MortseCall Privacy Policy

Effective as of May 30, 2016

Morsecall is a fast and fun way to send and receive instant messages and make free voice calls to your friends.

Morsecall is committed to client service and this policy outlines our ongoing obligations to you in respect of how we manage your Personal Information.
Dispute Resolution and Privacy Seals.

Information We Collect

There are three basic ways we collect information:

Information You Choose to Give Us

When you interact with our services, we collect the information that you choose to share with us. For example, most of our services require you to set up a basic Morsecall account, so we need to collect a few important details about you, such as: a unique username you’d like to go by, a password, an email address, a phone number, and your date of birth. To make it easier for others to find you, we may also ask you to provide us with some additional information that will be publicly visible on our services, such as profile pictures, a name, or other useful identifying information. Other services, such as commerce products, may also require you to provide us with a debit or credit card number and its associated account information.

Of course, you’ll also provide us whatever information you send through the services, such as messages to your friends. Keep in mind that the users you send messages, and any other content to can always save that content or copy it outside the app. So, the same common sense that applies to the Internet at large applies to Morsecall as well: Don’t send messages or share content that you wouldn’t want someone to save or share.

It probably goes without saying, but we’ll say it anyway: When you contact Morsecall Support or communicate with us in any other way, we’ll collect whatever information you volunteer.

Information We Get When You Use Our Services

When you use our services, we collect information about which of those services you’ve used and how you’ve used them. We might know, for instance, that you saw a specific ad for a certain period of time, and sent a few messages to friends. Here’s a fuller explanation of the types of information we collect when you use our services (to learn about how you can control some of this information, be sure to read the aptly titled Control over Your Information section below):

Usage Information.

We collect information about your activity through our services. For example, we may collect information about:

• how you interact with the services, such as which filters you view or apply to messages, which channels you watch on Discover, or which search queries you submit.
  
• how you communicate with other MorseCall users, such as their names, the time and date of your communications, the number of messages you exchange with your friends, which friends you exchange messages with the most, and your interactions with messages (such as when you open a message or capture a screenshot).
  

Content Information.

We collect information about the content you provide, such as if the recipient has viewed the content, replayed the content, and the metadata that is provided with the content.

Device Information.

We collect device-specific information, such as the hardware model, operating system version, advertising identifier, unique application identifiers, unique device identifiers, browser type, language, wireless network, and mobile network information (including the mobile phone number).

Device Phonebook.

Because Morsecall is all about communicating with friends, we may—with your consent—collect information from your device’s phonebook.

Camera and Photos.

Many of our services require us to collect images and other information from your device’s camera and photos. We’ll access your camera and photos only after you give us your consent.

Location Information.

When you use our services we may collect information about your location. With your consent, we may also collect information about your precise location using methods that include GPS, wireless networks, cell towers, Wi-Fi access points, and other sensors, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, and compasses.

Information Collected by Cookies and Other Technologies.

Like most online services and mobile applications, we may use cookies and other technologies, such as web beacons, web storage, and unique advertising identifiers, to collect information about your activity, browser, and device. We may also use these technologies to collect information when you interact with services we offer through one of our partners, such as commerce features. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually remove or reject browser cookies through the settings on your browser or device. Keep in mind, though, that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our services. To learn more about how third parties use these technologies on our services, be sure to read the Analytics and Advertising Services Provided by Others section of our privacy policy.

Log Information.

We also collect log information when you use our website. That information includes, among other things:

• details about how you’ve used our services
  
• device information, such as your web browser type and language
  
• access times
  
• pages viewed
  
• IP address
  
• identifiers associated with cookies or other technologies that may uniquely identify your device or browser
  
• pages you visited before or after navigating to our website.

Information We Collect from Third Parties

We may collect information that other users provide about you when they use our services. For example, if another user allows us to collect information from their device phonebook—and you’re one of that user’s contacts—we may combine the information we collect from that user’s phonebook with other information we have collected about you. We may also obtain information from other companies that are owned or operated by us, or any other third-party sources, and combine that with the information we collect through our services.

How We Use Information

The data we collect is used to provide you with an amazing set of products and services that we are always trying to improve. But we do a lot more as well, such as:

• develop, operate, improve, deliver, maintain, and protect our products and services
  
• communicate with you
  
• monitor and analyze trends and usage
  
• personalize the services by, among other things, suggesting friends or profile information, or customizing the content we show you, including ads
  
• enhance the safety and security of our products and services
  
• verify your identity and prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity
  
• use information we’ve collected from cookies and other technology to enhance the services and your experience with them
  
• enforce our Terms of Service and other usage polices

We may also store some information locally on your device. For example, we may store information as local cache so that you can open the app and view content faster.

How We Share Information

We may share information about you in the following ways:

With other MorseCall users.

We may share the following information with other MorseCall users:

• information about you, such as your username and name;
  
• information about how you have interacted with the services, the names of MorseCall users you are friends with, and other information that will help MorseCall users understand your connections with others using the services.
  
• any additional information you have consented for us to share.
  
