Your privacy is important to us. It is for-u inc.'s policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including via our app, FORU, and its associated services.
Personal information is any information about you which can be used to identify you. This includes information about you as a person (such as name, address, and date of birth), your devices, payment details, and even information about how you use an app or online service. In the event our app contains links to third-party sites and services, please be aware that those sites and services have their own privacy policies. After following a link to any third-party content, you should read their posted privacy policy information about how they collect and use personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of your activities after you leave our app.
This policy is effective as of July 1, 2025 Last updated: July 1, 2025
Information We Collect: Information we collect falls into one of two categories: "voluntarily provided" information and "automatically collected" information. "Voluntarily provided" information refers to any information you knowingly and actively provide us when using our app and its associated services. "Automatically collected" information refers to any information automatically sent by your device in the course of accessing our app and its associated services.
Log Data: When you access our servers via our app, we may automatically log the standard data provided by your device. It may include your device's Internet Protocol (IP) address, your device type and version, your activity within the app, time and date, and other details about your usage. Additionally, when you encounter certain errors while using the app, we automatically collect data about the error and the circumstances surrounding its occurrence. This data may include technical details about your device, what you were trying to do when the error happened, and other technical information relating to the problem. You may or may not receive notice of such errors, even in the moment they occur, that they have occurred, or what the nature of the error is. Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons.
Device Data: Our app may access and collect data via your device's in-built tools, such as: Your Identity
Location Data: Camera Calendar Contacts Phone/SMS Storage, photos and/or media Notifications Device/app history
When you install the app or use your device’s tools within the app, we request permission to access this information. The specific data we collect can depend on the individual settings of your device and the permissions you grant when you install and use the app.
Personal Information: We may ask for personal information - for example, when you submit content to us, when you subscribe to our newsletter, when you participate in any of our giveaways, sweepstakes, or promotions or when you contact us — which may include one or more of the following: Name Email Social media profiles Phone/mobile number Home/mailing address User-Generated Content
We consider “user-generated content” to be materials (text, image and/or video content) voluntarily supplied to us by our users for the purpose of publication on our platform, app or re-publishing on our social media channels. All user-generated content is associated with the account or email address used to submit the materials. Please be aware that any content you submit for the purpose of publication will be public after posting (and subsequent review or vetting process). Once published, it may be accessible to third parties not covered under this privacy policy.
Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information We only collect and use your personal information when we have a legitimate reason for doing so. In which instance, we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you.
Collection and Use of Information We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our app: Enter any of our competitions, contests, sweepstakes, and surveys Sign up to receive updates from us via email or social media channels Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content Contact us via email, social media, or on any similar technologies
When you mention us on social media We may collect, hold, use, and disclose information for the following purposes, and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes: to provide you with our app's core features and services to enable you to customize or personalize your experience of our app to deliver products and/or services to you to contact and communicate with you for analytics, market research, and business development, including to operate and improve our app, associated applications, and associated social media platforms for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you to run competitions, sweepstakes, and/or offer additional benefits to you to attribute any content (e.g. posts and comments) you submit that we publish on our app for security and fraud prevention, and to ensure that our sites and apps are safe, secure, and used in line with our terms of use for technical assessment, including to operate and improve our app, associated applications, and associated social media platforms
We may combine voluntarily provided and automatically collected personal information with general information or research data we receive from other trusted sources. For example, If you consent to us accessing your social media profiles, we may combine information sourced from those profiles with information received from you directly to provide you with an enhanced experience of our app and services.
Security of Your Personal Information When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification. Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure and no one can guarantee absolute data security.
You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the bounds of our services. For example, ensuring you do not make your personal information publicly available via our platform.
How Long We Keep Your Personal Information We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this privacy policy. For example, if you have provided us with personal information such as an email address when contacting us about a specific enquiry, we may retain this information for the duration of your enquiry remaining open as well as for our own records so we may effectively address similar enquiries in future. If your personal information is no longer required for this purpose, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you. However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.
Children’s Privacy We do not aim any of our products or services directly at children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect personal information about children under 13. Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties
We may disclose personal information to: a parent, subsidiary or affiliate of our company third-party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, analytics, error loggers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving providers, professional advisors, and payment systems operators our employees, contractors, and/or related entities our existing or potential agents or business partners sponsors or promoters of any competition, sweepstakes, or promotion we run credit reporting agencies, courts, tribunals, and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights third parties, including agents or sub-contractors who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you third parties to collect and process data an entity that buys, or to which we transfer all or substantially all of our assets and business Third parties we currently use include: Google Analytics Stripe Apple Pay
International Transfers of Personal Information The personal information we collect is stored and/or processed in United States of America (the) , or where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain facilities. The countries to which we store, process, or transfer your personal information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your personal information to third parties in other countries: (i) we will perform those transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and (ii) we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.