Privacy Policy

Olymp ("olympapp.com", "we" or "us") is committed to being a safe place for our users to anonymously share their innermost thoughts, secrets, stories and feelings. That's why we place so much focus on protecting your privacy and personal information.

This Privacy Policy covers the Olymp website ("Site") and any Olymp application or service ("Services"). It explains how our Site or Services collect, use, protect, and disclose personal information, Usage data, and Message data (we define these last two terms below). Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of, or content on, third party services or other properties to which our Site or the Services link.

You can only become a member of Olymp or use its features if you’re aged 18 or over or the age of majority in the country in which you reside if that happens to be greater than 18.

What Information We Collect

Personal Information and Anonymity

We collect very little information that could be used to identify you personally. A non-unique username is randomly assigned to you. It is your responsibility to hide any personally identifying information. No mobile number or email address is ever stored on our servers.

Our goal is to provide you with a tool that allows you to express yourself while remaining anonymous to the community. However, please keep in mind that your posts will be publicly viewable, so if you want to preserve your anonymity you should not include any personal information in your posts. Therefore, even if you do not include personal information in your posts, your use of the Services may still allow others, over time, to make a determination as to your identity based on the content of your posts as well as your general location. For instance, if you work in a small organization and post about your working experience, it is possible that at some point a co-worker will be able to identify you. This is part of the nature of the Services, and we encourage you to be careful and avoid including details that may be used by others to identify you.

Technical vs Community Anonymity: While we do not require you to provide your name or email, we do collect technical data (device identifiers) necessary to operate the service. You are anonymous to other users, but not completely anonymous to us or our service providers.

Usage Data

We automatically collect usage information. This doesn't tell us who a user is, though. It just lets us collect information about how people access and use our Services. This collected information is called Usage Data. We gather it so we can get a better portrait of how our users are interacting with the Site and Services so that we can continue to improve the user experience over time.

We may collect device identifiers including:

- Device ID
- Advertising ID (IDFA on iOS, GAID on Android)
- Installation ID

You can limit ad tracking through your device settings as described in the Advertising section.

Here are a few examples of Usage Data:

When you download and use our Services, we automatically collect information about the type of device you're using, the operating system version on your device and your IP Address. Or if you're using the Site, we automatically collect information about your operating system, web browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), and your network-enabled machine's Internet Protocol (IP) address, as well as the pages you view, and the time and length of your visit. This data helps us analyze trends and user behaviors, manage the site, and enhance or update our Services. In other words, it helps us give you a better experience by understanding and reacting to the ways that users interact with the Services and Site.

Purchase and Payment Information

When you make in-app purchases, payment processing is handled entirely by Apple App Store or Google Play Store. We do NOT collect, store, or process your payment information (credit card numbers, billing addresses, etc.).

We may receive limited information about your purchases from the platform, such as:
- Purchase confirmation (that a purchase was made)
- Product ID (what was purchased)
- Transaction ID (for verification)
- Purchase date

This information is used solely to provide you with purchased features and verify entitlements. We do not receive your actual payment details.

All payment data is governed by Apple's or Google's privacy policies.

Chat Data

When you use our Services to send or receive chat messages, we and our service providers may process and store your chat messages, and related information, including message recipient, timestamp and other log data ("Chat Data") to provide the Services.

User-Submitted Media

When you may optionally upload photos. These images are stored securely and used only for support purposes. We do not access your photo library without your explicit permission.

AI Chat Data

Conversations with AI features may be logged for service improvement, safety, moderation, and legal compliance. We may review AI chats to prevent abuse and improve safety features.

Analytics Information

We collect technical information about how you use our Services, including device type, operating system, app interactions, and usage patterns. This helps us improve our Services.

Advertising and Third-Party Partners

Advertising Identifiers. We may also use mobile advertising identifiers to recognize your device and perform the services. Depending on your device, you can chose to change or limit the transmission of your mobile advertising identifier by going into your device settings.

We use Google AdMob to display advertisements. AdMob may use mediation partners to serve ads. These advertising partners may collect and use data including:

- Device advertising ID
- IP address
- Device information
- App usage data
- Ad interaction data

AdMob mediation partners may include:

- Appodeal
- InMobi
- Unity Ads
- MyTarget
- Other ad networks

We also use Google Firebase Analytics to understand app usage. Firebase collects device information, app usage data, and crash reports.

For more information:
- Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Google's Ad Partners: https://support.google.com/admob/answer/9012903

You can opt out of personalized advertising:
- iOS: Settings > Privacy > Advertising > Limit Ad Tracking
- Android: Settings > Google > Ads > Opt out of Ads Personalization

We also use:

- Google Firebase Analytics (app usage and analytics)
- Firebase Crashlytics (crash reporting and diagnostics)

Firebase Privacy: firebase.google.com/support/privacy

Attribution and Analytics Services

We use third-party analytics and attribution services to understand app usage, track installs, and improve our Services:

Yandex Metrica: Analytics service. Collects device identifiers, IP address, app usage data, device information, and crash reports. We do not enable location tracking or session replay features.
Privacy: yandex.com/legal/confidential/

Firebase Cloud Messaging: Push notification service. Collects device tokens and notification interaction data to deliver notifications.
Privacy: firebase.google.com/support/privacy

You can disable push notifications through your device settings without affecting other app features.

Cookies

Like many other websites, our Site uses cookies. These are small, removable data files that your web browser stores to help identify your computer and browser when you visit a website. They can also have the added benefit of speeding up your access to sites. We don't use cookies to collect personal information. Instead, we use them to improve the quality of our Site and Services. Our Site is not designed to respond to “do not track” signals received from browsers.

