TERMS OF SERVICE
Terms of Service Introduction: Hasster is dedicated to developing cutting-edge technologies and services that facilitate connections, community building, and business growth. These Terms comprehensively govern your utilization of Hasster, Messenger, and other associated products, features, apps, services, technologies, and software provided by us (collectively referred to as "Hasster Products" or "Products"). This legal framework explicitly applies unless expressly stated otherwise in separate terms.
Provider Information: Hasster is the provider of these Products and is committed to delivering innovative solutions to enhance user experiences.
Usage Terms: We do not impose charges for your use of Hasster and other covered products and services, unless explicitly stated otherwise. The funding for these services primarily comes from businesses, organizations, and other entities that remunerate us for displaying advertisements showcasing their products and services. Your agreement to use our Products implies your consent for us to present ads that we believe align with your interests, utilizing your personal data to curate personalized ad experiences.
Data Handling and Privacy: We want to assure you that we neither sell your personal data to advertisers nor disclose information directly identifying you without your explicit consent. Instead, advertisers provide preferences about their target audience, and we, in turn, present their ads to individuals who might find them relevant. Advertisers receive reports on ad performance to gauge user engagement with their content. Section 2 of these Terms and our Privacy Policy provide more detailed insights into how personalized advertising functions on Hasster Products.
Privacy Policy: For a comprehensive understanding of how we collect and utilize your personal data, including the factors influencing the ads you encounter, please refer to our Privacy Policy. Your privacy choices regarding data usage can be reviewed at any time by visiting the settings pages of the relevant Hasster Product.
Additional Resources: To further comprehend your privacy controls, delve into our Hasster Ads Controls, Privacy Basics, Cookies Policy, Data Policy, and other available resources. These tools empower you to manage and customize your interaction with our Products based on your preferences. We are committed to maintaining transparency, safeguarding your privacy, and offering you control over your Hasster experience. If you have any inquiries or require clarifications, feel free to explore the provided resources or contact us directly for assistance.
Terms of Service - Summary
1. The Services We Provide Mission: Our mission is to empower individuals to build community and foster global connections. To achieve this, we offer a range of Products and services, outlined below:
Personalized Experience: Tailoring your Hasster experience is our priority. We utilize data about your connections, choices, and activities on and off our Products to personalize content, such as posts, stories, events, ads, and more.
Connection Building: Facilitating connections is at the core of our services. We assist you in finding and connecting with people, groups, businesses, and organizations that matter to you. Suggestions include groups, events, Pages, and friends, fostering stronger ties within communities.
Self-Expression and Communication: Expressing yourself and communicating about your interests is made easy on Hasster. Whether through status updates, photos, videos, or messages, we provide various means for self-expression. We also explore innovative technologies like augmented reality for richer content creation.
Content Discovery: We display personalized ads and sponsored content to introduce you to relevant content, products, and services offered by businesses on Hasster.
Safety and Security: Ensuring the safety, security, and integrity of our services is a top priority. We employ global teams, collaborate with external entities, and use advanced systems to detect misuse, harmful conduct, and potential threats to the community.
Actions taken may include notifying users, removing content, restricting features, disabling accounts, or involving law enforcement. Data sharing across Hasster Companies aids in maintaining safety and compliance with the law.
Information Handling: Hasster may access, preserve, use, and share collected information when required or allowed by law. Refer to our Privacy Policy for comprehensive details.
Oversight Board: The Oversight Board may review our decisions in certain cases, as outlined in its terms and bylaws.
Use and Develop Advanced Technologies to Provide Safe and Functional Services for Everyone:
Utilization of Advanced Technologies: At Hasster, we are committed to harnessing cutting-edge technologies to provide a safe and inclusive environment for our users. Our use of artificial intelligence, machine learning systems, and augmented reality is dedicated to ensuring that individuals, irrespective of physical ability or geographic location, can engage with our Products securely.
Continuous Research for Service Enhancement: Research is at the core of our mission to deliver superior Products and services. We actively engage in research activities to develop, test, and enhance our Products. This encompasses the analysis of user data, comprehension of user behavior through surveys, and rigorous testing and troubleshooting of new features. Our Privacy Policy provides insights into how we employ data to facilitate research aimed at refining and improving our services.
Consistent and Seamless User Experiences: Our Products are meticulously crafted to assist users in discovering and connecting with individuals, groups, businesses, and organizations that hold significance for them. We structure our systems to ensure a uniform and seamless experience across various Hasster Company Products. For instance, we leverage data about user interactions on Hasster to simplify connections with the same individuals on platforms like Instagram or Messenger. This integration facilitates seamless communication with businesses followed on Hasster through Messenger.
