Pose – People’s Opinions Shared Everywhere

In April 2022, the idea of Pose was started, like lot of business ideas, after a few drinks and a long night of chatting.  Pose was founded in 2023 with the intention of bringing about a fun, social-media platform that allows people to have an opinion without having a debate about it or getting abuse for having an opposing view – all within 7 words or less.

Pose was founded on strong moral principles, with integrity, social-equality and responsibility to all people, as its core values.  

Once signed-in, you must answer the daily posed question with 7 words or less.

Only after you have answered the question, you can view other user’s opinions to the daily question and either uptick or downtick someone’s response depending on how it makes you feel.

• Trending – This card lets you see the most upticked and downticked opinions for the day
• Leaderboard – This card lets you see the most upticked and downticked opinions and questions of all time.
• Discovery – This card lets you find other Posers to follow
• Friends – This card shows you all your friends you follow
• Poser – This card allows you to become a ‘Poser’ and pose your own questions

CONSENT TO INSTALLATION OF THE APP

Under data protection laws, we are required to provide you with certain information about who we are, how we process your personal data and for what purposes, and your rights in relation to your personal data. This information is provided in INTRODUCTION and it is important that you read that information.

Before installation of this App, please indicate your consent to our processing of your personal data (including your name and contact details) as described in this policy.

YES I consent to the installation of the App for the purposes of being able to join the Pose community and use the features contained in the App.

NO I do not consent to the installation of the App.

How can you withdraw consent?

Once you provide consent by selecting “YES”, you may change your mind and withdraw consent at any time by contacting us at IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE but that will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.

POSE MEDIA LIMITED (we) are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy.

INTRODUCTION

This policy (together with our end-user licence agreement as set out at [LINK TO PDF EULA] (EULA) and any additional terms of use incorporated by reference into the EULA, together our Terms of Use) applies to your use of:

• POSE (mobile application software (App) available on Apple App Store and Google Play Store, once you have downloaded or streamed a copy of the App onto your mobile telephone or handheld device (Device).

This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

This policy is provided in a layered format so you can click through to the specific areas set out below. Alternatively, you can download a pdf version of the policy here: [LINK TO PDF POLICY].

IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE

THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

DISCLOSURES OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

DATA SECURITY

DATA RETENTION

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

GLOSSARY

DESCRIPTION OF CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA

IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE

Pose Media Limited is the controller and is responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “Company”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this policy).

Contact details

Our full details are:

Full name of legal entity: POSE MEDIA LIMITED

Email Address: [support@posemedia.co.uk]

Postal Address: Tollgate Barn Tollgate West, Stanway, Colchester, England, CO3 8RJ

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues.

Changes to the privacy policy and your duty to inform us of changes

We keep our privacy policy under regular review.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during our relationship with you.

Third party links

Our App may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers, and affiliates. Please note that these websites and any services that may be accessible through them have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept responsibility or liability for these policies or for any personal data that may be collected through these websites or services, such as Contact Data. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites or use these services.

THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you as follows:

• Data
• Contact Data
• Content Data
• Profile Data
• Usage Data
• Marketing and Communications Data

We explain these categories of data here DESCRIPTION OF CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA BELOW.

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific App feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregate Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy. 

We do not collect Special Categories of Personal Data about you: race, ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, , political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and generic and biometric data. Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.      

HOW IS PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?

We will collect and process the following data about you:

• Information you give us. This is information (including Identity, Contact and Marketing and Communications Data) you consent to giving us about you by filling in forms on the App, or by corresponding with us (for example, by email). It includes information you provide when you register the App, share data via the App’s social media functions, enter a competition, promotion or , or other activities commonly carried out in connection with the App and when you report a problem with the App. If you contact us, we will keep a record of that correspondence.
• Information we collect about you and your device. Each time you use our App we will automatically collect personal data including Content and Usage Data.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to do so. Most commonly we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where you have consented before the processing.
• Where we need to perform a contract, we are about to enter or have entered with you.
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

Click here GLOSSARY: LAWFUL BASIS to find out more about the types of lawful basis that we will rely on to process your personal data.

We will only send you direct marketing communications by email or text if we have your consent. You have the right to withdraw that consent at any time by contacting us.

PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE WILL USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Purpose/Activity	Type of Data	Lawful Basis for Processing
To register you as a new App user.	Identity   Contact	Your Consent
To manage our relationship with you including notifying you of changes to the App.	Identity   Contact       Profile   Marketing and Communications	Your Consent   Performance of a contract with you.   Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep records updated and to analyse how customers use our App).   Necessary to comply with legal obligations (to inform you of any changes to our terms and conditions).
	Identity   Contact       Profile   Marketing and Communications	Your consent.   Performance of a contract with you.   Necessary for our legitimate interests (to analyse how customers use our App and to develop it and grow our business).
To administer and protect our business and this App including troubleshooting, data analysis and system testing.	Identity   Contact	Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security).
(To deliver content and advertisements to  .)   To make recommendations to you about goods or services which may interest you.   To measure and analyse the effectiveness of the advertising we serve  .   To monitor trends so we can improve the App.	Identity   Contact   Device   Content   Profile   Usage   Marketing and Communications	Consent.   Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our App and grow our business).

 

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

When you consent to providing us with your personal data, we will also ask you for your consent to share your personal data with the third parties set out below for the purposes set out in the table.

[NAMES OF THIRD PARTIES AND WHERE THEY ARE  ]

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

We do not transfer your personal data outside the  .

DATA SECURITY

All information you provide to us is stored on our .

Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator when we are legally required to do so.

DATA RETENTION

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your date: see YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS below for further information.

In some circumstances we will anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances you have the following rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.

Please click on the links below to find out more about these rights:

• Request access to your personal data.
• Request correction of your personal data.
• Request erasure of your personal data.
• Object to processing of your personal data.
• Request restriction of processing your personal data.
• Request transfer of your personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent.

You also have the right to ask us not to continue to process your personal data for marketing purposes.

You can exercise any of these rights at any time by contacting us at Tollgate Barn Tollgate West, Stanway, Colchester, England, CO3 8RJ or [support@posemedia.co.uk].

GLOSSARY

LAWFUL BASIS

Consent means processing your personal data where you have signified your agreement by a statement or clear opt-in to processing for a specific purpose. Consent will only be valid if it is freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of what you want. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us.

Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.

Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.

Comply with a legal obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject to.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

You have the right to:

• Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
• Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data that you provide to us.
• Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
• Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
• Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios:

1. if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy;
2. where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it;
3. where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or
4. you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

• Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
• Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

DESCRIPTIONS OF CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA

Identity Data: first name, last name, username, date of birth, gender.

Contact Data: email address and telephone numbers.

Content Data: includes information stored on your Device, including friends’ lists, login information and posted content.

Profile Data: includes your username and password, preferences, feedback, and survey responses.

Usage Data: includes details of your use of our App including, but not limited to, traffic data and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

Marketing and Communications Data: includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

PLEASE READ THESE LICENCE TERMS CAREFULLY

BY USING THE SITE, OR CLICKING ON THE ‘ACCEPT’ BUTTON ON OUR APP, YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS WHICH WILL BIND YOU.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, YOU MUST NOT USE OUR SITE OR APP.

WHO WE ARE AND WHAT THIS AGREEMENT DOES

These terms tell you the rules for using the POSE mobile application software (App) and POSE website (Site).

We, POSE MEDIA LIMITED of Tollgate Barn Tollgate West, Stanway, Colchester, England, CO3 8RJ license you to use, the App and/or Site and any updates or supplements to them as permitted in these terms.

YOUR PRIVACY

Under data protection legislation, we are required to provide you with certain information including who we are, how we process your personal data and for what purposes and your rights in relation to your personal data and how to exercise them. This information is provided in [LINK TO PRIVACY POLICY] and it is important that you read that information.

APPLE APP STORE’S AND GOOGLE PLAY STORE’S TERMS ALSO APPLY

If you are using the App, the ways in which you can use the it may also be controlled by Apple App Store’s and Google Play Store’s rules and polices:

• Apple App Store - [LINK TO RULES AND POLICIES]
• Google Play Store – [LINK TO RULES AND POLICIES]

OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

The App can only be operated on an Apple or Google mobile or handheld device and we will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that it works on the latest and any previous OS versions of each.  

SUPPORT FOR THE APP AND HOW TO TELL US ABOUT PROBLEMS

Contacting us (including with complaints). If you think POSE is faulty or misdescribed or wish to contact us for any other reason please email our customer service team at support@posemedia.co.uk.

How we will communicate with you. If we have to contact you we will do so by email, SMS or telephone using the contact details you have provided to us.

HOW YOU MAY USE POSE, INCLUDING HOW MANY DEVICES YOU MAY USE IT ON

In return for you agreeing to comply with these terms you may:

• Share the App in accordance with the rules set out in:

[LINK TO APPLE APP STORES RULES ON FAMILY SHARING].

[LINK TO GOOGLE PLAY STORES RULES ON FAMILY SHARING].

• Receive and use any free supplementary software code or update of the App incorporating “patches” and corrections of errors as we may provide to you.
• Use Pose via the Site.

