Josh.ai Inc. (“Company,” “we,” “our” or “us”) is committed to
protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how your
personal information is collected, used and disclosed by Company.
This Privacy Policy applies to our Service (as defined in our Terms
of Service), our websites, including
https://www.josh.ai
and any other website that links to this Policy (our “Sites”), and
our mobile apps for iOS, Windows or Android mobile devices. By
accessing or using our Service, you signify that you have read,
understood and agree to our collection, storage, use and disclosure
of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and
our Terms of Service.
Table of Contents
1 What information do we collect and for what purpose
The categories of information we collect can include:
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Information you provide to us directly. We may
collect personal information, such as your name, phone number,
location, payment information, and e-mail address when you
register for our Service, sign up for our mailing list, enter a
contest or sweepstakes, or otherwise communicate with us. We may
also collect any communications between you and Company and any
other information you provide to Company.
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Data collected through the use of the Service.
We collect information about how you use the Service and how you
use other products and services through the Service, your
actions on the Service, and content you provide or post to the
Service, including the groups you belong to, your interaction
with the service and with your friends and with others on the
Service, and photos and videos you post to the Service, and any
content you provide through any functionality of the Service
(“User Content”). To share photos and video, we will access your
device camera roll and camera with your permission. If you need
to update your permissions, you can do so in your account
settings page or through your “Settings” app on your device.
Please remember that the Company may, but has no obligation to,
monitor, record, and store User Content in order to protect your
safety or the safety of other users, to assist with regulatory
or law enforcement efforts, or to protect and defend our rights
and property. By using the Service, you consent to the
recording, storage and disclosure of such communications you
send or receive for all of the foregoing purposes.
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Information we collect from social networks.
When you interact with our Service through various social media,
such as when you login through Facebook or when you follow
Company or share Company content on Facebook, Twitter,
Pinterest, Instagram or other sites, we may receive information
from those social networks including your profile information,
picture, user ID associated with your social media account,
friends list, and any other information you permit the social
network to share with third parties. We may use information
about your connections on social media to let you know what your
friends are doing on our Service, and to let your friends know
what you are doing on the Service, and we may use it to suggest
new friends you may want to connect with. The data we receive is
dependent upon your privacy settings with the social network.
You should always review, and if necessary, adjust your privacy
settings on third-party websites and services before linking or
connecting them to our website or Service.
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Address Book Information. With your permission,
Company may access your contact list available on your mobile
device so that you can locate your friends and contacts on the
Service and invite your friends and contacts to connect with our
Service. When we send the invitation to you to join the Service,
we will include your name and photo to let them know that you
are the person extending the invitation. After sending these
invitations, we may also send reminder emails to your invitees
on your behalf, which may also include your name and photo. We
will store these contacts for purposes of alerting you when your
contacts join Company at a later time so that you may connect
with them on the Service, and to suggest friends and connections
to other members of Company. Company may also use the
information collected from your contact list and your friends'
contact lists to suggest new friends you may want to connect
with on the Service. We make these recommendations based on your
address book information as well as your friends' address book
information and try to find common friendships or connections to
introduce you to.
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Location Information. We collect your unique
user identifier and your location through GPS, WiFi, or wireless
network triangulation in order to obtain your location for the
purposes of providing our Service. We maintain location
information only so long as is reasonable to provide, maintain
or improve the Service and then delete location data tied to
your personal information. We may maintain de-identified
location data for a longer period of time in order to analyze
aggregate trends and metrics. If you want to opt-out of the
collection of your location data, please adjust your settings in
your mobile device to limit the app’s access to your location
data. Please see “Control Over Your Information” below to learn
more.
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Information we receive from third parties. From
time to time, we may receive information about you from third
parties and other users, such as other users in your home or
building interacting with the Service, third parties’ services
and products used in order to use the Service (for example,
Amazon Echo or Google Home), third parties’ services and
products used through the Service, and third party contractors
and service providers, such as architects, designers, builders,
and integrators. We may also collect information about you that
is publicly available.
We use this information to operate, maintain, and provide to you
the features and functionality of the Service, as well as to
communicate directly with you, such as to send you email
messages and push notifications, and permit you to communicate
with others on the Service or on social media or invite others
to join the Service. We may also send you Service-related emails
or messages (e.g., account verification, change or updates to
features of the Service, technical and security notices). For
more information about your communication preferences, see
“Control Over Your Information” below.
