Privacy Policy

1. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you use KONBIT, the features you use, your device permissions, and the information you choose to provide.

Account Information

When you create or maintain an account, we may collect:

• Name
• Username
• Email address
• Telephone number
• Password or authentication credentials
• Profile photograph
• Biography
• Preferred language
• Date of birth or age information
• Account preferences
• Other information you voluntarily add to your profile

Passwords are protected using appropriate security safeguards and are not stored in readable plaintext.

2. User Content

We process content you create, upload, transmit, or share through KONBIT.

• Posts
• Comments
• Photographs
• Videos
• Audio
• Livestreams
• Reactions
• Captions
• Hashtags
• Profile information
• Reports
• Poll responses
• Other user-generated content

Depending on your privacy settings and the feature, some User Content may be visible publicly or to other users. Avoid posting sensitive personal information publicly unless you intentionally want others to see it.

3. Messages and Communications

If KONBIT provides direct messaging or other private communication features, we process those communications as necessary to deliver and operate the service.

Where implemented and reasonably necessary, automated systems or authorized review may process messages to detect spam, prevent fraud, investigate reported abuse, protect children, address credible threats, enforce policies, maintain security, or comply with law.

Private messages are not public, but we do not promise they can never be accessed when operational, safety, or legal circumstances require access.

4. Device and Technical Information

When you use KONBIT, certain technical information may be collected automatically, depending on your device and configuration:

• IP address
• Device type
• Operating system
• Browser type
• Device identifiers
• App version
• Language settings
• Time zone
• Network information
• Crash and diagnostic information
• Referring URLs
• Session information
• Security-related technical signals

We use this information to operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve KONBIT.

5. Usage Information

We may collect information about how you interact with KONBIT, including:

• Posts viewed
• Videos watched
• Accounts followed
• Likes and reactions
• Comments
• Searches
• Shares
• Time spent using features
• Interactions with recommendations
• Advertising interactions if advertising is offered
• Reports submitted
• Login history
• Other feature usage

We may use it to operate the Services, understand usage, improve features, protect users, and personalize experiences.

6. Location Information

KONBIT may process location information if location-based functionality is offered. Depending on your device permissions and the feature, this may include approximate country-level location derived from a connection or, for a future feature, precise location obtained only after required device permission.

You can generally control location permission in device settings. We may use available location information for location-based features, account protection, suspicious-activity detection, recommendations, or legal compliance.

7. Contacts

If KONBIT offers a feature to find people you know, we may request permission to access contacts. We will access or process an address book only after obtaining the appropriate permission and providing applicable notice.

Where available, you may decline contact access and continue using features that do not require it.

8. Camera, Microphone, and Media

Certain KONBIT features require permission to access your camera, microphone, photo library, or device media so you can record videos, take photographs, livestream, upload media, or record audio.

KONBIT requests applicable permission before access. You may revoke permission through device settings, although some features may then be unavailable.

9. Information From Other Users

We may receive information about you when another user mentions or tags you, follows you, sends a message, reports your account, shares content involving you, or interacts with your posts. We process it to operate KONBIT and enforce our policies.

10. Information From Third Parties

We may receive information from services used to operate KONBIT, depending on the provider and your interaction with us:

• Authentication providers
• Cloud-hosting and database providers
• Analytics providers if enabled
• Security providers
• Content-delivery networks
• Email, SMS, and push-notification providers
• Payment processors if payments are offered
• Customer-support providers
• Content-moderation providers
• AI technology providers

We maintain internal records of providers used for the Services.

11. How We Use Personal Information

We may use personal information to:

• Create, maintain, and authenticate accounts
• Provide KONBIT features and distribute User Content
• Deliver messages and notifications
• Personalize feeds and recommendations
• Process media and improve search
• Develop features and provide support
• Investigate reports and enforce our policies
• Prevent spam, fraud, threats, account compromise, and prohibited activity
• Protect children and platform integrity
• Conduct analytics where enabled and debug problems
• Communicate important service information
• Comply with law and protect KONBIT, users, and others

We seek to limit collection and processing to information reasonably necessary for legitimate disclosed purposes.

12. Personalization and Recommendations

Recommendation systems may consider accounts you follow, posts and content you interact with, viewing activity, topics, language, general location, searches, and other interactions to decide which content or accounts appear.

Where required, we will provide additional controls or disclosures for automated processing.

13. Artificial Intelligence

KONBIT may use artificial intelligence, machine learning, or automated systems for recommendations, search, spam and fraud detection, safety, moderation, translation, transcription, accessibility, media processing, and other platform functions.

Some text, audio, images, videos, or related information may be sent to contracted AI service providers, including services that use Google or OpenAI models through KONBIT's technology provider, subject to contractual and privacy protections.

We do not claim that user information is never used for AI training unless that protection has been verified for every applicable system and provider.

14. Content Moderation

We may process User Content, account information, reports, applicable messages, and related signals to enforce our Terms and Community Guidelines.

• Automated detection systems
• Human reviewers
• User reports
• Pattern detection
• Security tools
• Third-party moderation services

Automated systems can make mistakes. Users may request review of eligible decisions through KONBIT's appeal process.

