Privacy Policy.
The Privacy Policy is effective 1st January 2023.
Welcome to Freedom Machine. Freedom Machine is where members connect with other members from the motorcycling community, enabling them to share their passion for riding motorcycles and general motorcycle culture.
We invite you to read this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”), which explains our privacy practices and how we handle personal information collected through Freedom Machine, as well as through other social media, our marketing activities, our live events, and other activities described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy also explains how we use and share such information and choices you have about your personal information.
We use “Freedom Machine” to refer to the Freedom Machine websites and our iOS and Android apps (also referred to as our “Services”). We also use “Freedom Machine,” “we,” “us,” and “our” to refer to the companies operating our Services as described in the Member Agreement. A “Member” is an individual who has registered to use our Services.
Unless otherwise indicated, this Privacy Policy applies to all of our Services in all geographies in which Freedom Machine offers its Services. Some parts of this Privacy Policy apply only to our Services offered in particular geographies; please see Section 11 for additional information. Capitalised words used but not defined have the meanings described in the Member Agreement.
Contents of this Privacy Policy
What Personal Information Is Collected?
How Is My Personal Information Used?
How Is My Personal Information Shared with Others?
What Are My Choices?
How Long Is My Personal Information Kept?
International Transfers of Personal Information.
How Is My Personal Information Protected?
Personal Information Relating to Children.
Changes to this Privacy Policy.
How to Contact Us.
Jurisdiction-Specific Disclosures.
1. What Personal Information Is Collected?
We may collect personal information about you from you directly, from other Members or other users of our Services, through technology that automatically collects information from your browser or device, and from third party sources. See below for examples. Note that not all Freedom Machine account types and features are available in all locations, so some of the examples below may not apply where you live. Additionally, these examples are not exhaustive and we may collect personal information that is not specifically listed below, which we use consistent with this Privacy Policy. We may also provide supplemental information about our data collection or privacy practices in disclosures about specific Services or circumstances, or in some cases, at the time we collect personal information from you. Any personal information that we collect will be used and processed in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
1.1 Personal information we may collect from you.
Your personal details.
When you sign up for Freedom Machine, you will need to provide certain information about yourself, such as your name, email address, and date of birth. You may also choose to provide other personal details, either when you sign up or at a later time, such as your gender. You may also choose to reveal information about yourself in your Freedom Machine profile, or when you post or comment on Freedom Machine, which is described in more detail below.
If you want to join Freedom Machine or use our Services before they have been introduced to your geographic region, then you can choose to give us your contact information and ask us to notify you when we introduce our Services to your geographic region.
If you contact support, you will need to provide us with your contact information and a description of the issue, or else we won’t be able to respond or provide support to you.
Data from other accounts. If you use a third party service, like Facebook, Google, or Apple to log in to Freedom Machine (or if you connect a third party account to your Freedom Machine account at any other time), then you authorise that third party service to share your personal information with us. This information may include your name, photo, email address, and any other information you agree to let the third party service share with us. (The specific personal information shared with us will depend on the third party’s privacy practices, agreements we have with the third party, and any choices that you may make in sharing your personal information.)
Profile, posts, direct messages, interests, location, and recommendations.
You may share information about yourself in your profile, including your interests, pictures, biographical information (such as your job, hometown, bikes you ride, etc.).
You may post on Freedom Machine. Posts may include text, images, photos, videos, tags of people or places, polls, offers to sell or give away items, or anything else you want to share.
You may send direct chat messages on Freedom Machine. Direct messages may include text, images, photos, or videos.
You may share information about your interests, including by joining and/or posting in a Group chat.
You may share information about local businesses in the form of a recommendation, review or rating, comment, or by claiming or creating a business page.
Survey data. We may contact some Members to request participation in a survey or other general research. If you choose to take part in these, you may provide personal information, in or along with your survey responses, or in any other feedback or comments you give us.
