Tea App Privacy Notice
Effective Date: August 11, 2025
This
Privacy Notice (“Notice”) applies to the processing of Personal
Information by ADVERTEX ADVERTISING RESEARCHES AND CONSULTANCIES LLC.
(“Tea,” “Company,” “We,” “Our”) in the context of the “Tea App” mobile
application (the “Tea App”) and the Tea website, tea-app.com (the
“Website”), (collectively the “Services”). Please read this Notice
carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your
personal information. By using or registering with our Services, you
acknowledge that your personal information will be collected, used,
processed and disclosed as outlined in this Notice. Beyond the Notice,
your use of our Services is also subject to our Terms of Use.
California, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Texas, and
Virginia residents can find more information about their specific
privacy rights in the Additional Information for Residents of
California and Additional Information for Residents of Certain Other
U.S. States sections.
1) Personal Information We Collect and How We Collect It
2) Use
of Personal Information We Collect
3) How We Disclose Personal
Information We Collect
4) Data Retention
5) Security of
Your Personal Information
6) Additional Information for Residents
of California
7) Additional Information for Residents of Certain
Other U.S. States
8) Your Choices
9) Third-Party
Disclosure and Links
10) Notice Concerning the Information of
Minors
11) Additional Information About the Tea App
12)
International Data Transfers
13) Changes to This Notice
14)
Contact Us
1. Personal Information We Collect and How We Collect It
The term "Personal Information" as used in this Notice means
any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.
We may collect and process Personal Information about you
in the ways outlined below. Where applicable, we indicate whether and
why you must provide us with your Personal Information, as well as the
consequences of failing to do so. If you do not provide Personal
Information when requested, you may not be able to benefit from our
Services if that information is necessary to provide you with them or
if we are legally required to collect it.
A. Personal Information You Provide to Us
When you sign up to the Tea App.
When you sign up, we
ask you to provide Personal Information such as your email address,
phone number, date of birth, location (city and state), photograph
(your selfie), your username, and your relationship status. If you
sign up using a social media or third party account, we will also
receive information from those social media services or third party
accounts such as your name and email address.
When you use our paid features.
If you use our premium paid features, you will have to provide
payment information in order to complete your purchase. We use third
party payment processors to handle payment information, and those
services are subject to separate terms and conditions and privacy
policies.
When you contact us.
If you contact us using a contact form, via email, or by other means,
you may provide us with Personal Data, such as your name and contact
details (including email address), the content, date and time of our
communications, and other information you choose to provide. When you
communicate with us online, third party vendors receive and store
these communications on our behalf. When we send you emails, we may
use embedded pixels or other technologies to track information about
your receipt and interaction with our emails, such as whether and when
you open them, whether you access any links included in our emails,
how long you read our emails, whether you forward our emails and to
whom, your Location Information (described below), and your Device
Information (described below), to learn how to deliver a better
customer experience and improve our Services.
B. Personal Information Collected Automatically
When you interact with our Services, we and our vendors collect
information about your activities on our Services using cookies, web
beacons, pixels, APIs, SDKs, tags and other similar technologies
(collectively, “Cookies”). We and our vendors may use these Cookies to
collect Personal Information about your device, usage, and activities
(such as your IP address and device identifiers, device type, the
browser you are using, and the length and time of visit and pages
visited), Apple ID, (non-precise) geolocation data and details about
how you interact with our Services.
This data is used by us
and our vendors for various purposes, including to: operate, enable
and improve our online Services; analyze usage and performance; track
bugs and errors; verify account credentials and enable logins; to
protect and secure our services; and to detect and prevent identify
fraud. Our third-party partners may also use these technologies to
collect information about your online activities over time and across
different services.
We use the following Cookies on our
Services:
-Strictly Necessary Cookies: Some Cookies are strictly necessary to make our
Services available to you and you cannot use them without this type of
Cookie. We use this information to provide you with our Services,
prevent misuse, and ensure our Services are working properly.
-Functional Cookies: These are used to recognize you when you return to our Services. This
enables us to personalize our content for you, to provide you with a
customized experience on our Services, and to remember your
preferences and various settings (for example, your choice of language
or region).
-Analytics or Performance Cookies: We also use Cookies for analytics purposes to better understand how
you use our Services, to measure the effectiveness of our customer
communications, to diagnose and fix technology problems, and otherwise
enhance our Services. We may use our own analytics Cookies or
third-party analytics providers to collect and process certain data
analytics on our behalf.
