Legal bases

Introduction

Under Data Protection laws companies must have a legal basis to process data. However, you always have the right to request access to, rectification of, and erasure of your data. Please visit our FAQs on how to exercise your rights, delete your data or use the settings within the App.

In order to enjoy using our Apps, you are required to enter into an enforceable contract (sometimes referred to as our Terms of Use or Terms of Service) with us. In doing so, you grant us permission to process data as is necessary to perform our contracts with you. (“the Terms”). Please see section 3 in our Terms for a description of the contractual services for which this data processing is necessary. To summarise: - We process data to provide our contractual services to you, which include:

To provide, personalize, and improve our Apps and Services.
To promote safety, integrity, and security.
To communicate with you, for example, on App and Services related issues.
To transfer, transmit, store, or process your data outside the EEA.
To provide you with a great, consistent, and seamless experience.

For more details, please visit our Privacy Policy and FAQs.

In certain instances, we rely upon other legal bases when processing your data, for example:

Our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, where those are not outweighed by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms:
- Provide, personalize, and improve our Apps and Services
- Promote safety, integrity and security, and
- Provide non-marketing communications for App, Services or customer services related issues, such as responding to content or policy breaches.

The legitimate interests we rely on for this processing are:

To create, provide, support and maintain innovative products and features that enable people to express themselves, communicate, discover, connect and engage with other users of our Apps and Services.
To secure our Apps and Services, to verify accounts and activity, combat harmful conduct, detect and prevent other bad experiences, keep our Apps and Services free of harmful or inappropriate content, and investigate suspicious activity or violations of our Terms or policies; and to prevent exploitation or other harms to which individuals may be particularly vulnerable.

Your consent:
- For collecting information, you allow and enable us to receive through the device-based settings some information (such as access to your GPS location, profile information, camera or photos), so we can provide the Apps and Services described when you enable the settings.
- For sharing and processing data that personally identifies you (information such as your name, alias, interest, profile, picture, date of birth or email address, that by itself can be used to contact you or identifies who you are) such as when you direct us to share your contact information, for example with other users of the App and Services or payment providers and where you have personalised your content.
- For using facial recognition technology for security purposes.
- For using data that other partners provide us (for example your Facebook or Google log in data and profile data) so we can personalise your experience on our Apps, Services and websites, and across your devices.

When we process data which you provide to us and which is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. To exercise your rights, visit the FAQs.

For providing measurement, analytics, and other business services where we are processing data as a controller.

The legitimate interests we rely on for this processing are:

To provide accurate and reliable reporting to our partners, to ensure accurate pricing and statistics and help us understand how to improve our Apps and Services.

For providing marketing communications to you.

The legitimate interests we rely on for this processing are:

To promote our Apps and Services and issue our direct marketing ( when consent is provided by you).

To share information with others including law enforcement and to respond to legal requests. See our Privacy Policy and FAQs for more detail.

The legitimate interests we rely on for this processing are:

To prevent and address fraud, unauthorised use of our Apps and Services, violations of our Terms and policies, or other harmful or illegal activity; to protect ourselves (including our rights, property or products), our users or others, including as part of investigations or regulatory inquiries; or to prevent death or imminent bodily harm.

You have the right to object to, and seek restriction of, such processing; to exercise your rights.

Compliance with a legal obligation:
- For processing data when the law requires it, including, for example, if there is a valid legal request for certain data.
Protection of your vital interests or those of another person:
- The vital interests we rely on for this processing include protection of your life or physical integrity or that of others, and we rely on it to combat harmful conduct and promote safety and security, for example, when we are investigating reports of harmful conduct or when someone needs help.
Tasks carried out in the public interest:
- For undertaking research where this is necessary in the public interest as laid down by law to which we are subject.

When we process your data as necessary for a task carried out in the public interest, you have the right to object to, and seek restriction of, our processing.