Y’all Privacy Policy

Welcome to the Y'ALL Privacy Policy ("Policy")! This explains how we collect, store, protect, and share your information, and with whom we share it. We suggest you read this in conjunction with our Terms and Conditions of Use. Whilst you’re enjoying the Y'ALL mobile application (including the desktop version) ("App"), our websites and microsites (such as yallapp.com) or using our digital products and services (such as our competitions or surveys) (together, referred to in this Privacy Policy as our "Sites"), we collect some information about you. In addition, you may choose to use the App or Sites to share information with other users, including your friends and contacts ("Users"). We may also need to share your information sometimes.

The App and Sites are global, and your information will be sent to and used in the United States and the UK regardless of the country you reside in. This Policy explains how we protect your personal data when we transfer it overseas, so please read very carefully!

Who we are The App and Sites are operated by the "Y'ALL Group" (also referred to in this policy as "we" or "us") which includes ZDG Enterprises LLC, all of which are controllers of personal information collected and processed through the Y'ALL App and Sites.

The Y'ALL Group has designated a Data Protection Officer and they can be reached by emailing zach@heyyall.app or by post at the following address: PO BOX 130, Buda, TX 78610.

1. Collection of Information

Registration Information When you download the App and create an account ("Account"), we may collect certain information ("Registration Information") about you, such as: Name Username Email address Cell number Gender identity Date, time, and location of birth Photographs Location Login information for social media accounts that you connect to your Y'ALL Account (this could include, for example, your Facebook and Instagram accounts).

Once you register, you will be able to review and change this information at any time just by logging in to Y'ALL (other than your date of birth and location (which, if you have given Y'ALL access to your location in your device settings, is automatically updated based on the location of your device)). It is your responsibility to ensure that your account details are kept up to date. If your phone number changes, please ensure that you update this in your account. The information we collect helps to enhance the App and verify our Users (robots are not welcome!). Registration Information such as your name and username may be visible to other Users who view your profile page.

Profile Information We recommend and encourage you (and all our members) to think carefully about the information you disclose about yourself. We also do not recommend that you put email addresses, URLs, instant messaging details, phone numbers, full names or addresses, credit card details, national identity numbers, driver’s license details, and other sensitive information which is open to abuse and misuse on your profile.

When you post information about yourself or use the messaging function to communicate with other Users, the amount of personal information you share is at your own risk. Please see Section 4 below for more information on who can access what you post on Y'ALL.

Profile Verification Information For safety and security and to ensure you have the best possible user experience, we require Users to verify their accounts and might ask for your phone number and, in some instances, we might also ask that you carry out photo verification. We want to make sure you are not a robot! And we also want to avoid fake Y'ALL accounts being created which can be used for malicious activities and cybercrime – they threaten the Y'ALL network and spoil things for everyone. This verification might be required by us for the prevention of fraud. You can also verify your photo on a voluntary basis (to add the blue ‘verified’ badge to your profile). If you choose to verify your profile photo, we will scan each photo that you submit. The scan may include the use of facial recognition technology so that we can compare the photo you submit to your profile photo, to help ensure that you are who you say you are. We do not add the verification photos to your profile. We retain the scans so that we can verify you in the future and for our record-keeping purposes until we no longer need them for such purposes or for three years after your last interaction with us, whichever occurs first. After the applicable retention period expires, we take commercially reasonable steps to permanently and securely delete the scans from our systems.

Purchases Information If you decide to purchase any of our premium services, we will process your payment information and retain this securely for the prevention of fraud and for audit/tax purposes.

Y'ALL uses automated decisions to prevent fraudulent payment transactions being processed as part of its anti-fraud procedures. In order to do this, our systems check payment transactions for behavior that indicates breaches of our Terms and Conditions of Use. If a transaction meets certain criteria that demonstrate that the Terms and Conditions of Use are likely to have been breached and the transaction is likely to be fraudulent, the relevant transaction may automatically be blocked. Where a transaction is blocked, the user will be notified that their transaction cannot be processed and affected Users can contact Y'ALL to contest the decision.

