At Zed Industries, Inc. ("Zed", "Company" or "we"), we take privacy and the security of data seriously. This Privacy Policy is established to help advise you about how we treat your personal data. By using or accessing our website located at zed.dev, or the Solution or services available pursuant the Zed Terms of Use located at https://zed.dev/terms (collectively, the "Services"), you acknowledge awareness of the practices and policies outlined below, and hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy.
As we grow and expand our Services, we may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. When material modifications are made, we will alert you to any such changes by placing a notice on the Company website, by sending you an email and/or by some other means. Please note that if you've opted not to receive legal notice emails from us (or haven't provided us with a valid email address), those legal notices will still govern your use of the Services. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been published on our website, you consent and agree to all of the changes.
Our Privacy Policy covers how we treat Personal Data that we gather when you access or use our Services. "Personal Data" means information that identifies or relates to a particular individual and includes information referred to as "personally identifiable information" or "personal information" under applicable data privacy laws, rules or regulations. Our Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of companies we don't own or control or people we don't manage.
This chart details the categories of Personal Data that we collect and have collected over the past 12 months:
| Category of personal data | Examples of data we collect | Categories of third parties with whom we share this data |
|---|---|---|
| Profile or contact data | First and last nameEmail addressGitHub username | Cloud infrastructure providers Analytics providers |
| IP data | IP address & derived geolocation data | Cloud infrastructure providers Analytics providers |
| Web analytics | InteractionsReferrerRequest IDsStatistics | Cloud infrastructure providers Analytics providers |
| Photos, videos and recordings | ScreenshotsVideos and video recordings you share with us | Cloud infrastructure providers |
| Audio, screenshare data | Audio and screen sharing during collaboration calls | Cloud infrastructure providers |
Note that "collection" does not necessarily imply long-term storage.
We collect Personal Data about you from the following categories of sources:
We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for materially different, unrelated or incompatible purposes without providing you notice as is described above.
We disclose your Personal Data to categories of service providers and other parties listed in this section. Some of these disclosures may constitute a "sale" of your Personal Data as defined under applicable laws. For more information, please refer to the state-specific sections below.
We may share any Personal Data that we collect with third parties in relation to the activities set forth under "Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms" in the "Our Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data" section above.
Personal Data collected may be transferred to a third party if we undergo a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other transaction in which such third party assumes control of our business (in whole or in part). In such an event, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you before your information becomes subject to different privacy and security policies and practices as authorized or mandated by applicable law.
We may create aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data from the Personal Data we collect, including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to a particular user. We may use such aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze, build and improve the Services and promote our business, provided that we will not share such data in a manner that could identify you.
The Services use cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs and JavaScript (collectively, "Cookies") to enable our servers to recognize your web browser, tell us how and when you visit and use our Services, analyze trends, learn about our user base and operate and improve our Services. Cookies are small pieces of data– usually text files – placed on your computer, tablet, phone or similar device when you use that device to access our Services. We may also supplement the information we collect from you with information received from third parties, including third parties that have placed their own Cookies on your device(s).
You can decide whether or not to accept Cookies through your internet browser's settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new Cookie in a variety of ways. You can also delete all Cookies that are already on your device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our website and some of the Services and functionalities may not work.
To find out more information about Cookies generally, including information about how to manage and delete Cookies, please visit https://allaboutcookies.org/ or https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/ if you are located in the European Union.
We endeavor to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures based on our Services,the type of Personal Data being collected and how we are processing that data. You should also help protect your data by selecting and protecting your password and/or other sign-on mechanism(s) with care; limiting access to your computer or device and browser; and signing off after you have finished accessing your account. Although we work to protect the security of your account and other data that we hold in our records, be aware that no method of transmitting data over the internet or storing data is completely secure.
We retain Personal Data about you for as long as reasonably necessary to provide you with our Services or otherwise in support of our business or commercial purposes for utilization of your Personal Data, as expressed. When establishing a retention period for particular categories of data, we consider who we collected the data from, our need for the Personal Data, why we collected the Personal Data, and the sensitivity of the Personal Data. In some cases we retain Personal Data for a longer period, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or as is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule or regulation. We may further retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form where such information would not identify you personally.
For example:
It's worth noting that we avoid retaining data unless necessary to provide our Service. For example:
We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data from children under 13 years of age; if you are a child under the age of 13, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use the Services or send us any Personal Data. If we learn we have collected Personal Data from a child under 13 years of age, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 13 years of age may have provided Personal Data to us, please contact us at [email protected].
If you are a California resident, you have the rights set forth in this section. Please see the "Exercising Your Rights" section below for instructions regarding how to exercise these rights. Please note that we may process Personal Data of our customers' end users or employees in connection with our provision of certain services to our customers. If we are processing your Personal Data as a service provider, you may contact the entity that collected your Personal Data in the first instance to address your rights with respect to such data as desired.
If there are any conflicts between this section and any other provision of this Privacy Policy and you are a California resident, the portion that is more protective of Personal Data shall control to the extent of such conflict. If you have any questions about this section or whether any of the following rights apply to you, please contact us at [email protected].
