Privacy Policy
Effective Date: March 22, 2025
Last Updated: March 24, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how aithinking.org collects, uses, and shares personal information of users of our website, www.aithinking.org (the "Site"), and any related services (collectively, the "Services"). This policy applies to all users, including those in the United States and the European Economic Area (EEA).
1. Information We Collect
We collect information in the following ways:
1.1 Information You Provide Directly:
* Account Information: When you create an account, we may collect your name, email address, username, password, and other information you provide.
* Contact Information: When you contact us (e.g., through a contact form, email, or customer support), we collect your name, email address, phone number (if provided), and the content of your communication.
* Payment Information: If you make a purchase, we collect your payment card details (processed through a secure third-party payment processor – see Section 5), billing address, and purchase history. We do *not* store your full payment card details on our servers.
* Consultation Information: If you participate in a consultation, we may collect information about your business, needs, and goals.
* Other information: Other information you provide, such as ratings or reviews.
1.2 Information Collected Automatically:
* Log Data: Our servers automatically record information ("Log Data") created by your use of the Services. Log Data may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, location, your mobile carrier, device information (including device and application IDs), search terms, and cookie information.
* Cookies and Similar Technologies: We use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., web beacons, pixels) to collect information about your activity, browser, and device. See Section 6 (Cookies and Similar Technologies) for more details.
* Usage Data: We collect information about how you use our Services, such as the types of content you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, and the time, frequency, and duration of your activities.
1.3 Information from Third Parties:
* Third-Party Integrations: If you choose to connect your account to third-party services (e.g., social media platforms, AI tool providers), we may receive information from those services, as permitted by your privacy settings on those services and their privacy policies. *Specifically list the services you integrate with (e.g., "Google Analytics," "Facebook Connect," "Stripe," "Specific AI Tool APIs").*
* Affiliate Partners: Our affiliate partners may share details from your usage of their services, such as specific usage data.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use your information for the following purposes:
* Provide and Maintain the Services: To operate, maintain, and improve our Services; to manage your account; and to provide customer support.
* Personalize Your Experience: To tailor content, recommendations, and features based on your interests and activity.
* Communicate with You: To send you service-related notices (e.g., account verification, changes/updates to features of the Services, technical and security notices), marketing communications (where permitted by law and with your consent where required), and respond to your inquiries.
* Process Transactions: To process your payments and fulfill your orders.
* Analytics and Improvement: To understand how our Services are used, monitor usage patterns, diagnose technical problems, and improve the Services.
* Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or governmental requests; to enforce our Terms of Service; to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others; and to detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues.
* Affiliate Information:: To track affiliate referrals and pay affiliate commisions.
3. Legal Basis for Processing (for EEA Users)
If you are in the EEA, we collect and process information about you only where we have a legal basis for doing so under applicable EU laws. The legal bases depend on the Services you use and how you use them. This means we collect and use your information only where:
* We need it to provide you the Services, including to operate the Services, provide customer support and personalized features, and to protect the safety and security of the Services;
* It satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as for research and development, to market and promote the Services, and to protect our legal rights and interests;
* You give us consent to do so for a specific purpose; or
* We need to process your data to comply with a legal obligation.
If you have consented to our use of information about you for a specific purpose, you have the right to change your mind at any time, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place. Where we are using your information because we or a third party have a legitimate interest to do so, you have the right to object to that use though, in some cases, this may mean no longer using the Services.
4. How We Share Your Information
We may share your information as follows:
* With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties when you have given us your explicit consent to do so.
* Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance. These service providers are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us. *Specifically list major categories of service providers (e.g., "cloud hosting providers," "payment processors," "email marketing platforms").*
* Affiliate Partners: We may share your information with our affiliate partners when we refer you to them. We will identify these partners when we collect the relevant information.
* Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, your information may be sold or transferred as part of such a transaction, as permitted by law and/or contract.
* Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation, (ii) protect and defend our rights or property, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Services or the public, or (iv) protect against legal liability.
* Aggregated or De-identified Data: We may share aggregated or de-identified information, which cannot reasonably be used to identify you.
