Welcome to www.makestories.io, the website, mobile and online service of Eszmeletlen Holding Co. (“Make Stories”, “we”, or “us”). Our Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information that applies to our Service, and your choices about the collection and use of your information. Capitalized terms that are not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meaning given to them in our Terms of Service. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy in general or any part of it, you should not use our online or mobile services.

1. Information we collect

We collect the following types of information about you:

Information you provide us directly and its use

We may ask for certain information such as a username, your first and last names, birthdate, phone number, profession and e-mail address when you register for an account with our Service, or if you correspond with us. We also collect any messages you send us through the Service, and may collect information you provide in User Content you post to the Service (such as text, videos and photos you upload to use in your designs) or that you create using the Service such as the AMP Stories. From time to time, we may also ask you optionally to provide other information. If you choose to provide such information, during registration or otherwise, you are giving us the permission to use and store it consistent with this policy. We use this information to operate, maintain, and provide the features and functionality of the Service to you, to correspond with you, and to address any issues you raise about the Service.

Information we receive from third parties

We may receive information about you from third parties. For example, if you access our websites or Service through a third-party connection or log-in, for example, through Facebook by linking your account to our Service, etc., that third party may pass certain information about your use of its service to us. This information could include, but is not limited to, the user ID associated with your account (for example, your Facebook UID), an access token necessary to access that service, any information that you have permitted the third party to share with us, and any information you have made public in connection with that service. You should always review, and if necessary, adjust your privacy settings on third-party websites and services before linking or connecting them to our Service. You may also unlink your third party account from the Service by adjusting your settings on the third party service. If you unlink your third party account, we will no longer receive information collected about you in connection with that service.

If you access our Service through a third-party connection, such as Google, we do not store or use any information received from those third parties for any purpose other than to provide or improve the Service.

Information we collect from you automatically

We will directly collect analytics data, or use third-party analytics tools, to help us measure traffic and usage trends for the Service. These tools collect information sent by your browser or mobile device, including the pages you visit and other information (in respect of which, please see the paragraph on log file information below) that assists us in improving the Service. For more information on the analytics cookies we use and how to opt out of third parties collecting this information, please see our Cookies Policy.

Cookies information and information taken from similar technologies

When you visit the Service, we will send cookies — small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters — to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser and lets Make Stories help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through the site. A cookie may also convey information to us about how you use the Service (e.g., the pages you view, the links you click and other actions you take on the Service), and allow us or our business partners to track your usage of the Service over time.

You can control or reset your cookies and similar technologies through your web browser, which will allow you to customize your cookie preferences and to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the Service may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled. For more information on how we use cookies and other technologies and how you can control them, please read our Cookies Policy.

Third party advertisements displayed in connection with the Service may also contain cookies set by internet advertisers. We do not control these cookies and users of the Services should check the privacy policy of such advertisers to see whether and how it uses cookies.

Log file information

Log file information is automatically reported by your browser or mobile device each time you access the Service. When you use our Service, our servers automatically record certain log file information. These server logs may include anonymous information such as your web request, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of clicks and how you interact with links on the Service, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other such information.

Clear gifs/web beacons information

When you use the Service, we may employ clear GIFs (also known as web beacons) which are used to anonymously track the online usage patterns of our Users. In addition, we may also use clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened and which links are clicked by recipients. This information allows for more accurate reporting and improvement of the Service.

We may also implement third party content, such as advertising, on the Service that uses "clear gifs," "web beacons," or other similar techniques, which allow the third party content provider to read and write cookies to your browser, or implement similar tracking mechanisms, in connection with your viewing of that third party content displayed on the Service. This information is collected directly by the third party, and Make Stories does not participate in that data transmission. Information collected by third parties in this manner is subject to that third party’s own data collection, use, and disclosure policies.

Device identifiers

When you access the Service by or through a mobile device (including but not limited to smart-phones or tablets), we may access, collect, monitor and/or remotely store one or more “device identifiers,” such as a universally unique identifier (“UUID”). Device identifiers are small data files or similar data structures stored on or associated with your mobile device, which uniquely identifies your mobile device. A device identifier may be data stored in connection with the device hardware, data stored in connection with the device’s operating system or other software, or data sent to the device by Make Stories. A device identifier may convey information to us about how you browse and use the Service. A device identifier may remain persistently on your device, to help you log in faster and enhance your navigation through the Service. Some features of the Service may not function properly if use or availability of device identifiers is impaired or disabled.

