidentiality obligations in a way that is consistent with this Privacy Policy and the agreements we enter into with them.
When using the Services, you may encounter links to websites that are not owned, controlled or affiliated with us and/or ads delivered by third party ad servers. Please be aware that any third party websites and ad server ads that are found on the Services may use cookies, pixel tags, local storage and similar technologies. We are not responsible for, or have any control over, the privacy policies of those third party websites and ad servers, and we encourage you to read the privacy policies of each and every website visited when linking directly from the Services. We will not share your Personal Information with any third parties without your consent, except as we disclose to you under this Privacy Policy or as necessary to provide you with the products and services offered by us.
We allow Users to upload and share content. You own the content that you post on the Services. For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, including but not limited to photos, videos and written compositions (“IP Content”), you specifically give us the following permission: You grant us an unconditional, non-exclusive, transferable, sub licensable, royalty-free, worldwide and perpetual license to use any IP Content that you post on or in connection with the Services ("IP License"). For example, we may make commercial use of and/or otherwise display your name and/or IP Content in or in connection with endorsements of and/or advertisements promoting the Services and its services. This IP License ends when you delete your IP Content or terminate your account, unless your IP Content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted the content if your IP Content was incorporated into an endorsement or advertisement prior to your deletion of the IP Content. When you delete your IP Content or terminate your account, your IP Content is removed from the Services., you understand that we may maintain backup copies of the IP Content.
The Invite Friends feature is an easy way for you to invite friends through email to use and become Users of the Services. The email addresses that you supply to us through this feature will be used only to send invitations, and in some cases invitation reminders, to the addressees, asking them to connect with you on the Services. When you invite a friend to use the Services through email, your name will appear as the sender of the email from a Site email address.
At various times we may offer you the opportunity to participate in surveys and contests. Surveys may ask for your contact, demographic or unique identifying information to increase the value of the results. Contests may require your contact information or other demographic or personal information to determine eligibility. We may use information collected from surveys and contests for the entertainment of Users, and to determine, identify and contact winners of various contests. In addition, your demographic and/or personal information and responses to survey and contest questions may be used by us and/or shared with third parties in relation to the survey and contest to provide offers or advertisements specifically tailored to you. We will not share your email address with a third party unless you specifically opt in to permit such sharing during the completion of or registration for a survey or contest.
We may disclose your personal information, clickstream data, cookies and information from other technologies if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process. We may also disclose information about you to law enforcement officers or others, in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (i) enforce our Terms and Conditions; (ii) respond to claims that any posting or other content violates the rights of third-parties; (iii) respond to your requests for customer service; (iv) protect and defend the rights, property, or personal safety of MessagePitara.com, its Users or the general public; (vi) to comply with legal process served on us pursuant to a statutory demand, subpoena, warrant or court order; (vii) to protect against fraudulent, abusive or unlawful use of the Services; or (viii) to enforce any contractual agreement between you and MessagePitara.com.
All personal information collected by us in connection with your use of the Services and described in this Privacy Policy, including without limitation your name, location, email address, photos and videos, friend connections, messages, comments, login information, IP address and other data, will be stored indefinitely. We employ industry standard security measures to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Although we make good faith efforts to store the information collected by us in a secure operating environment that is not available to the public, we cannot guarantee complete security. Due to the open nature of the Internet, we make no assurances about our ability to prevent any such loss, misuse, to you or to any third party arising out of any such loss, misuse, or alteration. Also, while we make every reasonably acceptable effort to ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee its absolute security or confidentiality or that our security measures will prevent third-party "hackers" from illegally obtaining this information. Lastly, we cannot and do not ensure the adequacy or performance of any security measures that may be undertaken by Site advertisers or other third parties that may have access to your personal information on or through the Services.
As a User, you may at any time choose to correct or update the information you have submitted to us. To change or update your information:
You can select any User ID you wish, except that your User ID cannot be an impersonation, the same or confusingly similar to a famous trademark, or be a term that is offensive in any way. We reserve the right to reject or remove any username that does not meet applicable standards.
You are responsible for all activities or actions on the Services that occur under your User ID and password. We urge you to keep your User ID and password in a safe place.
MessagePitara.com is opposed to spam. This No Spam Policy and Terms and Conditions prohibit all Users from engaging in any activity on our Services involving spam. Violations of these prohibitions may result in immediate termination of service and legal action against the User. Our Terms and Conditions expressly prohibit Users from uploading, posting, emailing, transmitting or otherwise making available junk mail, commercial ads, or other form of commercial solicitation on the Services or through our services. A violation of our spam policies and/or any unauthorized use of our computer systems could result in the violation of certain central and state laws.
If MessagePitara.com is restructured, merged, consolidated with or acquired by a third party entity, we reserve the right to transfer your information to the new owner or a related company. If that ever happens, we will notify you and you may choose to modify any of your registration information at that time. However, we may not be able to control how your Personal Information is treated, transferred, or used in the event of bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, or comparable event.
We reserve the right to update, add to, change, amend or modify this Privacy Policy and our other policies and agreements at any time and in any manner. If we make any changes to this Privacy Policy or our other policies and agreements, we will post a notice about these changes on the Services, and your continued use of the Services thereafter will signify your agreement to such changes. If we materially change how we use your personal information, we will let you know before we do so and you may choose how you want to proceed at that time.
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or how to access your personal information, you can contact us by sending your request by email to support@messagepitara.com
YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES SIGNIFIES YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE PRIVACY POLICY.