C. Personal Information We Collect When You Use Our Services
Location Information When you use our Services, we receive
your location information. For example we infer your location
information by using your IP address.
Device Information Access with Your Permission
When you download, access or use the Tea App, the Tea App may request
certain permissions from your device, which you can choose to
authorize or not. These include access to your:
-Camera. You are required to take a new photo (selfie) using the camera app
on your device for verification purposes.
-Microphone.
The Tea App may access your microphone to capture audio (sound) if you
would like to add audio to your posts and comments.
-Contacts.The
Tea app may access your contacts if you choose to invite a friend to
use the Tea App
-Photos. The Tea App may access
your photos and the associated metadata to allow you to upload photos
on your posts and comments.
-Face ID. If you
choose to enable this feature, the Tea App will use your phone’s
native Face ID features to control access to the app. Your use of Face
ID to access the Tea App is voluntary. All Face ID data is processed
and stored locally on your device.
-Push Notifications.
If you choose to enable this feature, the Tea app will be able to send
you notifications about your registration status and keep you up to
date on content on the Tea App. You can change these settings within
your account at any time.
However, please note that if you
choose not to authorize the above permissions, some of the
functionality on the Tea App may be affected.
Usage Information. You may provide personal information when you use certain interactive
features on the Tea App. We automatically receive information about
your interactions with our Services, like the pages or other content
you view, referrer information (the website you visited before coming
to our Services), the dates and times of your visits and posts, the
searches you conduct, purchases you make, your comments (including
through voice features, gifs, and images), your interactions with
other posts (e.g., “likes”, reactions, shares, whether you bookmark
the post, add a red or green flag), posts or search results for which
you set up notifications, friends you invite, submit a user report,
block another user and third-party services providers you use through
the Service.
User Content: You
may choose to upload images, voice recordings, gifs, polls, videos,
comments, and other posts or engage in forums related to
relationship-related content.
Messages Between Users.
When you communicate with other users through our Services, we and our
third-party partners receive the content of the messages you send and
receive and information about those messages, such as when it was sent
or received.
AI Chatbot. We may offer an
interactive AI chat feature on the Tea App to help you navigate your
dating and relationship questions. We and our service provider will
retain a copy of your conversations with our AI chatbot for the
purposes set out below, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
D.
Personal Information Collected From Other Sources
-Information from our users. We also receive and analyze content,
communications and information that users provide when they use our
Services. This can include information about other individuals, such
as when users share or comment on a photo or video of an individual,
or screenshots of conversations they had with other individuals.
If you access our app based on a referral, we will also process basic
information such as your email address so that we can activate the
referral link.
-Background Information in the U.S. We work
with third-party partners to perform recurring background checks on
U.S. individuals identified in our Service upon a user’s request, and
we also may receive information from third parties such as criminal
history and records, phone numbers, marriage records, and other court
records.
2) Use of Personal Information We Collect
We
may use the Personal Information we collect from you in the following
ways:
-To set up and verify your account with us (for example,
users of the Tea App are required to submit a selfie photo to verify
their eligibility for the Services).
-To enable you to make posts
and comments.
-To process and manage your subscription.
-To
send you emails, text messages, and push notifications
-To
personalize your user experience and to allow us to deliver the type
of content and offerings in which you are most interested, including
experiences based on data you have provided to us such as your
relationship status.
-To deliver messages and other services and
content you request and send information related to your account and
the Services, including confirmations, technical notices, updates,
security alerts, support and administrative messages, and enable
user-to user communication.
-To train, develop, and improve the
artificial intelligence, machine learning, and models that we use to
support our Services
-To generate anonymized information that we
may use for any lawful purpose such as to publish reports
-To
understand and analyze how you use our Services and develop new
products, services, features, and functionality.
-To conduct an
analysis of the performance of our Services, including referral data
if you arrive at our Website from an external source.
-To
provide, maintain, and improve the Services.
-To track and fix
bugs and errors
-To facilitate the connection of third-party
services or applications, such as connecting you with background check
service providers, court records, sex offender registry lists, and
“reverse image search” service providers, to the extent permitted by
applicable law
-To provide you with relevant marketing materials.
