Live4You! Privacy Policy

In the Privacy Policy, we explain how we collect, use, share, retain and transfer information. We also let you know your rights.

It's important to us that you know how to control your privacy, so we also show you where you can manage your information in the settings of the Live4You! services you use. You can update these settings to shape your experience.

This policy describes the information we, Project Live4You! , process to provide Live4You! services, which we also call “Services,” include:

Some of our Services also have a supplemental privacy policy that adds to the information provided in this policy.

1. What information do we collect?

The information we collect and process about you depends on how you use our Services. Some information is required for our Services to work. Other information is optional, but without it, the quality of your experience might be affected. When you use our Services, we collect some information about you even if you don't have an account. Here's the information we collect:

1.1 Your activity and information you provide

We call all of the things you can do on our Services “activity.” We collect your activity across our Services and information you provide, such as:

Some information (such as religious views, political views, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origin, philosophical beliefs or trade union membership) you choose to provide with us have special protections under the laws of your country.

1.2 Friends, followers and other connections

We collect information about friends, followers, accounts and other users and communities you’re connected to and interact with. This includes how you interact with them across our Services and other websites using ActivityPub protocol.

We collect information about you based on others' activity. Note that if you don’t use Live4You! Services, or use them without an account, your information might still be collected. For example, We collect browser and app logs of your visits to public content.

1.3 App, browser and device information

We collect and receive information from and about the different devices you use and how you use them. Device information we collect and receive includes:

1.4 Information from Partners, vendors and third parties

We collect and receive information from Partners, vendors and third parties about a variety of your information and activities on and off our Services, such as: – Your device information – Websites you visit and cookie data

1.5 Important Notes on ActivityPub and the Fediverse

Third parties may use ActivityPub protocol or other APIs to share your information with us. In some cases, your contents may be transferred to other websites with ActivityPub protocol, and we can't control your information on other websites. We do require Partners, vendors and third parties to have the right to collect, use and share your information before giving it to us.

2. How do we use your information?

We use information we collect to provide Live4You! services to you, along with the other purposes we explain in detail below.

2.1 To provide and improve our Services

We use information we have to provide our Services, to make our Services better, and to provide new ones with the features you want.

2.2 To promote safety, security and integrity

We use information we collect to help protect people from harm and provide safe, secure Services. We work to:

2.3 To communicate with you

We communicate with you using information you've given us. For example:

2.4 To research and innovate for social good

We use information we have, information from researchers and datasets from publicly available sources, professional groups and non-profit groups to conduct and support research. Research and innovation help people around the world, and advance our visions. They include contributing to social good and areas of public interest, advancing technology, and improving safety, health and well-being.

3. How is your information shared on Live4You! services or with third parties?

3.1 With other people

People can see some of your activity on our Services, such as when you comment on or react to others’ posts. When you comment on a post or react to a photo, your comment or reaction can be seen by anyone who can see the post or photo. This can include people you aren’t connected to.

**People in your audience can view your content and can choose to share it with others outside your audience, on and off our Services. We kindly remind and recommend that you choose who you share content with carefully.

People who use our Services can share information about you with the audience they choose. For example, they can:

If you are If you’re uncomfortable with what others have shared about you on our Services, you can always choose to report to us.

3.2 With Partners, vendors, third parties and others

**We don't sell any of your information to anyone, and we never will.

We require Partners, vendors and third parties to follow rules about how they can and cannot use and disclose the information we provide.

Some of your information and activity are always public. This includes your name, username, profile picture and activity on public. Public content can also be seen, accessed, reshared or downloaded through third-party services, like search engines, APIs, public media, and other apps and websites.

Note that your audience settings are different from the permissions you give to individual apps and websites to access your information. As a result, you may share information with third parties, like search engines, our Partners, and third party apps and websites.

With your account locked, only followers you approve can see what you share. With a public account, your posts and other content may be seen by anyone, on or off our Services, including if they don’t have an account. You can restrict the audience for your content by blocking individual accounts from viewing them. You can also create a close friends list for certain types of content that only the people on that list can see.

Our Partners can always access information that’s public on our Services. You can choose to connect with Partners who use our Services. If you do, these Partners receive information about you and your activity, such as:

Sometimes these Partners ask you for permission to access certain additional information from your account. In their request, they’ll explain what information they’d like to access and let you choose whether to share it. We automatically log when you receive a request from an Partner to access your information.

Apps or websites you’ve logged into or connected to can access your nonpublic information on Live4You! services unless it appears to us that you haven’t used the app or website in 90 days. Note that even if an app’s access to your data has expired, it can still retain information you shared with it previously.

Partners handle the information you share with them according to their own terms and policies, not Live4You!’s. You can review their privacy policy on their website or app to learn how they receive and process your information. In some cases, they use a separate service provider to receive and process your information.

