PRIVACY POLICY

Welcome to the SmartClip app (herein: "App"), operated by SmartClip, reg. no. 040442279 (herein: "App Operator").

App Operator respects the privacy of users on the App it manages and operates. The terms herein outline, inter alia, the policies of App Operator concerning privacy protection. App Operator hereby commits to the User to observe and comply with this policy.

The purpose of this policy is to specify the practices of App Operator with relation to user privacy and how App Operator uses the information provided by the App users or collected by App Operator in the course of using the App.

Use of the App constitutes your consent to the terms herein.

The terms herein are applicable to any use of the App and the services included therein, via any communication device (e.g., mobile phone, PDA, etc.). Furthermore, they apply to any use of the App, whether via the internet or any other network or means of communication.

 

App Registration and Provision of Details as Precondition of Use

The Client may use the App upon receiving an SMS or WhatsApp message with a download URL. The following details will be requested: first name, last name, email address, and phone number for verification code.

The Participant may use the App after receiving an SMS or WhatsApp message with a download URL. The following details will be requested: first name, last name, email address, and phone number for verification code.

Following registration, the system will require the User to verify registration using a code sent via SMS message or other means of communication, at App Operator's discretion from time to time.

You must provide correct, accurate, and complete details only, and you hereby confirm the integrity of the details you provided. The data you provided will be stored by the company. Incorrect and/or incomplete details may preclude you from using the App services.

 

Permissions List and Data Usage

The App requires the following permissions to provide its services. For each permission, we explain why it's needed and how the data is used:

1. SMS and MMS Access:

   • Purpose: Required for sending invitations to users to participate in projects and for verifying your phone number during registration

   • Usage: We only read the verification SMS code and do not access or store other messages

   • Data retention: Verification codes are deleted immediately after successful verification

2. Microphone Access:

   • Purpose: Required for capturing audio in video recordings

   • Usage: Audio is only recorded when you explicitly initiate video recording

   • Data security: All audio data is encrypted during transmission using HTTPS

3. Wi-Fi Access:

   • Purpose: Required for network connectivity and optimal app performance

   • Usage: We only check Wi-Fi status and don't collect network passwords or traffic data

4. Camera and Gallery Access:

   • Purpose: Required for recording videos as requested by service clients and for allowing users to select existing videos

   • Usage: Camera is only activated when you choose to record videos

   • Gallery access is used for selecting existing videos and saving recorded videos

   • Data security: All videos are encrypted during transmission using industry-standard protocols

5. Phone Status and Identity:

   • Purpose: Required for ensuring app stability during calls and pausing video recording when a call is received

   • Usage: We only monitor call state to pause app activities during calls

   • Data collected: Only basic device information for debugging purposes

6. Contact List Access (Optional):

   • Purpose: Required to allow service clients to include contacts in their projects

   • Usage: Contacts are only accessed with explicit permission and are used to save time in manually entering participant details

   • Data security: Contact information is encrypted and never shared without your explicit consent

   • Note: This permission is optional and the App can function fully without it

7. System Settings:

   • Purpose: Required for app functionality and notifications

   • Usage: We only modify app-specific settings with your consent

 

All sensitive data is encrypted during transmission using industry-standard HTTPS protocols. We do not share this data with third parties except as described in the "Provision of Data to Third Party" section.

You can revoke these permissions at any time through your device settings, though this may limit certain app functionalities.

 

App Data Security

App Operator implements appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data. These measures include:

• Data encryption during transmission using industry-standard HTTPS protocols

• Secure storage of personal information on protected servers

• Regular security assessments and updates

• Restricted access to personal information by authorized personnel only

Despite these data security efforts, there is no absolute certainty that data will not be exposed in case of a breach into the App system or servers.

The User agrees that App Operator shall bear no liability for data exposure in any case of a breach into the App system or services, including data provided as a result of the Permissions List, if it is not about negligence on the part of the app operator and/or not through their fault. The user waives any demand, claim, or argument against the company in such relation.

 

Database and Use of Information by App Operator

App Operator may store data provided by the User in its databases.

The data collected will be stored in App Operator's database and under its responsibility.

App Operator may use the data subject to this Privacy Policy, or pursuant to the provisions of any law.

Use of the information collected will be done for the following purposes:

• Providing the services requested by the user

• Allowing use of various App features

• Improving and expanding the services and contents offered on the App

• Debugging and optimizing app performance

• Analytics related to app usage and error tracking

• Modifying or terminating existing contents and services

We retain most user data for a period of one year, after which it may be archived or deleted.

 

Direct Mailing

App Operator may send the Client and App Users (herein: Participants), via the means of communication at its disposal, including email and/or SMS message and/or push-notifications, information about its services, including marketing and advertising information. Such information will be sent to the User, according to the law, insofar as the User gave specific consent. Such consent may be revoked by the User at any time.

The Client/Participant hereby agrees and confirms that they shall have no suit or argument against App Operator with relation to the use of their details, as aforesaid hereinabove.

 

Contents to be Provided by User

Upon provision of contents by users for publication, you hereby declare and confirm that you are not infringing on the privacy of another person.

 

Provision of Data to Third Party

App Operator will not sell your personal information to third parties.

App Operator may permit access to data in databases and/or forward data to any third party, according to the type of services and/or orders as aforesaid, and also for the purposes of operating, developing, and improving the App and its services.

Pursuant to the 1981 Privacy Protection Law, every person is entitled to view the data stored on them in database. A person who viewed the data on them and deemed it incorrect, incomplete, unclear or outdated, may contact the database owner with a request to amend the data or erase, as applicable.

Furthermore, App Operator shall not provide your personal details or the data collected about your site activity to third parties, unless:

• In case of breaching the website's Terms of Use.

• Insofar as you take illegal actions on the website.

• Insofar as a judicial order is issued, ordering the provision of your details or information about you to a third party.

• Insofar as the website operator sells or transfers, in any form whatsoever, the operations of the websites to any corporation – and in case of a merger with another entity or merger of the operations of the websites with that of a third party, provided that such corporation undertakes toward you according to the provisions of this Privacy Policy.

 

Cookies

The User acknowledges App Operator's use of Cookies for the regular and proper operation of the App, including for the purpose of collecting statistical data on the use thereof, verification of details, App customization, and data security.

It is possible that some of the ads you are viewing upon visiting the apps originate in third-party servers, which manage App's ad platform.

Ad management requires such companies to place Cookies in your device and Web Beacons in the ads (herein: Cookies). Web Beacons are tiny graphic files with a unique identifier that are placed in webpages to assist in collecting data on browsing and use, and audience data (e.g., age, gender, interests) generated from Google's interest-based advertising or other advertisers using a Google Analytics code. The collected data does not identify you, but rather seeks to customize the ads presented to your fields of interest.

The use made of Cookies and Web Beacons by such companies is subject to their privacy policy and not that App's Privacy Policy.

The data contained in the Cookies pertains, inter alia, to pages you visited, websites that redirected you to the websites you are browsing, browsing duration. If you are not interested in Cookies being placed, you may cancel them by changing your browser settings (use the browser's help file).

Furthermore, you may erase the Cookies from your computer and device at any moment. Note that you should only do so if you are convinced that you do not want to customize the website ads to your preferences.

 

Changes to Privacy Policy

App Operator reserves the right to amend the Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy from time to time, without being required to give notice beyond publishing an updated version on the App.

 

Contact

We welcome users to contact us with any inquiry about the App or the terms of its Privacy Policy, with all details mentioned, and we guarantee to handle your inquiries swiftly and efficiently. Contact us by email: contact@smartclip.co.il.