iMe Privacy Policy
Date of publication and entry into force [Updated]: 03/11/2019 [12/04/2024]
iMe Messenger & Crypto Wallet uses the Telegram API, so for more
details, please read the Telegram Privacy Policy.
Our client’s open source code is available at GitHub (Android and iOS) to
comply with the Telegram API terms of use and the GNU GPL licenses.
Using the mobile application “iMe Messenger & Crypto Wallet”
(hereinafter referred to as the Application), which is an alternative project (fork) of
the Telegram messenger, which operates on the basis of Telegram open API, has
additional functionality and design elements, the user (hereinafter referred to as the
User) accepts this Agreement (hereinafter referred to as the Agreement) regulating
the rules for using the Application, the procedure for purchasing paid services in
the Application, the responsibility of the parties and other relations related to the
use of the Application.
The developer and copyright holder of the Application is IME LAB LTD
(Company Registration No. HE409498 Incorporated in the Republic of Cyprus
under the Companies Act, hereinafter the Rightholder), however, the Application is
based on the Telegram API, operates through servers and services owned by
Telegram, thus the exclusive right of the Rightholder applies to the results of
intellectual activity and equated to them means of individualization, not affected
by the terms of use of the API "Telegram".
Due to the feature of the Application and the direct relationship with the
servers and the Telegram equipment, the User accepts as a fact, and the
Rightholder responsibly declares that it does not store, does not intend to store in
the future, and does not process the personal data of the Application Users. All
personal information of Users is transmitted and processed on servers and
equipment of Telegram.
1. TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
1.1. According to the text of the Agreement, as well as in connection with the
relationship between the Rightholder and the Application User, the
following terms and definitions apply:
1.1.1. User - a capable adult physical person (or legal representative of a minor),
who has passed the registration procedure in the Application, has civil law
and capacity, is able, in accordance with the legislation, to acquire rights and
bear obligations on its behalf and act as a party to the Agreement.
1.1.2. Store - application store “App Store” or “Google Play Market” (depending
on the device of a User), through which the User installed and launched the
Application on his device.
1.1.3. Neurobot – A computer program built into the Application (Neurobot) that
mimics a person’s speech behavior when communicating with one or more
people in an Application chat.
1.2. Other terms used in the Agreement and / or in relations arising from it are
subject to interpretation in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of
Cyprus, and in the absence of their interpretation in the legislation in
accordance with the customs of business and scientific doctrine.
2. GENERAL PROVISIONS
2.1. When using the Application, the User undertakes to comply with the
Agreement, with all its integral parts, including the current legislation and
international agreements, the rules of the Stores, other legal acts interrelated
with the functioning of the Application.
2.2. The Rightholder has the right, without the consent of the User, to involve
third parties to fulfill the obligations under the Agreement, while remaining
responsible for their actions to the User.
2.3. The User undertakes to timely and independently familiarize himself with
the current version of the Agreement. In case of disagreement of the User
with the current edition of the Agreement, the User is obliged to stop using
the Application.
2.4. The User undertakes not to use possible errors of the software part of the
Application in order to gain an advantage over other Users. The User
undertakes to immediately report all errors he or she has identified in the
Application to the Rightholder.
2.5. The User is responsible for the security of his or her account in the
Application and is obliged to take measures independently to ensure its
security.
2.6. The Rightholder is not responsible for possible loss or damage to data or
assets, as well as other consequences of any nature that may occur due to a
violation of the Agreement by the User, as well as the terms of use of the
Telegram.
2.7. The User acknowledges and agrees that he or she shall independently assess
all risks associated with the use of the Application, including an assessment
of the reliability, completeness or usefulness of the information contained in
the Application.
3. LEGAL GROUND FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL
DATA
Telegram processes your personal data on the ground that such
processing is necessary to further Telegram’s legitimate interests (including:
(1) providing effective and innovative Services to users; and (2) to detect,
prevent or otherwise address fraud or security issues in respect of Telegram
provision of Services), unless those interests are overridden by your interest
or fundamental rights and freedoms that require protections of personal data.
4. WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE USE
4.1. Basic Account Data
Telegram is a communication service. You provide your mobile
number and basic account data (which may include profile name,
profile picture and about information) to create a Telegram account.
To make it easier for your contacts and other people to reach
you and recognize who you are, the screen name you choose, your
profile pictures, and your username (should you choose to set one) on
Telegram are always public. We don't want to know your real name,
gender, age or what you like.
We do not require your screen name to be your real name. Note
that users who have you in their contacts will see you by the name
they saved and not by your screen name. This way your mother can
have the public name 'Johnny Depp' while appearing as 'Mom' to you
and as 'Boss' to her underlings at work (or the other way around,
depending on how these relationships are structured).
