Privacy Policy

Diamond Fortress Technologies, Inc., including its affiliates (“DFT”), collects, stores, and uses your personal information as a data controller in connection with and in order to provide and develop DFT’s products, mobile applications, services and websites (together “Services”) according to this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).
For questions and information about Privacy Policy and data subject’s rights, please contact us at privacy@diamondfortress.com or alternatively at Diamond Fortress Technologies, Inc., Legal Department, 5508 Eastcliff Industrial Pkwy. #2, Birmingham, Alabama 35210.

For information about our privacy practices related to data from children, please see “Special Note About Children’s Privacy” below.

All DFT Services are governed by this Privacy Policy and by using or accessing a Service you give consent to the processing, use and disclosure of your data. Please do not install or use the Services if you do not agree to this Privacy Policy.

DFT reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of Services will signify your acceptance of the changes to this Privacy Policy.

1. How We Collect Your Data

Likely situations when you make personal data available to DFT include, but are not limited to: by using DFT’s mobile apps or visiting our websites, (ii) registration for Services, contests and special events; (iii) accessing Services using a third party ID, such as social networking sites or gaming services; (iv) subscribing to newsletters; (v) purchasing a product or services through DFT’s online stores or within the app (or “in-app purchase”); (vi) using “tell a friend,” “email this page,” or other similar features; (vii) requesting technical support; and (viii) otherwise through use of DFT Services where personal data is required for use and/or participation.

The data we process on you may include, but is not limited to: email address, device ID, IP-address, user names, passwords, images from the camera, and device information such as device board, device brand, device cpu ABI, device hardware, device manufacturer, device model, device camera.

Device information is used for product licensing, product improvement, and for diagnostic information about device camera or other peripheral related device, as the Android API around camera use is not uniformly implemented within the Android ecosystem and it is directly related to improving product performance.

We may transmit full color and processed images anonymously to secure servers. The images will not be usable for biometric identification as they will not be associated with any personally identifying information. The images will not be sold or transmitted to any third-party. The images will be used solely for the improvement of our biometric technology. All pictures of fingers (and any other image captured) or fingerprint templates are not transmitted, unless as previously stated, to us or to any other entity (government or otherwise). We may collect and use technical data and related information, including, but not limited to, technical information about your Device, system and application software, and peripherals, that is gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, product support, product licensing, and other services to you (if any). We may use this information, as long as it is in a form that does not personally identify you, to improve products or to provide services or technologies to you.

DFT may supplement your data with data received from third parties in connection with demographic, advertisement, market and other analytics surveys or services.

2. Ad Serving Technology

DFT reserves the right to use and disclose the collected, non-personal data for purposes of advertising by DFT or DFT’s partners and contractors.

DFT may employ third party ad serving technologies that use certain methods to collect information as a result of ad serving through Services.

DFT or third parties operating the ad serving technology may use demographic and geo-location information (for more information regarding use of Location Data see below Section 3) as well as information logged from your hardware or device to ensure that relevant advertising is presented within the Service. DFT or third parties may collect and use data, for such purposes, including but not limited to, data such as IP address, Device ID, MAC address, installed software, application usage data, hardware type, Operating System information, browser information, unique identifiers in browser cookies, Flash cookies, and HTML5 local storage, Internet and on-line usage information and in-app information.

The foregoing data may be used and disclosed in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the privacy policy of the company providing the ad serving technology.

DFT may display to you behaviorally targeted advertising. If you wish to “opt out” of certain targeted advertising, please visit http://www.youradchoices.com and/or www.networkadvertising.org. Please note that the links above may not reach all DFT’s advertising partners and certain behaviorally targeted advertising may still be displayed to you. If you want to be certain that no behaviorally targeted advertisements are displayed to you, please do not use or access the Services.

Some services may include the use of in-app advertisements or brand placement. Such ads or sponsorships will be noted as such within the services.

Additionally please note that if you “opt out” it does not mean that you will no longer receive advertising. It just means that the advertising you see displayed will not be customized to you and your interests and may be less relevant to you.

