Privacy Policy (Beta Version)
Last Updated: April 12, 2025
1. Introduction
PawcassoAI is a website and web application that allows you to generate images of your pets using AI.
At PawcassoAI, our commitment is to safeguard your privacy, and this Privacy Policy serves to elaborate on how we handle your information when you browse our website, https://pawcassoai.com. Take a moment to read through this policy to grasp our perspectives and procedures regarding your personal data and how we handle it.
This Privacy Policy is part of our early beta testing phase and is considered a work in progress.
2. Information We Collect
Personal Information
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Email addresses for account registration
- Photos of your pets that you upload to our platform for AI-generated artwork
- Prompts that you use for describing and creating images
- Payment information (e.g., payment method, billing address, and payment history)
- Automatically collected data(IP addresses, device identifiers, usage logs, crash reports)
We do not process sensitive information.
Payment Data: We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you choose to make purchases, such as your payment instrument number and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is handled and stored by Stripe. You may find their privacy notice link here:https://stripe.com/en-hr/privacy
Personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate. If you make any changes to your personal information, please notify us.
3. How We Use Your Information
We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:
- To facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage user accounts. We may process your information so you can create and log in to your account, as well as keep your account in working order.
- To generate and deliver AI images of your pets.
- For customer support, fraud prevention and analytics.
- Marketing and promotional communications (with mandatory opt-in)
- To save or protect and individual's vital interest
4. What legal basis do we have for processing your personal information?
We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfill our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business interests.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR require us to explain the valid legal bases we rely on in order to process your personal information. As such, we may rely on the following legal bases to process your personal information:
- Consent: We can process your personal information if you have granted us permission for a specific purpose. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time.
- Legal Obligations: Your information may be processed if we deem it necessary to comply with legal obligations, such as cooperating with law enforcement or regulatory authorities, defending our legal rights, or using your data as evidence in a legal dispute.
- Vital Interests: We may process your data if it's necessary to safeguard your vital interests or those of another person, such as in situations involving potential risks to safety.
- Legitimate Interests: We may process your information in order to improve performance and usability of our service.
- Performance of a Contract: We may process your information when it's required to fulfill our contractual duties to you, including providing the services you requested(training ai models of your pets and generating ai images of your pets) or meeting other contractual commitments.
5. When and with whom do we share your personal information?
We may share your uploaded pet images and prompts with third-party AI providers solely for the purpose of generating outputs.
We may share your personal information in following situations:
- Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers that help us operate, deliver, and improve our services. We may share your data with payment processing partners, analytics providers, and hosting providers.
6. Do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?
We may use cookies and other tracking technologies to collect and store your information. You can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, some parts of our site may not function properly.
We also permit third parties to use cookies and other tracking technologies on our site. Third parties may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites.
Specific information about how we use cookies and other tracking technologies is available in our Cookie Policy.
7. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
8. How do we keep your data secure?
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure.
We will do our best to protect your personal information, but transmission of personal information to and from our site is at your own risk. You should only access the service within a secure environment.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
9. Do we collect information from minors?
We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are under 18, please do not attempt to register for the Service or send any personal information about yourself to us.
If we learn that we have collected personal information from a minor under age 18, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.
If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at info@pawcassoai.com so that we will be able to do necessary actions.
10. What are your rights?
In some regions, like the EEA, UK and Switzerland, you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.
These may include the right to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, the right to request rectification or erasure, the right to restrict processing, the right to object to processing, the right to data portability, and the right to withdraw consent.
We will consider and act upon any requests you make in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
If you are located in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority.
If you are located in the Switzerland, you may contact the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner.
Withdrawing consent: If you have given us permission to process your personal information, you can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at info@pawcassoai.com.
However, please note that this will not affect any processing that has already taken place at any time.
Opting out of marketing and promotional communications: You can opt out of our marketing and promotional communications at any time by following the unsubscribe links in our emails or by contacting us using the details provided in the section "Account Information" below.
11. Account Information
If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:
Log in to your account settings and update your user information there.
Upon your request to terminate your account, we will delete your account and information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Service, and comply with legal requirements as necessary.
12. Do we make updates to this notice?
We may update this notice from time to time. We will notify you of significant changes through our Service or other communications. If we make material changes to how we treat your personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Site home page or directly via email. We encourage you to review this notice periodically for changes.