LEGAL
Personal Data Collected from Individuals
We may collect the following categories of personal data from you when you use our Services:
Contact information, such as your name, phone number, email address, or mailing address, which you may share with us when you submit a request or inquiry or otherwise communicate with us. We use this information to provide you with the Services and communicate with you. If you communicate with us on behalf of the company you work for, we may also collect your job title, contact information for your company, and any other information you choose to provide.
Testimonial and Feedback Information. We may also collect feedback, testimonials, and ratings you provide relating to our Services and other information you share with us. In some cases, this may include photos or other media. We may include this information on our Sites. We may also use this information to communicate with you and for our marketing activities.
We may also collect other information that you provide to us online, by phone or in person, and may use this information to respond to your requests, provide you with the Services, and inform our marketing campaigns.
Personal Data Automatically Collected
We may collect certain personal data automatically when you visit our Services, including:
Log File Data, including your internet protocol (IP) address and other device and browser information, operating system, browser type, browser id, date/time of visit, and pages visited, which may be tied to identifiers.
Analytics Data, including the electronic path you take to the Services, through the Services and when exiting the Services, as well as your usage and activity on the Services, such as the links and objects you view, click or otherwise interact with (also known as “Clickstream Data”).
Location Data, including your general geographic location based on your IP address.
We may collect this information using cookies, pixels and similar technologies. For more information on how we use these technologies, please see the “Cookies and Other Data Collection Technologies” section below. For information about how we and our third-party partners use cookies and related technologies to collect information automatically, and the choices you have in relation to such collection, please visit the “Third Party Data Collection and Online Advertising” section below.
Personal Data from Third Parties
We also receive personal data from others, including:
Our Affiliates. We may receive personal data from other businesses within our family of companies. We may use this information to provide you with the Services and communicate with you, as well as for our marketing activities and the other purposes discussed below.
Your Employer / Company. If you engage with our Services through your employer or company, we may receive information about you from your employer or company, such as your name and contact information. We may use this information to provide you with the Services and communicate with you, as well as for our marketing activities and the other purposes discussed below.
Service providers. We may receive your personal data from our service providers, such as survey and marketing providers and payment processors. Personal data that our service providers may collect and share with us include contact information, demographic information, payment information, and information about your communications. We may use this information to run the Services and inform our advertising campaigns, as well as for the other purposes discussed below.
Social media. If you interact with our social media pages, such as by “Liking” us on Facebook, following us, or sharing our content on Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, or other social networks, we may get some information about you. The personal data we receive depends on your privacy settings on the social network and may include [your profile information, profile picture, gender, username, user ID associated with your social media account, age range, language, country, and any other information you permit the social network to share with third parties]. We use this information to provide you with the Services, as well as for our marketing activities and the other purposes discussed below.
We may also collect personal data about you from, for example, third-party data providers or publicly available sources. We may also collect personal data through transactions such as mergers and acquisitions. We use this information to operate the Services and for our marketing activities.
Other Uses of Personal Data
In addition to the uses of personal data described above, we may also use the personal data we collect to:
Provide you with the Services;
Improve, test, update and monitor the Services, or find or fix technology problems;
Communicate with you, including through social media, email messages, and notifications;
Customize the content you see, including by recognizing you and remembering your information when you return to our Sites;
Market our Services, including through email messages and social media;
Help maintain the safety, security and integrity of our property and Services, technology assets and business;
Facilitate corporate business transactions, such as a mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, or the financing or sale of company assets, or in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership;
Defend, protect or enforce our rights or applicable contracts and agreements;
Prevent, investigate or provide notice of fraud or unlawful or criminal activity;
Comply with legal obligations; and
For any other purpose we may describe when you provide the information.
3. COOKIES AND OTHER DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES
Cookies are small data files that are stored on your computer that allow us and our partners to collect some information about your interactions with our email communications, websites and Services. We and our partners and providers may also use other related technologies to collect this information, including web beacons or pixels (collectively, “cookies”).
We and our partners and providers may use cookies to automatically collect certain types of usage information when you visit or interact with our emails, Sites and Services. For example, we may collect log data about your device and its software, such as your IP address, operating system, browser type, date/time of your visit, and other similar information. We may collect analytics data or use analytics tools such as Google Analytics to help us measure usage and activity on our Services and better understand our customer base. We and our advertising partners also use the information we collect through cookies to understand your browsing activities, including over time and across unaffiliated third-party sites and your different devices, so that we can deliver ads and information about products and services that may be of interest to you.
