Privacy Policy

Last updated: November 21, 2023

1. Introduction

Welcome to groupchatgame (the "Service"), operated by Daystrom Technologies LLC ("Company", "We", "Us", "Our"). This Privacy Policy explains how We collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website accessible from https://www.groupchatgame.com/ (the "Website") and use our Service.

Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with our Terms and Conditions. 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 and Conditions.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect via the Service includes:

• User Input / Group Chat Data: When you paste or upload group chat text data into the Service, we collect this content. This may include messages, sender identifiers (such as names, phone numbers, email addresses, or other unique identifiers present in the chat), timestamps, and potentially other embedded information or metadata.
• Mapped Names: We collect the names you assign or confirm for the sender identifiers identified in your User Input.
• Generated Content: We collect the output generated by the Service based on your User Input and interaction, including suggested categories, generated clues, answers, and the final formatted game board data. User Input, Mapped Names, and Generated Content are collectively referred to as "User Content" as defined in our Terms and Conditions.
• Usage Data: We may automatically collect certain information when you access the Service, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address (which may be used for purposes like rate limiting), browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Website. This may be collected through server logs or analytics tools.
• Contact Information: If you contact us directly (e.g., via email), we will collect your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide in your correspondence.

3. How We Use Your Information

Having accurate information permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Service to:

• Operate, provide, maintain, and facilitate the core functionality of the Service (i.e., process User Input, map names, interact with AI models, generate game content, allow editing and export/play).
• Respond to your comments, questions, and provide customer support.
• Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Service and enhance its functionality.
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality based on user interaction and User Content.
• Train, develop, and improve the artificial intelligence models (including third-party models like Google Gemini accessed via API and potentially future internal models) used by the Service and related technologies. This may involve using User Content (including User Input and Generated Content) as training data. We may use aggregated or anonymized data for this purpose where feasible, but analysis and training may involve processing of the original User Content.
• Create aggregated and anonymized data sets for research, analytics, business intelligence, or other business purposes.
• Prevent fraudulent activity, monitor against theft, enforce our Terms and Conditions, and protect the security and integrity of our Service and users.
• Comply with legal and regulatory obligations.

4. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.

We process personal information from you primarily where the processing is necessary for the performance of our contract with you (i.e., to provide the Service as described in our Terms and Conditions). This includes processing your User Input to generate the requested game content.

We may also process personal information where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. This may include processing for service improvement, AI model training, analytics, security, and developing new features, as permitted by the license you grant us in the Terms and Conditions.

In some cases, we may have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you.

If we rely on consent as a legal basis (e.g., potentially for certain types of cookies or direct marketing if implemented), we will make this clear at the time of collection and you will have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

5. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:

• By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
• Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including:
  • Artificial Intelligence Providers (e.g., Google): We send User Content (including User Input, mapped names, and potentially generated categories) to third-party AI services like Google Gemini via their API to generate categories, clues, and answers for the Service. Their use of data submitted via their API is governed by their terms and privacy policies.
  • Hosting Providers (e.g., Vercel): Our Service is hosted by third-party providers who may have access to server logs or stored data as part of their hosting services.
  • Analytics Providers: We may use third-party analytics tools to help us measure traffic and usage trends.
  • Other Service Providers: Such as those used for rate limiting or other infrastructure needs.
• Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your 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.
• Aggregated/Anonymized Data: We may share aggregated or anonymized information that does not directly identify you with third parties for research, marketing, analytics or other purposes.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions (subject to the terms of providers like Google AI).

6. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. This includes retaining User Content as needed to provide the Service, comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, enforce our legal agreements and policies, and for the purposes of improving our services and training our AI models as described herein and licensed under our Terms. You may request deletion of your data as described in Section 8.

7. Security of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures designed to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.

8. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your location (e.g., EEA, California), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These rights may include:

• The right to access: You may have the right to request copies of the personal information we hold about you.
• The right to rectification: You may have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure (deletion): You may have the right to request that we erase your personal information, under certain conditions and subject to legal or operational retention needs.
• The right to restrict processing: You may have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing: You may have the right to object to our processing of your personal information based on legitimate interests, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability: You may have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below. We may need to verify your identity before responding to your request.

9. Children's Privacy

Our Service is not intended for use by children under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If you become aware that a child under 18 has provided us with Personal Information without necessary consent, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent where required by law (e.g., under COPPA or GDPR age of consent rules), we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

10. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, 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 from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to the United States and process it there, and may also utilize third-party services (like Google AI) whose servers may be located globally. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer. We will take steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

11. Links to Other Websites

The 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.

12. 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 and updating the "Last updated" date at the top. 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.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

• By email: Ben@getdonethisweek.com