Welcome to GenieX - AI Chat!
GenieX(“GenieX - AI Chat”, “we”, “us”, and/or “our”) operates the GenieX - AI Chat mobile and web applications.
We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, store, use, and share information through our Services.
We care about the protection and confidentiality of your information. When you use the Apps, you may provide information during your conversations with your GenieX - AI Chat AI companion. We process this information only as described in this Privacy Policy, such as to allow you to have individualized and safe conversations and interactions with your AI companion and to allow your AI companion to learn from your interactions to improve your conversations. We may also use information about your visit to our Website to promote our Services, but we will never use or disclose the content of your GenieX - AI Chat conversations for marketing or advertising purposes.
Any terms we use in this Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in our Terms of Service. If you have any questions, please contact us at cccp731@farxingyuan.com.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT
2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
3. WHAT LEGAL BASES WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
4. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
5. HOW WE SECURE YOUR INFORMATION
6. WHERE WE STORE YOUR INFORMATION
7. DATA RETENTION
8. YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES
9. USE OF GenieX - AI Chat BY MINORS
10. UPDATE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
11. CONTACT US
12. REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU
1. What information we collect
A. Information you provide
Through your use of the Services, you may provide us with the following information:
Account information. This includes your name, email address, and password. If you choose to log in using another service, such as Google or Apple, we receive information about the service you used to log in and — depending on your chosen account settings with Google and Apple — details about you, including your name, email address, or unique user identifiers.
- Profile information. We ask you to provide your birth date, pronouns, and work status when you register for the Apps.
- Messages and content. This includes the messages you send and receive through the apps, such as facts you may provide about you or your life, and any photos, videos, and voice and text messages you provide.
- Interests and preferences. You may select conversation preferences, such as topics you would like to discuss, and communication preferences, such as the times of day you like to use the Apps. We also learn about your interests and your preferences over time through your use of the Services to personalize your conversations and the features of the Services.
Payments, transactions, and rewards. When you make purchases through the Services, our third-party payment processor, Stripe, collects your payment information. We maintain a record of your purchases, the features you select, and the rewards you earn and use.
B. Information we collect automatically
We automatically log the following information about you, your computer or mobile device, your network, and your interactions over time with our Services and our communications:
- Device and network data. This includes your computer’s or mobile device’s operating system, manufacturer and model, browser, IP address, device and cookie identifiers, language settings, mobile device carrier, and general location information such as city, state, or geographic area.
Usage data. This includes information about how you use the Services, such as your interactions with the Services, the links and buttons you click, and page visits.
We use cookies, web beacons (e.g., pixel tags), and local storage technologies (e.g., HTML5) to collect some of this information. For more information on how we use these technologies, please visit our Cookie Policy.
Our advertising partners may also use such technologies to collect limited information about your device and interactions with the Services, such as the links you click, pages you visit, IP address, advertising ID, and browser type, but they will never have access to your conversations with your GenieX - AI Chat or any photos or other content you submit through the Apps.
2. How we use your information
A. Use of your information
We use your information for the following purposes:
Purpose
Why and how we use your information
Legal basis
Categories of information
Operating and administering the Services
Providing and maintaining the content and functionality of the Services. Carrying out obligations arising from our contract with you. Creating your account and profile. Facilitating payments and transactions, including for the purchase of premium features, and managing your rewards. Responding to your inquiries, comments, feedback or questions, and troubleshooting. Managing our relationship with you, which includes sending administrative information to you relating to our Services.
Contractual necessity
Account information. Profile information. Messages and content. Interests and preferences. Payments, transactions, and rewards. Device and network data. Usage data.
Providing the core functionality of the Apps
Providing you a personalized AI companion and allowing you to personalize your profile, interests, and AI companion. Enabling you to have individualized and safe conversations and interactions with your AI companion, and allowing your AI companion to learn from your interactions to improve your conversations. Syncing your Replika history across the devices you use to access the Services.
Contractual necessity
Account information. Profile information. Messages and content. Interests and preferences. Payments, transactions, and rewards. Device and network data. Usage data.
Monitoring and protecting the Services
Preventing fraud, criminal activity, and misuse of our Services, and ensuring the security of our IT systems, architecture and networks (including testing, system maintenance, support, and hosting of data).