3. Location Data

To the extent DFT makes location enabled Services available and you use such Services, DFT may collect and process your location data to provide location related Services and advertisements. For example, some add-ons or offers may be available at dedicated locations. The location data is processed and stored only for the duration that is required for the provision of the location related Services.
DFT may use, depending on the service (1) IP-based location based on the IP address presented by the end-user, (2) fine geo-location data based on coordinates obtained from a mobile device’s GPS radio, or (3) coarse, network-based geo-location data based on proximity of network towers or the location of WiFi networks.
Your fine, GPS-based geo-location is not accessed without your consent. Notwithstanding DFT’s partners who are providing location related parts of the Service, DFT will not share your GPS geo-location with third parties without your consent. To the extent DFT makes available GPS geo-location to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy, it will be provided anonymously.

4. Analytics

DFT uses your information to perform its own analytics and to enable analytics provided by third parties. We use analytical information for supporting business analysis and operations, business intelligence, product development, improving products and services, personalizing content, providing advertising, and making recommendations. DFT may also use third-parties, such as Google Analytics in order to develop and analyze use of the Services. For more information about Google Analytics and its services please see http://www.google.com/analytics/.

5. Friends

If you choose to use DFT’s “tell a friend” or a similar service about DFT Services, DFT may store your friend’s name and contact details that you provide to DFT.

Please note that certain features of the Services may be able to connect to your social networking sites to obtain additional information about you. In such cases, DFT may be able to collect certain information from your social networking profile when your social networking site permits it, and when you consent to allow your social networking site to make that information available to DFT. This information may include, but is not limited to, your name, profile picture, gender, user ID, email address, your country, your language, your time zone, the organizations and links on your profile page, the names and profile pictures of your social networking site “friends” and other information you have included in your social networking site profile. DFT may associate and/or combine as well as use information collected by DFT and/or obtained through such social networking sites.

6. Disclosure and Transfer of Personal Data

Personal data may be disclosed to third parties, including third parties located outside the United States, in accordance with applicable legislation and this Privacy Policy.

DFT may use third parties to collect and process personal data on DFT’s behalf and in accordance with DFT’s instructions. DFT is not liable for the acts and omissions of these third parties, except as provided by mandatory law.

7. Data Retention and Correctness

DFT retains the collected data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Thereafter DFT deletes all aforementioned data in its possession within a reasonable timeframe. DFT does not verify the correctness of personal data.

Please note that some data may be further retained if necessary to resolve disputes, enforce DFT user agreements, and comply with technical and legal requirements and constraints related to the security, integrity and operation of Services.

8. Cookies, Beacons and Tracking

The Services may use “cookies” and other technologies such as pixel tags, local shared objects, hardware-based device identifiers, Operating System-based identifiers, clear GIFs and web beacons. DFT treats information collected by cookies and similar technologies as non-personal data.

Cookies: A “cookie” is a small file stored by your browser when told to do so by a website. Typically websites place a number of different cookies on an end-user’s machine. Some of the cookies are “1st Party,” from the website itself, and others are “3rd party,” belonging to advertising and analytics entities or social networks. DFT’s cookies do not include personal data and are typically used to quickly identify your device and to “remember” your browser during subsequent visits for purposes of functionality, preferences, and website performance. You can disable cookies or set your browser to alert you when cookies are being sent to your device; however, disabling cookies may affect your ability to use the Services.

Flash cookies & HTML5: DFT may also use Flash cookies (local shared objects) and HTML5 local storage. Flash cookies are small files similar to browser cookies, but which are not stored in the browser and can also be used to remember your settings, to personalize the look and feel of the Services, or for advertising and analytics. You may prevent Flash cookies from being stored by following the instructions provided by Adobe at http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html.

Web Beacons and pixel tags: A “web beacon” or a “pixel tag” is an electronic image (often not visible to the end-user) that allows DFT to count users who have visited certain pages or viewed certain advertisements. Additionally, e-mails and other electronic communications DFT sends to you may contain pixel tags that enable DFT to track your usage of the communication, including whether the communication was opened and/or what links were followed, if any.

9. Third Party Terms and Conditions

Please note that your access to and use of the Services may be subject to certain third party terms and conditions and DFT is not liable for any such third parties’ use of your personal data.

Certain Services that DFT may offer may use third party services to provide authentication. In connection with such use, certain personally identifiable user and/or membership data may be transferred automatically to and from DFT.
DFT may disclose your personal data to third parties in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, restructuring, the sale of substantially all of DFT’s stock and/or assets or other corporate change, including, without limitation, during the course of any due diligence process provided, however, that this Privacy Policy shall continue to govern such personal data.

