Company:EastPoint technology limited
Address:UNIT E01, 10/F,
WONG KING IND BUILDING, 2-4 , TAI YAU STREET, SAN PO KONG HONG KONG
Email:Wechill2026@outlook.com
1.Introduction
This is the Privacy Policy of EastPoint technology limited,
(“EastPoint”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) which is incorporated into and is
subject to our Terms of Use. Please read on to learn more
about our data handling practices. By visiting our website
www.wechillchat.com (“Site”), or accessing or using our
EastPoint mobile application (“App”) or all of the services available or
related to therein (collectively referred to in this Privacy Policy as
the “Service(s)”), you agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy. If
you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not
use the Service.
When you visit the Site or App we may collect data
from you as described below. When you register and use your account with
us we will collect data from you in order to provide the Services. The
types of data we collect depends on how you use our App and Services.
2.Information we collect
When you visit and use our Site or App , install the App on your device, or register for an account with EastPoint, some personally identifiable information about you is collected in order for us to be able to provide you with the Services. Further details about this are set out below.
2.1 Registration and Account Data
When you install the Service on your device and/or register for an
account with EastPoint, personally and/or non-personally identifiable
information about you may be collected. There are two types of
Registration and Account Data; data:- Information you provide
(mandatory) - You will be asked to provide your gender, name or an alias
and date of birth together with your mobile phone or email address. This
is important to help us provide you with the connection and friends
features in our Service.
Information you provide (optional) - You
may also choose to provide other personally identifiable information
such as your photos or videos of yourself, description of yourself and
information about your interests. For example you can indicate your
interests in your profile page. The provision of such information is
entirely optional. If you register and log in using your Apple or Google
account, we may also collect additional information that you make
available to us. For example, if you register with EastPoint using your
Google account, we may collect and store your Google ID and
corresponding token on our servers for automatic log in and profile
information and, if you give us your express consent, we will have
access to and may collect certain information that you make available on
Google (for example, your first and last names, email address, profile
picture, birthdays). We will store it on our servers and use it to
facilitate your use of the Service – for example - we may synchronize
your EastPoint account between different devices which you may use to
access our Service.
We also use your contact information to market
to you as your country’s laws allow – for example if there are new
offerings for our Services or updates regarding changes to our Services
and to help others find your account if your settings permit, including
through third-party services and client applications. You can use your
settings for email and mobile notifications to control notifications you
receive from us. You can also unsubscribe from a notification by
following the instructions contained within the notification or here.
In addition to the video calling features you can use our personal
text messaging service as part of the Services in the App. When you
communicate with others by sending or receiving text messages, we will
store and process your communications and information related to them.
This includes scanning for malicious content, detection of abuse and
prohibited images, and use of reported issues. We also use information
about whom you have communicated with and when (but not the content of
those communications) to better understand the use of our Services, to
protect the safety and integrity of our platform.
2.2 Location Information
‘Location Data’ is information such as your current location can derived
from your GPS ( GPS coordinates) Wifi ( approximate city location), IP
address (country location) which may be disclosed to either us or other
users or both. We require Location Data to securely and reliably set up
and maintain your account and to provide our Services to you and
maintain the integrity and security of our Services. Your current
location is essential to the effective operation of our Services and
helps us ensure the correct and anticipated connections are made.
Consequently we may collect, use, and store additional information
about your location - such as your current precise position or places
where you’ve previously used our Services - to operate or personalize
our services including with more relevant connections.
2.3 Log Data
We receive information when you view content on or otherwise interact
with our services, which we refer to as “Log Data”.
For example,
when you visit our websites, sign into our services, interact with our
email notifications, use your account to authenticate to a third-party
service, we may receive information about you. This Log Data includes
information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system,
configuration information made available by the EastPoint app or desktop
browser, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile
carrier, device information (including device and application IDs),
search terms (including those not submitted as queries), and cookie
information. We also receive Log Data when you click on, view, or
interact with links or make connections on our Services and general
information about your communications on EastPoint such as the user you
have communicated with and the date and duration of your communications
( but not the content of such communications, unless required for safety
and security reasons) including when and if you install another
application through our Services. We use Log Data to operate our
Services and ensure their secure, reliable, and robust performance. The
purpose for using Log Data is to protect the security of accounts and to
determine what is popular on our services and importantly Log Data is
used to enable you to make connection with new and former connections on
EastPoint. We also use this data to improve our Services and to improve
the effectiveness of our own marketing. We also use metadata, which
means information related to items to you have made available through
EastPoint, such as the date or location that you made a connection via
the EastPoint App.
We do not keep Log Data beyond 30 days.
2.4 Other Third Parties and Affiliates
We may receive information about you from third parties such as partners
who help us evaluate the safety and quality of content on our platform,
our corporate affiliates, and other services you link to your account.
We use the information we receive to operate our Services. For
integrations that we formally support, you may revoke this permission at
any time from your application settings; for other integrations, please
visit the other service you have connected. You may provide us with
payment information, including your credit or debit card number, card
expiration date, CVV code, and billing address, in order to make
purchases provided as part of our services. If you make a payment or
send money using our features or Services, including through an
intermediary, we may receive information about your transaction such as
when it was made.
2.5 Personalizing Based On Your Inferred Identity
When you log into EastPoint on a browser or device, we will associate that browser or device with your account for purposes such as authentication, security, and personalization. Subject to your settings, we may also associate your account with browsers or devices other than those you use to log into EastPoint (or associate your logged-out device or browser with other browsers or devices). When you provide other information to EastPoint, including an email address, we associate that information with your EastPoint account. Subject to your settings, we may also use this information in order to infer other information about your identity, for example by associating your account with hashes of email addresses that share common components with the email address you have provided to EastPoint. We do this to operate and personalize our Services.
2.6 During usage of the App
Device information – EastPoint may collect and store information about
the device(s) which you use to install and access the App, such as your
device model, unique device identifier, IP address, device capability
and statistics on page views.
Your activity - EastPoint may
collect and store information about your and others’ usage of and
activity within the App and our Site, including matches, numbers of
matches made by members, match durations, text messaging, music choices
made using the Apps messaging service and usage by geographies. We
require from your device access to use and to copy your photos for your
profile picture and any photos/ media files you choose to share, so they
can be reproduced in the App and our Site. We require the ability to
access your camera / microphone and to record video/ audio for us to
deliver the video and audio, including music files and related files in
order for you to use and enjoy the Services whilst using the App and our
Site and also to help us with our compliance requirements, such as
ensuring under 18s are not permitted to use our App or our Site. We also
capture video and images to ensure the content on our App and Site is
safe for our users.
Content you shared - EastPoint allows you to
share your profile, interests, text messages, photos, screenshots,
videos, music and other communications in the App with other users, and
if you choose to do so, your in-App profile, interests, text messages,
photos, screenshots, videos, music choices and other communications will
be stored on our servers. In addition, if you choose to share these
items with other EastPoint users, we may not be able to remove them from
our servers or make them unavailable to anyone you have shared them
with. By choosing to share such information, you agree that you may no
longer be able to control how that information is used and that it may
become publicly available (depending in part on your actions or the
actions of the other users with whom you have shared the information).
EastPoint shall not be responsible for any use or misuse of such
information that you share with other users. You may refer to Part 7
below for more information on the parties with whom you may choose to
share your content.
Content you created - We may also collect and
store any user content (e.g. photos, screenshots, comments, interests
and other materials) that you create or post on the App (“User
Content”).
Information about transactions made through our Service
– In order to complete a transaction, you will be requested to provide
your payment information, which includes your credit card number, card
expiration date, CVV code, and billing address.
Error-reporting
information – We also collect error-reporting information if the App
crashes or fails to operate properly so that we can investigate the
error and improve the stability of the App for future releases. In
general these reports do not contain personally identifiable
information, or only incidentally. These error reports contain
information such as the type and version of your device, the device
identifier, the time the error occurred, the feature being used and the
state of the App when the error occurred. We do not use this information
for any purpose other than investigating and fixing the error.
