Privacy Policy

Information You Provide to Us
Personal information you may provide to us through the Website or otherwise includes:

• Contact data, such as your first and last name, email address, professional title and company name, and phone number.

• Communications data based on our exchanges with you, including when you contact us through the Website, social media, or otherwise.

• Research data, such as your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes related to our business.

• Marketing data, such as your preferences for receiving our marketing communications and details about your engagement with them.

• Profile data, such as the username and password that you may set to establish an online account on the Website, links to your profiles on social networks, and any other information that you add to your account profile.

• Transactional data, such as information relating to or needed to complete your orders on or through the Service, including order numbers and transaction history.

• Other data not specifically listed here, which we will use as described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.

Third-Party Sources
We may combine personal information we receive from you with personal information we obtain from other sources, such as:

• Public sources, such as government agencies, public records, social media platforms, and other publicly available sources.

• Data providers, such as information services and data licensors that provide demographic and other information that we use to provide the Website.

• Marketing partners, such as joint marketing partners and event co-sponsors.

• Third-party services, such as social media services, that you use to log into, or otherwise link to, your Website account. This data may include your username, profile picture and other information associated with your account on that third-party service that is made available to usbased on your account settings on that service.

Automatic Data Collection
We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with the Website, our communications and other online services, such as:

• Device data, such as your computer or mobile device’s operating system type and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, RAM and disk size, CPU usage, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), IP address, unique identifiers, language settings, mobile device carrier, radio/network information (e.g., Wi-Fi, LTE, 3G), and general location information such as city, state or general geographic area.

• Online activity data, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, the website you visited before browsing to the Website, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times and duration of access, and whether you have opened our emails or clicked links within them.

• Communication interaction data, such as your interactions with our email, or other communications (e.g., whether you open and/or forward emails) – we may do this through use of pixel tags (which are also known as clear GIFs), which may be embedded invisibly in our emails.

Cookies and Similar Technologies
Some of the automatic collection described above is facilitated by the following technologies:

• Cookies, which are small text files that websites store on user devices and that allow web servers to record users’ web browsing activities and remember their submissions, preferences, and login status as they navigate a site. Cookies used on our sites include both “session cookies” that are deleted when a session ends, “persistent cookies” that remain longer, “first party” cookies that we place and “third party” cookies that our third-party business partners and service providers place.

• Local storage technologies, like HTML5, that provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data on your device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications.

• Web beacons, also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs, which are used to demonstrate that a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was viewed or clicked.

We may use your personal information for the following purposes or as otherwise described at the time of collection:

Service Delivery and Operations
We may use your personal information to:

• provide, operate and improve the Website and our business;

• personalize the service, including remembering the devices from which you have previously logged in and remembering your selections and preferences as you navigate the Website;

• establish and maintain your user profile on the Website;

• enable security features of the Website, such as by sending you security codes via email or SMS, and remembering devices from which you have previously logged in;

• communicate with you about the Website, including by sending announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;

• understand your needs and interests, and personalize your experience with the Website and our communications; and provide support for the Website, and respond to your requests, such as for newsletters and other communications, questions and feedback.

Research and Development
We may use your personal information for research and development purposes, including to analyze and improve the Website and our business. As part of these activities, we may create aggregated, de-identified or other anonymous data from personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous or de-identified data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous or de-identified data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Website and promote our business.

Marketing
We, our service providers and our third-party partners may collect and use your personal information for marketing purposes:

• Direct marketing. We may send you direct marketing communications. You may opt-out of our marketing communications as described in the Opt-out of marketing section below.

• Interest-based advertising. Our third-party advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your interaction (including the data described in the automatic data collection section above) with the Website, our communications and other online services over time, and use that information to serve online ads that they think will interest you. This is called interest-based advertising. We may also share information about our users with these companies to facilitate interest-based advertising to those or similar users on other online platforms.

Service Improvement and Analytics
We may use your personal information to analyze your usage of the Service, improve the Service, improve the rest of our business, help us understand user activity on the Service, including which pages are most and least visited and how visitors move around the Service, as well as user interactions with our emails, and to develop new products and services.

Compliance and Protection
We may use your personal information to:

• comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities;

• protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims);

• audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements or our internal policies;

• enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Website; and

• prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.

With Your Consent
In some cases, we may specifically ask for your consent to collect, use or share your personal information, such as when required by law.

Cookies and Similar Technologies
In addition to the other uses included in this section, we may use the Cookies and similar technologies described above for the following purposes:

• Technical operation. To allow the technical operation of the Website.

• Functionality. To enhance the performance and functionality of our services.

• Advertising. To help our third-party advertising partners collect information about how you use the Website and other online services over time, which they use to show you ads on other online services they believe will interest you and measure how the ads perform.

• Analytics. To help us understand user activity on the Website, including which pages are most and least visited and how visitors move around the Website, as well as user interactions with our emails. For example, we use Google Analytics for this purpose. To provide this service, Google Analytics may collect certain information about you from your computer using cookies. You can learn more about Google Analytics and how it collects and processes data by visiting: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can opt-out of the use of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

We may share your personal information with the following parties and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection.

Service Providers
Third parties that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Website or our business (such as hosting, information technology, customer support, email delivery, customer research, marketing, and website analytics).

Advertising Partners
Third-party advertising companies for the interest-based advertising purposes described above.

Third Parties Designated by You
We may share your personal data with third parties where you have instructed us or provided your consent to do so. We will share personal information that is needed for these other companies to provide the services that you have requested. 

Business and Marketing Partners
Third parties with whom we co-sponsor events, with whom we jointly offer products or services, or whose products or services may be of interest to you. 

Linked Third-Party Services
If you link your Website account to a social media or other third-party service, we may share your personal information with that third-party service. The third party’s use of the shared information will be governed by its privacy policy and the settings associated with your account with the third-party service.

Professional Advisors
Professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

Authorities and Others
Law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate for the Compliance and protection purposes described above.

Business Transferees
Acquirers and other relevant participants in business transactions (or negotiations of or due diligence for such transactions) involving a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale or other disposition of all or any portion of the business or assets of, or equity interests in, StarTree, our parent, our affiliates, or our subsidiaries (including, in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

In this section, we describe the choices available to you.

Access or Update Your Information
If you have registered for an account with us through the Website, you may review and update certain account information by logging into the account.

Opt-Out of Marketing Communications
You may opt-out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email, by contacting us, or by filling out this form. Please note that if you choose to opt-out of marketing-related emails, you may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.

Do Not Track
Some Internet browsers may be configured to send a specific “Do Not Track” signal to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Declining to Provide Information
We need to collect personal information to provide certain services. If you do not provide the information we identify as required or mandatory, we may not be able to provide those services.

The Website may contain links to websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties. In addition, our content may be integrated into web pages or other online services that are not associated with us. These links and integrations are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. We do not control websites, mobile applications, or online services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for their actions. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites, mobile applications, and online services you use.

We employ technical, organizational, and physical safeguards that are designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

We are headquartered in the United States and may use service providers that operate in other countries. Your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other locations where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your state, province, or country.

The Website is not intended for use by anyone under 18 years of age. If you are a parent or guardian of a child from whom you believe we have collected personal information in a manner prohibited by law, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal information through the Website from a child without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will comply with applicable legal requirements to delete the information.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Website or other appropriate means. Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting the modified version (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your use of the Website after the effective date of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the modified Privacy Policy.

To exercise your choices or if you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at info@startree.ai.