Rithmit’s
Privacy Policy
Last updated Sun 13th Nov, 2022, 12:06
Who is Rithmit?
Rithmit is an independent operation based in the UK.
We have a nominated member of staff who serves as our Data Protection Lead. If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please email info@rithmit.com. The purpose of this policy is to give you a clear explanation about how we collect and use your personal information.
What type of information do we collect and have
Whenever you interact with Rithmit, you may be asked to provide us with information relating to you.
A large part of what we are doing is using your data to help benefit your online and social engagements (on and offline), particularly by providing an interconnecting service (some of the ways it does this are discussed here: How the Interconnector Works). If you use these The Interconnector Service, then we will likely collect the following information:
· Name
· Date of birth
· Contact details (email, phone number, social media handles/ID)
· Your interests and psychological preferences
· Your availability and travel abilities
If using any of our social networking accounts to communicate with us, information relating to your social network account may be revealed to us.
If you ask us to interconnect you with other Members, we may use any messaging method to group you with other people in a shared group message (for instance a group message on Facebook or Whatsapp, Google Hangouts, Zoom, or a similar message, video and calling setup). Any content shared in this method of communication will be revealed to us (as we will be included in the group message) and other Members copied into these messages.
If you email us, records of these communications may be kept, which include your name and any other information you decide to reveal to us.
If you attend an event, we may ask for and keep a record of either your business card, name, contact details, interests and preferences. We may also document these events, photographing, filming, screen recording or screen grabbing, and audio recording, if you are included in these, visual/audio records will be kept of you.
When you use our online services, we may receive content that you choose to upload, such as reviews, comments, photos and forum posts, or details of your interests and preferences that you choose to tell us (and others if in a group chat context),
If you log-in to one of our websites or services using your social network account, we may receive basic details from your social network profile. The basic details we receive may depend on your social network account privacy settings, however, they might include your social network ID, name, profile picture, gender and locale. We may also receive additional information from your profile if you give us permission to access it.
If you access our services by asking a third party or Community Organisation to pass on information they have of you, any data you have provided them may also be made available to us.
If you click on a 'like', '+1' or 'tweet' or similar button in one of our websites or services, we may record the fact that you have done so. In addition, the content that you are viewing may be posted to your social network profile or feed. We may receive information about further interactions with this posted content (for example, if you click on a link of our posted content), which we may associate with the details that we store about you. For more information and for details about how you can control access to your social network profile, you should view the privacy policy and other guidance available on your social network’s website.
Information we may collect when you use our websites, our service, or online services and third party accounts
Some of our websites, and online services and platforms we use provide the following information about your use of them, including:
· Details of the content that you view and interact with. For example, the options and navigation you make on our sign up form
· Service, product or server logs, which hold information about your use of our service or websites, such as your IP address, browser information (including HTTP user agent strings), HTTP client request information and the time and location of your activities, domain, device and application settings, errors and hardware activity
· Device information such as your device ID(s) and/or information about where your device is physically located. For example, when you are using a geo-location service or application and you have provided consent to your location being shared
· Emails communications or messenger communications that you have with us may be logged.
In general, this information is collected using digital identifiers such as a device number, browser cookie or your IP address.
How we get the information and why we do we have it
Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly from you, either by using our website or Apps or by asking a third party (such as a Community Organisation) to provide us with information they have of you. Typically, you give this information for the following reasons:
· To become a member of the Interconnector
· To join an Interconnector Group
· You contact us independently by email, or through another contact method
· You have an enquiry
We also receive personal information indirectly, in the following scenarios:
· Your contact details have been given to us, out of recommendation that you might want to use our service
What we do with the information
A large part of what we do with your information is use it to enable you to connect and meet people on and offline in new ways, for instance using it to match you to groups or individuals, as part of our service.
Please particularly note:
If you ask us to Interconnect you, we may use any messaging method to group you with other people in a shared group message (for instance a group message on Facebook or email or Whatsapp or similar message setup). You and those in this shared group message will see all the information that this message service reveals. Information revealed can include messages you send each other, your profile names, pictures, and links to other online information you may have, e.g., social media profiles. We do not give you prior notice to who will introduce you with and thus who your information will be shared with when we group match and introduce you (see our terms for definitions).
