Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: June 18, 2020

We strive to be transparent in our data collection efforts by providing you with the information to make decisions about our collection of data from you. This is the purpose of our Privacy Policy.

There are certain things that you should be aware of when using our mobile apps. First, the Meme Monkey mobile apps are publicly accessible and searchable to users and visitors around the world. This means that anything that you post to the Meme Monkey mobile apps may be viewable by third parties. Second, since anything that you post to the Meme Monkey mobile apps are tied to your user account, your postings may not be anonymous. If you prefer to protect your privacy while using the Meme Monkey mobile apps, we recommend that you use the service under a pseudonym.

When you use the Meme Monkey mobile apps, even if you are just browsing, we may collect some basic data from you such as the type of mobile device that you are using and your geographical location. If you choose to create a user account, you can choose to share additional data with us, which is outlined below. We also provide you with the ability to limit the data that we collect from you and how we use it.

We also use your interactions with the Meme Monkey mobile apps to show you more relevant content. We may use your memes, comments, likes, and shares to determine what kind of content you are interested in and to provide you with more of it.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, how we collect data from you, how we use your data, or how you can control your privacy settings, you can contact us at any time at support@meme-app.fun

Data You Share With Us

We may collect data from you when you voluntarily share it with us. This may include the following data:

  • Account Data. If you choose to create an account you must provide us with some personal data so that we can provide you with the services that you have requested. This may include your username, password, name and email address.
  • User-Generated Content. When you upload or submit content through the Meme Monkey mobile app (“User-Generated Content”), we may use and publish your User-Generated Content to provide you and third parties with the Meme Monkey mobile app services, to keep records of your communications or uploaded User-Generated Content on our services, to tailor content to your preferences, and to defend against legal claims.
  • Public Data. A majority of the activity on the Meme Monkey mobile apps is public. Most memes are public, the Meme Monkey likes and comments are public. Meme Monkey may use this public data to provide you with the services requested, to provide you with more relevant content, to tailor content to your preferences, to keep records of communications on our service, and to defend against legal claims.
  • Private Communication Data. We may use your contact data, such as any data that you voluntarily provide to us like your email address, to authenticate your account, to communicate with you, to connect you with friends or other users, to respond to communications sent to you by us, to keep records of our communication, or to pursue or defend against legal claims. We may store and process your private communications and data related to them to scan for malicious content, to detect spam or prohibited images, to review content for violations of our terms of use agreement, or to respond to legal process or law enforcement inquiries.

Additional Data We Receive From You

We may also collect data from you automatically when you use the Meme Monkey mobile apps. This may include the following data:
Technical Data: we may collect technical data about your use of the Meme Monkey mobile apps, such as your device IDs, your mobile phone model, search terms, your mobile operating system, and your language. We may use this data to analyze your use of the Meme Monkey mobile apps, to administer and secure our services, to determine how Meme Monkey should allocate resources to its mobile apps, and to understand the technical load on Meme Monkey’s servers.

Disclosure of Personal Data

We only share your personal data in limited circumstances:

We may share your personal data with our accountants, auditors, insurers, or attorneys where doing so is necessary to protect the interests of Meme Monkey or to comply with any law or regulation.

We may also share your personal data with government or law enforcement agencies when we are required to report our data processing activities, upon receipt of an exigent circumstances request, upon receipt of a duly authorized subpoena or court order, or where doing so is necessary to protect our users, our employees, our contractors, third parties, or property.

Finally, we may share your personal data to a third party if we sell, transfer, or merge any part of our business or assets. In the event that we share your personal data in the sale, transfer, or merger of any part of our business or assets, this Privacy Policy will continue to apply to your personal data when transferred to the new entity.

Management, Protection, and Retention of Your Personal Data

If you have registered an account with us and are a citizen of the European Union, we provide you with account settings that let you modify, correct, or delete the personal data that you have provided to us that is associated with your account. Whether you are located in the European Union or elsewhere, to stop our collection and use of your personal data, you need only to delete your account.

If you have not registered an account with us, we do not collect any data from you.

To stop our collection and use of any of your data, you only need to uninstall the Meme Monkey mobile apps.

We also put data security measures into place to protect your personal data. We allow access to your personal data only by employees and service providers who have a need to know or access your personal data on our instructions. We will notify you and any regulatory body of any breach of your personal data or our security measures if and when we are legally required to do so.

We will only retain your personal data for so long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it is collected under this Privacy Policy or for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Right to Access Data

You may have a right to request access to your personal data for correction, transfer, erasure, or restriction, or to object to its processing or withdraw your consent. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact our Data Protection Officer as disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

You do not need to pay a fee to access your PII or to exercise your rights. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is unreasonable or excessive.

To confirm your request, we may need to request specific information from you as a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to an unauthorized third party. We will attempt to respond to all legitimate requests within thirty days.

Notification of Changes

Whenever we change our Privacy Policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy and other places that we deem appropriate. Your use of the Meme Monkey mobile apps following these changes indicates your consent to the practices described in the revised Privacy Policy.

Children Prohibited

Our services are not directed to, or open to, children under the age of 13. In using our services, you warrant that you are over the age of thirteen (13). If you are younger than 13, please do not use the Meme Monkey mobile apps and please do not provide personal data to us.

Global Operations

You understand and agree that we may store and process your data on computers located in the United States. By using the Meme Monkey mobile apps, you agree to the collection and processing of your data in the United States.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy, or if your personal information is not accurate or complete, please contact our Data Protection Officer at: support@meme-app.fun

Content Removal and Disabling or Terminating Your Account

We can remove any content or information you share on the Service if we believe that it violates these Terms of Use, our policies, or we are permitted or required to do so by law. We can refuse to provide or stop providing all or part of the Service to you (including terminating or disabling your account) immediately to protect our community or services, or if you create risk or legal exposure for us, violate these Terms of Use or our policies, if you repeatedly infringe other people's intellectual property rights, or where we are permitted or required to do so by law. If we take action to disable or terminate your account, we will notify you where appropriate. If you believe your account has been terminated in error, or you want to disable or permanently delete your account, contact us at support@meme-app.fun.