­­Privacy Policy

Effective Date: May 22, 2018

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Your privacy and data security are extremely important to us. We are committed to the responsible management, protection, and use of your personal information.

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) serves to explain what information Weather Widget Theme Dev Team and Amber Mobile Limited and their affiliates and subsidiaries (collectively, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collect, and how we use and protect your information when you use any mobile applications that we develop and are available for download in the Google Play Store.

1. What Information Do We Collect?

i. Device Information­

We collect your device and network connection information in order to provide you better experience when you use our app. This information depends on the context of your interactions with us, the choices you make, including your privacy settings, and the products and features you use, and may include SDK/API/JS code version, browser, Internet service provider, IP address, platform, timestamp, application identifier, application version, application package name, application distribution channel, independent deice identifier, Android id, iOS ad identifier (IDFA), Android ad master identifier, network card (MAC) address, and international mobile device identification code (IMEI) The equipment model, the terminal manufacturer, the terminal device operating system version, the session start / stop time, the location of the language, the time zone, the altitude and the network state (Wi-Fi and so on), the WiFi name, the SSID list, the network operator, the hard disk, the CPU, and the battery use, etc.

ii. Android Advertising ID

We use your Android advertising identifier in order to provide you with customized advertisement experience. It is used exclusively for advertising and analytics. Please note that the advertising identifier does not contain any user sensitive information that can be used to identify you as a user or your device. It is not connected to personally-identifiable information or associated with any persistent device identifier (for example: SSAID, MAC address, IMEI, etc.).

iii. Monetization and Analytical Information from Other Sources

Third-party SDKs integrated in our app may access your information, including your Google Advertising ID, region, device language, location, and IP address. The information collected by third-party SDKs is governed by the providers of these SDKs and we have no control over such third parties. The third-parties include monetization partners, such as Google Admob, Facebook Audience Network, MoPub, etc., and also analytical tools partners, such as Firebase, Facebook Analytics, Umeng, etc. The links to the above-mentioned platforms’ privacy policy are attached in the section “Third-party Privacy Policy”.

iv. Other Information

We may collect information that you directly and voluntarily provide to us. The information includes but is not limited to: your email address, the content of feedback, and the content of questionnaire answered by you.

In addition, we will collect your user-generated content given you accepted our UGC-related terms of service.

v. Designated Countries

For all information listed above, pursuant to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) or any equivalent legislation (collectively “Data Protection Laws”), we process the personal information of users located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom and Switzerland (collectively, the “Designated Countries”) based on our contract with you.

2. How Do We Use the Information?

i. To provide proper service

We require certain information in order to provide with your requested service. We may share this information with our service partners under such circumstances.

ii. To personalize and improve user experience

We may use information in the aggregate to understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided in our app.

We, and our third-party partners may use the information we collected to optimize your using experience, advertisement experience, and customized recommendation experience.

iii. To process payments

We may use the information users provide about themselves when placing an order only to provide service to that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to provide the service.

iv. Designated Countries

For all purposes listed above, pursuant to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) or any equivalent legislation (collectively “Data Protection Laws”), we process the personal information of users located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom and Switzerland (collectively, the “Designated Countries”) based on our contract with you.

3. What Information Do We Share?

As mentioned above, your personal information may be shared with our third-party partners. We may disclose your personal information to our business partners, including advertisers, publishers, and data tracking companies. These business partners may use your personal information to show you advertisements, measure your ad/site interaction, and better understand the site and app traffic usage or user behavior in order to improve their services. Such partners’ use of the information that we disclose to them will be governed by their privacy policies.

4. What Are the Important Permissions We Request?

Depending on the context of your interactions with us, we may ask you to provide certain permissions in order to let our app perform properly. You may choose to opt-out anytime, but please note that not giving us these permissions can result in malfunctioning of our app. The permissions we ask are listed below:

i. ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION

ii. ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE

iii. ACCESS_WIFI_STATE

iv. INTERNET

v. RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED

vi. REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS

vii. SET_WALLPAPER

viii. SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW

ix. WAKE_LOCK

x. RECEIVE

xi. BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE

5. Legal Basis of Your Personal Data

We process Personal Data for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, as described above. Our legal basis to process personal data includes processing that is: necessary for the performance of the contract with you (for example, to provide you with the services you request and to identify and authenticate you); necessary to comply with legal requirements (for example, to comply with applicable accounting rules and to make mandatory disclosures to law enforcement); necessary for our legitimate interests (for example, to manage our relationship with you, to ensure the security of our services, to communicate with you about our products and services); and based on consent by our customers (for example, to place certain cookies and to share your information with third parties for advertising purposes).