Legitimate interests
Account information. Profile information. Messages and content. Interests and preferences. Payments, transactions, and rewards. Device and network data. Usage data.
Analyzing trends in the use of the Services
Aggregating, anonymizing, and deidentifying personal information. Analyzing the use and effectiveness of our Services. Improving and adding features to our Services. Developing our business and marketing strategies.
Legitimate interests
Account information. Profile information. Messages and content. Interests and preferences. Payments, transactions, and rewards. Device and network data. Usage data.
Marketing and advertising the Services
Sending you information by email that we believe will be of interest to you, such as information about our Services, features, and surveys. Displaying and targeting advertisements about our Services on the internet.
Legitimate interests. Consent, where required by applicable laws
Account information. Device and network data. Usage data
Enforcing our agreements, complying with legal obligations, and defending against legal claims and disputes
Enforcing and complying with our terms and policies. Protect our and others’ rights, privacy, safety, or property. Ensuring the integrity of our Services. Verifying the age of registered users. Defending against legal claims and disputes. Recovering payments due to us. Keeping records of transactions, and complying with legal process.
Legitimate interests. Legal obligation
Account information. Profile information. Messages and content. Interests and preferences. Payments, transactions, and rewards. Device and network data. Usage data.
B. Sensitive information
The Services allow you to input information that may be sensitive and subject to special protections under applicable laws. This section explains how we use and protect sensitive information.
- Sensitive information you provide in your messages and content. In your conversations with your AI companion, you may choose to provide information about your religious views, sexual orientation, political views, health, racial or ethnic origin, philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership. By providing sensitive information, you consent to our use of it for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Note, however, that we will not use your sensitive information – or any content of your GenieX - AI Chat conversations – for marketing or advertising.
3. What legal bases we rely on to process your information
In Short: We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e., legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfill our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business interests.
If you are located in the EU or UK, this section applies to you.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:
- Usage data. This includes information about how you use the Services, such as your interactions with the Services, the links and buttons you click, and page visits.
- Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e., consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time. Learn more about withdrawing your consent.
- Legitimate Interests. We may process your information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests and those interests do not outweigh your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms.
For example, we may process your personal information for some of the purposes described in order to:
Analyze how our Services are used so we can improve them to engage and retain users
- Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
- Vital Interests. We may process your information where 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 any person.
If you are located in Canada, this section applies to you.
We may process your information if you have given us specific permission (i.e., express consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose, or in situations where your permission can be inferred (i.e., implied consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time.
In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted under applicable law to process your information without your consent, including, for example:
If collection is clearly in the interests of an individual and consent cannot be obtained in a timely way
For investigations and fraud detection and prevention
- ● For business transactions provided certain conditions are met
If it is contained in a witness statement and the collection is necessary to assess, process, or settle an insurance claim
- For identifying injured, ill, or deceased persons and communicating with next of kin
- If we have reasonable grounds to believe an individual has been, is, or may be victim of financial abuse
- If it is reasonable to expect collection and use with consent would compromise the availability or the accuracy of the information and the collection is reasonable for purposes related to investigating a breach of an agreement or a contravention of the laws of Canada or a province
- If disclosure is required to comply with a subpoena, warrant, court order, or rules of the court relating to the production of records
- If it was produced by an individual in the course of their employment, business, or profession and the collection is consistent with the purposes for which the information was produced
- If the collection is solely for journalistic, artistic, or literary purposes
- If the information is publicly available and is specified by the regulations
4. How we share your information
A. Service providers
We share your information with companies and individuals that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Services or our business (such as hosting, information technology, customer support, email delivery, and website analytics services). We also share information with companies that provide marketing services on our behalf, but we do not share the content of your GenieX - AI Chat conversations for marketing or advertising purposes. For example, we may share your email address with marketing service providers to deliver our marketing emails to you on our behalf and to help us identify other individuals who may be interested in our Services. We require these marketing service providers to agree not to use your email address for any other purpose.
