📥 3. Information We Collect
We collect personal and non-personal information only for legitimate business purposes to deliver, optimize, and secure the Service, and to enhance your overall user experience. All collected data is categorized below, with explicit disclosures for sensitive identifiers including phone numbers and Device IDs:
📞 3.1 Phone Number Collection & Disclosure
We collect your phone number only when you voluntarily provide it during account registration, for the following lawful and limited business purposes:
- Account authentication and security: Verify account authenticity, prevent unauthorized access, identity theft, and fraudulent account creation
- Service communications: Send critical SMS notifications (account recovery codes, security alerts, service updates)
- Optional contact matching: Facilitate connections with your existing contacts who use VibinGo (only with your explicit consent)
- Support efficiency: Resolve account-related inquiries and provide timely customer support
Your phone number is end-to-end encrypted during collection and storage, and will never be displayed publicly on your profile or shared with other users under any circumstances without your express written consent.
🖥️ 3.2 Device ID Collection & Disclosure
We automatically collect unique Device ID information (including IDFA, AAID, UDID, and other device-specific identifiers) upon app installation and launch, solely for the following security and optimization purposes:
- Device legitimacy verification: Prevent account hijacking and unauthorized access from suspicious devices
- Service performance optimization: Identify and resolve technical issues, tailor features to your device’s capabilities
- Fraud detection: Block suspicious activities such as multiple account creation on a single device and bot access
- Anonymized analytics: Analyze aggregated usage patterns to improve the Service for all users
Device ID data is linked to your account only for security purposes, and you may limit collection by adjusting your device’s privacy settings (e.g., disabling ad tracking), though this may impact certain Service features.
✍️ 3.3 Voluntarily Provided Personal Information
You may choose to provide the following information when registering an account or using premium Service features:
- Contact details: Valid email address, optional social media profile links
- Profile data: Full name, date of birth, gender, profile photo, bio, and interest preferences
- User-generated content: Direct messages, shared photos/videos, and media content (if you choose to post)
- Payment information: For premium subscriptions (processed by third-party payment providers, never stored by VibinGo)
📊 3.4 Automatically Collected Usage Information
We passively collect non-identifiable and aggregated usage data when you interact with the Service, with no link to your personal identity unless combined with your account information:
- Usage metrics: Features accessed, session duration, search history, and interaction patterns
- Location data: Approximate or precise (only if you enable location services, for regional feature optimization)
- Log data: IP address, access timestamps, operating system/browser type, and referral sources
🤝 3.5 Third-Party Sourced Information
We may receive limited information from authorized third parties only with your consent or in compliance with applicable laws:
- Social media platforms (if you link your VibinGo account, in line with the platform’s privacy rules)
- Trusted service providers: Anonymized or pseudonymized data from analytics, fraud detection, and payment processors