CamCrusher Privacy Policy
CamCrusher offers services to users of CamCrusher’s applications (the “Application”) and/or users of www.CamCrusher.com (the “Website”) (collectively referred to as the “Services”).
In this Privacy Policy, the term “personal information” means information which you provide to us which personally identifies you, such as your name, email address or billing information, and, in certain circumstances, your location, rate-of-travel, and route information or other data which can be reasonably linked to such information by CamCrusher.
Contact CamCrusher – Privacy concerns reports
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or if you believe that your privacy has been compromised in the course of using the Services, please contact CamCrusher at: info@CamCrusher.com. You may send CamCrusher other requests, responses, questions and complaints by email at: support@CamCrusher.com.
User Accounts & Accessing the Services
Please note that when you use our Services , CamCrusher will set up an account (the “Account” or “CamCrusher Account”). CamCrusher will collect and use your information, including meta data (as described below), in accordance with this Privacy Policy. CamCrusher may allow you to use the Services whether or not you choose to register your Account.
With the exception described in the bullet below, and as explained in the section “Visibility” below, your Account and the information associated with your Account (including your internal unique identifier) will be visible only to CamCrusher; and
When you register your Account, CamCrusher will link all of your information with your registered Account. This includes information received from all devices and browsers which you have chosen to sign in. With the exception described in the bullet below and as explained in the section “Visibility” below, your Account and information associated with your Account (including your internal unique identifier) will be visible only to CamCrusher; and when using the Services, your approximate location and other information you may choose to contribute will be visible to other users associated with this Account. CamCrusher may also establish and require from time to time additional or different means of identification and authentication for logging in and accessing the Services or for accessing certain features or designated sections of the Services. Your login details are your responsibility. You are fully accountable for any use or misuse of your Account and personal details as a result of conveying your login details to someone else. You must maintain your login details in absolute confidentiality and avoid disclosing them to others. If you set a password, make sure that you change your password frequently and at least once every six months.
Information that is being collected. CamCrusher collects information to provide better services to all its users.
Information you create or provide to us.
Information that is required when setting up an Account, including but not limited to your e-mail address, address, phone number. False, incorrect, or out-dated information may impair CamCrusher’s ability to provide you with the Services and to contact you when necessary. CamCrusher will explicitly indicate the fields for mandatory completion. If you do not enter the requisite data in these fields, you may not be able to register your Account or to be provided with certain features (but you may still use our Services as explained in the above section “User Accounts & Accessing the Services”); and/or Information that you choose to share with CamCrusher: information that you choose to share with CamCrusher, including a username you have chosen, reports associated with your username, phone number, car’s details, destinations you may travel to, search queries, calendar information (if you choose to activate and use certain Service features like time to leave reminders) and files you have uploaded to the service, including voice and audio files, if applicable. Communication which you choose to conduct through the CamCrusher Services: if you choose to use CamCrusher to communicate with other CamCrusher users or third parties through the CamCrusher Services, such as chat messages or sharing added camera locations on the CamCrusher platform. We may also collect information when you exchange communication with CamCrusher, for example, if you submit a request, or contact CamCrusher’s support team. CamCrusher may allow information from your social networks to connect to your CamCrusher Account: you may choose to connect your CamCrusher Account to your social network account(s). If you choose to do so, you may choose to share with CamCrusher and/or other users information from your social network accounts, such as your profile photo or other personal information shared by you. You may also provide additional information that will be used to personalize the Services and enhance your experience with the services.
Information we collect as you use our services.
