Privacy Policy for Snowbody Knows
Effective Date: 2025-11-01
Welcome to Snowbody Knows (the "Service"). Your privacy is of paramount importance to us. This Privacy Policy explains how Snowbody Knows collects, uses, and protects the limited personal information you provide when using our free Service.
1. Information We Collect
We collect the following minimal personal information solely for the purpose of providing, maintaining, and improving our Service:
- Identity Data: Your Name (for personalization and group identification).
- Contact Data: Your Email Address (for login/account recovery and transactional notifications).
- Security Data: Your Password (used exclusively for securing your account).
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information for the following specific purposes:
- Account Management: To create, maintain, and secure your user account and to verify your identity upon login.
- Service Functionality: To allow you to access and use the core features of the Service.
- Transactional Communications: To send group members transactional emails when a new wish is added to a shared wish list they are a part of.
- Security: To protect the integrity and security of the Service and its users.
3. Data Security and Protection
- Encryption: We take security seriously. All passwords are encrypted using modern standard practices (hashing and salting) before being stored. This means that even we cannot view your actual password.
- Protection Measures: We implement commercially acceptable security measures designed to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or destruction of your personal information.
4. Sharing of Your Information
- We Do Not Sell Information: Snowbody Knows is a free service, and we absolutely do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for marketing or any other commercial purposes.
- Internal Sharing: Your Name is visible to other members of the wish lists you join to facilitate the social functionality of the Service. Your email and encrypted password are kept strictly confidential.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with legal obligations, protect and defend the rights or property of Snowbody Knows, or protect the personal safety of users or the public.
5. Email Communications
We will only send you transactional emails that are necessary for the function of the Service (e.g., password reset requests, and the notification sent to group members when a new wish is added). We do not send promotional or marketing emails.
6. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. If you delete your account, we will delete your personal data promptly, subject to a short recovery period and our legal obligations.
7. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you.
- Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
- Request deletion of your personal information (account deletion).
- Object to our processing of your personal information.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the email address provided below.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
Email: [Insert Contact Email Address, e.g., support@Snowbody Knows]