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Privacy Policy
Last updated: March 13, 2024
Table of Contents
- What Information Do We Collect?
- How Do We Process Your Information?
- What Legal Bases Do We Rely On to Process Your Personal Information?
- When and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?
- Do We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?
- How Do We Handle Your Social Logins?
- Is Your Information Transferred Internationally?
- How Long Do We Keep Your Information?
- How Do We Keep Your Information Safe?
- Do We Collect Information from Minors?
- What Are Your Privacy Rights?
- Controls for Do-Not-Track Features
- Do United States Residents Have Specific Privacy Rights?
- Do We Make Updates to This Notice?
- How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?
- How Can You Review, Update, or Delete the Data We Collect from You?
This privacy notice for KUSE Inc. ("we," "us," or "our"), describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your information when you use our services ("Services"), such as when you:
- Visit our website at http://www.kuse.ai, or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice
- Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events
If you are under 18 years old or do not meet the age requirements for using or accessing the Services in your jurisdiction, please comply with local laws by either refraining from using the Services or reviewing this Privacy Policy under the supervision of your legal guardian ("Guardian"). You should only access or use the Services after obtaining your Guardian's consent as required by applicable law. If you are a parent or Guardian and become aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us immediately.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and in its entirety before using or continuing to use our Services. Failure to provide certain personal data may result in our inability to offer you the Services, restrictions on your use of the Services, or the Services not functioning as intended.
Questions or concerns? Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at support@kuse.ai.
1. What Information Do We Collect?
Personal information you disclose to us
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, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us. The personal information we collect may include the following:
- Email addresses
- Usernames and passwords
- Names
- Contact preferences and authentication data
We do not process sensitive information.
We may provide you with the option to register with us using your existing social media account details. If you choose to register in this way, we will collect the information described in Section 6 below.
Kuse Services
We offer interactive services powered by generative AI model technology. You may provide input ("Content") to the Services, including prompts, uploaded materials such as files and images, or direct operational instructions.
- When you upload Content such as files or images, we may request access to your device's camera and photo library permissions. These permissions are required to enable the relevant service functions. The uploaded Content may include personal data, which we will collect and process accordingly.
- If the Content you input includes personal data relating to any other individual, you are responsible for ensuring that you have obtained all necessary legal authorizations or consents before providing such data.
- In order to maintain and enhance the performance and quality of the Services, we may utilize the Content you submit and the corresponding output to optimize our Services. Such use will be conducted only after the information has been securely encrypted and thoroughly de-identified. If you do not wish for your personal data to be processed in this manner, you may opt out by contacting us at support@kuse.ai.
Information automatically collected
Some information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device 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, device name, country, location, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies. The information we collect includes log and usage data, device data, and location data.
2. How Do We Process Your Information?
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 may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.
We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, including:
- Account creation and authentication — so you can create and log in to your account
- Service delivery — to provide you with the requested service
- Customer support — to respond to your inquiries and solve potential issues
- Administrative communications — to send details about our products, services, and policy changes
- Order fulfillment — to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, and exchanges
- Marketing communications — if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences (you can opt out at any time)
- Targeted advertising — to develop and display personalized content tailored to your interests
- Usage analysis and marketing effectiveness — to understand how our Services are being used and improve them
- Safety and protection— when necessary to save or protect an individual's vital interest
3. What Legal Bases Do We Rely On to Process Your Personal Information?
We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfill our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business interests.
For EU, UK, and Swiss Residents
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. We may rely on the following legal bases:
- Consent — We may process your information if you have given us permission to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
- Performance of a Contract — We may process your personal information when we believe it is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you.
- Legitimate Interests — We may process your information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests, provided 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 the vital interests of a third party.
For Canadian Residents
We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (express consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permission can be inferred (implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time. In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent, including for investigations and fraud detection, business transactions, or to comply with legal obligations.
4. When and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?
We may share information in specific situations described in this section and/or with the following categories of 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 to help safeguard your personal information. The categories of third parties we may share personal information with include:
- Cloud Computing Services
- Communication and Collaboration Tools
- Data Storage Service Providers
- Product Engineering and Design Tools
- Sales and Marketing Tools
- User Account Registration and Authentication Services
We also may need to share your personal information in the following situations:
- Business Transactions — In the event of a merger, acquisition, or transfer of services, your personal data may be disclosed to the counterparty and other parties involved for due diligence purposes.
- Legal Requirements — We may disclose your personal data to government authorities or other third parties to comply with applicable laws, protect our rights, address fraud, or mitigate legal risks.
