Last updated: August 11, 2023
FABCO company, which distributes the Almost Friends service provides this Privacy Policy to inform you of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, protection, and disclosure of Personal Information received from your use of this website, located at https://almostfriends.ai (“Site”), as well as all related websites including our subdomains, applications, browser extensions, and other services provided by us (collectively, together with the Site, our “Service”), and in connection with our customer, vendor, and partner relationships. This Privacy Policy also tells you about your rights and choices with respect to your Personal Information, and how you can reach us to update your contact information or get answers to questions you may have about our privacy practices.
In addition to the activities described in this Privacy Policy, we may process Personal Information on behalf of our commercial customers when they use the Service. We process such Personal Information as a data processor of our commercial customers, which are the entities responsible for the data processing. To understand how a commercial customer processes your Personal Information, please refer to that customer's privacy policy.
Registration with, use of, and access to the Service is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use located at https://almostfriends.ai/legal. All terms not defined in this Privacy Policy will have the meanings set forth in the Almost Friends Terms of Use.
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, “Personal Information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. We obtain Personal Information relating to you from various sources described below.
Where applicable, we indicate whether and why you must provide us with your Personal Information, as well as the consequences of failing to do so. If you do not provide Personal Information when requested, you may not be able to benefit from our Service if that information is necessary to provide you with the service or if we are legally required to collect it.
Registration
If you desire to
have access to certain restricted sections of the
Site or request to receive marketing materials, you
may be required to become a registered user, and to
submit the following types of Personal Information
to Almost Friends: your name, email address, phone
number, full user name, password, city, and time
zone.
Customer Support
We may
collect information through your communications with
our customer support team or other communications
that you may send us and their contents.
Making a Purchase
When you
make payments through the Service, you will need to
provide Personal Information such as your credit
card number and billing address.
Social Media
In order to allow
you to post to your social media platforms, we may
ask you to provide your username, account ids,
social handle, timezones, and email address.
Other
We may also collect your
contact details when you provide them in the context
of our customer, vendor, and partner relationships.
Log Data
When you use our
Service, our servers automatically record
information that your browser sends whenever you
visit a website (“Log Data”). This Log Data may
include information such as your IP address, browser
type or the domain from which you are visiting, the
web-pages you visit, the search terms you use, and
any advertisements on which you click.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Like many websites, we also use “cookie”
technology to collect additional website usage data
and to improve the Site and our Service. A cookie is
a small data file that we transfer to your
computer's hard disk. A session cookie enables
certain features of the Site and our service and is
deleted from your computer when you disconnect from
or leave the Site. A persistent cookie remains after
you close your browser and may be used by your
browser on subsequent visits to the Site. Persistent
cookies can be removed by following your web browser
help file directions. Most Internet browsers
automatically accept cookies. Almost Friends may use
both session cookies and persistent cookies to
better understand how you interact with the Site and
our Service, to monitor aggregate usage by our users
and web traffic routing on the Site, and to improve
the Site and our Service.
We may also automatically record certain information from your device by using various types of technology, including “clear gifs” or “web beacons.” This automatically collected information may include your IP address or other device address or ID, web browser and/or device type, the web pages or sites that you visit just before or just after you use the Service, the pages or other content you view or otherwise interact with on the Service, and the dates and times that you visit, access, or use the Service. We also may use these technologies to collect information regarding your interaction with email messages, such as whether you opened, clicked on, or forwarded a message, to the extent permitted under applicable law.
You can instruct your browser, by editing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit. Please note that if you delete, or choose not to accept, cookies from the Service, you may not be able to utilize the features of the Service to their fullest potential.
Third Party Web Beacons and Third Party Buttons
We may display third-party content on the
Service, including third-party advertising.
Third-party content may use cookies, web beacons, or
other mechanisms for obtaining data in connection
with your viewing of the third party content on the
Service. Additionally, we may implement third party
buttons, such as Facebook “share” buttons, that may
function as web beacons even when you do not
interact with the button. Information collected
through third-party web beacons and buttons is
collected directly by these third parties, not by
Almost Friends. Please consult such third party's
data collection, use, and disclosure policies for
more information.
