Privacy Policy

Flames built the Flames Short Video app as an Ad Supported app. This SERVICE is provided by Flames at no cost and is intended for use as is.

This page is used to inform visitors regarding my policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use my Service.

If you choose to use my Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that I collect is used for providing and improving the Service. I will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which is accessible at Flames Short Video unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.


Information Collection and Use


Information We Collect

The below information is collected by Flames:

  • 1) Information collected with a prompt:
    • In order to use Flames, we may need you to authenticate your account using your Google Account, Facebook Account , Phone Number or otherwise, and we will be collecting your email address and name. We will also ask you to provide certain information including age, gender, telephone number, your content/category preferences, location, areas of interest, language, region preferences etc.
    • We ask you for the location information and regional preferences to customize your experience by showing you relevant content. Flames may collect and store the current and past location of your device if you permit. You have full control over whether to allow or not allow Flames to collect this information by making changes to your device’s settings. If Flames is unable to access your location information, Flames may become inaccessible or not function as intended.
    • Customer Support. You may also provide us with information related to your use of Flames, including copies of your messages / posts, and how to contact you so that we can provide you with customer support. For example, you may send us an email with information relating to our app performance, or other issues.
  • 2) Information collected without a prompt:
    • Device Information: We may collect the below with respect to any device through which Flames is used or accessed:
      • Device Identifiers.
      • IP Address.
      • Operating System.
      • Operating System Version.
      • Advertising Identifiers.
      • Device Make.
      • Display Features.
      • Network Provider/Wi-Fi or other ISP.
      • Battery level and usage.
      • Memory usage.
      • Other apps or services installed or used through the device.
      • Content Type and Non-Personal information related to ads.
      • Profile Information.
    • Information related to your use of Flames such as content preferences and consumption, interaction with other users, user activity, etc.
    • Flames may access your device’s camera, microphone, photo and/or video and/or audio library or gallery.
    • Flames may also collect information provided by third parties who may disclose to Flames personal or non-personal information collected by them. Flames has no control over or responsibility in respect of third-party information practices or information collection methods.
    • Flames may also collect tracking information including cookies, DART, beacons, etc.
    • Location: Flames may collect and store the current and past location of your device if you permit. You have full control over whether to allow or not allow Flames to collect this information by making changes to your device’s settings. If Flames is unable to access your location information, Flames may become inaccessible or not function as intended.
    • Usage and Log Information. We collect service-related, diagnostic, and performance information. This includes information about your activity (such as how you use Flames, how you interact with others using Flames, etc.), log files, and diagnostics, crash information, website, and performance logs and reports, etc.


For a better experience, while using our Service, I may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information. The information that I request will be retained on your device and is not collected by me in any way.

The app does use third party services that may collect information used to identify you.

Link to privacy policy of third party service providers used by the app


Information We Do Not Collect
We do not collect any Sensitive Personal Data or information such as password related to other services, financial information such as bank account or credit card or debit card or other payment instrument details, physical, physiological and mental health condition, sexual orientation, medical records and history, or biometric information.


How We Use Information
We may use all the information we have to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market Flames.

  • Our Services: We operate and provide Flames, including providing customer support, and improving, fixing, and customizing Flames by using the said information. We understand how users use Flames, and analyze and use the information that we have to evaluate and improve Flames, 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 may also use your information for (i) displaying content based on interest, location, offers, etc., (ii) displaying or providing access to promotions, advertisements, offer, etc. which may be based on your interests and also ad-targeting, ad-placement, and ad-measurement (iii) displaying location specific news and weather related information, (iv) improving search results, content loading, performance, etc.

  • Send you communications including by e-mail.

  • Safety and Security: We also use your information to try and ensure safety and security of our users and their information. We verify accounts and activity, and promote safety and security on and off Flames, such as by investigating suspicious activity or violations of our policies, terms, etc., and to try and ensure that Flames is being used legally.


