Privacy Policy of Cogwheel Foundry
Cogwheel Foundry ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose information when you visit our site or engage with our services, which include bespoke AI model development, natural language processing solutions, machine learning consulting, predictive analytics platforms, intelligent automation systems, and AI ethics and governance advisory.
1. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information in connection with the services we provide, which may include personal data. This information is collected to ensure we can deliver our services effectively and improve your experience.
- Personal Data You Provide Directly: This includes information you provide when you contact us, request a consult, subscribe to our newsletters, or engage with our services. Examples include your name, email address, phone number, company name, and details about your project or inquiry.
- Information Collected Automatically: When you visit our online platform, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage patterns. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, site navigation, and interaction with our content. This data helps us understand how our site is used and how we can improve it.
- Information from Third Parties: We may receive information about you from third-party sources, such as business partners or public databases, where such data is lawfully obtained and processed. This is typically for business development and marketing purposes, consistent with applicable data protection laws.
2. How We Use Your Information
The information we collect is used for various purposes, primarily to provide and improve our services, communicate with you, and comply with legal obligations.
- To Provide Services: We use your information to deliver our specialized AI and software services, tailored to your specific needs, and to fulfill contractual obligations.
- To Communicate with You: We use your contact details to respond to your inquiries, provide updates on our services, and send relevant information about our AI solutions and insights.
- For Marketing and Business Development: We may use your information to send you marketing communications about our innovative services and industry insights that we believe may be of interest to you, always providing an option to opt-out.
- To Improve Our Services and Site: Data collected helps us analyze trends, track site usage, and understand user behavior to enhance our online platform, optimize our service offerings, and develop new AI capabilities.
- For Legal and Security Purposes: We may use your information to comply with legal obligations, enforce our terms and conditions, protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues.
3. Disclosure of Your Information
We do not sell your personal data. We may disclose your information to third parties only in specific, limited circumstances:
- Service Providers: We may share your information with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our business, such as IT support, marketing automation platforms, and analytics providers. These providers are obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes for which it was disclosed.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency).
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your personal data may be part of the transferred assets. We will notify you via email and/or a prominent notice on our site of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.
4. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. We regularly review our security practices to consider new technologies and methods. Despite our efforts, no security system is impenetrable, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information.
5. Data Retention
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
6. Your Rights
Under applicable data protection laws, particularly the GDPR, you have certain rights regarding your personal data:
- Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the updated Privacy Policy on this page and indicate the date of the last revision. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data protection practices, please contact us at:
Cogwheel Foundry
315 Bishopsgate, Floor 12,
London, Greater London,
EC2M 3JD, UK
Should you feel that your data protection concerns have not been adequately addressed, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority in the UK, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).