Global Accessibility of Our Services: To operate our services globally and facilitate connections across borders, the transfer, storage, and distribution of content and data occur on a global scale. This involves collaboration with data centers, partners, service providers, vendors, and systems worldwide, transcending geographical boundaries. This global infrastructure, crucial for delivering our services, may be owned, operated, or controlled by entities such as Hasster Platforms, Inc., Hasster Platforms Ireland Limited, or their affiliates. It underscores our commitment to ensuring accessibility and connectivity for users worldwide.
2. How Our Services Are Funded Funding Our Services Through Personalized Advertising:
In lieu of direct payments for the usage of Hasster and associated services, users agree that we can present personalized advertisements and sponsored content. These are curated by businesses and organizations that remunerate us to promote their offerings on both Hasster and other platforms within the Hasster Company Products ecosystem. Leveraging your personal data, encompassing details about your activities and interests, we tailor these ads and sponsored materials to align more closely with your preferences.
Privacy-Centric Personalized Ads: The cornerstone of our personalized ads system is a commitment to safeguarding your privacy. This means that we deliver relevant and valuable ads without disclosing your identity to advertisers. Importantly, we do not sell your personal data. Advertisers share information about their business objectives and target audience preferences (e.g., individuals aged 18-35 with an interest in cycling), and we subsequently showcase their ads to users we believe might be interested.
Empowering Advertisers with Performance Insights: We empower advertisers with comprehensive reports detailing the performance of their ads. This includes general demographic and interest information, enabling advertisers to better understand their audience. For instance, an advertiser may learn that women between the ages of 25 and 34 in Madrid with an interest in software engineering have engaged with their ad. Importantly, we do not disclose information that directly identifies you, such as your name or email address, unless you provide specific permission.
User Control and Privacy Protections: Your personal data is collected and utilized to deliver the described services. Our Privacy Policy outlines the details of how we collect and utilize your data. Importantly, you retain control over the types of ads you see, the advertisers you engage with, and the information we use to curate the ads presented to you.
3. Your Commitments to Hasster and Our Community:
User Commitments and Community Guidelines: In using Hasster Products, you are an integral part of our community. Your commitments are vital to fostering a safer and more accountable environment. We request you to adhere to the following guidelines:
Eligibility to Use Hasster:
Responsible Usage of Hasster Products:
Content Removal, Account Suspension, and Permissions:
We actively encourage you to report any content or conduct that you believe infringes on your rights or violates our terms and policies. Additionally, we may remove or restrict access to content, features, services, or information when deemed necessary to prevent misuse or mitigate adverse legal or regulatory consequences on Hasster.
4. The Permissions You Give Us:
We require certain permissions from you to provide our services: Content Usage and Deletion Terms:
Ownership of Intellectual Property:
License for Service Provision:
Deletion of Content:
Content Retention and Permissions: Content will not be deleted within 90 days of the account deletion or content deletion process beginning in the following situations:
Where your content has been used by others in accordance with this license and they have not deleted it (in which case this license will continue to apply until that content is deleted).
Where deletion within 90 days is not possible due to technical limitations of our systems, in which case, we will complete the deletion as soon as technically feasible.
Where immediate deletion would restrict our ability to:
In each of the above cases, this license will continue until the content has been fully deleted.
Permission to Use Your Name, Profile Picture, and Information:
You give us permission to use your name and profile picture and information about actions you have taken on Hasster next to or in connection with ads, offers, and other sponsored or commercial content that we display across our Products, without any compensation to you. For example, we may show your friends that you are interested in an advertised event or have liked a Hasster Page created by a brand that has paid us to display its ads on Hasster. Ads and content like this can be seen only by people who have your permission to see the actions you've taken on Hasster Products. You can learn more about your ad settings and preferences.
Permission to Update Software:
By downloading or using our software, you permit the download and installation of available software updates.
These permissions and content usage terms are designed to ensure a seamless and effective provision of our services. For more details, you can refer to our Privacy Policy and ad settings.
5. Limits on Using Our Intellectual Property:
Intellectual Property Rights:
5. Additional Provisions:
1. Updating Our Terms:
2. Account Suspension or Termination:
3. Limits on Liability:
4. Disputes:
5. Other:
6. Other Terms and Policies That May Apply to You:
Community Standards:
Commercial Terms:
Community Payment Terms:
Commerce Policies:
Music Guidelines:
Advertising Policies:
Self-Serve Ad Terms:
Hasster Pages, Groups, and Events Policy:
Hasster Platform Policy:
Developer Payment Terms:
Hasster Brand Resources:
Recommendations Guidelines:
Live Policies:
Date of Last Revision: Nov 11, 2023