Privacy Policy

Welcome to YNK.

YNK app is a social messaging and networking service that offers its services through mobile applications. To stay in alignment with our users, we avoid collecting extra or unnecessary personal information and aim to collect minimum data from you ( the user’s’ ) - Please note: “What we collect is fully protected and kept highly confidential”. We do not sell or trade your personal data.

Our technology ensures online security is maintained at all times. We will never collect extra personal information from you. Unlike any other social media apps/platforms, our system does not require your important personal information such as mobile number or other extra personal details to sign up for our services.

We aim to collect minimum personal information such as name and other types of information such as gender and age which are ( non-identifying demographic information ) . During the services offered, we will never pass your details onto a third party. Some “non-identifying demographic information may be shared with a third party that are indirectly supporting our systems to provide better performance.

We have been working hard to make it easier on collecting minimum data and information, since your privacy is very important to us and as we take this part extremely serious, important and we aim to highly protect it, we will make it easier than ever before for our users to signup to our services without the need in providing their important personal and confidential information.

YNK technology provides school and college messaging and social networking services / Freeware software to all its users.

What Does this Privacy Policy Cover

This Privacy Policy covers YNK treatment of Personal Information that we collect while you are using the App and the Service. This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that YNK does not own or control, including but not limited to third party services you access through YNK, the App or the Service, or to other individuals that YNK does not hold, employ or manage. As our Services sometimes and in some areas integrates with third party sites, such as Google, and other sites, we assume that you are already aware of the privacy policies of those other sites and networks when using our App and/or our Service and when you allow us to interact with these sites, servers and networks on your behalf.

Your Privacy Is Important To Us

Your privacy is very important to us. We designed our Data Use Policy to make important disclosures about how you can use YNK ( the app and its services). We encourage you to read the Data Use Policy, and to use it to help you make informed decisions.

We, at YNK, treat the privacy of our ( web / app ) visitors and users with the highest importance. This policy details the measures we take to preserve and safely guard your privacy when you visit, use or communicate with our sites, web, app, blog or personnel.

Information Related to Use of the Services

Our servers automatically record certain information about how a User uses our Services (we refer to this information as “Log Data”). Log Data may include information such as a User’s Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, operating system, App Store region, internet provider, the web page that a User was visiting before accessing our Services (when applicable). We may use information to fight spam, malware and identity theft.

Sign Up to our services

Signup or register for YNK app is completely FREE, we offer for life free services. Signing up is quick and hassle free. At the time of registration, we do not collect your mobile number, or email addresses. We encourage you to use your real full name allowing friends and contacts to identify you.

Creating Account And Your Profile Information

When you create an account, you will provide us with certain information that helps the system to identify you, information such as your name or any additional profile information (“Personally Identifiable Information” or “PII”). We may collect other types of information ( non-identifying demographic information ) such as your gender and your age.

Information Collection and Use

• Information given to us when you contact us for any reason is safe and confidential.
• Your personal information collected in the signup form is safe and protected.
• Your non-identifying demographic information provided may be displayed in the app.
• Your name and your demographic info may be visible by other users
• Recording voice bio, your voice will be publicly available to everyone to play and to listen.
• Your profile photo is publicly available for viewing purposes.

Friends and Contacts

• Users may send friendship requests to other users, which can be declined or accepted by users.
• Users can add you as a friend for connection purposes. You may accept or decline.
• We do not collect your mobile number and we do not ask for such information from you.
• We do not display or promote your mobile number or email addresses in the app.
• Users may report or block other users directly from the profile section, you may unfriend a contact.

YNK app will ask for permission to access your device contacts list / read. Your contacts from your device will help you to find your friends and add them or invite them to YNK.

Sim-Free messaging & social networking

Connect with friends without any mobile number or SIM cards – YNK is the internet-only social networking and social messaging app. To use the YNK app, you will need internet access from your own side. YNK is a SIM-card free online messenger and networking app and we do not collect mobile numbers from you.

Location Information

In some cases we collect and store location information from users. We may use location information to improve and personalize our Services for you. We do not not share these data with any other parties.

Privacy control and settings in YNK

We have enhanced strong in-app privacy settings for our users to control and protect their privacy as their wish. You may turn off your last seen indicators, your online status and you can turn off your delivery reports and notifications.

Secure your account

You may secure your account using your email address and by creating and combining a password or you may use Touch ID to secure your account. More details below about your in-app settings options.

Ad-free Network

YNK is an ad-free social networking and Messenger service and always will be. YNK website, blogs and its Mobile apps along with all other associated products, platforms and services are completely ad- free, we do not sell adverts, and do not provide classified services. Enjoy.

Information Sent by Your Mobile Device

We collect certain information that your mobile device sends when you use our services ( The app ) like a device identifier, user settings and the operating system of your device, as well as information about your use of our services.

Information Disclosed in Connection with Business Transactions​.

Information that we collect from our users, including PII, is considered to be a business asset. As a result, if we go out of business or enter bankruptcy or if we are acquired as a result of a transaction such as a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your PII may be disclosed or transferred to the third-party acquirer in connection with the transaction.

Cookies

Data gathered will not identify you personally. It is strictly aggregate statistical data about our visitors and how they used our resources on the site / applications. No identifying personal information will be shared at any time via cookies.Close to the above, data gathering can be about general online use through a cookie file. When used, cookies are automatically placed in your hard drive where information transferred to your computer can be found. These cookies are designed to help us correct and improve our site's services or products for you.

You may elect to decline all cookies via your computer. Every computer has the ability to decline file downloads like cookies. Your browser has an option to enable the declining of cookies. If you do decline cookie downloads you may be limited to certain areas of our site / application, as there are parts of our site that require cookies.

International Transfer

Your PII may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. If you’re located outside the United States and choose to provide your PII to us, we may transfer your PII to the United States and process it there.

Your Information and how it is Used

Primarily, we collect and store data about you to help us provide better service and products to you. The following are purposes we may use your information for:

1. At any time you request information from us via a form or other electronic transmission we may use your information to fulfill that request relating to our services and products. We may also communicate with you on other products or services you may find of interest, only when consent has been provided.
2. We have the right to notify you of changes to our app, website, products or services that could affect our service to you.

Communication between Individuals

YNK will take reasonable measures to avoid collecting information related to Individuals in the personal communication or group communication. ( chat or messaging ). We do not monitor, tail or collect any information while the user is active in the chat streams.

Our services allow communication between users, as a result, some of your information might be shared between you and users who you communicate with, in the app. A connected user ( friend / added friend ) may directly chat with you or exchange messages with you. Your connected friends ( added friends, accepted friends, your contacts ) may join you in a public chat stream ( Crew ) or also known as group messaging.

Third Party integrations

In some cases, we may use third party services. We may engage third party service providers for the service performance purposes. These third-party services providers have access to some of your information only for the purpose of performing services on our behalf and are expressly obligated not to disclose or use your information for any other purpose.

Modifying Your Information

You can access and modify the PII associated with your Account via the in-app “Profile Settings” section. You may edit or amend your PII. In-app settings function allows you to either “ Logout “ ( if you have previously secured your account using email or Touch ID ) or “delete your account”.

You may “delete” your Account via the App from your profile settings and privacy section or contact us. We’ll take steps to delete your information as soon as is practicable, but some information may remain in archived/backup copies for our records or as otherwise required by law. In case of deleting your account, all your identifying information including your account activity and contents, friends, and contacts will be deleted immediately and permanently.

Our Policy Towards Children

Our services are not directed or provided and not promoted to persons under 13. We do not knowingly collect PII from children under 13. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we take steps to permanently remove such information from our files as soon as possible and terminate the child’s account immediately.

Users are required to secure their account via in-app settings, this can be done through Touch ID or email address. Only secured accounts have the logout option.

Update

Regular updates of the Privacy Policy are completed, requiring you to check back on these policies from time to time. This Privacy Policy is covering the initial release(s) and will be updated again soon.

Question?

You can contact us at Hii@YNK.app if you have any questions about the Privacy and data use Policy.