We are multippl ('multippl', 'we', 'us' or 'our') and we operate multippl.com.
Multippl is committed to protecting the personal information you provide or we collect when you use our website (our 'Services').
We collect and use different information depending on the way in which you interact with us.
In this Privacy Policy, we explain who we are, why and how we collect, store, share and use (together, “process”) personal data (“Personal Information”), as well as your rights and how to contact us.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to keep up with legal and/or business developements. If changes are made you will be notified by revising the date at the bottom of the page and, in some cases, we may notify you via a statement on our website or provide you with a notification.
We encourage you to regularly review this Privacy Policy to stay up to date with the choices you can make about our information practices.

By engaging with our Services, you acknowledge you have read and understood this privacy policy.
We are the data controller of the personal information processed in relation to this policy, except where this policy explains otherwise. This means we are responsible for treating your personal information safely, in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. If you have any questions about how we protect your Personal Information, please Contact Us.

2. Types Of Information We May Collect About You

Information You Provide Us

We collect the content, communications, and other information you provide directly to us when you use our Services. This includes information you provide when you sign up to our website ("Registration Information"), create or share content and message or communicate with us.
You are not required to create an account in order to use our Services. However, you may wish to do so in order to post, comment and network. When you complete your profile, you give explicit consent and choose to provide us with information that is considered "special" or "sensitive" in certain jurisdictions. For example, your racial and/or ethnic origin as well as your sexual orientation. By choosing to provide this information, you consent to our processing of that information and making it public to other Users.
If you create an account using your Facebook or Google account, it saves you from having to create another username and password. It also allows you to share some information from Facebook and Google accounnt with us. The information we get from those services depends on your settings and their privacy policies.
As part of our editorial, journalistic and/or commercial activities (collectively, 'Content'), we may receive, collect, store, analyse, Publish (making available on our website and/or social media channels), use and otherwise disseminate or process (in any media) personal data for the purposes of and/or in connection with our activities. We collect and store information that you submit on our website. This includes any media you submit to publish.

Information Collected When You Use Our Service

In some instances, we automatically collect information about which features you've used, how you've used them and the devices you used to access our services. See below for specific information

Information about your use of our website

We use cookies on our site via Google Analytics to collect information about your activity on our website. This is to help us understand how you use and interact with our website. This may include what pages you look at, what links you click on, what you search on our website, when you do this and when you leave our site.

Information about the browser and device you are using

We also use cookies on our site via Google Analytics to collect information about how you access our website. This will be information about your browser and device you use to access our website. This includes hardware and software information such as IP address, unique device identifiers, operating system, browser type, screen resolution and network information. This information will

Information collected by cookies

We use cookies on our site via Google Analytics to recognise and remember you and/or your device. You may read our Cookie Policy for more information on why we use them. Cookies are small data files stored on your computer that help us improve our Service and your experience. We use Google Analytics who use cookies to collect information about your use of our Service. The information gathered may be used by multippl to analyse and track usage, determine what kind of content is popular, and deliver content that you will be interested in.
Most web browsers including Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can remove or reject browser cookies. You may also opt out of Google Analytics by downloading the browser add on. Please note that we strongly recommend leaving cookies active because they enable you to use a full functioning website.

Information we recieve from others

We may also receive information about you from other sources, including other users who may write about you. Also, if you create a multippl account using third parties, such as social media, when you login using Google or Facebook, we may have access to certain information from that platform. We may also receive information through other partners, such as, business partners and affiliates, where you have given them permission to share your information. We may also collect information that is publicly available as well as through social media platforms.

3. How We Keep Your Information Safe

We are committed to protecting you from unauthorised access to or alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information. Our website host and maintenance provider have in place many security measures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information against potential hackers and intruders including IP blocking and malware removal.
Unfortunately, however, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we take steps to secure your information, we cannot promise its security and when giving us your information, please do so at your own risks.
When you create an account to use our full Service, please do so with a strong password. A password with letters, numbers, upper case, lower case, and symbols. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and you are responsible for any access to or use of your account. Please notify us of any unauthorised use of your profile.