YouTube

Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Vimeo

Our website uses features provided by the Vimeo video portal. This service is provided by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. Here the Vimeo server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our plugin or do not have a Vimeo account. The information is transmitted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored.

If you are logged in to your Vimeo account, Vimeo allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.

For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to the Vimeo Privacy Policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.

Google Web Fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.

Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

SoundCloud

On our pages, plugins of the SoundCloud social network (SoundCloud Limited, Berners House, 47-48 Berners Street, London W1T 3NF, UK) may be integrated. The SoundCloud plugins can be recognized by the SoundCloud logo on our site.

When you visit our site, a direct connection between your browser and the SoundCloud server is established via the plugin. This enables SoundCloud to receive information that you have visited our site from your IP address. If you click on the “Like” or “Share” buttons while you are logged into your SoundCloud account, you can link the content of our pages to your SoundCloud profile. This means that SoundCloud can associate visits to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it will be used by SoundCloud. For more information on SoundCloud’s privacy policy, please go to https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.

If you do not want SoundCloud to associate your visit to our site with your SoundCloud account, please log out of your SoundCloud account.

10. Safeguards

DFT follows generally accepted industry standards and maintains reasonable safeguards to attempt to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of the information in DFT’s possession. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. DFT asks you not to share your password with anyone, and urges you to be careful about giving out information in public areas, including public areas accessible by the Services such as message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any person, including a user of the Services. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet and mobile platforms is not completely secure. Although DFT does its best to protect your personal information, DFT cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted through the Services. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. DFT is not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures DFT provides.

11. Other

You may choose to disclose data about yourself in the course of contributing user generated content to the Services.
Any data that you disclose in any of these forums, blogs, chats or the like will become public information, and there is no expectation of privacy or confidentiality with respect to that data.

DFT may store and/or transfer your personal data to its affiliates and partners in and outside of the United States in accordance with mandatory legislation and this Privacy Policy.

12. Special Note About Children’s Privacy

DFT does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If DFT learns that DFT has inadvertently gathered personal data from children under 13 years of age, DFT will take reasonable measures to promptly delete such personal data from DFT’s records.

DFT understands the need to provide extra privacy protections to users who are children. To that end, features and services such as social networking plug-ins, behaviorally targeted advertising, and collection of data for the purpose of building user profiles are not available to users under 13. DFT also does not allow our third party partners who engage in such practices to access personally identifiable data from users under 13.
DFT and its partners do collect non-personally identifiable data from children. This includes, for example, collection of IP-based geo-location data to ensure that the product, service or features served comply with applicable laws of that nation.

DFT and its partners also collect data to assess general information about the use of products, such as the number of visitors to our sites and services. DFT also uses this data to provide contextually-relevant advertising to users, to prevent users from seeing the same ad repeatedly, and to allow users to personalize their experience on the site or service. DFT and its partners may also use cookies, pixels, hardware-based identifiers, Operating System-based identifiers, and software-set identifiers, to manage and measure the performance of advertising.

Please note that DFT’s partners may have their own policies related to tracking technologies for analytics and ad-serving purposes. While DFT requires that companies comply with DFT’s privacy policy before DFT allows those companies to access our sites and services, DFT does not actually control third-party data collection and use. DFT encourages parents to review the list of operators below and to become familiar with those parties policies and practices.

If you have additional questions about DFT’s Privacy Practices related to children under the age of 13, please contact us at privacy@diamondfortress.com or, alternatively, at Diamond Fortress Technologies, Inc., Legal Department, 210 Inverness Parkway, Birmingham, Alabama 35242.

13. Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users of the Services that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an e-mail to privacy@diamondfortress.com or write us at Diamond Fortress Technologies, Inc., Legal Department, 210 Inverness Parkway, Birmingham, Alabama 35242.

14. Further Information

This Privacy Policy is governed by Alabama law excluding its choice of law provisions.

DFT makes good faith efforts to enable you to review, update or correct your personal data in DFT’s possession.
DFT will need sufficient information from you to establish your identity and to verify your access request, and also to assist us in handling your request.