Privacy Policy

The Bottom Line

We will not share with persons other than those you specify any information that you provide through Loiter Holdings Ltd. that might be used to identify you individually, or allow your individual location to be determined, both present and in the past - full stop.

This Privacy Policy describes how and when we collect, use, and share your information across our websites, SMS, APIs, email notifications, applications, buttons, embeds, ads, and our other covered services that link to this Policy (collectively, the “Services”), and from our partners and other third parties. For example, you send us information when you use our Services on the web, via SMS, or from an application such as Loiter Holdings Ltd. for Mac, Loiter Holdings Ltd. for Android. When using any of our Services you consent to the collection, transfer, storage, disclosure, and use of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. This includes any information you choose to provide that is deemed sensitive under applicable law.

When this policy mentions “we” or “us,” it refers to the controller of your information under this policy. If you live in the United States, your information is controlled by Loiter Holdings Ltd., PO Box 177, Ettalong Beach NSW 2257, AUstralia . If you live outside the United States, the data controller responsible for your information is Loiter Holdings Ltd. International Company, an England and Wales company with its registered office at PO Box 177, Ettalong Beach NSW 2257, AUstralia. Despite this, you alone control and are responsible for the posting of your Loiter Holdings Ltd. locations and other content you submit through the Services, as provided in the Terms of Service and Loiter Holdings Ltd. Rules.

Irrespective of which country you live in, you authorize us to transfer, store, and use your information in the United States, Australia, and any other country where we operate. In some of these countries, the privacy and data protection laws and rules regarding when government authorities may access data may vary from those in the country where you live. Learn more about our global operations and data transfer here. If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please submit a request by email: privacy@loiter.com.

Information Collection and Use

We collect and use your information below to provide, understand, and improve our Services.