Location data

You may enter your location in your profile when you sign up for an account with our Service. We may also collect and store information about your location if you enable your computer or mobile device to send us location information. You may be able to change the settings on your computer or mobile device to prevent it from providing us with such information. Location data will convey to us information about how you browse and use the Service and enable us to offer you localised content.

2. How we use your information

We use the information we collect about you for the purposes set out above which we have described in more detail below:

• Providing you with the Service: We use the information that you provide us to provide the Service to you. This includes allowing you to log in to Make Stories, operating and maintaining the Service, giving you access to all of the features found on the Service and billing you for transactions that you make via the Service. We also use information we collect about you automatically to remember information about you so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the site.
• For data analytics: We use information about you to help us improve our Service and our users’ experience, including by monitoring aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns.
• For data analytics: We use information about you to help us improve our Service and our users’ experience, including by monitoring aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns.
• Customising the Service for you: We may use information you provide us and information about you to make sure that your use of the Service is customised to your needs. For example, if you tell us your preferences we may recommend designs/features that are likely to be relevant to you.
• To communicate with you about the Service: We use your contact information to get in touch with you and to send communications about critical elements of the Service. For example, we may send you emails about technical issues, security alerts or administrative matters.
• To promote and drive engagement with our Service: We use your contact information to get in touch with you about features and offers relating to the Service that we think you would be interested in. We also use information we collect about you to make sure that you get the most relevant offers and promotions based on your use of the Service, and your preferences. You can opt-out of getting these communications as described below.
• Customer support: We use information about you, information that you provide to our customer support team, and information about your interactions with the Service to resolve technical issues you experience with the Service, and to ensure that we can repair and improve the Service for all our users.
• For security measures: We use information about you to monitor activity that we think is suspicious or potentially fraudulent, and to identify violations of this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service.
• For matters that you specifically consent to: From time to time we may seek your consent to use your information for a particular purpose. Where you consent to our doing so, we will use it for that purpose. Where you no longer want us to use your information for that purpose you may withdraw your consent to this use.
• For matters that we are required to use your information by law: We will use or disclose your information where we reasonably believe that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement; (b) to enforce our Terms of Service or to protect the security or integrity of our Service; and/or (c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Make Stories, our Users or others.

Legal bases for processing information under the GDPR (for users in the EEA)

For Make Stories users in the European Economic Area (EEA) we process your information in accordance with European laws and regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR governs how we may process your information, and the rights that EEA users have in relation to it.

This means that we will collect and use your information only where:

• We need it to provide you the Service and fulfil our obligations to you under our Terms of Service. This includes providing you with access to the information that you create in your AMP Stories.
• It is in our legitimate interests to provide a useful Service, to send you marketing and to enhance our Service via research and development.
• You consent to us using your information in a certain way – for example, to hear about new features or offers.
• It is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations.

If you have consented to our use of your information you can withdraw that consent at any time. Depending on the situation you can either withdraw your consent by emailing at [email protected], or through your account settings page. Where we are using your information because of a legitimate interest to do so, you have the right to object to that use. However, if you do so it may mean that it is not possible for you to continue using the Services.

For the purposes of the GDPR, Eszmeletlen Holding Co. is the data controller with registered address at 702, Tridev 1 CHSL, Bhakti Marg, Mulund West, Mumbai, India - 400080. If you have any queries about our Privacy Policy, please contact at [email protected]

3.Sharing your information

We will not rent or sell your information to third parties outside Make Stories and its group companies (including any parent, subsidiaries and affiliates) without your consent, except as noted in this section:

(a) Who we share your information with We share your information with third-party service providers for the purpose of providing the Service to you and to facilitate our legitimate interests in providing a service which is useful to you. Those service providers will only be provided with access to your information as is reasonably necessary for the purpose that we have engaged the service provider, and we will require that such third parties comply with this Privacy Policy, appropriate data processing terms and any applicable laws.