We collect information about your activity in the Services, which we use to provide you with the Services of CamCrusher, including features which are meant to personalize your experience. This includes things like finding you the preferred route and proposing favorites or destinations commonly traveled by you to streamline your search and travel. The activity information we collect may include your device information, device type (e.g., smartphone, tablet, PC), operating system and version, screen resolution, usage data, time spent on the application, how often you use the app, the feature you use most often on the app, navigation path through the application, date and time of use, location data, GPS-based location data , behavioral data, clickstream data (the sequence of clicks or interactions the user makes), detailed location, travel and route information. Location and route information is collected for example in the form of GPS signals (combined with a time-stamp), IP address and other information from sensors and receivers on or around your device,on which the application is installed and activated. This location and route information is saved to a route history of all of the journeys you have made while using the Application. The types of location data we collect depends in part on your device and account settings. For example, depending on your selected device settings and/or your account settings we may collect information about your location and travel (or lack thereof) also while you are not using the app, in order to be notify you about traffic cameras in your area, provide you parking assistance, analyze how effective our ads are, and more. We may also collect information about your views and interactions with content and ads, your voice and audio information when you use voice and audio features. We may also collect information on
communication or other content you chose to share with any third party, including CamCrusher users through the Services, your activity on third-party sites and apps that you chose to link to your CamCrusher account or that you interact with through the service. CamCrusher may also collect and record how often you use our services and for how long, your device type, unique identifiers, operating system type & version, battery usage, the third party web pages or applications you visit or use or interact with via the application, information that you viewed, advertisements that are shown to you or that you view or click on, the fact that you used the services to communicate with other users and the fact that you used third parties application/ services via CamCrusher to communicate with third parties, and the duration of such communications, the Internet Protocol (IP) address and the name of the domain that serves you to access the Services, and the geographic location of the device that you are using to log in and use CamCrusher on. CamCrusher may also collect information about apps installed on your device that CamCrusher can link with. We may also collect information about the interaction of your devices with our Services, including, crash reports, system activity, and the date, time, and referrer URL of your request. Information we collect about you from our partners: We may also receive aggregated, non-personally identifiable information and analysis from third parties measurement services which help us understand how our users interact with our app. We may also receive information from third party services about how CamCrusher’s own marketing efforts performed on third party sites or platforms. We use various technologies to collect and store information, including, cookies, advertising ID available on Android mobile devices or similar technologies, local storage, browser web storage, application data caches, databases, and server logs. CamCrusher may use information collected from or provided by you for the following purposes: to provide our services, we use your information to deliver our services. For example: we use your location and route information and/or search query history to provide navigation services, and traffic cameras near you. At some point, we may use your phone number and the phone numbers which are stored in your device’s phone book to find and create a list of other CamCrusher users who you may know and with whom you may wish to connect.
We also use your information to ensure our services are working as intended, such as tracking outages or troubleshooting issues you report to us. And we use your information to improve the service or to develop new features or services. For example, CamCrusher may use your route information to improve the accuracy of its mapping and navigation data. We use the information we collect to operate the services and to customize your experience with the services. We may also use the information to provide you with support and handle requests and complaints. We use data for analytics and measurement to understand how our services are used. For example, we analyze data about your usage of the services to do things like optimize product design. We may also use data to measure the usability and effectiveness of CamCrusher’s own marketing efforts on third party sites or platforms. We also use your information to send you updates, notices, announcements, users’ requests and additional information related to the services (including through push notifications, email address and SMS); We may also use your information to conduct surveys and questionnaires; And if you contact CamCrusher we may keep a record of your request in order to help solve any issues you might be facing. Subject to your prior indication of consent (to the extent required under applicable law), we may also use the email address that you provided to send you promotional and/or marketing materials. At any time you may choose not to receive such materials by clicking on the “Unsubscribe” link in the email messages that we may send to you. In any case, CamCrusher will not share your contact details with any advertiser, unless explicitly permitted or required by law. To protect CamCrusher, our
users, the public and for legal reasons, we may also use and process your information and content, using different technologies to the following purposes:
-To enforce the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy;
-To contact you when CamCrusher believes it to be necessary;
-To comply with any applicable law and assist law enforcement agencies under any applicable law, when CamCrusher has a good faith belief that CamCrusher’s cooperation with the law enforcement agencies is legally mandated or meets the applicable legal standards and procedures;
-To detect abuse and illegal activity; to detect and prevent fraud, misappropriation, infringements, identity theft and other illegal activities and misuse of the services; -To handle breakdowns and malfunctions;
-To take any action in any case of dispute, or legal proceeding of any kind between you and the Services, or between you and other users or third parties with respect to, or in relation with the Services;
For purposes provided under this Privacy Policy and Terms of Use;
-To help improve the safety and reliability of our Services. This includes detecting, preventing, and responding to security risks, and technical issues that could harm CamCrusher, our users, or the public;
-To create aggregated and/or anonymous data (where such data does not enable the identification of a specific user).
You can decide whether or not to upload content to the Services. However any content that you choose to share and submit for posting is neither private nor confidential and you should expect that it may be made public and known to others. Information you choose to upload will be posted along with your user name and other information including personal information you attached to your publicly available user profile. For example, your reports (map and road updates, traffic congestion updates, road accidents, etc.) will be posted on the CamCrusher map along with your username. You should note that certain road incidents you report may include your driving path within the vicinity of those incidents. Therefore, you must exercise caution and common sense when submitting information. At the very least you should demonstrate the same degree of caution as when publishing personal information by means other than the Internet and cellular services. In any event (but except as detailed below with respect to information shared from your social network accounts according to your privacy settings for such social network accounts), your email address will not be visible to others through any reports or user posts that you share or upload.
Participating in any user’s activities as a result, directly or indirectly, from using CamCrusher, is entirely at your own risk. CamCrusher is not a party to any agreement entered into between the users in any circumstances. The user has the sole and ultimate responsibility regarding compliance with all laws, regulations or any other duty. We do not accept any liability for any loss, damage, cost or expense that you may suffer or incur as a result of or in connection with your participation in any activity or event initiated, held or conducted by a user or a third party nor in connection to any agreement between the users or third parties, including any activity or event related in any way, directly or indirectly, the Services or the use thereof.
When CamCrusher shares your information:
CamCrusher does not sell, rent or lease your personal information to third parties. CamCrusher will not share your personal information with others, without your permission, except for the following purposes and to the extent necessary in CamCrusher’s good-faith discretion: As necessary for the facilitation and operation of the Services. For example, making traffic camera reports which are associated with your username and your location; If CamCrusher reasonably believes that you have breached the Terms of Use or is investigating potential breach of the Terms of Use, or believes that you abused your rights to use the Services, or performed any act or omission that CamCrusher reasonably believes to be violating any applicable law, rules, or regulations. CamCrusher may share your information in these cases, with law enforcement agencies and other competent authorities and with any third party as may be required to handle any result of your wrongdoing; If CamCrusher is required, or reasonably believes that it is required by law to share or disclose your information; In any case of dispute, or legal proceeding of any kind between you and CamCrusher, or between you and other users with respect to, or in relation with the Services; In any case where CamCrusher reasonably believes that sharing information is necessary to protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of CamCrusher, our users, or the public as required or permitted by law, including to prevent imminent physical damage or damage to property; To detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues; If CamCrusher organizes the operation of the Services within a different framework, or through another legal structure or entity, or if CamCrusher is acquired by, or merged into or with another entity, or if CamCrusher enters bankruptcy, provided however, that those entities agree to be bound by the provisions of this Privacy Policy, with respective changes taken into consideration; To collect, store, hold and manage your personal information through cloud based or hosting services or a third party or a party affiliated or connected to CamCrusher, as reasonable for business purposes, which may be located in the European Union and the U.S.A., potentially countries outside of your jurisdiction; CamCrusher may also share personal information with companies or organizations connected or affiliated with CamCrusher, such as subsidiaries, sister-companies and parent companies. Please note that your username and some other information may be visible to others. Note that your username will be included along with any information you submit for posting (such as traffic reports or chat messages). It will therefore be visible to others. Also, your friends on CamCrusher will see your name & profile photo and any other information you chose to share with them. You may choose to share information between your CamCrusher account and your social network account . Through this option, you may choose to have personal information and other content about you available from social networks, transmitted and shared through the Services. Similarly, you may choose to have personal information and other content about you available from CamCrusher, including your location and route information, transmitted to and shared through your social network account.
You understand and agree that the Services may access, make available and store such information so that it is available on and through your CamCrusher Account, until your CamCrusher Account is deleted. Please note that certain information which you have defined as private on your third party social network accounts may become public to other CamCrusher Users through the Services once you have allowed the social network to share such information with CamCrusher.
How CamCrusher retains data we collect
Some data you can delete whenever you like, some data is deleted automatically, and some data we retain for longer periods of time when necessary. This section describes why we hold onto different types of data for different periods of time.
When your CamCrusher Account is deleted, we may keep some data for the life of your CamCrusher Account if it’s useful for helping us understand how users interact with our features and how we can improve our services. For example, if you made a traffic camera location, we will keep information about how many reports you have submitted, even after the event is removed. Information retained for extended time periods for limited purposes – sometimes business and legal requirements oblige us to retain certain information, for specific purposes, for an extended period of time. For example, when CamCrusher processes a payment for you, we’ll retain this data for longer periods of time as required for tax or accounting purposes. Reasons we might retain some data for extended periods of time include:
-Security, fraud & abuse prevention
-Financial record-keeping
-Complying with legal or regulatory requirements
-Ensuring the continuity of our services
-Direct communications with CamCrusher
How does CamCrusher use aggregated information?
CamCrusher may use anonymous, statistical or aggregated information (including anonymous location information), in a form that does not enable the identification of a specific user, to properly operate the Services, to improve the quality of the services, to enhance your experience, to create new services and features, including customized services, to change or cancel existing content or service, and for further internal, commercial and statistical purposes (including advertising). CamCrusher may also use anonymous, statistical or aggregated information collected on the Services, in a form that does not enable the identification of a specific user, by posting, disseminating, transmitting or otherwise communicating or making available such information to users of the Ssrvices, to the services’ providers, partners and any other third party. For example, GPS information that we receive from your mobile device may be provided to map editors in an aggregated and/or anonymous form to help improve the map and solve map problems, traffic data may be provided to cities, and aggregated ads analysis may be provided to advertisers.