2 How we use cookies and other tracking technology to collect
information
We, and our third party partners, automatically collect certain
types of usage information when you visit our Services, read our
emails, or otherwise engage with us. We typically collect this
information through a variety of tracking technologies, including
cookies, Flash objects, web beacons, file information and similar
technology (collectively, “tracking technologies”). For example, we
collect information about your device and its software, such as your
IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, platform type,
device type, operating system, date and time stamp, a unique ID that
allows us to uniquely identify your browser, mobile device or your
account, and other such information. We also collect information
about the way you use our Services, for example, the site from which
you came and the site to which you are going when you leave our
website, the pages you visit, the links you click, how frequently
you access the Services, whether you open emails or click the links
contained in emails, whether you access the Services from multiple
devices, and other actions you take on the Services. When you access
our Services from a mobile device, we may collect unique
identification numbers associated with your device or our mobile
application (including, for example, a UDID, Unique ID for
Advertisers (“IDFA”), Google AdID, or Windows Advertising ID),
mobile carrier, device type, model and manufacturer, mobile device
operating system brand and model, phone number, and depending on
your mobile device settings, your geographical location data,
including GPS coordinates (e.g., latitude and/or longitude) or
similar information regarding the location of your mobile device, or
we may be able to approximate a device’s location by analyzing other
information, like an IP address. We may collect analytics data, or
use third-party analytics tools, to help us measure traffic and
usage trends for the Services and to understand more about the
demographics of our users. We may also work with third party
partners to employ technologies, including the application of
statistical modeling tools, which attempt to recognize you across
multiple devices. Although we do our best to honor the privacy
preferences of our users, we are unable to respond to Do Not Track
signals set by your browser at this time.
We use or may use the data collected through tracking technologies
to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter
it during your visit or the next time you visit the site; (b)
provide custom, personalized content and information, including
targeted content and advertising; (c) identify you across multiple
devices; (d) provide and monitor the effectiveness of our Service;
(e) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors,
traffic, usage, and demographic patterns on our website; (f)
diagnose or fix technology problems; and (g) otherwise to plan for
and enhance our service.
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
negatively impact your experience using the Services, as some
features and services on our Services may not work properly.
Depending on your mobile device and operating system, you may not be
able to delete or block all cookies. You may also set your e-mail
options to prevent the automatic downloading of images that may
contain technologies that would allow us to know whether you have
accessed our e-mail and performed certain functions with it.
[Deleting cookies does not delete Local Storage Objects (LSOs) such
as Flash objects and HTML5. You can learn more about Flash objects -
including how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash
cookies – on Adobe’s website or by clicking here. If you choose to
delete Flash objects from our sites, then you may not be able to
access and use all or part of the sites or benefit from the
information and services offered.]
We and our third party partners may also use cookies and tracking
technologies for advertising purposes. For more information about
tracking technologies, please see “Third Party Tracking and Online
Advertising” below.
3 Sharing of your information
We may share your personal information in the instances described
below. For further information on your choices regarding your
information, see the “Control Over Your Information” section below.
We may share your personal information with:
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Others who you allow to use or who have access to the Service
may have access to data regarding your use of the Service, as
well as your profile information, including your name, photo,
and other personal information. Please do not provide personal
information you would not want to be accessed by these
individuals. You may be able to control the visibility of some
of your information and actions in your Settings (see "Control
Over Your Information" below);
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Third parties at your request. For example, you may have the
option to share your activities on the Services with your
friends through email, text or on various social media sites;
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Any other companies and brands owned or controlled by Company
Corporation, other companies owned by or under common ownership
as Company, and any organization that owns or controls us. These
companies will use your personal information in the same way as
we can under this Policy;
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Third-party vendors and other service providers that perform
services on our behalf, as needed to carry out their work for
us, which may include identifying and serving targeted
advertisements, providing mailing services, providing tax and
accounting services, providing technology services (including
artificial intelligence tools and plug-ins), fulfilling
contests, providing web hosting services, or providing analytic
services (as well as improving their services and our Service);
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The public when you provide feedback or user content on our
site. For example, if you post user content on our blog or
comment on our social media sites, your information, such as
your first name, last initial, state of residence, and your
comments, may be displayed on our website or on our social media
pages;
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Other parties in connection with a company transaction, such as
a merger, sale of company assets or shares, reorganization,
financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion
of our business by another company or third party, or in the
event of a bankruptcy or related or similar proceedings; and
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Third parties as required by law or subpoena or if we reasonably
believe that such action is necessary to (a) comply with the law
and the reasonable requests of law enforcement; (b) to enforce
our
Terms of Use
or to protect the security or integrity of our Service; and/or
(c) to exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal
safety of Company, our visitors, or others.
4 Control over your information
Profile and Data Sharing Settings. You may update
your profile information, such as your user name and profile photo,
and may change some of your data sharing preferences on your account
settings page or by emailing us at
[email protected].
Access to your Device Information. You may control
the app’s access to your device information through your “Settings”
app on your device. For instance, you can withdraw permission for
the app to access your address book, location, photo stream and
camera.
How to control your communications preferences: You
can stop receiving promotional email communications from us by
clicking on the “unsubscribe link” provided in such communications.
