Privacy Policy for Staites

1. Introduction

Welcome to Staites ("Application", "Service", "we", "us", "our"). Staites is an application designed to help users track their decisions and analyze patterns in their intuition, potentially correlating them with mood, weather, and other contextual factors.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our Application. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the Application.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect via the Application includes:

a. Personal Data You Provide to Us

• Account Information: When you register for an account, we may collect your email address to be used as a login credential.
• User-Generated Content: This includes information you provide when using the Application, such as:
  • Details of decisions you are tracking (e.g., question text, options).
  • Your selected options and decision outcomes.
  • Contextual information you voluntarily provide, such as your mood, company you are with, substances consumed, perceived influence on your decision, and any other notes or tags.
  • Location data if you explicitly grant permission for its collection.
  • Weather data, which may be fetched based on your provided location or a general location.

b. Automatically Collected Information

When you access and use the Application, we may automatically collect certain information, which may include:

• Log and Usage Data: Our servers may automatically collect information when you access the Application, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Application. This is standard for most web services and is used for troubleshooting and service maintenance.
• Device Data: Information about your computer or mobile device, such as your device model, operating system version, and unique device identifiers (if applicable).
• Cookies and Similar Technologies: We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to help customize the Application and improve your experience. For now, these are primarily used for session management and core application functionality. (Detailed cookie policy would be separate if extensive tracking/analytics cookies were used).

3. How We Use Your Information

Having accurate information permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Application to:

• Create and manage your account.
• Provide the core services of Staites, allowing you to record, track, and analyze your decisions and related contextual factors.
• Display historical data and generate statistics and visualizations based on your inputs.
• Improve the Application's functionality, performance, and user interface.
• Personalize your user experience (e.g., by remembering preferences, though this is minimal currently).
• Communicate with you regarding your account or important updates to the Application.
• Respond to your comments, questions, and provide customer support.
• Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve the Application.
• Ensure the security and integrity of our Application and services.
• Comply with legal obligations.

4. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell your personal information. We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:

• By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
• Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, service contractors, and other third parties who perform services for us or on our behalf (e.g., cloud hosting providers for data storage like Supabase). These service providers will be given access to your information as is reasonably necessary to provide the service and will be bound by confidentiality obligations.
• Aggregated or Anonymized Data: We may share aggregated or anonymized information that does not directly identify you. For example, we might publish statistics about general usage patterns of the Application.
• Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, your information may be transferred. We will notify you before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
• With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

5. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, or as long as your account is active. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

You may request deletion of your account and associated data, subject to our legal obligations and technical limitations.

6. Data Security

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. Any information disclosed online is vulnerable to interception and misuse by unauthorized parties. Therefore, we cannot guarantee complete security if you provide personal information.

7. User Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These may include the right to:

• Access: Request access to the personal information we hold about you.
• Correction: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
• Deletion: Request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain conditions.
• Restrict Processing: Request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
• Data Portability: Request a copy of your data in a machine-readable format.
• Object to Processing: Object to our processing of your personal information.

To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below. We may need to verify your identity before responding to your request. We are working on providing tools within the application (e.g., account settings, data export features) to help you manage your data directly.

8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Application to help customize the Service and improve your experience. Currently, our use of cookies is primarily for essential functionalities such as session management (e.g., keeping you logged in).

As the Application evolves, we may integrate analytics or other services that use cookies. We will update this section and our cookie policy accordingly. You are generally able to manage cookie preferences through your browser settings.

9. Children's Privacy

Our Application is not intended for use by children under the age of 13 (or a higher age threshold as required by applicable law in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under this age. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the specified age without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under the specified age, please contact us.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this 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. 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. Your continued use of the Application after any modification to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such modification.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

contact@example-staites.com

[Your Business Name, if applicable]

[Your Business Address, if applicable]