Privacy Policy

Last updated October, 13,  2023

Thank you for using The MŌN App!

The MŌN App is a social network based on voice and audio chats. Our products include our iOS and Android apps and our website (our "Products”). Among other things, our Products allow you to use your voice to interact with others in real-time through “Conversations” (what we call the different types of audio conversations, including “Chats,” “Live Rooms,” and “Memos,” you can have using our Products), and to share recordings of those interactions for others to enjoy (or participate in) later.

When you use our Products, you provide personal information to us. We wrote this privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) to help you understand what personal information we collect, how we use it and disclose it, how long we retain it, and what choices you have about it. This Policy does not cover information that does not identify you. Nor does it cover the practices of The MŌN App users. Users who listen to you speak on The MŌN App, or view information you share on The MŌN App, might save that information outside of our Products using other tools.

You may have specific privacy rights in your state or region. In the United States, residents of California and other states have specific privacy rights. Residents of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the UK, Brazil, the Republic of Korea, and other jurisdictions also have specific rights

These additional disclosures supplement, and should be read together with, this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

A. Information You Provide

When you use The MŌN App, we collect personal information that you provide to us. This includes:

Account Information

When you set up an account, we may ask you to provide information about yourself, including your name, phone number, email address, and date of birth. If you use our Products as a guest without setting up an account, we may ask you to provide your name, phone number or other information.

Biographical Information

We may also ask you to provide us with some additional personal information about you that will be visible in our Products, such as a profile picture, and a bio in your profile to tell others more about you. When you change your profile picture we store a copy of the new picture you upload and retain all profile pictures you uploaded previously for trust and safety purposes and in accordance with our data retention policies.

Social Media And Contact Information

You may choose to connect your other social media accounts, or sync your contacts.

B. Information We Get When You Use Our Products

When you use our Products, we collect additional personal information based on your activity and other personal information you might choose to provide. This includes:

Usage And Activity Information

We collect information about when and how you use our Products. Among other things, this includes transcriptions of certain Conversations; information about Conversations; Conversations you create; Conversations you participate in; Conversations you join; and Replays you create. It also includes who you follow, what Houses or communities you create or join, web pages you visit, links you share, content you share to other platforms through integrations (i.e. social sharing), queries you submit, and what kind of content you’re interested in.

Audio Conversations

  • Chats. Chats are audio conversations you can have on The MŌN App that occur asynchronously with other users, and which may also contain attachments like links or images. With Chats, the content you create can be shared with groups of users or user networks more publicly. (As detailed in our Terms of Service). Chats will appear in other users’ “feeds” and in other parts of the app, and in some cases may be shared by other users outside of The MŌN App. Chats are shared with others according to the privacy settings of the user that created the Chat (the “Chat Creator”). This means you can share Chats you create with your friends, your friends and their friends, or participants in a Community. We retain your Chats indefinitely, unless you delete them, so that they can be played back by other users. A full Chat conversation may be deleted by the Chat Creator, or a specific audio comment (a section of an audio Chat or Memo) within a conversation may be deleted by the person who created it. A “Community” is a community you can join with users, where you can participate in Chats,and Live Rooms, and interact in different ways.

  • Voice Memos (“Memos”). Direct voice messages, which we call “memos” or “Messages,” are voice conversations allowing you to send audio content privately to one person or a group of people (unlike Chats, which are voice conversations that you may share more publicly). These Chats may also contain attachments like links or images. We retain Memos indefinitely so that they can be replayed by the conversation participants, unless Memo audio comments are individually deleted by the comment creator. If you start a Memo, or participate in a Memos with one or more users, those users will appear in the “Recently Chatting With” section of your profile, which will be displayed to your friends. Friends who visit your profile may press on a user’s photo (or group of user photos) that is displayed in the “Recently Chatting With” section to start a separate, new group conversation with you and the other user(s). Users who use the “Recently Chatting” feature to start a new Memo conversation with you and others will not enter the previous Memo conversation, nor can they listen to the content of the previous Memo conversation. The audio content of your previous Memo conversation will remain private only to you and your other Memo participants.