4.1.1 Optional Data
You can add your birthday (with or without the year) to your
Telegram profile if you wish to do so. You can granularly choose
which users are able to see it on your profile (by default, your
Contacts), and they will be shown a reminder on the day. We may use
data about your age to determine your eligibility for accessing age-
specific content.
Telegram Business subscribers can add a fixed location and a
list of opening hours to their profile, to help clients identify and
engage with their business more efficiently on Telegram. If you
choose to add it to your profile, this information is always public.
4.2. Your E-mail Address
When you enable 2-step-verification for your account or store
documents using the Telegram Passport feature, you can opt to set up
a password recovery email. This address will only be used to send you
a password recovery code if you forget it. That's right: no marketing
or “we miss you” bullshit.
From September 2022, Telegram may ask some users to
provide an email address to receive login codes via email instead of
SMS (with an option to use 'Sign in With Google' / 'Sign in with
Apple'). In this case, we will receive an email address which will be
stored separately from the recovery email, and will only be used to
send you authentication codes when you log in to your account. The
login email address will be stored until it is changed, or the account is
deleted.
4.3. Your Messages
4.3.1. Cloud Chats
Telegram is a cloud service. Telegram stores messages, photos,
videos and documents from your cloud chats on Telegram’s
servers so that you can access your data from any of your
devices anytime without having to rely on third-party backups.
All data is stored heavily encrypted and the encryption keys in
each case are stored in several other data centers in different
jurisdictions. This way local engineers or physical intruders
cannot get access to user data.
4.3.2. Secret Chats
Secret chats use end-to-end encryption. This means that all data
is encrypted with a key that only you and the recipient know.
There is no way for us or anybody else without direct access to
your device to learn what content is being sent in those
messages. Telegram does not store your secret chats on its
servers. Telegram also does not keep any logs for messages in
secret chats, so after a short period of time Telegram no longer
knows who or when you messaged via secret chats. For the
same reasons secret chats are not available in the cloud — you
can only access those messages from the device they were sent
to or from.
4.3.3. Media in Secret Chats
When you send photos, videos or files via secret chats, before
being uploaded, each item is encrypted with a separate key, not
known to the server. This key and the file’s location are then
encrypted again, this time with the secret chat’s key — and sent
to your recipient. They can then download and decipher the file.
This means that the file is technically on one of Telegram’s
servers, but it looks like a piece of random indecipherable
garbage to everyone except for you and the recipient. Telegram
does not know what this random data stands for and Telegram
has no idea which particular chat it belongs to. Telegram
periodically purges this random data from their servers to save
disk space.
4.3.4. Public Chats
In addition to private messages, Telegram also supports public
channels and public groups. All public chats are cloud chats
(see section 4.3.1 above). Like everything on Telegram, the
data you post in public communities is encrypted, both in
storage and in transit — but everything you post in public will
be accessible to everyone.
4.3.5. Phone Number and Contacts
Telegram uses phone numbers as unique identifiers so
that it is easy for you to switch from SMS and other messaging
apps and retain your social graph. We ask your permission
before syncing your contacts.
Telegram stores your up-to-date contacts in order to
notify you as soon as one of your contacts signs up for
Telegram and to properly display names in notifications.
Telegram only needs the number and name (first and last) for
this to work and store no other data about your contacts.
Telegram’s automatic algorithms can also use
anonymized sets of phone numbers to calculate the average
number of potential contacts an unregistered phone number
may have on Telegram. When you open the 'Invite friends'
interface, we display the resulting statistics next to your
contacts to give you an idea of who could benefit most from
joining Telegram.
You can always stop syncing contacts or delete them
from our servers in Settings > Privacy & Security > Data
Settings.
If you are using Android, Telegram will ask you for permission
to access your phone call logs (READ_CALL_LOG). If you
grant this permission, Telegram will be able verify your
account by transmitting a phone call instead of asking you to
enter a code. Telegram uses this permission only to confirm
receipt of the confirmation call by verifying the number in the
call log.
4.3.6. Location Data
If you share a location in a chat, this location data is treated like other
messages in cloud or secret chats respectively.
If you share your Live Location in any chat or turn on ’Make Myself
Visible’ in People Nearby, Telegram will use your data to display your
location to those users with whom you are sharing it, even when the app is
closed – for as long as you keep these optional features activated.
5. KEEPING YOUR PERSONAL DATA SAFE
5.1. Storing Data
If you signed up for Telegram from the UK or the EEA, your
data is stored in data centers in the Netherlands. These are third-party
provided data centers in which Telegram rents a designated space.
