Operated by 14737521 CANADA
Dottie helps people discover Toronto, join real-world plans, and meet people through shared interests. This Privacy Policy applies to the Dottie website, app, waitlists, prediction pools, community programs, events, and related services.
Our privacy contact is Ivam Magalhaes. You can reach us at ivam@dottie.app.
1. Quick Summary
- We collect information needed to operate Dottie and its community experiences.
- We use information to run accounts, events, waitlists, safety tools, and support.
- Some profile or participation details may be visible to other users when a feature is designed to be social.
- We do not publicly show your email address or phone number.
- We do not sell your personal information.
- You can contact us to access, correct, export, or delete your personal information.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect information you provide directly, including:
- Name, email address, phone number, age, account details, and login information.
- Profile information such as photos, interests, preferences, bio, city, and social handles.
- Event RSVPs, waitlist requests, community applications, prediction pool entries, prize eligibility details, reports, and support messages.
- Messages, content, photos, feedback, or other information you choose to submit.
- Marketing preferences, referral source, and communication preferences.
We may also collect information automatically, including:
- Device type, browser, operating system, IP address, and approximate location.
- Pages viewed, links clicked, timestamps, logs, referring pages, and app interactions.
- Cookie, local storage, analytics, and similar technology data described in our Cookie Policy.
3. Why We Use Information
We use personal information to:
- Create, verify, maintain, and secure accounts.
- Operate Dottie features, including discovery, events, waitlists, communities, prediction pools, and hosted experiences.
- Show relevant plans, people, groups, interests, recommendations, and community activity.
- Coordinate RSVPs, eligibility, prize verification, moderation, support, and safety responses.
- Send service messages, transactional emails, safety notices, policy updates, and support replies.
- Send marketing or community updates only when we have consent or another legal basis to do so.
- Measure performance, debug issues, improve Dottie, and understand how people use the service.
- Detect spam, fraud, abuse, duplicate entries, security threats, and policy violations.
- Comply with legal, regulatory, accounting, security, and dispute-resolution obligations.
4. What May Be Visible to Others
Dottie is social by design. Depending on the feature, other users may see profile details or activity that you provide, such as your first name, photos, interests, city, favourite team, event participation, public rankings, comments, or community participation.
For prediction pools and similar games, public pages may show your first name, city, favourite team, score, ranking, and related public participation details. Your email address and phone number are kept private unless you choose to share them yourself.
5. How We Share Information
We may share information with:
- Service providers that help us with hosting, databases, analytics, email, SMS, payments, maps, event tools, moderation, security, support, and error monitoring.
- Event hosts, community partners, or venue partners when needed to operate a specific experience you joined or applied for.
- Payment processors, app stores, or commerce partners when you make a purchase.
- Public or semi-public community spaces where you choose to participate, including optional external groups such as WhatsApp communities.
- Authorities, courts, or legal advisors when required by law or needed to protect rights, safety, users, Dottie, or the public.
- A successor organization if Dottie is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets.
We require service providers to process information only for the services they provide to us and to use appropriate safeguards.
6. Third-Party Services
Dottie may link to or integrate third-party services such as app stores, payment processors, maps, analytics tools, event platforms, messaging platforms, social networks, and external community groups. Those services are controlled by their own providers and may have their own privacy policies.
7. Marketing and Communications
We may send service messages that are necessary for Dottie, such as account, safety, event, waitlist, transaction, or policy updates.
We send promotional emails, event updates, community announcements, or similar marketing messages where you have opted in or where permitted by law. You can unsubscribe using the instructions in the message or by contacting ivam@dottie.app.
8. Data Retention
We keep personal information only as long as reasonably needed for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer period is required for legal, safety, fraud-prevention, accounting, or dispute-resolution reasons.
| Data Type | Typical Retention |
|---|---|
| Account and profile data | While your account is active, then as needed for legal, safety, or support records. |
| Waitlists, event participation, and community applications | As needed to operate the experience and maintain community, safety, eligibility, and business records. |
| Prediction pool entries and rankings | As needed to run the pool, verify winners, resolve disputes, and keep integrity records. |
| Support, moderation, abuse, and safety reports | As long as needed to investigate, enforce rules, prevent abuse, and protect users. |
| Technical logs and analytics | For a limited period needed for security, debugging, analytics, and reliability, unless longer retention is needed for investigation. |
When information is no longer needed, we delete it, aggregate it, or de-identify it where reasonable.
9. Your Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have rights to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you.
- Correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Request deletion of your account or personal information.
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
- Object to or limit certain processing.
- Request a portable copy of your information.
- Ask questions or challenge our privacy practices.
To make a request, contact ivam@dottie.app. We may need to verify your identity before responding.
10. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards to protect personal information. No online service can guarantee absolute security, so please use strong account practices and report suspicious activity.
11. International Processing
Dottie is operated from Canada, but some service providers may process information in other countries. Where this happens, your information may be subject to local laws and access requests by authorities in those jurisdictions.
12. Children
Dottie is not intended for people under 18. If we learn that someone under 18 has provided personal information, we will take steps to delete it.
13. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If changes are material, we will take reasonable steps to notify users through the app, website, or email.
14. Contact
Questions, requests, or complaints about privacy can be sent to Ivam Magalhaes at ivam@dottie.app.