Sergey Popov built the ("Tick") app as a Commercial app. This ("Service") is provided by Sergey Popov and is intended for use as is. (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the (the “Service”). Please take a moment to read this Privacy Policy ("Policy") details how we collect, use and protect the information in connection with our web site located at http://app-tick.com ("Site") and other services ("Service") through Tick’s mobile and web applications ("Product").
Personal information is information that can be used to identify or contact a single person, like your name, address, e-mail address, phone number, and other non-public information that is associated with this personal information.
By downloading, and/or using the Product and Service you acknowledge and agree to the Tick Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use. If you choose to not agree with any the Policy or Terms, you may not use the Product and/or Service.
Tick may make some changes to this Policy from time to time without notice. Tick will publish the changes at app-tick.com/privacy. The changes will be effective when published. You agree to review the Policy periodically so that you are aware of any modifications. If you continue to use the Product and the Service after the date of amendment publication, it shall constitute that you accept the updated Policy. If you do not agree with the amended Policy, you may terminate your relationship with Tick. If there are any material changes to this Policy, we will notify you by email or as otherwise required by applicable law. Tick will also post any adjustments to the Policy on this web page, and the revised version will be effective immediately when it is posted (or upon notice as applicable).
If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].
Tick may collect Personal Information as you interact with the Product, the Services, and the Site as described below. We endeavor to collect only the information which is relevant for the purposes of processing, provide our users with all means to rectify the information, and delete the information that is no longer necessary for the purposes for which the data is processed.
Tick collects Personal Information regarding its current, prospective, and former users, visitors, guests.
(a) Information you provide directly to Tick through interacting with the Product, the Services, and the Site, participating in surveys, and contacting the support. Tick collects information when you register, sign in and use our Product and Service. When you install the Tick App or register on the Site, you will be required to provide us with your phone number, which is used for identification purposes as your Tick user ID. Tick also collects your email in order to send you important updates about your account changes and payment confirmations. You may also opt in to receive information about Tick special offers and bonuses. You may allow Tick App to access your mobile device's address book in order to: check phone numbers of your contacts from the applications. To provide these services, the copy of your address book (only names and phones) is stored on the Tick servers. Since other Tick users may add your Tick number to their address book and see that you registered to Tick, we do not consider the fact that your number exists on Tick as private information.
(b) Tick may collect certain information automatically. Tick may read the contents of the activation SMS sent to you by Tick for the sole purpose of service activation. Tick will not read the contents of any other messages on your device. Tick keeps the phone numbers and/or other identification details of the requesting information for phone number. Tick may collect certain information through the Product, the Services, and the Site, or methods of web analysis and technologies, such as your IP address (an IP address is a number that can identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet), cookie identifiers (“cookies”), mobile advertising identifiers, and other identifiers that are automatically assigned to your Device, location data, browser type, operating system, Internet service provider, mobile carrier, pages that you visit before and after using the Site, the date and time of your visit, the amount of time you spend on each page of the Site, information about the links you click and pages you view on the Site, and other actions taken on the Site. We analyze this data for trend, statistics and security reasons, e.g. to identify the location of users from different countries and to block disruptive and fraudulent use. Tick doesn't store bank card data – the card information is safely treated by the payment processing system. For your convenience, you may still opt to use the same card for your next payment. In this case, you will not be required to enter the card details again, and the payment processing system will use the payment details you have already provided. We may also use mobile advertising identifiers to recognize your device and perform the services. Depending on your device, you can choose to change or limit the transmission of your mobile advertising identifier by going into your device settings. If you would like to opt out of other technologies we employ to collect certain types of information, you may do so by blocking, deleting, or disabling them as your browser or device permits.
(c) Tick may also obtain information about you through third-party services as described below to supplement information provided by you. This supplemental information allows us to verify information that you have provided to Tick and to enhance our ability to communicate with you, and to detect, investigate, prevent, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues. We may use your personal data in order to provide our Services, including improving your satisfaction and loyalty. The purpose of data processing is to improve co-operation, promote loyalty and maintain satisfaction (loyalty call, service call for a person with the goal of improving their experience, identifying desires and needs, identifying a person's satisfaction). We may occasionally ask you to provide information on your experiences of using the Product and the Services. Such information is used to improve the quality of the Services.
Tick, as well as third parties that provide communication, advertising, or other means, may use cookies, mobile device identifiers and other technologies to automatically collect information through the Product, the Service, and the Site. Tick may use cookies, which are small text files stored on your device, to help operate the Product and provide the Service and collect information about activity. Cookies and web beacons may be used to store your preferences, information when you register and sign-in and use our Product and Service, provide targeted ads, content and marketing communications, prevent fraud, analyze site statistics and operations. By using the Product, the Service, and the Site you are giving your consent to the use of cookies. You may control cookies and similar technologies with a variety of tools and browser add-ons that will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, disable cookies, have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, etc. However, because cookies allow you to take advantage of useful features, we recommend you leave them turned on.