  • Live conversations (“Live Rooms”). We record all real-time, live audio Conversations (called “Live Rooms” on The MŌN App) so that we can investigate any complaints regarding violations of our Community Guidelines or our Terms of Service, or otherwise illegal or illicit activity. This is part of our commitment to users under our Terms of Service to work to provide a safe space for their Conversations and combat illegal and harmful conduct and content. If we receive a complaint while the Room is live, we will review the recording to determine whether a violation has occurred. We will retain the recording as long as reasonably necessary to investigate the potential violation. Otherwise, we delete the recording shortly after the Room ends.

  • Replays. We record conversations that occur in Live Rooms and make them available to other users where the Room creator instructs us to do so by enabling the “Replay” feature. When Replays are enabled, the recording will be stored by The MŌN App and may be made available to other users on The MŌN App at the Room creator’s instruction. Replays may also be available outside of The MŌN App.

We may review the contents of any audio Conversation if a user reports, or we otherwise detect, a potential trust and safety violation or potentially illegal or illicit activity. We may proactively assess or review any type of audio content uploaded to the platform to maintain our users’ safety and to detect and prevent illegal activities. We may also temporarily generate transcripts of content in order to review it for safety reasons.

Text Messages

We store text-based messages you send to and receive from other users and information about those messages, including the messages you send via Room Chat or other messaging features in the Products, including historical Backchannel conversations. We review the contents of these messages if a user reports, or we otherwise detect, a potential trust and safety violation or potentially illegal or illicit activity.

Other Communications

We collect information about the messages you send us when you contact us with questions or feedback, including the contents of those messages.

Contacts

If you give us permission to sync your contacts, we will store identifiers known as hash values derived from the phone numbers of your contacts, and we will update your contacts periodically. Similarly, if you invite somebody to join The MŌN App, we will store a hash value derived from the phone number you provide. We do not collect names, email addresses, or any other information associated with your contacts.

Log Data And Device Information

We may collect information from and about the devices you use. In particular, we may collect information about log-in authentication attempts and successful authentications, your hardware and software, such as the hardware model, operating system version, device memory, unique application identifiers, apps installed, unique device identifiers, browser type, and information about your wireless and mobile network connections, such as mobile phone number, service provider, IP address, and signal strength.

Cookie Information

We use cookies (small text files sent by your computer each time you visit our website, unique to your The MŌN App account or your browser) to get log data. Some of these cookies are used to help us understand how you use our Products, how many people use our service, and how they use it. Other cookies are used to help us track the efficiency of our advertising campaigns on other platforms. 

Web and Logged-out Activity

If you visit any web pages on The MŌN App, with or without being logged into an account; or, if you participate in The MŌN App features or create content as a guest (i.e., where we do not require you to log in or have a registered account), we may collect and retain information associated with you, including identifiers such as your name or phone number, device information, session information, details of your activity, cookies, or other information.

C. Information From Third Parties

Social Media Information

If you link your The MŌN App account to X (Twitter), Instagram, or any other social media services, we may receive information from those other services. The information we receive will depend on the privacy settings on those other services.

Service Providers

We may also receive information about you from our service providers.

D. Information About Guests

We may allow you to use our Products to a limited extent without opening an account, such as by allowing you to join a Conversation (which may include a Chat or a Live Room) or a House for a limited amount of time using a link, contributing audio content to a Conversation, or accepting invitations for Conversations scheduled for a future date. By choosing to use our Product without an account, you agree that you will comply with our Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, and any other policies The MŌN App makes available in order to maintain the safety of our Products. We will only allow you to do so if you agree to our Terms like any other user must. Similarly, all provisions of our Terms, our Privacy Policy, and our Community Guidelines apply to you the same as they do for any other user.