For example, we may contact you regarding products, services, and
offers, both from ourselves and from third parties, that we believe
you may find of interest, which may be tailored to you, based on
information such as your interests and preferences
-To process
your payments if you are using a paid feature. We may process details
about your subscription and your transaction and payment information,
for billing purposes.
-For compliance purposes, including
enforcing our terms and conditions or other legal rights, or as may be
required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any
judicial process or governmental agency.
-To find and prevent
fraud and abuse, and respond to trust and safety issues that may
arise.
-To analyze content provided by our users to identify
potentially deceptive or harmful behavior.
-For other purposes
for which we provide specific notice at the time the information is
collected.
-To conduct our business-related operations and
functions, such as record-keeping and risk management.
3) Legal
Bases for Processing Your Personal Information
If you are located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland or the
United Kingdom (“Europe”), we only process your Personal Information
where we have a legal basis to do so. The legal bases we rely on
include:
-Necessary to perform a contract.
We will process your Personal Information where it is necessary to
give effect to a contract between you and us, for example when you
subscribe to our Services, or otherwise accept our Terms of
Use.
-Necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are
subject. We may process your Personal Information where we are required to do
so to comply with our legal obligations, for example to comply with
tax and accounting obligations or to comply with a court order.
-Necessary for a legitimate interest that we pursue. Where we or a third party have a legitimate interest in processing
your Personal Information, we may do so provided that our interest is
not overridden by your rights and interests. We may rely on this legal
basis to, for example, keep business records, respond to unsolicited
communications from you, assert our legal rights and obtain
professional advice.
-Consent. We may also
process your Personal Information on the basis of consent in some
circumstances. For example, we may ask for your consent to sign up to
direct marketing. You may withdraw your consent at any time by
contacting us.
We will only process criminal data to the
extent permitted under local law. We may process sensitive Personal
Information that was made public by the individual concerned, or where
this is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest as
provided by UK, EU or EU member state law. We may also process
sensitive Personal Information if the individual concerned provided
their explicit consent.
4) How We Disclose Personal Information We Collect
We may disclose Personal Information as follows:
-With our affiliates. We may disclose any Personal Information we receive to our current
or future affiliates for any of the purposes described in this
Notice.
-With our Vendors and Service Providers.
We may disclose any information we receive to vendors and service
providers retained in connection with the provision of our
Services.
-Data Providers. Upon a user’s
request, and to the extent permitted by applicable law, we disclose
information that the user provides about a person to data providers,
such as providers of criminal history information, in order to provide
background information to the user about that person.
-With our AI Service Providers. We may disclose Personal Information we receive to vendors that
provide artificial intelligence services that provide support for our
Services.
-With our Analytics Partners: We use
analytics services [such as Google Analytics] to collect and process
certain analytics data. [You can learn more about Google’s practices
by visiting
https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can opt out by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser
add-on, available at
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.]
-With other users. As a media sharing
app, we allow users to share information they upload with other users
to help women feel safe while dating online and offer dating advice.
Our users may use our Services to create and share content about other
individuals with other users. For example, users may share a photo of
an individual on our app with a ‘green flag’ or ‘red flag’ and a
positive or negative comment. Users’ username and location (city and
state) will always be viewable by other users when you post content.
The content users post to the Services will be displayed on the
Services and viewable by other users. We may also share content with
other users via push notifications, consistent with user settings. We
are not responsible for the other users’ use of available information,
so you should carefully consider whether and what to post or how you
identify yourself on the Services.
-If we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business
assets. We may disclose Personal Information when we do a business deal, or
negotiate a business deal, involving the sale, liquidation, or
transfer of all or a part of our business or assets. These deals can
include any merger, financing, acquisition, or bankruptcy transaction
or proceeding. The use of your information following any of these
events will be governed by the provisions of this Notice in effect at
the time the applicable information was collected.
-As Required By Law and Similar Disclosures. We may access, preserve, and disclose your Personal Information if we
believe doing so is required or appropriate to: (a) comply with law
enforcement requests and legal process, such as a court order or
subpoena; (b) respond to your requests; or (c) protect your, our, or
others’ rights, property, or safety. For the avoidance of doubt, the
disclosure of your Personal Information may occur if you post any
objectionable content on or through the Services.
-Consent.
We may also disclose your Personal Information with your permission.