- Affiliates — We may share personal data with our affiliates, who are permitted to use such data in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
- Other users and third parties — Certain features allow you to engage with other users or third parties and share information, such as via shared links or custom actions. Any information you provide to third parties is subject to their respective terms and privacy policies.
5. Do We Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?
We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information.
We use cookies to monitor which parts of our website you visit. Cookies are small data files stored by your browser on your device. While not essential for basic website use, cookies help improve performance and functionality. Most browsers let you disable cookies, but this may restrict or block certain website functions. Importantly, we never store personal data within cookies.
You may choose to configure your browser to block cookies and similar tracking technologies. However, doing so may disrupt the normal operation of our website by preventing essential cookies from being stored, which could limit or disable certain features and services. To learn more about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.
6. How Do We Handle Your Social Logins?
If you choose to register or log in to our Services 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 Facebook or Twitter logins). Where you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider, including your name, email address, friends list, and profile picture, as well as other information you choose to make public on such a social media platform.
We will use the information we receive only for the purposes described in this privacy notice or that are otherwise made clear to you on the relevant Services. 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.
7. Is Your Information Transferred Internationally?
We may transfer, store, and process your information in countries other than your own.
Our servers are located in the United States. If you are accessing our Services from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us in our facilities in the United States and in other countries.
If you are a resident in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK), or Switzerland, these countries may not necessarily 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, including by using the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information.
8. How Long Do We Keep Your Information?
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 your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
9. How Do We Keep Your Information Safe?
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 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. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.
10. Do We Collect Information from Minors?
We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 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 from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at support@kuse.ai.
11. What Are Your Privacy Rights?
In some regions, such as the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK), Switzerland, and Canada, you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.
For EEA, UK, and Swiss Residents
You have the following rights, subject to the conditions under the GDPR and/or local data protection law:
- Right to Object — including the right to object to the use of your personal data for direct marketing purposes
- Right to Access — to request confirmation on whether your personal data is being processed and access copies of that data
- Right to Correction — to request correction of any inaccurate personal data we hold about you
- Right to Deletion — to ask for the deletion of your personal data when no longer needed
- Right to Restrict Processing — to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data
- Right to Data Portability — to receive your personal data in a structured, machine-readable format
- Right to Withdraw Consent — to withdraw your consent to data processing at any time
- Right to Lodge a Complaint — to file a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority
To exercise your privacy rights, contact us by emailing support@kuse.ai. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
Opting Out of Marketing Communications
You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional communications 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 lists. However, we may still communicate with you for service-related purposes.
Account Information
If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, please contact 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, or comply with applicable legal requirements.
12. 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.
13. Do United States Residents Have Specific Privacy Rights?
If you are a resident of Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Oregon, Texas, Montana, Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, or California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.
For Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Oregon, Texas, Montana, Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and New Jersey Residents
Subject to the conditions under applicable laws, you have the right to request that we:
- Confirm whether your personal data is being processed and provide you with copies of that data
- Correct inaccuracies in your personal data
- Delete personal data provided by you or collected about you
- Opt out of the processing of your personal data for targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling used to make decisions with significant effects on you
You have the right to opt out of targeted advertising and the sale of personal data by contacting us at support@kuse.ai.
For California Residents
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants California residents specific rights. The categories of personal data we have collected are:
| Category | Examples | Collected |
|---|---|---|
| A. Identifiers | Contact details, name, alias, postal address, phone number, IP address, email address | YES |
| B. Protected classification characteristics | Gender and date of birth | NO |
| C. Commercial information | Transaction information, purchase history, financial details | NO |
| D. Biometric information | Fingerprints and voiceprints | NO |
| E. Internet or network activity | Browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest data | NO |
| F. Geolocation data | Device location | YES |
| G. Audio, electronic, visual information | Images and audio, video or call recordings | NO |
| H. Professional or employment-related information | Business contact details, job title, work history | NO |
| I. Education Information | Student records and directory information | NO |
| J. Inferences drawn from personal information | Inferences drawn to create a profile or summary of an individual | NO |
| K. Sensitive personal information | NO |
We retain personal data in categories A and F for as long as the user has an account with us. California residents may request access to, correction of, or deletion of their personal data by emailing support@kuse.aiwith the appropriate subject line. We may also "sell" and "share" personal data as defined by CCPA for advertising purposes. To submit an opt-out request, please send an email to support@kuse.ai. You may not be discriminated against because you exercise any of your rights under the CCPA.
14. Do We Make Updates to This Notice?
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.
15. How Can You Contact Us About This Notice?
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at support@kuse.ai or contact us by post at:
KUSE Inc.
1111B S Governors Ave STE #6959
Dover, DE 19904
United States
16. 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. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please contact us at support@kuse.ai.