Appeals Policy

15. When We Share Information

Service Providers

We may provide information to providers performing cloud hosting, storage, email, SMS, notifications, analytics where enabled, security, support, moderation, media processing, payments where offered, or AI services. They should receive only what is reasonably necessary and be subject to appropriate restrictions.

Other Users and the Public

Information you intentionally make public may be visible to users or the public, including your username, profile image, biography, posts, comments, follower information, and other public activity.

Legal Requirements

We may preserve or disclose information when reasonably required by law or valid legal process, including court orders, warrants, subpoenas, government requests, and legally required reports.

Safety and Security

Where permitted by law, we may disclose information to address imminent danger, protect children, prevent fraud, investigate security incidents, protect users or systems, or enforce legal rights.

Business Transactions

Information may transfer in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, asset sale, bankruptcy, or similar transaction. A successor remains subject to applicable legal obligations.

16. Selling and Sharing Personal Information

KONBIT does not sell personal information for money.

Some privacy laws define “sale” or “sharing” more broadly. If future advertising, analytics, or similar technologies constitute selling or sharing under applicable law, we will provide required notices and opt-out mechanisms before or when those activities apply.

17. Advertising

KONBIT does not currently operate an advertising program. We may offer advertising in the future based on context, general audience characteristics, or user activity where permitted by law.

Before targeted advertising or legally defined sharing begins, KONBIT will provide required notices and controls. We will not use sensitive personal information for targeted advertising unless legally permitted and appropriately disclosed.

18. Cookies and Similar Technologies

KONBIT and its providers may use cookies, local storage, SDKs, pixels, device identifiers, and similar technologies for authentication, security, preferences, analytics where enabled, performance, functionality, and future advertising where applicable.

See our Cookie Policy for details. Where law requires consent before non-essential technologies are used, KONBIT will request it.

Cookie Policy

19. Data Retention

We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described here or as permitted or required by law.

• Type of information and collection purpose
• Whether an account remains active
• Security and legal requirements
• Disputes, fraud prevention, and safety investigations
• Backup cycles and enforcement requirements

Information may remain temporarily in backups. We may retain limited records after account deletion to comply with law, prevent fraud, protect safety, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, or prevent repeated violations.

20. Account Deletion

Users may request account deletion through KONBIT's settings or another method we provide. The request may result in deletion or de-identification of associated information, subject to lawful retention exceptions.

Some information may remain when another user independently shared it, security or legal records must be preserved, a dispute remains, temporary backups retain it, or another lawful exception applies.

Settings

21. Your Privacy Choices

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have rights to:

• Access information and learn about processing
• Correct or delete information
• Obtain a portable copy of certain information
• Opt out of certain sales, sharing, or targeted advertising
• Limit certain uses of sensitive information
• Withdraw consent where processing depends on it
• Appeal certain privacy-rights decisions

Not every right applies everywhere. We may verify identity, and authorized agents may submit requests where law permits and verification requirements are met.

22. California Privacy Rights

California residents may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) where it applies to KONBITAPP LLC.

• Know what personal information is collected
• Access, delete, or correct personal information
• Know categories of third parties receiving information
• Opt out of sale or sharing
• Limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive information
• Receive equal treatment when exercising applicable rights

KONBIT will not unlawfully discriminate against users exercising applicable rights. If legally required sale or sharing controls become applicable, we will provide a “Your Privacy Choices” or equivalent mechanism.

Privacy requests: privacy@konbitapp.com

23. Privacy Rights in Other U.S. States

Residents of certain states may have rights to access, correction, deletion, portability, opt out, and appeal under applicable state law. KONBIT will process qualifying requests as required.

24. Children's Privacy

KONBIT is not intended for children under 13. Children under 13 may not create accounts.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 in violation of law. If we learn an account belongs to a child under 13, we may disable it and take reasonable steps to delete associated information, subject to legal and safety requirements.

Parents or guardians may contact safety@konbitapp.com. Additional protections may apply to teenagers.

25. Security

KONBIT uses reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information, as appropriate:

• Encryption in transit
• Access controls
• Authentication protections
• Password hashing
• Logging and monitoring
• Backups
• Security testing
• Restricted administrative access

No internet service or security system can guarantee absolute security. Use a strong password and protect your credentials. Contact support@konbitapp.com promptly if you believe your account is compromised.

26. Data Breaches and Security Incidents

If KONBIT experiences a security incident involving personal information, we will investigate and take appropriate measures. Where law requires notice to affected people, regulators, or authorities, we will provide it.

27. International Users and Data Transfers

KONBIT may be accessible outside the United States. Personal information may be processed in the United States or other countries where KONBIT or its providers operate, whose laws may differ.

Where required, we will use appropriate transfer mechanisms. Availability in a country does not mean every feature is offered or legally available there.

28. Third-Party Links

KONBIT may link to third-party websites, applications, or services governed by their own policies. KONBIT is not responsible for independent third-party privacy practices merely because a service is linked from KONBIT.

29. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Policy for changes to the Services, technology, data practices, providers, laws, or business operations. We will update the “Last Updated” date and, where required, provide additional notice or obtain consent for material changes.

30. Contact Us

Questions or privacy requests may be directed to:

KONBITAPP LLC Massachusetts, United States Privacy: privacy@konbitapp.com Legal: legal@konbitapp.com Support: support@konbitapp.com

For account-specific requests, we may require reasonable identity verification.