Please note that if your account is blocked for any reason, any account(s) that you have on other Y'ALL Group platforms/applications may also be blocked as part of our anti-spam and anti-fraud procedures. Geolocation Information

If you have given Y'ALL access to your location in your device settings, when you use your cell, we will collect information about WiFi access points as well as other location information about your longitude and latitude and may save your device’s coordinates to offer certain features to you. This information helps us identify your physical location and we use it to personalize the App and make it easier for you to interact with other Users, by enabling the general locality information to be displayed to Users seeing your profile and showing you the profiles of other Users who are near you. If you have given Y'ALL access to your location, but wish to turn this off, you can do so by the following methods: iPhone app — settings, privacy, location services, Y'ALL Android — settings, location, Y'ALL, permissions, location

Device and Photos Information We may collect information about your device when you use the App including the unique device identifier, device model, and operating system, for a number of purposes, as set out in this policy. In addition, if you permit us to do so, the App may access your device’s address book solely in order to add someone to your contacts. We also collect data about your photos, such as which are the photos that users spend time on or which are the photos that have the best lighting, etc. We may use that data to rearrange your profile photos aiming to position them in a way that is favorable to you. You may opt-out of this feature through our app settings.

Links We may keep track of how you interact with links available on Y'ALL including third-party services by redirecting clicks or through other means. We may share aggregate click statistics such as how many times a particular link was clicked on.

Messages We review the content of messages sent in the App to identify topics, sentiments, and trends across our Users. We will take steps to remove personally identifying information from such messages, prior to reviewing them. We will not share the content of User messages or information we derive from them with any third party.

Surveys and other Contributions From time to time, we run surveys for research purposes and we may contact you to find out if you would like to take part. We may also contact you to find out if you would like to provide feedback, a testimonial, or take part in marketing campaigns (for example, if you let us know that you have found a match on the App, we may contact you to ask if you would be happy to feature in advertising for Y'ALL). Such surveys and marketing campaigns are optional and more information will be provided at the point of contact. If you do not wish to be contacted to take part in a survey or marketing campaign, please contact our Customer Support Team via our Feedback Page.

When you Contact Customer Support If you contact our Customer Support team via our Feedback Page, we will receive your email address and may track your IP address, as well as the information you send to us to help resolve your query. We will keep records of our communications with you, including any complaints that we receive from you about other Users (and from other Users about you) for 6 years after deletion of your account.

Cookies and similar technologies When you visit our Sites or when you use our App, we may collect personal data from you automatically by using cookies or similar technologies. A cookie is a small file that can be placed on your device or browser that allows us to recognize and remember you. If you would like to find out more about cookies, including how we use them and what choices are available to you, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

2. Use of Your Information Our main goal is to ensure your experience on Y'ALL is an enjoyable one! In order to deliver an enjoyable experience to you, we may use your Registration and other information to: Offer you our services and features; Contact you with information about the App (e.g., updates and new features); Personalize the App/Sites and the content we deliver to you; Conduct research and analytics about how you use and interact with the App/Sites; Test new technologies and processes designed to enhance and improve the App/Sites; Resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, and to enforce our Terms & Conditions; Investigate fraud, protect our legal rights, and to enforce our Terms & Conditions; Send you information about the promotions and offers we have available by direct marketing or other modes of communication - if you’ve signed up for our communications or otherwise told us it’s OK. We will not use your information in email direct marketing unless you give us your consent during the Account creating process or via Settings in the App (you can withdraw from marketing at any time via Settings in the App or by using the opt-out mechanisms and links provided in each message); and Protect our Users and third parties from harm.

3. Disclosure of Information Our policy is to not disclose your Registration Information or personal data, except in the limited circumstances described here: Circumstances where data may be disclosed.