In some instances, you may be required to provide us with Personal Data for processing as described above, in order for us to be able to provide you all of our services, and for you to use all the features of our app.

6. Your Rights

Individual rights for users live in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, we provide you with the rights described below when you use our Services. Please contact us at weather_support@amberweather.com if you would like to exercise your rights under applicable law. When we receive an individual rights request from you, please make sure you are ready to verify your identity. Please be advised that there are limitations to your individual rights. We may limit your individual rights in the following ways:

Where denial of access is required or authorized by law;

When granting access would have a negative impact on other's privacy;

To protect our rights and properties; and

Where the request is frivolous or burdensome.

i. Right to withdraw c­onsent

If we rely on consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. A withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of our processing or the processing of any third parties based on consent before your withdrawal.

ii. Right of access and rectification

If you request a copy of your personal information that we hold, we will provide you with a copy without undue delay and free of charge, except where we are permitted by law to charge a fee. We may limit your access if such access would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of other individuals. You may also request to correct or update any of your personal information held by us, unless you can already do so directly via the Services.

iii. Right to erasure (the “Right to be Forgotten”)

You may request us to erase any of your personal information held by us that: is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed; was collected in relation to processing that you previously consented to, but later withdrew such consent; or was collected in relation to processing activities to which you object, and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for our processing.

iv. Right to restriction

You have the right to restrict our processing your personal information where one of the following applies:

You contest the accuracy of your personal information that we processed. We will restrict the processing of your personal information, which may result in an interruption of some or all of the Services, during the period necessary for us to verify the accuracy of your personal information;

The processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of your personal information and request the restriction of its use instead;

We no longer need your personal information for the purposes of the processing, but it is required by you to establish, exercise or defense of legal claims; or

You have objected to processing, pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of our processing override your rights.

We will only process your restricted personal information shall with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest. We will inform you if or when the restriction is lifted.

v. Right to object to processing

You may object to our processing at any time and as permitted by applicable law if we process your personal information on the legal basis of consent, contract or legitimate interests. We can continue to process your personal information if it is necessary for the defense of legal claims, or for any other exceptions permitted by applicable law.

vi. Right to data portability

If we process your personal information based on a contract with you or based on your consent, or the processing is carried out by automated means, you may request to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to have us transfer your personal information directly to another “controller”, where technically feasible, unless exercise of this right adversely affects the rights and freedoms of others.

vii. Notification to third-parties

If we share your personal information with third parties, we will notify them of any requests for rectification, erasure or restriction of your personal information, unless this proves impossible or involves disproportionate effort. Upon your request, we will identify such third parties.

viii. Automated individual decision-making, including profiling

You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing of your personal information, including profiling, which produces legal or similarly significant effects on you, unless an exception applies under applicable law.

ix. Right to lodge a complaint

If you believe we have infringed or violated your privacy rights, please contact us at weather_support@amberweather.com so that we can work to resolve your concerns. You also have a right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority situated in a Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of alleged infringement.

7. Third-party Partners’ Privacy Policy

Here we list the links to the third-party partners’ privacy policy. Please note that these policies are governed by the third parties and we have no control over them.

i. Google Admob & Firebase

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

ii. How Google uses information from sites or apps that use Google’s services

https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

iii. Facebook Audience Network & Facebook Analytics

https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

iv. Mopub

https://www.mopub.com/legal/privacy/

v. Google Maps

https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/terms/

vi. ColorfulClouds Weather

https://www.caiyunapp.com/xiaoyi/colorfulclouds_privacy.html

vii. Pixalate

https://www.pixalate.com/privacypolicy/

8. Changes to the Policy

Any information that is collected is subject to the Policy in effect at the time such information is collected. We may, however, modify the Policy from time to time. If such change has been made, we will provide you additional forms of notice of modifications or updates as appropriate under the circumstances. Your continued use of our app or services following the change of the Policy will mean you accept those changes.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about the Policy, you may contact us at email: weather_support@amberweather.com