Privacy Policy
The Botim Business (“BOTIM Business”) cares about the privacy of its customers, visitors and users. Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information that applies to our Service, and your choices about the collection and use of your information. If you do not agree to our practices, please do not use the Botim Business website, Software, or Services. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the Botim Business Terms. Your use of the Botim Business website, Software and Service and any personal information you provide on such website and Service remains subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms. Please note that any User Status Submissions or other content posted at the direction or discretion of users of the Botim Business Service becomes published content and is not considered personally identifiable information subject to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that Botim Business does not own or control, or to individuals whom Botim Business does not employ or manage, including any of the third parties to which Botim Business may disclose user information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Botim Business may obtain the following types of information from or concerning you or your mobile phone device, which may include information that can be used to identify you as specified below (“Personally Identifying Information”):
** User Provided Information: ** You provide certain Personally Identifiable Information, such as your mobile phone number, push notification name (if applicable), billing information (if applicable) and mobile device information to Botim Business when choosing to participate in various uses of the Botim Business Service, such as registering as a user, updating your status or requesting status for your contacts. In order to provide the Botim Business Service, Botim Business will periodically access your address book or contact list on your mobile phone to locate the mobile phone numbers of other Botim Business users (“in-network” numbers), or otherwise categorize other mobile phone numbers as “out-network” numbers, which are stored as one-way irreversibly hashed values.
** Cookies Information: ** When you visit the Botim Business Site, we may send one or more cookies – a small text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. Botim uses both session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser. Persistent cookies 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. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, the Botim Site may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
** Log File Information: ** When you use the Botim Business Site, our servers automatically record certain information that your web browser sends whenever you visit any website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser language, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform type, number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request, one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser, your phone number, phone number you are requesting the status of and various status information. When you use the Botim Service, our servers log certain general information that our application sends whenever a message is sent or received, or if you update or request any status information, including time and date stamps and the mobile phone numbers the messages were sent from and to.
Botim Business does not collect names, emails, addresses or other contact information from its users’ mobile address book or contact lists other than mobile phone numbers-the Botim Business mobile application will associate whatever name the Botim Business user has assigned to the mobile telephone number in his/her mobile address book or contact list – and this occurs dynamically on the mobile device itself and not on Botim Business’s servers and is not transmitted to Botim Business. This means that if you have your friend’s mobile phone number associated with the name “Alice” in your mobile address book, that’s the name that will appear for that mobile phone number in your Botim Business contact list. We do not collect location data, but users may voluntarily share their location with other users via the Botim Business Service. The contents of messages that have been delivered by the Botim Business Service are not copied, kept or archived by Botim Business in the normal course of business. The Botim Business Service is meant to be a SMS replacement, using data service through a user’s phone (either via cell network or Wi-Fi). Users type their messages, which are sent via data service to our servers, and routed to the intended recipient (who must also be a Botim Business user), if that recipient is online. If the recipient is not online, the undelivered message is held in Botim Business’s server until it can be delivered. If the message is undelivered for seven (7) days, the undelivered message is deleted from our servers. Once a message has been delivered, it no longer resides on our servers. The contents of any delivered messages are not kept or retained by Botim – the only records of the content of any delivered messages reside directly on the sender’s and recipient’s mobile devices (and which may be deleted at the user’s option). Notwithstanding the above, Botim Business may retain date and time stamp information associated with successfully delivered messages and the mobile phone numbers involved in the messages, as well as any other information which Botim Business is legally compelled to collect. Files that are sent through the Botim Service will reside on our servers after delivery for a short period of time, but are deleted and stripped of any identifiable information within a short period of time in accordance with our general retention policies.
If you submit Personally Identifiable Information to us through the Botim Business Site, or Botim Business Service, then we use your personal information to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of the Botim Business Site and Botim Business Service. In particular, your mobile phone number is essential to your use of the Botim Business Service and will be retained. If you provide billing information, such billing information will be deleted thirty (30) days after the termination of your account with Botim Business. Any Personally Identifiable Information or status content that you voluntarily disclose on the Botim Business Service becomes publicly available and may be collected and used by other users of the Botim Business Service (unless such user is blocked by you). Your name (as it is saved in other user’s mobile phone address book or contact list) may be displayed to other users when you update your status messages through the Botim Service and other users may contact you through the Botim Business Service. We do not use your mobile phone number or other Personally Identifiable Information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your mobile phone number (or email address, if provided) without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major Botim Business Site or Botim Business Service changes or for customer service purposes). We may use both your Personally Identifiable Information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the Botim Business Site and Botim Business Service and to create new features, promotions, functionality, and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing user preferences and trends. Hopefully we improve the Botim Business Site and Service and don’t make it suck worse. We may use cookies and log file information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you use the Botim Business Service or Botim Business Site; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor individual and aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (d) track your entries, submissions, views and such.