Some of the third parties that we may share your personal information with include providers who assist us with functions such as:

• Billing
• Customer support and customer management
• Email services
• Hosting and storage
• Analytics
• Delivery of physical products
• Features available on the Service such as Stock Materials and other assets for creating AMP Stories.

(b) Who you can choose to share your User Content with Any information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to the Service, such as User Content, becomes available to the public, as controlled by any applicable privacy settings. Subject to your profile and privacy settings, any User Content that you make public is searchable by other Users. If you remove information that you posted to the Service, copies remain viewable in cached and archived pages of the Service, or if other Users have copied or saved that information.

You may share your AMP Stories to your social media accounts, including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Tumblr. You should ensure that you familiarise yourself with the privacy policies of each of these services and any privacy settings that may apply to the AMP Stories you choose to share on those accounts.

c) Sharing with other third parties

Make Stories will also share your information with third parties in certain circumstances, such as where:

• We are required to do so as a result of a court order, direction or other legal requirement;
• We believe that it is necessary to protect you or Make Stories, such as where we consider that there is a need to investigate potentially fraudulent or criminal activity;
• You have consented to our sharing it with a third party for a particular purpose;
• You or your account administrator elects to install third party apps that interact with our Service. These third-party apps are not controlled by us, and this privacy policy does not cover how third-party apps use your information. You should review the terms and conditions of any third party apps before connecting them to the Service. If you object to information about you being shared with these third parties, do not install the app.

We will also share your information with a third party in circumstances where we sell, divest or transfer Make Stories (including any interest or shares in Make Stories), or any combination of its products, services, assets and/or businesses to a third party. Information such as customer names and email addresses, User Content and other user information related to the Service may be among the items sold or otherwise transferred in these types of transactions. We will also sell, assign or otherwise transfer such information in the event of corporate divestitures, mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcies, dissolutions, reorganisations, liquidations, similar transactions or proceedings involving all or a portion of Make Stories. You will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on the Service if such a transaction takes place and be given notice of any material changes to the way we handle your data under this policy.

We may also aggregate or otherwise strip data of all personally identifying characteristics and may share that aggregated, anonymized data with third parties.

4. Ads on Make Stories

At the platform level, MakeStories does not display or facilitate the display of personalized advertisements ("ads"). However, content generated through the MakeStories platform, such as web stories, may incorporate advertisements that target viewer behaviors. MakeStories does not have any affiliation with, nor does it transmit or share any data with, third-party ad partners. Any data used for targeting ads within web stories is independently collected and managed by the respective ad providers. MakeStories merely provides a mechanism to enable users to configure their preferred ad providers within the content they create on the platform.

5. How we transfer, store and protect your data

Your information collected through the Service will be stored and processed in the United States of America, India and any other country in which Make Stories or its subsidiaries, affiliates or service providers maintain facilities. We transfer information that we collect about you, including personal information, to affiliated entities, and to other third parties across borders and from your country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions around the world. As a result, we may transfer information, including personal information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as your jurisdiction, and you consent to the transfer of information to the United States of America, India or any other country in which Make Stories or its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates or service providers maintain facilities and the use and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.

6. Cross-border transfers of information (for users in the EEA)

For Users in the EEA, where we transfer your information to a third party provider that is not located in the EEA, and is not subject to an adequacy decision by the EU Commission, we will require those third party providers to enter into an agreement that provides appropriate safeguards for your information, including by using the EU Model Clauses.

7. Keeping your information safe

We care about the security of your information, and use appropriate safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of all information collected through the Service. To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a unique password) to verify your identity before granting you access to your account. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information, and for controlling access to your email communications from Make Stories, at all times. However, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or guarantee that information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. Your privacy settings may also be affected by changes to the functionality of third party sites and services that you add to our Service, such as social networks. We are not responsible for the functionality or security measures of any third party.

8. Compromise of information

In the event that any information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation and where appropriate, notify those individuals whose information may have been compromised and take other steps, in accordance with any applicable laws and regulations.

9. Your choices about your information

(a) You control your account information and settings

You may update your account information by logging into your account and changing your profile settings. You can also stop receiving promotional email communications from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe link” provided in such communications. We make every effort to promptly process all unsubscribe requests.

