Privacy Policy
Last Update
2022-06-30
Respect for your privacy is our first priority. Since we started our
Services with a set of strong privacy principles in mind.
Bytes System provides different online services to its users in
India, and to users around the world. Our Privacy Policy helps explain
our information practices. For example, we talk about what information
we collect and how this affects you. We also explain the steps we take
to protect your privacy.
When we say “Bytes System,” “our,” “we,” or “us,” we’re talking about
Bytes System. This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies to all of
our apps, services, features, software, and website (together,
“Services”) unless specified otherwise.
Please also read WhatsApp’s Terms of Service (“Terms”), which describes the terms under which you use our Services.
Information We Collect
Bytes System receives or collects information when we operate and
provide our Services, including when you install, access, or use our
Services.
Information You Provide
- Your Account Information. You provide your mobile
phone number to create an account. You provide us the phone
numbers in your mobile address book on a regular basis, including
those of both the users of our Services and your other contacts.
You confirm you are authorized to provide us such numbers. You may
also add other information to your account, such as a profile name,
profile picture, and status message.
Automatically Collected Information
- Usage and Log Information. We collect
service-related, diagnostic, and performance information. This
includes information about your activity (such as how you use our
Services, how you interact with others using our Services, and the
like), log files, and diagnostic, crash, website, and performance
logs and reports.
- Transactional Information. If you pay for our
Services, we may receive information and confirmations, such as
payment receipts, including from app stores or other third parties
processing your payment.
- Device and Connection Information. We collect
device-specific information when you install, access, or use our
Services. This includes information such as hardware model,
operating system information, browser information, IP address,
mobile network information including phone number, and device
identifiers. We collect device location information if you use our
location features, such as when you choose to share your location with
your contacts, view locations nearby or those others have shared
with you, and the like, and for diagnostics and troubleshooting
purposes such as if you are having trouble with our app’s location
features.
- Cookies. We use cookies to operate and provide
our Services, including to provide our Services that are
web-based, improve your experiences, understand how our Services
are being used, and customize our Services. For example, we use
cookies to provide Bytes System for web and desktop and other
web-based services. We may also use cookies to understand which of our
FAQs are most popular and to show you relevant content related to
our Services. Additionally, we may use cookies to remember your
choices, such as your language preferences, and otherwise to
customize our Services for you.
- Status Information. We collect information about
your online and status message changes on our Services, such as
whether you are online (your “online status”), when you last used
our Services (your “last seen status”), and when you last updated
your status message.
Third-Party Information
- Information Others Provide About You. We receive
information other people provide us, which may include information
about you. For example, when other users you know use our
Services, they may provide your phone number from their mobile
address book (just as you may provide theirs), or they may send you a
message, send messages to groups to which you belong, or call you.
- Third-Party Providers. We work with third-party
providers to help us operate, provide, improve, understand,
customize, support, and market our Services. For example, we work
with companies to distribute our apps, provide our infrastructure,
delivery, and other systems, supply map and places information,
process payments, help us understand how people use our Services,
and market our Services. These providers may provide us information
about you in certain circumstances; for example, app stores may
provide us reports to help us diagnose and fix service issues.
- Third-Party Services. We allow you to use our
Services in connection with third-party services. If you use our
Services with such third-party services, we may receive
information about you from them; for example, if you use the share
button on a menu to share a news article with your contacts on our
Services, or if you choose to access our Services through a
mobile carrier’s or device provider’s promotion of our Services.
Please note that when you use third-party services, their own
terms and privacy policies will govern your use of those services.
How We Use Information
We use all the information we have to help us operate, provide,
improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services.
- Our Services. We operate and provide our
Services, including providing customer support, and improving,
fixing, and customizing our Services. We understand how people use
our Services, and analyze and use the information we have to
evaluate and improve our Services, research, develop, and test new
services and features, and conduct troubleshooting activities. We also
use your information to respond to you when you contact us. We use
cookies to operate, provide, improve, understand, and customize
our Services.
- Safety and Security. We verify accounts and
activity, and promote safety and security on and off our Services,
such as by investigating suspicious activity or violations of our
Terms, and to ensure our Services are being used legally.
- Third-Party Banner Ads. We do allow third-party banner ads on our app. but we never leak your private information to these companies.
Updates To Our Policy
We may amend or update our Privacy Policy. We will provide you notice
of amendments to this Privacy Policy, as appropriate, and update the
“Last Modified” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. Your continued
use of our Services confirms your acceptance of our Privacy Policy, as
amended. If you do not agree to our Privacy Policy, as amended, you
must stop using our Services. Please review our Privacy Policy from
time to time.
Contact Us
If you have questions about our Privacy Policy, please mail us at info@bytessystem.com