GRUPOSVIP Privacy Policies.-gruposvip.net, (“GruposVip”, “We”, or “Our”) describes how we collect, use and protect your data in relation to the use of the service (Described in our terms of use) .
GruposVip is a web application that functions as a directory for WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, etc. groups. of the different apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Facebook, and, therefore, all conversations take place outside our website, our only task being the maintenance and management of the computer system. Ads are posted directly by users and are responsible for them. Also, the users themselves can join the groups or ask to be included, directly from GruposVip, without intervention on the part of GruposVip. For this reason, GruposVip declines any responsibility in the management or use made by users.
By visiting our Platform, using the Services, or otherwise associated with the Service, you accept our practices described in this Privacy Policy, and you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your information, including personally identifiable information, as set forth described in these Privacy Policies. Use of these services is governed by our Terms of Use, and this Privacy Policy is incorporated into and made part of the Terms of Services. Terms included in this Privacy Policy that are not expressly defined have the meaning of the Terms of Use.
GruposVip is a public directory, and groups, your photos or any personal data you post can be viewed and searched by anyone around the world. You can also use GruposVip under a pseudonym if you prefer not to use your name. Any data that you make public on GruposVip may be listed in the search engines Google, Google Images or other search engines such as Yahoo, Bing, Yandex... If you publish any data, please keep in mind that it can be seen by any user, registered or NOT registered.
What data do they collect about me?
You give us some data and we collect others. In exchange, we offer you useful services.
1. Information we collect
The data we collect when you use GruposVip is divided into three categories.
1.1 Data you provide us.
To use some of our products and services you need to have an account, and to create an account you must provide us with certain information. Likewise, if you use our paid products and services, you will not be able to receive them unless you provide us with your payment information. Basically, to use many of our products and services it is necessary that you provide us with certain data.
Group registration: in this case we request an email, this will be used to link your groups with your email in case you need to edit or delete a group, verify that you actually uploaded that link and in this way give access to edit or delete you or your groups.
Account creation: in this case, to use our services we request information such as name, email and a password, which, likewise, gives us the freedom to use your real name or a pseudonym.
Featured groups: in this case the PayPal platform will be used to receive the featured group payment and if so, we only collect information sent by PayPal such as purchase id, ip, and transaction id.
In none of the above cases will your personal information be exposed publicly, unless you place it in one of the public fields, which we do not recommend and in which case GruposVip is not responsible for the information that you are providing publicly.
1.2 Data we collect when you use GruposVip
When you use our services, we collect data about how you use our products and services. We use this data to offer you products and services and to help GruposVip be a safer and more respectful place for everyone, and more relevant to you.
We collect data about your activity on GruposVip, including the following data:
Location information
We require information about your access and current location, which we obtain from signals such as your IP address or device parameters, to securely and reliably set up and maintain your account and provide you with our services.
Depending on your settings, we may collect, use and store additional information about your location (such as your specific current location based on IP, data such as city, region, zip code...) to manage or personalize our services, as well as as a security method.
Links
To administer our services we track how you interact with links on our services. This includes links in emails we send you.
If you click on an external link or advertisement on our services, the advertiser or administrator of the corresponding website may know that you accessed it from GruposVip, along with other information associated with the advertisement you clicked such as the characteristics of the intended audience. arrive.
cookies
A cookie is a small set of data that is stored on your computer or mobile device. Like many websites, we use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional website usage data and administer our services. Cookies are not required for many functionalities of our services such as searching and viewing public profiles. Although most browsers automatically accept cookies, many browser settings can be set to stop accepting cookies or to alert you when a website is trying to place a cookie on your computer. However, some of our services may not function properly if you disable cookies. When your browser or device allows, we use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our services, obtain aggregate usage patterns, and personalize and manage our services in other ways, such as providing account security, personalizing the content we show you, including ads, and remembering your language preferences. Our services do not support the browser's Do Not Track (DNT) option. You can find out more about how we use cookies and similar technologies here.
Registration data
We receive information when you view content or otherwise interact with our services, which we call “Log Data,” even if you have not created an account. For example, when you visit our websites, subscribe to our services, interact with our email notifications, use your account to authenticate with a third-party service, or visit a third-party service that includes GruposVip content, we may receive information about you. . This Log Data includes information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring web page, web pages visited, location, internet service provider, search terms and cookie information. We use Log Data to administer our services and ensure that they operate securely, reliably and with integrity.
Advertisers and other advertising partners
The income we obtain from advertising allows us to maintain and improve our services (mainly Adsterra). We use the information described in this Privacy Policy to help make our advertising more relevant to you, to measure its effectiveness, and to help us recognize your devices to serve ads to you. Some of our advertising partners, specifically our Adsterra advertisers, also allow us to collect similar information directly from their website or application by integrating our advertising technology.
