Introduction

Welcome to Merry.

With the Merry app, you can share upcoming plans and activities with your private network of friends. Media, including photos, videos, comments and similar types of content, that are uploaded to your private network can only be viewed by your invited friends. Below we share more detail about our privacy practices. We also want to tell you right up front:

  • You always control what you upload or delete
  • You can always update or remove personal information we have about you
  • We will never sell your personal information to a third party

We want you to feel comfortable and confident that Merry shares your plans and identity only as you choose, and only with people you choose.

Please read on for more specifics about our privacy practices. If you still have questions or concerns, email us anytime at developer@joinmerry.com and we’ll be happy to help.

About this Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, store, share, and maintain information on our systems about your use of our website, which is located at joinmerry.com (the “Website”), and our native mobile Android and iOS applications (collectively, the “App”). Our references to “you” or something of “yours” in this Policy refer to users of the Website and App.

How We Use Your Information

We use your Profile Information for display in the App. We use your password to help you log into the app on one or more devices if you use Standard Sign-On; for SSO, we never collect, use, or store a password. We use your email to identify and administer your account access and permit account recovery.

On an anonymized basis, we use third party analytics to analyze user actions within the App. This information helps us understand how to maintain and improve the App, fix bugs, and to conduct standard maintenance based on which parts of the app are used, rather than your individual behavior – and the data used in this process does not and cannot identify you personally. The session and usage data generated by our analytics is not associated with your identity.

How We Share Your Information

We do not share your personal information with third parties except as expressly described here:

We may also share information about you in the following ways:

With your express consent.

  • Your displayed name and profile photo, as well as plans you uploaded Merry.
  • With third-party vendors who provide the infrastructure that allows the App to operate – such as cloud servers, hosting, and notifications. We select vendors based on privacy, security, and confidentiality standards, and only share personally-identifiable information with vendors who provide contractual assurances that it will stay private and secure.
  • Without identifying you, we may generate reports and/or analyses of the aggregate usage of our Services, and use this for our business operations. We do not consider this personal information in this Policy. However, the aggregate reports are derived from information about user accounts and their activities within the App.
  • As we deem necessary, in our sole discretion to:
  • Comply with applicable law
  • Comply with a valid governmental and/or law enforcement request
  • Comply with a court or other governmental body’s order
  • Protect the privacy, security, safety, or likeness rights of any user or a third party subject of a photo uploaded to Merry.
  • Evaluate and comply with legitimate copyright takedown requests
  • Identify and remove illegal, hateful, and/or abusive images and/or comments from our systems
  • To otherwise enforce our rights and/or to protect the safety and security of our Website, App or other users.

Do Not Track

Our Website does not recognize Do Not Track signals. Nonetheless, we do not track Website visitors on any identifiable basis whatsoever.

California Privacy Rights

Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to contact us to prevent disclosure of personal information to third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes; however, Merry does not share your information with third parties for direct marketing purposes.

  • We still offer all of our users certain options to exercise control over their information, regardless of their residency:
  • Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose to you the personal information about you we collect, use, or disclose, and information about our data handling practices with respect to your information;
  • Right to Request Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete your Personal Information that we have collected from you; and
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please email us at developer@joinmerry.com and we’ll be happy to assist you.

How We Secure Your Information

Like most applications today, we use cloud server infrastructure to run our App and Website. We license server spaces that encrypt data sent to the App and displayed by the App, both while “at rest” in our database and “in transit” between the App and those databases. Only we can access the database(s) we created to operate the App, and we do so only through a single executive account – even the owner of the database does not have access to the data we store there.

Note that SSO information is controlled and accessed by the relevant SSO provider, such as Google or Facebook. Please refer to the privacy policies of these platforms for more information about how they operate their SSO.

While we take reasonable precautions against possible security breaches of the Website, Merry and our customer databases and records, no website or Internet transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur. We urge you to use caution when choosing what information to share with us, just in case.

Merry is not for use by minors

Merry is not intended for, and should not be used by, children younger than 13. We do not intentionally collect any information from or about persons under 13. In the event that we learn that we have inadvertently gathered Personal Information from children under the age of 13, we will use our best efforts to erase such information from our records. If you believe we have inadvertently collected information about a minor 3 years or younger, please contact us at developer@joinmerry.com with a description of the potential issue.

How to access, update, and/or delete information we have about you

You can confirm what items of personal information we have about you, update this information, or delete that information (including by deleting your entire account), by emailing us at developer@joinmerry.com.

If you email us, we will comply with your requests to update or remove your personal information within a reasonable time period unless we are prohibited by law from doing so. This may take up to 30 – 60 days depending on the nature of the request and the operations of our business.

Contact Us

Questions or concerns? Reach us anytime at developer@joinmerry.com