Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how THS&THT Technologies Pvt Ltd collects, uses, stores, shares, protects, and processes personal data when you use the THS&THT mobile application, website, communities, features, content tools, and related services.

For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, “THS&THT,” “This & That,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to THS&THT Technologies Pvt Ltd. “User,” “you,” and “your” refer to any person who accesses or uses our services.

By using THS&THT, you agree to the collection and processing of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Scope of this Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to:

• The THS&THT mobile application.
• The THS&THT website.
• User accounts and profiles.
• User-generated content such as posts, comments, replies, media, confessions, memes, and community interactions.
• Anonymous or pseudonymous posting features.
• Reporting, moderation, safety, and grievance processes.
• Communications with support, moderation, privacy, and grievance teams.
• Technical systems used for security, analytics, notifications, and platform operations.

This Policy does not apply to third-party websites, apps, links, or services that we do not control.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect the following categories of information depending on how you use THS&THT.

2.1 Account and Identity Information

We may collect:

• Name or display name.
• Username.
• Email address.
• Phone number, if used.
• Date of birth or age-related information, if required.
• Profile photo, avatar, bio, interests, community preferences, or other profile details.
• Authentication identifiers from login providers such as Google, Apple, Firebase, or similar services.
• Account status, verification status, and account settings.

2.2 User-Generated Content

We collect and process content you create, upload, or interact with, including:

• Posts.
• Comments.
• Replies.
• Confessions.
• Memes.
• Images.
• Videos.
• Captions.
• Tags, hashtags, and mentions.
• Community posts.
• Profile content.
• Reports and complaint descriptions.
• Any other content you submit to the platform.

Please remember that content you post may be visible to other users depending on the feature, community, privacy settings, and product design.

2.3 Anonymous and Pseudonymous Content Data

Some features may allow anonymous or pseudonymous posting.

Anonymous posting means your identity may not be publicly shown to other users. However, for safety, abuse prevention, legal compliance, moderation, and platform integrity, we may internally retain and process:

• Account identifiers.
• User ID.
• Device identifiers.
• IP address.
• Timestamps.
• Report history.
• Moderation history.
• Community or post identifiers.
• Abuse-prevention signals.
• Related metadata.

This information is not publicly displayed as part of anonymous posts, but it may be used to investigate violations, enforce our Terms, respond to lawful requests, or protect users and the platform.

2.4 Usage and Interaction Data

We may collect information about how you use THS&THT, including:

• Posts viewed.
• Posts liked, disliked, saved, bookmarked, shared, or reported.
• Comments and replies.
• Follows and unfollows.
• Communities visited or joined.
• Search queries within the app.
• Hashtags or topics interacted with.
• Time spent on content.
• Content impressions and views.
• App screens visited.
• Feature usage.
• Notification interactions.
• In-app actions and engagement events.

2.5 Device, Technical, and Log Data

We may collect:

• IP address.
• Device model.
• Operating system.
• App version.
• Browser type.
• Language settings.
• Time zone.
• Device identifiers.
• Advertising identifiers, where applicable and permitted.
• Push notification token.
• Crash logs.
• Performance logs.
• Diagnostic data.
• Security logs.
• Login timestamps.
• Referrer and session information.

2.6 Location Information

We may collect approximate location information such as city, region, country, IP-based location, or location derived from app usage where necessary for service functionality, safety, analytics, personalization, fraud prevention, or legal compliance.

We do not collect precise GPS location unless a feature requires it and you grant permission through your device settings.

2.7 Communications and Support Data

If you contact us, report content, submit a grievance, request support, or communicate with our team, we may collect:

• Your name and contact details.
• Your email address.
• Your message or complaint.
• Screenshots or attachments.
• Related post, account, or content identifiers.
• Our responses.
• Internal notes and resolution history.

2.8 Moderation and Safety Data

To protect users and comply with law, we may collect and process:

• Content reports.
• User reports.
• Moderation decisions.
• Policy violation history.
• Enforcement actions.
• Blocked-user information.
• Safety labels.
• Risk signals.
• Spam or abuse indicators.
• Content hashes or detection signals.
• Information required to investigate illegal, harmful, or objectionable content.

2.9 Information from Third Parties

We may receive information from third parties such as:

• Authentication providers.
• Cloud hosting and storage providers.
• Analytics providers.
• Crash reporting tools.
• Security and fraud prevention providers.
• Payment providers, if payments are introduced.
• Law enforcement, regulators, courts, or government authorities.
• Users who report content or accounts.

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use your information for the following purposes.

