This policy document explains how we collect, store, protect, and share your information, and with whom we share it (our "Privacy Policy"). This policy applies in conjunction with our Terms of Service.
We collect some information about you in the course of your use of our application, website, and associated services known collectively as "Saige". In addition, you may choose to use Saige to share information with other users, including your friends and contacts (“Users”). We may also need to share your information sometimes.
Your information will be sent to and used in the United States regardless of the country you reside in. Saige is operated by Gaida Corporation, a Delaware corporation. The terms "we", "us", "our" and "Gaida" refer to Gaida Corporation.
When you download the Saige application and create an account (“Account”), we may collect certain information (“Registration Information”) about you, such as:
Once you register, you will be able to review and change this information at any time just by logging in to Saige (other than your date of birth and location (which, if you have given Saige access to your location in your device settings, is automatically updated based on the location of your device)). It is your responsibility to ensure that your account details are kept up to date. If your phone number changes, please ensure that you update this in your account.
The information we collect helps to enhance Saige and verify our Users. Registration Information such as your sexual preference, name and username may be visible to other Users who view your profile page.
For Users who are California residents, the data we may collect falls within the following categories of “personal information”, as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):
We recommend and encourage you (and all our members) to think carefully about the information you disclose about yourself. We also do not recommend that you put email addresses, URLs, instant messaging details, phone numbers, full names or addresses, credit card details, national identity numbers, drivers’ license details and other sensitive information which is open to abuse and misuse on your profile.
When you post information about yourself or use the messaging function to communicate with other Users, the amount of personal information you share is at your own risk. Please see Section 4 below for more information on who can access what you post on Saige.
For safety and security and to ensure you have the best possible user experience, we require Users to verify their accounts and might ask for your phone number and, in some instances, we might also ask that you carry out photo verification. This verification might be required by us for the prevention of fraud.
If you choose to verify your profile photo, we will scan each photo that you submit. The scan may include the use of facial recognition technology so that we can compare the photo you submit to your profile photo, to help ensure that you are who you say you are. We do not add the verification photos to your profile. We retain the scans so that we can verify you in the future and for our record-keeping purposes until we no longer need them for such purposes or for three years after your last interaction with us, whichever occurs first. After the applicable retention period expires, we take commercially reasonable steps to permanently and securely delete the scans from our systems.
If you decide to purchase any of our services, we will process your payment information and retain this securely for the prevention of fraud and for audit/tax purposes.
Gaida uses automated decisions to prevent fraudulent payment transactions being processed as part of its anti-fraud procedures. In order to do this, our systems check payment transactions for behavior that indicates breaches of our Terms of Service. If a transaction meets certain criteria that demonstrate that the Terms of Service are likely to have been breached and the transaction is likely to be fraudulent, the relevant transaction may automatically be blocked. Where a transaction is blocked, the user will be notified that their transaction cannot be processed and affected Users can contact Gaida to contest the decision.
If you have given Saige access to your location in your device settings, when you use your cell, we will collect information about WiFi access points as well as other location information about your longitude and latitude and may save your device’s coordinates to offer certain features to you. This information helps us identify your physical location and we use it to personalize Saige and make it easier for you to interact with other Users, by enabling the general locality information to be displayed to Users seeing your profile and showing you the profiles of other Users who are near you.
We may collect information about your device when you use Saige including the unique device identifier, device model, and operating system, for a number of purposes, as set out in this policy. In addition, if you permit us to do so, Saige may access your device’s address book solely in order to add someone to your contacts.
We also collect data about your photos, such as which are the photos that users spend time on or which are the photos that have the best lighting, etc. We may use that data to rearrange your profile photos.
We may keep track of how you interact with links available on Saige including third party services by redirecting clicks or through other means. We may share aggregate click statistics such as how many times a particular link was clicked on.
We review the content of messages sent in Saige to identify topics, sentiments, and trends across our Users. We will take steps to remove personally identifying information from such messages, prior to reviewing them. We will not share the content of User messages or information we derive from them with any third party.
When you visit our websites or when you use Saige, we may collect personal data from you automatically by using cookies or similar technologies. A cookie is a small file that can be placed on your device or browser that allows us to recognize and remember you.
We may use your Registration and other information to:
We use the following data about you and other users to predict your compatibility with others and generate profile recommendations: the information you provide us about yourself in your profile such as age, distance or gender so we can show you people who are appropriate and are more likely to like you back; information about how you interact with our app to suggest to you people who are active and available to meet new people; and your device coordinates, which are necessary to understand your proximity to other members. The legal basis for processing profile and proximity information is that this is necessary for the provision of our contractual services to you pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. Where we process information about your app activity, this is based on our legitimate interests pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, and specifically our legitimate interest in generating more personalized and relevant recommendations for who you can match with in our App. Where you have included sensitive information in your profile, such as information about your beliefs, the processing of this information is based on your voluntary and explicit consent.