Tick may use Google Analytics, Firebase and Yandex Metrics to collect, process, and analyze trends regarding Site visitor behavior and demographics. For more information about Google Analytics, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can opt out of Google’s collection and Processing of data generated by your use of the Services by going to http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can also out opt of Yandex Metrics following this link https://yandex.com/support/metrica/general/opt-out.xml. For firebase https://firebase.google.com/policies/analytics.
The Tick Android and iOS mobile apps use the AppsFlyer’s analytics (provided by AppsFlyer Ltd. – the mobile measurement industry standard) to track and analyze the user characteristics and activities, and for such purpose upload to AppsFlyer’s platform certain data which refers to downloads, impressions, clicks and installations of their mobile applications, mobile device use and data regarding in-app events. Tick uses this platform to collect and analyze the data parameters, (a) unique identifiers and technical data, such as IP address, User agent, IDFA (Identifier For Advertisers) or Android ID (in Android devices); (b) technical data regarding the user operating system, device attributes and settings, applications, advertising opt-out signals, Google Advertiser ID, in-app events, device motion parameters and carrier. For more information about AppsFlyer privacy policy, please visit https://www.appsflyer.com/privacy-policy/. You can opt-out of AppsFlyer Analytics tracking by emailing AppsFlyer at [email protected] or by completing the form https://www.appsflyer.com/optout.
Tick collects your personal information for the purpose of: Providing our Services: we use your registration and account data to (i) sign you up for the Product and create your user account for Tick; (ii) create your profile and make it visible; (iii) process your payments; (iv) provide customer service, give you information about your account, and respond to your requests; (v) indicate which of your contacts is already a Tick user and notify you when your contacts become active on the Service (vi) sync your contacts with Tick running on different devices. (vii) request information about phone numbers provided by the user
(a) Improving our Services: we use log information and usage information (as described above) to better understand network behavior and trends (numbers of requests made by users, typical destinations, network type, etc.), detect potential technical issues.
(b) Processing your payments: we may use your information like your name and phone number to process your payments for our Services through a secured third-party service provider and, on an aggregate basis to determine charges for our phone carriers and other service providers.
(c) Personalizing and optimizing our Services, promotional content and advertising to you. For example, we may use the information we collect through cookies, ad identifiers and similar technologies to show you ads you may be interested in.
(d) Preventing cheating, crime or fraud: we may use your information to prevent, detect, and investigate fraud, security breaches, potentially prohibited or illegal activities, protect our trademarks and enforce our Terms of Use. We may use automated decisions to suspend an account based on such data in order to prevent recurring breaches. If your account has been suspended you can contact our support. We may use your information and log information to comply with applicable laws.
(e) Communicating with you: we use your information to contact you (via message or other means) to maintain the Product, to comply with your stated communication preferences or to provide updates about other Tick’s services.
(f) As otherwise expressly set out in this Policy or as required by law.
In order to provide you with the Service you have requested, enhance your user experience, and improve the Product and Service, Tick may sometimes, if necessary, share your personal information with trusted partner service providers, including, but not limited to: payment and analytical services, customer support, hosting services, quality control of services, safety and protection, providing organizational management. Tick will always require these third parties to take all necessary measures to protect your personal data and to observe the relevant legislation. The following is a description of how we may share your personal information with trusted third-party partners:
(a) We use third-party companies in order to send you an authentication SMS when you register with Tick. In order to send you the SMS, we send one of these third-party companies your phone number and the authentication message. These third parties are obligated to use your phone number for the transmission of the authentication SMS only.
(b) If you don’t receive an SMS you may ask us to call you and read you the authentication code. This is done using a third-party automated phone system. In order to call you, we provide this third-party partner with your phone number and send the "audio content" of the call to them. The third-party partner in turn will typically use another phone provider who may use another phone provider and so on until the call reaches you. This is an industry standard mechanism. The third-party partner is obligated to use your phone number for the completion of the authentication phone call only.
(c) We use third-party companies in order to deliver SMS texts that are sent by users. These third parties are obligated to use your phone number, the phone number of the receiving party, and the text message for the transmission of the text only.
(d) We use payment solution providers to process the payment and/or billing information. We require that these third parties take the appropriate organizational and technical measures to protect your personal information and to comply with relevant laws, but we are not liable or responsible for these third-party transactions. Therefore, you should review such third-party terms and conditions before providing your payment or billing information.
(e) When you use Tick on your mobile device, Tick may use notification services available for that device to let you know of some features and alerts when you are not running the mobile application. These services are provided by a third party. For example, messages sent to an Apple device use Apple’s Push Notification Services. Notification services may receive information about features and may use the information in accordance with the privacy policy for the third-party service provider. Tick is not responsible for the data collected by third-party notification services. If you do not want to use third-party notification services to receive notifications and alerts, you can disable this in your notification settings in the Tick application settings or in your device notification settings.
(f) Tick uses third-party analytics services to help understand your usage of our services. In particular, we provide a your information to Firebase Analytics https://firebase.google.com and Firebase collect data for analytics purposes when you visit our website or use our product. As a data processor acting on our behalf, Firebase analyzes your use of our website and/or product and tracks our relationship by way of cookies and similar technologies so that we can improve our service to you. For more information on Firebase use of cookies, please visit https://firebase.google.com/policies/analytics. We may also use Firebase as a medium for communications, either through email, or through messages within our Product. As part of our service agreements, Firebase collects publicly available contact and social information related to you, such as your email address, gender, company, job title, photos, website URLs, social network handles and physical addresses, to enhance your user experience. For more information on the privacy practices of Intercom, please visit https://firebase.google.com/policies/analytics.
(g) Tick uses third-party services to get information about phone numbers requested by the user. In particular, we provide a your information to boomware https://boomware.com, please visit https://boomware.com/privacy-policy/ to read privacy policy of them. Also reed terms and conditions provided by boomware https://boomware.com/terms/
We may disclose your personal information to law enforcement, governmental agencies, or authorized third-parties, in response to a verified request relating to terror acts, criminal investigations or alleged illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you, or any other Tick’s user to legal liability. We also may share your personal information with market supervisory authorities.
If we go through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, personal information would likely be among the transferred assets. As part of such a transaction, the new entity will be required to commit to the same level of protection of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
The Site, the Product, and the Service are restricted to individuals over the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use Personal Information from children under 16 (in certain countries under the age of 13) years of age, and no part of the Site, the Product, and the Service is directed to children under the age of 16 (in certain countries under the age of 13). If you learn that your child has provided us with Personal Information without your consent, you may alert us at [email protected]. If we learn that we have collected any Personal Information from children under 16 (and in certain jurisdictions under the age of 13), we will promptly take steps to delete such information and terminate the account.
We process your personal data no longer than it is necessary and relevant for us to achieve the purposes referred to above or to enable us to comply with our legal data protection retention obligations. The retention period may be based on agreements with you, the legitimate interest of Tick or applicable law (such as laws related to bookkeeping, statute of limitations, civil law, etc.). Upon deactivation of your account, we will minimize the personal data we keep about you only to such data which we are required to keep to comply with laws, or other legal reasons.
We take reasonable precautions to protect personal information including physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards. Private information is stored on servers with limited access in controlled facilities, and payment information is protected with Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption when transferred over the internet. Although we cannot guarantee that personal information will not be subject to unauthorized access as no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure.
We may, for the purposes set forth herein, transfer, process and store your information in Estonia, Germany, or any other country in which Tick or its affiliates, subsidiaries, suppliers or agents maintain facilities. Information collected within the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) may, for example, be transferred to and processed in a country outside of the EU/EEA, which may not provide the same level of protection for personal data as within the EU/EEA. Transfer and processing of personal data outside the EU/EEA can take place provided there is a legal ground, i.e. legal requirement conclusion or performance of an agreement or client’s consent and appropriate safeguards are in place.
If you use Tick’s Services from the EU/EEA, you have the following rights regarding your personal information: to access your personal information, to rectify the information we hold about you, to erase your personal information, to restrict our use of your personal information, to object to our use of your personal information, to receive your personal information in a usable electronic format and transmit it to a third party (right to data portability), to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. If you would like to understand or exercise such rights, please contact us at the details above. Our legal basis to process your personal information will be one of the following:
(a) to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, for example to provide the services;
(b) consistent with your consent, which you can revoke at any time;
(c) to comply with our legal obligations to which we are subject;
(d) to meet our legitimate interests. When we process personal information to meet our legitimate interests, we put in place robust safeguards to ensure that your privacy is protected and to ensure that our legitimate interests are not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms;
(e) to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person;
(f) necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest.
We may obtain your consent to collect and use certain types of personal information when we are required to do so by law (for example, in relation to Cookies or when we process accurate location data for purposes other than performing the service). If we ask for your consent to process your personal information, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the details at this Privacy Policy or by changing your setting within the Site or Product. By withdrawing your consent to the processing of Personal Data, we will no longer process your Personal Data. However, if you have withdrawn any of your consent, you must take into account that the data-processing associated with this consent will no longer be secured and you may no longer have access to available options at a previous level. Withdrawal of consent will not affect the legality of your Personal Data processing prior to the withdrawal of consent.
It is important for us that we have truthful and up-to-date information about your personal data. If your personal data has changed, and if you have found that we process inaccurate or incomplete your personal data, we ask you within a reasonable period of time to inform us about the need to make corrections.
In the context of communication and cooperation, we may ask you to provide additional identifying information if this is necessary so that we can make sure that communication or cooperation takes place directly with you as a data subject, as well as you are the person who has submitted and signed the request. If you will not provide us with the additional information requested or we will have any doubts about the identity of the applicant, in this case we may postpone your request until we are fully sure of your identity.
We are committed to working with you to obtain a fair resolution of any complaint or concern about privacy. If, however, you believe that we have not been able to assist with your complaint or concern, you have the right to make a complaint to your data protection authority.