4. Use Of Information

The main goal of multippl is to create a platform where people can entertain, educate, and inspire others. To do so we need to ensure your experience is enjoyable and safe.
We use the information we collect to deliver, maintain, and improve our services, which includes Publishing and disseminate user-generated content and personalising the posts you may see.
In order to deliver this safe and enjoyable experience to you, we may use your Registration and other information to:

Provide, personalise and improve our Service

Create and manage your multippl account

Create a personalised Service unique to you

Research and Development of our Service by conducting surveys and research, and testing and troubleshooting new products and features

Debug to identify and repair errors in our Service

Develop new features and services

Provide measurement, analytics and other business services

Monitor and analyse trends, usage, and activities relating to our Services

To understand our audience, improve products and services

Help advertisers and other partners measure the effectiveness of their ads and services

Provide security and safety

Protect our users by combatting harmful conduct

Investigate ongoing or alleged unauthorised, fraudulent misconduct, or illegal activity

Protect our legal rights

Analyse data to stop these activities

Communicate with you

Contact you with information about our Service via marketing communications (e.g., updates and new features, technical notices, support and administrative messages)

Provide you with customer support, and respond to your requests

Send you information about the promotions and offers we have available

Legal obligation

Assist law enforcement

Enforce or exercise our rights, i.e., our Terms

Comply with legal requirements

Under EU and UK data protection laws, we are obligated to tell you about our lawful basis for using your data.
Provide our service to you:
Most of the time, the reason we process your information is to perform the contract that you have with us. For instance, as you go about using our service to build meaningful connections, we use your information to maintain your account and your profile, to make it viewable to other users and recommend other users to you.
Legitimate interests:
We may use your information where we have legitimate interests to do so. For instance, we analyse users’ behaviour on our services to continuously improve our offerings, we suggest offers we think might interest you, and we process information for administrative, fraud detection and other legal purposes.
Consent:
From time to time, we may ask for your consent to use your information for certain specific reasons. You may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at the address provided at the end of this Privacy Policy.

5. Disclosure Of Information

multippl does not sell your data and has not sold your personal data in the previous 12 months.
Our policy is not to disclose your Registration Information or personal data, expect in the limited circumstances described here:

Other Users

You share information with other users when you voluntarily disclose information on the service. This includes your public profile, which can be seen by anyone, including if they don't have an account. Please be careful with the information you share and make sure that you are comfortable being publicly viewable. We have no control what others will do with your information once it is Published.

Service Providers

Our Service is run thanks to certain trusted third parties. These third parties help to perform functions and provide services to us, including website hosting and maintenance, analytics providers, marketing, and advertising. We may share your Registration Information or personal data with these third parties, but only for the purposes of performing these functions and providing the services.
Where we share personal information with a third party, we expect them to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it accordingly. However, their own privacy policy will normally apply to how they then use that information, and we are not responsible for this.

Admin and Editors

Our Service would not be possible if not for Admin and Editors who moderate the website. These people will moderate activity on the website as well as approve and edit content. They will have access to your registration details, profile information, content and media published.

Law and Enforcement

As mentioned in our Community Guidelines, we have rules when using our Service. It is very important that you obey to the guidelines set out. We will, if necessary, cooperate with third parties as well as law enforcement to protect the vital interests of a person or to help in an investigation into alleged criminal behaviour. This may include preserving or disclosing any of your information, if we believe that it is necessary.

Corporate Transactions

We may disclose and transfer your information if we are involved in a merger sale or acquisition by another company, restructuring or reorganisation of part or all of our assets, or in the event of insolvency or administration, or other change of ownership or control.

Aggregated Information

We may share aggregated information (unidentifiable data) with third parties that includes your personal data. Aggregated information cannot reasonably be used to identify any user.

Researchers and Academics

We may provide information and content to research partners and academics to conduct research that advances literature and innovation that support our business and/or mission. This may be related to sociology, psychology, health and wellbeing, public interest and/or geography.

6. Third-Party Embed

Some content displayed on our Service is not hosted by us. Users have the ability to post content that is hosted by a third-party that is thembedded in our pages. When you click on an embedded link, it can send information about your interaction to the hosting third party like you visited the site directly. For example, if you read a user post that includes an Instagram embed and you click on the embed, Instagram receives the information about your activity such as your IP address. multippl are not responsible for what the third party collect and what they do with the information collected through Embeds. We recommend you review that policy before interacting with the Embed.

