Privacy Policy for aktiviti.org
This Privacy Policy explains how aktiviti.org (“we,” “us,” “our”) collects, uses, and shares your information when you use our website (https:// aktiviti.org), applications, services, tools, features, or interact with us in any other way (collectively, the “Services”). For the purposes of this policy, aktiviti.org is the data controller for your information, and “you” or “your” refers to you as a user of the Services.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using any of our Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described in this policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use or access our Services.
1. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the “Last Revised” date at the top of this policy, post the updated version on our Services, and take any other steps required by applicable law. If you continue to use or access the Services after any updates, you agree to the revised policy. If you do not agree with the updates, please stop using the Services.
2. Collection and Use of Information
When you use or access our Services, we collect certain information about you from various sources.
Information You Provide to Us
Some features of the Services may require you to provide specific information directly. While you can choose not to provide this information, doing so may prevent you from using certain features.
- Contact Information: Such as your name and email address. We collect this to provide the Services, fulfill our contract with you, and communicate with you (including about products or services that may interest you).
- Account Information: Including your username, password, security questions and answers, account handle, profile picture, and IP address. We use this information to maintain your account, provide the Services, and secure your account. If you choose to register an account, you are responsible for keeping your credentials safe. We recommend not sharing your access details with others. If you believe your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately.
- Payment and Subscription Information: Such as credit or debit card information and billing address, collected by our payment processor, and details about your subscription tier and transaction history. We collect this to provide the Services, fulfill our contract with you, and offer you different account options and features.
- User Input: Such as text prompts and images you upload to generate new content based on your input. We also collect other information you post, submit, or make available through the Services, such as comments, likes, follows, and any other uploaded information. We use this information to administer and improve the Services, and to improve and develop our products and technology. Depending on your subscription and account settings, you may have the option to create, remix, or display private content.
- Other Information: Such as your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide in communications with us. We use this information to respond to your queries, manage our relationship with you, and improve our customer service and product offerings.
Information Collected Automatically
We, and third parties on our behalf, may automatically collect information about your interactions with the Services and emails, including through cookies and other tracking technologies (“Tracking Technologies”). We collect and use this information because it is in our legitimate interests to tailor your experience, run analytics, debug, and better understand user interactions to improve the Services. We may associate this information with the device you use to access the Services or the email accounts you use to engage with us.
- Device Information: Such as device type, operating system, screen size, unique device identifier, IP address, preferred language, and browser information.
- Location Information: Such as approximate location and, if you choose to provide it, precise geolocation.
- Other Interaction Information: Such as browser type, log data, date and time stamps, emails you have opened, and clickstream data (e.g., page requests, page views, time spent on a page, content viewed or interacted with, text entered, etc.).
For more information on how we use Tracking Technologies and your choices, see the section below on Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.
Information Collected From Other Sources
We may obtain information about you from outside sources, including:
- Information we receive when you choose to access the Services through your email account, such as Gmail, which we use in our legitimate interests to maintain your account and login information.
- Information we receive from social media platforms, such as when you interact with us on Facebook or Instagram, which we use in our legitimate interests to communicate with you and personalize our Services.
Any information received from outside sources will be treated in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the accuracy of the information provided to us by third parties and are not responsible for any third party’s policies or practices.
In addition to the specific uses described above, we may use any of the information described in this section to provide and improve the Services and our product offerings, and to maintain our business relationship, as a matter of our legitimate interests. This includes enhancing the safety and security of our Services (e.g., troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, reporting), training the models that power our Services, providing customer support, sending service and other communications, monitoring and analyzing trends, conducting internal research and development, complying with applicable legal obligations, enforcing any applicable terms of service, and protecting the Services, our rights, and the rights of our employees, users, or other individuals.
3. Disclosure of Information
We may disclose your information for legitimate purposes, including:
- Through Your Use of the Services: When you enter User Input and generate an image, it may be publicly available on the Services, along with information that may identify you, such as your account handle and profile picture. You may also disclose information when you choose to interact with other users through our Services. We or others may store, display, reproduce, publish, or otherwise use or disclose such information, and may or may not attribute it to you. For more information on the use and display of User Input and other content, please see our Terms of Service.
- To Vendors and Service Providers: Who help us provide the Services, including for cloud storage, payment processing, system administration, security, customer relationship management, management of our referral program, marketing communications, data analytics, and the deployment of Tracking Technologies.
