Last updated on August 10, 2024.
This Privacy Policy does not cover any information that you make publicly available through the Service or your use of any of FutureBrainy’s paid products.
FutureBrainy offers a public website where you can search for and share information about AI-powered tools and applications, communicate with Site users, contribute reviews of AI products and services, and connect with AI software providers. Our platform combines aspects of an online listing service with social media functionality, allowing users to discuss, ask questions, and share experiences about AI tools globally.
We receive, store, and process certain types of personal information about you from your use of the Service, automatic data collection, and from certain third parties.
We collect, transmit, and store various categories of your personal information in connection with the Service. Over the last 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information:
FutureBrainy has not collected and does not plan to collect characteristics of protected classifications under applicable laws, biometric information, or education information; and sensitive personal information other than account logins and encrypted passwords. Although neither required nor recommended, it is your choice to provide any of the foregoing information in connection with the Service and to make that information public.
When you use services such as our AI-powered chatbot assistants, FutureBrainy may store your chat logs for the purpose of improving our products and services.
Please do not post on the Site or add to your account any personal data that you would not want to be publicly available.
We receive your personal information from any one or more of the following sources:
We may use personal information as permitted by law, for the following business purposes:
FutureBrainy may share your information with providers of AI products and services listed on the Site, our business partners, our service providers, social media networks, our affiliates, and any other third parties whom you authorize us to share your information with.
FutureBrainy may receive monetary or other valuable consideration for sharing your personal information when you submit a request to be contacted by a provider on the Site, or when you leave a review on the Site that we share with our clients.
If you leave a review on the Site, or participate on a discussion board, your review(s) or comments will be publicly available on and off of the Site. Other users may be able to identify you, or associate you with your account, if you include personal information in the content you post publicly. You can reduce the risk of being personally identified by using the Service anonymously. Please also note that the messages you send or receive using the Service are only private to the extent that both you and the recipient(s) of your messages keep them private. For example, if you send a message to another user, that user may choose to publicly post it. We may access, review, and disclose such messages in connection with investigations related to use of the Service, as well as our efforts to improve the Service.
If you posted an attributed review under your name, you can change your mind later, and we will anonymize or delete it. However, please understand that we cannot guarantee others did not store the personal information prior to the change, by printing or downloading the original post.
Depending on where you are located and/or live, you may exercise certain data privacy rights, and FutureBrainy will facilitate the exercise of those rights.
Suppose you are a resident or are otherwise located in the European Union (“EU”) or the United Kingdom (“UK”). In that case, this section provides additional details about the personal data we collect about you, and your rights granted by the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulations, as applicable (“GDPR”).
Subject to certain limitations, the GDPR provides you the following privacy rights:
If you would like to submit a request to FutureBrainy to exercise your EU or UK privacy rights under the GDPR, you may do so either by emailing privacy [at] futurebrainy.com with your request.
Our legal basis for collecting and using your personal information will depend on the type of information and the context in which we collect it.
However, we will normally collect personal information from you only in the following circumstances:
In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you to protect your vital interests or those of another person (for example, to prevent, investigate or identify possible wrongdoing in connection with the Site or to comply with legal obligations).
If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will identify such basis for processing at the relevant time and let you know if the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as the possible consequences associated with not providing such information).
If we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), this interest will typically be to operate the Site, communicate with you in relation to your account or the Site, to solicit information from you, including through surveys, to share aggregated information with providers of listed products or services and other licensees of our research and report offerings, to measure interest in and improve our offerings and Site, to engage in marketing activities, and to otherwise customize your experience with FutureBrainy.
If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us at privacy [at] futurebrainy.com.
If you are a resident of California, this section provides additional details about the personal information we collect about you, and your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”).
Subject to certain limitations, the CCPA and CPRA provide you the right to request:
Please note that FutureBrainy does not collect sensitive personal information other than account login and password from its users.
