Privacy Policy

EDeets ("EDeets", "we", "us" or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with, and the choices and rights you have when using the EDeets website and digital business-card service.

1. Who we are

EDeets is a digital business-card service that allows users to create, customise and share digital business cards.

For privacy-related questions or requests, please contact us using the contact details provided on our Contact page.

2. Information we collect

Depending on how you use EDeets, we may collect the following information.

Account information

When you create or use an EDeets account, we may process:

• Your email address
• Your EDeets account identifier
• Authentication information associated with your account
• Information provided through Google when you choose Google sign-in

We use this information to create and manage your account and authenticate you securely.

Digital business-card information

When you create a digital business card, you may provide:

• Your name
• Job title
• Company name
• Biography
• Phone number
• Email address
• Website address
• Instagram details
• Facebook details
• X details
• A username used to create your EDeets card address

You choose what information to include on your digital business card.

Images

You may upload a profile picture and a company or banner image. These images are stored so that they can be displayed as part of your digital business card.

Card customisation information

EDeets also stores settings used to customise the appearance of your card, including:

• Colour settings
• Theme selection
• Profile-picture size and position
• Image zoom and crop settings
• Banner size and position

3. Public digital business cards

EDeets is designed to allow users to share their digital business cards publicly.

When you save and publish a card, the information you choose to include on that card may be accessible to anyone who has access to your EDeets card URL.

This may include your name, company, job title, biography, contact details, social-media details and images, depending on what you choose to add.

4. How we use your information

We use personal information for purposes including:

• Creating and managing your EDeets account
• Authenticating your account
• Creating and displaying your digital business cards
• Saving your card preferences and customisations
• Hosting profile and banner images
• Allowing you to share your digital business card
• Providing and maintaining the EDeets service
• Responding to support and privacy enquiries
• Protecting the security and integrity of EDeets
• Diagnosing and resolving technical problems
• Complying with applicable legal obligations

We will not sell your personal information.

5. Legal bases for processing

Where UK data-protection law applies, we process personal information using appropriate lawful bases.

Performance of a contract

We process information that is necessary to provide EDeets and its features to you, including creating your account and providing your digital business card.

Legitimate interests

We may process certain information where it is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as maintaining, securing and improving EDeets, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms.

Legal obligations

We may process information where necessary to comply with a legal obligation.

Consent

Where we rely on consent for a particular processing activity, we will ask for consent where required and explain how you can withdraw it.

6. Services and third parties

Supabase

EDeets uses Supabase for authentication, database storage and image storage. Your account and digital-business-card information may therefore be processed through Supabase's services.

Google

If you choose to sign in using Google, authentication information is processed through Google's authentication services.

remove.bg

EDeets provides an optional background-removal feature for banner images.

If you choose to use this feature, the selected banner image is sent to remove.bg so that the background can be removed.

The processed image is then returned to EDeets and can be stored as part of your digital business card.

We do not send images to remove.bg unless you use the background-removal feature.

7. International processing

Some service providers used by EDeets may process information outside the United Kingdom.

Where personal information is transferred internationally, we will take appropriate steps to ensure that the transfer is made in accordance with applicable data-protection law.

8. How long we keep your information

We retain account and digital business-card information for as long as necessary to provide the EDeets service and maintain your account.

If you stop using EDeets or request deletion of your information, we will take reasonable steps to delete information that we are no longer required or permitted to retain.

Some information may need to be retained for a longer period where required by law or where necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

9. Your rights

Depending on the circumstances and applicable law, you may have rights including:

• The right to access your personal information
• The right to correct inaccurate information
• The right to request deletion of your information
• The right to restrict certain processing
• The right to object to certain processing
• The right to data portability
• The right to withdraw consent where processing is based on consent

You can contact EDeets to exercise your rights or ask questions about how your information is processed.

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.

10. Keeping your information secure

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction.

However, no internet-based service can guarantee absolute security.

You are also responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and should not share your password with other people.

11. Children's privacy

EDeets is not designed to encourage children to provide unnecessary personal information.

If you use EDeets, you should only provide information that you are permitted to provide and that is appropriate for the service.

If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child in circumstances where additional protections are required, we will take appropriate steps to address this.

12. Cookies and similar technologies

EDeets may use cookies or similar technologies that are necessary to operate features such as authentication and account sessions.

Where we use cookies or similar technologies that require consent under applicable law, we will request consent before using them.

Further information will be provided in our Cookie Policy.

13. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to EDeets, our services, legal requirements or how we process information.

When we make significant changes, we will take reasonable steps to make users aware of the changes.

The date at the top of this Privacy Policy shows when it was most recently updated.

14. Contact us

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise a data-protection right, or have a privacy concern, please contact EDeets through our Contact page.

You also have the right to complain to the UK's data-protection regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), if you believe your personal information has been handled unlawfully.