E. Information About Non-Users

The MŌN App users may sync their contact lists to The MŌN App in order to help The MŌN App connect them to existing users, invite new users, and to connect users and their contacts with one another on The MŌN App. Similarly, users may send people invitations through various methods, including manually entering a telephone number, posting an invitation, and sharing a link. In either case, the only information The MŌN App stores is a hash value derived from the phone number. The MŌN App does not collect names or any other information associated with your contacts, and we do not share the hash values we collect or make them available to others.

2. How We Use The Information We Collect

We use the personal information we collect to provide our Products to you and to improve them. Specifically, we use the data we collect to:

  • Register your account, verify your identity (e.g., checking that your phone number belongs to you), and verify the accuracy of your information.

  • Develop, operate, improve, maintain, and protect our Products.

  • Personalize our Products. As set out in our Terms of Service, we use the information we collect to personalize our Products in a number of ways. For more information on personalization, see our Personalization FAQ.

  • Send you communications. For example, we may use email, text messages, or app-based notifications to respond to support inquiries, share information about our Products, and tell you what’s happening on The MŌN App.

  • Verify and enhance the safety and security of our Products.

  • Verify and analyze user engagement, trends, and usage.

  • Assess the efficiency of our advertising campaigns on other platforms.

  • Handle and record user rights requests, including opt-ins and opt-outs.

  • Prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity.

  • Enforce, investigate, and report conduct violating our Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, or other policies.

  • Respond to requests from law enforcement agencies or other government agencies, and comply with legal or regulatory requirements.

3. How We Disclose The Information We Collect

We do not sell personal information about our users. We may, however, disclose that information to:

Other online services you connect to your The MŌN App account.

If you choose to link your The MŌN App account to X (Twitter), Instagram, or any other services, we may disclose information to those other services at your direction when using our Products.

Services we use to market The MŌN App

When we market our Products we may disclose information to the websites and apps we use to market our Products, including Facebook, Google, X (Twitter), Microsoft, LinkedIn, Trade Desk, or others.

Service providers and other third parties

We employ third parties to process information on our behalf based on our instructions and for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providers of services relating to cloud computing, analytics, security, enforcement of content policies (including our Community Guidelines), and user support.

Law enforcement or governmental or non-governmental organizations

If we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request; to protect the safety, rights or property of the public, any person or The MŌN App; or to detect, prevent or otherwise address illegal conduct, fraud, security or technical issues, we may disclose information to law enforcement agencies, other governmental agencies, or private parties as needed.

Our wholly owned subsidiaries and affiliates

If we were to engage in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganization, or similar transaction or proceeding that involves the transfer of the information described in this Policy, we would disclose your information to parties involved in such a process (for example, a purchaser).

4. How Long We Keep Information

We keep your personal information only for as long as we reasonably need it to provide our Products to you and fulfill the purposes described in this Policy. This is also the case for anyone that we disclose your personal information to and who carries out services on our behalf. In general, this means we will retain your personal information for as long as you have a The MŌN App account.

For users located in the EEA, the UK or Brazil, you’ll find specific data retention periods for the different purposes of processing under Justifications for Data Processing in the Notice to European and Brazilian Data Subjects.

We may delete some personal information earlier based on changes to your account settings, such as if you instruct us to delete your Contacts. When we no longer need to use your personal information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, we’ll remove any information that can identify you from our systems.

As explained above, we record conversations in Live Rooms temporarily so that we can investigate any complaints we might receive relating to violations of our Community Guidelines, our Terms of Service, or otherwise illegal or illicit activity. If we receive a complaint while the Room is live, we will retain the recording as long as reasonably necessary to investigate the potential violation. If no potential violation is flagged after the Room ends, we delete the recording shortly thereafter.