However, the servers and networks that sit inside these data centers
and on which your personal data is stored are owned by Telegram. As
such, Telegram does not share your personal data with such data
centers. All data is stored heavily encrypted so that local Telegram
engineers or physical intruders cannot get access.
5.2. End-to-End Encrypted Data
Your messages, media and files from secret chats (see section
4.3.2 above), as well as the contents of your calls and the data you
store in your Telegram Passport are processed only on your device
and on the device of your recipient. Before this data reaches our
servers, it is encrypted with a key known only to you and the
recipient. While Telegram servers will handle this end-to-end
encrypted data to deliver it to the recipient – or store it in the case of
Telegram Passport data, we have no ways of deciphering the actual
information. In this case, we neither store nor process your personal
data, rather we store and process random sequences of symbols that
have no meaning without the keys which we don’t have.
5.3. Retention
Unless stated otherwise in this Privacy Policy, the personal data
that you provide us will only be stored for as long as it is necessary
for us to fulfill our obligations in respect of the provision of the
Services.
6. PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
6.1. Our Services
Telegram is a cloud service. Telegram will process your data to
deliver your cloud chat history, including messages, media and files,
to any devices of your choosing without a need for you to use third-
party backups or cloud storage.
6.2. Safety and Security
Telegram supports massive communities which Telegram has to
police against abuse and Terms of Service violations. Telegram also
has more than 700 million users which makes it a lucrative target for
spammers. To improve the security of your account, as well as to
prevent spam, abuse, and other violations of our Terms of Service,
Telegram may collect metadata such as your IP address, devices and
Telegram apps you've used, history of username changes, etc. If
collected, this metadata can be kept for 12 months maximum.
6.3. Spam and Abuse
To prevent phishing, spam and other kinds of abuse and
violations of Telegram’s Terms of Service, our moderators may check
messages that were reported to them by their recipients. If a spam
report on a message you sent is confirmed by our moderators, your
account may be limited from contacting strangers – temporarily or
permanently. You can send an appeal using @Spambot. In case of
more serious violations, your account may be banned. Telegram may
also use automated algorithms to analyze messages in cloud chats to
stop spam and phishing.
6.4. Cross-Device Functionality
Telegram may also store some aggregated metadata to create
Telegram features (see section 6.5 below) that work across all your
devices.
6.5. Advanced features
Telegram may use some aggregated data about how you use
Telegram to build useful features. For example, when you open the
Search menu, Telegram displays the people you are more likely to
message in a box at the top of the screen. To do this, Telegram
calculates a rating that shows which people you message frequently.
A similar rating is calculated for inline bots so that the app can
suggest the bots you are most likely to use in the attachment menu (or
when you start a new message with “@”). To turn this feature off and
delete the relevant data, go to Settings > Privacy & Security > Data
Settings and disable “Suggest Frequent Contacts”.
6.6. Ads Based on User Data
iMe does not store any users data, but non-Premium users in EU
countries may face some advertising from Google Ads. If the User
allows Google to collect cookies, device info and interests for
enhancing ad targeting, then Google will get this information. This
data is not connected with Telegram account or other Google services
and is anonymous. The consent to use data for ads is shown by
Google to some iMe users and will not collect data if it was rejected.
More information about collected data can be found here.
7. BOT MESSAGES
7.1. Ecosystem
Telegram has an API that allows third-party developers to
create bots. Bots are apps that look like special Telegram users: you
can talk to them from your chat list, add them to groups or use a
special “inline” interface to access their features. By performing any
of these actions, you will be sending some of your data to the
respective third-party bot developers.
7.2. How Bots Can Receive Data
You can send data to bot developers when you interact with their bots
in one of these ways:
- By sending messages to a bot;
- By using an inline bot;
- By participating in a group with a bot;
- By pressing buttons in messages sent by a bot;
- By paying for goods and services via bots (see section 8 below);
- By sending a join request to a group or channel;
- By using Telegram Business features that connect a chatbot to your
account;
- By opening a chat with a Telegram Business account controlled by a
chatbot (see section 7.5 below).
7.3. What Data Bots Data
In any of the above cases, the developers of an automated user
(bot) can get your public account data (see section 4.1 above): your
screen name, username and profile picture(s).
Bots can also receive the following data when you interact with
them.
- Bots will obviously get your messages when you send them
something.
- If you click on links or buttons provided by the bot, the bot can
potentially get your IP address (provided that it controls the
website to which the link leads).
- If the bot is a member of the same group with you, it may know
you are a member.
- When you start your message with the username of an inline
bot (e.g. @gif) the interface transforms so that everything you type
becomes a query to that bot. This query is sent to the bot so that it
can provide its service. Telegram will warn you about this the first
time you use an inline bot.