Managing Your Information
If you would like to manage, change, limit, or delete your information, we allow you to do that through the settings feature available on Flames. You can change your settings to manage certain information available to other users. You can manage your contacts, groups, and broadcast lists, or use our block feature to manage the users with whom you communicate or who can communicate with you.

How We Share Information

We may share your information in ways including the following:

  • With other Flames users: your username, profile photograph, content that you post or send or share. You may also be able to control how your content is shared with other Flames users by adjusting personal settings.
  • With our business partners, affiliates, investors: public information like your name, username and profile pictures and any content posted by you (subject to your personal settings).
  • We may share information about you with third party service providers who perform services on our behalf, including to measure and optimize the performance of ads and deliver more relevant ads, including on third-party websites and apps.
  • We may share information about you, such as device and usage information, to help us and others prevent fraud.
  • We may share information about you for legal, safety, and security reasons.
  • We may share information about you if we reasonably believe that disclosing the information is needed to: (i) comply with any valid legal process, governmental request, or applicable law, rule, or regulation, (ii) investigate, remedy, or enforce potential violations of this Policy, the Terms and Conditions and the Content Policy.
  • To protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our users, or others.
  • To detect and resolve any fraud or security concerns.

Request for deletion
You can email us 1webtutor92@gmail.com with your registered email address and request for your deletion of data .

We store data for as long as it is necessary to provide products and services to you and others. Information associated with your account will be kept until your account is deleted, unless we longer need the data to provide the products and services or until we are legally required to do so.

Collection, Use, Disclosure, Sharing, and Retention of Face Data:

  • Collection of Face Data: Information to identify face & facial expressions.
  • Usage of Face Data: To make Flames app work well for their users, we offer tools that apply filters and video effects fitting the contours of user’s face, modifying the size and shape of facial features and following facial movements.
  • Disclosure of Face Data: This data is used to create filters and video effects within the App. The only use of this information is to provide valuable user features. None of the information collected ever leaves the user’s device.
  • Sharing of Face Data: We do not share this data with third parties.
  • Retention of Face Data: We do not store any Facial Recognition Data. Also none of the information collected by Face Data ever leaves the user’s device. However few data like user registration data, video recorded by users and user’s profile photo are stored on our servers.

Log Data

I want to inform you that whenever you use my Service, in a case of an error in the app I collect data and information (through third party products) on your phone called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your device Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the app when utilizing my Service, the time and date of your use of the Service, and other statistics.

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are commonly used as anonymous unique identifiers. These are sent to your browser from the websites that you visit and are stored on your device's internal memory.

This Service does not use these “cookies” explicitly. However, the app may use third party code and libraries that use “cookies” to collect information and improve their services. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your device. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of this Service.

Service Providers

I may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

  • To facilitate our Service;
  • To provide the Service on our behalf;
  • To perform Service-related services; or
  • To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

I want to inform users of this Service that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.


Security

I value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and I cannot guarantee its absolute security.


Links to Other Sites

This Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by me. Therefore, I strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. I have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.


Children’s Privacy

These Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. I do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age. In the case I discover that a child under 13 has provided me with personal information, I immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact me so that I will be able to do necessary actions.


FLAMES

The terms "We" / "Us" / "Our"/”Company” individually and collectively refer to Flames Tech Pvt. Ltd. and the terms "You" /"Your" / "Yourself" refer to the users.


This Privacy Policy is an electronic record in the form of an electronic contract formed under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the rules made thereunder and the amended provisions pertaining to electronic documents/records in various statutes as amended by the Information Technology Act, 2000. This Privacy Policy does not require any physical, electronic, or digital signature.


This Privacy Policy is a legally binding document between you and Flames Tech Pvt. Ltd. The terms of this Privacy Policy will be effective upon your acceptance of the same (directly or indirectly in electronic form, by clicking on the I accept tab or by use of the website or by other means) and will govern the relationship between you and Flames Tech Pvt. Ltd. for your use of the Website “ Flames”.