2.7 When you visit our Site
We may use online tracking technology such as cookies, pixel tags, web
beacons and other similar technologies to automatically collect
information about:
your visits to our Site, such as your browsing
history, how long you Wechill on our Site, and how often you visit; and
your location information as provided by your mobile or other device
when you interact with our Site, including your IP address and general
geographic location; and the device that you use to browse our Site
(e.g. your device ID, operating system, type of device, browser type and
version, mobile application crashes and other system activity, and third
party sites you were using before interacting with our services).
You have the right to disable any of these online tracking
technologies. These help us ensure you are able to log into your account
securely, develop our Services by using data analytics and develop new
services for our users. To learn more about how we use the above data,
please see the Cookie Policy section below.
2.8 Age
The Service is not directed at children or persons under the age of eighteen (18) and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children or persons under the age of eighteen (18) as part of the Service. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received or collected personally identifiable information from a user under the age of eighteen (18) as part of the Service, we will delete such information from our records. If you are under the age of eighteen (18), please do not use the Service.
3. Your User Profile
You can access, control and modify your the information you provide for
your user profile on the App (your “Profile”) at anytime. This includes
your Profile and profile pictures and videos, name, interests, personal
bio, languages you speak and your birthday all of which can be shared
with your EastPoint contacts. So please ensure you only share what you
want to include in your Profile. Your Profile will be made available to
other users of the App who are connected to you. In addition, your
Profile is discoverable by other App users, for example, through listing
of App contacts in the App that will include your proximity to other
users.
You may also choose to “block” any other EastPoint user in
your contact list in the App which will prevent them from discovering
your Profile at any time. In addition, EastPoint may pre-populate your
Profile with certain information such as your name and Google profile
picture, date of birth, email, gender, Google ID if you have logged into
your account on the App using your Google account. You can delete and
change your Profile information in the App as indicated below in Section
13 and in our Safety Centre.
4. Purpose and use of personal information
We adopt the data minimization principle when collecting and using your data and ensure that your data will only be used in accordance with the stated purposes below. We will only process your data in connection with the Service and for other related business purposes, including:
4.1 To provide you with the Service, including:
to connect you with other users within the App;
to enable you to
share your Profile with other users on the App;
to provide you
with video and audio call functions of the App;
to allow you to
send images and videos through the App;
to show you the names of
persons you communicate with and to show your name to persons you
communicate with on the App; and
to provide you with certain
features of the App that may be offered from time to time, such as our
Premium Services (please see our Terms of Use),play games and share
during your video calls.
to enable you to contact us
to run
analytics to provide you with better and relevant connections, provide
you with additional offers and for the purpose of providing you with
updates to our Services.
4.2To help us administer and maintain your account and User Profile on the App, including:
creating and updating your account;
and delivering to you any
administrative notices, alerts and communications relevant to your use
of the App.
To facilitate networking opportunities through the
Service and provide you with location or interests information relating
to other users of the App.
We use the information we have to
develop, test and improve our Services, including by conducting surveys,
compiling research, statistics and analytics as well as habits and
behaviours of users such as transactional history, online interactions,
and testing and troubleshooting new products and features.
We use
the information we have to send you marketing communications and
notifications (including our Membership Loyalty Programme details); and
communicate with you about our Services, and let you know about our
policies and terms.
We also use your information to respond to you
when you contact us.
Promote safety, integrity and security.
For audit, compliance, controls, security and other risk
management purposes we use the information we have to verify accounts
and activity, combat harmful conduct, detect and prevent other bad
experiences, illegal behaviour, maintain the integrity of our Services,
and promote safety and security. For example, we use a combination of
automated detection technology and manual review of the data we have to
investigate suspicious activity or violations of our Terms of Use and
policies such as this Privacy Policy and enable you to report and
contact us if you have any issues to raise.
4.3For business management purposes, including data and record management:
To establish, exercise and/or defend our legal rights.
To comply
with our legal, regulatory and reporting requirements to regulatory
bodies.
To ensure the safety of users through content moderation.
In connection with a corporate transaction involving EastPoint,
such as the purchase or sale of a business unit, an acquisition, merger,
sale of assets, or another similar event.
To enable us to provide
the Services and our contractual commitments to you.