7. How long we hold personal information

We hold personal data associated with your account for as long as your account remains active or until it is no longer necessary to provide our service, depending on which comes first. This is a case-by-case determination that depends on things like the nature of the data, why it is collected and processed, and relevant legal or operational retention needs.
You may permanently delete your account at any time by going into your account and selecting delete account. Once you do so, all of your personal data will be completely erased from our website.
We will not be able to recover any of your data including posts, media and comments.
Our Content is Published on or through multippl, and will generally remain available on multippl for as long as multippl continues to produce, Publish and store content.
In some cases, we may ask that posts written by you Published on or through multippl remain available after you have deleted your account.

8. Your Rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the following rights in relation to the personal data we hold about you:
1. The right to be informed: What personal data an organisation is processing and why (We state this information in this Privacy Policy)
2. Right of access: You have the right to request to download a copy of your data from the privacy page of your account. Please note that when you request to download your data you will need to enter your current password.
3. Right of rectification: You have the right to update the personal information we hold about you. If you are unable to do so manually, you can contact us to amend any inaccurate or incomplete personal data that we hold.
4. Right to erasure: You have the right to have your data deleted in certain circumstances. We may continue to retain certain information about you as required by law or for our legitimate business purposes.
5. Right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that processing is stopped but your data is retained.
6. Right to data portability: You can request a copy of certain data that can be transferred to you in a usable electronic format, so you can use it elsewhere.
7. Right to object: You have the right to contact us to object to the processing of your personal data. In instances such as direct marketing or we are processing it on the grounds of legitimate interest, and you feel it impedes your rights.
8. Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling: There are several rights in this area where processing carried out on a solely automated basis results in a decision which has legal or significant effects for the individual. In these circumstances your rights include the right to ensure that there is human intervention in the decision-making process.

If you want to exercise any of the rights above, please Contact Us. If you are concerned about how we have processed your request or personal data, please contact us in the first instance via the Contact Us.
For your protection and the protection of all of our users, we may ask you to provide proof of identity before we can answer any requests.
If you feel we have not satisfactorily resolved your concern, you have the right to contact the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), at any time. They are the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).

9. Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to keep up with legal and/or business developments. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will always be at multippl.com/privacy. If changes are made you will be notified by revising the date at the bottom of the page and, in some cases, we may notify you via a statement on our website or provide you with a notification.

Effective Date

This Privacy Policy was last updated 1 August 2021

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Terms & Conditions

Table of Content

1. Introduction

2. Use of our service

3. Intellectual Property Rights

4. Modifying our Services and Termination

5. Disclaimers

6. Limitation of Liability

7. Governing Law and Disputes

8. Severability

9. Indemnification

10. Changes

1. Introduction

Welcome to multippl!
Our mission is to create a mixed ethnicity world where we can engage with our cultures, celebrate our ethnicities and explore our heritage.

These Terms and Conditions of Use (these "Terms") apply to your access to and use of the website (our "Services") provided by multippl ("multippl", "we", "us", "our"). By clicking your consent ("Register", "Sign in") or by using our Services, you agree to be bound by (i) these terms, (ii) our Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy and Guidelines, each of which is incorporated by reference into this Agreement and (iii) any terms disclosed and agreed to by you in the future (collectively, this "Agreement").
Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect and use your information, and our Guidelines outline your responsibilities when using our Services.
If you do not accept and agree to be bound by all of the terms of this Agreement, please do not use the Service.
We may update these Terms at any time. If changes are made, you will be notified by revising the date at the bottom of the page and, in some cases, we may notify you via a statement on our website or provide you with a notification. If you continue to access and/or use our Services after changes have been made to our Terms, that indicates your agreement to be legally bounded by the updated and/or amended Terms.

