Privacy Policy

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Contact us with: chidumagaogbuji@gmail.com

1. Introduction

This is the Privacy Policy of UNICE Limited, ("UNICE", "us", "we", or "our") which is incorporated into and is subject to our Terms of Use. Please read on to learn more about our data handling practices. By accessing or using our UNICE mobile application ("App") or all of the services available or related to therein (collectively referred to in this Privacy Policy as the "Service"), you agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Service.

When you visit the Site or App we may collect data from you as described below. When you register and use your account with us we will collect data from you in order to provide the Services. The types of data we collect depends on how you use our App and Services.

2. Information we collect

When you visit and use our Site or App, install the App on your device, or register for an account with UNICE, some personally identifiable information about you is collected in order for us to be able to provide you with the Services. Further details about this are set out below.

2.1. "Registration and Account Data"

When you install the Service on your device and/or register for an account with UNICE, personally and/or non-personally identifiable information about you may be collected. There are two types of Registration and Account Data; data:-

Information you provide (mandatory) - You will be asked to provide your gender, name or an alias and date of birth together with your mobile phone or email address. This is important to help us provide you with the connection and friends features in our Service.

Information you provide (optional) - You may also choose to provide other personally identifiable information such as your photos or videos of yourself, description of yourself and information about your interests. For example you can indicate your interests in your profile page. The provision of such information is entirely optional. If you register and log in using your Facebook, Apple or Google account, we may also collect additional information that you make available to us. For example, if you register with UNICE using your Facebook account (e.g., Facebook Connect), we may collect and store your Facebook ID and corresponding token on our servers for automatic log in and profile information and, if you give us your express consent, we will have access to and may collect certain information that you make available on Facebook (for example, your first and last names, email address, profile picture, birthdays). We will store it on our servers and use it to facilitate your use of the Service – for example - we may synchronize your UNICE account between different devices which you may use to access our Service.

We also use your contact information to market to you as your country's laws allow – for example if there are new offerings for our Services or updates regarding changes to our Services and to help others find your account if your settings permit, including through third-party services and client applications. You can use your settings for email and mobile notifications to control notifications you receive from us. You can also unsubscribe from a notification by following the instructions contained within the notification.

In addition to the video calling features you can use our personal text messaging service as part of the Services in the App. When you communicate with others by sending or receiving text messages, we will store and process your communications and information related to them. This includes scanning for malicious content, detection of abuse and prohibited images, and use of reported issues. We also use information about whom you have communicated with and when (but not the content of those communications) to better understand the use of our Services, to protect the safety and integrity of our platform.

2.2. Location Information

'Location Data' is information such as your current location can derived from your GPS (GPS coordinates) Wifi (approximate city location), IP address (country location) which may be disclosed to either us or other users or both. We require Location Data to securely and reliably set up and maintain your account and to provide our Services to you and maintain the integrity and security of our Services. Your current location is essential to the effective operation of our Services and helps us ensure the correct and anticipated connections are made.

Consequently we may collect, use, and store additional information about your location - such as your current precise position or places where you've previously used our Services - to operate or personalize our services including with more relevant connections.

2.3. Log Data

We receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our services, which we refer to as "Log Data".

For example, when you visit our websites, sign into our services, interact with our email notifications, use your account to authenticate to a third-party service, we may receive information about you. This Log Data includes information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, configuration information made available by the UNICE app or desktop browser, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms (including those not submitted as queries), and cookie information. We also receive Log Data when you click on, view, or interact with links or make connections on our Services and general information about your communications on UNICE such as the user you have communicated with and the date and duration of your communications (but not the content of such communications, unless required for safety and security reasons) including when and if you install another application through our Services. We use Log Data to operate our Services and ensure their secure, reliable, and robust performance. The purpose for using Log Data is to protect the security of accounts and to determine what is popular on our services and importantly Log Data is used to enable you to make connection with new and former connections on UNICE. We also use this data to improve our Services and to improve the effectiveness of our own marketing. We also use metadata, which means information related to items to you have made available through UNICE, such as the date or location that you made a connection via the UNICE App.

We do not keep Log Data beyond 30 days.

2.4. Other Third Parties and Affiliates

We may receive information about you from third parties such as partners who help us evaluate the safety and quality of content on our platform, our corporate affiliates, and other services you link to your account.

