Creating a better world
The world has produced over 9 billion tons of plastic in the last 50 years, and more than TWO THIRDS of this is now in our environment. On average, less than 10 percent of the 450 million tons of plastic produced every year is recycled. While there are terrific initiatives around the world to move away from plastic to bio-degradable alternatives, that change will likely take some time. In the meanwhile, our planet is increasingly beginning to look like a giant ball wrapped in clingfilm. The only thing that is growing at an equally exponential pace is our adoption of social media platforms. There are now 3.5 billion social media users in the world, sharing hundreds of millions of posts and stories every single day. What if we could make those posts truly count? What if we could inspire each other with stories of how we're coming together in our homes, in our neighborhoods, and in our communities, to help save our environment? At KleanUp, we're creating the foundation for a conscientious, social platform where you will be able to do just that. Welcome to KleanUp - the social platform that lets you create a better world - one story at a time!
Share inspiring stories of how you're helping to keep our environment clean
Organize KleanUp Events in your own community
Volunteer in meaningful ways to protect our environment
The KleanUp Story
KleanUp was born out of a desire to create a better world. A world that is cleaner than the one we live in today. At first, it was going to be just us and a few of our friends coming together to help clean parks, school grounds and other public spaces in and around the city of Allen. That, in and of itself, was a lot of fun. It helped us feel like we were part of a community - one where we shared the common responsibility of helping and supporting each other. But then, we were quick to recognize that creating a better world cannot begin and end with us getting together once in a blue moon. What if we could create a conscientious social network that would push itself to create a better world by bringing people together to have fun while making meaningful contributions in their own communities. We knew that "social" platforms had the power to bring people together. But we did not just want to create another platform for people to share random, filtered, pictures of themselves and their material possessions. Instead, we wanted to create a thriving, vibrant community of people, coming together every day in their own neighborhoods, to share their stories of how they're keeping our environment clean. So, whether it is picking up a piece of plastic on your daily run or organizing an event to bring friends together to clean up your neighborhood, we'd love for you to tell your story on KleanUp. Come join our mission to create a better world!
Activities
KleanUp is all about we the people coming together to save our environment. From cleaning up our neighborhoods , to sharing inspiring stories with the world, to organizing recycling awareness events, we bring people together to help create a better world. But we have no illusions about the extent of our imagination. If there is one thing we know, it is simply this - that we do not know what we do not know. So, if you have ideas and would like to help us, send us your suggestions, and we'll be more than happy to incorporate those into our ever growing list of initiatives. Or better yet, share a picture and a story of your idea with the greater KleanUp community. You never quite know who you're going to inspire!
Events
KleanUp "Events" can help you organize and host community events. Depending on where your event is taking place, it will be matched to members of the KleanUp community, so they can volunteer to participate. Your KleanUp feed will let you see what events are coming up, where and when. We hope this initiative will not only reduce the large amount of waste in our ecosystems, but will also create a fun environment for people to come together with a greater sense of purpose to serve the community.
Stories
Most social platforms are about documenting the stories of our lives - where we go, who we're with, what we're eating. Nothing wrong with that, but what about the stuff we do because we care about our planet. That's what KleanUp stories are for. Every KleanUp post is a story. You share a photo of anything you've seen or done that you believe will help create a better world! Picking up a plastic bottle on your daily run, planting a tree in your backyard, organizing an event to pick up pet poop from your neighborhood, the things you can do to inspire others are truly limitless. And if you simply want to share a story of who you're hanging with or what you're doing, we won't stop you from doing that either!
Friends
We recognize that making and staying in touch with friends is an important aspect of any social platform. We also believe that diversity fuels discovery. With KleanUp, you have an opportunity to network and connect with a wide range of people with unique interests, backgrounds and aspirations, unified by a common purpose to create a better, cleaner world!
Team KleanUp
Our team at KleanUp is unified by a common ideology that keeps us up at night. We recognize that the greatest threat to our world is the belief that someone else will save it. We know that the world does not belong to a chosen few. It belongs to all of us. And it is our moral obligation to help keep it clean. That's what we want to do with KleanUp, and we want to have fun doing it. It is this sense of purpose that brought us together, in our quest to help create a better world.
