Last revision was done on January 1, 2011.

1. Introduction

Our privacy policy applies to use of DUDU. However it doesn’t apply to entitles that DUDU doesn’t control or own, for example, applications working on Platform. When you use or access DUDU you agree to our privacy policy.

Parental watch. We strongly advice our minor users to ask for permission from their parents before sending any personal information to us. We also encourage parents to participate in their children’s life and show them how to use internet safely.

2. Information That We Obtain

The information you may provide:

Personal information. When you register at DUDU you send us your personal information including name, surname, e-mail, gender and date of birth. We let you to contact your friends, co-students and co-workers during the registration process. You can also upload your photo. We reserve a right to ask you for more information to ensure absolute security or to give you access to some specific services. You can send us more information after the registration process.

Content.

One of the main services of DUDU is to let users to share content. Thus you can update your status, upload new photos, videos, share your favorite links, create new groups and events, make any comments and write messages.

Transactional info.

We have a right to retain the information about your transactions or payments.

Information about Friends.

We offer you special tools that assist you to upload information about your friends including addresses. It helps to find your friends on DUDU and ask them to join DUDU if they do not have accounts here. Once you give us your password to retain such contacts we won’t keep the password after you have finished.

Information we obtain when you use DUDU

DUDU activity info. We retain information about some of the actions our users take on DUDU. It can be adding connections, creating of photo albums, sending virtual presents, poking other users etc. In some cases you can also take actions when you send info or content to DUDU. For example when you want to share a video we can retain the fact that you shared this file.

Browser Info and Access Device

We can collect the information about your browser of accessing device when you access our site. This information includes your location, IP address and pages you have visited on DUDU.

Third parties information.

The Platform of DUDU. We don’t operate or own application of websites that you can access through the Platform of DUDU. Therefore we take no responsibility for the information they provide. Thus when you try to access such applications using DUDU Platform we receive information from third parties. This information includes the info about your activity. In some cases we receive limited information.

Information from third parties websites. We have a right to establish programs with ad partners and other third parties websites. Such sites share information with DUDU:

We have a right to request advertisers the information about how our users respond on ads we show. It is usually done for comparison purposes. Such data is known as conversion tracking. It helps us to measure effectiveness of our ad campaigns. We use this info to improve our campaigns. We can receive completed information about your interaction with ads.

We always anonymize such information during 365 days. It means that we won’t access information about interaction with ads with particular users. The information becomes anonym. We use such information in certain ways.

Information received from other users.

We have a right to obtain information about you from other users, for example, from your friends. It can be done when somebody tags on you in a photo or provides details about you including relationships.

3. Sharing information

Your name and userpic on DUDU.

The main goal of DUDU is to help people find each other and connect. Therefore your name and userpic is shared. Thus it cannot be protected with privacy settings. If you don’t want other users to see your profile picture you should not upload it. You can also delete your profile picture. We allow our users to set special public settings.

Posts made by me.

You can set privacy settings for your posts. Thus you can select people who can see your posts. You can control who can see your actions including uploading of photo or posting a message. You should use lock icon to control share settings of your posts. When you click on lock icon you will be see a menu.

Your birth date and gender.

We require you to send us information about your gender and birth date. You should do it during registration process. We also ask you to tell your age to make sure that you won’t have access to age inappropriate content. Please note that you cannot delete your gender and age afterwards.

Other things.

When you use DUDU you should understand that your information might be copied or reshared by other users. Some information that you send to others cannot be removed.

Opened information. Information which is viewable to everyone is open information. Such information is for example your profile picture or name. This information can be accessed by any other DUDU user or even those who are not logged into the site. This information can also be found via search engines. Therefore your personal information can be imported, stored and exported by other people. The default privacy setting for this type of information posted on DUDU is set to open, e.g. information for everyone. But you can change default settings and review it. You can delete this shared information and it won’t be available on DUDU anymore but we cannot guarantee that it won’t be stored outside of DUDU.

4. Information Shared With Third Parties.

Platform of DUDU. As it was already mentioned we don’t operate or own any applications that use our Platform. Therefore when you interact with such third party websites or applications you aware that you make your information available to other external sources. DUDU requires third party applications that use our Platform to agree to our terms. The terms limit them to use your shared information. We guarantee that all measures are taken to ensure that third party applications only retain your authorized info.

When you click on links on DUDU you are aware that you may leave DUDU. And we don’t take any responsibility about content or privacy settings of other sites. Therefore we strongly advice you to read their privacy policy first.

5. How We Can Use Information

We obtain information for different purposes. We use your information to ensure that DUDU is a safe and efficient place. Here we present some information about our use of data.

We can use your information to manage our services. We utilize such information to offer you suitable services and convenient features. We also use obtained data to measure and improve our services in the future, to assist our clients. Collected information is helpful in preventing potentially illegal behavior. The data is also used to ensure that our Statement or Rights and Responsibilities is not violated. We monitor activity of our users and use different technological systems to find anomalous activity. We also prevent users from unsuitable activity including spam. This can lead to disable of some functions for certain users. It can be a temporary or constant measure.