- At Your Request or Direction: Such as through your use of login integrations and social media widgets, with your consent or to perform our contract with you.
- With Another User: When you sign up for our Services via a referral link or invitation, in our legitimate interests and to perform our contract with the other user. The user that referred you may receive information indicating that you have chosen to subscribe to the Services, and information about your subscription tier.
- To Affiliates or Others Within Our Corporate Group: In our legitimate interests to efficiently provide the Services.
- In Connection with Business Transactions: Such as asset sales, mergers, bankruptcy, or other business transactions, in our legitimate interests to run a successful and efficient business.
- For Legal and Security Reasons: To protect our services and business, in our legitimate interests or as required by law. We share your information with regulators, law enforcement agencies, public authorities, or any other relevant organizations to comply with applicable law or obligations thereunder, including cooperation with law enforcement, judicial orders, and regulatory inquiries, to protect the interests of, and ensure the safety and security, of us, our users, a third party or the public, to exercise or defend legal claims, and to enforce our Terms or other agreements.
4. Cookies and Other Tracking Technology
We use Tracking Technologies, including Google Analytics, to collect information about your browsing activities, including your browsing over time and across different websites following your use of our Services. Most browsers accept Tracking Technologies automatically, but you may be able to control the way in which your devices permit the use of Tracking Technologies.
- Blocking or Deleting Tracking Technologies: You may block or delete certain Tracking Technologies from your browser; however, blocking or deleting Tracking Technologies may cause some of the Services, including login features and general functionality, to work incorrectly.
- Do Not Track Signals: Your browser settings may allow you to transmit a “Do Not Track,” “opt-out preference” signal, or other mechanism for exercising your choices regarding the collection of your information when you visit various websites. Like many websites, our website is not designed to respond to such signals, and we do not use or disclose your information in any way that would legally require us to recognize opt-out preference signals. To learn more about “Do Not Track” signals, you can visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com/.
- Opting Out of Google Analytics: To opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, you can download and install a plug-in available here.
5. Social Features
Certain features of the Services allow you to initiate interactions between the Services and third-party services or platforms, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), and email integrations (“Social Features”). Social Features include features that allow you to access our pages on third-party platforms, and from there “like” or “share” our content, or to access our Services through a login integration.
- Use of Social Features: Use of Social Features may allow a third party to collect and/or use your information. If you use Social Features, information you post or make accessible may be publicly displayed by the third-party service. Both we and the third party may have access to information about you and your use of both the Services and the third-party service.
For more information, see the section below on Third Party Websites and Materials.
6. Third Party Websites and Materials
We may provide links to third-party websites or platforms, and display or make available content, data, applications, or materials from third parties. If you follow links to sites or platforms that we do not control and are not affiliated with us, you should review the applicable privacy notice, policies, and other terms.
- Responsibility: We are not responsible for the privacy or security of, or information found on, these sites, or the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of third-party materials.
- Public and Semi-Public Venues: Information you provide on public or semi-public venues, such as third-party social networking platforms, may be viewable by other users of the Services and/or users of those third-party platforms without limitation as to its use.
- Links: Our inclusion of such links does not, by itself, imply any endorsement of the content on such platforms or of their owners or operators.
7. Children’s Privacy
Our Services are not intended for children, and we do not seek or knowingly collect any personal information from children. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected information from a child, particularly children under 13 years of age, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to delete such information from our database.
- Parental or Guardian Contact: If you are the parent or guardian of a child who has provided us with their personal information, you may contact us using the below information to request that it be deleted.
8. Data Security and Retention
Please note that any information you send to us electronically, while using the Services or otherwise interacting with us, may not be secure while in transit. We recommend that you do not use unsecure channels to send us sensitive or confidential information.
- Security Measures: Despite our reasonable efforts, no security measures are impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee “perfect security.”
- Retention Period: We retain your information for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy. When determining the length of time to retain information, we consider various criteria, including whether we need the information to continue to administer your account, provide the Services, resolve a dispute, enforce our contractual agreements, prevent harm, promote safety, security and integrity, or protect ourselves, including our rights, property, or products.
- International Data Transfers: Your information may be stored, transferred to, and processed outside of your country of residence, including transferred to recipients in other countries which may have data privacy or protection rules that are different from your country of residence or citizenship.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@ aktiviti.org.