Introduction

Matt Certain is the author and owner who designed and created the WhyChat application as a commercial mobile application. The application and service it provides is intended for use as is.

This page is used to inform visitors of the policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information for anyone who decides to use the WhyChat application.

If you choose to use the WhyChat application, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The personal information collected is used for providing and improving the services delivered by the WhyChat application. The owner will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience, while using our the WhyChat application, the application may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information. The information that the application requests will be retained on your device and is NOT collected by the WhyChat application to be transmitted to any remote cloud storage in any way. All information provided will cease to exist once the application has been deleted from your device unless the provided information has been saved to a backup file or otherwise transmitted from the application by the user during the operation of the application. Information transmitted during the operation of the application shall include any and all text messages, images, file attachments, voice messages, delivery confirmations, and user profile information sent directly to other WhyChat users.

While using the WhyChat application during a beta test, the application can collect data and information on your phone that shall be referred to as Log Data during an error or crash of the application. This Log Data may include information such as your device Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the application, the time and date of the issue, messages associated with the cause of the crash or error and/or other usage statistics. This Log Data could be stored on your device but will not by transmitted to Apple or the application owner without requesting permission to do so first.

Security

At WhyChat, we value your trust in providing our application with your personal information, thus we strive to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it through data encryption and obfuscation. We use TLS to secure network transmissions between WhyChat applications and use AES encryption when storing data on your device. However, it should be noted that that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we 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 owned or operated by WhyChat. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these external websites. We 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

The WhyChat app is not intended for use by anyone under the age of 13. Parental consent should also be acquired by any users under the age of 18. By using WhyChat, you are agreeing that you are over the age 13 and have acquired parental consent if you are under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we shall immediately delete any information we have access to. However, due to the decentralized way in which data is stored locally on devices, we do not have remote access to delete information contained on devices running WhyChat. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we can take the necessary actions.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about this Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us at support@whychat.app.