Privacy Policy

CODESPARK built the Sober Savings app as a free app. This SERVICE is provided by CODESPARK at no cost and is intended for use as is.

This page is used to inform visitors regarding my policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decided to use my Service.

If you choose to use my Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that I collect is used for providing and improving the Service. I will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which are accessible at Sober Savings unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.

What data do we collect?

Sober Saving can be used anonymously. For anonymous users and non-subscribers, we primarily collect app usage data.

Any questions we ask are not intended to be personally identifiable. We may ask you to report your:

Addiction name
Sobriety start date
Survey questions about reaching your milestone

Upon setting up the app, we will explicitly ask for your permission to collect this data.

Additionally, we may collect crash data when the app crashes that can help us debug issues and improve the quality of the app.

Personal Information

This app functionality requires/requests users to give us contact information (such as their email address) and personal information (such as their names, phone numbers, profile image/picture/photo and address details). The visitor’s contact and personal information is used to contact visitors when necessary and requested, but is primarily used to collect personal information necessary to effectively market and to sell or deliver the property of sellers to buyers and to otherwise provide professional services to clients and customers. We do not sell, trade, transfer or exchange your personal information with anyone. We do not disclose information about your individual visits to this site, or personal information that you provide, such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, etc., to any outside parties, except when we believe the law requires it. Hals Blue app uploading a profile image/picture/photo with app user permission at the time update profile. Hals blue app asking a permission(for CAMERA and WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE) first to user for take image/photo/picture from Gallery or Camera, if app user allow it then profile image updated.

Purposes of Collection, Use and Disclosure

We use the information collected on the Service for the purposes listed in the Purposes section found below; this includes (without limitation) creating market research and data insight reports that are made available to third parties. If a purpose is not listed in the Purposes section, We will disclose the purpose before or at the time of collecting the information.

Purposes

Your information may be collected, used and disclosed for the following purposes:

To communicate with You in accordance with applicable laws
To provide Service to You, such as providing cash back to You and creating, updating and managing Your account
To verify Your identity
To connect with Your other accounts such as social media accounts
To provide recommendation and offers on products and services
To develop new and improve existing products and services
To respond to Your inquiries and comments
To prevent fraud and abuse of the Service
To protect other users of the Service, and Our business, against security breaches
To understand Our user base and effectiveness of the Service
To administer, operate and improve the Service and for internal business purposes
To compile aggregated data, perform statistical analyses and otherwise analyse Our business for internal and external business purposes
To compile aggregated data, including personal information about You in some cases, to create market research reports and data sets as part of Our suite of products that We create for external business purposes
To comply with legal and governmental requirements
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it, or for which you provide express consent

The purposes for which Your information is collected may be applicable for Us to process Your information or for a third-party service provider to process Your information in relation to the Service.

Account data

In order to create an account with Sober Savings, we will ask you to provide us with your email address. You can also optionally create a user profile photo.

We will also collect data that you give us regarding your interaction with app. This may include technical information such as your IP address based on your location, app version, or device platform.

What do we do with this data?

The app usage and account data help us improve the user experience of our apps.

We use anonymized addiction names, start dates, and survey questions to display interesting statistics to our app users to provide motivation for reaching their next milestone.

Community data is displayed on our community pages.

We are not a subsidiary of a larger corporation that can access your information.

Community data

You can also choose to share your “story” with the community upon reaching a milestone. This can include:

The username you chose
The user profile photo you uploaded
The story text and photo you uploaded

Any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. You should exercise caution when using these and avoid posting any personal information.

What do you do with the photos that I take?

We use your camera and your device’s storage for photos that you take for various tasks in the app (such as remembering or sharing a milestone, your reason for staying sober, or your profile photo, etc). These are sent to and stored securely on our servers.

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience, while using our Service, I may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information. The information that I request will be retained on your device and is not collected by me in any way.

The app does use third-party services that may collect information used to identify you.

Link to the privacy policy of third-party service providers used by the app

Log Data

I want to inform you that whenever you use my Service, in a case of an error in the app I collect data and information (through third-party products) on your phone called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your device Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, device name, operating system version, the configuration of the app when utilizing my Service, the time and date of your use of the Service, and other statistics.

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are commonly used as anonymous unique identifiers. These are sent to your browser from the websites that you visit and are stored on your device’s internal memory.

This Service does not use these “cookies” explicitly. However, the app may use third-party code and libraries that use “cookies” to collect information and improve their services. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your device. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of this Service.

Service Providers

I may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

To facilitate our Service;
To provide the Service on our behalf;
To perform Service-related services; or
To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

I want to inform users of this Service that these third parties have access to their Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Security

I value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and I cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

This Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by me. Therefore, I strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. I have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

These Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. I do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13 years of age. In the case I discover that a child under 13 has provided me with personal information, I immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact me so that I will be able to do the necessary actions.

Account Deactivation

How to De-Activate (or) Delet User Details

User can also De-Activate (or) Delet account through application setting page itself. (or)
User can also contact us throung our email account [email protected] to De-Activate (or) Delet account.
After Requsting user have to wait period (if applicable), the platform proceeds with deleting the user’s account and associated data. This process may take some time, depending on the size of the data and internal procedures of the platform.

Where is this data stored?

The data mentioned above will be stored securely on Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) in the USA.

Who do you share this data with?

We never share information with third parties beyond those required to serve you and we will never share any of this data unless required to by law or subpoena.

We use the following third-party providers to provide the following processes:

Amazon Web Services

https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/

We use Amazon Web Services as a data storage provider and we use it to securely store the data outlined above.

Google Analytics

http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

We use Google Analytics to help us improve the user experience of Sober Savings.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

I may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. I will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

This policy is effective as of 2024-03-01

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about my Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected].