We only collect the minimum amount of information necessary to make our interactions with you as meaningful and helpful as possible. We only use the information we collect from you as this Privacy Notice outlines. For more information on StoryArchitect.xyz's privacy practices, please continue reading. 

Privacy Notice

Last updated: February 1, 2023

This Privacy Notice describes how SoCreate Inc. (“StoryArchitect.xyz”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, stores and discloses personal information that we obtain from individuals who visit and interact with our website (“Site”). 

Changes to this Privacy Notice

StoryArchitect.xyz may occasionally update this Privacy Notice. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this Privacy Notice and in the case of material changes to the Privacy Notice, we may provide you with additional notice (such as a notice in our user interface or via email notification). Use of the Site and services following an update to this Privacy Notice constitutes acceptance of the updated Privacy Notice.

Children’s Privacy

Our Site is not intended for children under 13, and StoryArchitect.xyz does not target the Site or our services to minors under 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not provide us with any personal information.

What Personal Information Do We Collect?

Depending on how you use the Site, we may collect personal information directly from you when you provide it to us and indirectly, such as via automated technologies or from third parties.  

Information Collected Directly 

Signing Up and Getting Notified

You may sign up to use our Site or stay notified about our services, in which case we will collect:

Name

Email address

Phone number

Billing Information

Account Information

The Service allows you to create, store, and share text, graphics, images, documents, information, and other material (“Content”). Once registered, we will associate your account with the materials you create on the Site. Note that Content you post on or through the Site may include personal information. In addition, you must not post Content on or through the Site that violates the privacy rights of any person.

Other Information

We also collect information when you communicate with us directly, such as emailing or contacting us through the Site.

Automatically Collected Information

If you are visiting the Site, we use automated technologies such as cookies to automatically collect information about the computer or devices you use to access the Site and how you interact with the Site. The device and usage information we automatically collect is described below.

Cookies and Related Technologies

Information Collected and Purposes

We use cookies and similar technologies for a variety of reasons, including for:

Enabling the Site to function properly

Functionality and user experience

Analytics, which help us measure audiences and determine interest in our services.

Performance, including fixing bugs and improving security.

StoryArchitect.xyz drops some cookies, and others are third-party cookies, meaning that they are placed on the Site by authorized third parties. Information we collect via cookies and other automated technologies includes your IP address, operating system information, browser type and language, and information about the pages you visit and how you interact with the Site. 

Updating your Browser Settings

You can learn more about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org, which includes additional useful information on cookies and how to block cookies using different browsers or mobile devices.

You may go to your preferences and change your browser settings to prevent cookies from being set. Other browsers automatically block certain tracking cookies. Most browsers provide comprehensive help relating to cookie management in their products. Please see your web browser provider’s settings for more information. Please note that by blocking or deleting all cookies used on the Site, you may not be able to take full advantage of the Site.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to measure audiences and visits to our Site. To learn more about cookies via Google Analytics and exercise choice regarding such cookies, please visit the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.  

“Do Not Track” 

StoryArchitect.xyz does not respond to Do Not Track (“DNT”) browser signals. For more information on DNT settings, please visit https://allaboutdnt.com. 

Social Plugins

If you use any social media plugins on our Site (e.g., Facebook), using such plugins may result in sharing information with the social media provider. Your use of social media plugins (including any data that may be collected when you use them) is governed by the social media operator’s privacy notices. 

How We Use Your Personal Information 

We use your personal information to:

Provide the Site and our services.

Communicate with individuals who contact us via the Site or otherwise.

Respond to and fulfil your requests or inquiries.

Understand how you use the Site and perform research and analytics.

Improve the Site and the services that we offer.

Enforce our Terms of Use and other contractual rights, and protect our rights and property and the rights and property of others, including concerning Content posted on the Site.

Enable security, debugging and fraud protection.

Comply with the law.

Please provide information to regulatory bodies when required and only as outlined in this Privacy Notice.

Disclosure of Your Personal Information.

We disclose your personal information as described below.

Third Parties Who Perform Services for StoryArchitect.xyz

We share personal information with agents, contractors, or service providers hired to perform services on our behalf. These providers may operate or support certain functions of the Site and our services and, in some cases, collect information directly from individuals via cookies and other automated technologies. Below is an illustrative list of functions for which we may use such service providers:

Customer support services.

Billing, subscription, and payment processors.

Hosting and content delivery network services. 

Professional service providers including auditors, lawyers, consultants, accountants, and insurers.

Business Transfers.

As we continue to grow, we may purchase websites, applications, subsidiaries, other businesses or business units. Alternatively, we may sell our business or business units, merge with other entities and/or sell assets or stock, in some cases as part of a reorganization or liquidation in bankruptcy, as well as raise capital through financings. In connection with or as part of these transactions, we may transfer your personal information to another entity upon a merger, consolidation, financing, or other corporate reorganization in which StoryArchitect.xyz participates, or to a purchaser or acquirer of all or a portion of StoryArchitect.xyz’s assets, bankruptcy sale included.

Legal Obligations and Security

We may share your information with any person or entity when we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary or otherwise appropriate to: 

Comply with the law, such as in connection with our tax reporting obligations or respond to a valid subpoena, court order, government request, or other valid legal process; 

Produce relevant documents or information in connection with litigation, arbitration, mediation, adjudication, government or internal investigations, or other legal or administrative proceedings; 

Protect the interests, rights, safety, or property of StoryArchitect.xyz or others; or 

Enforce our Terms of Use or other contractual obligations.

At Your Direction

We will share your information with third parties at your direction or with your consent in circumstances other than those described above.

Aggregated and Deidentified Information

We may share with others insights that combine information from different users in ways that do not directly identify you. For example, we may combine your information about how you use the Site or our services with that of other users to deliver generalized insights to our business partners. These insights do not identify individual users.

Your Privacy Choices 

If and as permitted by applicable laws, you may request more information about the limited personal information we hold about you. You may also request that we delete your personal information. Note that such requests are subject to applicable laws and certain exceptions. We will also require that you verify your identity or reauthenticate prior to taking any action on any requests. 

If you believe that any personal information we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can request that we correct or supplement such data.

If you sign up for notifications or our newsletter and wish to unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the link in any email that you receive from us, with the exception of non-marketing emails such as those regarding your data, account, purchases, billing inquiries or other information about our Site, services or terms.

Protecting Your Personal Information 

No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however we take steps that are reasonably necessary to securely provide our Site. We have put in place reasonably appropriate security measures designed to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. 

Where is Your Personal Information Processed?

StoryArchitect.xyz and its servers are located globally. This means that your information will be stored in the internationally. Please note that your personal information will be subject to applicable local laws.

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