Privacy Policy for Torch by Txrch Inc.

Introduction:

This Privacy Policy describes how Torch, operated by Txrch Inc., collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you use our application.

Information You Provide Us With:

Personal Information: We collect information such as your name, address, and phone number when you register for an account or use our services. This information is used to provide and improve our services, process transactions, and communicate with you.

Camera/Photo Access: If you grant access, we will use your camera or photo library to allow you to upload content to the app.

Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to monitor your activity on our app and hold certain information.

In order to purchase ads and, or, products sold by vendors, you will need to provide us with payment information, including but not limited to your credit or debit card number, card expiration date, CVV code, and billing address, and shipping address.

Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes.

Information We Collect As You Use Torch:

Your interactions with other users’ content, such as pins, likes, collection adds, , replies, if other users mention or tag you in content or if you mention or tag them.

If you communicate with us, such as through email, we will collect information about the communication and its content.

We collect information from and about the devices you use to access Torch, including:

Information about your connection, such as your IP address, browser type, and related information.

Information about your device and its settings, such as device and advertising ID, operating system, carrier, language, memory, apps installed, and battery level.

Your device’s address book if you’ve chosen to share it with us.

When you use Torch, we collect some information about your approximate location to provide the service you expect, including showing you relevant ads. You can also choose to share your current precise location or places where you’ve previously used Torch by enabling these settings in your account.

Torch uses an algorithm to track your activities within the app, including the content you view, like, and share. This information is used to personalize your experience and suggest relevant content.

We may collect or receive information that we use to infer your identity as detailed below:

When you sign into Torch on a browser or device, we will associate that browser or device with your account. Subject to your settings, we may also associate your account with browsers or devices other than those you use to sign into Torch (or associate your signed-out device or browser with other browsers or devices or Torch-generated identifiers).

When you provide other information to Torch, including an email address or phone number, we associate that information with your Torch account. Subject to your settings, we may also use this information in order to infer other information about your identity, for example by associating your account with hashes of email addresses that share common components with the email address you have provided to Torch.

When you access Torch and are not signed in, we may infer your identity based on the information we collect.

We may receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our products and services, even if you have not created an account or are signed out, such as:

IP address and related information; browser type and language; operating system; the referring webpage; access times; pages visited; location; your mobile carrier; device information (including device and application IDs); search terms and IDs (including those not submitted as queries); ads shown to you on Torch; Torch-generated identifiers; and identifiers associated with cookies. We also receive log information when you click on, view, or interact with links on our services, including when you install another application through Torch.

When you view or interact with ads we serve on or off X, we may collect information about those views or interactions (e.g., watching a video ad or pre-roll, clicking on an ad, interacting with reposts of or replies to an ad).

Information We Receive from Third Parties:

Our ad and business partners share information with us such as browser cookie IDs, Torch-generated identifiers, mobile device IDs, hashed user information like email addresses, demographic or interest data, and content viewed, or actions taken on a website or app. Some of our ad partners, particularly our advertisers, also enable us to collect similar information directly from their website or app by integrating our advertising technology. Information shared by ad partners and affiliates or collected by Torch from the websites and apps of ad partners and affiliates may be combined with the other information you share with Torch and that Torch receives, generates, or infers about you described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.

We may receive information about you from third parties who are not our ad partners, such as other Torch users, developers, and partners who help us evaluate the safety and quality of content on our platform and other services you link to your Torch account. You may choose to connect your Torch account to your account on another service, and that other service may send us information about your account on that service.

Information Use:

We use the information we collect to provide and operate Torch systems and services. We also use the information we collect to improve and personalize our system and services so that you have a better experience on Torch, including by showing you more relevant content and ads, suggesting people and topics to follow, enabling, and helping you discover vendors, third-party apps, and services. We may use the information we collect and publicly available information to help train our machine learning or artificial intelligence models for the purposes outlined in this policy.

We may use the information we collect from accounts of other services that you choose to connect your Torch account to provide you features like cross-posting or cross-service authentication, and to operate our services.

We use your contact information to help others find your account if your settings permit, including through third-party services and client applications.