Most web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to let you know when a cookie is being sent.

Some of the Service Providers (we define this below) that we work with may use their own cookies in connection with the services they perform on our behalf. We don't have access or control over these cookies. The use of cookies by these third parties isn't covered by our Privacy Policy. You should review the applicable third party privacy policy for sites who link to our embed our content.

How We May Use Your Information

We use the information that we collect from you for internal purposes. This includes offering you access to the Site and Services, letting you know when we have new products or Services, and communicating with you in other ways.

We will not share your information except in the cases explained below.

We may use your contact information (if provided) to send you important updates, service announcements, and promotional materials. You can opt out of marketing communications at any time.

How We May Disclose Your Information

Olymp is committed to the privacy and security of your information, including preserving your anonymity; however, there are a few cases when we will be unable to do so. Here are a few situations where we may disclose the information that we collect from you.

First, we respect the Law

This means that we may disclose information such as your created posts, Chat Data, IP address, and your location, if known, if we have a good faith belief it is necessary to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes (such as a subpoena or court order) or enforceable governmental requests. If you want to learn more about how we do that, please review our Law Enforcement Response Guide.

Second, we expect you to respect the Law as well

Olymp is not a place to harbor criminals. You must not use the Site or Services to plan, incite, promote, or showcase any criminal act is strictly prohibited. This includes statements revealing plans or actions around human trafficking, sexual exploitation, or predation. These types of behaviors are against our mission, constitute a breach of our Terms of Service, and more importantly, are illegal. If you engage in any illegal activity we may be required, or choose to, share the information we may have about you with the appropriate authorities.

Third, we don't want anybody to be harmed

Olymp is meant to be a safe place. There may be situations where we may need to disclose the information we may have about you for the greater good, such as if we see suicidal statements or statements that involve the intent to harm oneself or others, or learn information about missing children, or threats to the community.

We may also share your information for technical reasons

From time to time, we may establish business relationships with other businesses but will only do so if we believe they are trustworthy. We work with reputable service providers who have their own privacy practices. These service providers may include companies that provide us with hosting and maintenance, customer relationship management, push notifications, and data storage and management.

We give service providers only the information that's necessary for them to perform services on our behalf. What's more, each service provider must agree to use security procedures and practices that are reasonable and appropriate for the information involved. This is another way that we work to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Also, we prohibit our service providers from using your information in any manner that is not specified by us.

In addition, we may use and disclose certain Usage Data to third parties. This Usage Data doesn't identify individual users. We use mobile analytics software to help us better understand how our Services work on your device. This software may only record information usage information, such as how often you use the application, the events that occur within the application, aggregated usage, performance data, and where the application was downloaded. But we do not link the information we store within the analytics software to any personally identifiable information you submit within the mobile app. This essentially only covers what you do, but not who does it. We may also partner with universities or other research institutions or scientists to use the limited information we have in anonymous, controlled research studies.

Affiliates and Corporate Transactions

We may share the information that we collect from you with businesses that control, are controlled by, or are under common control with Olymp. This also means that if Olymp is merged, acquired, or sold, or in the event of a transfer of some or all of our assets, we may disclose or transfer such information in connection with that particular transaction.

Information Security

Olymp is committed to protecting the security of your personal information and Message Data. This is why we employ security measures designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access (for instance we use HTTPS/TLS encryption to protect data during transmission). Regardless of our efforts, however, no data transmission over the Internet or other network, including any of Olymp's services, can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. We will do our part, but we can't and don't guarantee the security of any information you transmit on or through the Site or Services. Thus, any information you transmit is sent at your own risk.

Protecting Children's Privacy

We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 18. You must be over the age of 18 to use our Site and Services. If we determine you are under 18 we may in our discretion decide to ban you from the Services.

Your Information may be maintained outside of your jurisdiction

Please be advised that we process and store all information in the United States or other countries where our service providers may be based. This may be important to you, as the laws of Russian Federation or such other countries may not be as protective of your personal information as the laws of your jurisdiction.

Deleting your account

Upon your request, we delete your account. You may make such request by creating private request to moderator through app configurations.

Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your data:

For EEA/UK Users (GDPR):
- Right to access your data
- Right to rectify inaccurate data
- Right to delete your data ("right to be forgotten")
- Right to restrict processing
- Right to data portability
- Right to object to processing
- Right to withdraw consent

For California Users (CCPA):
- Right to know what data we collect
- Right to delete your data
- Right to opt-out of "sale" of personal information (note: we do not sell data)
- Right to non-discrimination for exercising these rights

To exercise these rights, contact us at [star.ivanov@gmail.com]. We will respond within 30 days (GDPR) or 45 days (CCPA).

Data Portability: You can request a copy of your data in a machine-readable format by contacting us.

Data Retention

We retain your data for as long as you use the Services and for a reasonable time thereafter for legal and operational purposes.

After account deletion, we may retain some anonymized or aggregated data for analytics and legal compliance. We may also retain data if required by law or to prevent fraud and abuse.

Data Breach Notification

In the event of a data breach that may affect your personal information, we will notify affected users and relevant authorities as required by applicable law, typically within 72 hours of discovering the breach.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may periodically change this Privacy Policy. If we decide to make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we'll inform you here or by posting a prominent notice on the homepage of our Site. Any changes become effective when we post them on the Site. The date of any new posting is indicated by the “Last Updated” date in the revised Privacy Policy. By continuing to use the Site, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.

If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please e-mail them to star.ivanov@gmail.com. Please do not email us any sensitive information.