4.4Information across Our Services:
We connect information about you and your activities on EastPoint with our other Apps and Services provided by us to provide you with a broad engagement experience and to provide a more tailored and consistent experience with your use of the Services.
5. Legal Basis for processing your data
There are different legal reasons for processing your data while you are
using our Service. With respect to these legal reasons, we process your
data for one or more of the following basis.
As is necessary to
fulfil our contract (Terms of Use with you)
Your Consent.Where you
have given us consent to process your personal information for specified
purposes, such as to provide our Service and other items requested by
you.
Comply with the Law.Where the processing is necessary for
compliance with a legal obligation or requirement.
As is necessary
in the public interest and to protect your vital interests or those of
others.
6. Parties with whom you may choose to share your User Content
Any information or content that you voluntarily disclose or post on the
App, such as your User Content, becomes available to the public. Once
you have shared such User Content or made it public, that User Content
may be viewed and re-shared by others and it may not be possible to
prevent the distribution of that Content once it becomes public.
Even if you remove any User Content (e.g. screenshots, etc.) that
you created or posted on the App, copies of such User Content may remain
accessible in the cached and archived pages of the App, or if other
users or third parties have copied or saved such information.(e.g. from
using Facebook, etc.)
Any personally identifiable information that
you: (i) share in text messages, photos, videos or otherwise in or
through the App with other users; or (ii) submit via live messaging on
the App, can be viewed and used by others. EastPoint is not responsible
for any use or misuse of such information that you share or submit.
7. Direct Marketing
If you have opted to receive direct marketing content from us via your
notifications, you agree that we may use your personally identifiable
information to;
send you direct marketing communications, for
example regarding coin offerings, in connection with the latest news,
events, updates, offers, contests and promotions in relation to our
Service; or analyse your preferences, online behaviour and transactional
history in order to gain insights, so that we can customise the,
updates, promotions, offers, and services that we present to you via our
Site, our App, and our direct marketing communications, social media or
other communication means, such as email.
Before providing you
with direct marketing communications, we will always ask for your
consent. You can choose at any time to opt out from receiving such
direct marketing communications from us. Please see the section on Your
Data Protection Rights below.
8. Data Access and Removal
You can always control what information you choose to share with us on
the App (except for information which we have indicated as mandatory for
you to provide). To do so, you can change your settings in the App or in
your mobile device. Alternatively, you can remove the App from your
mobile device entirely.
You can choose to remove your data anytime
you want. If you ask us to delete your account, we will use commercially
reasonable efforts to remove your data from our servers, subject to any
applicable legal or other requirement to maintain certain records of
your personally identifiable data. Please note that the deletion of your
personally identifiable data from our database may result in us not
being able to provide you with the Service.
To delete your data
please click within the App on Settings > click on Account> select the
option "Delete Account"> choose the best option that describes your
decision > click on "Delete Account."
You also have the right to
request for your data to be erased by submitting an email to the
following address:
9. Outbound Links
If you accessed a website or application provided by a third party, including through the App or the Site, such third party may also collect information about you. We do not own or control and are not responsible for the privacy practices of third party websites or applications. Please refer to the privacy policies of each of these third parties for more information about how they collect and use the information they collect about you. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any exchange of information between you and any such third party.
10. Security
Protecting your privacy and personal information is a top priority for
EastPoint. We protect the privacy and security of all personally
identifiable information you provide to us. We run stress tests on our
systems to help us improve. EastPoint implements appropriate technical
and physical security measures, such as using password protection,
access logs, and system monitoring to maintain the confidentiality and
security of all users’ information against any loss or unauthorised
disclosure, use and modification.
However, due to the inherent
nature of the Internet and related technology, we do not guarantee the
protection of information under our control against any loss, misuse or
alteration.
Your information may be stored and processed in any
country in which EastPoint or its service providers maintain facilities.
In this regard, or for purposes of sharing or disclosing data as
described in this Privacy Policy, EastPoint reserves the right to
transfer information outside of your country. By using the Service, you
consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
such as the EastPoint App you use. as permitted by applicable law and in
accordance with their terms and policies.
