Privacy Policy

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 Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, or otherwise contact us. The personal information we collect may include:

• Names
• Email addresses
• Passwords
• Usernames
• Billing addresses

Sensitive Information. We do not process sensitive information.

Payment Data. We may collect data necessary to process your payment, such as your payment instrument number and security code. All payment data is handled and stored by Stripe. You may find their privacy notice at https://stripe.com/privacy.

Social Media Login Data. We may provide you with the option to register using your existing social media account details (like your Google or other social media account). If you choose to register in this way, we will collect certain profile information from the social media provider, as described in Section 7 below.

Information automatically collected

In Short: Some information — such as your IP address and browser characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our Services.

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity but may include device and usage information such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, and other technical information.

The information we collect includes:

• Log and Usage Data. Service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Services, including your IP address, device information, browser type, and activity information.
• Device Data. Information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other device, including IP address, device identification numbers, location, browser type, hardware model, ISP or mobile carrier, operating system, and system configuration.
• Location Data. We collect location data such as information about your device’s location, which can be either precise or imprecise based on your device settings.

Google API. Our use of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

Information collected from other sources

In Short: We may collect limited data from public databases, marketing partners, social media platforms, and other outside sources.

We may obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, social media platforms, and other third parties. This information includes mailing addresses, job titles, email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, social media profiles, and custom profiles, for purposes of targeted advertising and event promotion.

2. How Do We Process Your Information?

In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law.

We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, including:

• To facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage user accounts.
• To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user.
• To respond to user inquiries and offer support.
• To send administrative information to you, such as details about products, services, changes to terms and policies.
• To fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges.
• To enable user-to-user communications.
• To request feedback.
• To protect our Services through fraud monitoring and prevention.
• To identify usage trends and improve our Services.
• To save or protect an individual’s vital interest when necessary.

3. What Legal Bases Do We Rely On To Process Your Personal Information?

In Short: We only process your personal information when we have a valid legal reason to do so.

If you are located in the EU or UK

We may rely on the following legal bases:

• Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
• Performance of a Contract. We may process your information when necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you.
• Legitimate Interests. We may process your information when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests and those interests do not outweigh your fundamental rights.
• Legal Obligations. We may process your information where necessary for compliance with our legal obligations.
• Vital Interests. We may process your information where necessary to protect your vital interests or those of a third party.

If you are located in Canada

We may process your information with your express or implied consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time. In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted to process your information without consent, including:

• If collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way
• For investigations and fraud detection and prevention
• For business transactions where certain conditions are met
• For insurance claim assessment or processing
• For identifying injured, ill, or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin
• If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual may be a victim of financial abuse
• If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, or court order
• If information was produced in the course of employment, business, or profession
• If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes
• If the information is publicly available and specified by the regulations

4. When and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?

In Short: We may share information in specific situations and with specific third parties.

We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf. We have contracts in place with our third parties designed to safeguard your personal information. The third parties we share information with include:

We may also need to share your personal information in the following situations:

• Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business.
• Other Users. When you share personal information or interact with public areas of the Services, such personal information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly available outside the Services.

5. Do We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?

In Short: We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to gather information when you interact with our Services. Some online tracking technologies help us maintain the security of our Services and your account, prevent crashes, fix bugs, save your preferences, and assist with basic site functions.

We also permit third parties and service providers to use online tracking technologies on our Services for analytics and advertising purposes.

Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Notice at https://simpleposty.com/cookie-policy.

Google Analytics. We may share your information with Google Analytics to track and analyze the use of the Services. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

6. Do We Offer Artificial Intelligence-Based Products?

In Short: We offer products, features, or tools powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, or similar technologies.

As part of our Services, we offer products, features, or tools powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, or similar technologies (collectively, “AI Products”). These tools are designed to enhance your experience and provide you with innovative solutions.