2. Use of our Service

We want our Service to be as educational, entertaining and inspiring as possible by creating a community of likeminded people, but we also want it to be a safe, secure, and in accordance with legal regulation. We therefore ask you to meet a few requirements in order to be part of the multippl community:

Who Can Use multippl

You must be at least 13 years old

You are legally permitted to use our Service by the laws of your home country

You will comply to this Agreement and all applicable laws, rules, and regulations

You have not previously had an account disabled/deleted due to a violation of law or any of our policies

You have never been convicted of a felony or indictable offence, a sex crime, or any crime involving violence and that you are not a convicted sex offender with any registry.

If you are under 16 you must obtain your parent’s or guardian’s permission before using any interactive features of our Service. If you are under 16 you must not reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else, including your telephone number, home address or email address, to us or to any other user of our Service.

If you meet these requirements you may wish to register for an account to access some or all of our Services. You may sign in using a third-party login, including Google or Facebook. If you choose to use your Facebook or Google login, you authorise us to access and use certain account information, including but not limited to your profile.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login credentials you use to sign up for multippl. Please safeguard your password to the account and we recommend that you do not share these details with others.

How You Can't Use multippl

You cannot violate (or help or encourage other to violate) these Terms or our policies, including in particular all the Guidelines.

You cannot impersonate others or provide inaccurate information; this includes creating an account for someone without their permission.

You cannot post confidential information about someone else without permission or do anything else that violates someone else’s rights, including intellectual property rights (e.g., copyright infringement, trademark infringement, counterfeit, or pirated goods).

You cannot attempt to create accounts or access or collect information in unauthorised ways.

You cannot do anything unlawful, misleading, or fraudulent or for an illegal or unauthorised purpose.

We don’t like users misbehaving in the multippl community. You can report any abuse or complain about Member Content by contacting us, outlining the abuse and/or complaint. We reserve the right to investigate any possible violations of these Terms, and we may, in our sole discretion, immediately terminate any user’s right to use of the App without prior notice.

We don’t control any of the things our users say or do, so you are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of the App.

You understand that multippl does not currently conduct criminal background checks on its users. Multippl also does not inquire into the backgrounds of its users of attempt to verify the statement of its users. Multippl reserves the right to conduct any criminal background check or other screenings (such as sex offender registration searches) at any time and to use available public records for any purpose.

Permissions You Give To Us

We enable users to submit contributions (including without limitation any text, photographs, graphics, video, or audio material) to our Services (user Contributions) that we will Publish.
Whenever you make use of a feature that allows you to submit user Contributions or make contact with other users of our Service, you must comply with the standards set out in the Guidelines. You promise that any user Contribution complies with the Guidelines and you will fully reimburse us for any costs arising from breach of your promise.
You retain your rights to any content you submit, post or display on or through the Services.
Unless agreed in writing, by Contributing content on or through the Services, you irrevocably and unconditionally grant multippl a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable licence to use, reproduce, modify, edit, adapt, reformat, translate, create derivative works from, incorporate into other works, transmit, distribute, perform, play, broadcast, commercialise and otherwise make available to the public such user Contribution (whether in whole or in part or copies of the same) in any format or medium currently known or developed in the future.
Multippl needs this license because you own your content and multippl therefore cannot display it without your permission.
This licence is also needed to distribute your content across our Services to grant to each user of our Services a non-exclusive licence to view, hear, read, stream, download, link to and otherwise access your user Contributions to our Services through our Services.

3. Intellectual Property Rights

All content Published on multippl remain the copyright of multippl. No part of this content may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the proper written permission of multippl.
Content on the Services may be protected by others' intellectual property rights. Please do not copy, upload, download, or share content unless you have the right to do so.
All information, data, text, content, graphics, user interfaces, trademarks, logos, sounds, artwork, domain, pictures, videos, podcasts are therefore protected by copyright, trademarks, database rights and other intellectual property rights and are owned by or licensed to us.
multippl reserves the right to delete or disable content alleged to be infringing the intellectual property rights or others, and to terminate accounts of repeat infringers.
If you select a username or similar identifier for your account, we may change it if we believe it is appropriate or necessary. For example, if it impersonates someone or infringes someone's intellectual property.

