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WE WILL INFORM YOU OF ANY MATERIAL CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY BY SENDING YOU AN EMAIL DESCRIBING SUCH CHANGES. PLEASE REGULARLY REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY. NOTWITHSTANDING IF YOU CONTINUE TO USE OUR SERVICES, YOU ARE BOUND BY ANY CHANGES THAT WE MAKE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

Introduction

Chonkie, Inc. (“Chonkie,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects the privacy of its Users (“User,” “your,” or “you”). This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use Chonkie’s Platform (the “Platform”) through Chonkies’s website at www.chonkie.ai (the “Website”). Chonkie is a software company specializing in data processing for AI applications. We process user-provided data by segmenting it into ideologically independent chunks, optimizing it for more efficient use in AI applications. We offer both, downloadable and non-downloadable software solutions that leverage artificial intelligence for natural language processing, generation, understanding, and analysis, all based on deterministic algorithms. Chonkie is committed to protecting the privacy of its Users whose information is collected and stored while using Chonkie’s Platform through our Website. This Privacy Policy is applicable to our Website, Platform and all applications offered for sale to the public.

The capitalized terms have the same meaning as ascribed in our terms of service as applicable, unless otherwise noted here.

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY TO UNDERSTAND OUR POLICIES AND PRACTICES REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION AND HOW WE WILL TREAT IT. BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR WEBSITE AND PLATFORM, YOU AGREE TO ACCEPT ALL THE TERMS CONTAINED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE WITH THE PRACTICES DESCRIBED HEREIN. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS AND USE OUR WEBSITE AND PLATFORM.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE SEND US AN EMAIL AT support@chonkie.ai.

WE DO NOT SELL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, NOR DO WE INTEND TO DO SO.

Territorial Restriction

Our Website and Platform are not available for use and download in the European Union. Our Website and Platform are not available for use or download by residents of, visitors to, or your employees who reside in the European Union (collectively a “European”). If you are a European, please do not download, register, and/or use our Website or Platform. If you are a resident of the United States (“US”), the laws of the State of Delaware, United States shall apply. If you are a resident of any other country, please ensure compliance with all local laws prior to using our Website or Platform. You must comply with this Privacy Policy and our terms of service, as applicable.

If you have any questions regarding this Section, please email us at support@chonkie.ai.

What Information Do We Collect?

When you register to use our Website or Platform, we collect personal information (also referred to as personally identifiable information or “PII”) which may include your name, online contact information such as your email address or username, and other personal information. The information so collected will be stored on our servers. You are able to change your personal information through your profile or account settings on our Website or Platform.

  1. Financial Information. We currently do not collect or store any credit cards or bank information, as we are using a third-party payment processor. However, we will update this Privacy Policy when we start using and storing such information. We will also inform you via reasonable means if we start collecting such information from you.

How Do We Collect Information?

We collect personal information from you only at registration on our Website or Platform. We collect information from you automatically when you navigate through our Website or Platform. Such information includes usage details.

How Do We Use Your Information?

We use the information that you provide to:

  1. Provide you with information, products, or services requested from us;
  2. Present our Website and Platform and their contents to you;
  3. Provide you with notices about account and/or subscription, including expiration and renewal notices;
  4. Carry out obligations and enforce rights arising from contracts entered into between you and us, including billing and collection;
  5. Notify you about changes to our Website and Platform and any products or services;
  6. Allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website and Platform;
  7. Improve the Website and Platform;
  8. Improve our customer service;
  9. Process transactions;
  10. Contact you for other purposes with your consent;
  11. Contact you about our products and services that may be of interest;
  12. Send you periodic emails, in accordance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 as detailed in Section 13, via the email address provided by you to (i) send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions; (ii) process orders and send information and updates pertaining to such orders; (iii) send additional information related to your product and/or service; and (iv) market to our mailing list or continue to send email to you after the original transaction has occurred.

How Do We Protect Information We Collect?