GruposVip, through Adsterra, adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Behavioral Digital Advertising (also called “interest-based advertising”) of the Digital Advertising Alliance and abides by the APD consumer choice tool so that you are opt you out of interest-based advertising found at https://optout.aboutads.info. Additionally, our ad policies prohibit advertisers from sending targeted ads based on categories we consider sensitive or prohibited by law such as race, religion, politics, sex life, or health.
Personalization on your devices
When you log in to GruposVip on a browser or device, we will associate that browser or device with your account for purposes such as authentication, security, and personalization. Depending on your configuration, we may also associate your account with browsers or devices other than those you use to access GruposVip (or associate such devices or browsers with other browsers or devices). We do this to manage and personalize our services.
For what purpose is my data processed?
To make GruposVip the service that you know and love.
2. How we use information
Describing in detail how we process the data we collect is not easy due to the way the systems we use to provide you with our services work. For example, the same data can be processed differently for different purposes in order to provide the same service. We believe that the most practical thing is to describe the five main purposes for which we process your data. And if you have any questions that have not been clarified, you can always contact us. Let's go with it:
2.1 Provide, improve and personalize our services.
We process the data we collect to provide GruposVip products and services. We also process the data we collect to improve and personalize our products and services so that you have a better experience on GruposVip, showing you more relevant content and ads, suggesting people and topics to follow, enabling and helping you discover linked entities, third-party applications and services. We may process the data we collect from the accounts of other services that you decide to connect to your GruposVip account in order to provide you with functions such as cross-publishing or authentication between services, and to provide our services. We process your contact data to help others find your account if your settings allow it, including through third-party services and client applications. We process your data to provide our advertising and sponsored content services subject to your settings, which helps make the ads displayed on GruposVip more relevant to you. We also process this data to measure the effectiveness of the ads and to help recognize your devices in order to show you ads inside and outside of GruposVip. Some of our advertising partners also allow us to collect similar data directly from their websites or applications by integrating our advertising technology. The data shared by our advertising partners and related entities or that GruposVip collects through the websites and applications of advertising partners and related entities may be combined with the other data that you share with GruposVip and that GruposVip receives, generates or infers about you , as described in other sections of our Privacy Policy.
2.2 Promote security.
We process the data we collect to ensure the security of our users, our products and services and your account. This includes verifying your identity, authenticating your account, and defending against fraudulent activity, unauthorized uses, and illegal activities. We also process your data to evaluate and improve the security and quality of content on GruposVip, which includes conducting investigations and enforcing our policies, conditions and applicable legislation.
2.3 Measure, analyze and improve our services.
We process the data we collect to measure and analyze the effectiveness of our products and services and to better understand how you use them in order to improve them.
2.4 Send you communications related to our services.
We process the data we collect to send you communications related to our products and services, including communications about product updates and changes to our policies and conditions. If you are happy for us to do so, we may also send you marketing communications from time to time.
2.5 Studies.
We process the data that you share with us or that we collect for the purpose of conducting studies, surveys, product testing and problem solving, which helps us provide and improve our products and services.
How or when is my data shared?
There is no quick answer to this question, but be warned that posts may end up in the news or on a search engine.
3 Information We Share and Disclose
3.1 Service providers
We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to us. For example, we use various third-party services to administer our services, such as hosting our website, and to understand the use of our services, such as Google Analytics. We may share your private personal data with such service providers subject to confidentiality obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other confidentiality and security measures that may apply and provided that the third parties use your personal data solely on our behalf and in accordance with to our instructions. We also share your IP with external geolocation service providers to know your place of origin and thus be able to avoid fraud or inconsistencies (for example, if you enter a website in Barcelona or Madrid and your IP is from Ukraine), this service is currently managed by FreegeoIP. We also share your email with external validation service providers, to be able to validate if your email exists (it is a first filter to limit invented emails), this service is managed by bulkemailchecker.com.
3.2 Legislation, damages and public interest
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Privacy Policy or the forms of control that we may offer to you, we may retain, use or disclose your personal data if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal process or request of The authorities; to protect the safety of any person; to protect the security or integrity of our platform, including to prevent spam, abuse, or malicious actors on our services, or to explain why we have removed content or accounts from our services; to manage fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect our rights or property or the rights or property of those who use our services. However, the provisions of this Privacy Policy are not intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a request for disclosure of your information by a third party, even if it is a request from a government entity.
3.3 Partners and change of ownership
In the event that we are affected by a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your personal data may be sold or transferred as part of such transaction. This Privacy Policy will apply to your personal data as it is transferred to the new entity. We may also disclose personal data about you to our affiliates to facilitate the administration of our services and the services of our affiliates, including the presentation of advertisements.