4. Modifying our Services and Termination

We are always striving to kaizen (improve) the Service and bring users additional functionality that you will find engaging and useful. This means we may add new features or enhancements from time to time as well as remove some features. If these actions do not materially affect your rights or obligations, we may not notify you prior to the change. If any change requires Service maintenance, we will let you know beforehand.
You may terminate your account at any time, for any reason, by following the instructions in your "Account".
Multippl reserves the right to suspend or terminate your account at any time with or without notice if we believe you have violated this Agreement.

5. Disclaimers and Indemnity by You

multippl aims to give you superb Services but there are some things that we cannot guarantee. Your use of our Services is at your sole risk. You understand that multippl provides the Service and any content posted or shared by users are provided on an "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" basis, without any representation or warranties of any kind, implied or expressed, including the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy.
In addition, multippl does not represent or warrant that our Services will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected or that our Services or the servers that make them available are free of bugs or viruses. No advice or information obtained from multippl or through the Service will create any warranty or representation not expressly made in this paragraph.
multippl may provide information about third-party services, events, activities, products, or we may allow third parties to make their content readily available on or through our Services (collectively, "Third-Party Content"). We do not control or endorse, and we make no representations or warranties regarding, Third-Party Content, including, without limitation, any error, omission, or inaccuracy therein. Any material downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of the Services is accessed at your own discretion and risk. Any Terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with any dealings on any third-party sites are solely between you and the relevant provider of that site and/or any relevant service.

6. Limitation of Liability

We accept no liability in respect of any user Contributions submitted by any of our users as well as Third-Party Content. Your use of our Services, and the content and/or any user Contributions is entirely at your own risk.
Our liability shall be limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, and under no circumstances will multippl, its affiliates, employees, licensors or service providers, be liable for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special, punitive, or enhanced damages, including, without limitation and whether incurred directly or indirectly, loss of data, income, profit or goodwill, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties arising out of your access to or use of the site, content or any user Contributions.
If you become dissatisfied in any way with the Services, your sole and exclusive remedy is to stop your use of the Services.

7. Governing Law and Disputes

These terms and conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.
Any disputes you have which relates to these terms and conditions, or you use of our Services, will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

8. Severability

If any part or parts of these terms are determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which the terms are intended to be effective, then to the extent and within the jurisdiction in which that term is illegal, invalid, or enforceable, it shall be severed and deleted from these Terms and the remaining Terms shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable.

9. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend (if requested by us) and hold multippl and our officers, directors, agents, partners and employees (individually and collectively, the "multippl Parties") harmless from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, costs, investigations, liabilities, judgments, settlements and expenses, including legal fees, that directly or indirectly arise from or are otherwise directly or indirectly related to your violation, misappropriation or infringement of any law or rights, your access to or use of the Service, your Content, or your breach of these terms.

10. Changes

We may update these Terms from time to time. The most current version of the Terms will always be at multippl.com/terms. If changes are made you will be notified by revising the date at the bottom of the page and, in some cases, we may notify you via a statement on our website or provide you with a notification. Unless we say otherwise in our notice, the amended Terms will be effective immediately, and your continued use of our Services after we provide such notice will confirm your acceptance of the changes. If you do not agree to the amended Terms, please stop using our Services.

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Privacy Policy

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Types Of Information We May Collect About You

Information You Provide Us

Information Collected When You Use Our Service

Information about your use of our website

Information about the browser and device you are using

Information collected by cookies

Information we recieve from others

3. How We Keep Your Information Safe

4. Use Of Information

Provide, personalise and improve our Service

Provide measurement, analytics and other business services

Provide security and safety

Communicate with you

Legal obligation

5. Disclosure Of Information

Other Users

Service Providers

Admin and Editors

Law and Enforcement

Corporate Transactions

Aggregated Information

Researchers and Academics

6. Third-Party Embed

7. How long we hold personal information

8. Your Rights

9. Changes

Effective Date

Terms & Conditions

Table of Content

1. Introduction

2. Use of our Service

Who Can Use multippl

How You Can't Use multippl

Permissions You Give To Us

3. Intellectual Property Rights

4. Modifying our Services and Termination

5. Disclaimers and Indemnity by You

6. Limitation of Liability

7. Governing Law and Disputes

8. Severability

9. Indemnification

10. Changes

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