RedQuill Privacy Policy

Last Updated: April 11, 2024

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) applies to RedQuill, Inc., the redquill.net website (the “Website”), and other related applications (collectively, the “Services”). This privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") explains how we collect, use, and disclose information from users of our Services ("Users" "you," and/or "your") to enable creators to share content with other creators and to continue to improve our Services. By using our Services, you agree to the collection, use, disclosure, and procedures this Privacy Policy describes. Beyond the Privacy Policy, your use of our Services is also subject to ourTerms of Service

As used in this Policy, “Personal Data” means any information that relates to, describes, could be used to identify an individual, directly or indirectly.

Applicability

This Policy applies to personal data that RedQuill collects, uses, and discloses and which may include: (i) data collected through the Services, (ii) data collected through the process of training RedQuill machine learning algorithms, (iii) data collected through RedQuill websites, and (iv) data collected from third party sources. Third party sources may include, but not be limited to: public databases, commercial data sources, and the public internet. When you make purchases, we use third-party payment processors to collect credit card or other financial information. RedQuill does not store the credit card or payment information you provide, only confirmation that payment was made.

Exclusions

This Policy does not apply to the following information:

Personal Data about RedQuill employees and candidates, and certain contractors and agents acting in similar roles.

Changes

We may update this Policy from time-to-time to reflect changes in legal, regulatory, operational requirements, our practices, and other factors. Please check this Policy periodically for updates. If any of the changes are unacceptable to you, you should cease interacting with us. When required under applicable law, we will notify you of any changes to this Policy.

Definitions

Through this Policy, You, or Your means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable. Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

2. Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

2.1 Personal Data Collected

While interacting with the Services, You may provide certain personally identifiable information that could be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

- Your user name for the Services

- Text or image prompts you input into the Services, or public chats you maintain on the service

- Your IP address

- Usage Data

- Tracking Technologies and Cookies

- Contact Information

- Organizational Information like your company title

- Your Email

- Cookies

- Other data that you elect to send to RedQuill

2.2 Use of Your Personal Data

RedQuill may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

- To provide, maintain, and improve our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.

- To manage Your account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.

- For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.

- To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

- To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.

- To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

- For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.

- For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

2.3 Sharing of Your Personal Data

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

- With Service Providers, Third Party Vendors, Consultants, and other Business Partners: We may share Your personal information with these parties in order to provide services on our behalf, monitor and analyze the use of our services, contact You, and for the reasons stated in the Agreement. Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.

- For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal 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.

- With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

- With Law Enforcement: Under certain circumstances, RedQuill may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency). To the extent we receive a request from Law Enforcement for Your personal data, we will promptly notify You and provide You with a copy of the request, unless we are legally prohibited from doing so.

- With Other Parties in order to:

- Comply with a legal obligation

- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company

- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service

- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public

- Protect against legal liability

2.4 Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

2.5 Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

2.6 Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

3. Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18 without verification, We will take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

4. Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

5. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

6. Supplemental Terms and Conditions for Certain Regions

If You are located in the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), Switzerland, or the United Kingdom (the “UK”) Our legal basis for collecting and using the Personal Data described in this Policy will depend on the personal data concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will normally collect personal data from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal data to perform a contract with you, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal data from you.

RedQuill may share information internally or with third parties, as further described in this Policy. When we share Personal Data of individuals in the EEA, Switzerland or UK with third parties, we make use of a variety of legal mechanisms to safeguard the transfer including the European Commission-approved standard contractual clauses, as well as additional safeguards where appropriate.

Additionally You have the following data protection rights:

- You can request access, correction, updates or deletion of your Personal Data.

- You can object to our processing of your Personal Data, ask us to restrict processing of your Personal Data or request portability of your Personal Data.

- If we have collected and processed your Personal Data with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your Personal Data conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

- You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data.

In order to exercise Your rights please contact redquill@redquill.net

7. California

This Statement applies solely to residents of California or individuals whose information has been collected in California. RedQuill has adopted and included this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). Any terms used in this Statement that are defined in the CCPA have the same meaning given therein.

In the twelve months leading up to the effective date of this Policy, we have collected and disclosed the categories of personal information described in Section 1 for business or commercial purposes. The categories of personal information are:

- Identifiers

- Financial information (such as payment information)

- Commercial or transactional information

- Internet or other electronic network activity information

- General geolocation data

- Audio or video information (such as pictures and videos you submit)

- Other information about you that you may provide to us voluntarily, such as through User Content

- Other information that may identify you

- Inferences drawn from the information we collect

We also collect the following categories of “sensitive personal information,” as defined under the CCPA:

- Account log-in and password or other credentials that allow access to your account

- Other sensitive personal information you may voluntarily provide to us in your capacity as an individual user of the Services (e.g. if you voluntarily post User Content revealing your race, religion, or sexual orientation)

We process the categories of personal information identified above for the purposes as described in more detail in Section 2 above.

We collect the categories of personal information identified above from the following sources:

- Directly from you

- Through your use of the Services

- Other parties such as other users and through unaffiliated parties

We describe our information disclosure practices in more detail in Section 3 above.

“Sale” and “sharing” of personal information

The CCPA sets forth certain obligations for businesses that “sell” or “share” personal information. Where we refer to “sell” or “share” (or their variants) in quotes, we are referring to those terms as uniquely defined in the CCPA.

We may use third-party analytics services and online advertising services that may result in the “sharing” of online identifiers (e.g., cookie data, IP addresses, device identifiers, general location information, and usage information) with advertising partners to advertise the Services on other websites. If you or your authorized agent would like to opt out of our “sharing” of your information for such purposes, you may do so by using the tools described in the section above on Tailored Advertising.

We do not knowingly “sell” or “share” the personal information of children under 16.

Do-Not-Track disclosure

We do not respond to browser-initiated Do Not Track signals, as the Internet industry is currently still working on Do Not Track standards, implementations, and solutions.

Retention of your personal information

Please see the Data Retention section below.

CCPA rights

California residents can make requests about their personal information as described as set forth in Rights to Information About You above. The CCPA also allows you to limit the use or disclosure of your “sensitive personal information” if your sensitive personal information is used for certain purposes. Please note that we do not use or disclose sensitive personal information other than for purposes for which you cannot opt out under the CCPA.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Policy, or would otherwise like to exercise your rights under this Policy or applicable law, you can contact us at redquill@redquill.net