Privacy Policy

TL;DR!

Small print sucks. Here are some of the key points you might be wondering about.

• Fabriq is a personal, private app.

• That means Fabriq is not a social network.

• We will never share or sell your data to data brokers.

• We do not contact the people you add to your circles in Fabriq, so no, they will not know that you added them to the app unless you tell them.

Fabriq and Threads by Fabriq provide a variety of services to streamline how you connect with the people you care about most. All of the information that you put into your Fabriq account is completely private and only for your personal use to strengthen your existing relationships. Because Fabriq is not a social network, you do not have a public profile and nobody has access to any hidden backdoors with which they could expose you and your bestie’s shared love of honey lavender lattes. Your secrets are safe with us.

To make inputting information into the app easier for you, we may ask to access your device’s contacts, photos, connected services, communication metadata, and/or appointment data. If you allow Fabriq access to any of these, we promise that it will not be shared with or sold to anyone or any other company, and we will not send notifications or communications to anyone in your contacts unless you tell us to.

If you’d like more details we encourage you to read our full policy below or get in touch with us by emailing hello@ourfabriq.com.

Threads by Fabriq Privacy Policy: Straight-Talk!

Threads by Fabriq is a hybrid social-media messenger, so the information you add to your profile such as your name and photo are visible to those you choose to connect with. The updates you create (which may or may not include photos and videos) are available only to the people with whom you explicitly choose to share.

When you grant access to your photos and videos, we only use the photos or videos you individually pick for things like your profile avatar, photos pr videos you add to your updates, or photos or videos you send in the messenger. None of your other photos or videos are uploaded to our servers.

When you grant access to your contacts we only use this permission to show your contacts back to you in the app so that you’re able to select individual contacts in later steps. When you select individual contacts to receive your update, their phone number is added to your account so that we can deliver your update to them via text. When you select individual contacts to invite to connect with you on Threads, their phone number is used to identify a pending connection of yours, so that when they ultimately sign up for Threads the two of you are already connected.

Only the contacts you individually select in either circumstance will ever be sent to our server, the rest never leave your phone.

 Privacy Policy Details

This Privacy Policy describes what information we collect, how we may use it, whom we may share it with, and the options you have. By using our website, you are agreeing to the terms outlined here.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at hello@ourfabriq.com.

What we collect

We may collect your name, email address, and other personal information through our website, and you may also provide us information about your personal contacts, your relationship to them, and their contact information.

We may collect and store any personal information you enter on our website, or on a mobile applications, or provide to us in some other manner. This includes identifying information, such as your name, address, email address and telephone number, and, if you transact business with us, financial information such as your payment method (valid credit card number, type, expiration date or other financial information). You may also provide us information about your interests and activities, your gender and age, and other demographic information such as your hometown or your username.

Fabriq and Threads by Fabriq provides a variety of Services that enable you to effectively manage contact information that you provide to us as part of those Services. Contacts typically contain information on individuals (or organizations) including names, email addresses, phone numbers, URLs, social handles, online identifiers, and physical addresses. Your Contacts may also contain additional information on individuals such as organizational affiliations, job titles, birthdays, key dates, age, gender, general location, relationships, skills, interests, preferences, notes, photos, tags, and other categorizations. Depending on which Services you elect to use, Contacts may be collected and stored in one or more of the following ways:

Connected Services. Fabriq and Threads by Fabriq Services may allow you to connect with external systems or databases that contain your Contacts. Examples include but are not limited to: 1) third-party contact management applications and services, 2) communication applications such as email providers, video conferencing systems, calendar applications, and social networks, and 3) sales, marketing, customer service, and media applications and platforms. Connections to such services generally require you to sign into those services.

User Interfaces. Many Fabriq and Threads by Fabriq Services allow you to directly enter, edit, or otherwise manage your Contacts by means such as typing into a user interface, importing from your device or speaking to a voice interface.

APIs. Contacts may also be collected when you submit Contacts through Fabriq’s API. This includes both APIs for directly managing contacts as well as APIs for lookup or search.

Third-Party Applications. Fabriq and Threads by Fabriq may enable you to manually or automatically transfer, upload, or copy-and-paste contact information from certain third-party applications into Fabriq.

Shared Contacts. Other Fabriq and Threads by Fabriq users may elect to share their Contacts or their personal contact details with you.