We use a combination of automated systems and manual moderators to monitor and review accounts (including photos and any other information uploaded onto user profiles) and messages for content that indicates breaches of our Terms of Service. If an account or message meets certain criteria that demonstrate that the Terms of Service are likely to have been breached, the relevant account will be subject to a warning and the user’s access restricted and/or blocked. Affected Users can contact Gaida to contest the decision.
If you post anything that is inconsistent with our Terms and Conditions of Use, we reserve the right to terminate or restrict access to your Account.
Our policy is to not disclose your Registration Information or personal data, except in the limited circumstances described here:
Circumstances where data may be disclosed
Disclosed data
Service Providers – We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us. We may share your Registration Information or personal data with these third parties, but only for the purposes of performing these functions and providing such services. More information about this is available directly below.
This could include all data, including all CCPA Categories listed above
Moderators – To monitor activity on the Saige and approve content.
Name and user registration details, profile information, content of messages and photographs (CCPA Categories A, B, C, and H)
Payment Processing and Telecommunications Companies – To facilitate payments for our premium services.
Cardholder name, cardholder address, card number, payment amount, transaction date/time (CCPA Categories A, B, and D)
Law and Harm – As we mentioned in the Terms of Service, we think it is very important that all Users behave while using Saige. We will cooperate with all third parties to enforce their intellectual property or other rights. We will cooperate with lawfully made law enforcement requests for information from within or outside your country of residence where we are required to by law. This may include where there is an investigation into alleged criminal behavior or to protect the vital interests of a person. We may preserve or disclose any of your information, including your Registration Information, if we believe in good faith that it is necessary to comply with a law or regulation, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary:
In such cases we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.
This could include any personal data that Gaida holds about you, depending on the nature of the request or the issue that we are dealing with, including all CCPA Categories listed above
Business Transfers – In the event that Gaida Corporation or any of its affiliates undergoes a business transition or change of ownership, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, re-organization, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, or in the event of insolvency or administration, we may be required to disclose your personal data.
This could include all personal data that Gaida holds about you, including all CCPA Categories listed above
Marketing Services Providers – To help us serve marketing and advertising on third party websites and applications and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. More information on this is available below
Advertising identifier associated with your device (Device ID), estimated location (based on your IP address), age, gender and data about your visit to Saige and action taken on those (for example if you downloaded our mobile application or created an account with our application), hashed email address (for ‘custom audiences’ only) (CCPA Categories B, C, G, F and K)
Anti-Spam and Anti-Fraud – Your data may be shared with other Gaida companies, for example, to block accounts and suspected fraudulent payment transactions as part of our anti-spam and anti-fraud procedures.
Email address, phone number, IP address and IP session information, social network ID, username, user agent string, and transaction and payment data (CCPA Categories B, F and D).
Aggregated Information – We may share aggregated information with third parties that includes your personal data (but which doesn’t identify you directly) together with other information including log data for industry analysis and demographic profiling.
We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us (“Service Providers”). The suppliers with which Gaida shares User personal data vary depending on a variety of factors, such as which of our services a User engages with. For example, to provide our services to Users, we typically use the following suppliers:
We carry out due diligence on all Service Providers we engage to ensure they have adequate data protection and information security measures in place and only provide them with the personal data necessary to the service they are providing. Measures are taken to ensure that the data shared is non-attributable to the greatest extent possible and our suppliers are also subject to extensive obligations under our contractual arrangements, including strict data retention limits.
We partner with providers of marketing services (‘Marketing Services Providers’) to help us market and advertise Saige on third party websites and applications and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. For example:
We share a limited amount of your personal data with these Marketing Services Providers, such as:
*Hashing is a way of encrypting information by turning it into a combination of random numbers and letters - this code cannot be traced back to the email address. When hashed email addresses are sent to a Marketing Service Provider, they’re then matched against the Provider’s own existing list of their own users’ hashed information and our ads are served to those of our users who have successfully been matched with the Provider’s. Matched and unmatched hashes are then deleted by the Provider.
In some cases, these third parties will also use the data that they collect for their own purposes, for example they may aggregate your data with other data they hold and use this to inform advertising related services provided to other clients.
When using Saige, you should assume that anything you post or submit on Saige may be publicly-viewable and accessible, both by Users and non-users of Saige.
Be careful about posting sensitive details about yourself on your profile such as your religious denomination and health details. You may also choose to add sensitive information about yourself when you add certain information to your profile, such as your religion and political leanings. While you may voluntarily provide this information to us when you create your profile, including your sexual preferences, there is no requirement to do so. Please remember that photographs that you post on Saige may reveal information about yourself as well. Where you do upload and choose to tell us sensitive information about yourself, including through the addition of badges to your profile, you are explicitly consenting to our processing of this information and making it public to other Users.
Your Saige profile and other information you make available via Saige, including certain information added to your profile through third party accounts (such as Facebook, Instagram or Spotify – see section 7 of this Privacy Policy for more information about this) may be viewed and shared by Users with individuals who may or may not be users of Saige. For example, a User may recommend you as a match to his or her Facebook friend(s) by taking a screenshot of your profile picture and sharing it, regardless of whether such friend(s) is also a User of Saige.
