Introduction
Verity The App Ltd (“Company”, “We”, “Us”, “Our”, “Verity”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through Our compliance with this policy. We are a private company limited by shares and established in the Dubai International Financial Centre (“DIFC”). We are the data controller.
This Policy describes the types of information We may collect from you or that you may provide, Our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information, and your privacy rights when you visit the Website https://www.veritytheapp.com (Our “Website”) or open an account within the Verity App (the or Our “App”).
This Policy applies to the information We collect:
On this Website.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
Through the App.
Through your postings on Our blog, reviews, and other comments.
It does not apply to information collected by:
Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party; or
any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website or through the App.
We use personal data to provide and improve Verity The App Ltd’s services. By using Our services, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Please read this Policy carefully to understand Our policies and practices regarding your information and how We will treat it. If you do not agree with Our policies and practices, your choice is not to use Our Website or Our App. By accessing or using this Website or Our App, you agree to this Privacy Policy and represent that such access, use and agreement are with your parents or legal guardian’s consent and supervision. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website or the App after We make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.
Any consent or agreement by You on any terms and conditions are with the consent and supervision of your parents or legal guardians.
Children
Our Website and App are intended for children between the ages of 8 and 18 years of age with parental or legal guardian consent and supervision. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on the Website or the App without parental or legal guardian consent. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18 do not use or provide any information on this Website or the App or on or through any of its features/register on the Website or the App, make any purchases through the Website or the App, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or the App or provide any information about yourself to Us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use unless with the consent and supervision of your parents or legal guardians. If We learn We have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, We will delete that information. If you believe We might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact Us at hello@veritytheapp.com
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of Our Website and App, including information:
by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, identification documents (such as Emirates ID number and images), usage data, or ANY OTHER INFORMATION THE WEBSITE OR THE APP COLLECTS THAT IS DEFINED AS PERSONAL OR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION UNDER AN APPLICABLE LAW (“Personal Information”);
about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access Our Website or Our App and usage details.
We collect this information:
Directly from you when you provide it to Us.
Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, and other tracking technologies.
Information You Provide to Us.
The information We collect on or through Our Website and App may include:
Information that you provide by filling in forms on Our Website or App. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use Our Website or App, signing up to join Our waitlist, newsletter, posting material such as comments or product reviews, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with Our Website or App.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact Us.
Your responses to surveys that We might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Details of transactions you carry out through Our Website or App, and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through Our Website.
Your mailing address and contact information for the purpose of the fulfillment of your orders.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website or App, or transmitted to other users of the Website or App or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although We limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, We cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore,
We cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies.
As you navigate through and interact with Our Website or App, We may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
Details of your visits to Our Website or App, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website or the App.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
App usage, behaviors, use experience, and other features of the App.
The information We collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but We may maintain it or associate it with personal information We collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps Us to improve Our Website and App, and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling Us to:
Estimate Our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing Us to customize your experience according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to Our Website or App.
The technologies We use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of Our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, Our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to Our Website.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of Our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on Our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
Web Beacons. Pages of Our Website and Our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related Website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Website content and verifying system and server integrity).
If you leave a comment on Our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this Website, We will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, We will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
We do not collect personal information automatically, but We may tie this information to personal information about you that We collect from other sources or you provide to Us.
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use Our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
Website Analytics
Our Website uses Google Analytics, a service which transmits website traffic data to Google servers in the United States. Google Analytics does not identify individual users or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. We use reports provided by Google Analytics to help Us understand website traffic and webpage usage. You can opt-out through adding this Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on .
Facebook Conversion Tracking Pixel
With your permission, Our Website utilizes the Conversion Tracking Pixel service of Facebook Inc. 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook). This tool allows Us to follow the actions of users after they are redirected to Our Website by clicking on a Facebook advertisement. We are thus able to record the efficacy of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes. The collected data remain anonymous. This means that We cannot see the personal data of any individual user. However, the collected data are saved and processed by Facebook. Facebook is able to connect the data with your Facebook account and use the data for their own advertising purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s Data Use Policy . Facebook Conversion Tracking also allows Facebook and its partners to show you advertisements on and outside Facebook. In addition, a cookie will be saved onto your computer for these purposes.
Only users over 18 years of age may give their permission. If you are younger than this age, please consult your legal guardians.
Please click here if you would like to revoke your permission.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that We collect about you or that you provide to Us, including any personal information:
To present Our Website and App, and their contents, products, and services to you.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from Us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.
To carry out Our obligations and enforce Our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and Us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to Our Website, App, or any products or services We offer or provide though it.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on Our Website or App.
In any other way We may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about Our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want Us to use your information in this way, please adjust your user preferences in your account profile or unsubscribe from Our mailing list, or contact Us at hello@veritytheapp.com.
We may use the information We have collected from you to enable Us to display advertisements to Our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though We do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about Our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that We collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
To Our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties We use to support Our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which We disclose it to them.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Verity’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Verity about Our Website users is among the assets transferred.
For any other purpose disclosed by Us when you provide the information.
With your consent or the consent of your parents or legal guardians.
We may also disclose your personal information:
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply Our and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If We believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Verity, Our customers, or others.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the Website, We collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/ After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Contact Forms
When you submit a contact form through the Website, We collect your name, email address, visitor IP address, comments, and other information requested through the form, and may use browser user agent string to help spam detection. We keep contact form submissions for a period of 6 months for customer service purposes, but We do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to Us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. We do not share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes.
Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address used by the Company to promote Our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending Us an email stating your request to hello@veritytheapp.com. If We have sent you a promotional email, you may send Us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.
Targeted Advertising. If you do not want Us to use information that We collect or that you provide to Us to deliver advertisements according to Our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by adjusting your user advertising preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending Us an email stating your request to hello@veritytheapp.com .
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You, your parents or legal guardians can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website or the App and visiting your account profile page.
You, your parents or legal guardians may also send Us an email at hello@veritytheapp.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to Us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if We believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by Our
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to Us is stored on Our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted.
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 Website and App, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website and App like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website or the App.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although We do Our best to protect your personal information, We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to Our Website or the App. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website and the App.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is Our policy to post any changes We make to Our privacy policy on this page. If We make material changes to how We treat Our users’ personal information, We will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Website home page or through the App. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring We have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting Our Website, App, and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and Our privacy practices, contact Us at:
Verity The App Ltd
Unit 201
Level 1 Gate Avenue – South Zone
Dubai, DIFC, UAE
hello@veritytheapp.com
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