We may use the data collected through cookies to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it when you visit our Sites and online Services; (b) provide and monitor the effectiveness of our websites and online Services; (c) monitor online usage of and activities on our Sites and online Services; (d) diagnose errors and problems with our Sites and online Services; (e) otherwise plan for and enhance our online Services; and (f) facilitate the purposes identified in the “How We Collect and Use Personal Data” section above. We and our advertising partners also use the information we collect through cookies to understand your browsing activities, including across unaffiliated third-party sites, so that we can deliver ads and information about products and services that may be of interest to you.
Please note that we link some of the personal data we collect through cookies with the other personal data that we collect about you and for the purposes described above.
For more information about your choices regarding cookies, please see the “Your Choices” section below. For more information on how we and our third-party providers collect and use cookies for online advertising, please see the “Third Party Data Collection and Online Advertising” section below.
4. SHARING DATA
We may share your personal data with:
Affiliates: We may share your personal data with our family of companies.
Business / Promotional Partners: We may share information with partners to provide contests and sweepstakes, or other promotional activities or co-branded services.
Online Advertising Partners: We may share personal data with advertising networks or let these partners collect information from you on our websites for online advertising, such as search engines and social network advertising providers to serve targeted ads to you or to groups of other users who share similar interests, including likely commercial interests and demographics, on third-party platforms. For more information, including how to opt out of targeted advertising, please see the “Your Choices” section below.
Service Providers: We may share personal data with service providers that perform services on our behalf.
Business Transaction or Reorganization: We may be involved with a corporate business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, joint venture, or financing or sale of company assets. We may disclose personal data to others during the negotiation of, in connection with, or as an asset in such a corporate business transaction. Personal data may also be disclosed in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, when this is allowed by the law.
Legal Obligations and Rights: We may share personal data with others, such as legal advisors and law enforcement:
in connection with legal claims;
to comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process;
to protect the rights and property of ZEALS, our agents, customers, and others, including to enforce our agreements, policies, and Terms of Use;
to detect, suppress, or prevent fraud;
to reduce credit risk and collect debts owed to us;
to protect the health and safety of ZEALS, our customers, or any person; or
as otherwise required by applicable law.
With Your Consent or At Your Direction: We may share personal data about you with others when you ask us to or when you consent to such sharing.
5. THIRD PARTY DATA COLLECTION AND ONLINE ADVERTISING
We may engage in various advertising, including targeted advertising and interest-based advertising (together, “targeted advertising” or “targeted advertisements”) and use third-party advertising companies to serve you targeted advertisements based on what you’ve looked at online.
See “Your Choices” below, to learn more about your choices regarding targeted advertising. In addition, some of our partners provide you additional advertising preferences. For example, you may learn more about Google advertising products by visiting the Google Ads Preferences Manager, currently available at https://google.com/ads/preferences. You can learn about Google Analytics’ currently available choices, including the Google Analytics Browser Ad-On here https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah or Virginia Residents: To exercise your right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of personal data as it relates to the use of cookies and other tracking technologies for analytics and targeted ads, please see the “Your Privacy Rights” section of our U.S. Privacy Disclosures.
6. YOUR CHOICES
Email Communications. You can unsubscribe from emails we send you about products/services we offer by clicking the “unsubscribe link” at the bottom of the email. However, we may not allow you to unsubscribe from certain emails (like those related to account verification, confirmations of transactions, technical or legal notices).
Modifying and Deleting your Information: If you have any questions about reviewing, modifying, or deleting your personal data, you can contact us directly at omakase@zeals.ai.
Cookies. If you would prefer not to accept cookies, most browsers will allow you to: (i) change your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie, which lets you choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) set your browser to automatically reject cookies. Please note that doing so may impact your experience using our Services, as some features and services on our Services might not work. Depending on your device, you might not be able to delete or block all cookies. Also, if you want to reject cookies across all your browsers and devices, you have to do that on each browser and device. You can also set your email options to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may contain technologies that would allow us to know whether you have accessed our email and interacted with it.
Online Ads. We support the self-regulatory principles for online behavioral advertising (Principles) published by the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA). This means that we allow you to exercise choice regarding the collection of information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites for targeted advertising purposes. More information about these Principles can be found at www.aboutads.info. If you want to opt out of receiving targeted advertisements on your internet browser from advertisers and third parties that participate in the DAA program and perform advertising-related services for us and our partners, please follow the instructions at www.aboutads.info/choices, or http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ to place an opt-out cookie on your device indicating that you don’t want to receive targeted advertisements. Opt-out cookies only work on the internet browser and device they are downloaded onto. If you want to opt out of targeted advertisements across all your browsers and devices, you will need to opt out on each browser on each device you actively use. If you delete cookies on your device generally, you will need to opt out again. If you want to opt out of receiving targeted advertisements on mobile apps, please follow the instructions at http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices.