Live Statistics
We created KleanUp in an effort to help create a better, cleaner world. A world where each of us takes accountability for our environment and our community. A world where our stories of how the little things that we do to keep our environment clean will help inspire humanity. Needless to say, this vision will not be possible without everyone of you coming together to embrace this social platform - with downloads, stories, likes, comments, engagement and events. This here is a live dashboard with our adoption statistics as of date.
The KleanUp Community
1,045
Monthly Active User Count
STORIES & POSTS
721
Shared on the platform
ENGAGEMENT
2,144
Comments, Likes, Photos, etc.
EVENTS
51 with 168 users
4,233 lbs of plastic
These are humble beginnings, and we have barely just begun our journey, but we're driven by a sense of purpose that we believe is powerful, and a vision that we know will continue to inspire us to share our story with the world.
Send Us An Email
Thank you for your interest in KleanUp. Whether you are a volunteer, a student, a teacher, or a member of ourcommunity who is interested in our vision to create a better world, please leave us a note. We will get back to you as soon as possible.
Privacy Policy
Privacy Notice
Last updated May 02, 2023
KleanUp is a fully-owned subsidiary of KöRa Connect Inc (" Company ", "we", "us", "our"). Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at KleanUp. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at kleanup@kleanup.us .
When you use our mobile application, as the case may be (the "App") and more generally, use any of our services (the "Services", which include the App ), we appreciate that you are trusting us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy notice, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Services immediately.
This privacy notice applies to all information collected through our Services (which, as described above, includes our App ), as well as, any related services, sales, marketing or events.
Please read this privacy notice carefully as it will help you understand what we do with the information that we collect.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
3. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
4. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?
5. DO WE USE GOOGLE MAPS?
6. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
7. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
8. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
9. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
10. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
12. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
13. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the App, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the App (such as by posting stories in the App) or otherwise when you contact us.
The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the App , the choices you make and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:
Personal Information Provided by You. We collect names ; phone numbers, email addresses ; and other similar information.
All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
Information collected through our App
In Short: We collect information regarding your geo-location, mobile device, push notifications, when you use our App.
If you use our App, we also collect the following information:
- Geo-Location Information. We may request access or permission to and track location-based information from your mobile device, either continuously or while you are using our App, to provide certain location-based services. Specifically, KleanUp uses your location to help you find KleanUp events near you that you can participate in to help the local community. If you wish to change our access or permissions, you may do so in your device's settings.
- Mobile Device Access. We may request access or permission to certain features from your mobile device, including your mobile device's camera, and other features. If you wish to change our access or permissions, you may do so in your device's settings.
- Push Notifications. We may request to send you push notifications regarding your account or certain features of the App. If you wish to opt-out from receiving these types of communications, you may turn them off in your device's settings.
This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our App, for troubleshooting and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
2. HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent.
We use personal information collected via our App for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to allow you to use the App, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
We use the information we collect or receive:
- To facilitate account creation and logon process. We use your phone number as provided by you to verify your identity before we can create an account for you on the App
- Request feedback. We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our App .
- To enable user-to-user communications. We may use your information in order to enable user-to-user communications with each user's consent.
- To manage user accounts. We may use your information for the purposes of managing our account and keeping it in working order.
In Short: We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations.
We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:
- Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
- Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
- Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
- Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:
- Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- Other Users. When you share personal information (for example, by posting comments, contributions or other content to the App ) or otherwise interact with public areas of the App , such personal information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly made available outside the App in perpetuity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with you within our App , and view your profile.
In Short: We may use cookies and other technologies like local storage to show you relevant content, to improve your experience, and to protect your information.
5. DO WE USE GOOGLE MAPS?
In Short: Yes, we use Google Maps for the purpose of providing better service.
This App uses Google Maps APIs which is subject to Google’s Terms of Service. You may find the Google Maps APIs Terms of Service here. To find out more about Google’s Privacy Policy, please refer to this link.
6. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
7. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organizational and technical security measures.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security, and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our App is at your own risk. You should only access the App within a secure environment.
8. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.
If you are a resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.
If you are a resident in Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection authorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.
If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at privacy@kleanup.us.
Account Information
If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:
- Send us an email at kleanup@kleanup.us
Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.
Opting out of email marketing: You can unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send or by contacting us using the details provided below. You will then be removed from the marketing email list — however, we may still communicate with you, for example to send you service-related emails that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.
9. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.
10. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: Yes, if you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.
If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with the App, you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the App. To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the App, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems (e.g. backups, etc.).
CCPA Privacy Notice
The California Code of Regulations defines a "resident" as:
(1) every individual who is in the State of California for other than a temporary or transitory purpose and
(2) every individual who is domiciled in the State of California who is outside the State of California for a temporary or transitory purpose
All other individuals are defined as "non-residents."
If this definition of "resident" applies to you, we must adhere to certain rights and obligations regarding your personal information.
What categories of personal information do we collect?
We have collected the following categories of personal information in the past twelve (12) months:
Category | Examples | Collected |
A. Identifiers | Contact details, such as real name, alias, postal address, telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address and account name | NO |
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute | Name, contact information, education, employment, employment history and financial information | YES |
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law | Gender and date of birth | NO |
D. Commercial information | Transaction information, purchase history, financial details and payment information | NO |
E. Biometric information | Fingerprints and voiceprints | NO |
F. Internet or other similar network activity | Browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest data, and interactions with our and other websites, applications, systems and advertisements | NO |
G. Geolocation data | Device location | YES |
H. Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information | Images and audio, video or call recordings created in connection with our business activities | NO |
I. Professional or employment-related information | Business contact details in order to provide you our services at a business level, job title as well as work history and professional qualifications if you apply for a job with us | NO |
J. Education Information | Student records and directory information | NO |
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information | Inferences drawn from any of the collected personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics | NO |
We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories instances where you interact with us in-person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of:
- Receiving help through our customer support channels;
- Participation in customer surveys or contests; and
- Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.
How do we use and share your personal information?
More information about our data collection and sharing practices can be found in this privacy notice.
You may contact us by email at kleanup@kleanup.us, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document.
If you are using an authorized agent to exercise your right to opt-out we may deny a request if the authorized agent does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf.
Will your information be shared with anyone else?
We may disclose your personal information with our service providers pursuant to a written contract between us and each service provider. Each service provider is a for-profit entity that processes the information on our behalf.
We may use your personal information for our own business purposes, such as for undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration. This is not considered to be "selling" of your personal data.
Kora Connect Inc has not disclosed or sold any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding 12 months. Kora Connect Inc will not sell personal information in the future belonging to website visitors, users and other consumers.
Your rights with respect to your personal data
Right to request deletion of the data - Request to delete
You can ask for the deletion of your personal information. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will respect your request and delete your personal information, subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such as (but not limited to) the exercise by another consumer of his or her right to free speech, our compliance requirements resulting from a legal obligation or any processing that may be required to protect against illegal activities.
Right to be informed - Request to know
Depending on the circumstances, you have a right to know:
- whether we collect and use your personal information;
- the categories of personal information that we collect;
- the purposes for which the collected personal information is used;
- whether we sell your personal information to third parties;
- the categories of personal information that we sold or disclosed for a business purpose;
- the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and
- the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
In accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete consumer information that is de-identified in response to a consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer request.
Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy Rights
We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.
Verification process
Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. These verification efforts require us to ask you to provide information so that we can match it with information you have previously provided us. For instance, depending on the type of request you submit, we may ask you to provide certain information so that we can match the information you provide with the information we already have on file, or we may contact you through a communication method (e.g. phone or email) that you have previously provided to us. We may also use other verification methods as the circumstances dictate.
We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request. To the extent possible, we will avoid requesting additional information from you for the purposes of verification. If, however, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity, and for security or fraud-prevention purposes. We will delete such additionally provided information as soon as we finish verifying you.
Other privacy rights
- you may object to the processing of your personal data
- you may request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant, or ask to restrict the processing of the data
- you can designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with the CCPA.
- you may request to opt-out from future selling of your personal information to third parties. Upon receiving a request to opt-out, we will act upon the request as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than 15 days from the date of the request submission.
To exercise these rights, you can contact us by email at kleanup@kleanup.us, or by referring to the contact details at the bottom of this document. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you.
11. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
12. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at policy@kleanup.us or by post to:
Kora Connect Inc
16192 Coastal Highway
Lewes, DE 19958
United States
13. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it in some circumstances. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please email: mydata@kleanup.us. We will respond to your request within 30 days.