• Basic Account Information: If you choose to create a Loiter Holdings Ltd. account, you must provide us with some personal information, such as your name, username, password, or email address. On Loiter Holdings Ltd., your username is always listed publicly, including on your profile page and in search results, and you can use either your real name or a pseudonym. You can create and manage multiple Loiter Holdings Ltd. accounts.
• Contact Information: You may use your contact information, such as your email address or phone number, to customize your account or enable certain account features, for example, for login verification or Loiter Holdings Ltd. via SMS. If you provide us with your phone number, you agree to receive text messages to that number from us. We may use your contact information to send you information about our Services, to market to you, to help prevent spam, fraud, or abuse, and to help others find your account, including through third-party services and client applications. You may use your settings for email and mobile notifications to control notifications you receive from Loiter Holdings Ltd. You may also unsubscribe from a notification by following the instructions contained within the notification or the instructions on our website. Your Discoverability privacy settings control whether others can find you on Loiter Holdings Ltd. by your email address or phone number.
• Phone Number Verification: We may ask for your phone number during account setup to verify your identity and enhance the security of your account. This verification process helps prevent unauthorized access by confirming you are the rightful owner of the account. We send a one-time verification code via SMS to your provided phone number. This code must be entered to complete the verification. Your phone number is used solely for this purpose unless you explicitly consent to other uses, such as receiving marketing communications. You can opt out of this verification process if you choose not to provide your phone number, although certain features might require this step for functionality. We do not share your phone number with third parties without your permission and adhere to strict security measures to protect your information.
• Additional Information: You may choose to provide us with additional information to help improve and personalize your experience across our Services. For example, you may choose to upload and sync your address book so that we can help you find and connect with users you know or help other users find and connect with you. We may later personalize content, such as making suggestions or showing user accounts and Loiter Holdings Ltd. posts for you and other users, based on imported address book contacts. You can delete your imported address book contacts at any time by visiting your Contacts Page. If you email us, we may keep your message, email address, and contact information to respond to your request. If you connect your account on our Services to your account on another service, the other service may send us information that you authorize for use in the Services. This information may enable cross-posting or otherwise help us improve the Services, and is deleted from our Services within a few weeks of your disconnecting from our Services your account on the other service.
• Following, Lists, Profile, and Other Public Information: Loiter Holdings Ltd. is primarily designed to let people share where they are in the world and to organise meet-ups by specifying places and times. Most of the information you provide us through Loiter Holdings Ltd. is information is only make availble to other Loiter Holdings Ltd. users that you have nominated as "friends". You may provide us with profile information such as a short biography, your location, your website, date of birth, or a picture. We may use this information to make inferences, like where you like to hang-out and when. Our default is almost always to make the information you provide through the Services public for as long as you do not delete it, but we generally give you settings or features, like protected Loiter Holdings Ltd. locations, to make the information more private if you want. For certain profile information fields we provide you with visibility settings to select who can see this information in your profile. If you provide us with profile information and you don’t see a visibility setting, that information is public.
• Direct Messages and Non-Public Communications: We provide certain features that allow you to communicate more privately. For example, you can use Direct Messages to have private conversations with other Loiter Holdings Ltd. users. When you privately communicate with others through our Services, such as by sending and receiving Direct Messages, we will store and process your communications, and information related to them. Please note that if you interact with public Loiter Holdings Ltd. content shared with you via Direct Message, those interactions may be public. When you use features like Direct Messages to communicate privately, please remember that recipients may copy, store, and re-share the contents of your communications.
• Location Information: We will receive information about your location. For example, you may choose to publish your location in your Loiter Holdings Ltd. profile. We may also determine location by using other data from your device, such as precise location information from GPS, information about wireless networks or cell towers near your mobile device, or your IP address. We may use and store information about your location to provide features of our Services, such as allowing you to post your location, and to improve and customize the Services, for example, with more relevant content like local trends, ads, and suggestions for people to follow.
• Links: We may keep track of how you interact with links across our Services, including our email notifications, third-party services, and client applications, by redirecting clicks or through other means. We do this to help improve our Services, to provide more relevant advertising, and to be able to share aggregate activity statistics such as how many times a particular link was clicked on.
• Using Our Services: We receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact with our Services, even if you have not created an account (“Log Data”). For example, when you visit our websites, sign into our Services, interact with our email notifications, use your account to authenticate to a third-party website, application, or service, or visit a third-party website, application, or service that includes Loiter Holdings Ltd. content, we may receive information about you. This Log Data may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, or cookie information. We also receive Log Data when you click on, view or interact with links on our Services, including links to third-party applications, such as when you choose to install another application through Loiter Holdings Ltd. We use Log Data to make inferences, like what topics you may be interested in, and to customize the content we show you, including ads. You can learn about the interests we have inferred about you from your activity on and off of Loiter Holdings Ltd. in Your Loiter Holdings Ltd. We keep Log Data as needed for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We will either delete Log Data or remove any common account identifiers, such as your username, full IP address, email address, or phone number, after a maximum of 18 months, if not sooner.
• Data use: We may personalize the Services for you based on your location and posted and other intercations on Loiter Holdings Ltd. We may use interests or other information that we derive from this data to improve our Services and personalize content for you, such as suggestions for people to follow, advertising, and other content you may be interested in. You can see and control interests that we use to personalize your experience in Your Loiter Holdings Ltd. Data, available at https://www.loiter.com/your_loiter_data.
• Third-Parties and Affiliates: We may receive information about you from third parties, such as other Loiter Holdings Ltd. users, partners (including ad partners), or our corporate affiliates. For example, other users may share or disclose information about you, such as when they mention you, share a photo of you, or tag you in a photo. Your privacy settings control who can tag you in a photo. Our ad partners and affiliates may share information with us such as a browser cookie ID, mobile device ID, or cryptographic hash of an email address, as well as demographic or interest data and content viewed or actions taken on a website or app. Our ad partners, particularly our advertisers, may enable us to collect similar information directly from their website or app by integrating our advertising technology.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

We do not disclose your private personal information except in the limited circumstances described here.