- Bots added to groups can operate in two modes: with access to
messages in the group or without access. If the bot has access to
messages, it can see everything that happens in the group. The
interface clearly shows whether or not a bot has access to messages
in groups.
- To facilitate text localization, bots you interact with (including
chats managed by Telegram Business Chatbots), may receive your
interface language based on your app or operating system language
settings. Note that if you update your language settings, bots may
continue to receive your previous language for some time.
7.4. Bots Are Not Maintained by Telegram
Other than our own bots, no other bots or third-party bot developers
are affiliated with Telegram. They are completely independent from us.
They should ask you for your permission before they access your data or
you make it available to them.
7.5. Telegram Business Chatbots
Telegram Business subscribers can connect third-party bots to their
Telegram account, to help them automatically process and respond to
messages from users.
7.5.1. Communicating with a Business Chatbot
Telegram users have been able to communicate with bots, including
bots run by businesses, since 2015. With the introduction of Telegram
Business, users can also seamlessly interface with bots in private chats with
Telegram Business users who have connected a chatbot to their account.
If you message a Business user who connected a chatbot to their
account, depending on their settings, you may be effectively communicating
with a bot, and it will receive basic data about you as detailed in section 7.3
above.
7.5.2. Using a Business Chatbot to Manage Your Chats
If you connect a third-party bot to your account via Telegram
Business, the bot will have access to basic information about your account
(see section 7.3 above), and will be able to message you privately.
Additionally, the bot will have access to all messages, media and files
contained in the private chats you allow it to manage. Lastly, if you grant it
permission to do so (and only in the private chats you assigned to it), the bot
will be able to send messages and perform other actions on your behalf.
You can alter or revoke the bot’s permissions, including the list of
chats it can access, at any time from Settings > Telegram Business >
Chatbots on official Telegram clients.
8. THIRD PARTY PAYMENT SERVICES
8.1. Payment Information
The Payment Platform for Bots is available to users as of Telegram
4.0. Telegram does not process payments from users and instead relies on
different payment providers around the world. It is the payment providers
that handle and store your credit card details. Neither Telegram nor the
merchants on the platform (bot developers) have access to this information.
Although Telegram works with payment providers they are completely
independent from Telegram. Please study their relevant privacy policies
before making your data available to them.
8.2. Credit Card Information
When making a purchase, you enter your credit card details into a
form supplied by the payment provider that will be processing the payment,
and this information goes directly to the payment provider's server. Your
credit card information never reaches Telegram's servers. We and Telegram
do not access and do not store your credit card information. When you save
your credit card info, it is saved on the respective payment provider's servers
and the payment provider gives Telegram a token that you can reuse for
future payments. It is not possible to reconstruct your credit card info from
the token.
8.3. Shipping Information
When you enter shipping information in the process of placing an
order, Telegram sends it directly to the merchant bot developer. Telegram
can store your shipping information for you if you choose to save it for
future purchases. Telegram will delete this information immediately if you
ask them to.
8.4. Clearing Payment Information
You can clear all payment information associated with your account at
any time by going to Telegram Settings > Privacy & Security > Data
Settings and selecting ‘Clear Payment & Shipping Info’. If you choose to
remove your payment information, Telegram will delete your stored
shipping info and payment tokens from all providers and ask the payment
providers to remove your credit card information that they store.
8.5. Payment Disputes
Due to the fact that Telegram doesn't store any credit card details or
transaction information, it is impossible for us to handle complaints or
cashbacks – any disputed payments are the responsibility of the bot
developers, payment providers, and banks that participated in the exchange.
9. WHO YOUR PERSONAL DATA MAY BE SHARED WITH
9.1. Other Telegram Users
Other users of our Services with whom you choose to
communicate with and share certain information, who may be located
outside the EEA. Note that by entering into the Terms of Service and
choosing to communicate with such other users of Telegram, you are
instructing us to transfer your personal data, on your behalf, to those
users in accordance with Telegram Privacy Policy. Telegram employs
all appropriate technical and organizational measures (including
encryption of your personal data) to ensure a level of security for your
personal data that is appropriate to the risk. However, note that if you
chat with others and share data with them, they become capable of
sharing such data further with third parties without your knowledge or
consent, and Telegram or iMe has no way to prevent this.
9.2. Telegram’s Group Companies
To provide, improve and support Telegram Services, Telegram
may share your personal data with: (1) their parent company,
Telegram Group Inc, located in the British Virgin
Islands, (2) Telegraph Inc., a group member also located in the BVI;
and (3) Telegram FZ-LLC, a group member located in Dubai.
Telegram will implement appropriate safeguards to protect the
security and integrity of that personal data. This will take the form of
standard contract clauses approved by the European Commission in
an agreement between Telegram and their relevant group companies.