3.3 On Mastodon Instance “iori.live4you.one”

When you share and communicate using “iori.live4you.one”, you can choose the audience for what you share. The audience can be made up of:

The audience you choose can see when you:

Depending on your privacy settings, other users may see signals that tell them whether you are online on “iori.live4you.one” and when you last used “iori.live4you.one”.

3.4 On Misskey Instance “miki.live4you.one”

When you share and communicate using “miki.live4you.one”, you can choose the audience for what you share. The audience can be made up of:

The audience you choose can see when you:

Depending on your privacy settings, other users may see signals that tell them whether you are online on “miki.live4you.one” and when you last used “miki.live4you.one”.

3.5 On Writefreely Instance “fumi.live4you.one”

When you share using “fumi.live4you.one”, you can choose the audience for what you share. The audience can be made up of:

The audience you choose can see when you:

3.6 With Service Providers

Service providers provide services to us that help us provide our Services to you. We share the information we have about you to receive these services, which include:

3.7 With external researchers

We provide information to external researchers. They use it to conduct research that advances scholarship and innovation, and to promote safety, security and integrity.

Research goals include supporting our vision, social good, technological advancement, safety and security on our Services, public interest, health and well-being, and more. When sharing data with external researchers, we ensure the privacy of our users is protected.

3.8 Other

We share information with third parties in response to legal requests, to comply with applicable law or to prevent harm. See Section 4 below.

If we transfer all or part of our Services to someone else, then we may give the new owner your information, in line with applicable law.

Under applicable data protection law, we have a legal basis to process personal data. When we talk about “processing personal data,” we mean the ways we collect, use and share your information, as we described in the other sections of this Policy above.

We rely on different legal bases to process your information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. Depending on the circumstances, we rely on different legal bases when processing your same information for different purposes. For each legal basis below, we describe why we process your information.

You also have particular rights available to you depending on which legal basis we use, and we’ve explained these here. No matter what legal basis applies, you always have the right to request access to, rectification of and deletion of your information.

4.1.1 Performance of a contract

We process your information that’s necessary to fulfill our contracts with you. This means providing the services laid out in the Terms of Service, together with other supplemental terms of service, the “terms.” For all people who have the legal capacity to enter into an enforceable contract (for example, by being the age of majority or above in their country of residence), we process information as necessary to conclude and perform our contracts with you.

We process information as described below when you have given us your consent to do so, which we may ask through in-service experiences, to enable particular features, or to enable device-based settings.

When we process information that you provide to us based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. You also have the right to port that information you provide to us based on your consent.

4.1.3 Legitimate interest

We rely on our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, where they are not outweighed by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms (“legitimate interests”).

4.1.4 Vital interest

We process information if it will protect you or prevent harm, like saving your life or someone else’s.

We process information as necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation.

4.1.6 Public interest

We process information as necessary for the public interest, such as conducting research or promoting safety, security and integrity.

4.2 Your rights

You have the following rights under GDPR and other relevant data protection laws:

5. How long do we keep your information?

We keep information as long as we need it to provide our Services, comply with legal obligations or protect our or other’s interests. We decide how long we need information on a case-by-case basis. Your information may be preserved and accessed for a longer time period if it’s related to any of the following:

In some cases, we may preserve your information based on the above reasons even after you request deletion of your account or some of your content. We may also preserve information from accounts that have been disabled and content that has been removed for violations of our terms and policies.

6. How do we transfer information?

We share the information we collect globally, both internally and externally with our Partners, vendors, service providers and third parties, so we can operate and provide the services stated in the terms of the Live4You! services you’re using and this Policy, and fix, analyze and improve our Services.

Information controlled by Project Live4You! will be transferred or transmitted to, or stored and processed in places we have infrastructure or data centers, including the United States, Germany, France, Japan, among other countries where our Partners, vendors, service providers and third parties are located outside of the country where you live, for purposes as described in this Policy. We make sure that appropriate safeguards are in place whenever we transfer your information.

We rely on appropriate mechanisms for international data transfers. For example, for informations we collect:

We access, preserve, use and share your information:

We respond to legal requests where we have a good faith belief that we’re required by law to do so. We also respond to certain legal requests where not compelled by law, but where we have a good faith belief that a response:

8. How will you know the policy has changed?

We'll notify you before we make material changes to this Policy. You’ll have the opportunity to review the revised Policy before you choose to continue using our Services.

9. How to contact Live4You! with questions?

If you have questions about this policy, or have questions, complaints or requests regarding your information, you can contact us as described below.

The data controller responsible for your information is Project Live4You! . The Data Protection Officer of Project Live4You! is ichigo, which you can contact by E-mail at [email protected] .

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.

Date of Last Revision: July 5, 2023