Service Providers – We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us. We may share your Registration Information or personal data with these third parties, but only for the purposes of performing these functions and providing such services.

Moderators – To monitor activity on the App and approve content. Payment Processing and Telecommunications Companies – To facilitate payments for our premium services.

Law and Harm – As we mentioned in the Terms & Conditions, we think it is very important that all Users behave whilst using the App. We will cooperate with all third parties to enforce their intellectual property or other rights. We will cooperate with lawfully made law enforcement requests for information from within or outside your country of residence where we are required to by law. This may include where there is an investigation into alleged criminal behavior or to protect the vital interests of a person.

Business Transfers – In the event that a Y'ALL Group entity or any of its affiliates undergoes a business transition or change of ownership, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, re-organization, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, or in the event of insolvency or administration, we may be required to disclose your personal data.

Marketing Services Providers – To help us serve marketing and advertising on third-party websites and applications and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.

Anti-Spam and Anti-Fraud – Your data may be shared with other Y'ALL Group companies, for example, to block accounts and suspected fraudulent payment transactions as part of our anti-spam and anti-fraud procedures.

Aggregated Information – We may share aggregated information with third parties that include your personal data (but which doesn’t identify you directly) together with other information including log data for industry analysis and demographic profiling.

4. What Others May See About You When using the Y'ALL App, you should assume that anything you post or submit on the App may be publicly-viewable and accessible, both by Users and non-users of the App. We want our Users to be careful about posting information that may eventually be made public.

Please be careful about posting sensitive details about yourself on your profile. While you may voluntarily provide this information to us when you create your profile, there is no requirement to do so. Please remember that photographs that you post on Y'ALL may reveal information about yourself as well.

Your Y'ALL profile and other information you make available via the App, including certain information added to your profile through third-party accounts (such as Facebook, Instagram, or Spotify) may be viewed and shared by Users with individuals who may or may not be users of the App.

5. Our Policy Towards Age Although we want as many people as possible to enjoy our creation, you have to be at least 18 years old to use Y'ALL. Y'ALL does not knowingly collect any information about or market to children, minors, or anyone under the age of 18. If we become aware that a child, minor, or anyone under the age of 18 has registered with us and provided us with personal information, we will take steps to terminate that person’s registration.

6. Security Here at Y'ALL, we pride ourselves on taking all appropriate security measures to help protect your information against loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, or disclosure. We use reasonable security measures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information such as secured servers using firewalls.

Unfortunately, no website or Internet transmission is ever completely 100% secure and even we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur.

7. Linking Other Accounts to Y'ALL

Using your social media details to sign in to Y'ALL When you sign in to our App using your Facebook account, you give permission to Facebook to share with us your name and profile picture. Unless you opt-out, you also give permission to Facebook to share with us your email address (if there is one associated with your Facebook account), date of birth, profile photos, gender, Page likes, and current town/city. If you register or sign in with your Apple ID, you give Apple permission to share your Apple login, a name (that can be edited by you), and an email (you can choose to hide your email and Apple will create a random email address so your personal email can stay private). This email address will be linked to your Y'ALL account and will be used to retrieve your Y'ALL account. We will then use this personal data to form your Y'ALL account. If you remove the Y'ALL app from your Facebook settings, or from your Apple ID, we will no longer have access to this data. However, we will still have the personal data that we received when you first set up your Y'ALL account using your Facebook or Apple ID (you must delete your Y'ALL account entirely for us to no longer have access to this data).

Linking social media accounts to your Y'ALL account You may link your Y'ALL account with your Instagram, Facebook, or Spotify accounts. This allows you to share some information from those accounts directly to your Y'ALL account (for example, Instagram photos, or your top Spotify artists). We only receive the limited information that Instagram or Spotify permits to be transferred (as detailed by Instagram/Facebook/Spotify and agreed by you when you first connect your account from such platforms with your Y'ALL account).