If you would like more information regarding these clauses, please
contact our EEA representative using the details in section 1.4 in
Telegram Privacy Policy.
9.3. Law Eforcement Authorities
If Telegram receives a court order that confirms you're a terror
suspect, Telegram may disclose your IP address and phone number to the
relevant authorities. So far, this has never happened. When it does, Telegram
will include it in a semiannual transparency report published at:
https://t.me/transparency.
9.4. Translation of Chats, Channels and specific Messages at the Request of
the User
Users can choose to translate a specific text message into a different
language by tapping “Translate” in the action menu of the message (to
enable this option, a user should first turn on Translation services in the
Settings > Languages section of the Telegram application). Telegram
Premium users can also optionally enable automatic live translation on any
chat, group or channel.
Since Telegram may rely on a third-party, Google LLC, subsidiary of
Alphabet Inc, for automatic translation of messages, the text of any message
or set of messages that users choose to translate may be shared with Google
in order to obtain their translated versions. Google will only access the data
to provide a translation and will not use it for any other Google products,
services, or advertising.
9.5. Transcription of Voice and Video Messages at the Request of the User
Some users can choose to convert a voice or video message to text by
tapping on the Voice-to-Text icon (“->A”) displayed on eligible messages
(to be able to use this option, users should subscribe to Telegram Premium
in the Settings > Telegram Premium section of the Telegram application).
Since Telegram may rely on a third party, Google LLC, subsidiary of
Alphabet Inc, for voice-to-text conversion, the audio data of voice and
video messages that users choose to convert to text may be shared with
Google in order to obtain their transcribed versions. Only audio data may be
shared for this purpose (no other data, such as the user's IP address or any
information about their account is shared). According to the agreement
between Telegram and Google, Telegram will pay for the transcriptions on
behalf of its users and Google will only access the audio data to provide a
transcribed version – it will not log audio data or transcripts and will not use
the data for any other Google products, services, or advertising.
9.6. Advertising from Google Ads
Google Ads is integrated in iMe as third-party provider and non-
Premium users face advertising in different corners of the app. iMe does not
store any data of user views and targeting data, but as Google Ads is the
advertising provider, it may receive some data to enhance its targeting
methods. This data is not connected with Telegram account and is
anonymous (check section 6.6) above.
10. YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING THE PERSONAL DATA
YOU PROVIDE TO US
10.1. Your Rights
Under applicable data protection legislation, in certain
circumstances, you have rights concerning your personal data. You
have a right to: (1) request a copy of all your personal data that
Telegram stores and to transmit that copy to another data controller;
(2) delete (see section 11 below) or amend your personal data; (3)
restrict, or object to, the processing of your personal data; (4) correct
any inaccurate or incomplete personal data Telegram hold on you; and
(5) lodge a complaint with national data protection authorities
regarding our processing of your personal data.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, kindly use the
contact details in section 12 from Telegram Privacy Policy.
10.2. Data Settings
You can control how your data is used (e.g., delete synced
contacts) in
Settings > Privacy & Security > Data Settings (using one of our
mobile apps).
Sadly, if you're generally not OK with Telegram's modest
requirements, it won't be possible for us to provide you with our
Services. You can delete your Telegram account by proceeding to the
deactivation page.
11. DELETING DATA
11.1. Accounts
If you would like to delete your account, you can do this on the
deactivation page. Deleting your account removes all messages,
media, contacts, and every other piece of data you store in the
Telegram cloud.
This action must be confirmed via your Telegram account and
cannot be undone.
11.2. Messages
- In secret chats, deleting a message always instructs the app on the
other end to delete it too.
- In cloud chats, you can choose to delete a message for all
participants within at least 48 hours after sending. Otherwise,
deleting a message will delete it from your message history. This
means that a copy will stay on the server as part of your partner's
message history. As soon as your partner deletes it too, it's gone
forever.
- As of version 5.5, any party can choose to delete any messages in
one-on-one chats, both sent and received, for both sides. There is
no time limit. Any party can also opt to clear the entire chat history
for both parties, in which case the apps will be instructed to
remove all messages in that chat, however many of them are still
retained by either of the participants.
- In supergroups and channels, deleting a message removes it for all
participants. Note that deleted messages and original versions of
edited messages from supergroups are stored for 48 hours after
deletion in order to be shown in the admins log.
11.3. Self-Destructing Messages
Messages in Secret Chats can be ordered to self-destruct. As
soon as such a message is read (2 checks appear), the countdown
starts. When the timer expires, both devices participating in a secret
chat are instructed to delete the message (photo, video, etc.). Media
with short timers (less than a minute) are shown with blurred
previews. The timer is triggered when they are viewed.
