Privacy Policy

When you create and use an Olea account, we may collect information including:

• your name
• email address and account details
• date of birth or age
• profile photographs
• profile information and preferences you choose to provide
• your selected experience, such as Social or Network
• Waves (including sender, recipient, timing and mutual status), connections and other interactions within Olea
• messages and information exchanged through Olea
• venues you select, add or check into
• approximate or precise location information where you give Olea permission to access your device location
• device and technical information
• information about how you use Olea, including app activity and interactions

You can choose not to provide certain information, although this may prevent some features of Olea from working.

We use your information to:

• create and manage your Olea account
• show you people and venues relevant to your preferences and location
• enable check-ins and other location-based features
• enable Waves, connections and communication between users
• send notifications relating to your account, Waves, connections, venues and activity
• help determine the ordering and relevance of people shown within Social discovery
• operate, maintain and improve Olea
• understand how people use Olea
• detect and prevent misuse, fraud or inappropriate behaviour
• respond to support requests
• comply with our legal obligations

Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before using certain information or device features.

Olea uses location information to provide features based on where you are, including finding nearby venues and confirming or enabling venue check-ins.

Your location is not intended to provide other users with your precise real-time coordinates. Other users may, however, be able to see the venue at which you have chosen to check in.

You can control Olea’s access to your location through your device settings.

Your profile and certain information about you may be visible to other Olea users in accordance with your settings, preferences and use of the app.

When you send a Social Wave, Olea records the sender, recipient and related timing and status information in order to operate Social discovery and determine whether a Wave becomes mutual.

A recipient may be told that someone there has Waved, but the identity of the person sending a Social Wave is not disclosed to the recipient through the Wave notification. The sender’s identity in relation to that Wave is revealed within Olea only if the recipient also Waves that user and the Wave becomes mutual.

Wave information may be used internally by Olea to help determine the ordering or relevance of people shown within Social discovery, to operate safety and integrity features, and to maintain the service.

These controls describe what is shown through Olea’s Social Wave feature. They do not prevent a user from recognising or inferring another person based on profile, location, venue or other contextual information.

Network and other Olea features may use different visibility rules and should not be assumed to use private Waves unless explicitly stated within the relevant feature.

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share information with trusted service providers that help us operate Olea, including providers of:

• app hosting and infrastructure
• authentication and account services
• location and mapping services
• notifications
• analytics and performance monitoring
• security and technical support

These providers may process information on our behalf in accordance with their own terms and applicable data protection requirements.

We may also disclose information where required by law, to protect the rights or safety of Olea users, or in connection with a sale, restructuring or transfer of the Olea business.

Depending on the circumstances, we process personal information because:

• it is necessary to provide the Olea service you have requested;
• you have given us consent;
• we have a legitimate interest in operating, securing and improving Olea; or
• we are required to do so by law.

Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.

We keep personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide Olea, operate your account and fulfil the purposes described in this policy.

If you delete your account, we will delete or anonymise your personal information within a reasonable period, except where we need to retain certain information for legal, security, fraud-prevention or legitimate business purposes.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights relating to your personal information.

Under UK data protection law, these may include the right to:

• request access to your personal information
• ask us to correct inaccurate information
• request deletion of your information
• restrict or object to certain processing
• request transfer of certain information
• withdraw consent where we rely on consent

To exercise these rights, contact us using the details below.

You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you are concerned about how we handle your personal information.

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information from unauthorised access, loss, misuse or disclosure.

However, no internet or mobile service can guarantee absolute security.

Olea is intended for adults aged 18 and over.

We do not knowingly permit anyone under 18 to create an Olea account. If we become aware that personal information relating to someone under 18 has been collected through an account, we may remove the account and associated information.

Some of the technology providers we use may process information outside the United Kingdom.

Where required, we will use appropriate safeguards for international transfers of personal information in accordance with applicable data protection law.

We may update this privacy policy as Olea develops or if our legal or regulatory obligations change.

Where appropriate, we will notify users of material changes.

Olea is operated by:

Somerhill Group Ltd

England and Wales

For privacy enquiries or requests relating to your personal information, please contact: hello@somerhillgroup.com