Terms of Service & Privacy Police
Terms of Service for connect
1. EXCLUSION OF WARRANTIES
SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE, BREACH OF CONTRACT OR BREACH OF IMPLIED TERMS, OR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, ONLY THE LIMITATIONS WHICH ARE LAWFUL IN YOUR JURISDICTION WILL APPLY TO YOU AND OUR LIABILITY WILL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.
1.1 YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND THAT THE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND “AS AVAILABLE.”
1.2 IN PARTICULAR, E.COM GMBH / CONNECT, ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES, AND ITS LICENSORS DO NOT REPRESENT OR WARRANT TO YOU THAT:
(A) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS,
(B) YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR FREE FROM ERROR,
(C) ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED BY YOU AS A RESULT OF YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, AND
(D) THAT DEFECTS IN THE OPERATION OR FUNCTIONALITY OF ANY SOFTWARE PROVIDED TO YOU AS PART OF THE SERVICES WILL BE CORRECTED.
1.3 ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR OTHER DEVICE OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.
1.4 NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM E.COM GMBH / CONNECT OR THROUGH OR FROM THE SERVICES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THE TERMS.
1.5 E.COM GMBH / CONNECT FURTHER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
2. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT E.COM GMBH / CONNECT, ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES, AND ITS LICENSORS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR:
(A) ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU, HOWEVER CAUSED AND UNDER ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY. THIS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, ANY LOSS OF PROFIT (WHETHER INCURRED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY), ANY LOSS OF GOODWILL OR BUSINESS REPUTATION, ANY LOSS OF DATA SUFFERED, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSS;
(B) ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE WHICH MAY BE INCURRED BY YOU, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OR DAMAGE AS A RESULT OF:
(I) ANY CHANGES WHICH E.COM GMBH / CONNECT MAY MAKE TO THE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY CESSATION IN THE PROVISION OF THE SERVICES (OR ANY FEATURES WITHIN THE SERVICES);
(II) THE DELETION OF, CORRUPTION OF, OR FAILURE TO STORE, ANY CONTENT AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS DATA MAINTAINED OR TRANSMITTED BY OR THROUGH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES;
(III) YOUR FAILURE TO KEEP YOUR PASSWORD OR ACCOUNT DETAILS SECURE AND CONFIDENTIAL;
Privacy Policy for connect
connect takes data privacy very seriously. We strive to store only the absolutely necessary information for the shortest possible time. Furthermore, we take all usual technical measures to prevent unauthorized access to your data on our servers.
This privacy policy is intended to explain the most important points on how we ensure data privacy. If you have questions regarding data privacy, please contact privacy@4connect-e.com.
1. Login Data
In order for every user to be able to recover his account in the event of a deletion of the app, it is technically necessary to register with a telephone number or (fake, only for this purpose created) e-mail address. This is the only way we can give every user access to his profile information and settings stored on our servers when starting connect from a new device.
This registration is NOT necessary for the use of connect, but without registration the account can easily be lost or stolen by a stranger. In the case of a registration, the e-mail address or telephone number is securely stored on our Swiss server.
With the express consent of the user (settings), news about connect can be sent to the e-mail address or telephone number used for registration. However, this data will never be passed on to third parties or misused for advertising purposes.
2. Security of messages
All messages sent via your own connect chat are end-to-end encrypted. This means that e.com GmbH, as the operator of the connect servers, has no way of decrypting user messages, since it has no knowledge of the private keys. The messages can only be read by the sender and recipient. Unfortunately this is not technically possible for messages to other networks (e.g. SMS or Facebook messages), but these are sent directly and not via our servers (see below).
The encrypted connect messages and all media (images, videos etc.) are deleted from our servers as soon as they have been delivered successfully.
Header information of messages (sender, recipient etc.) is protected by an additional encryption layer for transmission to the server, and from the server to the recipient, to prevent eavesdropping by third parties (e.g. in open wireless LANs).
3. Multi Messenger data
If the user links connect with external communications or messenger services (such as text messages, mail, or Facebook), then the data (e.g. account information or messages) is stored on his device and not on our servers. The messages are sent directly via the external services and e.com GmbH does not have access to them.
4. Synchronize the contact list
At the moment connect does NOT synchronize any contact lists, i.e. Facebook contacts or phone book contacts are not forwarded to our servers in any way. For the future, however, a synchronization is planned so that if a phone book, mail or external messenger contact of the user also uses connect, he will automatically become his connect contact too. This means that it is no longer necessary to search and add each individual contact manually.
However, this will require that the e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and IDs of other messenger services are encrypted ("hashed") for synchronization and additionally transmitted to the connect server in one-way encrypted ("hashed") form and additionally protected using SSL. These hashes do not allow conclusions about original data(!) and are neither passed on to third parties nor used for advertising purposes.
5. Crash reports
If the user explicitly chooses to submit a crash report about the Android app, information about the crash (state of the app at the time of the crash, last log messages) will be sent to Google and stored there for analysis by e.com GmbH.
6. General provisions
connect's own server is located in Switzerland and complies with the strictest protective measures. In general, the regulations of the Austrian Data Protection Authority and the European General Data Protection Regulation apply.