We record Conversations and make them available to other users where the creator instructs us to do so. For Chats, content is generally recorded and indefinitely retained and shared with other users according to the Chat creator’s preferences, unless the Chat creator deletes the entire Chat conversation, or a conversation participant deletes a specific item of content (i.e., an audio comment) they have created. For Memos, content is generally recorded and indefinitely retained and shared with other memo participants unless a conversation participant deletes a specific item of content (i.e., an audio comment) they have created. For Live Rooms, the Room creator can opt to record the content of the Room by enabling the “Replay” feature. When Replays are enabled, the recording will be stored by The MŌN App and may be made available to other users on The MŌN App or other people outside of The MŌN App. Replays are created and saved at the direction of Room creators, and remain available unless the Room creator instructs us to remove the Replay.

If an item of content is deleted by its creator, we may retain a copy of it temporarily in storage, but will delete it from our backups within a reasonable amount of time.

5. Managing Your Information

There are a variety of ways you can manage the personal information we have about you. Specifically, you can:

  • Request access to the information we collect and hold about you. We'll aim to provide this to you within 30 days after you submit your request through our Privacy Center.

  • Have your information corrected or deleted. You can update your information in your profile, delete individual Chats you have created, delete Chat and Memo audio comments you created within Conversations, and delete Replays you have created. You can delete your information within our Products, by deleting your account in your account settings, or by making a written request to our team, depending on the type of information you are requesting to delete. Because The MŌN App involves people creating audio together, the details of this are helpful to understand. You can learn more about these details by visiting our Knowledge Center.

  • Change your profile settings. If you want to restrict the availability of certain information in your The MŌN App profile, you can do so in your account settings page. Details about “private profiles” and privacy settings can be found in our Knowledge Center.

  • Disconnect social media accounts. When you connect your social media accounts to The MŌN App, we notify those platforms. You may disconnect your social media accounts directly within the Products at any time via your account settings page.

  • Delete your contacts. If you chose to sync your contacts, you can always change your mind by disabling contact sync in your account settings page.

  • Opt out of push notifications. If you opt in to receive push notifications within the Products, we may send push notifications or alerts to your mobile device from time to time. You can deactivate push notifications and alerts at any time by changing your device settings, changing the push notification settings within the Products, or deleting the The MŌN App app from your iOS or Android device.

  • Pause or reduce notifications. If you want to pause notifications for a while, or reduce the number of notifications The MŌN App sends you, you can do so in your account settings page.

  • Disable optional recording features. Creators of a Room or moderators of a Room may disable Replays.

  • Revoke consent you have given or object to us processing your information. You can revoke any consent you have given us by adjusting your settings, or object to processing personal information in certain circumstances.

To use these tools please visit your account settings, our Knowledge Center, or your device settings.

6. Transferring Information

While our Products are offered worldwide, we are based in the United States and rely on cloud storage providers that store user data on our behalf in the United States. When you use our Products, your personal information may be transferred and stored outside your home country, including in the United States, for the purposes described in this Policy. The privacy protections and the rights of authorities to access your personal information in such countries may not be equivalent to those of your home country. For European Data Subjects, more details are provided in “Storage and Transfer”.

7. Revisions

We may change this Policy from time to time. If we do, we’ll post any changes on this page. We will provide a more prominent notice or get your consent where required by law.

8. Contact Us

The best way to manage personal information about you as described above or get in touch with us is through your account settings or via our Knowledge Center.

Alpha Exploration Co. (doing business as “The MŌN App”) is responsible for your information. You can contact The MŌN App, 800 embassy drive, austin texas, 78702.

California Consumer Privacy Act Disclosures

Last Modified: October 13, 2023

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) requires us to disclose categories of Personal Information we collect and how we use it, the categories of sources from whom we collect Personal Information, and the third parties with whom we share it, which we have explained above. This notice supplements information contained in our Privacy Policy and applies solely to residents of the State of California (“consumers” or “you”).

Any terms defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended from time to time (“CCPA”) have the same meaning when used in this notice and policy. This notice and policy does not reflect our collection, use, or disclosure of California residents’ personal information, or data subject rights, where an exception under the CCPA applies. 

1. Your Rights To Access And Deletion

Access. You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we collect, use, or disclose about you. You can submit a request for this information info@themonapp.com.