If you would like to submit a request to exercise your California privacy rights, you may do so either by emailing privacy [at] futurebrainy.com with your request. We will verify your request using information associated with your account, including your email. Further identification may be required. You may also designate an authorized agent to act on your behalf.
Please note that FutureBrainy may retain a record of your request to delete your personal information.
If you are accessing the Site from outside the United States, please be aware that your personal information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection laws of the United States may not be equivalent or as comprehensive as the data protection laws as those in your country.
Your personal information may be processed outside your jurisdiction, including in countries and jurisdictions that are not subject to an adequacy decision by the European Commission or your local legislature or regulator, and that may not provide for the same level of data protection as your jurisdiction. We ensure that the recipient of your personal information offers an adequate level of protection and security, for instance by entering into the appropriate agreements and, if required, standard contractual clauses or an alternative mechanism for the transfer of data as approved by the European Commission (Art. 46 GDPR) or other applicable regulators or legislators. Where required by applicable law, we will only share, transfer or store your personal information outside of your jurisdiction with your prior consent.
We will provide an individual opt-out or opt-in choice before we share your data with third parties other than our agents, or before we use it for a purpose other than which it was originally collected or subsequently authorized. To request to limit the use and disclosure of your personal information, please submit a written request to privacy [at] futurebrainy.com.
In compliance with the EU-US Data Privacy Framework Principles, FutureBrainy commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information transferred to the United States pursuant to the DPF Principles. European Union, Swiss and United Kingdom individuals with DPF inquiries or complaints should first contact FutureBrainy at privacy [at] futurebrainy.com.
FutureBrainy has further committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the DPF Principles to an independent dispute resolution mechanism, Data Privacy Framework Services, operated by BBB National Programs.
With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Data Privacy Framework, the Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over FutureBrainy’s compliance with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF), the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. DPF).
Pursuant to the Data Privacy Framework, FutureBrainy may be required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
FutureBrainy’s accountability for personal data that it receives in the United States under the Data Privacy Framework and subsequent onward transfers to a third party is described in the Data Privacy Framework Principles. In particular, FutureBrainy remains responsible and liable under the Data Privacy Framework Principles if third-party agents that it engages to process the personal data on its behalf do so in a manner inconsistent with the Principles, except where FutureBrainy is not responsible for the events giving rise to the damage.
We have implemented appropriate administrative, technical, and physical security procedures to help protect your personal information.
For example, only authorized employees are permitted to access personal information that you do not publish on the Site, and they only may do so for permitted business functions. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary, and only authorized personnel have access to personal information that you have not published on the Site. In addition, we use encryption when transmitting your personal information between your system and ours, and we, together with our partners, employ firewalls and intrusion detection systems to help prevent unauthorized persons from gaining access to your non-public information.
Please bear in mind that submission of information over the Internet is never entirely secure. We cannot guarantee the security of information you submit via the Site while it is in transit over the Internet, and any such submission is at your own risk.
The Site is a general audience site and does not offer services directed to individuals under 18 years of age.
No one under the age of 18 may provide any information to or on the Site. We do not knowingly collect or share personal information from individuals under 18.
If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on the Site or on or through any of its features, do not register on the Site, use any of the interactive or comment features of the Site, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. Should an individual whom we know to be under the age of 18 send personal information to us, we will delete or destroy such information as soon as reasonably possible. If you believe we might have this type of information, please contact us.
FutureBrainy may, in its sole and absolute discretion, update this Privacy Policy from time to time. FutureBrainy will post its updated Privacy Policy to the Site. You acknowledge that your continued use of the Site and/or continued provision of personal information to FutureBrainy after we publish an updated Privacy Policy will be considered acceptance of any changes to this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy for any changes. You can see when this Privacy Policy was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the top of this Privacy Policy.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to communicate with our Data Protection Officer, please contact us at privacy@futurebrainy.com.
Please provide your identification and contact details, including your email address used to register with the Site, and a complete explanation of your concern.
