Welcome to Koowentu!

Koowentu provides a social online storytelling, content-sharing, community, and collaboration platform via the Koowentu website (the "Site"), the Koowentu application (the "App") and related Internet services (collectively, the "Service(s)"). This Service is operated by Koowentu Technology (the "Company", "we" or "us") for users of the Service ("you"). This Privacy Policy sets forth our policy with respect to information that is collected from visitors to the Site and users of the App and/or the Services. Under applicable law, Koowentu Technology is the "data controller" of personal data collected through Services.

What information we collect about you

We collect information about you when you provide it to us, when you use our Services, and when other services provide it to us, as further described below:

Infomation you provide: We collect information from you when you voluntarily provide such information, such as when you register to access to the Services or use certain Services, Infomation we collect may include but not be limited to email address, username, age, and any images or content you share in the platform.

Other Information:

• Data We Collect Automatically: When you interact with us through the Services, we receive and store certain information such as an IP address, device ID, and your activities within the Services. We may store such information or such information may be included in databases owned and maintained by affiliates, agents or service providers. The Services may use such information and pool it with other information to track, for example, the total number of visitors to our Site and App, the number of posted contents users have made as well as the sites with refer visitors to Koowentu.
• Aggregated Information: In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Services, we may conduct research on our customer demographics, interests and behavior based on the information collected. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and we may share this aggregate data with our affiliates, agents and business partners. We may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
• Info through other Services: You may give us permission to collect your information in other services. For example, you may connect a social networking service ("SNS") such as Facebook or Twitter to your Koowentu account. When you do this, it allows us to obtain information from those accounts (for example, your friends or contacts).
• Cookies: We employ cookies and similar technologies to keep track of your local computer’s settings such as which account you have logged into and notification settings. Cookies are pieces of data that sites and services can set on your browser or device that can be read on future visits. We may expand our use of cookies to save additional data as new features are added to the Service. In addition, we use technologies such as web beacons and single-pixel gifs to record log data such as open rates for emails sent by the system.
• We may use third party web site analytic tools such as Google Analytics on our website that employ cookies to collect certain information concerning your use of our Services. However, you can disable cookies by changing your browser settings. Further information about the procedure to follow in order to disable cookies can be found on your Internet browser provider's website via your help screen.
• Advertisements: You may see our Service advertised in other applications or websites. After clicking on one of these advertisements and installing our Service, you will become a user of the Service. Advertising platforms, which include Twitter and Facebook (and whose SDKs are integrated within our Service), may collect information for optimizing advertising campaigns outside of the Service.

If you do not wish to receive personalized advertising that is delivered by third parties outside of the Koowentu Service, you may be able to exercise that choice through opt-out programs that are administered by their parties, including the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA). Our Services currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals and operate as described in this Privacy Policy whether or not a DNT signal is received, as there is not consistent industry standard for compliance.

Where information is processed

The Company is based in the Philippines. No matter where you are located, you consent to the processing and transferring of your information in and to the Philippines and other countries. The laws of the Philippines and other countries giving data collection and use may not be as comprehensive or protective as laws of the country where you live.

Our use of your information

We use the information you provide in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy. If you provide information for a certain reason, we may use the information in connection with the reason for which it was provided. For instance, if you contact us by email, we will use the information you provide to answer your question or resolve your problem. Also, if you provide information in order to obtain access to the Services, we will use your information to provide you with access to such services and to monitor your use of such services. The Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates (the “Related Companies”) may also use your information collected through the Services to help us improve the content and functionality of the Services, to better understand our users and to improve the Services. The Company and its affiliates may use this information to contact you in the future to tell you about services we believe will be of interest to you. If we do so, each marketing communication we send you will contain instructions permitting you to "opt-out" of receiving future marketing communications. In addition, if at any time you wish not to receive any future marketing communications or you wish to have your name deleted from our mailing lists, please contact us as indicated below.

Our legal bases for handling of your personal data

The laws in some jurisdictions require companies to tell you about the legal ground they rely on to use or disclose your personal data. To the extent those laws apply, our legal grounds are as follows:

• To honor our contractual commitments to you: Much of our processing of personal data is to meet our contractual obligations to our users, or to take steps at users’ request in anticipation of entering into a contract with them. For example, we handle personal data on this basis to create your account and provide our Services.
• Legitimate interests: In many cases, we handle personal data on the ground that it furthers our legitimate interests in ways that are not overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the affected individuals: This includes:
• Providing a safe and enjoyable user experience;
• Customer service;
• Marketing, e.g. sending emails or other communications to let you know about new features;
• Protecting our users, personnel, and property;
• Analyzing and improving our business, e.g. collecting information about how you use our Services to optimize the design and placement of certain features;
• Processing job applications;
• Managing legal issues.
• Legal compliance: We need to use and disclose personal data in certain ways to comply with our legal obligations.
• To protect the vital interests of the individual or others: For example, we may collect or share personal data to help resolve an urgent medical situation.
• Consent: Where required by law, and in some other cases, we handle personal data on the basis of your implied or express consent.

Our disclose of your information

The Company is not in the business of selling your information. We consider this information to be a vital part of our relationship with you. There are, however, certain circumstances in which we may share your information with certain third parties, as set forth below:

• Business Transfers: As we develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, bankruptcy, dissolution or similar event, your information may be part of the transferred assets.
• Consent: We may transfer your information with your consent.
• Related Companies: We may also share your information with our Related Companies for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.
• Agents, Consultants and Related Third Parties: Like many businesses, we sometimes hire other companies or individuals to perform certain business-related functions. Examples of such functions include mailing information, maintaining databases and processing payments.
• Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of the Company or Related Companies, (iii) protect the personal safety of users of the Services or the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability.
• Aggregated or Non-identifiable Data: We may also share aggregated or non-personally identifiable information with our partners or others for business purposes.

Unsolicited information

You may provide us with ideas for new products or modifications to existing products, and other unsolicited submissions (collectively, “Unsolicited Information”). All Unsolicited Information shall be deemed to be non-confidential and we shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute such Unsolicited Information to others without limitation or attribution.

Children

Our services are for users age 13 and over and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian of a child under the age of 13 and believe he or she has disclosed personal information to us please contact us at support@koowentu.com. For residents of the EEA, where processing of personal information is based on consent, Koowentu will not knowingly engage in the process for the users under the age of consent established by applicable data proaction law. If we learn that we are engaged in sick processing with such users, we will halt such processing and will take reasonable measures to promptly remove applicable information from our records.