5) Data Retention
We endeavor to retain
your Personal Information for as long as your account is active as
needed to provide you the Services, or where we have an ongoing
legitimate business need. Additionally, we will retain and use your
Personal Information as necessary to comply with our legal
obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
When determining the specific retention period, we take
into account various criteria, such as the type of service provided to
you, the nature and length of our relationship with you, and mandatory
retention periods provided by law and the relevant statute of
limitations. In some cases, the length of time we retain data depends
on your settings.
When we no longer need to use or retain
your Personal Information, we will either remove it from our systems
or anonymize it so that it no longer identifies you.
5) Security of Your Personal Information
Safeguarding personal information is important to us. We take
reasonable and appropriate steps to help protect your personal
information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, and
destruction by using physical and electronic safeguards designed to
improve the security of the information we maintain. However, because
no electronic transmission or storage of information can be entirely
secure, we can make no guarantees as to the security or privacy of
your information. To help us protect Personal Information, we request
that you take the necessary steps to make sure your account is as
secure as possible such as by using a strong password, never
disclosing your password to anyone, or using the same password with
other sites or accounts.
6) Your Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have certain rights under
applicable data privacy laws. For example, in Europe, to the extent
applicable, you have the following legal rights:
-Access and portability.
You may ask us to provide you with a copy of the Personal Data we
maintain about you, including a machine-readable copy of the Personal
Data that you have provided to us, and request information about its
processing.
-Rectification and deletion. You may
ask us to update and correct inaccuracies in your Personal Data, or to
have the information anonymized or deleted, as appropriate.
-Restriction and objection. You may ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Data, or
object to such processing.
-Consent withdrawal.
You may withdraw any consent you previously provided to us regarding
the processing of your Personal Data, at any time and free of charge.
We will apply your preferences going forward and this will not affect
the lawfulness of the processing before you withdrew your consent.
-Complaint.
You may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, including in
your country of residence, place of work, or where an incident took
place. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your
concerns before you approach a supervisory authority, so please
contact us in the first instance.
You may exercise these
rights by contacting us using the contact information set out below.
Please note that there are exceptions and limitations to each of these
rights
7) Additional Information for Residents of California
California Notice at Collection
This section
supplements the other parts of this Notice and provides additional
disclosures for residents of California. This notice at collection is
meant to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended,
and together with related regulations the “CCPA”).
A. Collection, Use, and Disclosure of Personal Information
As explained above, we and our vendors may collect personal
information from and about users of our Services from the following
sources:
-Directly from you when you provide it to us.
-Automatically
when you use the Services.
-From the Tea App.
-From your
contacts when they refer you to the Tea App.
-From our vendors
who help us provide the Services such as Apple, Facebook and Google
during the signup process on the Tea App.
We collect, use,
and disclose personal information about California consumers as
described in the table below. This section covers our current
collection practices as well as our practices over the past 12 months.
Please note that the personal information we collect about you may
vary depending on the nature of your interactions with us and may not
include all of the examples listed below.
| Categories of Personal Information Collected | Purposes for Collection, Use, and Disclosure |
|---|---|
| Identifiers, including name, username, unique personal identifier, online identifier, telephone number, Internet Protocol address, email address, or other similar identifiers |
|
| Customer Records (described in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)), including name, physical characteristics or description, telephone number, and email address |
|
| Commercial Information / Purchase Details, including purchase history and consumption tendencies |
|
| Internet or other electronic network activity information, including browsing and search history |
|
| Geolocation Data, collected when you use the Tea App |
|
| Audio and Visual Information, including images and voice recordings |
|
| Inferences drawn from other personal information |
|
| Sensitive Personal Information, such as direct messages |
|
We also collect some personal information that does not directly
fit within one of the categories defined by the CCPA. For example, we
collect the information you provide when you send us an email or
contact us through our chat functionality, and your relationship
status.
In addition, we may collect, use, and disclose your
personal information as required or permitted by applicable law. We do
not treat deidentified data or aggregate user information as personal
information, and we reserve the right to convert, or permit others to
convert, your personal information into deidentified data or aggregate
consumer information. Where we collect and use deidentified data, we
commit to maintaining and using that data in deidentified form without
attempting to reidentify it.
Subject to the CCPA's
restrictions and obligations, we may disclose your personal
information for some or all of the above-listed business purposes to
certain recipients who help us to run our business.
For
information on our data retention practices please see our Data
Retention section above.
B. Sales and Sharing of Personal Information
While we do not sell personal information for monetary
consideration, some of the ways we disclose personal information
collected through the Tea App may constitute a “sale” under the CCPA.