3.1 To Provide and Operate the Service

We use information to:

• Create and manage your account.
• Authenticate login.
• Display your profile.
• Publish and show content.
• Enable comments, replies, reactions, follows, reports, and communities.
• Provide anonymous or pseudonymous features.
• Send notifications.
• Maintain app functionality.
• Provide customer support.
• Improve app performance.

3.2 To Personalize and Improve THS&THT

We may use information to:

• Recommend posts, communities, hashtags, or users.
• Rank feeds.
• Improve search results.
• Understand app usage.
• Improve product design.
• Test new features.
• Measure engagement.
• Debug issues.
• Improve app speed, reliability, and safety.

3.3 For Safety, Security, and Moderation

We may use information to:

• Detect objectionable content.
• Review reported content.
• Remove prohibited content.
• Block spam and abuse.
• Prevent fake accounts.
• Detect bots or automated activity.
• Investigate harassment, threats, defamation, illegal activity, or sexual exploitation.
• Enforce our Terms and Community Guidelines.
• Protect users, the public, and THS&THT.
• Preserve evidence where required or appropriate.

3.4 For Legal and Compliance Purposes

We may use information to:

• Comply with applicable law.
• Respond to court orders, government directions, legal notices, police requests, cybercrime requests, or regulatory requests.
• Cooperate with FIRs or investigations.
• Process grievances and complaints.
• Resolve disputes.
• Enforce our rights.
• Protect against legal claims.
• Maintain records required by law.

3.5 For Communications

We may use information to send:

• Account-related messages.
• Security alerts.
• Moderation notices.
• Policy updates.
• Support replies.
• Grievance responses.
• Product updates.
• Service announcements.
• Push notifications, where enabled.

You may control push notifications through your device settings.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process personal data where there is a lawful basis, including:

• To provide the service you request.
• To perform our agreement with you.
• Based on your consent, where required.
• For legitimate uses such as safety, security, fraud prevention, service improvement, and platform operation.
• To comply with legal obligations.
• To protect the vital interests, safety, or rights of users, the public, THS&THT, or third parties.

Where consent is required, you may withdraw consent as permitted by applicable law. Withdrawal of consent may affect your ability to use certain features.

5. Sensitive and Prohibited Content

THS&THT is not a pornographic, adult-content, escort, dating, or sexual-services platform.

We prohibit pornographic content, sexually explicit content, sexual solicitation, non-consensual intimate imagery, morphed or deepfake intimate images, sexual exploitation, child sexual abuse material, and any sexual content involving minors.

If prohibited content is uploaded, reported, detected, or investigated, we may process the content, account details, device information, IP address, timestamps, reports, and metadata for moderation, safety, enforcement, legal compliance, and law-enforcement cooperation.

Users are responsible for the content they upload. We may remove content, restrict accounts, preserve evidence, and report violations where required or appropriate.

6. Children and Minors

THS&THT is not intended for children below the minimum age required by applicable law.

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children in violation of applicable law.

If we become aware that a child has provided personal data without valid consent or in violation of our policies, we may delete the account and associated data, subject to safety, legal, and enforcement requirements.

Any content involving minors in sexual, exploitative, abusive, nude, semi-nude, suggestive, or harmful contexts is strictly prohibited and may be reported to relevant authorities.

7. How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal data.

We may share information in the following situations.

7.1 With Service Providers

We may share information with trusted service providers who help us operate THS&THT, such as:

• Cloud hosting providers.
• Database providers.
• Content delivery networks.
• Authentication providers.
• Analytics providers.
• Crash reporting tools.
• Security and fraud prevention tools.
• Push notification providers.
• Email and communication tools.
• Moderation and safety tools.

These providers process data only as needed to provide services to us, subject to contractual and legal safeguards where applicable.

7.2 With Other Users

Depending on your activity and settings, other users may see:

• Your username.
• Display name.
• Profile photo or avatar.
• Bio.
• Public posts.
• Comments and replies.
• Reactions or interactions where visible.
• Communities or topics where visible.
• Anonymous posts without public identity, where the feature is designed that way.

7.3 For Legal, Safety, and Enforcement Reasons

We may share information with law enforcement, cybercrime authorities, courts, regulators, government bodies, legal advisors, or third parties where we believe it is necessary or appropriate to:

• Comply with law.
• Respond to lawful requests.
• Cooperate with FIRs, investigations, or legal proceedings.
• Protect users or the public.
• Prevent fraud, abuse, spam, exploitation, or illegal activity.
• Enforce our Terms.
• Protect the rights, safety, property, or security of THS&THT.