11.4. Account Self-Destruction
By default, if you stop using Telegram and do not come online
for at least 6 months, your account will be deleted along with all
messages, media, contacts, and every other piece of data you store in
the Telegram cloud. You can go to Settings to change the exact period
after which your inactive account will self-destruct.
12. REGISTRATION IN APPLICATION
12.1. Since the 28th of February 2023, the registration process has changed,
because of the new Telegram rules. Now, the User can’t create an account in
iMe. According to the new Telegram rules, the User shall download and
install the official Telegram client at first. After launching the Telegram
application, the User shall enter his or her phone number to get an SMS code
from Telegram. When the SMS-code is entered, then the new account will
be successfully created.
12.2. After registration in the official Telegram client, a User shall download and
install the Application (iMe) from the Store, launch it and enter his or her
number on the login screen.
12.3. In order to complete the login in iMe, after installing the Application from
the Store, the User needs to associate his or her device with the Telegram
database, for which he needs to perform one of the following actions:
12.3.1. Enter the code that has came to Telegram active session of the User
that has been just created.
12.3.2. If a User already has an active session, then a User shall skip the 10.1
section above. After entering a User’s phone number, the code will
immediately come to all active sessions of a User (both the mobile
application and the Desktop version for the personal computer);
12.3.3. If a User does not have any access to active sessions, then he or she
can login Telegram application at first and get the SMS code, and only then
enter iMe with the help of the code which is sent to the Telegram active
session.
12.3.4. Registration and entry into the Application is carried out using the
Telegram service. The service of registration and authorization of the User
in the Application works exclusively with the help of the equipment and
servers of Telegram.
12.4. The User is obliged to immediately notify the Rightholder of any case of
unauthorized (not permitted by the User) access to the User account and / or
any violation (suspicion of violation) of the confidentiality of their means of
access to the account in the Application. The Rightholder is not responsible
for possible loss or damage to data, as well as other consequences of any
nature that may occur due to a violation of the provisions of the Agreement
by the User.
13. LINK TO TELEGRAM
13.1.1. The Application is developed on the basis of the Telegram API,
accessible via the https://core.telegram.org/api link, which has open-source
code. The peculiarity of the Application is that all the functional features of
the “Telegram” are saved in it, as well as new ones that are not included in
the “Telegram”, such as the use of Neurobots, are added.
13.1.2. It is impossible to access the User’s personal information through the
equipment and / or the Rightholder’s server since the entire User’s
information is stored on its device and on the Telegram equipment.
13.1.3. The sole function of the server hardware of the Rightholder in the
Application is to store information about Neurobots, as well as their
estimates, the number of installations and other information about
Neurobots, which will be displayed in the Store.
13.1.4. All cloud storage used in the Application belongs to the “Telegram”,
the entire history of correspondence, contacts, files, media of the User is
stored in his or her account and is displayed both in the Application and in
the “Telegram”. This, in fact, is a single database.
13.1.5. The main difference of the Application from “Telegram” is the
possibility of using Neurobots and crypto wallet, as well as the additional
functionality, working on the basis of the existing one in “Telegram”.
14. SHOPPING AND USING NEUROBOTS
14.1.1. Neurobots available in the Application interface are divided into paid
and free.
14.1.2. Any Neurobot may be updated and / or deleted at any time on the
initiative of the Rightholder and for objective reasons. No prior notice to the
User of the update and / or removal of the free Neurobot is required. In case
of removal of the Neurobot paid by the User, the Rightholder shall have the
right to provide the User with the opportunity to choose the same Neurobot
from among those functioning, at no additional charge. The User undertakes
to inform the Rightholder about his choice. After updating Neurobot, the
User needs to update the Application on his device.
14.1.3. The purchase of Neurobot is carried out according to the “as is”
principle, that is, from the moment the access to the Neurobot is granted, the
service is considered to be rendered. The fact of non-use of Neurobot does
not affect the financial relations of the parties under the Agreement. The
Rightholder is not obliged to refund if the User does not use the purchased
Neurobot.
14.1.4. Any payment in the Application is carried out in accordance with the
interface of the respective Store and according to its rules.
14.1.5. The cost of any paid Neurobot, as well as other conditions for
acquiring Neurobot (for example, a paid subscription, etc.) is presented in
the Application interface.
14.1.6. The current version of Neurobot, which is available to the User, is not
subject to change, this means that Neurobot does not analyze the User’s
correspondence and does not “complete its education” during its use, does
not transmit correspondence for analysis, etc.
14.1.7. The User, at his own discretion, decides on the use of Neurobot with
his interlocutors and bears full responsibility for its use before other Users.
