Last updated: 3/12/2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to TravelBunnies, the social networking app that connects travelers and helps them find travel companions. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you use our app and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
2. Data We Collect
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
- Identity Data: includes first name, last name, username, date of birth, gender, profile picture (which can be taken using your device's camera or uploaded from your gallery)
- Contact Data: includes email address and phone number
- Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location
- Profile Data: includes your interests, preferences, travel style, languages spoken, feedback, survey responses, and photos you choose to share
- Usage Data: includes information about how you use our website and app
- Location Data: includes your current location when you use our app's location-based features
- Media Data: includes photos taken with your device's camera or uploaded from your gallery when you choose to share them
3. Device Permissions
To provide our full range of features, we may request access to certain device capabilities:
- Camera: To allow you to take profile pictures and share photos directly within the app
- Photo Gallery: To allow you to upload existing photos from your device
- Storage: To save and cache images for better app performance
- Location: To help you find nearby travel companions and destinations
4. How We Use Your Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- To register you as a new user
- To provide and improve our services
- To match you with potential travel companions
- To manage our relationship with you
- To administer and protect our business and app
5. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed.
6. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including:
- The right to access your personal data
- The right to correction of your personal data
- The right to erasure of your personal data
- The right to object to processing of your personal data
- The right to data portability
7. Image Privacy & Storage
When you upload or take photos through our app:
- Images are securely stored and encrypted on our servers
- Profile pictures are visible to other users to facilitate trust in the community
- You can choose the privacy settings for other photos you share
- We compress images to optimize storage while maintaining quality
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Email: [email protected]