Deletion. You also have the right to request the deletion of personal information. You can submit a request for the deletion of personal information via emailing info@themoanpp.com.

Verification. The MŌN App may ask you to provide certain information to verify your identity. The information that we ask you to provide to verify your identity will depend on your prior interactions with us and the sensitivity of the personal information at issue. The MŌN App will respond to your request in accordance with the CCPA. If we deny your request, we will explain why.

Exceptions. In accordance with the CCPA, The MŌN App will not provide the following information in response to access requests for the following reasons:

  • Account data such as account passwords and identity verification codes, unmasked phone numbers, or email addresses, because of the sensitive nature of the information.

  • Other users’ and employees’ personal information, including the names and account information of individuals who may have invited you to the app, other users’ feedback, and employees’ comments because the information belongs to other individuals and disclosing it may impact their rights.

  • Internal proprietary attributes that enable us to provide various aspects of our app, including channel and room customization, suspension decisions, and content suggestions, because the information is protected by federal and state trade secret law.

  • Server logs that are older than 30 days because we use these to ensure the security and integrity of our app.

The MŌN App does not sell the personal information of its users. When a business sells your personal information, you have a right to opt out. The MŌN App does not sell, and in the preceding 12 months did not sell, California residents’ personal information. The MŌN App does not have actual knowledge that it sells the personal information of minors under 16 years of age. All users must be 18 years or older to join the app. 

2. Personal Information Handling Practices

Below you will find a list of the categories of personal information we collect about California residents and have collected in the preceding 12 months. For each category of personal information we have collected, we reference the category or categories of personal information in the CCPA that most closely describe the personal information

Personal Information Handling Practices

CCPA Category

Category Of Personal Information We Collect

Identifiers

Name, username, telephone number, e-mail address, IP address, profile picture, purchase or transaction history, information provided in user’s profile or bio

Categories listed in the California Customer Records Act (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))

Name, username, age, telephone number, e-mail address, IP address, profile picture, purchase or transaction history, preferred language, interests, app usage and activity information, friend lists, contact lists (hashed telephone numbers only), information from user’s other social media accounts (if user chooses to connect them), messages sent and received from other The MŌN App users, questions or feedback sent to The MŌN App

Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law

Age

Commercial information

Purchase, transaction, and payment history, interests, app usage and activity information, Friend lists, contact lists (hashed telephone numbers only), questions or feedback sent to The MŌN App

Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, browsing history, search history, and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with an Internet Web website, application, or advertisement

IP address, domain name, browsing history, browser type and settings, operating system, network information, service provider, signal strength, device type, device memory, device’s call log data, unique application identifier, unique device identifier, apps installed on device, time of visit, duration of visit, date and time stamps of actions

Geolocation data

IP address

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information

Audio information, including voice recordings from conversations when users use our Products; visual information, including profile photos; and supplemental information generated from audio or visual information, such as captions, transcripts, and conversation summaries

Sensitive personal information, such as: - data generated when you interact with others on the services, such as the content of your audio or text messages to others - any sensitive biographical information you provide publicly, such as information about your race or ethnicity

Information that may be provided to us when interacting on the services, such as in audio conversations or in user’s bio

Professional or Employment related information

Information that may be supplied in user’s bio

Education Information

Information that may be supplied in user’s bio

Inferences drawn from the information above

Information about user activity used to personalize recommendations regarding conversations or Houses a user might join, people a user might know, or other content a user might enjoy on The MŌN App.

The MŌN App collects this personal information from the following sources:

  • Information Provided By You. When you use The MŌN App, we collect personal information that you provide to us. When you set up an account, we may ask you to provide information about yourself, including your name, phone number, email address, and age (“Account Data”). We may also ask you to provide us with some additional personal information that will be publicly visible in our Products, such as a profile picture, a bio in your profile to tell other The MŌN App users more about you, and topics you’re interested in. You may also choose to connect your other social media accounts, sync your contacts.