The Rightholder does not create abusive or slanderous messages during the
development of Neurobot, however, it does not control the User’s
correspondence process, so some expressions proposed by Neurobot may
seem to other Users unacceptable. Under no circumstances is the
Rightholder responsible for the User’s correspondence, does not keep it,
does not have access to it.
15. USE OF WALLET
15.1. iMe Messenger wallet ("Wallet") is based on a decentralized platform.
Sometimes, during the development process, we use Google servers, as it is
necessary to test and debug Wallet functionality and find out technical issues
with the help of third-party services.
15.2. Activation of the Wallet is automatically performed by authorization of the
Account of a User via Telegram. Authorization is implemented via OAuth2
Telegram bot and is required every time you log in or reinstall the
Application.
15.3. The authorization is made automatically when a User installs the
Application. The authorization is needed for using some Application’s
features like Voice To Text, Text from Photo, Translator, Wallet operation,
etc.
15.4. This is required for identifying the User account ID, because some of our
features are paid for the Rightholder and are free for a User. For instance, we
pay for every symbol in Google services such as Voice To Text, Text from
photo etc, and we need to identify the User IDs for preventing third-party
projects to use our public API keys. Before implementing User
authorization, some third parties used our keys and were using these features
at our expense.
15.5. User’s account ID is the most secure data, as there is no any information
about which contains account data, name, media or messages. Moreover,
there is no search by User ID, so this information is confidential.
15.6. Any additional questions not described in this section related to the use of
the Wallet the User may write in support on @iMeMessenger.
16. ACCOUNT AND BLOCKCHAINS
16.1. Due to the inherent transparency of many blockchains, including the
Ethereum Blockchain, BNB Chain, other EVM-compatible blockchains and
TON and many others, transactions that are performed by individuals via
iMe Wallet may be publicly accessible. This includes, but is not limited to,
your public sending address, the public address of the receiver, the amount
sent or received, and any other data a user has chosen to include in a given
transaction. Information stored in a blockchain may be public, immutable,
and difficult or even impossible to remove or delete. Transactions and
addresses may reveal information about the user’s identity and information
can potentially be correlated now or in the future by any party who chooses
to do so, including law enforcement. Users are encouraged to review how
privacy and transparency on the blockchain works.
More information about all blockchains that are integrated into iMe
can be found on the official websites of the platforms:
Ethereum - https://ethereum.org/en;
BNB Chain - https://www.bnbchain.org/en/smartChain;
Polygon - https://polygon.technology;
Fantom - https://fantom.foundation;
Tron - https://tron.network;
Bitcoin - https://bitcoin.org/en/;
TON (The Open Network) - https://ton.org;
Arbitrum One - https://arbitrum.io;
Optimism - https://www.optimism.io.
16.2. Only you have access to your blockchain accounts, private keys and funds
on your accounts. The application does not store keys, access and recovery
files. After creating a crypto wallet, be sure to make a backup copy in the
settings and store it carefully. Make sure that you have saved your
passphrase in a safe place. You, and only you, can restore your wallet
if you lose your smartphone or when you log in from a new device,
including through third-party wallets, only with the backup copy help.
If you do not have a backup and you lose your smartphone or
delete the application, you will not be able to restore your account and
all funds will be lost forever. Nobody can help you.
Beware of scams and questionable offers. Do not give your
public wallet address to strangers. By knowing your address, anyone
can find out your balance through the open system of blockchain
operations. Set up data privacy in your Telegram profile additionally.
16.3. DeFi (decentralized finance) is one of the sections of the iMe Wallet. The
iMe platform offers proven, proprietary tools and services that serve to
provide a wide range of DeFi services to individual interested in creating
long term value from digital assets.
By creating a secure architecture, we are creating a safe and seamless
platform for DeFi transactions, helping keep users digital assets
secure.
16.4. We may contract third parties to perform functions related to the Services
(“Service Providers”). In general, Service Providers will have access to your
Personal Information only to the extent needed to perform their business
functions but may not use or share that personal information for purposes
outside the scope of their functions related to the Services.
16.5. The Services contain links to other third-party websites or applications.
Once you click on such a link and leave the Application or are redirected to
a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this
Policy. Any information you provide on those sites is subject to that third
party’s privacy policy and we are not responsible for the privacy and
security practices and policies of those third-party sites or applications.
For example, our partner Simplex (https://www.simplex.com) is an
EUlicensed fintech company that provides worldwide payment
processing. You can view Simplex's Privacy Policy at
https://www.simplex.com/privacy-policy.
17. SIMPLE ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE
17.1. By virtue of the Law on Electronic Signature, a simple electronic signature
is an electronic signature, which, by using codes, passwords, or other means,
confirms the fact that an electronic signature has been generated by a certain
person. Thus, any actions of the User using the login and password to his
account in the Store and / or to the account in the Application confirm the
fact of the formation of a simple electronic signature directly by the User.
