Effective Date: October 13, 2023
This Privacy Policy (the "Policy") applies to the website accessible at www.datagpt.com and www.comparative.ai (the "Website") owned and operated by Comparative, Inc., d/b/a DataGPT ("Comparative," "we," "our," or "us"), a provider of business intelligence data analytics software and solutions for businesses.
Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting the personal information you provide when you visit our Website and in e-mail and other electronic messages between you and the Website. This Policy describes the types of information we collect, how we use it, and with whom we may share it.
It does not apply to information collected by:
By using our Website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our collection, use, and disclosure of your information as described herein. If you do not agree with these terms, please do not use our Website.
Information We Collect
How We Use Your Information
Sharing Your Information
Data Retention and Security
Third-Party Websites
Changes to This Privacy Policy
International Users
Do Not Track
California Privacy Rights
Governing Law
Contact Us
Severability
No Waiver
Language
Data Breach Notification
Opt-Out and Unsubscribe
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Accessibility
Data Protection Impact Assessment
Third-Party Data Processors
Privacy by Design
Consent Withdrawal
Automated Decision-Making
Pseudonymization and Anonymization
Privacy Shield Framework
Children's Privacy
Links to Third-Party Websites
Your Responsibility for Protecting Your Personal Information
Data Classification and Access Controls
Monitoring and Logging
Vendor and Supplier Management
Cooperation with Data Protection Authorities
Data Portability
Data Subject Rights
Additional Information
We collect information from and about you when you use our Website including the use of Hubspot, which may include:
HubSpot (personally identifiable information):
We collect this information when you voluntarily provide it, for example, when you fill out a contact form, subscribe to our newsletter, or request a demo of our software.
In addition to the information that you provide to us voluntarily, we also collect non-personal information automatically, as you navigate through the Website including through Google Analytics. This data may include:
Google Analytics (default implementation):
Automatically collected events for all platforms:
We collect information from and about you when you use our Website including the use of Posthog, which may include:
The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service.
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we either collect or you provide through the Website as described in this privacy policy and to the extent permissible under applicable law:
We may also disclose your personal information:
We do not sell your personal information to third parties. However, we may share your information in the following limited circumstances:
We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no method of data transmission or storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website. We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected or as required by applicable laws, regulations, or contractual obligations. Thereafter, we will either delete or anonymize your information, or if this is not possible, we will securely store your information and isolate it from any further use until deletion is possible.
Our Website may contain links to third-party websites that are not controlled or operated by Comparative, Inc. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these external websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit in order to understand their data collection, usage, and sharing practices.
We reserve the right to update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect changes in our practices, services, or legal requirements. When we make changes to this Policy, we will update the "Effective Date" at the top of this page. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
If you are visiting our Website from outside of the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States. The data protection and other laws of the United States might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By using our Website, you consent to the transfer of your information to the United States and the use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you are located in the EU or the UK, you may have certain additional rights under the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") or the UK Data Protection Act 2018, such as the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, or object to the processing of your personal data, as well as the right to data portability. For more information about our practices concerning personal data of EU and UK users, please refer to our GDPR Privacy Notice which follows this Privacy Policy.
We currently do not respond to "Do Not Track" signals or similar mechanisms that provide users with the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personally identifiable information about an individual's online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services.
If you are a California resident, you may have certain additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"). These rights include the right to access, delete, and opt-out of the sale of your personal information, as well as the right to not be discriminated against for exercising these rights. To learn more about your California privacy rights, please visit our CCPA Privacy Notice which follows this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy and any disputes related to it are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, United States, without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law. Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of or related to this Privacy Policy or your use of our Website shall be instituted exclusively in the federal or state courts located in San Francisco, California and you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purpose of litigating all such disputes.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Comparative, Inc.
440 N Barranca Ave #7603
Covina, CA 91723 USA
Email: privacy@comparative.ai
If any provision of this Privacy Policy is found to be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this Privacy Policy and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Our failure to exercise or enforce any right or provision of this Privacy Policy shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision.
This Privacy Policy has been prepared in the English language and shall be interpreted in accordance with the English language. Any translation of this Privacy Policy into any other language, if provided, is provided for convenience only, and the English version shall be the binding and controlling version.