Fabriq and Threads by Fabriq provides a variety of Services that enable you to effectively manage your relationships. Depending on which Services you elect to use, relationship information may be collected and stored in one or more of the following ways:

Your Contacts. Your Contacts suggest a certain relationship between you and the people or organizations those Contacts represent. Your Contacts may explicitly indicate the nature of the relationship. We may also infer the strength or nature of a relationship based on the presence or absence of certain contact information such as mobile numbers or key dates, as well as shared elements such as physical addresses or organizational affiliations. Inferred relationship information may also be based on how you interact with individual Contacts such as how often you access or modify them.

Connected Services. Many Fabriq and Threads by Fabriq Services allow you to connect with external systems or databases that may contain information on your relationships, such as “connections” on social networks or other platforms.

Communication Metadata. Certain Fabriq and Threads by Fabriq Services may infer relationship information based on communication patterns. For example, any time communication is initiated within a Fabriq application, we may collect communication metadata including the individual contacted, the time, and the length or duration of the communication. We may similarly collect communication metadata from services you have elected to connect to Fabriq and/or Threads by Fabriq, such as email providers. In some cases, communication metadata may be collected directly from a device. We will not process the content of the communication unless you have explicitly asked us to do so (e.g., for purposes of contact extraction).

Notification Metadata. Certain Fabriq and Threads by Fabriq Services, like the “Communication Monitoring” feature available to Android users, require access to your Notification Center. We may collect information such as names of people you interact with and which 3rd-party apps (like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc.) those notifications originated from to identify possible connections and facilitate easier connection tracking.

While granting access to your Notifications on your device may allow more permissions, Fabriq only collects names and app names. We will not read, collect, or save any other content of these notifications or access any notification settings that you have set up.

If at any time you no longer wish for Fabriq to monitor your communications for recent connections this permission can be disabled in your native settings.

Appointment Data. If you have connected a calendar or scheduling service to Fabriq, we may collect information such as the appointment time, location, duration, and participants.

We use various technologies to collect information from your device and about your activities on our site or application.

We automatically collect information from your browser or device when you visit our website or application. This information could include your IP address, device ID, your browser type and language, access times, the content of any undeleted cookies that your browser previously accepted from us, and the referring website address.

When you visit our website or application, we may assign your device one or more cookies, to facilitate access to our site and to personalize your online experience. Through the use of a cookie, we also may automatically collect information about your online activity on our site, such as the pages you visit, the time and date of your visits, the links you click, and the searches you conduct on our site. During your visits to other websites or applications where we advertise, we (or third parties) may use certain data collected on our site to show you OurFabriq.com advertisements. If you choose to decline, disable, or prevent the setting of cookies, please note that you may not be able to sign in or use some of the interactive features offered on our website.

We use, store, and process information, including Personal Data, to provide, understand, improve, and develop our Services, create and maintain a trusted and safer environment, and comply with our legal obligations.

We may use standard Internet technology, such as web beacons and other similar technologies, to track your use of our site.

We may allow service providers, advertising companies, ad networks, and other third parties, to display advertisements on our site. We do not provide any non-anonymized personal information to these third parties.

What happens with that information

We may use information that we collect about you to:

• deliver our products and services, and manage our business;
• manage your account and provide you with customer support;
• perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products, services, or content, or products, services or content offered by others;
• communicate with you by email, postal mail, telephone and/or mobile devices about products or services that may be of interest to you either from us or other third parties;
• develop and display content and advertising tailored to your interests on our site and other sites, including providing our advertisements to you when you visit other sites;
• perform ad tracking and website or mobile application analytics;
• verify your eligibility and deliver prizes in connection with contests and sweepstakes;
• enforce or exercise any rights in our terms and conditions;
• perform functions as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.

We may use financial information or payment method information to (i) process payment for any purchases made on our website or application, (ii) enroll you in the discount, rebate, and other programs in which you elect to participate, (iii) to protect against or identify possible fraudulent transactions, and (iv) otherwise as needed to manage our business.

Who we may share your information with

We do not share your personal information with others except as indicated in this Privacy Policy or when we inform you and give you an opportunity to opt out of having your personal information shared. We may share personal information with:

We may share information, including personal information, with third parties that perform certain services on our behalf. These services may include fulfilling orders, providing customer service (including through our users who moderate flagged content for the Fabriq community) and marketing assistance, performing business and sales analysis, ad tracking and analytics, member screenings, supporting our website functionality, and supporting contests, sweepstakes, surveys and other features offered through our website.

We may also share your name, contact information and credit card information with our service providers who process credit card payments.

These service providers may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes.