Use of AI Technologies

We provide the AI Products through third-party service providers (“AI Service Providers”), including OpenAI. Your input, output, and personal information will be shared with and processed by these AI Service Providers to enable your use of our AI Products. You must not use the AI Products in any way that violates the terms or policies of any AI Service Provider.

Our AI Products

Our AI Products are designed for the following functions:

• Image generation
• Content generation
• Text generation

7. How Do We Handle Your Social Logins?

In Short: If you choose to register or log in using a social media account, we may have access to certain information about you.

Our Services offer you the ability to register and log in using your third-party social media account details (like your Google login). Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information from your social media provider. The profile information we receive may include your name, email address, and profile picture, as well as other information you choose to make public.

We will use the information we receive only for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice. Please note that we do not control, and are not responsible for, other uses of your personal information by your third-party social media provider. We recommend that you review their privacy notice to understand how they collect, use, and share your personal information.

8. Is Your Information Transferred Internationally?

In Short: We may transfer, store, and process your information in countries other than your own.

Our servers are located in the United States. Regardless of your location, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored by, and processed by us and our third-party service providers in the United States and other countries.

If you are a resident in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK), or Switzerland, these countries may not have data protection laws as comprehensive as those in your country. However, we will take all necessary measures to protect your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Notice and applicable law.

We have implemented the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information. Our Standard Contractual Clauses can be provided upon request.

9. 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. 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 securely store it and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

10. 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 and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards, 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. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

11. Do We Collect Information From Minors?

In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.

We do not knowingly collect, solicit data from, or market to children under 18 years of age, nor do we knowingly sell such personal information. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 years old, or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at [email protected].

12. What Are Your Privacy Rights?

In Short: Depending on your location, you may have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information.

In some regions (like the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right to:

• Request access and obtain a copy of your personal information
• Request rectification or erasure
• Restrict the processing of your personal information
• Data portability (if applicable)
• Not be subject to automated decision-making

You may make such a request by contacting us using the contact details in Section 16 below.

If you are located in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you have the right to complain to your Member State data protection authority or UK data protection authority. If you are located in Switzerland, you may contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.

Withdrawing your consent

If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the contact details in Section 16 or updating your preferences. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing before its withdrawal.

Account Information

If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:

• Log in to your account settings and update your user account
• Contact us using the contact information provided

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 to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, or comply with applicable legal requirements.

If you have questions or comments about your privacy rights, email us at [email protected].

13. Controls for Do-Not-Track Features

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems 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.

California law requires us to let you know how we respond to web browser DNT signals. Because there currently is not an industry or legal standard for recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we do not respond to them at this time.

14. Do United States Residents Have Specific Privacy Rights?

In Short: If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have specific privacy rights.

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

We will use and retain the collected personal information as needed to provide the Services or for:

• Category A - As long as the user has an account with us
• Category B - As long as the user has an account with us
• Category D - As long as the user has an account with us
• Category F - As long as the user has an account with us
• Category G - As long as the user has an account with us
• Category H - As long as the user has an account with us

We have not sold or shared any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding twelve (12) months.

Your Rights

You have rights under certain US state data protection laws. These rights include:

• Right to know whether or not we are processing your personal data
• Right to access your personal data
• Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
• Right to request the deletion of your personal data
• Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us
• Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights
• Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling

Depending upon the state where you live, you may also have additional rights, including rights specific to California, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota, Oregon, and Florida residents.

How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise these rights, contact us by emailing [email protected] or by referring to the contact details in Section 16 below. Under certain US state data protection laws, you can designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf.

Request Verification

Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity. We will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to make the request.

Appeals

Under certain US state data protection laws, if we decline to take action regarding your request, you may appeal our decision by emailing us at [email protected]. If your appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to your state attorney general.

California “Shine the Light” Law

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. To make such a request, please use the contact details in Section 16 below.

15. 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 “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Notice. 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.

16. How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at [email protected] or contact us by post at:

17. How Can You Review, Update, or Delete the Data We Collect From You?

Based on the applicable laws of your country or state of residence in the US, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, details about how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please email us at [email protected].