Contests, sweepstakes, and prize drawings data. If you take part in a contest, sweepstakes, or prize drawing, then you may provide personal information, feedback, or comments in order to enter, or as part of the contest, sweepstakes, or prize drawing.
Messages and email data. We collect information about you when you send, receive, open, read or otherwise engage with messages, email, or other communications in connection with our Services, including whether you have opened or acted on those communications.
Photos and videos. You may choose to give permission for our Services to collect images, photos, videos, and other information from your device’s camera and photo library. For example, when you choose to include images, photos, or videos in your posts these files may include metadata indicating how, when, where and by whom the files were created and how they are formatted. Metadata may be accessible to other Members or anyone else who can access the files.
Geolocation. You may choose to grant our Services permission to access your device’s precise geolocation, which we may use to help us operate or personalise our Services, including by tagging posts, providing information on or adding information to a map, and helping us show you more relevant content.
Business information. If you use our Business Services, you may share details about your association with a business and services offered by you or the business.
Meetup / Instant Ride information. If you use our Meetup or Instant Ride Service, you may share information related to the meetup or instant ride such as a meeting point, time, date and associated chat communications.
1.2 Personal information we may collect from your browser or device.
With your permission, where it is required by applicable laws, we, our service providers, and partners collect technical information when you visit or use Freedom Machine, engage with our partners, or interact with our or our partners’ marketing communications, including:
Device data. Device data may include your device’s manufacturer and model, operating system and version, screen resolution, RAM and disk size, CPU usage, IP address, unique identifiers (including identifiers used for advertising purposes), crash data (if applicable), what device settings you’ve enabled, carrier, radio/network information (e.g., WiFi, LTE, 3G). (As described above, we may collect geolocation data from your device with your permission, or we may derive your general location, such as city, state or geographic area, from your IP address or other data.) Your device and software settings affect what information your device makes available to us.
Online activity data. Online activity data may include the date and time you visited, duration of access, the browser or app version you used (and its settings), the URLs you come from and go to, and how you used Freedom Machine or interacted with our emails and other messages. For example, online activity data may include how and when you navigated within Freedom Machine, and which links or features you clicked on, including advertising.
Some of the data collection described above is facilitated by cookies and similar technologies, as described in more detail in our Cookie Policy.
1.3 Personal information we may collect from third parties and public sources.
We may collect information about you from third parties (such as companies we partner with or that provide services to us) and public sources. For example:
Vendors and partners to Freedom Machine provide various information, such as:
Map and address information in order to help us launch Freedom Machine in new geographic regions
Information about Members for advertising, analytics, personalisation, and measurement purposes.
Information about businesses to help us create business pages and offer our Services to businesses.
Advertisers provide us with information about their users or potential customers to help us personalise advertising and measure the performance of their advertisements.
Public sources, such as census data, street addresses and business listings, provide us with information that helps us understand our Members, improve our Services, and determine potential areas for expansion.
1.4 Personal information we may collect about non-Members
If you don't use Freedom Machine, your information might still be collected. Members may choose to share information about non-Members in posts or comments with personal information about non-Members.
2. How Is My Personal Information Used?
We use personal information for the following purposes:
2.1 Establish and develop new regions.
We use personal information to identify and invite potential new Members to Freedom Machine, and to set up new geographic regions to operate in. For example, you can ask us to send email or SMS invitations to potential new Members such as inviting your contacts and friends, or notify you when we start offering our Services to your geographic region.
2.2 Set you up on Freedom Machine.
To get Members started on Freedom Machine, we use personal information to:
Confirm Member accounts using several techniques, including checking against third party data, verification codes, or geo-verification.
Populate Member profiles and personalise your experience of Freedom Machine.
Notify Members of new Members as they join.
Create and offer Business Services, which help Members learn about the businesses in their geographic region.