However, we do not engage in “sharing” for cross-context behavioral
advertising via the Tea App and we do not sell and/or share personal
information with third parties for cross-context behavioral
advertising collected on the Website.
The categories of
personal information we have sold to third parties over the past 12
months includes the following categories of personal information
collected on the Tea app:
-Identifiers;
-Internet or other
electronic network activity information; and
-Geolocation
data.
We sell this personal information to third-party
analytics vendors.
The purposes for which we sell this
personal information include for analytics purposes and to provide
Services within the Tea App.
As explained below, our
Services are designed for users aged 18 and older. We do not have
actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of
consumers under 16 years of age.
C. California Privacy Rights
The CCPA provides California consumers with specific rights regarding
their personal information. To exercise any of these rights, you or
your authorized representative may submit a request by contacting us
at support@tea-app.com. If
you are a California resident, you have the following rights:
-Right to Know (Categories): You have the
right to request we disclose to you the categories of personal
information about you that we collected, including:
(a) the
categories of sources from which personal information was
collected;
(b) the business or commercial purposes for
collecting, selling, sharing, or disclosing personal information;
(c)
the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed personal
information;
(d) the categories of personal information
that we sold, and for each category identified, the categories of
third parties to which we sold that particular category of personal
information;
(e) the categories of personal information that we
disclosed for a business purpose in the prior 12 months, and for each
category identified, the categories of recipients to which we
disclosed that particular category of personal information.
-Right to Know (Specific Pieces): You have the right to request we disclose to you free of charge the
specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.
-Right to Delete:
You have the right to request we delete personal information we
collected from you, unless the CCPA recognizes an exception.
-Right to Correct:
You have the right to request that we correct the personal information
we have about you if you believe that your personal information is
inaccurate.
-Right to Opt Out of Sales:
You have the right to opt out of the sale of your personal
information. To opt out, please contact us, or have your authorized
agent contact us at,
support@tea-app.com.
-Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive personal
information:
We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information in ways to
which the right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal
information applies. As such, we do not offer this right.
-Right to appeal. If you are unsatisfied with our
decision not to take action on your request to exercise one of your
privacy rights, you may appeal our decision.
Shine the Light:
California's "Shine the Light" law permits California residents to
request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal
information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes.
However, we do not disclose personal information to third parties for
their own direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident,
you may request information about our compliance with the Shine the
Light law by contacting us at
support@tea-app.com. Any such
request must include "California Shine the Light Request" in the first
line of the description and include your name, street address, city,
state, and ZIP code. Please note that we are only required to respond
to one request per customer each calendar year.
Consistent
with California law, if you choose to exercise your applicable CCPA
rights, we won’t charge you different prices or provide you a
different quality of services.
Our Services are not
configured to respond to “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals.
8.
Additional Information for Residents of Certain Other U.S.
States
This section of the Notice supplements the other parts of
our Notice and provides additional information for residents of
Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia. “Personal information” as
described above also describes our practices with respect to “personal
data,” as defined under these state consumer privacy laws.
Sales and Targeted Advertising
While we do not sell personal information for monetary
consideration, some of the ways we disclose personal information
collected through the Tea App may constitute a “sale” under certain
state privacy laws. We do not engage in targeted advertising via the
Tea App. We do not sell or engage in targeted advertising on our
Website.
We may “sell” (as that term is defined under
applicable state privacy laws) the following categories of your
personal information for certain analytics purposes:
-Identifiers;
-Internet
or other electronic network activity information; and
-Geolocation
data.
We sell this personal information to third-party
analytics vendors. The purposes for which we sell this personal
information include for analytics purposes and to provide Services
within the Tea App.
Privacy Rights
Residents
of Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia have the following rights with
regard to their personal information:
-Right to access.
You have the right to request access to and obtain a copy of any
personal information that we may hold about you.
-Right to correct.
You have the right to request that we correct inaccuracies in your
personal information.
-Right to delete.
You have the right to request we delete personal information we
collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
-Right to opt out of the sale of personal data.
You may request that we stop disclosing or making your personal
information available in a way that is considered a “sale” under your
state privacy law.
-Right to opt out of profiling.
We do not profile in a manner that would result in legal or
similarly significant effects and as such do not offer this
right.
-Right to appeal. If you are unsatisfied with our
decision not to take action on your request to exercise one of your
privacy rights, you may appeal our decision.