Cookies
CamCrusher may use cookies and similar technologies on the Services. Cookies are packets of information sent by the website’s servers to your web browser and then sent back by the browser each time it accesses the Website’s servers. CamCrusher may use cookies for various purposes, such as to save you the need to re-enter your username and password each time you log in, to facilitate the use of the Website, to collect statistical information, to verify information, and to customize the Website to your personal preferences and for information security purposes. Some of the cookies may expire when the session ends and you exit your browser. Other cookies are saved on your computer’s hard drive. If you wish to block the Website’s cookies, then please use the help button in your browser and follow the necessary instructions. However, bear in mind that disabling cookies may complicate or even prevent your use of the Website, or certain
features thereof. The Services includes an internal messaging system which provides you the ability to send and receive messages to and from other users, and to receive marketing messages from us. You hereby agree that we may use the internal messaging system for the purpose of informing you regarding products or services, which may interest you. Please note however that other CamCrusher users are not allowed to use your contact details or our internal messaging account for commercial advertising purposes. If you have encountered any user generated advertising material, please inform us through the channels listed on the “About” menu in the Software or through the “Contact Us” page on the Site link here. It is clarified that we are not responsible for the content of said advertisements and the products delivered or services rendered thereby by third parties and you irrevocably and unconditionally agree that we shall not be held responsible or liable for any loss, damage, cost or expense that you may suffer or incur as a result or in connection thereof.
Data transfers
We store data on servers located around the world and your information may be processed on servers located outside of the country where you live. Data protection laws vary among countries, with some providing more protection than others. Regardless of where your information is processed, we apply the same protections described in this policy. When we receive formal written complaints, we respond by contacting the person who made the complaint. We work with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of your data that we cannot resolve with you directly.
U.S. State Law requirements
Some U.S. state privacy laws like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) require specific disclosures for state residents. This Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how CamCrusher handles your information: We explain the categories of information CamCrusher collects and the sources of that information in Information That is Being Collected. We explain how CamCrusher uses information in Why CamCrusher Collects Data. We explain when CamCrusher may disclose information in Sharing Your Information. CamCrusher also does not “share” your personal information as that term is defined in the CCPA. We explain how CamCrusher retains information in How CamCrusher Retains Data We Collect. You can also learn more about How does CamCrusher Use Aggregated Information. When CamCrusher anonymizes data to protect your privacy, we maintain policies and technical measures to avoid re-identifying that information. State laws like the CCPA and VCDPA also provide the right to request information about how CamCrusher collects, uses, and discloses your information. And they give you the right to access and correct your information and request that CamCrusher delete that information. The VCDPA also provides the right to opt out of certain forms of profiling and targeted advertising. Finally, the CCPA and VCDPA provide the right to not be discriminated against for exercising these privacy rights.
We describe the choices you have to manage your privacy and data in Controlling your personal information section. These controls allow you to access, review, update and delete your information, as well as export and download a copy of it. You can also turn off personalized ads, by visiting your in-app ad settings. You can log in to the dashboard by going to the CamCrusher
website, then Settings, then choose Download your data archive. Note that in order to access the dashboard you will need a CamCrusher account with a valid email address to receive your data archive. When you use these tools, we’ll validate your request by verifying that you’re logged in to your CamCrusher Account. If you have questions or requests related to your rights under the CCPA or VCDPA, you (or your authorized agent) can also contact CamCrusher at privacy@CamCrusher.com. And if you disagree with the decision on your request, you can ask CamCrusher to reconsider it by responding to the support team’s email. The CCPA requires a description of data practices using specific categories. This table uses these categories to organize the information in this Privacy Policy.
Changes to this Privacy Policy. CamCrusher may from time to time change the terms of this Privacy Policy. Substantial changes will take effect 30 days after CamCrusher has posted a system message to users notifying them of changes to the Privacy Policy; and Notification on the website’s homepage or any other relevant web pages, explaining the changes to the Privacy Policy alongside a comparison of the “old” and “new” versions of the Privacy Policy. Other changes will take effect 7 days after their initial posting on the Website. However, if CamCrusher amends this Privacy Policy to comply with legal requirements, the amendments will become effective immediately upon their initial posting, or as required.
You agree to be bound by any of the changes made in the terms of this Privacy Policy. Continuing to use the Services will indicate your acceptance of the amended terms. If you do not agree with any of the amended terms, you must avoid any further use of the Services.
Last modified: April 2024