Privacy Policy
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Buzzflow.ai, Inc. (“Buzz,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) is committed to protecting the privacy of our Customers and Users. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) outlines: (1) what Personal Information, defined below, we collect; and (2) how we use, protect and share Your Personal Information.
By visiting buzzflow.ai (the “Website”) and using the Website, You are agreeing to the terms of this Policy and consent to the collection, use, and sharing of Your Personal Information as outlined below. If You do not agree, then please exit our Website and close Your browser.
Scope
This Policy applies to our Customers and Users, as defined below, and covers our data collection activities on our Website. Specifically, Your Personal Information may be captured through the following methods:
- When You visit our Website;
- When You communicate with us via telephone, text, email, and/or social media channels;
- When You use our Services; and/or
- Through other online and offline channels.
Definitions
“Customer” means a natural person or small business that uses our Website to inquire, learn, and demo our Services, or has joined our monthly subscription program.
“Personal Information” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual that is collected from our Customers and Users via our Website. Personal Information may include: full name, physical address, email address, IP address, or other identifiers such as from a Cookie.
“Search Engine Optimization (SEO)” refers to the process of improving a website’s visibility and performance within search engine results. This includes analyzing website structure and content, implementing technical and content-based enhancements, monitoring search performance, and using third-party tools or integrations to support these activities.
“Sensitive Personal Information” means any information collected from our Customers and Users that reveals a racial or ethnic origin, religious belief, philosophical belief, or trade union membership. It may also include a natural person’s genetic and biometric information, as well as financial information.
“Services” means the services provided via our Website to facilitate and support social media marketing and reputation management for small businesses, and includes website hosting and development.
“User” means a natural person that visits and interacts with our Website.
“You” or “Your” means a Customer or User.
“Website” means buzzflow.ai
Our Information Collection Practices
Buzz provides small businesses with reputation and social media management services. It is our policy to only obtain the Personal Information from You that is absolutely necessary to provide You with our Services, and to limit the access to such Personal Information to only those individuals who have a legitimate need for it. Additionally, some information collected via our Website may also be used to maintain and improve our customer service, to improve our Services and to otherwise support the provision of our Services to You. We have outlined all of the different ways that we collect, share and use Your information in this Policy.
What Personal Information Do We Collect and How?
Personal Information Provided by You
Depending on the context of Your interactions with us and the Services we offer, the choices You make, and the features You use, we may collect certain Personal Information from You, including:
- Your name;
- Business name;
- Telephone number(s);
- Email address(es);
- Contact preferences;
- Website url;
- Social media accounts;
- Credit card information;
- IP address;
- Domain registration details;
- Hosting account credentials or server login information;
- SEO-related information You choose to share, such as target keywords, business descriptions, marketing goals, or access credentials for analytics or SEO tools.
When You submit Your email on our homepage, we save that email even if You do not complete the next form. When You submit the contact form, we also save the contact and business details You provide. We use Cloudflare to store these submissions and protect the forms against abuse, and Google Chat to notify our team so we can respond to Your inquiry. We use browser session storage to carry Your email between these steps without including it in the page URL.
All Personal Information that You provide to us must be true, complete and accurate, and You must notify us of any changes to such Personal Information. By providing Your mobile number, You confirm that You are 18 years of age or older, are the owner or authorized user of the phone number provided, and consent to receive SMS messages from us. Consent is not required to make a purchase. Messages may include service and account updates, approval requests, and promotional offers. You may opt out at any time by replying STOP. Standard message and data rates may apply for any messages sent to You from us and from You to us. Please consult Your mobile service provider for details regarding Your text plan or data rates.
Platform Integration
If You wish to become a Customer, we collect information required to onboard You onto the platform such as Your name, email address and billing information. During the platform account creation process, we will collect any Personal Information You choose to provide us to build Your user profile. Once You are onboarded onto the platform, we will collect any Personal Information You share with us while using the platform, such as any Personal Information in any inputs You provide to use the content generation feature of the platform. We ask that You do not disclose any sensitive Personal Information when You use the Platform.
Information We Collect Automatically
We automatically collect certain information when You visit, use, or navigate the Website or Services. This information includes device and usage information, such as Your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, device name, internet service provider, country, location, information about how and when You use our Services and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Cookies
We may assign Your device one or more session cookies to facilitate access to our Website when You visit it. Cookies are small text files that a website or its service provider transfers to Your computer’s hard drive through Your web browser, that enables the website or service provider’s systems to recognize Your browser and capture and remember certain information. By using cookies, we may automatically collect information about Your online activity on our Website, such as the web pages You visit, the links You click, the device You use and the searches You conduct on our Website. We use cookies to compile aggregate data about Website traffic and interaction so that we can offer better Website experiences and tools in the future.
Other Technologies
We may use standard Internet technology, such as web beacons and pixels, to track Your use of our Website. We may use such technologies to evaluate the overall effectiveness of our online content. Additionally, some online tracking technologies help us maintain the security of our Services, prevent crashes, fix bugs, save Your preferences and assist with basic Website functions.
Third-Party Integrations
We may integrate with or rely on third-party platforms and services to provide the Services to you (“Third-Party Integrations”). For example, we allow You to sync Your social networking accounts, such as Instagram, Facebook, Yelp and Google, with the platform via API. Any Personal Information submitted to us via Third-Party Integrations that we can access will be subject to this Privacy Policy, but please note that such Personal Information will also be subject to the terms of the applicable Third-Party Integration.