If you
live in Maryland, you also have the right to obtain a list of the
categories of third parties to which we have disclosed personal
data.
To exercise any of the above privacy rights, you or
your authorized agent may contact us at
support@tea-app.com . If you
decide to exercise any of the privacy rights described above, we won’t
charge you different prices or provide you with a different quality of
services.
9) Your Choices
Deleting Your Account. If you wish to delete your account you may do so through your account
settings. You can request that your account be deleted, however,
certain information may be maintained in our systems when we have a
legal requirement to maintain such information.
Updating your Information. If your personal information changes, you may request to correct or
update your information within the app or by contacting us at
support@tea-app.com.
Deleting Your Data. You can submit a
request for deletion of your Personal Information by contacting us at
support@tea-app.com. We will
honor these requests where required by law.
Mobile Application Device Permissions. When you download, access or use the Tea App, the Tea App may request
certain permissions from your device, which you can choose to
authorize or not. These include access to your: camera, microphone,
photos, biometric authentication system (e.g., FaceID), and push
notifications.
You can use your mobile device settings to
change your permissions. Please note that some Tea App features may
not function properly if certain permissions are disabled or settings
are changed.
10) Third-Party Disclosure and Links
The
Services may include links or integrations that lead to other websites
and software platforms whose privacy practices may differ from those
of Tea including, but not limited to, third-party websites used for
background checks and sex offender registries, to the extent permitted
by applicable law. Your use of these third-party sites is governed by
their privacy statements. We encourage you to carefully read the
privacy statement of any third-party websites or software you use.
11) Notice Concerning the Information of Minors
Tea is not directed to children under the age of 18 and does not
intentionally collect any personal information from children under the
age of 18. Please contact us if you believe a child has provided
personal information to us in violation of this Notice.
12) Additional Information About the Tea App
Content Moderation
Our team employs both
automated systems and human moderation to monitor content shared on
our platform. These systems are designed to detect, review, and remove
content that violates our policies. All reported content is reviewed,
and we may take necessary action, including removal of content,
termination and banning of offending accounts, and, where appropriate,
reporting to relevant authorities.
User Reporting Mechanisms
We provide tools within the Tea App for users to report
prohibited and inappropriate content and behavior. Our support team
investigates reports and takes appropriate action in accordance with
our policies.
12) International Data Transfers
Our Services are hosted in the United States (“U.S.”). If you choose
to use the Services from Europe or other regions of the world with
laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law,
then please note that your Personal Information is processed and
stored in the U.S.. We may also transfer your Personal Information
from the U.S. to other countries or regions in connection with its
storage and processing, fulfilling your requests, and operating the
Services.
The countries to which we transfer Personal
Information
may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you
initially provided the personal information. If you are located in
Europe, we will comply with applicable data protection laws when we
transfer your Personal Information to countries outside of Europe. In
particular, we will rely on (i) an EU Commission, UK or Swiss
government adequacy decision, (ii) contractual protections for the
transfer of your Personal Data, (iii) transfer to recipients who have
adopted Binding Corporate Rules, (iv) rely on an appropriate legal
derogation, or (v) use another valid data transfer mechanism, to the
extent necessary to comply with applicable European data protection
laws. If you are located in Europe, you may contact us as specified
below for more information about the safeguards we use to transfer
Personal Information outside of Europe.
13) Changes to This Notice
Tea may change this Notice from time to time. If we make any changes
to this Notice, we will change the "Effective Date" above. If we
materially change the ways in which we use or disclose personal
information previously collected from you through the Services, we
will notify you through the Services, by email, or other
communication. We encourage you to review this Notice whenever you
visit the Services to understand how your personal information is
used.
14) Contact Us
ADVERTEX ADVERTISING
RESEARCHES AND CONSULTANCIES LLC. is the entity responsible for the
processing of your Personal Information. If you have any questions
about this Notice, or if you would like to exercise your rights to
your Personal Information, please feel free to contact us at support@tea-app.com. If you are in Europe and you are
not satisfied with our response to your complaint or if you believe
that the processing of your Personal Information does not comply with
data protection laws, you can lodge a complaint with a competent
supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority in the UK
is the Information Commissioner’s Office (https://ico.org.uk/). You can find a list of European supervisory authorities
here. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns
before you approach a supervisory authority, so please contact us in
the first instance.