Privacy Policy
At Chicken Road, we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our mobile application and related services. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the application.
Information Collection
We collect information about you in various ways when you use our app. This information may include:
- Personal Data: Name, email address, phone number, and other similar contact information that you voluntarily provide when creating an account or contacting us.
- Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the app, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed.
- Location Data: With your permission, we may request access to your current location-based information (GPS) to provide you with location-specific road safety alerts and crossing suggestions. You can disable location services at any time through your device settings.
- Mobile Device Data: Device information such as your mobile device ID, model, manufacturer, and information about the location of your device if you have enabled location services.
- Push Notifications: We may request to send you push notifications regarding your account or certain features of the app. If you wish to opt-out from receiving these types of communications, you may turn them off in your device's settings.
Use of Your Information
We may use the information we collect about you for various purposes, including to:
- Create and maintain your account and ensure secure access to our app
- Provide and maintain the functionality of the Chicken Road app, including pedestrian safety features and crossing guidance
- Personalize your experience with location-relevant safety information
- Process and respond to your inquiries and feedback
- Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and administrative messages
- Improve our app functionality and user experience
- Monitor app usage statistics to better understand how users interact with our services
- Detect, prevent, and address technical issues or fraudulent activities
- Comply with applicable laws and regulations
Disclosure of Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
By Law or to Protect Rights
If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
Third-Party Service Providers
We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
Marketing Communications
With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
Interactions with Other Users
If you interact with other users of our app, those users may see your profile information, activity data related to road safety contributions, and descriptions of your activity.
Online Postings
When you post comments, contributions, or other content to the app, your posts may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the app in perpetuity.
Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
Your Privacy Rights
Account Information
You may at any time review or change the information in your account or terminate your account by:
- Logging into your account settings and updating your information
- Contacting us using the contact information provided below
Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use and/or comply with legal requirements.
Marketing Communications
You can unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send or by contacting us. You will then be removed from the marketing email list – however, we will still need to send you service-related emails that are necessary for the administration and use of your account.
California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
For users in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Chicken Road aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.
You have the following data protection rights:
- The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you
- The right of rectification
- The right to object
- The right of restriction
- The right to data portability
- The right to withdraw consent
Children's Privacy
The Chicken Road app is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, please do not provide any information on this app. If we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will promptly delete such information from our servers.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Chicken Road App, Inc.
123 Crossing Avenue, Suite 456
San Francisco, CA 94107
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +1 (555) 123-4567
Last Updated: December 1, 2023