When you register or make purchases on our website or click-through our advertisements offered on third party websites or applications, we may share personal information with the businesses with which we partner to offer you the applicable products, services or any advertisements. When you elect to engage in a particular merchant’s offer or program, you authorize us to provide your email address and other information to that merchant.

When you make purchases on our website or click-through our advertisements offered on third party websites, we may share personal information with the businesses with which we partner to offer you the applicable products, services or advertisements. When you elect to engage in a particular merchant’s offer or program, you authorize us to provide your email address and other information to that merchant.

We also may disclose your information, including personal information:

In response to a subpoena or similar investigative demand, a court order, or a request for cooperation from a law enforcement or other government agency; to establish or exercise our legal rights; to defend against legal claims; or as otherwise required by law. In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.

We also may disclose your information, including personal information when we believe disclosure is appropriate in connection with efforts to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property or safety of our company, our users, our employees, or others; to comply with applicable law or cooperate with law enforcement; or to enforce our website terms and conditions or other agreements or policies.

We also may disclose your information, including personal information in connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of our business, a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

We may share non-personal information we collect under any of the above circumstances:

We may combine non-personal information we collect with additional non-personal information collected from other sources. We also may share aggregated, non-personal, or personal information in hashed, non-human readable form, information with third parties, including advisors, writers, researchers, partners, advertisers and investors for the purpose of conducting general business analysis, studies, articles, and essays media and entertainment or other business purposes. For example, we may engage a data provider who may collect web log data from you (including IP address and information about your browser or operating system), or place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser to enable you to receive customized ads or content. The cookies may reflect de-identified demographic or other data linked to data you voluntarily have submitted to us (such as your email address), that we may share with a data provider solely in hashed, non-human readable form.

Accessing your information

If you have an online account with us, you have the ability to review and update your personal information online by logging into your account and clicking on Settings. More information about how to contact us is provided below. If you have an online account with us, you also may delete or disable your account or request deletion of data at any time by sending a written request to at hello@ourfabriq.com from the email address associated with the account. Please note that such deletion permanently removes the data from our server and from the accounts of whomever you sent it to, such that it is no longer visible or accessible to others through the service with the exception of certain information associated with your account for analytical purposes and record keeping integrity, as well as to prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, enforce our terms and conditions, take actions we deem necessary to protect the integrity of our website or our users, or take other actions otherwise permitted by law. In addition, if certain information has already been provided to third parties as described in this Privacy Policy, retention of that information will be subject to those third parties’ policies.

Your choices about collection and use of your information

You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but that may result in you being unable to use certain features of our website because such information may be required in order for you to register as a member; purchase products or services; participate in a contest, promotion, survey, or sweepstakes; ask a question; or initiate other transactions on our website.

When you register on our website, you consent to receive email messages from us. You may be given the opportunity, in any commercial email that we send to you, to opt out of receiving such messages in the future. We request a reasonable time to process an opt-out request. We may send you other types of transactional and relationship email communications, such as service announcements, administrative notices, and surveys, without offering you the opportunity to opt out of receiving them. Please note that changing information in your account, or otherwise opting out of receipt of promotional email communications, will only affect future activities or communications from us. If we have already provided your information to a third party (such as a service provider) before you have changed your preferences or updated your information, you may have to change your preferences directly with that third party.

Our applications may also deliver notifications to your phone or mobile device.

How we protect your personal information

We take appropriate security measures (including physical, electronic and procedural measures) to help safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access and disclosure. We want you to feel confident using our website to transact business. However, no system can be completely secure.

Therefore, although we take steps to secure your information, we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information, searches, or other communications will always remain secure. Users should also take care with how they handle and disclose their personal information and should avoid sending personal information through insecure email.

Information you provide about yourself while using our service

We provide areas on our websites where you can input and save information about yourself and others or upload content such as photographs.

No Rights of Third Parties

This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties or require disclosure of any personal information relating to users of the website.

Changes

We reserve the right to modify the terms of this Privacy Policy at any time and in our
sole discretion, without notice. When the Privacy Policy is changed, modified, and/or amended, the revised Privacy Policy will be posted on the Fabriq App. Modifications will be effective immediately. You should visit this web page periodically to review the Privacy Policy. You accept any such modifications to this Privacy Policy by continued use of Fabriq after such modifications are made.

How to Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, Fabriq can be reached by email at hello@ourfabriq.com or by mail at:

1444 Wazee St. Suite 130
Denver, CO 80202