Our Website receives regular security scans and penetration tests. Our Website also receives regular malware scans. In addition, our Website uses an SSL certificate as an added security measure. We require username and passwords for our employees who can access your personal information that we store and/or process on our Platform and servers. In addition, we actively prevent third parties from getting access to your personal information that we store and/or process on our Platform and servers. We accept payment by credit card through a third party credit card processor on our behalf. We will implement reasonable security measures every time you (a) place an order, or (b) enter, submit, or access your information, (c) register, or (d) access our Platform, on our Website.

Data Security Measures.

  1. Security Measures. We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website or Platform, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website or Platform. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our Website or Platform.
  2. Fair Information Practice Principles. In the event of a personal data breach, we will notify you within fifteen (15) days via email. We agree to the individual redress principle, which requires that individuals have a right to pursue legally enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that that individuals have recourse to courts or a government agency to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.
  3. Open-Source Software: We use the following open-source software in the provision of our Services, which can be found here.

Disclosure of Personal Information

There are times when we may share Personal Information that you have shared with us may be shared by Chonkie with others to enable us to provide you over Services, including contractors, service providers, and third parties (“Partners”). This section discusses only how Chonkie may share such information with Partners. We will ensure that our Partners protect your Personal Information.

We require all contractors, service providers, and other third parties to whom we disclose your personal information to be under contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and to use it only for the purposes for which we disclose them.

Other Disclosure of Personal Information.

We will disclose personal information if it is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Chonkie, our customers, or others, and this includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Third Party Disclosure.

We do not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise transfer personal information to others, unless we provide you with advance notice. This does not include our hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our Website or Platform, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

We do not provide non-personally identifiable visitor information for marketing purposes.

Your California Privacy Rights

Chonkie does not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside third parties your “Personal Information” as the term is defined under the California Civil Code Section § 1798.82(h). Additionally, California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits Users of our Website or Platform that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of their Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make a request for such disclosure, or identification and/or deletion of Personal Information in all our systems that we store on you, please send an email to support@chonkie.ai. or write us at Chonkie, Inc., 95 Third Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, California.

Note that (i) if we delete your Personal Information as requested, we will no longer be able to provide our services to you and (ii) we may need to keep such Personal Information for a while during the shutting down and billing process. If you would like to discuss our Personal Information storage and processing process with us, please send us an email at email to support@chonkie.ai. or write us at Chonkie, Inc, 95 Third Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, California.

California Consumer Privacy Act

This Section supplements the information contained in our Privacy Policy above and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others to our Website or Platform, who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). We adopt this Section to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Section.

  1. Right to Request Personal Information. Upon request, we will provide you with (i) a list of all Personal Information that we have collected on you, (ii) from whom we obtained such Personal Information, (iii) the reason why we collected such Personal Information, and (iv) with whom (if any) we have shared such Personal Information. If we sell your Personal Information or disclose your Personal Information to third parties, upon request, we will provide you with (i) a list of the Personal Information that we have collected on you, (ii) a list of the Personal Information that we sell or disclose to others on you, and (iii) to whom we have sold or disclosed your Personal Information. A consumer can make such a request only twice in a 12-month period.

We require such Personal Information to be able to provide to you, our Services.

Unless otherwise specified, we only collect Personal Information from you. We do not use others to provide us with your Personal Information.

  1. Disclosure of Personal Information. We only share your Personal Information with service providers, e.g., billing and collection agents, who enable us to provide our Services to you. We do not sell or give your Personal Information to third parties for purposes unrelated to our provision of Services to you.
  2. Right to have Personal Information Deleted. Upon request, we will delete all of your Personal Information that we have collected on you and will direct our Service Providers to also delete all of your Personal Information. But note that if we do delete all of this Personal Information, you will no longer be able to use our Services.
  3. Non-Discrimination Right. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
    1. Deny you goods or services.
    2. Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
    3. Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
    4. Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
  4. Financial Incentives. However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt in consent, which you may revoke at any time.
  5. Contact Information. You may contact us (i) at support@chonkie.ai. or (ii) by writing to us at Privacy Officer, at 95 Third Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, California, 94103 to (i) make a Personal Information Request, (ii) lodge a complaint about our use or storage of your Personal Information, (iii) ask us to delete such Personal Information, and/or (iv) discuss our Privacy Policy and/or anything that has to do with it. We will respond within forty-five (45) days of receiving such request or query. Additionally, in order for us to respond to your request or query, we will need to collect information from the requesting party to verify their identity.
  6. Under 16. We will not sell your Personal Information if you are under the age of 16 unless we have the consent of your parent or your guardian nor will we sell it if you ask us not to do so.
  7. Opt Out Right. Upon your request, we will stop selling your Personal Information (sometimes called your Opt Out Right). You may send the request to Opt Out (i) to support@chonkie.ai., or (ii) by writing to us at Privacy Officer, 95 Third Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, California.
  8. Personal Information that We Store. For your information, we store/collect the following Personal Information on you:

    9. Name Email Address Employer

    Other State Privacy Rights

    This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose your Personal Information in the Sections above. This Section describes how to exercise your rights under the various state privacy laws as detailed below (“State Privacy Laws”)

    1. Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Data Protection Law (201 CMR 17.00), sets standards for the protection of personal information of residents of Massachusetts. Residents of Massachusetts have the following rights under Massachusetts law (i) the right to request access to their personal information that is held by us and to receive a copy of that information; (ii) the right to request the correction of any inaccurate or incomplete personal information; (iii) the right to request that we delete your personal information; (iv) the right to opt-out of the collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information for marketing purposes; (v) the right to be notified in the event of a data breach involving their personal information; and (vi); the right to Opt-in for collection, use or disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. Further, you have the right to file a complaint with the Massachusetts attorney general if you believe we have violated the Massachusetts Data Protection Law by calling (617) 727-8400 or filing a complaint at https://www.mass.gov/how-to/file-a-consumer-complaint.
    2. Colorado. The Colorado Privacy Act (Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-1-1301 et seq.) protects the privacy of Colorado consumers. Residents of Colorado have following privacy rights (i) you have the right to opt out of the processing of your personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising, the sale of your personal data or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects; (ii) you have the right to confirm whether we are processing personal data concerning you and to access your personal data; (iii) you have the right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data; (iv) you have the right to delete your personal data; and (v) when accessing your data, you have a right to obtain that data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit that data to another business.
    3. Connecticut. MW does not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside third parties your “Personal Data” as the term is defined under Connecticut’s Privacy Act and Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring. Connecticut Laws permits residents of Connecticut who are Users of our Website or Platform that are Connecticut residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of their Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Further, Users have the right to (i) confirm whether or not we are processing the your personal data and access such personal data, unless such confirmation or access would require us to reveal a trade secret; (ii) correct inaccuracies in the User’s personal data; (iii) opt out of the processing of the personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising, sale, or profiling in furtherance of solely automated decisions; and (iv) you have the right to obtain a copy of your personal data processed by the controller, in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format.
    4. Utah. On March 24, 2022, Utah enacted the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA § 13-61-102(1)) which will go into effect on December 31, 2023. The UCPA gives residents of Utah who are users of our Website and App the right to (i) you to opt out of the processing of your personal data for the purposes of targeted advertising, the sale or profiling; (ii) correct inaccuracies in your personal data; (iv) delete your personal data; and (v) obtain that data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit that data to another business.
    5. New York: The New York Privacy Act sets strict rules about how businesses must handle consumers’ personal information and gives individuals new rights concerning data. New York residents have the rights to (i) access, correct, deletion, and disclosure regarding your Personal Information; and (ii) know what personal information is being collected about them, how it is being used, and with whom it is being shared.
    6. Virginia. The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (Va. Code § 59.1-571 et seq.) effective from January 1, 2023 provides Virginia residents with certain rights regarding the collection, use, and sharing of their personal information namely (i) the right to know what personal information is being collected about them, how it is being used, and with whom it is being shared; (ii) the right to request that a business delete personal information that the business has collected from the resident; (iii) the right to non-discrimination for the exercise of their privacy right; (iv) the right to access the personal information held about them, including the categories of personal information collected, used, shared, and the categories of third parties with whom the information is shared; (v) the right to obtain a copy of their personal information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. To exercise any of the rights mentioned under Section 11(b), please (i) send an email to support@chonkie.ai, or (ii) write to us at Privacy Officer, 95 Third Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, California.