In the event of a data breach involving your personal information if such was received through our Website and retained/stored by Comparative, we will notify you and the relevant authorities in accordance with applicable data protection laws, and take appropriate measures to minimize the impact of the breach and prevent future breaches.
In the event of a data breach involving your personal information if such was received through our Website and retained/stored by Comparative, we will notify you and the relevant authorities in accordance with applicable data protection laws, and take appropriate measures to minimize the impact of the breach and prevent future breaches.
We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us. If you wish to unsubscribe from any newsletter or promotional emails, you may do so by following the instructions included in each e-mail or by contacting us at the e-mail address provided in Section 11 above. Please note that even if you unsubscribe, you may still receive transactional or administrative emails from us, such as notifications about your account, software updates, or changes to this Privacy Policy.
Our Website may use cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies to enhance your experience, personalize content and ads, and analyze our Website's performance. Cookies are small text files placed on your device by a website that can be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. You can manage your cookies preferences or disable cookies through your browser settings, but please note that some features of our Website may not function properly without cookies. For more information, please refer to our Cookie Policy which follows this Privacy Policy.
We are committed to making our Website accessible to all users, including individuals with disabilities. If you have any difficulty accessing or using our Website or require assistance, please contact us at the email address provided in Section 11 above, and we will make every effort to accommodate your needs.
We continually assess the potential impact of our data processing activities on the privacy and rights of individuals, especially when implementing new technologies, systems, or processes. Where required, we carry out a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) to ensure that we identify and minimize any risks to your personal information.
We may engage third-party data processors to process your personal information on our behalf. In such cases, we enter into contracts with these processors that require them to provide a level of protection for your personal information that is consistent with this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws. When required, we enter into data processing and confidentiality agreements with our clients, suppliers, and partners to ensure that they comply with this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws when processing personal information on our behalf or when sharing personal information with us.
We implement Privacy by Design principles in our operations, products, and services. This means that we consider privacy risks and data protection requirements from the earliest stages of development and throughout the entire lifecycle of our processes, systems, and technologies.
If you have previously provided your consent to the collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information, you may withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us using the contact information provided in Section 11. Please note that withdrawing your consent may impact your ability to use certain features of our Website or services. We will process your request to withdraw consent as soon as reasonably possible, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
We do not engage in automated decision-making, including profiling, which produces legal effects or similarly significant effects for you. If we introduce any automated decision-making processes, we will update this Privacy Policy to inform you of these changes and provide you with information about your rights.
Where appropriate, we may use pseudonymization or anonymization techniques to protect your personal information. Pseudonymization involves replacing identifying information with artificial identifiers, while anonymization involves removing all identifying information from the data. These techniques help ensure that your personal information is protected and can only be accessed or processed by authorized individuals.
If applicable, we comply with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce. We commit to cooperate with EU data protection authorities (DPAs) and the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) and comply with the advice given by such authorities with regard to human resources data transferred from the EU and Switzerland in the context of the employment relationship.
Our Website is not intended for or directed at children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 16, we will take steps to delete such information from our records. If you believe that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of 16, please contact us using the information provided in Section 11 above.
Our Website may contain links to third-party websites that are not governed by this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit to understand their data collection, use, and sharing practices. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of third-party websites.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your personal information, including any login credentials you use to access our Website or services. Please notify us immediately if you become aware of any unauthorized access to or use of your personal information or login credentials.
We classify the personal information we collect and process based on its sensitivity and the potential impact to individuals if it were to be compromised. We implement access controls to restrict access to your personal information on a need-to-know basis, ensuring that only authorized individuals with a legitimate business purpose can access your personal information.
We monitor and log our data processing activities and systems to detect and prevent unauthorized access, use, disclosure, modification, or destruction of your personal information. Our monitoring and logging procedures help us identify potential security and privacy risks, enabling us to take proactive measures to address these risks and maintain the integrity of your personal information.
We carefully select and evaluate our vendors and suppliers to ensure that they adhere to our high standards of privacy and security. We enter into contracts with these parties that require them to comply with this Privacy Policy and applicable data protection laws when processing personal information on our behalf or when sharing personal information with us.
