Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and store your personal data when you use Chember.

We are based in the Netherlands and process personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

2. Data We Collect

We collect and process the following types of data:

Account Information

• Email address and/or phone number
• User name (as provided by you)

Profile Information

• Profile description
• Profile picture

User Content

• Content you create and upload, such as posts, images, videos, and text
• Comments and reactions you make on posts

Social Data

• Friends and friend requests
• Interactions with other users

Contacts

• Contact list from your device, if you choose to enable contact syncing

Usage and Diagnostics Data

• Information about how the service is used
• Crash reports and performance diagnostics

3. Advertising and Subscriptions

We may display advertisements within the service.

These advertisements may be provided by third-party advertising partners. These partners may process certain data, such as device information and interactions with the service, to display advertisements.

Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before using data for personalized advertising.

You have the following choices:

• You can allow personalized advertisements
• You can choose to receive non-personalized advertisements
• You can choose to subscribe to a paid plan to remove advertisements entirely

You can change your preferences at any time in the app settings.

If you withdraw consent for personalized advertising, you will still see advertisements, but they will not be personalized.

If you subscribe to a paid plan, advertisements will be disabled while your subscription is active.

4. How We Use Your Data

We use your data to:

• Create and manage your account
• Provide and operate the service
• Display your profile and content to other users
• Enable social features such as posts, comments, and connections
• Maintain the security and functionality of the platform
• Help you find and connect with friends
• Analyze usage and improve the performance, stability, and functionality of the service

5. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data based on:

• Contract: to provide the service you signed up for
• Legitimate interests: to improve and secure the platform

6. Data Storage and Security

Your data is stored and processed using cloud and infrastructure service providers, which may operate in countries outside your country of residence. We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, and unlawful disclosure, and apply appropriate safeguards where required by law.

7. Data Retention

We retain your data for as long as your account is active.

If you delete your account, your personal data and content will be deleted within a reasonable period, unless we are required to retain it for legal reasons.

8. Sharing of Data

We do not sell your personal data.

We may share data with service providers that help us operate the platform (such as hosting and storage providers), under appropriate data protection agreements.

9. Your Rights

Under GDPR, you have the right to:

• Access your personal data
• Correct inaccurate data
• Delete your data
• Restrict or object to processing
• Request a copy of your data

To exercise these rights, contact us at: support@chember.social

10. User Content

Content you upload (such as posts, profile information, and images) may be visible to other users of the platform depending on how the service is used.

You are responsible for the content you choose to share.

11. Contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or your data, you can contact us at:

Chember B.V.
support@chember.net

12. Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify users of significant changes where appropriate.