2.3 Provide and improve our Services.
We use personal information, and both manual and automated systems, to analyse and use your Content (as defined in the Member Agreement) and other information, including to:
Operate Freedom Machine, create Hangouts, suggest Members or Hangouts, invite Members, and improve our products and features.
Help you create, publish, view, share, and respond to Content, including highlighting interesting posts.
Highlight groups, topics or other resources.
Administer and obtain feedback via surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or other promotional activities.
Highlight businesses, ads, offers, products, and services you may be interested in.
Provide Business Services, such as enabling Business Pages and promotional services.
Personalise your experience of Freedom Machine.
Understand trends, usage statistics, and demographic data relating to the Members and geographic regions we serve.
Respond to your support requests and comments.
Test and evaluate potential new products and features on Freedom Machine.
Diagnose and resolve problems, and monitor usage and resource needs.
Communicate with you about Freedom Machine or our Services, including by sending announcements, updates, security alerts, and support messages via email, notifications, and text messages.
2.4 Create and maintain a trusted environment.
We may use your information to help create and maintain a trusted environment on Freedom Machine, including:
To detect and prevent fraud, spam, abuse, security incidents, and other harmful, unauthorised, unethical, illegal, or otherwise objectionable activity or content.
To conduct security investigations, audits, and risk assessments.
To comply with our legal obligations.
To confirm or authenticate information or identification.
For the legal and safety reasons described in Section 4.3 below.
2.5 Research and development.
We use personal information for research and development purposes. As part of these activities, we may generate aggregated, de-identified and/or other anonymous data from personal information we collect. We do this by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you or other individuals. We may use this anonymous data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyse and improve our Services and promote Freedom Machine.
3. How Is My Personal Information Shared with Others?
We share personal information with other Members or other companies as follows:
3.1 Content you share on Freedom Machine.
Freedom Machine is a platform for Members to share information with each other. To that end, the Content you post on Freedom Machine, such as posts, replies, recommendations, messages, and your profile information, may be visible to other Members and may include personal information. You can adjust the visibility of your posts in the preferences in your settings, the preferences on the Content you provide, and as described in Section 5 below. Please be sure to read the options you have under the “What are My Choices” section below.
3.2 Account confirmation.
We may share personal information with our verification partners or other data providers, to try to make sure that you are who you say you are.
3.3 Legal and safety reasons.
We may retain, preserve, or share your Content and personal information with law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties if we have a good-faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond, as required by applicable law, to a valid, binding legal request (e.g. a subpoena, a search warrant, court order, or other legal process from government or law enforcement); (b) detect, investigate, prevent, and address fraud and other unauthorised, illegal or unethical activity, security, or technical issues; (c) protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety; (d) enforce our Member Agreement or any other agreements we have with you; (e) prevent physical injury or other harm to any person or entity, including you and members of the general public.
3.4 Third party partners.
Freedom Machine may partner with third party partners. Freedom Machine may provide links to other websites or apps featuring offers. In order to tailor offers for services to you, we may share personal information with these third parties, such as your region, the topic of the content you are viewing, or a search query. When you engage with one of these offers Freedom Machine may share additional information (such as contact information) directly with the third party partner or their representative. If you engage with third party partners through Freedom Machine, the third parties may share with us certain personal information about you to allow us to monitor, coordinate, assess, and improve our Services provided to you. These third parties may have their own privacy policies, which may apply to your activity if you click on or interact with their offers featured on Freedom Machine or other websites or apps.
3.5 Service providers.
We may also share personal information with service providers and/or data processors to help us operate, provide, improve, understand, customise, support, and market our Services. These service providers and data processors are contractually obligated to use personal information only to provide their service to us, and are contractually prohibited from using it for their own purposes. They provide a variety of services, including payment processing, information technology, cybersecurity, fraud prevention, hosting, customer relationship management and support, communications delivery, marketing, advertising, and website and mobile application analytics.
