Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 11/18/2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to Share The Smoke. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our platform and tell you about your privacy rights.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you:
- Identity Data: Name, username, or similar identifier
- Contact Data: Email address and telephone numbers
- Location Data: Geographic location for finding nearby smokers
- Profile Data: Your interests, preferences, feedback, and survey responses
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our Service
- Technical Data: Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, and location
3. How We Use Your Information
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
- To register you as a new user
- To provide and manage your access to our Service
- To connect you with other users and facilitate smoker sharing
- To notify you about changes to our Service
- To provide customer support
- To improve our Service and user experience
- To protect against fraud and unauthorized access
4. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We may share your personal data with:
- Other Users: Your profile information, smoker listings, and reviews are visible to other users
- Service Providers: Third-party vendors who provide services on our behalf (hosting, analytics, payment processing)
- Legal Requirements: When required by law or to protect our rights
We do not sell your personal data to third parties.
5. Data Security
We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.
6. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
7. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
- Request access to your personal data
- Request correction of your personal data
- Request erasure of your personal data
- Object to processing of your personal data
- Request restriction of processing your personal data
- Request transfer of your personal data
- Withdraw consent at any time
8. Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
9. Third-Party Links
Our Service may contain links to third-party websites. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
10. Children's Privacy
Our Service is not intended for use by children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal data, please contact us.
11. Changes to Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through the Service.