We use your information to contact users. We have a right to contact you with important announcements. You are able to opt-out our notifications expect messages about essential updates on DUDU. Sometimes we include some content from DUDU in sent messages.

We use your information to offer you personalized ads. We never share your private information with third parties including advertisers without your permission. At the same time advertisers have access to characteristics of users who will see ads. Therefore we can use any general users data we have obtained. It includes the information you protect with privacy settings (e.g. hidden to other users). It can be for example your gender or date of birth. We do it to ensure that advertisers can select target audience. For example we can share information about your hobbies with advertisers. But we do not share any particular information like your preferred brand etc. You can find out what kind of criteria advertisers used. Please go to advertising page to review this data. As it was mentioned we ask your permission to share the info about you with advertisers.

We can use your information to enrich your profile. We can add info about you via obtaining of data collected from other users of DUDU. For example, we can supplement your profile with tags in photos etc.

We use your information to suggest. We use suggestions tool quite often. Thus we can use your information to make a suggestion. For example it can be your address or school. For example if a user adds the same school like you we can suggest you to add each other to friend list. Or when your friend uploads your picture we might suggest him/her to tag you. We use comparison between information obtained from different sources. We may also suggest you to use different tools. This suggestion is based on your friend’s preferences (if they have used these tools). You can control our suggestion options any time. It can be done in privacy settings.

We can use your information to help people find each other. We give a possibility to our users to search their friends by contact information. Therefore your data including e-mail address or street address can be shared to find you via search tool.

We can use information about you in downloadable software. Some of our software obtains information about our users. For example photo uploader sends your data to us. We may not formally notify you about it if we think that functions of our software are obvious enough. For example we don’t notify our users about the fact that their pictures were received. In case if we don’t think that it is obvious you will be notified and provide with relevant information. Thus you will have a chance to decide if you still want to use this program.

We may close account of deceased person. It happens if we receive formal request. Such request can be sent by closest family members or other people who have legal grounds to send such request.

6. How We Share Your Information.

We have a right to share your information with different users and third party sites or applications. Although you can limit sharing of your information with privacy settings. We reserve the right to share your information with sites and applications if we sure that you allow us to share. We can also share your information when we are legally required.

When you ask your friends to join DUDU. We send inviting message to join DUDU when you ask your friends to join our site. In this case we put your name in the message. We can also put some additional information about you or your friends into the invitation.

To assist your friends to find you. Some information about you will be available by default. It is done to help your friends find you. You won’t be able to control or limit people who can see your basic information. You cannot also review who has found you through posted information. We cooperate with instant messaging providers and e-mails to help our users finding each other on DUDU. It helps to promote DUDU.

Usually we don’t allow search engines to access DUDU. But we may allow search engines to access your information which is marked as “information for everyone”. This information includes your name and userpic. However you can hind such information any time you wish. It can be done in privacy settings.

To provide services.

We can share your information with service providers. They assist us in bringing you different services. For example we may outsource sending you notifications or host our website to third parties. Such service providers may have access to your shared information. But this access will be temporary; only during the time of their work.

To advertise and provide our services. Sometimes we request third party sites outside of DUDU to place our ads to promote our services. At the same time we don’t share any additional information with our advertisers.

To offer additional joint services. Sometimes we do provide some extra services. Usually it is done in cooperation with other companies.

To respond to requests from legal authorities and prevent possible harm. We may share your information with authorities in some cases, for example when we have received court orders. We share information when we believe that it is required by law. We reserve a right to share your information with authorities outside of the US. It happens when we believe that it is required by local laws. We accept international law standards. We also reserve the right to share information when we believe that such measure can prevent illegal activities or harm. This includes sharing information with any potentially helpful bodies including lawyers, government authorities and courts.

Transfers in the Event of Sale. In cases of changes in our ownership we reserve a right to share your information and transfer it to the new owner of DUDU.

7. Protection of Information.

We do everything we can to protect your information.

What we do to keep your information safe.

We use firewall to keep your account information safe. Moreover we use different security measures, for example system of analysis of account behavior. It helps us to prevent frauds. It can also cause to limit of use of DUDU. We also reserve the right to remove any inappropriate content or illegal content. We may disable or suspend user’s accounts if they fail to fulfill requirements of Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.

Risks you take when you share your information. We allow DUDU users to set privacy options to limit access to their information. However we cannot guarantee 100% safety of your data due to imperfectness of any security measures. We cannot take full control of actions of DUDU users. Thus we cannot guarantee you that your information will be seen by authorized users only. Therefore we cannot prevent your information becomes publicity available. And we are not responsible for behavior of other users of DUDU. You can help us to protect your information by taking security measures including choosing long and strong password and using antivirus programs.

Violation repots. You should always report us about any cases of security violations.

9. Other Terms.

Applying Changes. We reserve the right to change our Privacy. Our privacy policy protects your information. If we are going to make any changes in DUDU Privacy Policy you will be notified about it.