3.6 Business reorganisation.
We may share personal information with the relevant participants in transactions (or potential transactions) involving a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, restructuring, reorganisation, or sale or other disposition of some or all of the assets of, or equity interests in, Freedom Machine or our affiliates (including, in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
3.7 Professional advisors.
We may share personal information with our professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to Freedom Machine.
4. What Are My Choices?
In your account settings, you can choose the degree to which personal information is shared in your personal profile and alongside your posts. You can adjust these account settings at any time.
5. How Long Is My Personal Information Kept?
We retain personal information in our server logs, our databases, and our records for as long as necessary to provide our Services. We may need to retain some of your information for a longer period, such as in order to comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes or defend against legal claims, or to enforce our Member Agreement.
6. International Transfers of Personal Information.
Freedom Machine operates internationally, and your personal information may be transferred to and processed on servers outside the jurisdiction where you live. We typically transfer personal information to the United Kingdom, which is where Freedom Machine is headquartered and where many of our Services are based.
Depending on where you live, your personal information may be transferred to jurisdictions other than your home country, such as the United States, and those other jurisdictions may have different or less protective data protection laws than the jurisdiction where you live. In addition, the rights of authorities to access your personal information in other jurisdictions may not be the same as in your home jurisdiction.
By continuing to use Freedom Machine, you understand and consent to the transfer and processing of your personal information outside your home country, which may have data protection rules that are different or less protective from those of your home country.
Freedom Machine will only transfer personal data as permitted by law, and Freedom Machine will only process personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We will take steps designed to ensure appropriate protection of your personal information. If you have questions about international transfers of personal information, please contact us.
For residents of Europe or countries with aligned data protection laws, additional information is provided in the jurisdiction-specific disclosures required under European data protection laws.
7. How Is My Personal Information Protected?
7.1 Account security.
Nextdoor uses technical and organisational measures intended to keep your data secure, including using https on our web pages to reduce the risk of unauthorised interception of your communications during your visits to the website. However, the internet is not a fully secure environment and we cannot guarantee that personal information won’t be intercepted or improperly accessed. Please ensure that you keep your password safe and do not share it with anyone.
7.2 Other services and websites.
When using Freedom Machine, you may come across links to websites and services operated by third parties that are not owned or controlled by Freedom Machine (for example, if a Member shares a link to a video on YouTube, or other website). This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected on any third party website or application that may link to or be accessible from our Services. These third parties have their own privacy policies, which govern any personal information they collect. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for such external websites’ privacy and security practices.
8. Personal Information Relating to Children.
Children are not allowed to use our Services if they are under 18 years old or not old enough for Freedom Machine to process their personal information without parental or age-specific consent in the place where they live. If you believe we might have collected personal information from a child in one of these categories, please contact us for us to investigate and delete as appropriate.
9. Changes to this Privacy Policy.
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please review it periodically. If we materially change this Privacy Policy, we will take steps to notify you in advance of the change as required by applicable law, for example by emailing you or by posting a notice in your account. If you object to any changes, you may delete your account. You acknowledge that your continued use of our Services after we publish or send a notice about our changes to this Privacy Policy means that the collection, use, and sharing of your personal information is subject to the updated Privacy Policy, as of its effective date.
10. How to Contact Us.
Contact us at Freedom Machine, London
Email: privacy@freedommachine.app
You may reach our Data Protection Officer at dpo@freedommachine.app
11. Jurisdiction-Specific Disclosures.
The notices and choices described above apply to all Members (and other individuals, as applicable), and people can access, delete, or take other actions with respect to their Freedom Machine accounts and personal information. See Section 4 above titled “What Are My Choices?”.
In addition, residents of certain jurisdictions may have specific rights or may be entitled to additional specific notices about our privacy practices. The following sections provide those jurisdiction-specific notices and describe those rights. If you are a resident of one of the following jurisdictions, please review the section about that jurisdiction.
Jurisdictions
If you are a resident of the European Union or United Kingdom please see this notice