You may not opt out of Service-related communications (e.g., account verification, purchase and billing confirmations and reminders, changes/updates to features of the Service, technical and security notices) although you can object to us providing these emails by emailing at [email protected]

If you have any questions about reviewing or modifying your account information, you can contact us directly at [email protected]

(b) Opting out of collection of your information

Please refer to your mobile device or browser’s technical information for instructions on how to delete and disable cookies, and other tracking/recording tools. Depending on your type of device, it may not be possible to delete or disable tracking mechanisms on your mobile device. Note that disabling cookies and/or other tracking tools prevents us or our business partners from tracking your browser’s activities in relation to the Service, and for use in targeted advertising activities by us, including via third parties’ websites. However, doing so may disable many of the features available through the Service. If you have any questions about opting out of the collection of cookies and other tracking/recording tools, please read our Cookies Policy or you can contact us directly at [email protected]

(c) Rights in respect of your Information

The laws of some countries grant particular rights in respect of personal information. In certain circumstances, users in the EEA have the right to:

• Request a copy of your information;
• Request that we correct inaccuracies relating to your information;
• Request that your information be deleted or that we restrict access to it;
• Request a structured electronic version of your information; and
• Object to our use of your information.

Should you wish to make a request in respect of your personal information please contact us at [email protected] You also have the right to object to our processing of personal data about you in order to send you marketing and we will stop processing data for that purpose.

In some circumstances we will not be able to comply with a request that you make in respect of your personal data. For example, we may not be able to provide a copy of your information where it infringes on the rights of another User. We may also be required to retain certain information that you ask us to delete for various reasons, such as where there is a legal requirement to do so. In some cases, you may have shared your information with third parties, such as by publishing a design on a third party’s website. In that case we will not be able to delete the information, and you will need to contact that third party directly.

Where you have provided your consent to certain processing and no longer want us to use your information for that purpose, you may withdraw your consent to this use, although this will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

10. How long we keep your information

Following termination or deactivation of your User account, we will retain your profile information and User Content for a commercially reasonable time, and for as long as we have a valid purpose to do so. In particular, we will retain your information for the purpose of complying with our legal and audit obligations, and for backup and archival purposes.

11. Children’s privacy

We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from children under the age of 18 and the Service and its content are not directed at children under the age of 18. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at [email protected]

12. Links to other websites and services

We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites or services linked to or from the Service, including the information or content contained therein. Please remember that when you use a link to go from the Service to another website, our Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites or services. Your browsing and interaction on any third-party website or service, including those that have a link or advertisement on our website, are subject to that third party’s own rules and policies. In addition, you agree that we are not responsible for and we do not exercise control over any third-parties that you authorize to access your User Content. If you are using a third-party website or service (like Facebook) and you allow such a third-party access to your User Content you do so at your own risk. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information we collect by other means (including offline) or from other sources other than through the Service.

13. Changes to this Policy

We may update this policy from time to time to reflect our current practice and ensure compliance with applicable laws. When we post changes to this policy, we will revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy. If we make any material changes to the way we collect, use, store and/or share your personal information, we will notify you by prominently posting notice of the changes on our website and/or sending an email to the email address associated with your account with us. We recommend that you check this page from time to time to inform yourself of any changes.

14. How to contact us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the Service, or wish to make a complaint please contact us at: [email protected]

15. Compliance with YouTube API and Google Policies

We utilize YouTube API Services as part of our platform features. By using MakeStories, you acknowledge and agree to the following:

1. YouTube Terms of Service By interacting with any features of MakeStories that utilize YouTube API Services, you agree to be bound by the YouTube Terms of Service.
2. Google Privacy Policy Your data is handled in accordance with the Google Privacy Policy when using features powered by YouTube API Services. For additional information, please review how YouTube manages your data.
3. Revoking Access to YouTube Data If you have granted MakeStories access to your YouTube data via the YouTube API, you may revoke this access at any time through the Google security settings page, available here.
4. Use of YouTube API Services MakeStories integrates YouTube API Services to provide seamless functionality. This integration ensures secure data handling and adheres to YouTube’s policies and guidelines.