Privacy Policy

currently is operated by Currently Ltd, of Top Floor Flat, 44a Brandon St, London, SE17 1NL.

For data protection purposes, we are the controller of the personal information described in this policy.

If you have questions about privacy or want to exercise your rights, contact us at [email protected].

Information you give us

When you create and use a currently account, you may provide information such as your:

• name;
• username;
• email address;
• profile photo;
• city or location shown on your profile;
• bio and profile information;
• picks, recommendations and notes;
• comments and other content you post;
• people you follow or interact with;
• saved items;
• messages you send through currently; and
• communications with us, including support requests and feedback.

If you sign in using Apple or Google, we receive the information that provider makes available to us in accordance with the permissions you choose, such as your name, email address and account identifier.

Information collected when you use currently

We may collect technical information needed to operate, secure and improve the service, including:

• device and browser information;
• IP address;
• login and authentication information;
• pages or features you use;
• interactions with the service;
• error and diagnostic information; and
• security and fraud-prevention information.

Location

If you choose to use a location-based feature such as Around me, currently may process your device location to show you relevant places nearby.

We do not use your location for advertising.

Your device or browser controls whether currently has permission to access your location.

We use your information to provide and operate currently, including to create and maintain your account, display your profile and picks, enable following and social features, save things for you, provide messaging, personalise your experience and respond to requests you make.

We also use information where reasonably necessary to maintain and improve the service, understand how features are being used, troubleshoot problems, protect currently and its users, prevent abuse and enforce our Terms.

Where you have asked us to do something optional that requires your permission, such as accessing your device location or sending certain marketing communications, we rely on your consent where required.

We may also process information where necessary to comply with our legal obligations or establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

Under UK and European data protection law, the legal bases we rely on will generally be performance of our contract with you, our legitimate interests in operating and improving currently, your consent where appropriate, and compliance with legal obligations.

currently is a social service. Information you choose to publish through your profile, including your profile information, picks, comments and social connections, may be visible to other currently users or publicly where the relevant feature is public.

Please consider this when deciding what to post.

Items you save for yourself are not displayed publicly.

Messages are visible to the people participating in the conversation. currently may access message information where reasonably necessary to operate the service, investigate safety or security issues, provide support or comply with legal obligations.

We will make privacy controls clear wherever a feature allows you to choose who can see something.

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share information with companies that help us operate currently, such as providers of hosting, databases, authentication, email, analytics, search, maps, content information, security and technical infrastructure.

These providers may process information only as necessary to provide their services to us and subject to the applicable contractual and legal protections.

Where you choose to connect to or use a third-party service — for example Apple or Google for authentication, or an external service linked from a Pick — that third party may receive information directly from you and will process it under its own privacy policy.

We may also disclose information where reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to valid legal process, protect the rights or safety of currently or others, investigate fraud or abuse, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganisation or sale of the business.

currently may use cookies, local storage and similar technologies that are necessary to keep you signed in, remember your preferences, maintain security and operate the service.

If we use non-essential analytics, advertising or similar technologies that require your consent, we will ask for that consent and provide a way for you to change your preferences.

Some of the companies that provide infrastructure or other services to currently may process information outside the United Kingdom or European Economic Area.

Where data protection law requires safeguards for these transfers, we use an approved legal mechanism, such as an adequacy decision or appropriate contractual safeguards.

We keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.

In general, information connected with your account is retained while your account remains active.

If you delete content or your account, we will delete or anonymise the relevant information from our active systems within a reasonable period, except where we need to retain information for legitimate security, fraud-prevention, dispute-resolution, backup or legal purposes.

We may retain anonymised information that can no longer reasonably be linked to you.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights over your personal information.

These may include the right to ask us for a copy of your information, correct inaccurate information, delete information, restrict or object to certain uses of your information, and receive certain information in a portable format.

Where we rely on your consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before you withdrew it.

You can exercise these rights by contacting [email protected].

If you are in the United Kingdom, you also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. If you are elsewhere in the UK or European data protection regime, you may have the right to complain to your relevant supervisory authority.

You can request deletion of your currently account and associated personal information through account deletion location in the product or by contacting [email protected].

Some information may remain for a limited period in backups or where retention is required for legal, security or fraud-prevention reasons.

Content involving other users may not disappear completely when your account is deleted. For example, a conversation involving another person may need to retain enough information to preserve that person’s copy of the conversation.

currently is intended for people aged minimum age and over.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from someone who is not permitted to use currently, we will take appropriate steps to delete the information and close the account.

If you believe a child has provided us with personal information in breach of this requirement, contact [email protected].

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information from unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.

No internet service can guarantee absolute security.

We may update this Privacy Policy as currently develops.

If a change materially affects how we use your personal information, we will provide appropriate notice before the change takes effect where required.

The date at the top of this policy shows when it was last updated.

Questions, requests or concerns about privacy can be sent to:

[email protected]
Currently Ltd
44a Brandon St
Top Floor Flat
London
SE17 1NL