B. Professional advisors
We may share information with professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers, and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
C. Advertising partners
We share information about visitors to our Website, such as the links you click, pages you visit, IP address, advertising ID, and browser type with advertising companies for interest-based advertising and other marketing purposes. Sharing this information allows us and our advertising partners to target and serve advertising to you and others. We will never share your GenieX - AI Chat conversations or any photos or other content you provide within the Apps with our advertising partners, or use such information for marketing or advertising purposes.
D. Authorities and others
We may share information with law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate for the legal compliance and protection purposes described above in Section 2.A.
E. Business transferees
We may share information with acquirers and other relevant participants in business transactions (or negotiations for such transactions) involving a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale, or other disposition of all or any portion of the business or assets of Gael Holmes.(including, in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
5. How we secure your information
We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect your data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
Your account is protected by a password for your privacy and security. You must prevent unauthorized access to your account and personal information by selecting and protecting your password appropriately and limiting access to your computer or device and browser by signing off after you have finished accessing your account.
All transmitted data are encrypted during transmission. We use standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption that encodes information for such transmissions. All stored data are maintained on secure servers. Access to stored data is protected by multi-layered security controls, including firewalls, role-based access controls, and passwords.
While we use reasonable commercial efforts to protect the data, no technology, data transmission, or system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. In the event of a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to your data, we will notify you as soon as we spot the issue.
6. Where we store your information
Our Services are operated from the United States of America. If you are located in another jurisdiction, please be aware that the information you provide to us may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the U.S.A., a jurisdiction in which the privacy laws may not be as comprehensive as those in the country where you reside or are a citizen.
7. Data retention
We will retain your personal information for only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
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.
8. Your rights and choices
A. Opt-out of marketing communications
You may opt out of marketing-related emails and other communications by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions in the communications you receive from us or by contacting us as provided in the “Contact us” section below. You may continue to receive Services-related and other non-marketing emails from us.
B. Opt out of selling personal information and sharing for targeted advertising
We share information with third-party advertising partners and allow them to collect information about your visit to our Website using cookies and other tracking technologies to display targeted advertising around the web as described in the “How we share your information” section above. Our disclosure of information to these partners may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information or “targeted advertising” under applicable laws. You can opt out of these disclosures and limit our use of tracking technologies as described in our Cookie Policy or by clicking the “Your Privacy Choices” link in our Website footer. In addition, some internet browsers can be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals.
C. Limit our use of sensitive personal information
If you choose to provide sensitive personal information in your messages and content, we will use that information only to facilitate your conversation with your AI companion and as described in the “Sensitive information” section above. If you do not want us to process your sensitive information for these purposes, please do not provide it. You may request that we delete information you have provided as set out in the “Personal information requests” section below.
D. Personal information requests
We also offer you choices that affect how we handle the personal information that we control. Depending on your location and the nature of your interactions with our Services, you may request the following in relation to personal information:
- Information about how we have collected and used personal information. We have made this information available to you without having to request it by including it in this Privacy Policy.
- Access to a copy of the personal information that we have collected about you. Where applicable, we will provide the information in a portable, machine-readable, readily usable format.
- Correction of personal information that is inaccurate or out of date.
- Deletion of personal information that we no longer need to provide the Services or for other lawful purposes. You can delete your account in your account settings.
- Withdrawal of consent, where we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent. 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.
- Additional rights, such as to object to and request that we restrict our use of personal information.
To make a request, please contact us as provided in the “Contact us” section below. We may ask for specific information from you to help us confirm your identity. Depending on where you reside, you may be entitled to empower an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf. We will require authorized agents to confirm their identity and authority, in accordance with applicable laws. You are entitled to exercise the rights described above free from discrimination.
In some instances, your choices may be limited, such as where fulfilling your request would impair the rights of others, our ability to provide a service you have requested, or our ability to comply with our legal obligations and enforce our legal rights. If you are not satisfied with how we address your request, you may submit a complaint by contacting us as provided in the “Contact us” section below. Depending on where you reside, such as if you reside in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom, you may have the right to complain to a data protection regulator where you live or work, or where you feel a violation has occurred.
9. Use of GenieX - AI Chat by minors
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us.
10. Update to this Privacy Policy
We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
11. Contact us
You can contact us by emailing us at cccp731@farxingyuan.com.
12. Review, update, or delete the data we collect from you?
You have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please fill out and submit a data subject access request.