Links to Other Websites
Our
Site contains links to other websites. The fact that
we link to a website is not an endorsement,
authorization or representation of our affiliation
with that third party. We do not exercise control
over third party websites. These other websites may
place their own cookies or other files on your
computer, collect data or solicit Personal
Information from you. Other sites follow different
rules regarding the use or disclosure of the
Personal Information you submit to them. We are not
responsible for the content, privacy and security
practices, and policies of third-party sites or
services to which links or access are provided
through the Service. We encourage you to read the
privacy policies or statements of the other websites
you visit.
We may use the Personal Information we obtain about you to:
Almost Friends cares deeply about safeguarding the confidentiality of your personal information. We employ administrative and electronic measures designed to appropriately protect your personal information against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse, and any other unlawful form of processing of the personal information in our possession. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot guarantee that information about you will not be accessed, viewed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our administrative, physical, and electronic safeguards, subject to requirements under applicable law to ensure or warrant information security.
We will make any legally-required disclosures of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored personal information to you via email or conspicuous posting on our site in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, consistent with (i) the legitimate needs of law enforcement or (ii) any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system , and any other disclosures that may be required under applicable law.
We also take measures to delete your personal information or keep it in a form that does not permit identifying you when this information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which we process it, unless we are required by law to keep this information for a longer period. When determining the retention period, we take into account various criteria, such as the type of products and services requested by or provided to you, the nature and length of our relationship with you, possible re-enrollment with our products or services, the impact on the services we provide to you if we delete some information from or about you, mandatory retention periods provided by law and the statute of limitations.
If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to receive marketing communications from us, please follow the unsubscribe instructions provided in any of the communications. You may also opt out from receiving commercial email from us by sending your request to us by email at hello@almostfriends.ai.
Please be aware that, even after you opt out from receiving commercial messages from us, you will continue to receive administrative messages from us regarding the service.
In certain jurisdictions you have the right to request access and receive information about the personal information we maintain about you, to update and correct inaccuracies in your personal information, to restrict or object to the processing of your personal information, to have the information blocked, anonymized or deleted, as appropriate, or to exercise your right to data portability to transfer your personal information to another company. Those rights may be limited in some circumstances by local law requirements. For example, california residents can refer to the separate california resident privacy notice to learn more about their california privacy rights. In addition to the above-mentioned rights, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority subject to applicable law.
Where required by law, we obtain your consent for the processing of certain personal information collected by cookies or similar technologies, or used to send you direct marketing communications, or when we carry out other processing activities for which consent may be required. If we rely on consent for the processing of your personal information, you have the right to withdraw it at any time and free of charge. When you do so, this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before your consent withdrawal.
To update your preferences, ask us to remove your information from our mailing lists, delete your account or submit a request to exercise your rights under applicable law, please contact us as specified in the how to contact us section below.
Almost Friends is based in France. Personal information that we collect may be transferred to, and stored at, any of our affiliates, partners or service providers which may be inside or outside the european economic area (eea) and switzerland, including the united states. By submitting your personal data, you agree to such transfers. Your personal information may be transferred to countries that do not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. When we transfer or disclose your personal information to other countries, we will protect that information as described in this privacy policy.
Individuals Located in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland
The site is not directed to persons under 18. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personal information without their consent, he or she should contact us at hello@almostfriends.ai. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our files.
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time for any reason; each version will apply to information collected while it was in place. We will notify you of any modifications to our privacy policy by posting the new privacy policy on our site and indicating the date of the latest revision. You are advised to consult this privacy policy regularly for any changes.
In the event that the modifications materially alter your rights or obligations hereunder, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you of the change. For example, we may send a message to your email address or generate a pop-up or similar notification when you access the service for the first time after such material changes are made. Your continued use of the service after the revised privacy policy has become effective indicates that you have read, understood and agreed to the current version of this privacy policy.
FABCO Is the entity responsible for the processing
of your personal information. If you have any
questions or comments regarding this privacy policy,
or if you would like to exercise your rights to your
personal information, you may contact us by emailing
us at hello@almostfriends.ai. Or by writing to us
at:
FABCO
6 rue de la pique
31880 La Salvetat, France
This Privacy
Policy is effective as of
August 11, 2023.
If you have any thoughts or questions about
this privacy policy please let us know at
hello@almostfriends.ai