• User Consent or Direction: We may share or disclose your information at your direction, such as when you authorize a third-party web client or application to access your account or when you direct us to share your feedback with a business. When you use Digits by Loiter Holdings Ltd. to sign up for or log in to a third-party application, you are directing us to share your contact information, such as your phone number, with that application. If you’ve shared information, like Direct Messages, with another user who accesses Loiter Holdings Ltd. through a third-party service, keep in mind that the information may be shared with the third-party service.
• Service Providers: We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to us in the United States, Ireland, and other countries. For example, we use a variety of third-party services to help provide our Services, such as hosting our various blogs and wikis, and to help us understand and improve the use of our Services, such as Google Analytics. We may share your private personal information with such service providers subject to obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures, and on the condition that the third parties use your private personal data only on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions. We share your payment information, including your credit or debit card number, card expiration date, CVV code, and billing address with payment services providers to process payments; prevent, detect and investigate fraud or other prohibited activities; facilitate dispute resolution such as chargebacks or refunds; and for other purposes associated with the acceptance of credit or debit cards.
• Law and Harm: Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy, we may preserve or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect our or our users’ rights or property. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including a government’s, request to disclose your information.
• Business Transfers and Affiliates: In the event that we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. This Privacy Policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity. We may also disclose information about you to our corporate affiliates in order to help provide, understand, and improve our Services and our affiliates’ services, including the delivery of ads.
• Public Information: We may share or disclose your public information, such as your public user profile information, or the people you you are friends with or are friends with you. Other information, like your name and username, is always public on Loiter Holdings Ltd., unless you delete your account, as described below.
• Non-Personal, Aggregated, or Device-Level Information: We may share or disclose non-personal, aggregated, or device-level information such as the total number of times people have visited a location, the characteristics of a device or its user when it is available to receive an ad, the locations peope are meeting, or aggregated or device-level reports to advertisers about users who saw or clicked on their ads. This information does not include your name, email address, phone number, or Loiter Holdings Ltd. user name. We may, however, share non-personal, aggregated, or device-level information through partnerships with entities that may use data in their possession (including data you may have given them) to link your name, email address, or other personal information to the information we provide them. These partnerships require that they get your consent before doing so. You can control whether Loiter Holdings Ltd. shares your information under these partnerships by using your Personalization and Data settings, available at https://loiter.com/personalization.

Accessing and Modifying Your Personal Information

If you are a registered user of our Services, we provide you with tools and account settings to access, correct, delete, or modify the personal information you provided to us and associated with your account. You can download certain account information, including your posts, by following the instructions here. You can learn more about the interests we have inferred about you in Your Loiter Holdings Ltd. Data and request access to additional information here.

You can also permanently delete your Loiter Holdings Ltd. account. If you follow the instructions here, your account will be deactivated and then deleted. When deactivated, your account, including your name, username, and public profile, is not viewable on Loiter Holdings Ltd.com. For up to 30 days after deactivation it is still possible to restore your account if it was accidentally or wrongfully deactivated. Absent a separate arrangement between you and us to extend your deactivation period, after 30 days, we begin the process of deleting your account from our systems, which can take up to a week.

Our Global Operations

To bring you the Services, we operate globally. Loiter Holdings Ltd. complies with the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield principles (the “Principles”) regarding the collection, use, sharing, and retention of personal information from the European Union and Switzerland, as described in our EU-US Privacy Shield certification and Swiss-US Privacy Shield certification.

If you have a Privacy Shield-related complaint, please contact us at privacy@loiter.com. As part of our participation in Privacy Shield, if you have a dispute with us about our adherence to the Principles, we will seek to resolve it through our internal complaint resolution process, alternatively through the independent dispute resolution body JAMS, and under certain conditions, through the Privacy Shield arbitration process.

Privacy Shield participants are subject to the investigatory and enforcement powers of the US Federal Trade Commission and other authorized statutory bodies. Under certain circumstances, participants may be liable for the transfer of personal information from the EU or Switzerland to third parties outside the EU and Switzerland. Learn more about the EU-US Privacy Shield and Swiss-US Privacy Shield here.

Changes to this Policy

We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will always be at https://loiter.com/privacy. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you via an @Loiter Holdings Ltd. update or email to the email address associated with your account. By continuing to access or use the Services after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.

Questions about this Policy?

Thoughts or questions about this Privacy Policy? Please, let us know by contacting us here or writing to us at the appropriate address below. Reach out to us via our contact page.

Or send a letter to:

Loiter Holdings Ltd.
Attn: Loiter Holdings Ltd. Privacy Policy Inquiry
PO Box 177
ETTALONG BEACH 2257 NSW
Australia

Effective: January 01, 2025

Inquire What Data We Have

Loiter Holdings Ltd. Landing Page uses tracking technology on the landing page, in the Applications, and in the Platforms, including mobile application identifiers and a unique Loiter Holdings Ltd. user ID to help us recognize you across different Services, to monitor usage and web traffic routing for the Services, and to customize and improve the Services.

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