Privacy Policy

Last Updated: April 5, 2025

At dots.ai, we understand the importance of your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or use our pre-launch services.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using our website and services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all the terms outlined in this policy.

1. Information We Collect

1.1 Information You Provide to Us

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:

  • Fill out forms on our website (such as contact or early access sign-up forms)
  • Correspond with us via email
  • Request information or assistance
  • Provide feedback

This information may include:

  • Personal identifiers (such as your name and email address)
  • Professional or employment-related information (such as your company name)
  • Communications and correspondence you have with us

1.2 Information Automatically Collected

When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and your interaction with our website, including:

  • Log and usage data (such as IP address, browser type, operating system, referring webpage, pages visited, and time and date of visits)
  • Device information (such as hardware model, operating system version, and unique device identifiers)
  • Browser data stored in local storage and cookies

1.3 Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect and store information when you use our website. Cookies are small data files that are placed on your device. We use these technologies to:

  • Remember your preferences and settings
  • Understand how you interact with our website
  • Analyze and improve our website's performance
  • Protect our website from malicious activity

You can control cookies through your browser settings. However, if you block certain cookies, you may not be able to use all the features of our website.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:

  • Provide, maintain, and improve our website and services
  • Process and respond to your inquiries, feedback, and requests for information or support
  • Communicate with you about our services, including updates, security alerts, and support messages
  • Send you notifications about our product launch and early access programs
  • Analyze usage patterns and trends to improve user experience and optimize our website
  • Detect, prevent, and address technical issues and security risks
  • Comply with legal obligations and enforce our terms and policies

2.1 Legal Bases for Processing (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), we process your personal data on the following legal bases:

  • Consent: We process certain data based on your explicit consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
  • Contractual Necessity: Processing is necessary to provide you with our services or respond to your requests.
  • Legitimate Interests: We process data when it is in our legitimate interests to do so and when these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights.
  • Legal Obligations: We may process your data to comply with a legal obligation.

2.2 AI and Pattern Recognition Technologies

As an AI visualization and pattern recognition platform, we want to be transparent about our use of these technologies. During our pre-launch phase, we do not use any personal data for training or testing our AI systems. Should this change in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy and, where required, obtain appropriate consents.

3. Information Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information with third parties for their marketing purposes. We may share your information in the following circumstances:

3.1 Service Providers

We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us, such as email delivery, hosting services, and customer service. These third parties have access to your personal information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

3.2 Legal Requirements

We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).

3.3 Business Transfers

If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information.

3.4 With Your Consent

We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

4. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the security of your personal information. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

Our security measures include:

  • Encryption of data in transit using TLS
  • Regular security assessments
  • Limited access to personal information to authorized personnel only
  • Physical and electronic safeguards

While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us by contacting us at [email protected].

5. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information:

5.1 Rights for EEA, UK, and Swiss Residents (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have the following rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

  • Right to Access: You have the right to request information about whether we process your personal data and to obtain a copy of that data.
  • Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data concerning you.
  • Right to Erasure: You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data in certain circumstances.
  • Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
  • Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that data to another controller.
  • Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
  • Right to Not Be Subject to Automated Decision-Making: You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing that produces legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.

5.2 Rights for California Residents (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, the categories of sources from which we collected the information, our purposes for collecting the information, and the categories of third parties with whom we have shared the 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 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. We do not sell or share your personal information as defined by the CCPA/CPRA.
  • Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information: You have the right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information collected about you. We do not currently collect sensitive personal information as defined by the CCPA/CPRA.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your CCPA/CPRA rights.

5.3 Rights for Virginia Residents (VCDPA)

If you are a Virginia resident, you have the following rights under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA):

  • Right to Access: You have the right to confirm whether we are processing your personal data and to access such personal data.
  • Right to Correct: You have the right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data.
  • Right to Delete: You have the right to request that we delete personal data provided by or obtained about you.
  • Right to Data Portability: You have the right to obtain a copy of your personal data in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format.
  • Right to Opt-Out: You have the right to opt out of the processing of your personal data for purposes of targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.

5.4 Exercising Your Rights

To exercise your rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We will respond to your request within the timeframe required by applicable law.

Before fulfilling your request, we may require you to provide certain information to verify your identity. This is a security measure to ensure that personal information is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.

You may also authorize an agent to submit a request on your behalf, provided that you have provided the authorized agent with written permission to do so, and the agent can verify their identity with us.

6. Children's Privacy

Our website and services are not directed to individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please contact us at [email protected]. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from children without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

7. 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 of this page.

For significant changes that materially alter your rights or our obligations, we will provide a more prominent notice, which may include email notification (if we have your email address).

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.

8. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

Email: [email protected]