5. Third-Party Payment Processor
We use Stripe for payment processing. We do not store your credit card details. Your payment information is processed securely by Stripe. You can find their privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.
6. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your activity, browser, and device. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your device. We use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your device until you delete them or they expire). We use the following types of cookies:
* Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the Site to function properly. They enable you to navigate the Site and use its features.
* Performance/Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how you use the Site, such as which pages you visit most often. We use this information to improve the Site and your experience. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. You can learn more about Google Analytics and how to opt out here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
* Functionality Cookies: These cookies allow the Site to remember choices you make (such as your username or language) and provide enhanced, more personal features.
* Targeting/Advertising Cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests. They may also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns. We may use third-party advertising networks to deliver these advertisements.
You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. However, blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including ours. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
7. Your Rights and Choices
7.1 General Rights
You have certain rights regarding your personal information, subject to local data protection laws. These may include the following rights:
* to access your personal Information held by us (right to access);
* to rectify inaccurate personal Information and, taking into account the purpose of processing the personal Information, ensure it is complete (right to rectification);
* to erase/delete your personal Information, to the extent permitted by applicable data protection laws (right to erasure; right to be forgotten);
* to restrict our processing of your personal Information to the extent permitted by law (right to restriction of processing);
* to transfer your personal Information to another controller, to the extent possible (right to data portability);
* to object to any processing of your personal Information carried out on the basis of our legitimate interests (right to object). Where we process your personal Information for direct marketing purposes or share it with third parties for their own direct marketing purposes, you can exercise your right to object at any time to such processing without having to provide any specific reason for such objection;
* not to be subject to any automated decision-making that produces legal effects on you or similarly significantly affects you and to obtain human intervention in such an automated decision-making process; and
* to the extent we base the collection, processing and sharing of your personal Information on your consent, to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on such consent before its withdrawal.
7.2 EEA-Specific Rights:
If you are located in the EEA, you have the following additional rights:
* The right to access, correct, update, or request deletion of your personal information.
* The right to object to the processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information, or request portability of your personal information.
* The right to opt-out of marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the "unsubscribe" or "opt-out" link in the marketing emails we send you.
* If we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
* The right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.
7.3 California-Specific Rights (CCPA/CPRA):
If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA):
* Right to Know: You have the right to request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, as well as the categories of sources from which such information is collected, the purpose for collecting such information, and the categories of third parties with whom we share such information.
* Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
* Right to Correct: You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
* Right to Opt-Out of Sale or Sharing: You have the right to opt-out of the "sale" or "sharing" of your personal information, as those terms are defined under California law. We do not sell your data. We do share with affilate programs. If you would like to opt-out of the sharing of your data, you can select the "Do Not Share My Personal Information," link in the footer.
* Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: You have the right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information (as defined under California law) to only that which is necessary to provide the Services.
* Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights.
To exercise your rights under CCPA or CPRA, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by [Explain how to submit a request – e.g., email address, online form, phone number]. We will respond to your request within the timeframe required by law.
We have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
* Identifiers (Name, Email, Phone Number, IP address)
* Customer Records (Billing information, purchase history)
* Commercial Information (Products purchased, services considered)
* Internet Activity (Browsing history, interactions with our site)
* Geolocation Data (IP-based location)
*Inferences (drawn from other information to create a profile)
[If applicable, list any categories of personal information you have "sold" or "shared" (as defined under CCPA/CPRA) in the past 12 months, and the categories of third parties to whom you sold or shared the information.]
8. Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
9. Data Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for fraud prevention purposes. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
10. International Data Transfers
[If you transfer data from the EEA to the US or other countries:] Your information, including personal information, 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 of your jurisdiction. If you are located in the EEA, we will take steps to ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection when transferred outside of the EEA, such as by entering into Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission, or by relying on other approved data transfer mechanisms.
11. Children's Privacy
Our Services are not directed to individuals under the age of [13/16 – choose the appropriate age based on your target audience and applicable laws]. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under [13/16]. If we become aware that a child under [13/16] has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.
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 "Effective Date" at the top of this Privacy Policy. 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, please contact us:
* By email: [Your Email Address]
* By mail: [Your Physical Address]
* By Phone: [Your Phone Number]