Other users of the Botim Business Service may see your User Status Submissions in a way that is consistent with the use of the Botim Business Service. For example, a status of “Driving in car” set by a specific phone number will be available to every user of the Botim Business Service who has that mobile phone number in their mobile phone’s address book or contact list, unless you have chosen to block such user. “Last Seen” information is available and displayed to each user who has your mobile phone number in their mobile phone address book or contact book (and which you have not blocked), and reflects the last approximate time the Botim Business mobile application has been used or brought to the foreground on your mobile phone. “Last Seen” information is reported to Botim Business when a user brings the mobile application to the foreground.
We do not sell or share your Personally Identifiable Information (such as mobile phone number) with other third-party companies for their commercial or marketing use without your consent or except as part of a specific program or feature for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may share your Personally Identifiable Information with third party service providers to the extent that it is reasonably necessary to perform, improve or maintain the Botim Business Service. We may share non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous User usage data, referring / exit pages and URLs, platform types, asset views, number of clicks, etc.) with interested third-parties to assist them in understanding the usage patterns for certain content, services, advertisements, promotions, and/or functionality on the Botim Business Site. We may collect and release Personally Identifiable Information and/or non-personally-identifiable information if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state and federal laws (such as U.S. Copyright Law), international law or respond to a court order, subpoena, or search warrant or equivalent, or where in our reasonable belief, an individual’s physical safety may be at risk or threatened. Botim Business also reserves the right to disclose Personally Identifiable Information and/or non-personally-identifiable information that Botim Business believes, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Service, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend itself against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, to protect the security or integrity of the Botim Business Site or our servers, and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Botim Business, our users or others.
You may, of course, decline to submit Personally Identifiable Information through the Botim Business Site or the Botim Business Service, in which case Botim Business may not be able to provide certain services to you. If you do not agree with our Privacy Policy or Terms of Service, please delete your account, uninstall the Botim Business mobile application and discontinue use of the Botim Business Service; your continued usage of the Botim Business Service will signify your assent to and acceptance of our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as SMS authentication in certain cases) to verify your identity before registering your mobile phone number and granting you access to the Botim Business Service. Please contact Botim Business via email to contact@botim.me about this Privacy Policy, your personal information, your consent, or your opt-in or opt-out choices.
Botim Business uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat our security measures or use your personal information for improper purposes. You acknowledge that you provide your personal information at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, Botim Business makes commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. If Botim Business learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. Botim may post a notice on the Botim Business Site or through the Botim Business Service if a security breach occurs.
All credit/debit cards details and personally identifiable information will NOT be stored, sold, shared, rented or leased to any third parties.
Botim Business does not knowingly collect or solicit any information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register as Users. The Service and its content are not directed at children under the age of 13. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at contact@botim.me
The Botim Business Site and Service are hosted in the United States and are intended for and directed to users in the United States. If you are a user accessing the Botim Business Site and Service from the European Union, Asia, or any other region with laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, that differ from United States laws, please be advised that through your continued use of the Botim Business Site and Service, which are governed by California law, this Privacy Policy, and our Terms of Service, you are transferring your personal information to the United States and you expressly consent to that transfer and consent to be governed by California law for these purposes.
In the event that Botim Business is acquired by or merged with a third party entity, we reserve the right to transfer or assign the information we have collected from our users as part of such merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control. In the (hopefully) unlikely event of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors’ rights generally, we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used.
This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically and this will be reflected by the “effective date” below. Please revisit this page to stay aware of any changes. Your continued use of the Botim Business Site and Botim Business Service constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any amendments.
You agree that your use of the Botim Business service shall be at your sole risk. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Botim Business, its officers, directors, employees, and agents disclaim all warranties, express or implied, in connection with the service and your use thereof. Botim Business makes no warranties or representations about the accuracy or completeness of this service’s content and assumes no liability or responsibility for any (i) errors, mistakes, or inaccuracies of content, (ii) personal injury or property damage, of any nature whatsoever, resulting from your access to and use of our service, (iii) any unauthorized access to or use of our servers and/or any and all personal information and/or financial information stored therein, (iv) any interruption or cessation of transmission to or from our service, (iv) any bugs, viruses, trojan horses, or the like which may be transmitted to or through our service through the actions of any third party, and/or (v) any errors or omissions in any content or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any content posted, emailed, transmitted, or otherwise made available via the Botim Business service. Botim Business does not warrant, endorse, guarantee, or assume responsibility for any product or service advertised or offered by a third party through the Botim Business service or any hyperlinked website or featured in any user status submission or other advertising, and Botim Business will not be a party to or in any way be responsible for monitoring any transaction between you and third-party providers of products or services. As with the purchase of a product or service through any medium or in any environment, you should use your best judgment and exercise caution where appropriate.
Notice was last modified Nov 15th, 2018