7.4 Business Transfers

If THS&THT is involved in a merger, acquisition, restructuring, financing, sale of assets, or transfer of business, user information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal data for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing the service, maintaining your account, improving the product, ensuring safety, complying with law, resolving disputes, and enforcing our Terms.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of data.

We may retain certain information even after account deletion where necessary for:

• Legal compliance.
• Law-enforcement requests.
• Grievance handling.
• Safety investigations.
• Fraud and abuse prevention.
• Dispute resolution.
• Security logs.
• Backup systems.
• Enforcement history.
• Protection of users, the public, or THS&THT.

Where possible, we may delete, anonymize, aggregate, or disconnect data from your public profile when it is no longer needed.

9. Account Deletion and Data Deletion

You may request account deletion through the app, website, or by contacting us at support@thisnthat-app.com.

When you request account deletion, we may delete, anonymize, or restrict access to your personal data, subject to legal, safety, technical, and operational requirements.

Some content or data may remain temporarily in backups or logs. Some information may be retained where required for legal compliance, safety, abuse prevention, law-enforcement cooperation, dispute resolution, or enforcement of our Terms.

If your content was shared publicly, copied, reported, cached, screenshotted, quoted, downloaded, or otherwise stored by other users or third parties, we may not be able to delete copies outside our control.

10. Your Privacy Rights

Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Access your personal data.
• Correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Request deletion of your personal data.
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
• Request information about how your data is processed.
• Raise a grievance.
• Nominate another person to exercise rights where applicable under law.
• Contact the appropriate authority where permitted by law.

To exercise your rights, contact us at support@thisnthat-app.com.

We may need to verify your identity before processing your request. We may refuse, limit, or delay requests where permitted or required by law, including where necessary for safety, legal compliance, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, or law-enforcement cooperation.

11. Security

We use reasonable technical, organizational, and administrative measures to protect user information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

However, no internet-based service is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.

You are responsible for keeping your account credentials secure and for notifying us if you suspect unauthorized access to your account.

12. International Data Transfers

Your information may be stored and processed in India or other countries where our service providers, infrastructure, or partners operate.

Where data is transferred internationally, we take steps designed to protect the information in accordance with applicable law and this Privacy Policy.

13. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website or app may use cookies, local storage, device identifiers, SDKs, pixels, or similar technologies to:

• Keep you signed in.
• Remember preferences.
• Improve performance.
• Analyze usage.
• Prevent fraud and abuse.
• Improve safety and security.
• Support notifications, diagnostics, or product features.

You may control some cookies or tracking technologies through browser or device settings.

14. Analytics, Crash Reporting, and Product Improvement

We may use analytics and crash reporting tools to understand how users interact with THS&THT, identify bugs, improve performance, and make the service safer and more reliable.

Analytics and diagnostic data may include device information, app version, crash traces, screen flows, usage events, performance metrics, and technical logs.

15. Push Notifications

If you enable notifications, we may collect and use push notification tokens to send you updates, alerts, replies, comments, messages, moderation notices, community updates, or other app-related notifications.

You can disable push notifications through your device settings.

16. Third-Party Links and Content

THS&THT may contain links to third-party websites, apps, profiles, content, or services.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, safety, accuracy, legality, or content of third-party services. You should review their privacy policies before using them.

17. Grievance Officer and Privacy Contact

For privacy concerns, data requests, safety concerns, or grievance redressal in India, you may contact:

Please include enough detail for us to understand and process your request.

18. Law Enforcement Requests

We may preserve, access, disclose, or share personal data, user content, logs, device information, IP addresses, timestamps, reports, account identifiers, and metadata when we believe it is necessary or appropriate to:

• Comply with applicable law.
• Respond to court orders, legal notices, police requests, cybercrime requests, government directions, or regulatory requests.
• Cooperate with FIRs, investigations, or enforcement actions.
• Prevent harm, fraud, abuse, illegal activity, or security threats.
• Protect users, the public, THS&THT, or third parties.
• Enforce our Terms and policies.

We may preserve information even after a user deletes content or requests account deletion where legally required or reasonably necessary for safety, legal, or enforcement purposes.

19. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted with a revised “Last Updated” date.

If changes are material, we may notify users through the app, website, email, or other reasonable means.

Your continued use of THS&THT after an update means you acknowledge the updated Privacy Policy.

20. Contact Us

For support: support@thisnthat-app.com

Company: THS&THT Technologies Pvt Ltd