  • Information We Get From You When You Use Our Products. When you use our Products, we collect additional personal information based on your activity and other personal information you might choose to disclose. As discussed in our Privacy Policy, this may include usage and activity information, audio information from Conversations, messages, other communications, transaction data, contacts, log data and device information, and cookie data. The MŌN App may collect information from the computer, tablet, phone, or other device that you install our mobile application on, that you use to access our Products, or that you use to open an email or click on an advertisement from The MŌN App. The MŌN App does not respond to “do not track signals.”

  • Information From Third Parties. If you link your The MŌN App account to X (Twitter), Instagram, or any other social media services, we may receive information from those other services. The information we receive will depend on the privacy settings on those other services. We may also receive information about you from our service providers.

The MŌN App collects, uses, retains, and discloses this personal information for the following purposes:

  • Register your account, verify your identity, and verify the accuracy of your information.

  • Develop, operate, improve, deliver, maintain, and protect our Products.

  • Personalize our Products by suggesting Live Rooms, Houses, and other content we think you might be interested in. We also use this information to (i) suggest users you might like to follow; and (ii) suggest your profile to other users.

  • Send you communications via email or text message. For example, we may use email or text messages to respond to support inquiries, share information about our Products, highlight content we think you might like, tell you about features we think you might like to hear about, or suggest ways to improve your The MŌN App experience.

  • Verify and enhance the safety and security of our Products

  • Verify and analyze user engagement, trends, and usage

  • Assess the efficiency of our advertising campaigns on other platforms

  • Handle and record consumer rights requests, including opt-ins and opt-outs

  • Prevent fraud or other unauthorized or illegal activity

  • Enforce, investigate, and report conduct violating our Terms of Service, Community Guidelines, or other policies

  • Respond to requests from law enforcement agencies or other government agencies, and comply with legal or regulatory requirements

3. Sharing Of Personal Information

The MŌN App disclosed the above categories of personal information to the following categories of third parties for a business purpose, in some cases as directed by you:

  • Third parties and service providers that provide products or services to us. In particular, companies that help us support our Products or provide services to you. The MŌN App may use third parties or service providers to process information on our behalf based on our instructions and for the purposes described in the Privacy Policy, audit interactions and transactions with you, address security, fix errors, maintain accounts and provide customer service, assist with our internal research, and verify service quality or safety.

  • Other online services you connect to your The MŌN App account. If you link your The MŌN App account to X (Twitter), Instagram, or any other services, we may disclose your information to those other services at your direction when using our Products.

  • Government regulatory authorities. We may disclose your personal information to relevant government regulatory authorities if we believe the disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation; protect the safety, rights or property of the public, or any person or The MŌN App; or to detect, prevent or otherwise address illegal conduct, fraud, technical or security issues.

4. Non-Discrimination

The MŌN App will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.

5. Authorized Agent

In addition to exercising your rights yourself, you may also designate an authorized agent to make these requests under the CCPA on your behalf. In order to do this, we may ask you to verify the request directly using the phone number or email address connected to your account, or via other means. The information The MŌN App asks you to provide to verify your identity may depend on your prior interactions with us and the sensitivity of the personal information at issue.

6. Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this notice and policy, the ways in which we collect and use your personal information, or your choices and rights regarding such use, please do not hesitate to contact us via our Knowledge Center, or at the following address:

The MŌN App, Inc.
800 Embassy Drive,
Austin, Texas 78702

USA


Thank you for using The MŌN App!

Information For European Data Subjects Who Have Not Used Our Products

Last updated October 13, 2023 

Non-User Data Notice

If you have not set up an account, or used our Products as a guest after agreeing to our terms and conditions, (a “Non-User” or “you”), The MŌN App may process your phone number if a The MŌN App user has your phone number saved in the contact list stored in their device and chooses to share those contacts with The MŌN App, or sends you an invitation by typing in your phone number. This Notice provides information about our use of Non-User data to data subjects in the EU and the UK.