YOU MUST HAVE SUFFICIENT LEGAL CAPACITY TO ACCEPT THESE TERMS

You must be at least 13 years old to accept these terms, use the Site and/or download the App. If we have reason to believe you are under the age of 13 then we can suspend your account should you be unable to prove that you are of sufficient age to use POSE.

YOU MAY NOT TRANSFER THE APP TO SOMEONE ELSE

We are giving you personally the right to use the App as set out above. You may not transfer the App to someone else, whether for money, for anything else or for free. If you sell any device on which the App is installed, you must remove the App from it.

CHANGES TO THESE TERMS

We may need to change these terms to reflect changes in the law or best practice or to deal with additional features which we introduce.

We will give you at least 30 days notice of any change by sending you either an SMS or email with details of the change or notifying you of a change when you next start the App or visit the Site.

If you do not accept the notified changes you may continue to use POSE in accordance with the existing terms, but certain new features may not be available to you.

UPDATES TO POSE AND CHANGES TO THE SERVICE

From time to time, we may automatically update  POSE to improve performance, enhance functionality, reflect changes to the operating system or address security issues. In  respect of the App, we may ask you to update it from time to time.

If you chose not to install such updates or if you opt out of automatic updates you may not be able to continue using the App.

We will use reasonable endeavours to ensure that POSE will work with the current and any previous operating systems (as they may be updated from time to time) and always match the description of it provided to you when you created your account.

IF SOMEONE ELSE OWNS THE PHONE OR DEVICE YOU ARE USING

If you use POSE on any phone or other device not owned by you, you must have the owner’s permission to do so. You will be responsible for complying with these terms, whether or not you own the phone or other device.

WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR OTHER WEBSITES YOU LINK TO

POSE may contain links to other independent websites which are not provided by us. Such independent sites are not under our control, and we are not responsible for and have not checked and approved their content or their privacy policy (if any).

You will need to make your own independent judgement about whether to use any such independent sites, including whether to buy any products or services offered by them.

LICENCE RESTRICTIONS

You agree that you will:

• Except in the course of permitted sharing (see [‘HOW YOU MAY USE POSE’] not rent, lease, sub-license, loan, provide, or otherwise make available, POSE in any form, in whole or in part to any person without prior written consent from us;
• Not copy POSE, the App or the Site except as part of normal use or where it is necessary for the purpose of back-up or operational security;
• Not translate, merge, adapt, vary, alter or modify, the whole or any part of POSE, the App or the Site nor permit POSE, the App or the Site or any part of them to be combined with, or become incorporated in, any other programs, except as necessary to use POSE on devices as permitted in these terms;
• Not disassemble, de-compile, reverse engineer or create derivative works based on the whole or any part of POSE, the App or the Site nor attempt to do such things, except to the extent that (by virtue of sections 50B and 296A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988) such actions cannot be prohibited because they are necessary to decompile POSE, the App or the Site to obtain the information necessary to create an independent program that can be operated with POSE, the App or the Site or with another program (Permitted Objective), and provided that the information obtained by you during such activities:

1. is not disclosed or communicated without our prior written consent to any third party to whom it is not necessary to disclose or communicate it in order to achieve the Permitted Objective; and
2. it is not used to create any software that is substantially similar in its expression to POSE, the App or the Site;

• is kept secure; and

1. is used only for the Permitted Objective.

• Comply with all applicable technology control or export laws and regulations that apply to the technology used or supported by POSE, the App and the Site.

ACCEPTABLE USE RESTRICTIONS

You must:

• Not use POSE in any unlawful manner, for any unlawful purpose, or in any manner inconsistent with these terms, or act fraudulently or maliciously, for example, by hacking into or inserting malicious code, such as viruses, or harmful data, into the App or Site or any operating system;
• Not infringe our intellectual property rights or those of any third party in relation to your use of POSE, including by the submission of any material (to the extent that such use is not licensed by these terms);
• Not transmit any material that is defamatory, racist, bigotry, offensive or otherwise objectionable in relation to your use of POSE and if you are found to transmit such material consistently then we shall either suspend or expel you from using POSE;
• Not use POSE in a way that could damage, disable, overburden, impair or compromise our systems or security or interfere with other users;
• Not collect or harvest any information or data from any of our systems; and
• Not create more than one account and if we suspect that you are creating multiple accounts to misuse POSE and distort the ratings then we shall either suspend or expel you from using POSE.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS

All intellectual property rights in POSE, the App and the Site throughout the world belong to us and the rights in POSE, the App and the Site are licensed (not sold) to you. You have no intellectual property rights in, or to, POSE, the App or the Site other than the right to use them in accordance with these terms.

OUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSS OR DAMAGE SUFFERED BY YOU

We are responsible to you for foreseeable loss and damage caused by us. If we fail to comply with these terms, we are responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking these terms or our failing to use reasonable care and skill, but we are not responsible for any loss or damage that is not foreseeable. Loss or damage is foreseeable if either it is obvious that it will happen or if, at any time you accepted these terms, both we and you knew it might happen.

We do not exclude or limit in any way our liability to you where it would be unlawful to do so. This includes liability for death or personal injury caused by our negligence or the negligence of our employees, agents or subcontractors or for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation.

When we are liable for damage to your property. If defective digital content that we have supplied damages a device or digital content belonging to you, we will either repair the damage or pay you compensation. However, we will not be liable for damage that you could have avoided by following our advice to apply an update offered to you free of charge or for damage that was caused by you failing to correctly follow installation instructions or to have in place the minimum system requirements advised by us.

We are not liable for business losses. POSE is for domestic and private use. If you use POSE for any commercial, business or resale purpose we will have no liability to you for any loss of profit, loss of business, business interruption, or loss of business opportunity.

Limitations to POSE. POSE is provided for general information and entertainment purposes only. It does not offer advice on which you should rely. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of information obtained from POSE. Although we make reasonable efforts to update the information provided by POSE, we make no representations, warranties or guarantees, whether express or implied, that such information is accurate, complete, or up to date.

Please back-up content and data used with the App. We recommend that you back up any content and data used in connection with the App, to protect yourself in case of problems with the App.

Check that POSE is suitable for you. POSE has not been developed to meet your individual requirements. Please check that the facilities and functions of POSE (as described on the Site or the App store site) meet your requirements.

We are not responsible for events outside of our control. If our provision and support for POSE is delayed by an event outside of our control, then we will contact you as soon as possible to let you know we will take steps to minimise the effect of the delay. Provided we do this we will not be liable for delays caused by the event but if there is risk of substantial delay you may contact us to end your contract with us.

WE MAY END YOUR RIGHTS TO USE POSE AND THE SERVICES IF YOU BREAK THESE TERMS

We may end your rights to use POSE at any time by contacting you if you have broken these terms in a serious way. If what you have done can be put right, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to do so.

If we end your rights to use POSE for any reason:

• You must stop all activities authorised by these terms, including your use of POSE.
• You must delete or remove the App from all devices in your possession and immediately destroy all copies of the App which you have and confirm to us that you have done this.
• If you do not provide confirmation of the above, then we will suspend your account so that you will not be able to use POSE any further.

THE RIGHT TO POSE A QUESTION DOES NOT HOLD MONETARY VALUE

If you reach the top of the POSE trending leaderboard within the App at the end of any day, you will receive the right to pose a question in the App within a 24 hour period. This right does not hold any monetary or financial value. This right cannot be transferred between users and if not used within 24 hours, the right to pose a question will cease to be available to you.

WE MAY TRANSFER THIS AGREEMENT TO SOMEONE ELSE

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these terms to another organisation. We will always tell you in writing if this happens and we will ensure that the transfer will not affect your rights under the contract.

YOU NEED OUR CONSENT TO TRANSFER YOUR RIGHTS TO SOMEONE ELSE

You may only transfer your rights or your obligations under these terms to another person if we agree in writing.

NO RIGHTS FOR THIRD PARTIES

This agreement does not give rise to any rights under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce any term of this agreement.

IF A COURT FINDS PART OF THIS CONTRACT ILLEGAL, THE REST WILL CONTINUE IN FORCE

Each of the paragraphs of these terms operate separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.

EVEN IF WE DELAY IN ENFORCING THE CONTRACT, WE CAN STILL ENFORCE IT LATER

Even if we delay in enforcing this contract, we can still enforce it later. If we do not insist immediately that you do anything you are required to do under these terms, or if we delay in taking steps against you in respect of your breaking this contract, that will not mean that you do not have to do those things and it will not prevent us taking steps against you at a later date.

WHICH LAWS APPLY TO THIS CONTRACT AND WHERE YOU MAY BRING LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

These terms are governed by English law, and you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the App in the English courts. If you live in Scotland, you can bring legal proceedings in respect of the App in either the Scottish or the English courts. If you live in Northern Ireland, you can bring proceedings in respect of the App in either the Northern Irish or the English courts.

ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION

Alternative dispute resolution is a process where an independent body considers the facts of a dispute and seeks to resolve it, without you having to go to court. If you are not happy with how we have handled any complaint, you may want to contact an alternative dispute resolution provider. You can submit a complaint to them and if you are not satisfied with the outcome, you can still bring legal proceedings.