If you log in to or access Saige through a third-party account on a device which you share with others, remember to log out of Saige and the relevant third-party account when you leave the device in order to prevent other users from accessing your account.
You have to be at least 18 years old to use Saige.
Saige does not knowingly collect any information about or market to children, minors or anyone under the age of 18. If we become aware that a child, minor or anyone under the age of 18 has registered with us and provided us with personal information, we will take steps to terminate that person’s registration.
We use reasonable security measures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information such as secured servers using firewalls.
Unfortunately, no website or Internet transmission is ever completely 100% secure and even we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss or other breaches will never occur, but here are some handy tips to help keep your data secure:
We cannot guarantee the security of your personal data while it is being transmitted to our site and any transmission is at your own risk.
When you sign in to Saige using a single sign-on service from another service, you give permission to that service to share information with us. Unless you opt-out, you also give permission to that other service to share with us, if available through that service, your email address (if there is one associated with your account), date of birth, profile photos, gender, and current town/city.
If you register or sign in with your Apple ID, you give Apple permission to share your Apple login, a name (that can be edited by you) and an email (you can choose to hide your email and Apple will create a random email address so your personal email can stay private). This email address will be linked to your Saige account and will be used to retrieve your Saige account.
We will then use this personal data to form your Saige account. If you remove the Saige app from the third-party service, or from your Apple ID, we will no longer have access to this data. However, we will still have the personal data that we received when you first set up your Saige account using that service or Apple ID (you must delete your Saige account entirely for us to no longer have access to this data).
You may link your Saige account with your Instagram, Facebook or Spotify accounts. This allows you to share some information from those accounts directly to your Saige account (for example, Instagram photos, or your top Spotify artists).
We only receive the limited information that Instagram or Spotify permits to be transferred (as detailed by Instagram/Facebook/Spotify and agreed by you when you first connect your account from such platforms with your Saige account).
If you no longer want to link your Saige account to your Instagram, Facebook or Spotify account, please visit the settings in your Instagram, Facebook or Spotify account and follow the instructions to remove the Saige app access permissions. Please note that any information already added to your Saige account from those platforms will not be deleted unless you delete it within your Saige account as well.
For Users who are California residents, you have the following rights (in addition to those listed at section 9 below) under the California Consumer Privacy Act, and you have the right to be free from unlawful discrimination for exercising your rights under the Act:
California’s “Shine the Light” law, Civil Code section 1798.83, requires certain businesses to respond to requests from California customers asking about the businesses’ practices related to disclosing personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. If you wish to find out about any rights you may have under California Civil Code section 1798.83, you can write to us at support@gaidacorp.com.
From time to time, as part of a joint promotion with a third party, we may, if you participate in such promotion, disclose your contact information to the third party to allow them to market their products or services to you. Where this is a condition for participation in a promotion, we will always let you know before when you enter the promotion. Please follow the instructions provided to you by third parties to unsubscribe from their messages.
In addition, under California law, operators of online services are required to disclose how they respond to “do not track” signals or other similar mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personal information of a consumer over time and across third party online services, to the extent the operator engages in that collection. At this time, we do not track our Users’ personal information over time and across third-party online services. This law also requires operators of online services to disclose whether third parties may collect personal information about their users’ online activities over time and across different online services when the users use the operator’s service. We do not knowingly permit third parties to collect personal information about an individual User’s online activities over time and across different online services when using Saige.
Privacy laws applicable in your country may give you the following rights:
The particular rights which are applicable to you (which might include other rights not listed above) may vary depending on your country. You should make yourself aware of the rights you have under applicable privacy laws in your country.
If you want to exercise any of your rights listed above please email our Data Protection Officer at support@gaidacorp.com. For your protection and the protection of all of our Users, we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity before we can answer the above requests.
If you have a concern about how we have processed your request or your personal data, you should contact us in the first instance via the contact details listed above.
We want you to be able to access Saige wherever you happen to be in the world. To enable us to provide that service, we operate a global network of servers including in the US, UK, EU. The hardware is located in third-party data centers not owned by Gaida Corporation. Data collected by Advertising Partners and other Service Providers may also be held outside the UK and the European Economic Area.
We keep your personal information only as long as we need it for the legal basis relied upon (as set out in Section 2 above) and as permitted by applicable law. Please see “Profile Verification Information (Including Biometric Information)” in Section 1, above, to learn about our retention policy with respect to biometric information.
When your Account is deleted, we make sure it is no longer viewable in Saige. For up to 28 days, it is still possible to restore your Account if it was accidentally deleted. After 28 days, we begin the process of deleting your personal information from our systems, unless:
Warning: Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your Account, copies of that information may still be viewable and/or accessed to the extent such information has been previously shared with others, or copied or stored by others. We cannot control this, nor do we accept any liability for this. If you have given third party applications or websites access to your personal information, they may retain such information to the extent permitted under their terms of service or privacy policies.
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you, for example, via an email to the email associated with your Account or by posting a notice within Saige.
This Privacy Policy was last updated on: October 28, 2024
