This is the Privacy Policy for Sunshine Contacts, which explains how Sunshine Products (“Sunshine” “us” or “we”) use and when we share the personal data we access when you use the Sunshine Contacts app and website (“App”, “Sunshine Services” or “Services”).

The principles behind this policy are simple— We believe in an enlightened and transparent approach. 

• We use data to make your address book smarter.

• You decide when to share information in your address book with other users.

• We don’t sell your data or target ads to you. That’s not our business.

• We keep your info safe and secure.

If you have any questions, you can contact us at any time at privacy@sunshine.com

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Data We Collect

Personal data is data that identifies you that we use in combination with information we collect from publicly available sources to create your personal and professional contact cards:

• Name and Phone Number:  Your name, photo and phone number are required to create an account. You share your name and phone number so that we can text you a code to verify your number and set up your account and to continue to verify your access to your account through the app and website.
• Additional Personal Data: You may share with us your personal and work email, phone numbers, mailing addresses, your birthday, and other personal information.  This information is added to your contact cards and shared with other users as you request.  We also use this information to understand your existing relationships (ie if another Sunshine user has your personal email in their contacts, we understand that there is already a pre-existing personal connection between the two of you).
• Payment Information:  You may share additional payment information in order to upgrade to a premium account.  We use a third party payment processor that does not share any financial information with us.
• Data from Public Sources: We collect data from third party sources, including publicly available database data and social network information and data  to update information about you and your contacts to your contact cards.

Automatic Data is data we collect, some of which is personal, from your phone and the app automatically:

• Log Data: We collect Log Data when you interact with Sunshine, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), and cookie information. We use Log Data to operate our services and keep them secure.
• SDKs: We use SDKs, which are blocks of code provided by our partners, that may be installed in our mobile applications. SDKs help us understand how you interact with our mobile applications and collect certain information about the device and network you use to access the application.  They do not access any information from your address book or contact cards.

Additional data is data you specifically authorize us to collect in order to improve and update your contacts list, to show you information to help you understand your relationship with your contacts or to activate additional features.

• Location:  With your consent, we collect precise geolocation data from your phone when you activate location services and/or show you other Sunshine users near you (and show you near them) when you activate bluetooth services.  We collect location information either just while you are using the app, or additionally, while it is in the background, depending on your selected preference.  We use this data: 
• In combination with other Sunshine users’ location information to understand your relationships and improve your contacts. For example, by getting smarter about who your professional vs. personal contacts based on colocation, time of day and frequency.
  • To share users’ profile picture and first name with other Sunshine users nearby. For example, this allows you to find people you want to exchange contact information with and easily facilitates sharing of your contact card.
  • You can deactivate the collection of location data or stop having your proximity shared with other Sunshine users at any time by adjusting the settings on your device.
• Contacts: We collect contacts and other content from your device, from accounts you connect with Sunshine and directly from your contacts in order to provide our contractual service to you.
  • Device Contacts: Sunshine Contacts is an app to help you manage your contacts. To create an account you must, as a starting point, grant Sunshine access to your contacts list from your phone.
  • Contacts Update: We receive updates on your Contacts directly from them when they share their information in response to an email request we send on your behalf. We use this updated information to provide the Sunshine service to you.
  • Google Contacts: With your consent, we access your Google Contacts directly through Google.
• Gmail:  With your consent, we access your Gmail directly through Google.  We use your Gmail to show you the most recent conversation you had with a Contact to give you context for understanding your relationship with that user and to augment your address book with information from the email, for example from a signature line.  This information is only used for this purpose and is not shared with any other Sunshine user.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We use your personal data to provide, maintain, secure, personalize and improve Sunshine Services as described above and to develop new products that work in conjunction with it.  This includes:

• Using your data along with other Sunshine users’ data and data from publicly available sources to make inferences that allow us to improve your address book, such as merging two contact cards each with an email or phone number into one contact card with an accurate full name.
• Enabling you to communicate with other Sunshine Users, including to send email requests to update their contact information for you if you choose.
• Storing your originally uploaded contacts so we can restore your phone at your request.
• Responding to your emails, submissions, questions, comments, requests, and complaints and provide customer service.
• Monitoring and analyzing usage of the Services and trends, and to increase the functionality of our Services.
• to contact you about the Services in which you have expressed interest or that might be of interest to you.
• Sending you service messages or to contact you to update you on new features or services that we offer. You can opt-out of marketing at any time as described in our email messages.
• for any other purpose for which the information was collected.

How We Use Your Contacts and Gmail Accessed from Google

We use your Contacts:

• To provide, improve and build new features for the Sunshine Contacts Service as described above.
• To email contacts you select to ask them to update their contact details in your account.

We use your Gmail:

• To show you the most recent email you received from a contact when you view their card.
• We use contact information in emails you receive (signature lines, for example) to add data to your contacts’ cards.
• We use analytics about who you communicate with to help provide our core feature of managing your contacts for you and to understand who you communicate with most.
• Other than for these purposes, we do not read, store, use or save the contents of your email for any other purpose.

Google requires us to include the following specific language in this policy about how we treat the Contacts and Gmail data we access from Google: