Welcome to Impake! As you engage with our platform, we collect certain information to enhance your experience, to provide the features you are registering for and to ensure the safety of our community. In this privacy policy we will talk about what information we collect and why, please read this text to be informed of what you are registering for and contact [email protected] if you have any questions about anything. (Do not share any private information in your emails to us, including your password)

Disclaimer: While we take steps to protect your data, our security measures may not be completely foolproof. It's strongly recommended that users avoid sharing sensitive information and refrain from using passwords across multiple services. Although we would prefer not to store your email, it's necessary for users who may forget their passwords. You have the option to skip providing an email, but please be aware that if you choose this option, you won't be able to reset your password in the future if you forget it.

1. Information We Collect

1.1 - Information you provide to us:

When you create an account you must provide some information to us for your account to be created. This includes your username, display name, password, email (currently optional) and date of birth. Additionally after your account is created you can provide us a biography, profile picture and a profile banner which if you do, will also be saved. Your profile information, which includes your username, display name, profile picture, profile banner and biography are always public, as well as some of the other things we will mention in 1.2. These are obtained when you register and by accepting this privacy policy you consent to their collection.

1.2 - Information we collect when you are using Impake

When you use our platform we collect information about you in order to keep our platform secure, more interesting and more relevant to our users including you.

1.2.1 - Usage information

1.2.2 - Third party services we use

We use some third party services to provide you with the best services and to improve our services., and they may use cookies for their services to work.

Google Analytics:

You will be asked to provide consent specifically for google analytics use while using our platform if you are not logged in. When you create an account you consent for the use of google analytics and you will be able to opt out of any further use of it from your settings either way. This helps us analyze information about how our services are being used, such as:

Google Adsense:

We use Google AdSense to display advertisements on our platform. Google AdSense may collect data to tailor the ads displayed based on your activity and interactions with our site ,enhancing relevance for you. This data collection and usage are subject to your consent, which you can manage through Google's Ad Center or from www.aboutads.info settings.

Cloudflare:

We use Cloudflare for security and performance optimization of our services which we consider to be in our legitimate interests.

Cloudflare may collect certain data about your use of our website, such as your IP address, to provide these services. For more information about how Cloudflare collects and uses data, please check out their privacy policy.

Google reCaptcha:

We use Google reCaptcha for security of our services, to prevent bots from making new accounts or logging into existent ones maybe even stealing your account by brute-forcing your password, which we consider to be in our legitimate interests.

2. How we use your information

  1. Information about the posts you send or interact with and the accounts you follow will be used to create you a recommendation profile in an automated way that is used to recommend you other posts and accounts or recommend your posts and account to others.
  2. The IP addresses we collect are used for protection of our services by implementing rate limiting measures and by restricting the use of some IP addresses that has done damage to our platform previously in ways we may or may not disclose. IP address that we collect which is saved together with your account details gets updated every time you log in from a different IP address in order for us to determine which IP we need to restrict in case of any damage.
  3. The way you communicate with us and its contents are saved for us to improve, fix and possibly contact you back after we resolve any issues or to resolve an issue.
  4. As stated in 1.2.2 the third party services we use help us make our service secure or provide us with data on how our services are being used and we try improving our services according to them.
  5. The data of interactions with posts and accounts such as likes, comments, messages may be used to send notifications to those you interacted with.

3- How long we store your data:

We store almost all of the mentioned data (such as your username, display name, bio) as long as your account exists in our platform however;

4- Erasure of your data:

We make it quite simple in our platform to delete your data, when you delete your account we delete all the data we have about you from our servers, including posts, messages, profile picture, profile banner and so on. If your IP address is in between one of the saved IP addresses that has been banned (restricted permanently from creating new accounts), it will remain there for our security. However we can not delete the data the third party services we use have collected even after your account deletion request. To learn how you can get your data removed from their servers:

5- How we secure your data:

5.1- We use an algorithm called bcrypt to encrypt your password and the rest of the information sent are not encrypted when they are saved including your messages. Encrypting them would result in a bigger storage usage that we can't currently afford.

5.2- In case of a security breach, we will use our socials to inform you as soon as we confirm a breach has happened. Our official social media account on this platform is https://www.impake.com/profile/impake.

5.3-We strictly prohibit the posting of explicit content on our platform. While we treat all users aged 13 and above equally, it's important to note that we may not be able to guarantee 100% safety due to resource limitations. Each user is personally responsible for their own actions while using our platform. We strongly advise against sharing any content that could potentially jeopardize your safety. Your cooperation in maintaining a secure environment is greatly appreciated.

6- Contacts:

You can contact us using our email address [email protected].

If you wish to have a copy of the data of yours from this platform you can contact the same email address, we will try responding and fulfilling your request under a month but it may take longer for you to receive your data depending on how much data you have on our servers. To access or correct any data you have, contact the same email address mentioned.

For any questions you have about this privacy policy or anything else you should contact the same email address.

When contacting, please make sure to explain your problem or question or whatever it is you are contacting about so we can help you the best.

7- Termination of Service:

7.1 Discontinuation of the Site: Impake reserves the right to cease operations and discontinue the site at any time and for any reason without prior notice. In the event of such termination:

7.2 Notification: While we will strive to inform users about the discontinuation through our official communication channels, there may be circumstances where immediate termination is necessary, and prior notice may not be possible.

7.3 User Responsibility: Users are encouraged to regularly back up any content or information they wish to retain, as Impake will not be responsible for the loss of data in the event of site discontinuation.

7.4 Account Specific Termination: We reserve the right to delete your account for undisclosed reasons at any given time, and it is suggested that you understand we don't have the monetary resources to host as much content as other platforms can.

8- Changes to our Privacy Policy:

Changes will be posted in our main accounts and may be shown as notifications on the pages you visit. You may not be able to use most of the features in our platform unless you accept our privacy policy once it has changed but you will still be able to do the things mentioned as mentioned in section 6 (Contacts and rights section).

9- How we may share your data

With other users:

With some service providers:

We may retain, utilize, share, read, or reveal your information if we deem it reasonably necessary to:

We may share, sell, or transfer all the information we have in our servers in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or bankruptcy. This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal information that is shared with (before and after the close of any transaction) or transferred to the new entity.

Links:

Privacy policy of Cloudflare: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

Privacy policy of Google Analytics , Google Adsense and Google reCaptcha:

Opt out links of Google AdSense:

Our official impake.com profile: https://www.impake.com/profile/impake

Our email: [email protected]