This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes the types of personal data that KalesTales, LLC (“KalesTales.com,” “we,” “our,” and/or “us”) collects, uses, and discloses from individuals (“you” or “your”) who use our website at https://KalesTales.com/ along with our related websites and other services provided by us (collectively, the “Service”).
As used in this Privacy Policy, “personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual and includes any information that constitutes “personally identifiable information,” “personal data,” or “personal information” under applicable privacy or data protection laws or regulations.
You acknowledge the collection, use, disclosure, procedures, and other processing described in this Privacy Policy. Beyond the Privacy Policy, your use of the Service is also subject to our Terms of Service.
We may collect a variety of personal data from or about you or your devices from various sources, as described below. Where applicable, we indicate whether and why you must provide us with your personal data, as well as the consequences of failing to do so. If you do not provide your personal data when requested, you may not be able to use the full extent of the Service if that personal data is necessary to provide you with the Service or if we are legally required to collect it.
Registration and Account Information.
Service. We collect the personal data you provide when you use the Service.
Communications. If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you, such as your name, email address, the contents of a message or attachments that you may send to us, and other information you choose to provide. When you communicate with us online, third-party vendors receive and store these communications on our behalf.
Social Media Information. We have pages on third-party sites like Instagram, Facebook, Medium, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn. When you interact with our social media pages, we will collect personal data that you elect to provide to us, such as your contact details.
Payment Information. If you make a payment on the Service, your payment-related information, such as credit card or other payment information, is collected by our third-party payment processor on our behalf.
Commercial Information. We may collect commercial information such as your transaction history.
Careers. If you decide that you wish to apply for a job with us, you may submit your contact information and your resume online. We will collect the information you choose to provide on your resume, such as your education and employment experience.
Other Information You Provide. We collect other information that you may provide to us, such as when you participate in our events or surveys.
Location Information. We may collect and infer your general location information, including, for example, by collecting and using your internet protocol (IP) address when you visit our website.
Device Information. We receive information about the device and software you use to access the Service, including IP address, device type, device identifiers, web browser type and version, operating system version, phone carrier and manufacturer, application installations, mobile advertising identifiers, and push notification tokens.
Usage Information. We automatically receive information about your interactions with the Service, like the pages or other content you view, referrer information (the website you visited before coming to the Service), the dates and times of your visits, the purchases you make, if you signed into the Service, if you created a new chat, and if you deleted a conversation.
Prompts and Outputs. The Service allows you to submit text, images, documents, and other materials to the Service (“Prompts”), which generate responses based on your Prompts (“Outputs”). We may record your actions (e.g., that you created a chat), but we will not have access to or store the content of your Prompts or Outputs, except as strictly needed to provide you the Service. We will, however, temporarily store some content you generate until you download them due to file size.
Likeness Information. The Service enables you to use likeness content for image and video generation with your explicit consent. Such consent will be solicited via a consent prompt at each time of a likeness upload where you will confirm that any images you upload are of yourself, or that you, as the parent or legal guardian of the depicted child, give your explicit consent to upload and use those photos solely for the purpose of providing the Service to you, or that you have otherwise obtained explicit consent from the depicted individual.
Information from Cookies and Similar Technologies. We and our third-party partners collect information about your activities on the Service using cookies, pixel tags, SDKs, or other tracking technologies. Our third-party partners, such as analytics, advertising, and security partners, may also use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across different services.
We use the personal data we collect:
To the extent required by applicable law, if you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), Switzerland or the United Kingdom (“UK”) (together “Europe”), we only process your personal data when we have a valid legal basis, including as set forth below.
Data Retention. We operate under a privacy based data retention policy with the focus on short term needs to provide our services, and to securely store any past stories or data you have requested if you are using a Member or VIP account.
Partners and Affiliates. We may disclose any information we receive to our current or future affiliates for any of the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
Vendors and Service Providers. We work with third-party service providers to operate the Service, including for billing, payment processing, invoicing, analyzing data, providing IT-hosting and maintenance, and other services for us. These third parties may have access to or process your personal data as part of providing those services to us.
