Privacy Policy

Last updated: 9/05/2019

Your privacy is of serious concern to Hammer Software, Inc. The following is our privacy policy that covers your use of our website, our apps and our services. We encourage you to read it to inform you of our practices and assure you of your privacy rights and how we use your personal information.

Information Collected

Personal Information: Personal Information is defined as any information that can be used to identify you such as your name, address, email address or phone number and any other information that is not otherwise publicly available. We collect Personal Information when you use our App through our website (https://hammer.app) or our mobile application ("Hammer - Language Learning"). Hammer only captures a minimum amount of Personal Information from you to provide you with information or the services of our software. Some of this information is provided directly by you and other information is automatically provided when you use our products.

User Data: Hammer requires you to create an account with authentication details such as an email address and password. Hammer allows you to create “cards” for the use of studying, including card fields and notes. While using the App, usage metrics such as time spent studying and card progress levels will be tracked and uploaded. All such data uploaded by you is referred to in this Policy as "User Data."

a) Information you provide us: When using the Hammer App, your User Data is stored on our database so that you can review, retrieve or delete your data in the future. We store your card and study data in our database and may use it to improve our services.

b) Information automatically provided: In order to improve your overall experience and to improve our own internal diagnostics, we may use information that is automatically provided to us such as information provided through the use of your device on internet; your mobile device model, browser, operating system and internet connection details.

Authorized Third Parties

Hammer App uses third party services that may collect information used to identify you.

Link to privacy policy of third party service providers used by the App:

Google Cloud Platform https://cloud.google.com/security/privacy/

Firebase Authentication https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy

Amplitude Analytics https://amplitude.com/privacy

Data Security

We use the latest security measures to protect your details when you use Hammer’s App or services.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal Information and User Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted between Hammer, our backend cloud service and the authorized Third-Party services; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.

Use of Information

We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information and may customize the materials and offerings using your Personal Information and User Data. You may unsubscribe to email newsletters sent from us via an unsubscribe link included in the email, or by contacting us directly via email or from the Site.

We may disclose or license aggregated User Data that does not contain Personal Information to a third party for research and product development purposes.

In the unlikely event that we or substantially all of our assets are acquired or enter a court proceeding, you acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that your Personal Information and User Data can continue to be used as set forth in this privacy policy.

Where We Store Your Personal Information

By using our Hammer App, you are consenting to have your Personal Information and User Data transferred to and processed outside the European Economic Area ("EEA") including to the United States. By submitting your Personal Information and User Data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

Data Retention and Destruction

We store your User Data for as long as it is necessary to provide services to you and as long as we are legally required to do so. Information associated with your User Data can be kept until you delete the User Data and you rescind your acceptance of this agreement.

When we no longer need your Personal Information and User Data, we securely delete and destroy them.

Children's Information

The Hammer App is not intended for unsupervised children, and we will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children. If we become aware that an account is registered by a user under the age of 13, we will remove their Personal Information and User Data information from our files.

It is highly recommended that minors under the age of 18 use accounts that are created and supervised by their parents when using the Hammer App and services.

Access to Your Account Information and Preferences

When using the Hammer App, you have the right and ability to edit your User Data and to delete the User Data from within the application at any time.

Third Party Sites

Our informing or referring you to third party service may contain links to other sites for information. Our Privacy Policy only applies to our Hammer App, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other sites which are linked to or integrated with the Hammer App. You should check the privacy policies of those sites before providing your personal information to them.

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as S.B. 27, allows individual customers who have provided their personal information to us to request information about our disclosure of certain categories of personal information to third parties. Such requests must be submitted to us in the following way: send an email request to contact@hammer.app. Within thirty days of receiving such a request, we will provide a list of the categories of personal information disclosed to third parties if any during the immediately preceding year, along with the names and addresses of those third parties. This request may be made no more than once per calendar year. We reserve the right not to respond to requests submitted in ways other than those specified above.

Class Action Waiver

ANY DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROCEEDINGS, WHETHER IN ARBITRATION OR COURT, WILL BE CONDUCTED ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT IN A CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION OR AS A NAMED OR UNNAMED MEMBER IN A CLASS, CONSOLIDATED, REPRESENTATIVE OR PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL LEGAL ACTION. YOUR ACCESS AND CONTINUED USE OF ANY OF OUR HAMMER APP SIGNIFIES YOUR EXPLICIT CONSENT TO THIS WAIVER.

Questions and Suggestions

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us through our email at contact@hammer.app.

Updates to Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page.