This document is published and shall be construed in accordance with the provisions of the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data of information) rules, 2011 under Information Technology Act, 2000; that require publishing of the Privacy Policy for the collection, use, storage and transfer of sensitive personal data or information.


Please read this Privacy Policy carefully by using the Website, and indicate that you understand, agree, and consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Website.


By providing us your Information or by making use of the facilities provided by the Website, you hereby consent to the collection, storage, processing, and transfer of any or all of Your Personal Information and Non-Personal Information by us as specified under this Privacy Policy. You further agree that such collection, use, storage, and transfer of your Information shall not cause any loss or wrongful gain to you or any other person.


USER INFORMATION

To avail of certain services on our Website, users are required to provide certain information for the registration process namely: - a) your name, b) email address, c) sex, d) age, e) PIN code, f) credit card or debit card details, g) medical records and history h) sexual orientation, i) biometric information, j) password, etc., and/or your occupation, interests, and the likes. The Information as supplied by the users enables us to improve our sites and provide you the most user-friendly experience.


All required information is service dependent and we may use the above-said user information to maintain, protect, and improve its services (including advertising services) and for developing new services.


Such information will not be considered sensitive if it is freely available and accessible in the public domain or is furnished under the Right to Information Act, 2005 or any other law for the time being in force.


COOKIES

To improve the responsiveness of the sites for our users, we may use "cookies", or similar electronic tools to collect information to assign each visitor a unique, random number as a User Identification (User ID) to understand the user's individual interests using the Identified Computer. Unless you voluntarily identify yourself (through registration, for example), we will have no way of knowing who you are, even if we assign a cookie to your computer. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply (an example of this is when you ask for our Personalized Horoscope). A cookie cannot read data off your hard drive. Our advertisers may also assign their own cookies to your browser (if you click on their ads), a process that we do not control.


Our web servers automatically collect limited information about your computer's connection to the Internet, including your IP address, when you visit our site. (Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data -- such as the web pages you view.) Your IP address does not identify you personally. We use this information to deliver our web pages to you upon request, to tailor our site to the interests of our users, to measure traffic within our site, and let advertisers know the geographic locations from where our visitors come.


LINKS TO THE OTHER SITES

Our policy discloses the privacy practices for our own website only. Our site provides links to other websites also that are beyond our control. We shall in no way be responsible in the way of your use of such sites.


INFORMATION SHARING

We share sensitive personal information to any third party without obtaining the prior consent of the user in the following limited circumstances:


(a)When it is requested or required by law or by any court or governmental agency or authority to disclose, for the purpose of verification of identity, or for the prevention, detection, investigation including cyber incidents, or for prosecution and punishment of offenses. These disclosures are made in good faith and belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary for enforcing these Terms; for complying with the applicable laws and regulations.

(b)We propose to share such information within its group companies and officers and employees of such group companies for the purpose of processing personal information on its behalf. We also ensure that these recipients of such information agree to process such information based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.


INFORMATION SECURITY

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage, and processing practices and security measures, including appropriate encryption and physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data.


All information gathered on our Website is securely stored within our controlled database. The database is stored on servers secured behind a firewall; access to the servers is password-protected and is strictly limited. However, as effective as our security measures are, no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our database, nor can we guarantee that information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. And, of course, any information you include in a posting to the discussion areas is available to anyone with Internet access.


However, the internet is an ever-evolving medium. We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time to incorporate necessary future changes. Of course, our use of any information we gather will always be consistent with the policy under which the information was collected, regardless of what the new policy may be.


Third-party Advertisers

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Application. These companies may use information about your visits to the Application and other websites that are contained in web cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. 


Changes to This Privacy Policy

I may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. I will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

This policy is effective as of 2022-03-12


Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about my Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact me at 1webtutor92@gmail.com.