• content you post or send will be shared with other MorseCall users; how widely your content is shared depends on your personal settings and the type of service you are using. For example, a message may be sent to just a single friend you select.

With all MorseCall users and the general public.

We may share the following information with all MorseCall users as well as the general public:

• public information like your profile pictures; and
  
• any content that you submit to MorseCall service. If a MorseCall service is streamed on the web or broadcast in some other media, it may be viewed by the public at large.
  

With our affiliates.

We may share information with entities within the Morsecall family of companies.

With third parties.

We may share your information with the following third parties:

• With service providers, sellers, and partners. We may share information about you with service providers who perform services on our behalf, sellers that provide goods through our services, and business partners that provide services and functionality.
  
• With third parties for legal reasons. We may share information about you if we reasonably believe that disclosing the information is needed to:
  
  • comply with any valid legal process, government request, or applicable law, rule, or regulation;
    
  • investigate, remedy, or enforce potential Terms of Service violations;
    
  • protect the rights, property, and safety of us, our users, or others; or
    
  • detect and resolve any fraud or security concerns.
    

With third parties as part of a merger or acquisition.

If Morsecall gets involved in a merger, asset sale, financing, liquidation or bankruptcy, or acquisition of all or some portion of our business to another company, we may share your information with that company before and after the transaction closes.

In the aggregate or after de-identification.

We may also share with third parties, such as advertisers, aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

Information You Choose to Share with Third Parties

The services may also contain third-party links and search results, include third-party integrations, or be a co-branded or third-party-branded service that’s being provided jointly with or by another company. By going to those links, using the third-party integration, or using a co-branded or third-party-branded service, you may be providing information (including personal information) directly to the third party, us, or both. You acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for how those third parties collect or use your information. As always, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of every third-party website or service that you visit or use, including those third parties you interact with through our services.

How Long We Keep Your Content

On our end, that means that we automatically delete the content of your messages (the photo and video messages that you send your friends) from our servers after we detect that a message has been delivered or expired. But remember: There are various ways MorseCall users can save your content and also upload it to Morsecall (like as a file sent through Morsecall). We go into more detail below about how users can save Morsecall content.

Outside of messages, the rest of our services may use content for longer periods of time, which means those services may follow different deletion protocols. If you submit content to one of our inherently public features, we may retain the content indefinitely.

Finally, you should understand that users who see the content you provide can always save it using any number of techniques: screenshots, in-app functionality, or any other image-capture technology. It’s also possible, as with any digital information, that someone might be able to access messages forensically or find them in a device’s temporary storage. Keep in mind that, while our systems are designed to carry out our deletion practices automatically, we cannot promise that deletion will occur within a specific timeframe. And we may also retain certain information in backup for a limited period of time or as required by law.

Control over Your Information

We want you to be in control of your information, so we provide you with the following tools.

Access and Updates.

We strive to let you access and update most of the personal information that we have about you. There are limits though to the requests we’ll accommodate. We may reject a request for a number of reasons, including, for example, that the request risks the privacy of other users, requires technical efforts that are disproportionate to the request, is repetitive, or is unlawful. You can access and update most of your basic account information right in the app by visiting the app’s Settings page. If you need to access, update, or delete any other personal information that we may have, you can put in a request when contacting us. Because your privacy is important to us, we may ask you to verify your identity or provide additional information before we let you access or update your personal information. We will try to update and access your information for free, but if it would require a disproportionate effort on our part, we may charge a fee. We will of course disclose the fee before we comply with your request.

Revoking Permissions.

If you change your mind about our ongoing ability to collect information from certain sources that you have already consented to, such as your phonebook, camera, photos, or location services, you can simply revoke your consent by changing the settings on your device if your device offers those options. Of course, if you do that, certain services may lose full functionality.

Communicating with other MorseCall users.

It’s also important to us that you stay in control over whom you communicate with. That’s why we’ve built a number of tools in Settings that let you indicate, among other things, who you want to see your details like your online offline status, or whether you’d like to receive messages from just your friends or all MorseCall users.

Analytics and Advertising Services Provided by Others

We may let other companies use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies on the services. These companies may collect information about how you use the services and other websites and online services over time and across different services. This information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand your online activity.

Additionally, some companies may use the information they collect on our services to deliver targeted advertisements on behalf of us or other companies, including on third-party websites and apps. Morsecall does not currently respond to do-not-track signals that may be sent from your device. If we do so in the future, we will provide information about that practice in an updated version of this privacy policy.

Users Outside the United States

Although we welcome MorseCall users from all over the world, keep in mind that no matter where you live or where you happen to use our services, we operate our services from the United States and a few other countries. This means that we may collect your personal information from, transfer it to, and store and process it in the United States and other countries whose local data-protection and privacy laws may offer fewer protections than those in your country of residence or from any country where you use or access the services.

Children

Our services are not intended for—and we don’t direct them to—anyone under 13. And that’s why we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 13.

Revisions to the Privacy Policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time and the latest effective date of any new version of the policy is always visible on this page.