17.2. Electronic documents and messages signed with a simple electronic
signature are recognized as equivalent documents on paper, signed with a
handwritten signature.
17.3. The user undertakes to respect the confidentiality of his electronic signature
and bears full responsibility for its safety and individual use, independently
choosing the method of their storage and restricting access to it.
18. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
18.1. The User understands and unconditionally agrees that he uses the
Rightholder's services under the Agreement solely at his own risk and that
the services are provided to the User on an “as is” and “as available” basis,
namely the Rightholder does not declare or guarantee that:
services will meet the requirements of the User;
services will be provided continuously, timely, safely and
without errors;
any information received by the User as a result of using the
services will be full-time and reliable;
defects in the work or functionality of any software as part of
the Application will be corrected in the expected time of the
User.
18.2. The User also understands and agrees that all the Application’s services are
provided “as is” and that the Rightholder is not responsible for any delays,
malfunctions, incorrect or untimely delivery, deletion, or failure of any user
personal or other information.
18.3. The copyright holder of "Telegram" is responsible for the quality of
communication services presented in the Application.
18.4. Access to downloaded malware in the Application.
18.5. The Rightholder is not responsible for the loss of User data.
18.6. The User agrees that the Application meets its requirements.
18.7. The Rightholder or his representatives are not responsible before Users or
before third parties, for any indirect, incidental, unintentional damages,
including enhanced outcomes or lost data, harmful conditions, value, or
business reputation arising in connection with the use of the Application, all
usable that can be achieved with it.
19. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
19.1. The design elements, all Neurobots and other objects missing in the
Telegram interface are subject to the exclusive rights of the Rightholder.
19.2. The user is granted a personal non-exclusive and non-transferable right to
use the Application on his device, provided that neither the User himself nor
any other persons with the assistance of him will:
copy or modify the software;
create software-derived programs;
penetrate the software in order to obtain program codes;
violate the rights of third parties;
to sell, assign, lease, transfer to third parties in any other form
the rights with respect to the software provided to the User
under the Agreement;
modify services, including in order to obtain unauthorized
access to them.
19.3. The User is strictly prohibited to use Neurobots, both as a whole and as a
separate part (for example, images, Neurobot images) outside the interface
of the Application. In the event that a violation of this condition is found, the
Rightholder has the right to seek compensation for violation of the license
for Neurobots in the amount of 1,000 to 50,000 US dollars at its discretion,
depending on the nature of the violation.
19.4. In the event of the discovery of a violation of intellectual property rights, the
respective copyright holder shall, in the pretrial order, send a statement to
the Rightholder by e-mail: support@imem.app. A statement is submitted by
an authorized person, a copy of the document is attached to a statement (in
written or electronic form) confirming his authority.
19.5. In case of detection of incomplete information, inaccuracies, or errors in the
Application, the Rightholder submits to the applicant within 24 (twenty-
four) hours from the date of receipt of a statement a notification on the
clarification of the submitted information. This notification may be sent to
the applicant once. Within 24 (twenty-four) hours from the moment of
receiving the notification, the applicant takes measures aimed at filling the
missing information, elimination of inaccuracies and errors, and sends the
specified information to the Rightholder.
19.6. Within 24 (twenty-four) hours from the moment of receipt of a statement
information specified by the applicant (in the case of notification to the
applicant), the Rightholder removes the intellectual property from the
Application, the rights to which have been violated.
19.7. If the Rightholder has evidence confirming the legality of placing
information containing the object of copyright and (or) related rights in the
Application, the Rightholder has the right not to take measures to remove
such information on a statement and sends the applicant a corresponding
notice with the above evidence.
20. FINAL PROVISIONS
20.1. All disagreements or disputes that may arise between the parties to the
Agreement should be resolved in the pretrial order through negotiations, the
sending of claim letters. The deadline for responding to a claim is 10 (ten)
business days. Claims of the User are accepted and considered by the
Rightsholder only in writing.
20.2. If agreement for any reason is not reached during the pre-trial settlement, the
dispute arising from the Agreement shall be considered on the basis of
Cyprus international arbitration law.
20.3. The law of the Republic of Cyprus applies to the relations of the parties
under the Agreement. Acceptance of the Agreement by a foreign User
means that the text of the Agreement is understandable to him and does not
need translation. If necessary, the translation of foreign users undertake to
translate into the language they need on their own and at their own expense.
REQUISITES OF THE RIGHTHOLDER
Name: IME LAB LTD
Company Registration No. HE409498
Incorporated in the Republic of Cyprus
Email: support@imem.app
Telegram username: @iMeMessenger