What information about Non-Users does The MŌN App store?

As noted in our Privacy Policy, The MŌN App users can choose to sync their contacts. This allows us to help The MŌN App users connect with people they might know, and to invite new people to The MŌN App more easily. Similarly, a user may choose to send an invitation to a specific person entering that person’s phone number. This could be an invitation to join The MŌN App, or an invitation to join a specific House or Room that the user thinks you might be interested in. If you are listed in the contacts of a The MŌN App user who chooses to sync contacts, or a user decides to send you an invitation by entering your phone number, we may process your phone number even if you are not a The MŌN App user.

Either way, The MŌN App does not store your phone number in a readable format. Instead we generate a cryptographic hash value derived from your phone number, and update this information from time to time. We store the hash value in a list linked to the The MŌN App user who chose to sync contacts or send an invitation. The MŌN App does not collect names or any other information from a user’s contacts.

What does The MŌN App do with Non-Users’ Information?

We use the hash values derived from phone numbers to help users connect with one another on The MŌN App (now or later), suggest people to invite, and send invitations. If you join The MŌN App, we will use the hash value derived from your phone number to help other The MŌN App users connect with you on The MŌN App.

Does The MŌN App Disclose Non-User information to third parties?

The MŌN App does not disclose Non-User information to anyone other than our users and our third-party service providers.

What is The MŌN App’s legal justification for processing this information?

We rely on our legitimate interests and the legitimate interests of our users and Non-Users. More specifically, we rely on our legitimate interests in personalizing the The MŌN App Products by connecting users with people they may know on The MŌN App. We rely on the interests of our users in more efficiently connecting with people they may know on The MŌN App, and their interest in inviting others to join The MŌN App to form an even more robust community. We also rely on the interests of Non-Users in finding people they may know on The MŌN App upon joining, and gaining access to specific content on The MŌN App via invitations sent by The MŌN App users.

How long does The MŌN App retain Non-User information?

When we collect Non-Users’ phone numbers, we don’t store them. We process them for no more than a few seconds to create cryptographic hash values derived from the phone numbers. The cryptographic hash values are stored in a list on The MŌN App servers linked to the The MŌN App users who uploaded the phone numbers from which the hash values were derived.

If a user syncs her contacts, we keep this list of hash values for as long as the user instructs us to do so.

If a user invites you to join The MŌN App by entering your phone number manually but does not invite you to join a specific House, we keep the hash value derived from your phone number for no more than 14 days.

If a user invites you to join a specific House by entering your phone number manually, we keep the hash value derived from your phone number for no more than 180 days.

How do Non-Users exercise their data subject rights?

Data subjects have the right to access, rectify, and erase their information, as well as the right to restrict and object to certain processing of their personal information, in certain circumstances. You can learn more about those rights in our Privacy Policy. To exercise those rights, contact us via this form or via the address provided below. You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority in your country about our processing of your personal data.

Storage and transfer of Non-User Data

We are based in the United States and rely on cloud storage providers that store user data on our behalf in the United States. The United States may have data protection laws less stringent than or otherwise different from the laws in effect in Europe. We may also use service providers located outside of the EU or the UK. If we transfer your personal data out of the EU or the UK, we take measures to protect the confidentiality and security of your personal data, and your rights as a data subject.

  • We may transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data. For further information, you can review EU adequacy decisions here, and you can review UK adequacy decisions here.

If we transfer your personal data to a country that is not deemed to provide an adequate level of data protection, in order to protect your personal data we may use contractual clauses approved for use in the EU and/or UK in accordance with the EU and/or UK data protection regime(s).

Contact us

Alpha Exploration Co. (trading as The MŌN App) is responsible for Non-User data. This means we are the controller of Non-User data under the GDPR.

If you have questions about this Data Notice, you can contact us by emailing info@themonapp.com . You can also contact us at this mailing address:

The MŌN App, Inc
800 Embassy Drive, 

Austin, Texas 78702

Last updated October 13, 2023