If you no longer want to link your Y'ALL account to your Instagram, Facebook, or Spotify account, please visit the settings in your Instagram, Facebook, or Spotify account and follow the instructions to remove the Y'ALL app access permissions. Please note that any information already added to your Y'ALL account from those platforms will not be deleted unless you delete it within your Y'ALL account as well.

8. Your California Privacy Rights

For Users who are California residents, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, and you have the right to be free from unlawful discrimination for exercising your rights under the Act: You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you and explain how we have collected, used, and shared your personal information over the past 12 months. You have the right to request that we delete your personal information that we collected from you, subject to certain exceptions. California’s “Shine the Light” law, Civil Code section 1798.83, requires certain businesses to respond to requests from California customers asking about the businesses’ practices related to disclosing personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

9. Your Rights Privacy laws applicable in your country may give you the following rights: Right to be informed: what personal data an organization is processing and why (we provide this information to you in this Privacy Policy). Right of access: you can request a copy of your data. Right of rectification: if the data held is inaccurate, you have the right to have it corrected. Right to erasure: you have the right to have your data deleted in certain circumstances. Right to restrict processing: in limited circumstances, you have the right to request that processing is stopped but the data retained. Right to data portability: you can request a copy of certain data in a machine-readable form that can be transferred to another provider. Right to object: in certain circumstances (including where data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests or for the purposes of marketing) you may object to that processing. Rights related to automated decision-making including profiling: there are several rights in this area where processing carried out on a solely automated basis results in a decision that has legal or significant effects for the individual.

The particular rights which are applicable to you (which might include other rights not listed above) may vary depending on your country. You should make yourself aware of the rights you have under applicable privacy laws in your country. If you want to exercise any of your rights listed above please visit our Feedback Page or email our Data Protection Officer at DPO@yallapp.com. You can also contact us by post at the following address: [Your Office Address]. For your protection and the protection of all of our Users, we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity before we can answer the above requests.

If you have a concern about how we have processed your request or your personal data, you should contact us in the first instance via the contact details listed above.

10. Data Locations

We want you to be able to access Y'ALL wherever you happen to be in the world. To enable us to provide that service, we operate a global network of servers including in the US, UK, EU, and other locations. The hardware is located in third-party data centers but is owned by the Y'ALL Group. Data collected by Advertising Partners and other Service Providers may also be held outside the UK and the European Economic Area. We ensure that the data is adequately protected by ensuring that valid, legal mechanisms are in place such as: EU approved model clauses, and implementing robust contractual standards. If you want more information relating to the nature of the safeguards we have in place, please email DPO@yallapp.com.

11. Data Retention and Deletion

We keep your personal information only as long as we need it for the legal basis relied upon (as set out in Section 2 above) and as permitted by applicable law.

When your Account is deleted, we make sure it is no longer viewable in the App. For up to 28 days, it is still possible to restore your Account if it was accidentally deleted. After 28 days, we begin the process of deleting your personal information from our systems, unless: We must keep it to comply with applicable law (for instance, if you make purchases within the App, some personal data may be kept for tax and accounting purposes); We must keep it to evidence our compliance with applicable law (for example, if an account is blocked, we keep some account information and a record of the behavior that led to the block - this information is retained for evidential purposes in case of queries or legal claims concerning the block); There is an outstanding issue, claim, or dispute requiring us to keep the relevant information until it is resolved; or The information must be kept for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention and enhancing Users’ safety and security (for example, information may need to be kept to prevent a user who was banned for unsafe behavior or security incidents from opening a new account).

Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your Account, copies of that information may still be viewable and/or accessed to the extent such information has been previously shared with others, or copied or stored by others. We cannot control this, nor do we accept any liability for this.

12. Changes to This Policy As Y'ALL evolves, we may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will always be available on the Y'ALL website. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you, for example, via an email to the email associated with your Account or by posting a notice within Y'ALL.