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+**MergeData Privacy Policy**
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+Last updated: April 17th 2024
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+At MergeData, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible way. This policy outlines how we collect, use, and disclose personal information from users of our app.
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+**Information We Collect**
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+We collect information that you provide to us directly, such as your name, if you choose to provide it. We do not require users to provide any other personal information to use our app.
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+**How We Use Your Information**
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+We use the information we collect to:
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+* Provide, maintain, and improve our app
+* Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our app
+* Carry out any other purpose for which the information was collected
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+**How We Share Your Information**
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+We do not share your personal information with third parties, except in the following circumstances:
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+* With your consent
+* With service providers who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf
+* In response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with any applicable law, regulation, or legal process, or as otherwise required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation
+* If we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of MergeData or others
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+**Data Retention**
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+We store the information we collect about you for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it, or for other legitimate business purposes, including to meet our legal, regulatory, or other compliance obligations.
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+**Security**
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+We take reasonable measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.
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+**Contact Us**
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+If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please create an issue on Github at this link: (https://github.com/FRC2706/MergeData/issues).