We use the information we receive to operate our Services. For integrations that we formally support, you may revoke this permission at any time from your application settings; for other integrations, please visit the other service you have connected.

You may provide us with payment information, including your credit or debit card number, card expiration date, CVV code, and billing address, in order to make purchases provided as part of our services. If you make a payment or send money using our features or Services, including through an intermediary, we may receive information about your transaction such as when it was made.

2.5. Personalizing Based On Your Inferred Identity

When you log into UNICE on a browser or device, we will associate that browser or device with your account for purposes such as authentication, security, and personalization. Subject to your settings, we may also associate your account with browsers or devices other than those you use to log into UNICE (or associate your logged-out device or browser with other browsers or devices). When you provide other information to UNICE, including an email address, we associate that information with your UNICE 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 UNICE. We do this to operate and personalize our Services. For example, if you log in through Facebook we connect with your age profile there to help maintain the required standards to be on our App and use the Services.

2.6. During usage of the App

Device information – UNICE may collect and store information about the device(s) which you use to install and access the App, such as your device model, unique device identifier, IP address, device capability and statistics on page views.

Your activity - UNICE may collect and store information about your and others' usage of and activity within the App and our Site, including matches, numbers of matches made by members, match durations, text messaging, music choices made using the Apps messaging service and usage by geographies. We require from your device access to use and to copy your photos for your profile picture and any photos/ media files you choose to share, so they can be reproduced in the App and our Site. We require the ability to access your camera / microphone and to record video/ audio for us to deliver the video and audio, including music files and related files in order for you to use and enjoy the Services whilst using the App and our Site and also to help us with our compliance requirements, such as ensuring under 18s are not permitted to use our App or our Site.

Content you shared - UNICE allows you to share your profile, interests, text messages, photos, videos, images and other materials (collectively "Content") with other users of the App. Subject to your profile settings, any Content that you post on the App may be viewed by all users of the App. You understand and agree that any Content you post, and any action you take, whilst using the App and Site may be viewed by others and you therefore expressly agree that you shall only post Content or take any action in respect of which you have the necessary rights/permissions to share. For example, by including your friend's name and photo in a post, you represent that you have received all necessary permission from your friend to share this information with UNICE / include this information in your post. UNICE cannot be held responsible for any Content that is shared by its users without permission. However, UNICE operates a notice and takedown policy as outlined in the paragraph below. Please note that UNICE is not responsible for the Content, accuracy, or reliability of the information submitted by its users, nor for verifying the identity of its users. You also understand and agree that you may be exposed to third-party Content that is inaccurate, objectionable, inappropriate, or otherwise unsuited to your purpose. Subject to the paragraph below, UNICE shall not be liable for any loss or damage incurred to you as a result of Content shared by other users. Any information in your profile which is not mandatory (e.g., your photos, interests or other details about you) may be matched by UNICE with certain activities from other users, or general user data for the purpose of delivering marketing communications as well as delivering your profile, including details about your profile, to other users.

Content you created - We may also collect and store any user content (e.g. photos, screenshots, comments, interests and other materials) that you create or post on the App ("User Content").

Information about transactions made through our Service – In order to complete a transaction, you will be requested to provide your payment information, which includes your credit card number, card expiration date, CVV code, and billing address. In that event, we will transmit your information securely directly to a third-party vendor or merchant who will collect such information in order to process and fulfil your purchase. UNICE may process or store your payment information. However, we may store other information about your purchases made on the App, which may include the merchant's name, the date, time and amount of the transaction and other behavioural information such as your purchase history.

Error-reporting information – We also collect error-reporting information if the App crashes or fails to operate properly so that we can investigate the error and improve the stability of the App for future releases. In general these reports do not contain personally identifiable information, or only incidentally. These error reports contain information such as the type and version of your device, the device identifier, the time the error occurred, the feature being used and the state of the App when the error occurred. We do not use this information for any purpose other than investigating and fixing the error.

2.7. When you visit our Site

We may use online tracking technology such as cookies, pixel tags, web beacons and other similar technologies to automatically collect information about:

  • your visits to our Site, such as your browsing history, how long you stay on our Site, and how often you visit; and
  • your location information as provided by your mobile or other device when you interact with our Site, including your IP address and general geographic location; and the device that you use to browse our Site (e.g. your device ID, operating system, type of device, browser type and version, mobile application crashes and other system activity, and third party sites you were using before interacting with our services).

