Privacy Policy

FilipinoBlush is committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you make informed decisions about your personal information. We process your data in compliance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and other applicable data protection laws.

Controller

For the purposes of GDPR, the controller and operator of the FilipinoBlush App (hereinafter also referred to as the “App”) is TripGiraffe s.r.o., a company registered under the laws of the Czech Republic with the company registered number 072 66 855 and registered office at Kaprova 42/14, Staré Město, 110 00 Praha 1. The Company can be contacted via email at [email protected]

1. Acceptance of Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, handle, and safeguard your personal data. By using the App, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. This Privacy Policy applies only to the App and its services and does not cover any third-party apps linked from our App.

2. Information We Collect

Sign-up

When you create a profile on the App, you must provide certain personal data to use the App effectively. During registration, we collect the following mandatory details: first name, date of birth, gender, country of origin, city, and email address. Your email address is confidential and will not be shared with other users.

We may use your email to communicate with you about App-related news, updates, and offers relevant to your use of the App.

You may choose to provide additional information on your profile page, which will be publicly displayed. This optional information may include special category personal data, such as religious beliefs. Your explicit consent is required for the collection and use of this optional information and special category personal data. By accessing and using the App, you acknowledge that you understand your choices and consent to the collection and use of this data as outlined in this Privacy Policy. You also consent to the transfer of your special category personal data to our third-party service providers.

Application Usage Data In connection with using the App, we collect and process additional personal data, including:

  • Login Information: Email address and encrypted password.
  • User Settings: Choices related to the App’s appearance, such as color theme preferences.
  • Profile Information: Data displayed to other users, including name, date of birth, photo, and interests.
  • Search Preferences: User-defined criteria for searching other profiles, including location-based filters.
  • User Actions: Activities within the App, such as interactions with other users that enable the App’s core functions.
  • Chat Data: Information related to using the chat feature with other users.
  • User Activity: Data necessary for other unspecified functions, such as limits on likes and messages.
  • Technical Data: Information used to address reported technical issues, such as IP address and App usage logs.
  • Reports: Data related to reporting other users for violations of the Terms of Use.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

To enhance your experience with the FilipinoBlush App, we use cookies and similar tracking technologies, such as pixel tags and web beacons. These tools help us understand how users interact with the App and improve its functionality.

You can manage your cookie preferences through the App settings. Disabling cookies may affect the App’s performance and features. To completely opt out of third-party data collection, you can delete your App profile.

Necessary Cookies These cookies are essential for the App’s proper functioning, security, and display across all devices. They ensure that the App performs as intended, including features like “Exclusivity” and maintaining user preferences, such as color themes and measurement units. These cookies cannot be disabled.

Optional Cookies These cookies help us understand how the App is used. They allow us to track page visits, evaluate user behavior, detect issues, and gather data to improve the App. We process these cookies based on your consent, which you can withdraw anytime. Cookie processing preferences can be adjusted by clicking “Cookie Settings” in the Profile section.

Third-Party Services We use the following third-party services to process personal data:

  • Firebase (firebase.google.com) for authentication and app performance optimization.
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Rekognition, for automated photo screening, age estimation, optional profile verification and liveness processing, fraud prevention, and user safety. Our Amazon Rekognition service is configured to use the AWS Europe (Ireland) Region.
  • Sentry (www.sentry.io) for monitoring and fixing technical issues.
  • Google Analytics to collect and analyze App usage data, helping us understand user behavior and improve our services.
  • Facebook, Google Ads, and Google Ads Manager for analytics and app performance optimization.

3. Photo Screening, Face Data and Profile Verification

FilipinoBlush uses automated analysis of submitted photos to help maintain the safety, authenticity, and quality of profiles on the App.

There are two separate processes involving photos and facial information:

  1. Automated Photo Screening, which is applied to photos submitted to FilipinoBlush; and
  2. Optional Profile Verification and Liveness Check, which users may choose to complete in order to receive a profile verification badge.

Automated Photo Screening

Photos submitted to FilipinoBlush are automatically analyzed to determine whether they meet our photo and safety requirements.

As part of this process, photos may be analyzed for various characteristics and potential issues. These may include, but are not limited to, whether a photo contains a person and a detectable face, contains multiple people, has a face that is sufficiently visible for analysis, meets applicable image-quality requirements, or indicates that the person shown may be under 18. Photos may also be screened for other characteristics relevant to our photo, authenticity, and safety requirements.

This automated screening helps us prevent unsuitable photos, photos without a person, group photos, poor-quality photos, and photos indicating a potentially underage user from being accepted.

Photos and facial information required for this screening are processed using Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Rekognition.

Retention of Photos Submitted for Automated Screening

Photos that pass the automated screening process are not retained in our internal rejection-review system for the 30-day review purpose described below.

Where an accepted photo is used as a user’s profile photo, it is stored separately as part of the user’s profile and may remain available for as long as the user chooses to use that photo, until it is removed or replaced by the user, the account is deleted, or the photo is otherwise removed in accordance with our Terms of Use.

If a photo is rejected by the automated screening process, FilipinoBlush temporarily retains the rejected photo and associated screening information in our internal review system for up to 30 days.

Associated screening information may include the reason for rejection, information generated by the automated screening process such as an estimated age range, and relevant internal account information required to identify and review the screening decision.

We retain rejected photos for this limited period so that authorized FilipinoBlush personnel can:

  • review automated rejection decisions;
  • investigate potential errors or incorrect rejections;
  • evaluate whether our automated screening criteria and thresholds are appropriately calibrated; and
  • maintain and improve the accuracy, reliability, and safety of the photo-screening process.

After the 30-day retention period, rejected photos and associated face-screening information are deleted from our internal rejection-review system, unless longer retention is required by applicable law or is reasonably necessary to investigate fraud, abuse, a security incident, or a violation of our Terms of Use.

Optional Profile Verification and Liveness Check

FilipinoBlush also offers an optional profile verification process. This process is separate from the automated photo screening described above.

When a user chooses to complete profile verification, a liveness check and facial comparison may be performed to help verify that the person completing the verification corresponds to the person shown in the user’s profile photo.

The information processed and generated through this process may include video or images captured for the liveness check, facial information necessary to perform the verification, the profile photo used for comparison, and the result of the verification.

The liveness video is transmitted directly and securely from the user’s device to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for processing. It is not transmitted to or stored on FilipinoBlush’s own servers.

The purpose of this processing is to:

  • confirm that the person completing verification corresponds to the person represented by the profile;
  • reduce fake, fraudulent, or misleading profiles;
  • improve trust and safety within FilipinoBlush; and
  • determine whether the user qualifies for a profile verification badge.

Users who successfully complete the process may receive a verification badge displayed on their profile. The badge indicates to other users that the account has successfully completed FilipinoBlush’s profile verification process. Other users do not receive the underlying facial information or liveness data used to perform the verification.

How We Use Face Data

Photos, facial information, and information generated from automated analysis are used only as necessary for purposes related to:

  • screening photos against our photo and safety requirements;
  • detecting whether submitted photos contain a person and a detectable face;
  • detecting photos containing more than one person;
  • identifying photos that do not meet applicable image-quality requirements;
  • estimating whether a person shown in a photo may be under 18;
  • performing optional liveness and profile verification;
  • determining eligibility for and providing a profile verification badge;
  • reviewing automated rejection decisions;
  • evaluating and improving the accuracy and thresholds of our photo-screening and verification processes;
  • preventing fake or misleading profiles; and
  • preventing fraud, abuse, and violations of our Terms of Use.

Face data is not sold.

Face data is not used by FilipinoBlush for advertising, marketing, advertising profiling, or unrelated data mining.

Third-Party Processing of Face Data

Photos and facial information required for automated photo screening and optional profile verification may be transmitted to and processed by Amazon Web Services (AWS), including Amazon Rekognition, as a service provider supporting these functions.

Our Amazon Rekognition service is configured to use the AWS Europe (Ireland) Region.

For the optional liveness check, the liveness video is transmitted directly and securely from the user’s device to AWS for processing and is not transmitted to or stored on FilipinoBlush’s own servers.

Face data is not shared with other FilipinoBlush users. Other users may only see information intended to be displayed through the App, such as the user’s profile photo and whether the user has received a verification badge.

Rejected photos and associated screening information may be accessed by authorized FilipinoBlush personnel where reasonably necessary to review screening decisions, investigate errors, and evaluate the operation of the screening system.

We do not sell face data to AWS or any other third party.

Security of Face Data

We use appropriate technical and organizational measures designed to protect submitted photos, face data, screening results, and verification information against unauthorized access, use, alteration, disclosure, or loss.

Access to rejected photos and associated screening information retained in our internal review system is limited to authorized personnel who require access for the purposes described above.

Deletion and Retention of Face Data

For the optional profile verification process, the liveness video is transmitted directly and securely from the user’s device to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for processing. The liveness video is not transmitted to or stored on FilipinoBlush’s own servers.

Rejected photos and associated screening information retained in our internal rejection-review system are deleted after a maximum of 30 days, subject to the limited exceptions described above.

Profile photos are retained as part of a user’s profile until they are removed or replaced, the user’s account is deleted, or they are otherwise removed in accordance with our Terms of Use.

Users may request deletion of their personal data in accordance with the Subject Rights section of this Privacy Policy and may delete their account using the account deletion functionality available in the App.

Requests concerning photos, face data, or profile verification information may also be submitted to [email protected].

4. Direct Marketing

By using the App, we may process your personal data for direct marketing purposes based on legitimate interest. This legitimate interest includes sending you marketing communications related to our products and services. You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for these purposes at any time.

5. Data Processing Duration

We will retain your personal data only as long as it is necessary for our legitimate business interests and in compliance with applicable laws. We will delete any personal data we hold about you when:

We no longer require the personal data for the purposes for which it was initially collected and have no other legal basis to keep it; and we are not legally required or compelled by regulations or court orders to retain that information.

If any of your information has been shared with third parties in line with this Privacy Policy, its retention will be governed by the relevant third party’s policies.

6. When We Disclose Your Personal Data

We share your personal information with third-party service providers who help manage our database, send emails, collect and analyze data, and support the App’s functionality. Some of these providers are based outside the EU.

All providers are contractually required to protect your information with similar safeguards to ours, but you are not a third-party beneficiary of these agreements. We do not sell your personal data.

We may disclose personal data to legal authorities to address violations, illegal activities, or as required by law. Additionally, in the event of a merger, sale, or bankruptcy, your information may be shared.

7. Subject Rights

You have the right to access, correct, delete, or restrict the processing of your personal data. You may also request the transfer of your data to another service provider in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, where technically feasible.

If you believe that your rights have been violated or that the processing of your personal data is not in compliance with data protection regulations, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority.

You have the right to request information about the extent of your personal data that we process. To do so, please contact us via email at [email protected]. We will provide this information to you within one month of your request.

If we process your personal data based on your consent, such as optional details you provide, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before the withdrawal. You can withdraw your consent and delete this optional information through the App’s profile settings.

If we process your personal data based on legitimate interest, such as the personal information required during the sign-up process to provide our service, you have the right to object to this processing at any time. Should you disagree with this processing, you may choose to delete the application.

If you believe that the personal data we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to request that we update or complete this information.

You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data if it is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, if you have withdrawn your consent, or if it was processed unlawfully.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at [email protected].

8. Information You Share with Others

We are not responsible for how others use or manage any personal data you choose to share with them. It is important for you to exercise caution when sharing any personal information within the App. We strongly advise against disclosing sensitive information, such as your full address, financial details, or any other private data, to other users. Protecting your privacy and security is essential, and being mindful of what you share can help safeguard your personal data.

9. Age Restrictions

FilipinoBlush is not intended for individuals under 18. If we find that a user is under 18, their account will be terminated.

We do not knowingly collect any information from individuals under the age of 18.

10. Data Security

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect your personal data in accordance with applicable legal regulations.

11. Modification of the Terms

We reserve the right to modify these Privacy Policy at any time. Your continued use of the App following any changes to these Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the new Privacy Policy.

12. Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns about these Privacy Policy, you can contact us at: [email protected]

This Privacy Policy are effective as of October 10th 2024

This Privacy Policy were last updated on August 19th, 2026