Introduction
At AlphaBeast, we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy explains how AlphaBeast collects, uses, and discloses information about you when you use our mobile application and related services (collectively "Services").We are committed to being transparent about our data practices and giving you control over your personal data. Our policy complies with all applicable privacy laws and regulations, including the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). By using the AlphaBeast Services, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your information as outlined in this policy. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about our data practices and your rights. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at contact@peachyinnovation.com.
Information We Collect
Information You Provide
We collect personal information when you register for an account, including your name, email address, password, and any other information you choose to provide. We also collect the information you submit when using the Services, such as your moods, meditation preferences, and responses to prompts.
Usage Information
We automatically collect certain usage data about how you interact with the Services. This includes the meditation sessions you listen to, session length, frequency of use, your interactions with the AI assistant, and other app analytics data. We collect this data to analyze engagement, train our AI models, personalize content, and improve the Services.
Device Information
We may collect certain device-related information when you use our Services, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, mobile carrier, device identifiers, and regional and language settings. This data allows us to optimize the Services for your device.
Other Sources
We may obtain some information from third party sources, such as analytics providers, advertising networks, and publicly available databases. We use this data to supplement our understanding of usage patterns and enhance the Services.
How We Use Information
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
- Provide, maintain, and improve the Services, including developing new features, analyzing usage, diagnosing problems, and enhancing overall performance.
- Create and deliver personalized audio experiences based on your input, preferences, and usage patterns. We may use your information to train our AI models to improve personalization over time.
- Communicate with you, such as by responding to your inquiries, sending you service announcements and updates, marketing emails, surveys, or other promotional communications consistent with your choices.
- Advertising and marketing, such as by optimizing and tailoring ads on our Services and on third party sites.
- Conduct analytics to better understand how users access and use the Services, and to evaluate and improve our offerings.
- Comply with legal obligations, including as part of regulatory requirements, contractual obligations, tax filings, litigation, and enforcement actions.
- Enforce our Terms of Service, prevent fraud, and uphold the security and integrity of the Services.We only process personal data for the purposes outlined in this policy. If we intend to use your information for other purposes, we will seek your consent in advance as required by law.
Information We Share
We may disclose information about you to third parties in the following circumstances:
Service Providers: We may share your data with third party companies and individuals we engage to process data on our behalf, such as cloud storage providers, payment processors, analytics services, and customer support vendors. These service providers are only permitted to use your data as instructed by us and consistent with this policy.
Corporate Customers: If you register for our Services through a corporate account, we may share certain usage analytics with your employer or sponsoring organization. We will not share your personal information without consent.Legal Requirements: We may disclose your data if required to comply with legal obligations or lawful requests, such as subpoenas, court orders, or government requests. This includes sharing data with law enforcement officials or others, if compelled by subpoena, court order or other legal process.
Change of Ownership: If we sell, divest or transfer the business, we will not transfer your personal information without first obtaining your consent, unless the new owner intends to maintain and provide the Services as-is, and is legally bound to honor the promises and obligations in this policy. We will notify you of any changes in ownership of the business.Research: We may share aggregated, anonymized analytics data with third parties like academic institutions and researchers, to help advance the field of mindfulness and meditation.
Your Rights
We respect your rights under applicable privacy laws. You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
Access: You can request access to the personal data we hold about you.
Correction: You can ask us to correct any incomplete or inaccurate personal data we hold about you.
Deletion: You can request that we delete your personal data, subject to certain exceptions outlined in our Terms of Service.
Restriction of Processing: You can ask us to restrict further processing of your personal data, while retaining storage, under certain circumstances.
Objection: You can object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation.
Portability: You can ask us to provide a copy of certain personal data in a machine-readable format.
Withdrawal of Consent: If we are processing your personal data based on consent, you may withdraw consent at any time.
Right to File Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority if you feel we have not complied with applicable privacy laws.To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at
contact@peachyinnovation.com . We will consider and respond to your request in accordance with applicable laws.
Security
We take appropriate physical, technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, loss or destruction. While we strive to protect your personal data, no system is completely secure. We cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted through the internet. Any transmission is at your own risk.
EU GDPR Compliance
We comply with the requirements of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when processing personal data from the European Economic Area (EEA).
Legal Basis for Processing
We only process your personal data when we have a valid legal basis to do so under the GDPR, including:
- To fulfill a contract with you or take steps to enter into a contract
- When we have a legitimate interest and the processing is fair, balanced, and does not unduly impact your rights
- To comply with a legal obligation
- When we have your consent to process the data
Data Retention
We retain personal data only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, unless longer retention is required by law.
Examples of retention periods:
Account information: We retain your account data as long as your account is active. After you cancel your account, we retain certain information for fraud prevention and record-keeping.
Marketing data: If you opt-out of receiving marketing communications, we will retain minimal data to ensure we respect your wishes.
Usage data: We retain analytics data and usage metrics to analyze site performance, improve the service, and for product development.
Transaction data: Order information is stored for tax, accounting, and audit purposes. We retain records of payments and invoices in accordance with standard bookkeeping practices.
Correspondence: When you contact us with inquiries, we retain correspondence until the inquiry is resolved and for a period afterwards as documentation.We may retain aggregated or anonymized data without a retention period, including for research and development purposes. We may also retain backups for operational continuity but do not use them to archive personal data indefinitely.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.
CONTACT US
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: contact@peachyinnovation.comLast updated: Feb 12, 2024