When we transfer
personal information internationally, we put in place safeguards in
accordance with applicable law. If you would like to know more about our
personal data transfer practices, please contact us at the contact
details set out under the “Contact Information” section.
We may
also pseudonymise or aggregate Personal Information for analytical
purposes. This helps us develop new and improve existing services,
conduct fraud detection and account safety analysis, analyse usage
trends.
11. Retention of Your Data
We will keep your personal data only for so long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless the law requires us to keep it for a longer period. Once we no longer need your personal data, we will either irreversibly anonymise or securely delete it from our servers.
12. Your Data Protection Rights
EastPoint would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your
data protection rights. In particular, you are entitled to the following
rights:
Right of Access: You shall have the right to obtain from
EastPoint confirmation as to whether or not your personal information is
being processed, and, where that is the case, you may request for a copy
of your personal information.
Right to Withdraw Consent: The
provision of your consent shall give EastPoint a lawful basis to process
your personal information. You may also revoke your consent to
processing.
Right to Rectification: You shall have the right to
request EastPoint to correct any inaccurate personal information
concerning you;
Right to Erasure:You shall have the right to ask
for your personal information to be deleted in certain circumstances;
Please note that your right to erasure may be limited if the data
are necessary for compliance with a legal obligation or for the
establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Right to
Restriction on Processing: You shall have the right to object to and ask
for restrictions on the processing of your personal information in
certain circumstances;
Right to Data Portability: You shall have
the right to receive the personal information you have provided to
EastPoint, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format
and have the right to transmit those personal information from EastPoint
to another controller without hindrance from EastPoint to which the
personal information have been provided, where:-the processing is based
on your consent; and the processing is carried out by automated means;
Right to Objection:You shall have the right to object, on grounds
relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of your
personal information.
EastPoint shall no longer process the
personal information unless EastPoint demonstrates compelling legitimate
grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and
freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
Right to Complaint – You shall have the right to file a complaint
with our Data Protection Officer (details of which are provided below)
if you think that one or more of your rights have been infringed by
EastPoint.
13. Exercising your data protection rights
If you wish to update or delete your personal information submitted, you
can update it via the App. Alternatively, you can send your request to
our Customer Service Manager at:
In addition, you
have the right to lodge complaints about how EastPoint manages your
personal information. You can lodge a complaint with EastPoint’s Data
Protection Officer whose contact details are set out under the “Contact
Information” section below or via email to , or with a
local data protection regulator.
14. Cookie Policy
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your browser or device
by websites, applications, online media and advertisements when you
visit a website.
We use cookies and other similar identification
technologies such as web beacons and pixel tags on our Site, App, emails
and online advertisements for various purposes, including verifying
users; remembering user preferences and settings to enhance your
experience when you return to our Site or App; delivering relevant
content and advertisements based on your preferences, location and usage
patterns; monitoring, evaluating and optimising the operation of our
Site and App; tracking and measuring the effectiveness of our
advertising campaigns; and analysing traffic on our Site, our App and
the websites of our partners.
You can exercise your right to
choose whether or not to accept cookies by adjusting your browser
settings to modify your cookie preferences. Most browsers are set to
accept cookies by default or prompt you to accept cookies, but you are
free to remove or block all browser cookies. However, if you turn off
your cookies, some of our services may not function properly and you
will not be able to receive the most efficient and personalised
experience.
15. Notification of Changes
We reserve the right at our discretion to make changes to this Privacy
Policy from time to time. You may review updates to our Privacy Policy
at any time via links on our Site. You agree to accept electronic
communications and/or postings of a revised Privacy Policy on the Site,
and you agree that such electronic communications or postings constitute
notice to you of the Privacy Policy.
If we make material changes
to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by publishing a revised
Privacy Policy or by means of a notice on our Site, or as a pop up
within our App, or as required by law. You agree to review the Privacy
Policy periodically so that you are aware of any modifications. You
agree that your continued use of the Service after we publish a revised
Privacy Policy or provide a notice on our website constitutes your
acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.
16. Contact information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact our Data Protection Officer at .
17. Date
This Privacy Policy was lastly modified in September 2023.