Privacy Policy for Aisthully™

Welcome to Aisthully™ ("we," "us," or "our"). We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, https://aisthully.com, and use our application (the "Service").

Please read this policy carefully. By using our Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

1. Accounts & Newsletter Subscriptions

While you can visit our site anonymously, you may choose to create an account to access specific features, such as "Early Access" to our platform or subscriptions to "The Mandarin Digest."

If you choose to create an account or subscribe, you are voluntarily providing us with personal information to facilitate that service.

2. Information We Collect

A. Information You Provide to Us

When you create an account or subscribe to our newsletters, we may collect:

• Contact Information: Your email address and name.
• Authentication Data: If you sign up using a third-party provider (e.g., Google, Microsoft), we receive your unique identifier and email verification status from that provider.
• Preferences: Your specific interests, such as "The Mandarin Digest" or "Platform Updates."

B. Information Collected Automatically

When you access the Service, our servers (which may be operated by third-party providers like Google Cloud) and our analytics tools may automatically collect certain information:

• Log and Usage Data: This includes information your browser sends, such as your computer's Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, and the time spent on those pages.
• Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

3. Newsletters & The Mandarin Digest

If you subscribe to "The Mandarin Digest" or our "Early Access Updates," we use your email address to send you the specific content you requested.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect (which is primarily anonymous and aggregated) for the following purposes:

• To Provide and Maintain our Service: To ensure our website and app are functioning correctly.
• To Analyze and Improve our Service: We use Google Analytics to understand how users interact with our Service, which helps us improve features, performance, and user experience.
• To Enhance Security: To monitor for and prevent fraudulent or unauthorized activity.

5. Our Use of Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data may be shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can learn about Google's practices by visiting the "How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services" page and can opt-out by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

6. Children's Privacy (COPPA)

Our Service is not directed to anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information (for example, by falsifying their age), please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information.

7. Your Data Protection Rights (CalOPPA, GDPR, etc.)

Depending on your location, you may have certain data protection rights. We are based in California, and our policy aims to comply with the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) by:

• Posting this clear and conspicuous Privacy Policy.
• Allowing you to visit our site anonymously (by not requiring an account).
• Describing how we respond to "Do Not Track" signals (we currently do not alter our data collection practices based on DNT signals).

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the GDPR, which you can exercise by managing your cookie preferences via our cookie banner or by contacting us.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let you know via a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective, and update the "Last Updated" date at the top.

9. Contact Us