You have the right to disable any of these online tracking technologies. These help us ensure you are able to log into your account securely, develop our Services by using data analytics and develop new services for our users. To learn more about how we use the above data, please see the Cookie Policy section below.

2.8. Age

The Service is not directed at children or persons under the age of eighteen (18) and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children or persons under the age of eighteen (18) as part of the Service. We do however collect information regarding your age to ensure underage users are not part of our platform in order to maintain the security of our Services and use third parties to help us maintain the correct age profile for our App. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received or collected personally identifiable information from a user under the age of eighteen (18) as part of the Service, we will delete such information from our records. If you are under the age of eighteen (18), please do not use the Service.

3. Legal basis for using your information

We will only use your information where we have appropriate legal grounds for doing so. Our legal grounds include:

  • consent (where you have given consent)
  • performance of a contract (where we need to collect and use your information to perform our contractual obligations to you, e.g. providing and delivering products you have ordered)
  • legitimate interests (where the collection and use of your information is in our legitimate interests to run our business efficiently, provided that our interests do not unduly impact on your interests, fundamental rights and freedoms)

4. How long we retain your information

We will keep your personal information as long as we have a relationship with you. Once our relationship with you has come to an end, we will retain your personal information for a period of time that enables us to:

  • Maintain business records for analysis and/or audit purposes
  • Comply with record retention requirements under the law
  • Defend or bring any existing or potential legal claims
  • Deal with any complaints regarding our Services

We will delete your personal information when it is no longer required for these purposes.

5. How UNICE stores and protects your information?

Your personally identifiable information may be stored on UNICE's servers, our service partners' servers or your device(s). Your personally identifiable information may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your jurisdiction, where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction.

UNICE takes commercially reasonable steps to help protect your personally identifiable information in an effort to prevent loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. For example, we encrypt the transmission of sensitive personal data (such as credit card information, etc) using secure socket layer (SSL) technology; however, please note that no method of electronic storage or electronic transmission is 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of the personally identifiable information you have shared with us.

Your privacy settings may also be affected by changes to the functionality of UNICE and/or its service partners. UNICE strongly urges you to review privacy policies and practices of its service partners from time to time to make sure you are aware of the information UNICE and/or its service partners collect, how it is used, and with whom it may be shared.

6. Does UNICE collect information from children?

UNICE does not knowingly collect or solicit personally identifiable information from children under 13 (or under 14 in Spain and South Korea, under 16 in the Netherlands, under 18 in Singapore, or under 21 in Japan) or knowingly allows such persons to register with UNICE. If you are under 13 (or under 14 in Spain and South Korea, under 16 in the Netherlands, under 18 in Singapore, or under 21 in Japan), you are not permitted to use, access, or contribute in any way to our Services. If UNICE learns that it has collected personally identifiable information from a child under 13 (or under 14 in Spain and South Korea, under 16 in the Netherlands, under 18 in Singapore, or under 21 in Japan), UNICE will delete such information as quickly as possible. If you believe that UNICE might have any personally identifiable information from or about a child under 13 (or under 14 in Spain and South Korea, under 16 in the Netherlands, under 18 in Singapore, or under 21 in Japan), please contact UNICE at chidumagaogbuji@gmail.com.

7. Sharing of information

Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy, UNICE will not rent, sell, lease or transfer its users' personally identifiable information to third parties.

Sharing with other UNICE users – Some of your information, including your username, photos or other images you choose to share, will be publicly available to other UNICE users. Other users may also be able to view information about your activity on the App such as the time that you became a member, how often you have used the App, your recent activity on the App, which UNICE users (if any) you are connected to and your music choices and other information if you have agreed to share it. In addition, UNICE may share your registration data with other UNICE users or your contacts who may be on UNICE or other companies in order to help you connect with your friends and build your network. UNICE may also decide to share your personal information with those people or services that you have specifically chosen to share it with. For example, if you share your UNICE profile with one or more UNICE users, they will be able to see some of the registration data you provided when you created your profile and also any additional information that you choose to share with the profile viewer.

