Introduction

Welcome to In Search Of! Please read this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use available here https://in-search-of-frontend-two.vercel.app/terms-of-service (collectively the “Terms”) carefully, as you agree that you consent to these Terms by your use of this website (“Website”), as described further below. **If you do not agree with our policies and practices, do not use the Website. **

In this Privacy Policy we describe the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you use the Website, plus our practices for collecting, using, protecting, and disclosing that information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information collected by any third party, including by any third party websites that you may access through links on the Website.

Collection of Personal Information

The Website is for educational and informational purposes only, so you can use the Website without manually providing any personal information to us. However, you may choose to provide personal information to us, plus, like nearly all websites, we collect usage information automatically from all users. Some of this information collected may include personal information in the following categories:

• Information that you provide to receive communications from us, such as your name and email address;
• Optional information that we do not specifically request, but that you may choose to provide, when you fill out a form on the Website, such as to submit a resource to ISO, suggest an edit to the Website, or donate to our efforts to build and maintain the Website;
• Payment and billing information if you choose to donate to our efforts to build and maintain the Website;
• Usage information and details, such as information about how you use the Website, including the pages you visit; and
• Technical usage information, such as IP address, unique device identification numbers, browser type, geographic location, log data, and other technical information.

We collect information in two ways, including:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us, such as signing up for our newsletter or submitting a form through the Website; and
• Automatically as you navigate through the Website, such as usage details, IP addresses, web browser preferences, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.

Other than email addresses for our newsletter, payment information if you want to make a donation, and de-identified usage details to understand what is most useful to our users, we are not trying to collect or store personal information from our users. Any optional information that you submit is submitted at your own risk, and we ask that you please do not submit any “sensitive” information about yourself, such as information about your race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion, or health.

In some countries, including countries in the EEA, the information referenced above in this Privacy Policy may be considered personal information under applicable data protection laws. If you do not want us to collect this information, do not use the Website.

Use of Personal Information

We use the information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To develop, modify, and improve the Website and the services and functionalities we provide through the Website;
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us, including our newsletter;
• To collect donation payments from you, to the extent that you submit and authorize them; and
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

All the data we collect on the Website is necessary for the Company to deliver the Website to you and other users. The amount of data we collect has been minimized wherever possible to respect your privacy.

Sharing and Disclosure of Information

We may disclose information that we collect or you provide with parties related to the Company who work on or are involved with the operation of the Website, such as our employees, contractors, subsidiaries, and affiliates, or to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, in which information held by the Company about the Website users is among the assets transferred.

Additionally, we may disclose information that we collect or you provide with third parties that we use to support our business and improve the Website, including service providers that provide services related to the Website (such as MailChimp to send newsletters and a payment processor to process donations).

Finally, we may disclose information that we collect or you provide to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request; if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our users, or others; or any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information

We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason to do so under applicable law. Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will normally process your personal information only:

• When we have your consent to use your personal information for a specific purposes (you can withdraw your consent at any time, refer to “Accessing, Correcting, and Withdrawing Your Information” below);
• When we believe that processing your information is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests and those interests are not overridden by your rights or interests;
• When we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency; or
• When we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of a person.

Data Retention

We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to maintain our newsletter mailing list or to comply with applicable legal, tax, or accounting requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. We may retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form where that information would not identify you personally indefinitely.

Cookies and Third-Party Analytics Services

The Website uses third-party analysis and tracking services to track the performance of our Website and Services, understand how you use the Website and our Services, and offer you an improved and safer experience. By using these third party services, the Company is necessarily sharing your information with these third-party analysis and tracking service companies to receive their services.

Your Consent for Company Tracking and Analysis

By using the Website, you consent to the Company’s usage of cookies and the below third-party services in on the Website, and agree that the Company may collect your usage data under a unique identifier, for the purposes of tracking, analyzing, and improving our Services.

You may withdraw your consent at any time, by either disabling cookies on your device or following the instructions on how to withdraw your consent individually for each third-party provider the Company uses for its third party tracking and analysis services, as described below.

Tracking: Cookies and Web Beacons

We use cookies for the Website, which are small text files that are intended to make the Website better for you to use. In general, cookies are used to retain preferences and provide tracking data to third-party applications like Google Analytics. You can prevent cookies from being stored on your computer by changing your browser settings; however, if you choose to do this, your experience when using the Website may be altered. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser or doing your own research on how to disable cookies in your web browser. We do not support “Do Not Track” requests sent from a browser at this time.

