Our rules
1. You must be 13 or over to use Zim Connects.
2. Don’t lie about yourself when you set up your Zim Connects
account, and make sure your contact information, including
mobile phone number, is always up to date.
3. Don’t post anything showing violence, or that might frighten
people, or that shows nudity.
4. Don’t bully anyone.
5. Don’t pretend to be anyone else.
6. If you want to use someone’s information from Zim Connects, ask
them first.
7. If you want to tag someone who doesn’t use Zim Connects, ask
them first.
8. Don’t share anyone’s private or personal information, like bank
or passport details, or address.
9. Keep your password secret and don’t let anyone else log into
your account.
10. Don’t do anything illegal on Zim Connects, including taking part
in scams.
11. Don’t post spam or anything that isn’t true.
12. Don’t use any type of software or robot to get other peoples’
information.
13. Don’t upload viruses or do anything that might affect the way
Zim Connects works, or mess around with our code.
14. You can only have one personal Zim Connects account; if we
delete it, you must not make another.
15. Don’t use the Zim Connects logo, pictures, layout or anything we
have written, or try to copy it, without our written permission.
16. If you want to make an app, a Page, or an advert then you
need to follow extra rules.
17. If you want to make money on Zim Connects then you must use
a Page and not your own profile.
18. Don’t use Zim Connects to try to sell things to people who are not
old enough.
19. Don’t encourage or help anyone else to break these rules.
Your rights
1. Even if your profile is private, remember that people can see
and share information that others post about you. Other people
can also save information you have posted about yourself on
their own phones and devices.
2. Some companies will share information about you with us
and we will share information about you with them. We won’t
share your name or email address but we can share your age,
location, gender and interests with advertisers all over the
world, or people doing research. You have the right to tell us
not to and we won’t.
3. If you agree to use an app on Zim Connects, that app might be able
to use, share and keep the information you post on Zim Connects.
4. If you delete your account, things you have posted will be
deleted but not things other people have shared about you.
All the information we hold about you will be deleted by us
within 90 days.
5. Officially you own any original images and videos you post,
but Zim Connects can use them however it wants to and we don’t
have to pay you any money for that.
6. It’s your responsibility to make sure that other people don’t
copy things that belong to you. We can help you do this.
7 If we have deleted something of yours and you think it’s
unfair, you have the right to complain.
8. We will let you know if we change our terms including how we
use your data. If you keep using Zim Connects after we’ve told you
about changes, we’ll assume that you are okay with them.
9. Zim Connects can delete or force you to change your username or
Page name and we can delete anything that breaks our rules.
You can complain if you think it’s unfair.
Our rights
1. We use technology that can track information about you
automatically as soon as you go onto Zim Connects.
2. Zim Connects can collect information about you, including:
• Everything you tell us when you set up your account
• The pages you view, how long you spend and who you
talk to
• What device you’re using, what browser and network,
and your IP address
• Details about what you post or ‘like’
• Anything anyone else shares about you or tags you in
• What and who is in your address book, if it’s synced to
Zim Connects
• Your card details, address and what you’ve bought, if you
buy things on Zim Connects
• Your battery and signal strength
• Where you are
• If you go onto another company’s website or app
3. We can use your name, profile pictures, information about
what you ‘like’ and anything you post to make money and we
don’t have to pay you for that.
4. Zim Connects owns other companies, including Instagram and
WhatsApp who can share information about you with
Zim Connects. If someone buys Zim Connects, the sale will include
your information.
5. Zim Connects uses your information to suggest adverts, photos you
should be tagged in, or places you should check in. We don’t
have to make it obvious whether something is an advert or not.
6. We use your information to improve safety on Zim Connects. If
we think something you post looks suspicious or might be
breaking our rules, we will investigate it.
7. If we think a law has been broken, or might be broken then we
might get into your account and share your information with
people involved in the case.
8. If we stop your account because you break our rules, we can
keep information about you for at least a year.
9. If you keep on posting pictures that belong to other people,
we can delete your account.
10. When you delete a photo or video, we might still store it for a
while on the Zim Connects systems.
11. It’s nice for us to hear your thoughts and ideas about Zim Connects
but if you tell us them, and we use them, we don’t have to pay
you any money or let anyone know you came up with the idea.
12. We can ban you from Zim Connects if you break our rules or we
think you might try to break the rules