Sharing with UNICE's service partners – UNICE works together with various service partners who provide services to UNICE or to you via the App. UNICE may share your information, including personally identifiable information, with such service providers in order to help UNICE to provide, improve, and promote its services on your behalf and for their own purposes, always in accordance with applicable law and having your best interest in mind. For example, UNICE may share your information with service providers who host UNICE's servers and help deliver the App to you. UNICE may also aggregate, analyse, and share anonymous, de-identified or general user information with our service partners.

Sharing with UNICE's advertising partners – UNICE's partners may collect information about you when you use our App. For example, they may collect device identifiers, usage metrics and preferences, cookie IDs, advertising IDs, IP addresses and other online identifiers in order to provide you with more relevant advertising when you are using our App or to measure the effectiveness of our advertising. UNICE's advertising partners may combine the information collected from UNICE with other information they have independently collected over time and across different platforms. Their collection and use of this information is subject to their own privacy policies.

Linked services and third-party sites and sharing with social media platforms – The App may contain links to third-party websites and services with which UNICE is not affiliated. The App allows you to share content from the App onto other social media platforms, and if you do so, your content may also be subject to the respective social media platforms' terms and privacy notice. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information through any of these third party platforms, websites or services, through buttons (such as "Like", "Tweet" or "Email to a friend") available on the App, or through any applications of such platforms, websites or services that are integrated into the App, this information may be collected by the applicable third party and/or the App and may be included in databases owned and maintained by the applicable third party or the App.

Compliance with laws and law enforcement – UNICE may disclose your information, including personally identifiable information and any other information about your use of the App, to government or law enforcement officials or private parties as UNICE, in its sole discretion, believes necessary or appropriate to respond to, and to defend against legal claims, to comply with a subpoena, court order, legal process or a request for cooperation by a government or other entity, whether or not legally required, to enforce our contractual and property rights and remedies, or to protect the property, rights and safety of any party, including UNICE, its users or members of the public.

Business transfers – In the event that UNICE sells all or part of its business or makes a sale or transfer of its assets or is otherwise involved in a merger, reorganization or business transfer, UNICE may transfer to one or more third parties the personally identifiable information and other data UNICE collected from its users and about how they use the Service.

8. Marketing and opt-outs

Where it is in accordance with your preferences, we may use your personally identifiable information to provide you with direct marketing communications via our Site, our App, and our direct marketing communications, social media or other communication means, such as email.

Before providing you with direct marketing communications, we will always ask for your consent. You can choose at any time to opt out from receiving such direct marketing communications from us. Please see the section on Your Data Protection Rights below.

9. Data Access and Removal

You can always control what information you choose to share with us on the App (except for information which we have indicated as mandatory for you to provide). To do so, you can change your settings in the App or in your mobile device. Alternatively, you can remove the App from your mobile device entirely.

You can choose to remove your data anytime you want. If you ask us to delete your account, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to remove your data from our servers, subject to any applicable legal or other requirement to maintain certain records of your personally identifiable data. Please note that the deletion of your personally identifiable data from our database may result in us not being able to provide you with the Service.

10. Outbound Links

If you accessed a website or application provided by a third party, including through the App or the Site, such third party may also collect information about you. We do not own or control and are not responsible for the privacy practices of third party websites or applications. Please refer to the privacy policies of each of these third parties for more information about how they collect and use the information they collect about you. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any exchange of information between you and any such third party.

11. Security

Protecting your privacy and personal information is a top priority for UNICE. We protect the privacy and security of all personally identifiable information you provide to us. We run stress tests on our systems to help us improve. Access to all personally identifiable information is strictly restricted to UNICE and RC Group employees, contractors, agents and Third-Party Partners and service providers who need to know that information in order to provide, operate, develop, maintain, support or improve the Service or otherwise carry out any of the purposes as set out in this Privacy Policy. UNICE implements appropriate technical and physical security measures, such as using password protection, access logs, and system monitoring to maintain the confidentiality and security of all users' information against any loss or unauthorised disclosure, use and modification.

However, due to the inherent nature of the Internet and related technology, we do not guarantee the protection of information under our control against any loss, misuse or alteration.