You have the right to request certain information about our collection and use of your Personal Data over the past 12 months. In response, we will provide you with the following information:
You have the right to request that we delete the Personal Data that we have collected about you. Under the CCPA, this right is subject to certain exceptions: for e.g., we may need to retain your Personal Data to provide you with the Services or complete a transaction or other action you may have requested, or if deletion of your Personal Data involves disproportionate effort to achieve. If your deletion request is subject to one of these exceptions, we may deny your deletion request to such data.
You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate Personal Data we have collected about you. Under the CCPA, this right is subject to certain exceptions: for example, if we reasonably decide, based on the totality of circumstances related to your Personal Data, that such data is correct. If your correction request is subject to one of these CCPA exceptions, we may deny your request to correct such data.
Consumers have certain rights over the processing of their sensitive information. However, we do not intentionally collect sensitive categories of personal information, but it is possible to share sensitive information with us through your use of the Services. It is your responsibility not to share any such sensitive information when you use the Services.
We will not sell your Personal Data, and have not done so over the last 12 months. To our knowledge, we do not sell the Personal Data of minors under 16 years of age. Under the CCPA, California residents have certain rights when a business "shares" Personal Data with third parties for purposes of cross-contextual behavioral advertising. We have shared the foregoing categories of Personal Data for the purposes of cross-contextual behavioral advertising, as applicable.
Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to contact us to prevent disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for such third parties' direct marketing purposes; in order to submit such a request, please contact us at [email protected].
Your browser may offer you a "Do Not Track" option, which allows you to signal to operators of websites and web applications and services that you do not wish such operators to track certain of your online activities over time and across different websites. Our Services do not support Do Not Track requests at this time. To find out more about "Do Not Track," you can visit www.allaboutdnt.com.
To exercise the rights described in this Privacy Policy, you or, if you are a California resident, your Authorized Agent (as defined below) can send us a request that (1) provides sufficient information to allow us to adequately verify that you are the person about whom we have collected Personal Data, and (2) describes your request in sufficient detail to allow us to understand, evaluate and respond ( a "Valid Request"). We are not obligated to respond to requests that do not meet these criteria. We will only use Personal Data provided in a Valid Request to verify your identity and complete your request.
We are committed to respond to Valid Requests within the time frame required by applicable law. We will not charge you a fee for making a Valid Request unless your Valid Request(s) is excessive, repetitive or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that your Valid Request warrants a fee, we will notify you of the fee and explain that decision before completing your request.
You may submit a Valid Request using the following methods:
If you are a California resident, you may also authorize an agent (an "Authorized Agent") to exercise your rights on your behalf.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under applicable data protection laws. We will not deny you our goods or services, charge you different prices or rates, or provide you a lower quality of goods and services if you exercise your rights under applicable law. However, we may offer different tiers of our Services, as allowed by applicable law, with varying prices, rates or levels of quality of the goods or services you receive related to the value of Personal Data that we receive from you.
If you are a resident of the European Union ("EU"), United Kingdom ("UK"), Lichtenstein, Norway or Iceland, you may have additional rights under the EU or UK General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR") with respect to your Personal Data, as outlined below. We use the terms "Personal Data" and "processing" as they are defined in the GDPR in this section, but "Personal Data" generally means information that can be used to individually identify a person, and "processing" generally covers actions that can be performed in connection with data such as collection, use, storage and disclosure. Company will be the controller of your Personal Data processed in connection with the Services. If there are any conflicts between this section and any other provision of this Privacy Policy, the policy or portion that is more protective of Personal Data shall control to the extent of such conflict. If you have any questions about this section or whether any of the following applies to you, please contact us at [email protected]. Note that we may also process Personal Data of our customers' end users or employees in connection with our provision of certain services to you, in which case we are the processor of Personal Data. If we are the processor of your Personal Data, please contact the controller party in the first instance to address your rights with respect to such data.
The "Categories of Personal Data We Collect" section above details the Personal Data that we collect from you.
The "Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data" section above explains how we use your Personal Data.
We will only process your Personal Data if we have a lawful basis for doing so. Lawful bases for processing include consent, contractual necessity and our "legitimate interests" or the legitimate interest of others, as further described below.
The "How We Share Your Personal Data" section above details how we share your Personal Data with third parties.
For more information about these EU or UK personal data terms and your rights related thereto, or to submit a request for information, please email us at [email protected]. Please note that in some circumstances, we may not be able to fully comply with your request, such as if it is frivolous or impractical, if it jeopardizes the rights of others, or if it is not required by law, but, in those circumstances, we are committed to respond to notify you of such a decision regardless. In some cases, we may also need you to provide us with additional information, which may include Personal Data, if necessary to verify your identity and the nature of your request.
The Services are hosted and operated in the United States ("U.S.") through Company and its service providers. By using the Services, you acknowledge that any Personal Data about you is being provided to Company in the U.S. and will be hosted on U.S. servers, and you authorize Company to transfer, store and process your information to and in the U.S., and possibly other countries. In some circumstances, your Personal Data may be transferred to the U.S. pursuant to a data processing agreement incorporating legally required data protection clauses.
If you have additional questions about this Privacy Policy, the methods in which we collect and use your Personal Data or your choices and rights regarding such collection and use, please do not hesitate to contact us at:
DATE: September 1, 2024