We use your information to provide our advertising and sponsored content services subject to your settings, which helps make ads on Torch more relevant to you. We also use this information to measure the effectiveness of ads and to help recognize your devices to serve you ads on and off of Torch. Some of our ad partners also enable us to collect similar information directly from their website or app by integrating our advertising technology. Information shared by ad partners and affiliates or collected by Torch from the websites and apps of ad partners and affiliates may be combined with the other information you share with Torch and that Torch receives, generates, or infers about you, as described elsewhere in our Privacy Policy.

We use information we collect to provide for the safety and security of our users, our systems, services, and your account. This includes verifying your identity, authenticating your account, and defending against fraud, unauthorized use, and illegal activity. We also use the information to evaluate and affect the safety and quality of content on Torch - this includes investigating and enforcing our policies and terms, as well as applicable law.

We use the information we collect to measure and analyze the effectiveness of our products and services and to better understand how you use them in order to make them better.

We use information you share with us, or that we collect to conduct research, surveys, product testing, and troubleshooting to help us operate and improve our products and services.

Information Sharing and Disclosure:

Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers to perform functions and process user data on our behalf, subject to confidentiality agreements.

Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities; comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; protect the safety of any person, protect the safety or integrity of our platform, including to help prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actors on our services; explain why we have removed content or accounts from our services (e.g., for a violation of Our Rules); address fraud, security, or technical issues; or protect our rights or property, or the rights or property of those who use our services.

Business Transfers:

If Txrch Inc. is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred.

You are directing us to disclose that information as broadly as possible. Torch content, including your profile information (e.g., name/pseudonym, username, profile pictures), is available for viewing by the general public. The public does not need to be signed in to view some content on Torch. They may also find X content off of Torch, for example from search query results on Internet search engines.

With other Torch users we share: Your interactions with Torch content of other users, such as likes, and people you follow. Content you send to a specific Torch user, such as through Direct Messages. Please keep in mind that if you’ve shared information like Direct Messages or protected posts with someone else who accesses Torch through a third-party service, the information may be shared with the third-party service. We may share your information with our service providers that perform functions and provide services on our behalf, including payment services providers who facilitate payments; service providers that host our various blogs and wikis; service providers that help us understand the use of our services; applicant tracking system providers to send and receive applicant and job data to potential employers; and those that provide fraud detection services.

Advertising revenue enables us to provide our products and services. Advertisers may learn information from your engagement with their ads on or off Torch. For example, if you click on an external link or ad on our services, that advertiser or website operator might figure out that you came from Torch, along with other information associated with the ad you clicked, such as characteristics of the audience it was intended to reach and other Torch-generated identifiers for that ad. They may also collect other personal information from you, such as cookie identifiers, or your IP address.

We share or disclose your information with your consent or at your direction, such as when you authorize a third-party web client or application to access your account or when you direct us to share your feedback with a business. Similarly, to improve your experience, we work with third-party partners to display their video content on X or to allow cross-platform sharing.

We use technology like APIs and embeds to make public Torch information available to websites, apps, and others for their use, for example, displaying posts on a news website or analyzing what people say on Torch. We generally make this content available in limited quantities for free and charge licensing fees for large-scale access. We have standard terms that govern how this information can be used, and a compliance program to enforce these terms. But these individuals and companies are not affiliated with Torch and their offerings may not reflect updates you make on Torch.

We may share, sell, or transfer information about you in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or bankruptcy. This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal information that is shared with (before and after the close of any transaction) or transferred to the new entity.

Duration of Data Being Kept:

We keep different types of information for different periods of time: We keep your profile information and content for the duration of your account. We generally keep other personally identifiable data we collect when you use our products and services for a maximum of 20 months. Remember public content can exist elsewhere even after you remove it from Torch. For example, search engines and other third parties may retain copies of your posts longer, based upon their own privacy policies, even after they are deleted or expire on Torch.

Where you violate our Rules and your account is suspended, we may keep the identifiers you used to create the account (i.e., email address or phone number) indefinitely to prevent repeat policy offenders from creating new accounts.

We may keep certain information longer than our policies specify in order to comply with legal requirements and for safety and security reasons.

Data Security:

We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.

International Transfers: Your information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

Your Data Rights:

Access and Control: You have the right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you.

Consent Withdrawal: You may withdraw your consent to data collection at any time

Children's Privacy: Torch does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Our services are not directed to children, and you may not use our services if you are under the age of 13. You must also be old enough to consent to the processing of your personal data in your country (in some countries we may allow your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf).

Changes to This Privacy Policy: We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time as needed. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.