Your information may be stored and processed in any country in which UNICE or RC's Group or its service providers maintain facilities. In this regard, or for purposes of sharing or disclosing data as described in this Privacy Policy, UNICE reserves the right to transfer information outside of your country. By using the Service, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country. UNICE and the RC Group share infrastructure, systems and technology to provide an innovative, relevant, consistent and safe experiences across all of the RC Group Apps, such as the UNICE App you use. We also process information about you across the RC Group for these purposes, as permitted by applicable law and in accordance with their terms and policies.

When we transfer personal information internationally, we put in place safeguards in accordance with applicable law. If you would like to know more about our personal data transfer practices, please contact us at the contact details set out under the "Contact Information" section.

We may also pseudonymise or aggregate Personal Information for analytical purposes. This helps us develop new and improve existing services, conduct fraud detection and account safety analysis, analyse usage trends, and provide third party service providers with basic statistics about how their service is being used by UNICE users.

12. Retention of Your Data

We will keep your personal data only for so long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless the law requires us to keep it for a longer period. Once we no longer need your personal data, we will either irreversibly anonymise or securely delete it from our servers.

13. Your Data Protection Rights

UNICE would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. In particular, you are entitled to the following rights:

Right of Access:

  • You shall have the right to obtain from UNICE confirmation as to whether or not your personal information is being processed, and, where that is the case, you may request for a copy of your personal information.

Right to Withdraw Consent:

  • The provision of your consent shall give UNICE a lawful basis to process your personal information. You may also revoke your consent to processing.

Right to Rectification:

  • If you entered the incorrect age or gender, we can assist you. Please submit a report to Customer service and we will handle your request.

Right to Erasure:

  • You shall have the right to ask for your personal information to be deleted in certain circumstances;
  • Please note that your right to erasure may be limited if the data are necessary for compliance with a legal obligation or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Right to Restriction on Processing:

  • You shall have the right to object to and ask for restrictions on the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances;

Right to Data Portability:

  • You shall have the right to receive the personal information you have provided to UNICE, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those personal information from UNICE to another controller without hindrance from UNICE to which the personal information have been provided, where:
  • the processing is based on your consent; and
  • the processing is carried out by automated means;

Right to Objection:

  • You shall have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of your personal information.
  • UNICE shall no longer process the personal information unless UNICE demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;

Right to Complaint:

  • You shall have the right to file a complaint with our Data Protection Officer (details of which are provided below) if you think that one or more of your rights have been infringed by UNICE.

14. Exercising your data protection rights

If you wish to update or delete your personal information submitted, you can update it via the App. Alternatively, you can send your request to our Customer Service Manager at: chidumagaogbuji@gmail.com

In addition, you have the right to lodge complaints about how UNICE manages your personal information. You can lodge a complaint with UNICE's Data Protection Officer whose contact details are set out under the "Contact Information" section below or via email to sinachmadi@gmail.com, or with a local data protection regulator.

15. Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your browser or device by websites, applications, online media and advertisements when you visit a website.

We use cookies and other similar identification technologies such as web beacons and pixel tags on our Site, App, emails and online advertisements for various purposes, including verifying users; remembering user preferences and settings to enhance your experience when you return to our Site or App; delivering relevant content and advertisements based on your preferences, location and usage patterns; monitoring, evaluating and optimising the operation of our Site and App; tracking and measuring the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns; and analysing traffic on our Site, our App and the websites of our partners or RC Group members.

You can exercise your right to choose whether or not to accept cookies by adjusting your browser settings to modify your cookie preferences. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default or prompt you to accept cookies, but you are free to remove or block all browser cookies. However, if you turn off your cookies, some of our services may not function properly and you will not be able to receive the most efficient and personalised experience.

16. Notification of Changes

We reserve the right at our discretion to make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. You may review updates to our Privacy Policy at any time via links on our Site. You agree to accept electronic communications and/or postings of a revised Privacy Policy on the Site, and you agree that such electronic communications or postings constitute notice to you of the Privacy Policy.

If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by publishing a revised Privacy Policy or by means of a notice on our Site, or as a pop up within our App, or as required by law. You agree to review the Privacy Policy periodically so that you are aware of any modifications. You agree that your continued use of the Service after we publish a revised Privacy Policy or provide a notice on our website constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.

17. Contact information

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact our Data Protection Officer at chidumagaogbuji@gmail.com

Date

This Privacy Policy was lastly modified on February 28th, 2025