1. Introduction

Welcome to Kalamkaar. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy informs you about how we look after your personal data when you visit or use our application (regardless of where you visit it from) and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. The Data We Collect About You

We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data: Includes your first name, last name, username or similar identifier, and profile pictures.
• Contact Data: Includes email address and phone numbers.
• Technical Data: Includes internet protocol (IP) address, login data, device type, operating system, and platform.
• Profile Data: Includes your username and password, preferences, feedback, stories you post, and survey responses.
• Usage Data: Includes information about how you use our app, products, and services.

3. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• To register you as a new user and manage your account.
• To deliver the core features of the Kalam application (e.g., publishing and displaying stories, processing interactions).
• To manage our relationship with you, including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy.
• To administer and protect our business and our application (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, and support).
• To use data analytics to improve our website, services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.

4. Disclosures of Your Personal Data

We do not sell your personal data. We may share your personal data with internal and external third parties, such as service providers acting as processors, professional advisers, regulators, and other authorities where required by law.

5. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.

6. Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements.

7. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to request access to your personal data, request correction of your personal data, request erasure of your personal data, object to processing of your personal data, request restriction of processing of your personal data, or request the transfer of your personal data.