Our arrangements to combat the privacy threats in Hive

Before reading this post, we suggest you read the following posts to become more familiar with Hive and how it works: “what makes Hive different?” and “The features of Hive”

Information we receive from user

Users provide all information voluntarily. The mandatory information required to register to Hive are email address, username and password. Users can add full name, date of birth, gender, occupation, education and current location (city, country) optionally. Please have a look at the registration page mockup.

User is required to provide accurate information and not create an account on behalf of another person.

Hive stores all of the users’ expressed interests.

How we use users’ information

Information collected about your Interests and posts would be displayed to the public or only to the user’s friends on the site, together with your user name.

We will not trade or sell our user’s personal information.

The only way for third party applications or services to access your information is by you giving them explicit permission to do so. Currently, we do not have such collaboration with third parties to share your information with them.

We will also use users’ personal information to contact them by email in order to keep them informed  changes to our service or to support users to get the most out of Hive’s features.

We will not release any personal information except when we get explicit permission from user to do so. Of course it would also be with respect to the law and related regulations.

Any personal information would be used to enhance the quality of recommendations for users.

How users control their information

Users can update their information any time after their registration.

Users would be able to choose a friend by sending a friend request. They can choose either to accept it or not. There after they can control their friends list by deleting a friend.

It is possible to block a person that user do not want to be in touch with.

Users can review, update or delete their posts and information, such as personal information, posts and interests.

Posts can be made public or only viewable to friends.

How we protect your information

User information will be stored in a secure database in an encrypted format. Also, no personal information will be shared or traded with others as mentioned before.

Users access Hive with a password and unique user ID. Passwords will be kept encrypted.

Children’s privacy

As children’s privacy is one of the most important aspects of the Web, we need to make strong considerations to protect children’s privacy in Hive. Any child under 13 is not allowed to register to Hive.

Deleting and deactivating accounts

Users will be able to stop using their account by either deactivating or deleting it.