Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA. Since we started Vaves, we’ve built our services with a set of strong privacy principles in mind. In our updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy you’ll find:
Additional Information On How We Handle Your Data We only use your data for account creation and contacting your contact list on Vaves App. We do not create or store any Spam/Block list to filter out any calls. We also don’t sell or use any information provided by you in any manner.
The types of information we receive and collect depend on how
you use our Services. We require certain information to deliver
our Services and without this we will not be able to provide our
Services to you. For example, you must provide your mobile phone
number to create an account to use our Services.
Our Services have optional features which, if used by you,
require us to collect additional information to provide such
features. You will be notified of such collection, as
appropriate. If you choose not to provide the information needed
to use a feature, you will be unable to use the feature.
We do not collect/store any of users phone contacts, and chats from our app on our servers, we only have the user profile including name, phone number, and basic bio of the person who has created thier account with us, and we do contact syncing just to check if any of thier friends and families are using our app and we show them to the user in our app.
Your Account Information. You must provide your mobile phone number and basic information (including a profile name of your choice) to create a Vaves account. If you don’t provide us with this information, you will not be able to create an account to use our Services. You can add other information to your account, such as a profile picture and "about" information.
Your Messages. We do not retain your messages in the ordinary course of providing our Services to you. Instead, your messages are stored on your device and not typically stored on our servers. Once your messages are delivered, they are deleted from our servers. The following scenarios describe circumstances where we may store your messages in the course of delivering them:
Undelivered Messages. If a message cannot be delivered immediately (for example, if the recipient is offline), we keep it in encrypted form on our servers for up to 30 days as we try to deliver it. If a message is still undelivered after 30 days, we delete it.
Media Forwarding. When a user forwards media within a message, we store that media temporarily in
encrypted form on our servers to aid in more efficient delivery of additional forwards.
We offer end-to-end encryption for our Services. End-to-end encryption means that your messages are
encrypted to protect against us and third parties from reading them. Learn more about end-to-end
encryption and how businesses communicate with you on Vaves.
Your Connections. You can use the contact upload feature and provide us, if permitted by applicable laws, with the phone numbers in your address book on a regular basis, including those of users of our Services and your other contacts. If any of your contacts aren’t yet using our Services, we’ll manage this information for you in a way that ensures those contacts cannot be identified by us. You can create, join, or get added to groups and broadcast lists, and such groups and lists get associated with your account information. You give your groups a name. You can provide a group profile picture or description.
Device And Connection Information. We collect device and connection-specific information when you install, access, or use our Services. This includes information such as hardware model, operating system information, App Version.
Information Others Provide About You. We receive information about you from other users. For example, when other users you know use our Services, they may provide your phone number, name, and other information (like information from their mobile address book) just as you may provide theirs. They may also send you messages, send messages to groups to which you belong, or call you. We require each of these users to have lawful rights to collect, use, and share your information before providing any information to us. You should keep in mind that in general any user can capture screenshots of your chats or messages or make recordings of your calls with them and send them to Vaves or anyone else, or post them on another platform.
You share your information as you use and communicate through our Services, and we share your information to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customize, support, and market our Services.
Send Your Information To Those With Whom You Choose To Communicate. You share your information (including messages) as you use and communicate through our Services.
Information Associated With Your Account. Your phone number, profile name and photo, "about" information, last seen information, and message receipts are available to anyone who uses our Services, although you can configure your Services settings to manage certain information available to other users, including businesses, with whom you communicate.
Your Contacts And Others. Users, including businesses, with whom you communicate can store or reshare your information (including your phone number or messages) with others on and off our Services. You can use your Services settings and the “block” feature in our Services to manage who you communicate with on our Services and certain information you share.