3.4 Non-personal information
We share or reveal non-personal data, such as your group links, the number of views, the photos you have added.
How can I control my data?
You can access your data, delete it or change your settings. Basically, you are the boss.
4 Management of your personal information
4.1 Access or rectification of your personal data
If you have registered a group in GruposVip, we put at your disposal tools and account configuration possibilities to access, correct, delete or modify the personal data that you have provided us and that is associated with your account, in any case you can send a email to contacto@gruposvip.net and we will assist you as quickly as possible.
You can modify the associated information by sending us an email to contacto@gruposvip.net.
You can delete the associated information by sending us an email to contacto@gruposvip.net.
It is important to indicate that even if we delete the information associated with your GruposVip account, it will not be automatically deleted from other sites that share our information (search engines, aggregators, social networks), for example, in Google, the process of deleting your information in The search engine is not immediate once you unsubscribe from GruposVip, however, you can contact us at contacto@gruposvip.net so that we can try to expedite the elimination of that information (for example, requesting Google to deindex the url of your cluster.)
4.2 Disposal
We keep your photographs if you upload any to your profile (although they are not used in any way, nor disclosed) for a maximum of 18 months once you delete the GruposVip information, just as we do not keep other data such as email, IP. In the case of bans (expulsion from the website for breaking the rules) we maintain the registration data. When your GruposVip group is deactivated, including your group name, link and photographs, it will no longer be visible on the GruposVip website.
In the event that your GruposVip group is accidentally or inappropriately deleted, it would not be possible to restore it in the days following deactivation.
Please note that search engines and other third parties may retain copies of your public information, such as your profile information and your public posts and activities, your photographs or any information you put on GruposVip, even after you have deleted the information. of our services or deactivated your account.
4.3 Help with Google search visibility
Please note that Google and other search engines may index the words you type in your GruposVip group, your photographs or any information you put on GruposVip, so your profile or your posts may appear in search results that include those. terms.
Google and other third-party search engines use various factors to generate search results, such as the content of public posts and GruposVip profiles, GruposVip has no control over the results returned by third-party search engines.
4.4 Why does my group... still appear on Google after I have deleted them?
Even if you delete the group, Google and other search engines cache search results, which means that sometimes old information will still appear in searches until Google and other search engines update their systems with newer information. .
Any outdated link that appears in a Google search will lead to the GruposVip 404 error page: That page does not exist! Outdated links continue to appear because Google and other search engines may not have the updated information in their search indexes.
4.5 Additional information or assistance
Do you have any comments or questions about this Privacy Policy? Please let us know by contacting us at contacto@gruposvip.net.
What audience is GruposVip for?
GruposVip is designed only for adults.
5. The target audience of GruposVip
Our services are NOT directed at children, adolescents or minors and you CANNOT use our services if you are not over 18 years old or have reached the age of majority in your country. Likewise, you must be old enough to give your consent to the processing of your personal data in your country.
What is the veracity of the information?
6 Groups registered in GruposVip
The links published by Users in GruposVip are solely and exclusively their responsibility. GruposVip is not, in any case, responsible for the messages sent by its Users and also excludes any liability for damages of any kind that may arise from the knowledge that third parties may have of the conditions, characteristics and circumstances of the use of the service. that the Users make or that could be due to the access and, where appropriate, the interception, elimination, modification or manipulation by authorized third parties, or not, of the messages that the Users disseminate or make available to third parties through the service.
6.1 Responsibilities
The USER assumes and undertakes to publish advertisements with real and accurate data and information. GruposVip does not assume any responsibility for the publication of false advertisements with the intention of deceiving other users. Due to the natural limitations of the service, GruposVip cannot verify that the group advertisements are accurate and are not intended to deceive, however, if it becomes aware, it will block the user's access to GruposVip, delete the published link and save the author's data to collaborate with The authorities.
The User who contacts an advertisement assumes all responsibility and must know that there is a risk that the advertisement is not accurate. Any damage caused by false advertisements, advertisements published in bad faith falls on the User. GruposVip acts as a means of communication between both users. However, it will collaborate with the authorities in the event of any crime or judicial request.
Is this policy going to be modified?
If so, we will inform you.
7. Changes to this Privacy Policy
The most current version of this Privacy Policy governs our processing of your personal data. We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time if necessary. If we review this Privacy Policy and make any changes we deem appropriate, we will notify you and allow you to read the modified version of the Privacy Policy before you continue using GruposVip.
How can I contact GruposVip?
We put our official mailbox at your disposal.
We want to hear your questions or comments about this Privacy Policy. You can contact us through our email contacto@gruposvip.net
This policy comes into force: January 1, 2024