Privacy Policy

Registration information.
When you sign up to use the app, you provide us with basic information like your phone number, Snapchat display name, Snapchat username, age, country, and gender.

Profile information.
When you create a profile on the app, you provide us with information such as profile pictures, name (first and/or last), and any other information you choose to provide. Please see the “Other users” section under “HOW IS INFORMATION SHARED” below for important details about how your profile information is viewable by other users.
‍
Messages.
When you send or receive a message through the app, we collect the contents of the message, any attachments to the message (including, for example, voice messages and photos), and information about the message (such as who you are communicating with).

Summer communications.
When you reach out to us (through, for example, an in-app report or email, we collect and store the contents and details of that communication, including things like date, time, method of communication, and resolution (if applicable).

Polls, surveys, and questionnaires.
When you voluntarily respond to polls, surveys, and questionnaires, we receive the contents of your responses and any other information you provide, such as your address and basic demographic information.

We use the information we collect to:

Provide, maintain, improve, and enhance the Services.
‍We use information we collect about you to provide the Services you request from us and to provide the functionality of the app and the features you choose to use. For example, we use the information we collect to facilitate your use of the app’s features, to allow you to connect with other users, to deliver your messages, and to display your intended themes and profile images.

Personalize your experience on the Services.
For example, we use the information we collect to personalize content and make suggestions that are relevant to you.

Understand and analyze how you use the Services.
We aim to continuously improve our offerings to bring you the best way to make meaningful connections. Accordingly, we are continuously analyzing how users access and use the app and its features in order to improve existing Services and develop new ones. Our analysis of how you use the app can help us do things like evaluate the popularity and functionality of certain features, identify and fix potential bugs, and understand what our users want.

Communicate with you.
The information we collect lets us respond to your comments and questions or otherwise provide customer support, and keep you updated on other information such as Summer’s latest product announcements, software updates, and upcoming events.

Enable social functionality.
We use the information we collect to support the social functionality of the Services, including to allow you to post content on third party services, such as social media networks.

Promote safety and security.
‍We also use information to find and prevent fraud and promote trust and safety on the Services. For example, we may scan your messages for inappropriate content to protect the safety and integrity of our Services and users.

Compliance purposes.
We may use the information we collect to enforce our Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, and other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency.

Deliver ads and other sponsored content.
We use the information we collect, including information about your interests, actions and connections, -to select, personalize, and deliver ads, offers and other sponsored content.

Send you push notifications.
We may use the information we collect to send you push notifications.

Other purposes.
We may also use the information we collect for other purposes for which we provide notice at the time the information is collected.

Other users.
Our Service is a social service intended to help you make new friends and interact with them. Please be aware that your profile information will always be viewable by other users. You may edit your profile information within the app through your profile settings. We are not responsible for other users’ use of available information, so you should carefully consider whether and what to include in your profile or otherwise share through the Services. We also share your information if you ask us to. For example, we send the messages and other content you ask us to send to other users either directly or within a group chat. Please be aware that anyone you send a message to will have their own copy of the message and any content attached to that message. Therefore, even if you delete your copy of the message from your account, they may duplicate, store, or reshare at their own discretion.

Social networks.
Our services allow you to share information with social networking services, such as Snapchat. You understand and agree that the use of your information by any social networking websites will be governed by the privacy policies of these third party platforms and your settings on that platform. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before sharing any information with them.

Third party integrations.
‍Certain features you use through Summer are offered by third parties such as linking to Snapchat to use a Bitmoji as your profile picture. Those features may include things such as GIFs, emojis, smileys, web pages optimized for Summer, etc. When you choose to use these third-party features, or other services that use, or are integrated with, our Services, those third parties (and other users of those third party services) may be able to see things like your user profile and receive information about 4what you post or share. These third parties may use this information as described in their privacy policies, which can include advertising. You understand and agree that the use of your information by these third parties will be governed by the privacy policies of these third party platforms and your settings on that platform. We encourage you to review their privacy policies before sharing any information with them.

Our service providers.
We share the information we collect with third-party service providers that help operate our business. Examples include suppliers who host our data or provide customer service.

Our related companies.
‍We may share some or all of your information with our affiliated companies, subsidiaries, or joint ventures.

To protect Summer and its users,or for legal purposes.
We may access, preserve, and disclose your information if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to: (a) detect, prevent or address fraud or other illegal activity (b) respond to your requests; (c) comply with law enforcement requests and legal process, such as subpoenas, warrants, production orders, or similar instruments; or (d) protect your, our, or others’ rights, property, or safety, including when there is an emergency involving potential harm, loss of security or serious injury to people or threats of such emergencies. For the avoidance of doubt, we may disclose your information if you post any objectionable content on or through the Services.

Merger, financing or sale.
We may share your information with service providers, advisors, potential transactional partners, or other third parties in connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a merger, financing, acquisition, dissolution transaction, bankruptcy or proceeding involving the sale, transfer, or divestiture of all or a portion of our business or assets.

Advertising partners.
‍We work with third party advertising partners to show you ads that we think may interest you. Please see the “USER CONTROLS” section below for information about how to opt-out of receiving interest-based ads from some of these partners.

Consent.
We may also share your information with your permission.

Our App and all of our data, including your Data, are hosted on servers in the United States. If you are using or accessing the Services from outside of the United States, your Data will be transferred to, processed and stored in the United States. As a result, United States federal and state governments, courts, or law enforcement or regulatory agencies 6may be able to obtain your Data through laws applicable in the United States. United States laws may not offer the same privacy protections as the law of your jurisdiction. Personal information collected in the EU may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside of the EU and processed by employees operating outside of the EU who work for us, one of our business partners, or service providers. We utilize standard contract clauses (see https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32010D0087), rely on the European Commission's adequacy decisions about certain countries, as applicable, and obtain your consent for these data transfers to the United States and other countries. When we transfer personal information across country borders, we will make sure there is a transfer mechanism in place to transfer the data in a manner consistent with that described this Privacy Policy. For citizens of the European Union, you should know that Summer is a controller and a processor of your personal information. The legal bases for which we collect and use the information described above depends on what the information is and why we collected it. The four bases upon which we rely include:
‍
Contract.
This means we need the information to perform our contract with you. For example, when you want to send a message, we use information to carry out your request to transmit that message to its intended recipient.

Legitimate Interests.
This means we have a legitimate interest that does not outweigh your privacy rights. When we collect and process information based on our legitimate interests, we consider how we can accomplish what we need to in a way that is the least obtrusive on your privacy. For example, it is in our interest to protect your safety and security in the app, so we collect and use information that has been flagged by users or requested by law enforcement; to make sure you are satisfied with how the Services work, troubleshoot technical problems or develop new features, we collect and use information about how you and others use the Services; and to respond to your service inquiries, we collect and use information in that request and, if relevant to the inquiry, information about how you access and use the Services.

Legal Obligations.
‍We may need to use your personal information to comply with a law enforcement preservation request, subpoena, or other legal process or to protect the rights of other users.

Consent.
‍If we have no other legal basis for collecting or using your information, we will ask you for consent for a specific purpose. If we do, you have the right to withdraw consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not apply to any processing conducted in reliance on lawful processing bases other than consent.

Privacy Policy

More first dates