Effective from 30 July 2015.
Last revised on 16 September 2015.
Your privacy is important to us. Here's how we manage and use your personal data. Please note that this Privacy Policy is part of our Terms of Use and should be read as such. Terms such as we, us and Inyahead are defined there.
We take protecting your privacy seriously. Please read this privacy policy carefully. It describes what information we collect, how it is used, and when it is shared so you can make smart decisions about how you use Inyahead! It applies to all interactions with Inyahead, including interactions with our Apps Deutsch Inyahead and English Inyahead.
Your use of and/or registration with Inyahead will constitute your agreement to our policy. If you cannot agree to the terms and conditions set forth below, please do not use our services. Additionally, our Privacy Policy is part of our Terms of Use, and by using Inyahead you agree to both.
Inyahead is an open platform that allows you to create and publicly share words, wordpacks and example sentences for the purposes of revising a language. We collect some information in order for you to have an account you can use to participate in the service, and other information that is necessary to make the service work. Our goal in developing our privacy practices is to allow your participation to remain as anonymous as you choose and we don’t sell or profit from the information you share with us.
We do take efforts to make sure the platform keeps working. This includes using your information, where necessary, to stop spam and activities that violate the user agreement. We also share your information when we are legally required to do so. Please read this privacy policy carefully. It describes what information we collect, how it is used, and when it is shared so you can make informed decisions about how you use Inyahead.
When you create an account, you are required to provide a display name, email address that is used as your username and a password, which we save.
When you use the service, we save the following information about your preferences and your interactions to allow you to customize your experience: your language preference, last email address used to log in, a secured hash of your password, your installed wordpacks and associated word data, your current level preferences, a randomly generated GUID to uniquely identify running instances of the app, whether you have claimed the facebook offer, timestamp of last login and the timestamp of last activity. This information is saved for on your device to enable the service to work, and is also saved on our server in anonymised form to assist us in improving the service.
If you choose to create Wordpacks and/or submit words in any of their various forms, this data will be saved on our server. How we use this data is covered in our Terms of Use. If you have the write access for a Wordpack, you are able to mark a Wordpack or a word as deleted at any time. This will not erase the data from our server, but rather mark it as deleted. However, we only save the most recent version of Wordpacks and words, so your previous edits, once overwritten, are no longer available.
Analytics data is automatically collected by our systems when you visit Inyahead, including anonymised data about the type of software used to access the site (browser, operating system, encryption method used), the address of the external or internal page that referred you, the different pages you visit, and generally how you intereact with the service. This information is anonymised and not used to identify any specific user.
It takes a lot of work to keep our service running and prevent abuse, and we sometimes use your data in order to facilitate this. Your information is used internally only where necessary to provide our services. For instance, we save a randomly generated GUID to investigate issues with our service, track and block suspected spammers, and otherwise maintain the integrity of the community.
This means that we will only share your personal data with your consent, and after letting you know what information will be shared and with whom, unless it is otherwise permitted in this policy. We do not sell or otherwise give access to any information collected about our users to any third party.
Anonymous, aggregated information that cannot be linked back to an individual user may be made available to third parties.
We may disclose – or preserve for future disclosure – your information if we believe, after due consideration, that doing so is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, or valid legal process. If we are going to release your information, we will do our best to provide you with notice in advance unless we are prohibited by court order from doing so.
Inyahead sets only a few cookies for tracking user preferences, authentication, and collecting anonymous analytics data. Additionally, our third-party content providers set cookies to track use of their content. Each of these uses is described in greater detail below.
Currently Inyahead does not honor the Do Not Track ("DNT") header sent by some web browsers since the exact meaning is still under discussion in the legal community. Inyahead does not allow other parties to collect personally identifiable information from our users.
While you are logged in Inyahead will place a cookie for the sole purpose of maintaining your login information across page refreshes and browser restarts.
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how users interact with our website and Apps. It tells us aggregate usage and traffic information, such as how the site was accessed, how long visitors stayed, and the number of first-time visitors to the site. By knowing how people use the site, we can make it better. To learn more about Google Analytics and how it uses your data, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html.
Most browsers include an option to clear existing cookies or reject new ones. However, if you do this, portions of the Inyahead website may not function as intended. Our apps also save information locally within the app to facilitate the correct functioning of the apps, as described above. If you dont want this to happen, please uninstall the apps.
Should you choose to register an account with us, your display name and email address will be transferred to our server in plain text. Your password will be hashed on your local device and transferred as a hash to our server, it will not be transferred in plain text and we will never save it in plain text. No data transmission over the internet is completely secure and no computer connected to the Internet is entirely secure either. So we cannot guarantee the absolute security of this data. You use the service at your own risk, and are responsible for taking reasonable measures to secure your account (such as carefully maintaining the secrecy of your password).
Although we welcome users from all walks of life, Inyahead is not aimed at children, and the United States government has put limits on our ability to accept users under a certain age through the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998. Individuals under the age of 13 may not create an account with us. If you believe someone 12 or younger is using our site without parental consent, please contact us.
If you delete an Inyahead app from your mobile device, any app-specific information stored on your device will be deleted from your device. If you have backed up your device’s apps, Inyahead app information may continue to exist where you have backed it up. Any information collected by an Inyahead app while you used the service is retained as described in the What Information We Collect section of this policy.
By using this service, you are consenting to our processing of your information as set forth in this Privacy Policy now and as amended by us. "Processing,” means using cookies on a computer/hand held device or using or touching information in any way, including, but not limited to, collecting, storing, deleting, using, combining and disclosing information, all of which activities will take place in Germany. If you reside outside Germany your information will be transferred, processed and stored there.
We reserve the right to change this policy to meet the changing needs of Inyahead, or for any other reason. If we make changes, we will notify our users by updating this page and adjusting the last updated date. Please check back regularly to stay abreast of our most recent policy.
Inyahead welcomes questions, concerns, and feedback about this policy. Please feel free to contact us at english.inyahead@gmail.com.