We cooperate with relevant data protection authorities in the investigation and resolution of any complaints or concerns related to our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy. If you are unsatisfied with our response to your complaint or concern, you may have the right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority.
You may have the right to request a copy of your personal information that we hold in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to have that information transferred to another organization, where technically feasible. To exercise this right, please contact us using the information provided in Section 1 above.
Subject to applicable data protection laws, you may have the right to request access to, rectification or erasure of, restriction of processing, and object to the processing of your personal information. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided in Section 11 above. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe and in accordance with applicable laws.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our data handling practices, or your dealings with our Website, please do not hesitate to contact us using the information provided in Section 1 above. We welcome your questions and feedback and will make every effort to address your concerns.
Thank you for visiting Comparative, Inc.'s website and for taking the time to review our Privacy Policy. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your experience on our Website is a positive one.
Last updated April 01, 2023
This CCPA Privacy Notice ("Notice") supplements the information contained in the Privacy Policy of Comparative, Inc., d/b/a DataGPT ("we," "us," or "our") and applies solely to visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California ("consumers" or "you"). We adopt this Notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA") and other California privacy laws. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Notice.
Information We Collect
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household ("Personal Information").
We have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
A. Identifiers, such as name, postal address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers.
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)), such as physical characteristics or description, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.
C. Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).
D. Commercial information, including records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
E. Biometric information, such as genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.
F. Internet or other similar network activity, such as browsing history, search history, information on a consumer's interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
G. Geolocation data, such as physical location or movements.
H. Sensory data, including audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
I. Professional or employment-related information, such as current or past job history or performance evaluations.
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)), such as education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information, such as a profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, or aptitudes.
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following purposes:
We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purpose:
Identifiers
We disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have not sold personal information.
The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past twelve (12) months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.
We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service providers to:
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by sending an e-mail to us at: privacy@datagpt.com.
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the request.
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily usable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
If you have any questions or concerns about this CCPA Privacy Notice, please contact us using the information provided in our Privacy Policy.
Last Updated: September 19, 2023
This GDPR Privacy Notice ("Notice") explains how Comparative, Inc., d/b/a DataGPT ("we," "us," or "our") processes the personal data of our customers and website visitors located in the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This Notice is supplemental to our Privacy Policy.
Data Controller
Comparative, Inc. is the data controller for the processing of personal data under this Notice. If you have any questions about this Notice or our data processing practices, you can contact us using the following information:
Comparative, Inc. d/b/a DataGPT
440 N Barranca Ave #7603
Covina, CA 91723 USA
Email: privacy@datagpt.com
Comparative, Inc. is committed to protecting the privacy of our users' personal information in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This GDPR Privacy Notice explains our data processing practices and your rights regarding your personal information collected through our website accessible at www.datagpt.com and www.comparative.ai.
We collect and process the following personal data through our website:
We process your personal data based on one or more of the following legal grounds:
We process your personal data for the following purposes:
We retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process your personal data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.
We may share your personal data with our affiliates, service providers, and other third parties for the purposes described in this GDPR Privacy Notice. Some of these recipients may be located outside the European Economic Area (EEA). When transferring personal data outside the EEA, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, such as standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, to protect your personal data.
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
We may update this GDPR Privacy Notice from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the updated notice on our website.
If you have any questions or concerns about this GDPR Privacy Notice, our privacy practices, or your rights under the GDPR, please contact us using the contact details provided in this GDPR Privacy Notice.
Last Updated: September 19, 2023
This Cookie Policy explains how Comparative, Inc., d/b/a DataGPT ("we", "us", or "our") uses cookies and similar tracking technologies on our website accessible at www.datagpt.com and www.comparative.ai. This policy should be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy, which explains how we process personal data.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. They are used to remember your preferences, improve website performance, and collect information about how you interact with the site.
We use the following types of cookies on our website:
You can manage your cookie preferences through your web browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block cookies, delete cookies, or receive a warning before a cookie is stored. Please note that if you choose to block or delete cookies, some features of our website may not function properly.
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the updated policy on our website.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Cookie Policy or our use of cookies, please contact us using the contact details provided in our Privacy Policy.