7. REGION-SPECIFIC DISCLOSURES
Depending on where you live, you might have certain rights. Please refer below for notices that might apply to you:
If you are a resident of the States of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah or Virginia in the United States, please refer to “ADDITIONAL U.S. STATE PRIVACY DISCLOSURES” for additional U.S. state-specific privacy disclosures.
8. LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND SERVICES
Our Services may link to third-party websites or services. We are not responsible for the practices, information or content of those websites or services. If you use a third-party website or service, you do so at your own risk.
9. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our Services are not intended for children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal data from children under the age of 16. If we learn that any personal data has been collected inadvertently from a child under 16, we will delete the information as soon as possible. If you believe that we might have collected information from a child under 16, please contact us at omakase@zeals.ai.
10. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
We reserve the right to change this Privacy Notice from time to time. We will notify you about material changes in the way we treat personal data by emailing you, by updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Notice, and/or by placing a prominent notice on our Sites. It is your responsibility to review this Privacy Notice periodically. All changes shall be effective from the date of publication unless otherwise provided.
11. QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
If you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, please email us at omakase@zeals.ai.
Additional U.S. State Privacy Disclosures
Last Updated: January 1, 2023
For residents of the States of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, Utah or Virginia: These Additional U.S. State Privacy Disclosures (“U.S. Privacy Disclosures”) supplement our Privacy Notice by adding information about how we use the data of consumers who reside in certain states. For a detailed description of how we collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process personal data in connection with our Services, please visit our Privacy Notice.
Nevada Residents: If you live in Nevada, please note Chapter 603A of the Nevada Revised Statutes allows Nevada residents to opt out of future sales of certain covered information that a website operator has collected or will collect about the resident. To submit such a request, please email us at omakase@zeals.ai.
Collection and Use of Personal Data
We collect various categories and types of personal data from many sources and for many purposes. To learn more, please review the How We Collect and Use Personal Data and Sharing Data sections.
Sensitive Information
Certain data elements may be classified as “sensitive” under the U.S. state privacy laws (“sensitive information”). We do not use or disclose sensitive information except as permitted under relevant laws.
Deidentified Information
We may at times use personal data to create deidentified information that can no longer reasonably be linked to a particular individual or household. To the extent we retain deidentified information, we will retain and use it in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify it except as required or permitted by law.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your state of residency and subject to certain legal limitations and exceptions, you may be able to exercise some or all of the following rights:
personal data we have collected about you, including:
The categories of personal data collected;
The categories of sources of the personal data collected;
The business or commercial purposes for which the personal data were collected, sold, or shared;
The categories of personal data disclosed to third parties (if any), and the third parties to whom this personal data were disclosed;
The categories of personal data sold (if any), and the categories of third parties to whom the personal data were sold; and
The categories of personal data shared for targeted advertising purposes (if any), and the categories of third parties to whom the personal data were disclosed for these purposes.
The right to obtain access to the specific pieces of personal data we have collected about you and the right to obtain a copy of the personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another entity without hindrance.
The right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data, taking into account the nature of the personal data and the purposes of the processing of the personal data.
The right to request the deletion of personal data that we maintain about you, subject to certain exceptions.
The right to direct us not to sell or share personal data, including sale or sharing for certain targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising purposes.
The right not to receive retaliatory or discriminatory treatment for exercising any of the rights described above, except as permitted by law.
However, please note that if the exercise of one of the rights described above, such as a deletion request, limits our ability to process your personal data, we may no longer be able to provide our Services to you or engage with you in the same manner.
How to Exercise Your Privacy Rights
To Exercise Your Privacy Rights
Please submit a request by:
・Calling +1 (650)540-7904.
We will need to verify your identity and confirm you are a resident of a state that offers the requested right(s) before processing your request. In order to verify your identity, we will generally need to match a sufficient amount of the information you provide us to the information we maintain about you in our systems. As a result, we require requests to include your name, email address, and state of residency. Although we try to limit the personal data we collect in order to process your request, certain requests may require us to obtain additional personal data from you. In certain circumstances, we may decline a request, particularly where we are unable to verify your identity or locate your information in our systems, or where you are not a resident of one of the eligible states.