Analytics Partners. We may use analytics services, such as Google Analytics, to collect and process certain analytics data. You can learn more about Google’s practices by visiting https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
As Required By Law and Similar Disclosures. We may access, preserve, and disclose your personal data if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to:
For the avoidance of doubt, the disclosure of your personal data may occur if you post any objectionable content on or through with the Site.
Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers. We may transfer your personal data to service providers, advisors, potential transactional partners, or other third parties in connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a corporate transaction in which we are acquired by or merged with another company or we sell, liquidate, or transfer all or a portion of our assets.
Consent. We may also disclose your personal data with your permission.
Likeness Information. You can access, correct, delete, or download a copy of the metadata we hold about your uploads, and withdraw your consent for face-asset processing, at any time by contacting support@KalesTales.com.
Marketing Communications. You can unsubscribe from our promotional emails via the link provided in the emails. Even if you opt out of receiving promotional email messages from us, you will continue to receive administrative messages from us.
Your European Privacy Rights. To the extent applicable, if you are located in Europe, you have the additional rights described below:
You may exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact details as indicated in the “Contact Information” section below. Before fulfilling your request, we may ask you to provide reasonable information to verify your identity. Please note that there are exceptions and limitations to each of these rights, and that while any changes you make will be reflected in active user databases instantly or within a reasonable period of time, we may retain personal data for backups, archiving, prevention of fraud and abuse, analytics, satisfaction of legal obligations, or where we otherwise reasonably believe that we have a legitimate reason to do so, to the extent permitted by applicable law.
The Service may contain links to other websites, products, or services that we do not own or operate. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties. Please be aware that this Privacy Policy does not apply to your activities on these third-party services or any information you disclose to these third parties. We encourage you to read their privacy policies before providing any personal data to them.
Retention. To the extent required by applicable law, we take measures to delete your personal data or keep it in a form that does not permit identifying you when your personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which we process it unless we are required by law to keep your personal data for a longer period. When determining the specific retention period, we consider various factors, such as the type of service provided to you, the nature and length of our relationship with you, and mandatory retention periods provided by law and the statute of limitations.
Retention of Likeness Information. For compliance and audit purposes, we will retain minimal anonymized metadata in the form of a cryptographic hash of the uploaded image or video, the timestamp, your consent record, and an internal asset identifier, linked to your account. This metadata is not biometric data and cannot be used to reconstruct your likeness or biometric identity. We will delete any image or video from our temporary upload storage within 1 hour.
We make reasonable efforts to protect your data by using security measures designed to safeguard the data we maintain. However, because no electronic transmission or storage of data can be entirely secure, we can make no guarantees as to the security or privacy of your data.
We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use personal data from children under 13 years of age, and no part of the Service is directed to children as the operator of any account should be a guardian or parent. If you learn that a child has provided us with personal data in violation of this Privacy Policy, then you may alert us at support@KalesTales.com.
The Service is hosted in the United States (“U.S.”). If you choose to use the Service from Europe or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that your personal data is processed and stored in the U.S. We may also transfer your personal data from the U.S. to other countries or regions in connection with its storage and processing, fulfilling your requests, and operating the Service.
If you are located in Europe, we will comply with applicable European data protection laws when transferring your personal data outside Europe. We may transfer your personal data to countries which have been found to provide adequate protection by the competent supervisory authorities as appropriate, use contractual protections for the transfer of personal data, transfer to recipients who have adopted Binding Corporate Rules, or rely on an appropriate legal derogation, to the extent necessary to comply with applicable European data protection laws. To the extent applicable, if you are located in Europe, you may contact us as specified below for more information about the safeguards we use to transfer personal data outside of Europe.
We will post any adjustments to the Privacy Policy on this page, and the revised version will be effective when it is posted.
KalesTales.com is responsible for processing your personal data. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about our processing activities, please email us at support@KalesTales.com.