Privacy Policy for OfureA

Our privacy policy shows our commitment to be transparent about the data we collect about you, how it is used and with whom it is shared.

Introduction:

We are a social network and policy oriented online interacting platform, designed specifically to enable Members network and share views on public/private social & industrial policies for sustainable development and just society. Our Service is also used by Members to share invention of ideas, creativity, build and upgrade of curriculum vitae.

Our Privacy Policy applies to any Member or Visitor to our Services. Our registered users (“Members”) share their identities, engage with their network, share views, exchange knowledge and professional insights, post and view relevant content, learn and contribute to the policies of the private and public sectors. Content and data on some of our Services is viewable to non-members (“Visitors”).

Services

This Privacy Policy applies to ofurea.com and OfureA-branded mobile app, communications and services (“Services”).

Data Controllers and Contracting Parties

OfureA Inno-Tech Limited is the controller of your personal data provided to, or collected by or for, or processed in connection with, our Services.

As a Visitor or Member of our Services, the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as updates.

Change

Changes to the Privacy Policy apply to your use of our Services after the “effective date.”

OfureA (“we” or “us”) can modify this Privacy Policy, and if we make material changes to it, we will provide notice through our Services, or by other means, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes before they become effective. If you object to any changes, you may close your account.

You acknowledge that your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy means that the collection, use and sharing of your personal data is subject to the updated Privacy Policy, as of its effective date.

DATA WE COLLECT:

Data you provide to us.

You provide data to create an account with us.

Registration and Profile:

To create an account you need to provide data including your name, email address, location and/or mobile number, and a password.

You create an OfureA profile with the data you provided at registration.

Posting and Uploading

We collect personal data from you when you provide, post or upload it to our Services, such as when you fill out a form, respond to a survey, or submit a resume on our Services. If you opt to import your address book, we receive your contacts (including contact information your service provider(s) or app automatically added to your address book when you communicated with addresses or numbers not already in your list).

If you sync your contacts or calendars with our Services, we will collect your address book and calendar meeting information to keep growing your network by suggesting connections for you and others, and by providing information about events, e.g. times, places, attendees and contacts.

You don’t have to post or upload personal data; though if you don’t, it may limit your ability to grow and engage with your network over our Services.

​​​​​​​Data from Others

Others may post or write about you.

Content and News

You and others may post content that includes information about you (as part of articles, posts, comments, videos) on our Services. We also may collect public information about you.

Others may sync their contacts or calendar with our Services.

Contact and Calendar Information

We receive personal data (including contact information) about you when others import or sync their contacts or calendar with our Services, associate their contacts with Member profiles, scan and upload business cards, or send messages using our Services (including invites or connection requests). If you or others opt-in to sync email accounts with our Services, we will also collect “email header” information that we can associate with Member profiles.

Customers and partners may provide data to us.

​​​​​​​Service Use

We log your visits and use of our Services, including mobile apps.

We log usage data when you visit or otherwise use our Services, including our sites, app and platform technology, such as when you view or click on content or ads (on or off our sites and apps), perform a search, install or update one of our mobile apps, share articles or apply for jobs. We use log-ins and internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to identify you and log your use.

​​​​​​​Your Device and Location

We receive data from your devices and networks, including location data.

When you visit or leave our Services, we receive the URL of both the site you came from and the one you go to and the time of your visit. We also get information about your network and device (e.g., IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser and add-ons, device identifier and features, cookie IDs and/or ISP, or your mobile carrier). If you use our Services from a mobile device, that device will send us data about your location based on your phone settings. We will ask you to opt-in before we use GPS or other tools to identify your precise location.

​​​​​​​Messages

If you communicate through our Services, we learn about that. We collect information about you when you send, receive, or engage with messages in connection with our Services. For example, if you get an OfureA connection request, we track whether you have acted on it and will send you reminders.

We also use automatic scanning technology on messages to support and protect our site. For example, we use this technology to suggest possible responses to messages and to manage or block content that violates our User Agreement from our Services.

​​​​​​​Sites and Services of Others

We get data when you visit sites that include our ads or some of our plug-ins or when you log-in to others’ services with your OfureA account.

We receive information about your visits and interaction with services provided by others when you log-in with OfureA or visit others’ services that include some of our plug-ins or our ads, or similar technologies.

​​​​​​​Other

We are improving our Services, which means we get new data and create new ways to use data.

Our Services are dynamic, and we often introduce new features, which may require the collection of new information. If we collect materially different personal data or materially change how we collect, use or share your data, we will notify you and may also modify this Privacy Policy.

​​​​​​​HOW WE USE YOUR DATA:

We use your data to provide, support, personalize and develop our Services.

How we use your personal data will depend on which Services you use, how you use those Services and the choices you make in your settings. We use the data that we have about you to provide and personalize our Services, including with the help of automated systems and inferences we make, so that our Services (including ads) can be more relevant and useful to you and others.

​​​​​​​Services 

Our Services help you connect with others, stay informed, and be more productive.

We use your data to authorize access to our Services and honor your settings.