The more detailed reasons we use your information include:
For matching you with other people/Members, we
· Analyse and cross compare your information with other people’s/member’s information
· Introduce you to groups of people/Members you have matched with, by either
· Group messaging you on another service, whereby your contact and personal info on the messenger platform will be revealed to those who are included in the group message (e.g. profile pic, profile name and social media profile), and who may join it
· Sending you an invitation to join a group chat with other people, whereby your profile and contact details in the group chat will be viewable to others in it, or who may join it
· Show or reveal your information to other Memberss
With your permission, we may:
Reveal your information to a Community Organization using a group you are part of to interconnect its constituents, whom you are also part of
For any Interconnector Group, we may:
Match and introduce you based on how that Groups network settings (usually set by Leader of that Group)
Reveal certain information of you to the Leaders of that Group, to help them customise the groups network settings
For improving our services, we may use your information to:
· Ask for feedback on our service, contacting you using your contact info
· Execute analyse on Members behaviour to enhance our service; and to inform future designs and services yet conceived
To prevent any unauthorised activities, we may use your information to:
· Retain data concerning fraudulent activity to counter avoidance
· Investigate any alleged or current misbehaviour on or off our service
To ensure legal compliance, your information may be used to
· Assist law enforcement
· Comply with legal requirement or legal orders of any sort
· To enforce or exercise our rights, for instances those set out in our Terms of Service
To guarantee legal compliance, we may use your information to
· Comply with any legal requirement or legal order
· Assist law enforcement
· To enforce or exercise our rights, for instance our Terms
To administer your account and provide our services to you, we may use your information to
· Create and manage an account for you
· Respond to your requests and provide customer support
· Complete your transaction
· Inform you of our services, including order management and billing
To serve you relevant offers and ads, we may use your information to
· Contact you about our services
· Use your past online and offline habits to inform us what we may promote to you
To improve our services and develop new ones, we may use your information to
· See how you used our services, to analyse and then indicate what other services may be worth developing
· Inform Leaders of Group how you have used our services, to analyse and then indicate what other services may be worth developing
· Hold focus groups and analyse any information you provide from these
Profiling, automating decision making and analysing your data to make decisions for you
We use data science, social science and normal people to process your information. This means, we may use either an algorithm, social scientists or normal people to make decisions based on your information (and others) to provide you our service, typically involving matching and recommending you with other Members. This process helps you find, and connect with people you wouldn’t otherwise have the opportunity to connect with on or offline.
We may also use this processing to inform how we present adverts and correspondence to you, and to provide added security benefits for you. Details below:
Data Science
We will use algorithms to help recommend and match you to other Members, by using both your information and along with other member’s information.
Social Science
We use social science and normal people to use your information to inform how we recommend and match you with other Members. These people will only access your data where necessary for this process and will follow strict privacy procedures under the management of Rithmit.
Group Leaders will be able to customise how some of your information is processed, depending on what Groups you are part of.
It is important to note, this type of processing will involve automated processing, which is defined by European General Data Protection Regulation act “GDPR” as:
· Automated individual decision-making: making a decision about an individual solely by automated means (i.e., using computers and algorithms only, without any human involvement in the decision-making process);
· Profiling: evaluating certain things about an individual, including interests, preferences or behaviour, through an automated processing of personal data (e.g., using computers and algorithms to determine someone’s interests based on his or her online behaviour).
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
a) Your consent. From time to time, we may ask your consent to use your information for certain specific reasons. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting info@rithmit.com
b) We have a contractual obligation. Most of the time, we use your information to fulfil our contract with you. As an example, to use your information to help you connect with people online, for group matching purposes; and to use you information to match you with people, to connect/introduce you together, and display any and maintain any public profile you have with us, for recommendation or connecting purposes.