    Note that (i) if we delete your Personal Information as requested, we will no longer be able to provide our services to you and (ii) we may need to keep such Personal Information for a while during the shutting down and billing process. We have appointed a Privacy and Data Protection Officer, Shreyash Nigam to make sure the privacy rights of our Users are protected.

    COPPA Compliance (For Children Under 13 Users Only)

    The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) is a federal legislation that applies to entities that collect and store “Personal Information,” as the term is defined under COPPA, from children under the age of 13. We are committed to ensure compliance with COPPA. Our Website and Platform are not meant for use by children under the age of 13. Our Website and Platform do not target children under the age of 13, but we do not age-screen or otherwise prevent the collection, use, and personal disclosure of persons identified as under 13. If you would like to know more about our practices and specifically our practices in relation to COPPA compliance, please email us at support@chonkie.ai.

    IF YOU ARE UNDER 13, PLEASE DO NOT ACCESS OR USE OUR WEBSITE OR PLATFORM.

    CAN-SPAM Act of 2003

    The CAN-SPAM Act establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have businesses stop emailing them, and spells out penalties for violations. We do not collect emails to send out periodic emails.

    As and when, and if applicable, we will strictly comply with the CAN-SPAM Act. Per the CAN-SPAM Act, we will:

    • not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses;
    • identify the email message as an advertisement in some reasonable way;
    • include the address of Chonkie, Inc., which is 95 Third Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, California;
    • monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used;
    • honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly; and give an “opt-out” or “unsubscribe” option.

    If you wish to opt out of email marketing, follow the instructions at the bottom of each email and we will promptly remove you from all future marketing correspondences.

    Modifications to Our Privacy Policy

    We will inform you of any material changes to this Privacy Policy via an email describing such changes. Please regularly review this Privacy Policy. Notwithstanding if you continue to use our services, you are bound by any changes that we make to this Privacy Policy.

    List of Third-Party Service Providers

    Chonkie uses the following third-party service providers for the provision of services as detailed under the terms of service, as applicable

    1. Google Cloud [Website](https://cloud.google.com/contact?hl=en)
      Address: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA
    2. Modal [Website](https://modal.com/company)
      Address: 945 Market St, Floor 5, San Francisco, CA 94103, US

    Additionally, if you have any questions or concerns about our third-party service providers, please email us at support@chonkie.ai.

    Anti-Bribery Compliance

    Chonkie represents and warrants that it is fully aware of and will comply with, and in the performance of its obligations hereunder will not take any action or omit to take any action that would cause it or its customers to be in violation of, (i) U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, (ii) U.K. Anti-Bribery Act, (iii) India Prevention of Corruption Act of 1988, or (iv) any other applicable anti-bribery statutes and regulations, and (v) any regulations promulgated under any such laws. Company represents and warrants that neither it nor any of its employees, officers, or directors is an official or employee of any government (or any department, agency or instrumentality of any government), political party, state owned enterprise or a public international organization such as the United Nations, or a representative or any such person (each, an “Official”). Company further represents and warrants that, to its knowledge, neither it nor any of the Supplier Personnel has offered, promised, made or authorized to be made, or provided any contribution, thing of value or gift, or any other type of payment to, or for the private use of, directly or indirectly, any Official for the purpose of influencing or inducing any act or decision of the Official to secure an improper advantage in connection with, or in any way relating to, (A) any government authorization or approval involving Chonkie, or (B) the obtaining or retention of business by Chonkie. Supplier further represents and warrants that it will not in the future offer, promise, make or otherwise allow to be made or provide any payment and that it will take all lawful and necessary actions to ensure that no payment is promised, made or provided in the future by any of the Supplier Personnel.

    Contact Us

    To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

    • Privacy Officer: Shreyash Nigam
    • Email: shreyash@chonkie.ai
    • Address: Chonkie Inc., 95 Third Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, California, 94103

    PLEASE NOTE: IF YOU USE OUR WEBSITE OR PLATFORM, YOU HAVE AGREED TO AND ACCEPTED THE PRACTICES DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN OUR TERMS OF SERVICE, AS APPLICABLE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY OR OUR TERMS OF SERVICE, PLEASE DO NOT USE OUR WEBSITE OR PLATFORM.