How Do We Use Your Personal Information and Why Do We Collect It?
We use Your Personal Information for a variety of reasons, depending on how You interact with our Services, including:
- To Deliver and Facilitate Delivery of Our Services to You: We may process Your Personal Information to provide you with the Services.
- To Respond to Inquiries & Offer Support to Our Customers and Users: We may process Your Personal Information to respond to Your inquiries and solve any potential issues You might encounter with the requested Services.
- To Communicate Administratively With You: We may process Your Personal Information to send You details about our Services, changes to our Terms of Service; and other similar information.
- To Fulfill and Manage Your Membership: We may process Your Personal Information to fulfill and manage Your orders, payments, discounts, and refunds.
- To Request Feedback: We may process Your Personal Information when necessary to request feedback and to contact You about Your use of our Services.
- To Send You Marketing and Promotional Communications: We may process the Personal Information You send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with Your marketing preferences.
- To Protect Our Services: We may process Your Personal Information as part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure, including fraud monitoring and prevention.
- To Identify Usage Trends: We may process information about how You use our Services to better understand how they are being used so we can improve them.
When and With Whom Do We Share Your Personal Information?
We may need to share Your Personal Information in the following situations:
- Third-Party Service Providers: We may share Your Personal Information with certain third-party service providers who assist us in delivering specific functions related to our SEO services. These providers are permitted to use the information only as needed to perform work on our behalf and are required to maintain the confidentiality and security of any information they receive.
- Business Transfers: We may share or transfer Your Personal 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.
- Business Purposes: We may share Your Personal Information with our business partners to offer You certain promotions or services.
- Third-Party Payment Processors: We need to share Your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information with our third-party payment processor, Stripe, in order to complete Your purchases. You may also be able to store Your payment information with Stripe via Your account with us. We do not store any of Your financial information directly and any such storage will be facilitated by our third-party payment processor.
- Compliance and Protection: We may disclose Your Personal Information upon a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary (i) in connection with a legal investigation or proceeding; (ii) to comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us; (iii) to protect or defend our rights or property or that of other users of the Services; and/or (iv) to investigate or assist in preventing any violation (or potential violation) of the law, this Policy, or our Terms of Service.
- Preventing Fraud or Illegal Conduct: We may need to share Your Personal Information in situations where we believe disclosure is appropriate and/or necessary in connection with the investigation, prevention, or other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing; to protect and defend the rights, property, or safety of our company, our Customers, our employees, or others; or to enforce our Terms of Service or other agreements or policies.
- With Your Consent: We may share Your Personal Information with other parties that You provide consent to share Your information with, or request that we share Your information with.
How Do We Secure Your Information?
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any Personal Information that we collect and/or use. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure Your Personal Information, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will not be able to improperly collect, access, steal or modify Your information.
Access to Personal Information will be authorized only for the employees who need to know this information in order to perform their respective job duties and for the purposes set out in this Policy and in any contracts signed by You, or pursuant to Your written instructions. Our employees may not use the information obtained from You for any unauthorized purpose. Only our employees with a business need to know, or whose duties reasonably so require, are granted access to Your Personal Information. All supplied Sensitive Personal Information, including your credit card number and associated payment information, is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
We also utilize segmented data storage and multi-factor authentication across our organization.
We ask that You help keep Your account information safe and secure by creating a sufficiently complex password for Your account and not to share it with third parties, as outlined in our Terms of Service. If you have any questions about the cybersecurity for our Services, please contact us at info@buzzflow.ai.
How Long Do We Retain Your Personal Information?
We retain Your Personal Information for a period of time consistent with the original purpose for which it was collected. Specifically, we will retain Your Personal Information: (i) for as long as we have a relationship with You; (ii) as long as is necessary to provide You with our Services; (iii) as long as is necessary to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations; or (iv) as long as is necessary to resolve disputes or protect ourselves from potential future disputes.
Storing Your Personal Information
We only store and maintain Your Personal Information for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected. For example, if You are one of our valued Customers and have created a Customer Account with us, we store Your Personal Information for as long as your account remains active. We delete Your Personal Information when You delete Your account, with the exception of any information that we are legally required to maintain longer.
Links to Other Websites
This Website contains links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by Buzz. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other websites. Please be advised that the terms of this Policy do not apply to these outside websites or to any collection of data after You click on links to such outside websites.
We Do Not Sell Your Personal Information
We do not sell, lease, rent, or transfer Your Personal Information to third parties for monetary or other consideration. Mobile information will not be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes. We only use Your Personal Information to provide our services to You. We do not share Your Personal Information for cross-contextual advertising.
Children’s Personal Information
Our Website and Services are not directed to or intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect or use any Personal Information from users of our Website who are under the age of 16. If we learn that we have collected Personal Information from an individual who is under 16 years of age, we will take steps to delete the Personal Information as soon as possible.
Do Not Track Settings
Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a browser setting that requests websites not to track Your browsing activity. Because DNT is not currently widely adopted and no consistent standards exist for how websites should respond to such signals, we do not currently respond to DNT requests.
Changes To This Policy
Any changes to this Policy will be posted directly on our Website and reflected with a new Last Revised date at the top of the Policy. We encourage You to review this Policy each time You visit our Website to stay informed about any updates.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us at info@buzzflow.ai.