Sharing your information
Our aim is to help you connect with people in new ways online by using your information to connect you with other Members of the Ther Interconnector you might not have otherwise thought about connecting with online. Consequently, a large part of the information we share of yours is with other Members. We may also share information to service providers, Community Organisations, third party software and services we use, and in some instances, legal authorities.
Some of the times we may share you information are below in more detail:
We share your information when introduce and suggest you to other Members
· For example, your contact details, profile and public information you have chosen to reveal or have associated with you may be shared with other Members on different messaging services such as email
· Your information may also be shared by other Members by passing your details on to other people or by copying others into message trails you are part of. This action is not one under our control, and is a matter between you and the Members concerned
We share your information when we use third Use service providers and partners
· We use third party services to operate and improve our services. These third parties assist us with various tasks, including data hosting and maintenance, analytics, customer care, marketing, advertising, payment processing and security operations
We may share your information to other Members
· Your information may be shared with other Members through any public profile and information about yourself (such as your name and age) that you make available, from messages that you send to other Members, or through any other displayable format you engage with,
· This information involves that which you voluntarily disclose. Please be careful what you disclose. We cannot control how this information is used by other Members, therefore please be careful what you disclose and share and consider the full implications sharing it might bring.
We may use and share non personal information as well as personal information in an anonymised manner for the purpose of research and improving our services.
We may use and share non-personal information (meaning information that, by itself, does not identify who you are such as device information, general demographics, general behavioural data, geolocation in de-identified form), as well as personal information in hashed, non-human readable form, under any of the above circumstances. We may also share this information with third parties (notably advertisers) to develop and deliver targeted advertising on our services and on websites or applications of third parties, and to analyse and report on advertising you see. We may combine this information with additional non-personal information or personal information in hashed, non-human readable form collected from other sources.
How we store your information
Primarily, your personal data is held securely on our database within the EEA and in accordance with Data Protection Law, and is subject to appropriate technical and organisational measures against unauthorised or unlawful processing, and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage.
Our third party services that you may engage with will also store you data, when you use them. The information you give them may be stored outside the EEA. For example, if using Typeform.com to tell us about you, the information you give will be held by Typeform on their server. Please see our terms, in regards to your agreement to these third party services when using them.
In the case of third party’s storing your data, the following links provide more information on how they store your information (if you use them when using our service):
Typeform: https://www.typeform.com/help/what-happens-to-my-data/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
WhatsApp: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/#privacy-policy-our-global-operations
Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
Sharing your information
Your information will be stored for as long as we have a legitimate business purpose for it - per above and per our terms. To help protect the security and safety of our Members, on and off our services, we may continue to store your information for a retention window of up to 18 months. Throughout this time, your information will be retained but not visible on our services. Thus, when you request to have your information deleted, or you have been inactive in our service for 18 months, we will delete or anonymize your information, unless:
we must keep it to evidence our compliance with applicable law (for instance, records of consents to our Terms, Privacy Policy and other similar consents are kept for five years);
there is an outstanding issue, claim or dispute requiring us to keep the relevant information until it is resolved; or
the information must be kept for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention and enhancing Members’ safety and security. For example, information may need to be kept to prevent a member who was banned for unsafe behavior or security incidents from opening a new account.
We cannot promise that all data will be deleted within a specific time frame due to technical or personal constraints.
Children’s Privacy
Our services are only for those 18 years of age or older. We do not permit any user or person under the age of 18 to use our services. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18 years old. If you think or suspect that a member is under 18 years of age, please report to us using the contact details above.
You data protection rights
Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. Please email us using the contact details at the top of this document.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances. For instance, we cannot erase data that is not just held by us.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your information in certain circumstances. For instance, we cannot restrict processing where it has already been processed or is impossible to stop the processing, as it has loaded up on devices beyond our control.
Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us at info@rithmit.com if you wish to make a request.
Complaints:
Please make any complaint out to info@rithmit.com
Privacy / Data Policy Changes
Overtime, we may make changes to this policy. Any material changes will be notified to you before they take effect, so you can review them beforehand.
How to complain
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
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