Stay Connected

Our Services allow you to stay in touch and up to date with other Members. To do so, you can search and “connect” with the people you know, and who also wish to “connect” with you, subject to your and their settings.

We use data about you (such as your profile, profiles you have viewed or data provided through address book uploads or partner integrations) to help others find your profile, suggest connections for you and others.

It is your choice whether to invite someone to our Services, send a connection request, or allow another Member to become your connection. When you invite someone to connect with you, your invitation will include your network and basic profile information (e.g., name and profile photo).

We use your content, activity and other data, including your name and photo, to provide notices to your network and others.

Profession

Our Services allow you to share your invention ideas and creativities, build and upgrade your curriculum vitae.

You can signal that you need investors and share more information. We may use automated systems to provide content and recommendations to help make our Services more relevant to our Members. Keeping your profile accurate and up-to-date may help you better connect to others and to opportunities through our Services.

​​​​​​​Communications

We contact you and enable communications between Members. We offer settings to control what messages you receive and how often you receive some types of messages.

We will contact you through email, mobile phone, notices posted on our websites or apps, messages to your OfureA inbox, and other ways through our Services, including text messages and push notifications. We will send you messages about the availability of our Services, security, or other service-related issues. We also send messages about how to use our Services and network updates.

Please be aware that you cannot opt out of receiving service messages from us, including security and legal notices.

We also enable communications between you and others through our Services, including for example invitations, In-Mail, groups and messages between connections.

​​​​​​​Advertising

We serve you tailored ads both on and off our Services. We offer you choices regarding personalized ads, but you cannot opt-out of seeing other ads.

If you take a social action (such as like, comment or share) on these ads, your action is associated with your name and viewable by others, including the advertiser. If you take a social action on the OfureA Services, that action may be mentioned with related ads.

​​​​​​​Marketing

We promote our Services to you and others.

In addition to advertising our Services, we use Members’ data and content for invitations and communications promoting membership and network growth, engagement and our Services, such as by showing your connections that you have used a feature on our Services.

​​​​​​​Developing Services and Research

We develop our Services and conduct research.

Service Development

We use data, including public feedback, to conduct research and development for our Services in order to provide you and others with a better, more intuitive and personalized experience, drive membership growth and engagement on our Services, and help connect people to each other and to economic opportunity.

Surveys

Polls and surveys are conducted by us and others through our Services. You are not obligated to respond to polls or surveys, and you have choices about the information you provide.

​​​​​​​Customer Support

We use data to help you and fix problems.

We use data (which can include your communications) to investigate, respond to and resolve complaints and for Service issues (e.g., bugs).

​​​​​​​Security and Investigations

We use data for security, fraud prevention and investigations.

We use your data (including your communications) for security purposes or to prevent or investigate possible fraud or other violations of our User Agreement and/or attempts to harm our members, visitors or others.

​​​​​​​HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

​​​​​​​Our Services

Any data that you include on your profile and any content you post or social action (e.g., likes, follows, comments, shares) you take on our Services will be seen by others, consistent with your settings.

Profile

Your profile is fully visible to all Members and customers of our Services. Subject to your settings, it can also be visible to others on or off of our Services (e.g., Visitors to our Services or users of third- party search engines).

Posts, Likes, Follows, Comments, Messages

Our Services allow viewing and sharing information including through posts, likes, follows and comments.

When you share an article or a post (e.g., an update, image, video or article) publicly it can be viewed by everyone and re-shared anywhere. Members, Visitors and others will be able to find and see your publicly-shared content, including your name (and photo if you have provided one).

When you follow a person or organization, you are visible to others and that “page owner” as a follower.

We let senders know when you act on their message.

When you like or re-share or comment on another’s content (including ads), others will be able to view these “social actions” and associate it with you (e.g., your name, profile and photo if you provided it).

​​​​​​​Others’ Services

You may link your account with others’ services so that they can look up your contacts’ profiles, post your shares on such platforms, or enable you to start conversations with your connections on such platforms. Excerpts from your profile will also appear on the services of others.

Other services may look up your profile. When you opt to link your account with other services, personal data will become available to them. The sharing and use of that personal data will be described in, or linked to, a consent screen when you opt to link the accounts.

​​​​​​​Related Services

We will share your personal data with our affiliates to provide and develop our Services. We may combine information internally across the different Services covered by this Privacy Policy to help our Services be more relevant and useful to you and others.

​​​​​​​Service Providers

We may use others to help us with our Services.

We use others to help us provide our Services (e.g., maintenance, analysis, audit, payments, fraud detection, marketing and development). They will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for other purposes.

​​​​​​​Legal Disclosures

We may need to share your data when we believe it is required by law or to help protect the rights and safety of you, us or others.

It is possible that we will need to disclose information about you when required by law or other legal process or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to:

Investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies.

1. Enforce our agreements with you.
2. Investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations.
3. Protect the security or integrity of our Services (such as by sharing with companies facing similar threats).
4. Exercise or protect the rights and safety of OfureA, our members, staff or others. We attempt to notify members about legal demands for their personal data when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.

​​​​​​​CONTACT INFORMATION

You can contact us online through our contact information.

If you have questions or complaints regarding this Policy, please contact us online.