Effective Date: October 1, 2025
Welcome to Boba Social (“we,” “our,” or “us”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you understand how your information is collected, used, and shared when you use our website https://bobasocial.us (the “Website”) and our mobile application (the “App”) (together, the “Services”).
By using our Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
We collect information in three main ways: (1) information you provide to us, (2) information we collect automatically, and (3) information we receive from other sources.
Information You Provide:
– Account Information: Name, email, password, profile photo, and other personal details when you create an account.
– Vendor Listings: If you are a vendor, you provide business details such as business name, address, phone number, website, hours, menu, photos, and other listing content.
– User Content: Reviews, ratings, photos, check-ins, likes, comments, preferences, and any other content you choose to post.
– Payment Information: If you purchase advertising, subscription plans, or other paid features, payment details are handled by our secure payment processors.
Information We Collect Automatically:
– Usage Data: Searches, pages viewed, clicks, features used, ads engaged with, and time/date stamps.
– Device & Log Data: Device identifiers, IP address, browser type, operating system, app version, crash reports, and diagnostic logs.
– Location Data: If you enable location services, we may collect GPS or approximate location to show nearby listings.
Information From Third Parties:
– Public Sources: Business data we supplement from publicly available records or APIs (e.g., Google Maps).
– Social Sign-Ins: If you log in via Google, Facebook, or similar, we receive basic account details to set up your profile.
– Publish and manage vendor listings.
– Help users discover businesses and connect with vendors.
– Enable reviews, ratings, comments, photos, and social networking features.
– Personalize recommendations and search results.
– Display relevant promotions and advertisements.
– Promote vendors’ stores and products using user-generated content such as reviews, ratings, and photos, in order to drive store traffic and highlight featured items.
– Communicate with you about updates, features, and offers.
– Monitor site performance, prevent fraud, and maintain security.
– Comply with applicable laws and enforce our Terms of Service.
We do not sell your personal information. We may share information in the following ways:
– Publicly: Content you submit (reviews, photos, ratings, profile name) will be visible to other users and may appear in search results.
– With Vendors: Reviews and interactions you submit may be shared with the vendor you are reviewing.
– With Service Providers: Third parties who help us operate the Services (hosting, analytics, payment processing, customer support).
– For Legal Reasons: To comply with law, regulation, legal process, or government requests.
– In Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may transfer as part of that transaction.
– Profile Settings: You can update your profile, reviews, and preferences at any time.
– Data Deletion: You may request deletion of your account by contacting us at privacy@bobasocial.us.
– Location Data: You can control location collection through your device settings.
– Marketing Messages: You can unsubscribe from promotional emails at any time.
We use reasonable safeguards to protect your information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
We retain your information as long as your account is active or as needed to provide the Services. We may also retain information to comply with legal obligations or resolve disputes.
Our Services are not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If we learn we have collected information from a child, we will delete it.
If you are located in the European Union (EU) or California (U.S.), you may have additional rights:
– Right to know what data we collect and how it is used.
– Right to request access, correction, or deletion of your data.
– Right to opt out of certain data sharing.
– Right to not be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights.
Requests can be submitted to privacy@bobacsocial.us
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of significant changes by updating the date above or providing in-app/website notifications.
If you have questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
Boba Social LLC
1200 Franklin Mall #246, Santa Clara, CA USA
support@bobasocial.us
