This Privacy Policy sets out how we, Seeld Messaging App (“Seeld”), use and protect your personal data that you provide to us, or that is otherwise obtained or generated by us, in connection with your use of our cloud-based messaging services (the “Services”). For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, ‘we’, ‘us’ and ‘our’ refers to Seeld, and ‘you’ refers to you, the user of the Services.
Seeld has a few fundamental principles when it comes to collecting and processing private data:
This Privacy Policy forms part of our Terms of Service, which describes the terms under which you use our Services. This Privacy Policy should therefore be read in conjunction with those terms.
If you live in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), the Services are provided by Seeld, which for the purposes of applicable data protection legislation is the data controller responsible for your personal data when you use our Services.
We process your personal data on the ground that such processing is necessary to further our legitimate interests (including: (1) providing effective and innovative Services to our users; and (2) to detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud or security issues in respect of our provision of Services), unless those interests are overridden by your interest or fundamental rights and freedoms that require protections of personal data.
Seeld is a communication service. You provide only a pseudo. We don’t want to know your real name, gender, age or what you like. So, unless you really want to know us who your are, chose a pseudo that is NOT your full name.
We do not require your screen name to be your real name either.
Seeld is a cloud service. All stored data is heavily encrypted. Local engineers or physical intruders cannot get access to user data.
Seeld uses your pseudonym (pseudo) as unique identifier. You don’t need to provide us your real name or phone number.
The only cookies we use are those to operate and provide our services on the web. We do not use cookies for profiling or advertising. The cookies we use are small text files that allow us to provide and customize our services, and in doing so provide you with an enhanced user experience. Your browser should allow you to control these cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may choose to block cookies with your web browser.
If you signed up for Seeld from the UK or the EEA, your data is stored in data centers in France, managed by OVH. These are third-party provided data centers in which Seeld rents a designated space. However, the servers and networks that sit inside these data centers and on which your personal data is stored are owned by Seeld. As such, we do not share your personal data with such data centers. All data is stored heavily encrypted so that local Seeld engineers or physical intruders cannot get access.
We use the best encryption standard: the same used by ProtonMail. We also use the SRP protocol so that our servers never store your passphrase. In fact, your passphrase is never sent over the web by the client application.
Unless stated otherwise in this Privacy Policy, the personal data that you provide us will only be stored for as long as it is necessary for us to fulfill our obligations in respect of the provision of the services.
Seeld is a cloud service. We will process your data to deliver your chat history, including messages, media and files, to any devices of your choosing without a need for you to use third-party backups or cloud storage. Remember, all that data we store and process is heavily encrypted. The only thing “in clear” for anyone gaining access to our data is your pseudo.
Seeld doesn’t store your private or personal data. Seeld functions as a black box. We only need to know the pseudo you chose at registration: it’s the minimum we need for the service to function. All the rest is encrypted with your private keys, and we cannot unlock those keys since they are protected with your passphrase, which we don’t store or even send to our servers at all.
Unlike other services, we don’t use your data for ad targeting or other commercial purposes. Seeld only stores the information it needs to function as a secure and anonymous service. So, in other words, we don’t have any data to use to serve you ads, even if we wanted to!
Seeld may at any time revise these Terms by updating information included on this page. Because these Terms are legally binding, users should visit this page from time to time to view them in their current form (by clicking on the hypertext link ‘Privacy Policy’ displayed at the bottom of Seeld’s web pages).
This policy has been created on October 24 2022 with all information required by the EU data protection law