Last updated: Jun. 11, 2015

This FriendOnymos.com website, FriendOnymos applications (including mobile applications), notifications, and services (collectively, the "Services") allow users to share thoughts and opinions with other users, that they are connected to as Friends within the Services. The Services are made available by Onymos Inc (the "Company"), the makers of FriendOnymos.

This Privacy policy describes how the Company ("we", "us") collect, use, disclose, protect and share your information whenever you access or use our Services.

Intent
We want a fun, trusted environment where Friends communicate freely with each other, and continue remaining great Friends. Towards this intent, we want to partner with you in keeping your information, as well as your Friends', and all other users' information secure. We have strived to make this Privacy policy simple and easy, and encourage you to read, and understand this well. We strongly encourage you to share any questions, comments or concerns you have on this Privacy policy through our Support.

Information collection
Basic Account Information
When you create or update your account, directly on FriendOnymos, you provide personal information to us, such as,

Name
Email address or Phone number
Password

When you sign-in to your account, using one of our 3rd party login providers (like Facebook, Google or Twitter), you approve the provider to share with us your profile information that you have with them. What each provider shares is controlled by each provider's Privacy policy, and your settings with them. Generally, we receive information, such as,

Name
Email address
Phone number
Id for your account with the provider
Profile photo
Gender
Locale
Timezone

Account Usage Information
When you access and/or use the Services, we collect information to provide you the best experience with the Services. We collect the following categories of information,

1. Usage information
This includes information such as your interaction with the Services, like time and date of access; duration of access; time, date, recipients, anonymity status of messages, number of messages you receive and send; list of Friends you exchange messages with; time, date and actions on messages you receive; the pages within the Services you are visiting, the links within the Services you are clicking.

2. Friends information
When you connect with your Friend, by uploading a contact from your device, we collect and store information about your Friend, such as his/her name, email addresses, and/or phone numbers. We only collect information about Friends, that you express your interest to connect within the Services, and not any other information available in your device's contacts.

3. Content information
This includes information such as the content of your messages, anonymity status of your messages, the reports of abuse you post or others post against your messages.

4. Device information
This includes information such as the operating system of your device (like iOS, Android), operating system version, unique device identifiers, browser type, and language. In the extremely rare (hopefully never) event of a crash, we also collect additional device information to help diagnose the reason for the crash.

5. Support information
When you contact Support or communicate with us by any means, we collect and store any information that you volunteer to us, in your communication with us.

Note: We use cookies and similar technologies like pixels, local storage, web beacons, to store small data in your device or equipment to help us identify you, your preferences, and your access and use of the Services.

Information use
We use your information for your Friends, other users and you to have the best experience with the Services. Specifically, but not limited to (as we invent more cool things to better your experience), we use your information for the following,

Improve your login experience, by remembering your device and your access credentials.
Share your content with the Friends that you want the content to be shared with.
Send notifications to your Friends when you address new content to your Friends.
Monitor, improve, and fix the availability, accuracy and performance of the Services.
Develop new and cool features, products, and services.
Generate reports on usage patterns, like number of accesses, device types used, etc.,
Provide input to help improve our Support processes.
Update the website, application, mobile application, notification, or other components of the Services automatically or manually.
Protect your information, and maintain the security of the Services.

Information share
Any information that you send your Friends using the Services, are of course shared with your Friends. Your Friends might in-turn be able to share that information with their Friends.
Information about yourself (name, username, photo, etc.,), and your usage of the Services (like number of Friends you have, number of messages you have posted or participated in, whether you read a message, etc.,), are shared within the Services with your Friends, and other users.
Any information you delete (like deleting a post) might also be persisted and viewable by your Friends, and other users so as not to impact their use of the Services.
We might share any of your information with appropriate law enforcement authorities in response to a legal request. You can find more details on this sharing in the Terms.

Note: The login information you provide to our login providers (like Facebook, Google, or Twitter) to access and use our Services is transmitted to the respective login provider. Such information transferred to our login providers are governed by the provider's Privacy policy.

We do not share your information with any advertisers.

Information store
We are a silicon-valley (in California) company, based in the United States. The Services are hosted in the United States, and your information is primarily stored in the United States. However, for effective performance of the Services, and as part of our disaster mitigation strategies, your information might be cached around the world.
Please refer to the Security section in the Terms for details on how we keep your information secure.

Other websites and services
We are not responsible for the Privacy practices of any websites and/or services that are linked from the Services. Please exercise caution when you follow a link from within the Services to any external website or service. When you authorize any external website or service to access your information, you do so at your own risk, and you agree that we are not responsible for the actions or inactions of any such external website or service.

Changes to our Privacy policy
We reserve the right to modify or update this Privacy policy at any time, the most current version of which will be available at friendonymos.com/privacy. By continuing to access or use the Services, after those revisions become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy policy.