We make every effort to promptly process all unsubscribe requests.
You may not opt out of service-related communications (e.g., account
verification, transactional communications, changes/updates to
features of the Service, technical and security notices).
Modifying or deleting your information: If you have
any questions about reviewing, modifying, or deleting your
information, or if you want to remove your name or comments from our
website or publicly displayed content, you can contact us directly
at
[email protected]. We may not be able to modify or delete your information in all
circumstances.
5 Third party tracking and online advertising
We may share, or we may permit third party online advertising
networks, social media companies and other third party services, to
collect, information about your use of our website over time so that
they may play or display ads that may be relevant to your interests
on our Service as well as on other websites or apps, or on other
devices you may use. Typically, though not always, the information
we share is provided through cookies or similar tracking
technologies, which recognize the device you are using and collect
information, including hashed data, click stream information,
browser type, time and date you visited the site, and other
information. This information is used to display targeted ads on or
through our Service or on other websites or apps, including on
Facebook. We or the online advertising networks use this information
to make the advertisements you see online more relevant to your
interests. As noted above, depending on your browser or mobile
device, you may be able set your browser to delete or notify you of
cookies and other tracking technology by actively managing the
settings on your browser or mobile device. You may also be able to
limit interest-based advertising through the settings on your mobile
device by selecting “limit ad tracking” (iOS) or “opt-out of
interest based ads” (Android). To learn more about interest-based
advertising and how you may be able to opt-out of some of this
advertising, you may wish to visit the Network Advertising
Initiative’s online resources, at
http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices, and/or the DAA’s resources at
www.aboutads.info/choices, and you may also adjust your ad preferences through your Facebook
settings. You may also be able to opt-out of some – but not all –
interest-based ads served by mobile ad networks by visiting
http://youradchoices.com/appchoices
and downloading the mobile AppChoices app. If you have any questions
about opting out of the collection of cookies and other
tracking/recording tools, you can contact us directly at
[email protected].
Facebook Custom Audience Ads. We may work with Facebook to display
interest-based ads to you or to your friends on Facebook through a
tool offered by Facebook called the Custom Audience Tool. This tool
allows us to personalize our ads based on you or your friends’
experience on our Service in order to provide ads tailored for each
specific recipient. We do not share personal information about your
activities on our Service with Facebook, but we share a hashed email
address or phone number which permits Facebook to identify our
advertising audience based on the information that Facebook collects
from its users. If you do not want to receive interest-based ads on
Facebook, you can adjust your ad preferences through your Facebook
settings. If you do not want us to use your content to personalize
advertising that we direct to your friends on Facebook, you may
email us at
[email protected].
6 How we store and protect your information
Data storage and transfer: Your information
collected through our website may be stored and processed in the
United States or any other country in which Company or its
affiliates or service providers maintain facilities. If you are
located in the European Union or other regions with laws governing
data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note
that we may transfer information, including personal information, to
a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data
protection laws as your jurisdiction, and you consent to the
transfer of information to the U.S. or any other country in which
the Company or its parent, subsidiaries, affiliates, or service
providers maintain facilities and the use and disclosure of
information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.
Keeping your information safe: We care about the
security of your information and uses commercially reasonable
physical, administrative, and technological safeguards to preserve
the integrity and security of all information collected through our
website. However, no security system is impenetrable and we cannot
guarantee the security of our systems 100%. In the event that any
information under our control is compromised as a result of a breach
of security, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the
situation and, where appropriate, notify those individuals whose
information may have been compromised and take other steps, in
accordance with any applicable laws and regulations.
7 Children's Privacy
Company does not knowingly collect or solicit any personal
information from anyone under the age of 13 on this Service. In the
event that we learn that we have inadvertently collected personal
information from a child under age 13, we will delete that
information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might
have any information from a child under 13, please contact us at
[email protected].
8 Links to other web sites and services
The Services may contain links to and from third party websites of
our business partners, advertisers, and social media sites and our
users may post links to third party websites. If you follow a link
to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their
own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or
liability for their policies. We strongly recommend that you read
their privacy policies and terms and conditions of use to understand
how they collect, use, and share information. We are not responsible
for the privacy practices or the content on the websites of third
party sites.
9 Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section
1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure
of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing
purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year. You may
make one request each year by [emailing us at
[email protected]
or writing to us at 191 University Blvd, #188, Denver CO 80206.
10 How to contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the website,
please contact us at
[email protected].
11 Changes to our Privacy Policy
We may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time to
reflect the changes in our business and practices, and so you should
review this page periodically. When we change the policy in a
material manner we will let you know and update the ‘last modified’
date at the bottom of this page. If you object to any changes, you
may close your account. Continuing to use our Services after we
publish changes to this Privacy Policy means that you are consenting
to the changes.
This privacy policy was last modified on 06/23