BlackBox Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
This Privacy Policy sets out how we, BlackBox Messenger (“BlackBox”), 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 messaging services (the “Services”). For the purposes of this Privacy Policy , ‘we’ , ‘us’ and ‘our’ refers to BlackBox, and ‘you’ refers to you, the user of the Services.
1.1 Privacy Principles
BlackBox has two fundamental principles when it comes to collecting and processing private data:
• We don't use your data to show you ads.
• We only store the data that BlackBox needs to function as a secure messaging service.
2. Legal Ground for Processing Your Personal Data
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.
3. What Personal Data We Use
3.1. Basic Account Data
BlackBox is a communication service. You provide your mobile number and basic account data (which may include profile name, profile picture) to create a BlackBox account.
To make it easier for your contacts and other people to reach you and recognize who you are, the profile name you choose, your profile picture on BlackBox are always public. We don't want to know your real name, gender, age or what you like.
We do not require your profile name to be your real name. Note that users who have you in their contacts will see you by the name they saved and not by your profile name. This way your mother can have the public name 'Johnny Depp' while appearing as 'Mom' to you and as 'Boss' to her underlings at work (or the other way around, depending on how these relationships are structured).
3.2. Phone Number and Contacts
BlackBox uses phone numbers as unique identifiers so that it is easy for you to switch from SMS and other messaging apps and retain your social graph. We ask your permission before syncing your contacts.
We store your up-to-date contacts in order to notify you as soon as one of your contacts signs up for BlackBox and to properly display names in notifications. We only need the number and name (first and last) for this to work and store no other data about your contacts.
All data from your account will be automatically deleted when you delete your account !
All messages sent by you in BlackBox will be deleted from all conversations when you delete your account !
Author: Andrei Alexandrescu