Please note that linked third-party websites may also use cookies. We cannot control the use of cookies by these third-party websites. For example, when you click on a link from the Website to a third-party website, that website may have the ability to recognize that you have come from the Website by using cookies. If you have any questions about how third-party websites use cookies, you should contact such third parties directly.

We may also employ software technology known as “web beacons” or “clear GIFs,” which helps us keep track of what content on the Website is effective. Web beacons are small graphics with a unique identifier that are used to track the online movements of Internet users. Web beacons are embedded in the web pages you review, so they are not stored on your hard drive. The web beacons we may use will not track or collect any personally identifiable information about you and they are in no way linked to your personally identifiable information.

Logging and Analytics Services

For logging and analytics, we share specific types of personal information with Websites such as Google Analytics. This includes user interaction data, website navigation paths, engagement metrics, as well as detailed insights from production data, measuring quality through user feedback, model-based scoring, and custom scores. They also track cost and latency, broken down by user, session, geography, feature, model, and prompt version, along with volume based on ingested traces and tokens used. By sharing this data, we gain comprehensive insights into user behaviour and Website performance. This strategic sharing of personal information is crucial for continuously refining our Website, ensuring it’s not only user-friendly but also highly responsive to our users’ needs.

Accessing, Correcting, and Withdrawing Your Information

You can review and change or delete your personal information by sending us an email at info@insearchof.design to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Children Under the Age of 13

The Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age and you are not allowed to use the Website or provide information on it if you are under 13 years of age. If we learn we have received personal information from or about a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us immediately at info@insearchof.design.

If you are based in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) you may only use the Website if you are over the age at which you can provide consent to data processing under the laws of your country or if verifiable parental consent for your use of the Website has been provided to us.

Transferring Your Information

The Company is a worldwide service, but it is based in the United States. Therefore your data may be transferred out of your home country and into the United States depending on where you are located. By using the Website, you authorize us to transfer and store your information outside your home country, including in the United States, for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. The privacy protections and the rights of authorities to access your information in these countries may not be the same as in your home country. We take additional measures when information is transferred from the European Economic Area (EEA). This includes having standard clauses approved by the European Commission in our contracts with parties that receive information outside the EEA. We also rely on European Commission adequacy decisions about certain countries, as applicable, for data transfers to countries outside the EEA.

Data Security

We seek to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, organizational, and administrative security measures based on the type of personal information and how we are processing that data. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to the Website. 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 the Website.

EEA Users

You have options in relation to the information and data that we have about you. To exercise any of the options discussed below, please contact us at info@insearchof.design. As a user of the Website, you may exercise your user rights to:

1. Request information on your personal data processed by the Company. Upon your request, this information will be provided to you electronically. If you reside in the EU or Switzerland, you may access your information by sending a request to the Company at info@insearchof.design. If you reside in California and have provided your personal information to us, you may request information once per calendar year about our disclosures of certain categories of your personally identifiable information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes by sending a request to the Company at info@insearchof.design.
2. Gain access to your information by requesting a backup of your data in a format that is readable by other companies or organizations (data portability). We’ll will make an effort to share this information with you within a reasonable time.
3. Correct or delete your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
4. Withdraw your consent from data processing at any time by unsubscribing from our newsletter by clicking the link at bottom of the email. You may also contact info@insearchof.design. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
5. Request the complete deletion of your data, including all past data sent to third-party services used for tracking and analysis, by reaching out to info@insearchof.design. Your data will be deleted within 30 days. We will not delete the posts or comments you’ve written and shared publicly, including on social media or in any review.
6. Log a complaint with the relevant supervising authority if you believe the Company is processing your personal data under violation of applicable data protection regulations. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.

We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We will post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page, so you are responsible for checking this page from time to time for any updates. We may also choose to post material changes on the Website home page or send an email notification to the most recent email address that you provided to us, if any.

Organization and Contact Information

The Website is property of IN SEARCH OF. For general information about the Website, this Privacy Policy, or anything else, you can contact us at:

IN SEARCH OF, Representative info@insearchof.design