You don’t need to create an account with us to exercise your Right to Opt Out. However, we may ask you to provide additional personal data so that we can properly identify you in our data systems and track compliance with your opt out request. We will only use personal data provided in an opt out request to review and comply with the request. If you chose not to provide this information, we may only be able to process your request to the extent we are able to identify you in our data systems.
To Exercise the Right to Opt Out of the Selling or Sharing of Personal Data for Targeted Advertising Purposes
Unless you have exercised your Right to Opt Out, and as described in the Disclosure of Personal Data section of these U.S. Disclosures, we may sell or share your personal data to certain third parties to deliver targeted advertising, also known as cross-context behavioral advertising, as well as to provide advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics, and market research.
The third parties to whom we sell or share personal data may use such information for their own purposes, in accordance with their own privacy statements, which may include reselling or sharing this information to additional third parties. To exercise your right to opt-out as it relates to the use of cookies and other tracking technologies for analytics and targeted ads, please contact us directly at omakase@zeals.ai.
Authorized Agents
In certain circumstances, you may use an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf through the methods described above. We must be able to verify the authorized agent’s authority to act on your behalf before we can process the request. We generally require evidence of either valid power of attorney or a signed letter containing your name and contact information, the name and contact information of the authorized agent, and a statement of authorization for the request. We may still need to reach out to you separately to confirm the agent’s permission and verify your identity.
Appealing Privacy Rights Decisions
Depending on your state of residency, you may be able to appeal a decision we have made in connection with your privacy rights request. All appeal requests should be submitted by emailing us at omakase@zeals.ai with the subject line, “Privacy Request Appeal.”
California-Specific Disclosures
The following disclosures only apply to residents of the State of California.
Personal Data Collection
In the last 12 months, we may have collected the following categories of personal data:
Identifiers, such as name, email address, telephone number, address, zip code, account username and password, or other similar identifiers.
Protected Classification Characteristics, such as demographic data.
Commercial Information, such as information about products or services purchased or considered, whether you used a particular coupon code or promotion, and information about your use of the Services.
Internet/Network Information, such as your browsing history, log and analytics data, search history and information regarding your interaction with our website.
Geolocation Data, such as information about your physical location collected from geolocation features on your device, including your IP address.
Professional/Employment Information, such as your job title, department, employer or business.
Other Personal Data, such as information and content you post to the Services and other information you submit to us, including inquiry and communication information when you contact us.
Inferences, including information generated from your use of the Services reflecting predictions about your interests and preferences.
For more information about our collection of personal data, the sources of personal data, and how we use this information, please see the How We Collect and Use Personal Data section of our Privacy Notice.
Disclosure of Personal Data
As described in the Sharing Data section of our Privacy Notice, we disclose personal data to a variety of third parties for business purposes and may sell or share your personal data to third parties for targeted advertising purposes, subject to your right to opt out of selling or sharing (see the “Your Privacy Rights” section above).
In the previous 12 months, we have disclosed all of the categories of personal data listed above that we collect to third parties for the purposes described above in our Privacy Notice. The categories of third parties to whom we have disclosed this personal information in the previous 12 months are also described above in our Privacy Notice.
In the previous 12 months, we have also sold or shared for targeted advertising purposes the following categories of personal data to third parties: Identifiers, Commercial Information, Internet/Network Information, and Inferences. The categories of third parties to whom we have sold or shared this personal information in the previous 12 months include:
・Online Advertising Networks and Analytics Providers; and
・Social Networks
Data Retention
We retain personal data only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected. However, in certain instances, we might have to keep personal data for longer periods of time, such as when we are required to do so in accordance with legal, tax and accounting requirements set by government authorities. In these instances, we may keep personal data until set retention periods expire.
To determine how long to keep personal data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of personal data, and available alternatives. We will also consider our legal, regulatory, tax, accounting and other applicable obligations.
Updates to These U.S. Privacy Disclosures
We will update these U.S. Privacy Disclosures from time to time. When we make changes to these U.S. Privacy Disclosures, we will change the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this document. If we make material changes to these U.S. Privacy Disclosures, we will notify you by email to your registered email address, by posting a prominent notice on our online services, or through other appropriate communication channels. All changes will be effective from the date of publication unless the notification indicates otherwise.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about these U.S. Privacy Disclosures, please email us at omakase@zeals.ai.