Privacy Policy

In short: This Privacy Policy describes how Horowitz Consulting LLC ("we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, discloses, and protects personal information you provide to us when visiting this website and using our services, including the Montage Maker application (collectively, the "Service").

If you choose to use our service, then you agree to the collection and use of information as described in this policy. We use the data we collect to provide and improve our service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us at privacy@montagemaker.ai.

We provide the service to users from the United States. If you are from outside the United States and use our service, please be aware that data protection laws in the United States may differ from those in the country where you are located, and your data may be subject to access requests from governments, courts, or law enforcement in the United States.

If you are a California resident, you may have certain rights as provided in the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). For the CCPA-specific provisions of this policy, please see the CCPA section below.

Information Collection and Use

Users can explore the website, view content, and create new digital media using our tools without providing any personal information. Our service only collects personal information about a user if the user registers for an account.

For a better experience while using our service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information. We retain and use that information as described in this privacy policy.

You agree that we may use the personal information you submit to us in order to:

• Accomplish our business purposes, including to deliver or provide our services, establish or maintain customer or business relationships, improve our services, provide access to Internet-based or e-commerce activities, perform accounting functions, and conduct other activities as necessary or appropriate in connection with our services.
• Market our products and services to you, including to send you information about products, services, or promotions (you may opt out of these promotional communications by following the opt-out instructions in each message).
• Send you service updates, announcements, and alerts related to our services, including notices of security incidents, downtime, or planned maintenance.

In addition, we may transfer or disclose personal data to our service providers under written contracts as needed for such service providers to perform services on our behalf, including to fulfill our obligations to you. Service providers and business partners that are provided information under this section will not use personal data for any other purpose. If we become aware that a business partner or service provider is processing your personal information in a way contrary to this privacy policy, we will take reasonable steps to prevent or stop such processing.

Last, we will, in our sole discretion, disclose your personal data to third parties in certain additional limited cases: (1) when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with our rights or the rights of our customers or vendors; (2) when we believe in good faith that the law requires us to do so; (3) to a subsequent owner, co-owner, or operator of a site or applicable database in connection with a merger, consolidation, or restructuring, or the sale of substantially all our interests and/or assets, or other corporate change, including during the course of any due diligence process; and (4) in situations involving threats to the physical safety of any person.

The app also uses third party services that may collect information used to identify you. These third party services include but may not be limited to Clerk and Google OAuth login. The terms of this privacy policy do not apply to the methods for collecting information used by such third parties or the use of the information they collect. You should review their privacy policies if you have questions about their use of your data. We make no representations regarding the policies or practices of third parties in connection with our services.

Information We Collect on our Website

We may obtain various types of personal data about users of our services and non-customer website visitors. This data may include:

• Account information, including your name and email address.
• Authentication information from login providers, currently including Google.
• Uploaded media and generated montage outputs.
• Device and network information, including IP address.
• Usage analytics and related telemetry.
• Payment-related information processed through Stripe.
• Support communications you send to us.

We may also use certain tracking technologies to collect, store, or accumulate certain non-personally identifiable information concerning your use of our website, including your browsing history, preferences, internet addresses, unique identifiers, device types, device location, and other similar information.

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are commonly used as an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your device's internal memory.

Our service does not use these cookies explicitly. However, our app may use third party code and libraries that use cookies to collect information and to improve their services.

Data Sharing and Service Providers

We share information with service providers that support our operations, including Clerk (authentication), Stripe (payments), AWS (hosting/storage), and Vercel (hosting, analytics, and performance insights).

Security

We value your trust in providing us your data, and we use commercially reasonable and industry standard means of protecting it. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

This Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that we do not operate these external sites. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of these websites. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children's Privacy

This is not a service directed towards children. Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to create an account or otherwise use the website unless explicitly permitted by a parent. We support the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and our goal is to minimize the information gathered from and disseminated about children under 13 while permitting them active access to creative tools. You must be over the age required by the laws of your country to create an account or otherwise use our service, or we need to have obtained verifiable consent from your parent or legal guardian. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13.

Parents may ask us to cease further collection of personal information from their children, or delete the personal information we have collected online from their children, in which case the child's account will be deleted. If parents have any questions or concerns about their child's use of the service, we encourage parents to contact us at privacy@montagemaker.ai.

Data Deletion Policy

Non-registered-user uploaded media is deleted after 24 hours. Registered-user uploaded media/projects are retained until you delete your account. You may contact privacy@montagemaker.ai at any time to request data deletion. We will process verified deletion requests within 7 days.

AI Model Training

We do not send user uploads to third-party AI providers and do not use your inputs or outputs to train our own models or vendor models.

California Consumer Privacy Act

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

Along with the information in the privacy policy as a whole, the CCPA requires us to describe the information we collect in certain “categories.” The categories we collect now or in the future may include:

• Identifiers (such as real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers)
• Commercial information (such as transaction data and account and management information)
• Internet or other network or device activity (such as browsing history and information on interaction with a website, application, or advertisement)
• Geolocation data (at an IP-based or city/state/zip level)
• Inference data about you drawn from the data in this section (based on user profile information)
• Legally protected classifications (such as age and gender)
• Other information that identifies or can be reasonably associated with you (e.g., information you voluntarily provide as you use our services, such as additional profile information or user-generated content)

The Sources From Which the Categories of Personal Information Are Collected

We collect personal data directly from information you provide to us; indirectly from our affiliates, service providers, and other vendors; and indirectly through your interactions with websites or advertisements.

Business Purposes for Our Collection of Personal Information

The following is a list of the business purposes for our collection of information.

• Provide the services you have requested, including invoicing and accounting
• Respond to your requests for information and provide you with more effective and efficient customer service
• Provide you with updates and information about our services
• Contact you by email, postal mail, or phone regarding our services and third-party products, services, surveys, research studies, promotions, special events and other subjects that we think may be of interest to you
• Customize the advertising and content you see via the services
• Help us better understand your interests and needs, and improve the services, including through research and reports, and test and create new products, features, and services
• Secure our websites and applications, and resolve technical issues being reported
• Comply with any procedures, laws, and regulations which apply to us where it is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others
• Establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights where it is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of others

Sharing of Categories of Personal Information

We may share categories of personal information to accomplish the various business purposes above and as described throughout this privacy policy.

CCPA Rights Disclosure

If you are a California resident, the CCPA allows you to make certain requests about your personal information. Specifically, the CCPA allows you to request us to:

• Inform you about the categories of personal information we collect or disclose about you and the categories of sources of such information
• Inform you about the business or commercial purpose for collecting personal information and the categories of third parties with whom we share/disclose personal information (which is also disclosed in this privacy policy)
• Provide you with the specific pieces of personal information we collect about you
• Delete personal information we have about you

Please note that certain information may be exempt from such requests under California law. For example, we need certain information in order to provide the services to you. You may only make such a request twice within a twelve-month period. Requests are generally free; however, we may charge a reasonable fee or deny your request if it is manifestly unfounded, excessive, or repetitive.

To make a CCPA request, please contact us at privacy@montagemaker.ai. We will request information, which at a minimum will include your name and email address, to verify your identity. We may request additional information to verify your identity before responding to a request. Under the CCPA, you may have an authorized agent submit a request on your behalf, and we will collect certain authorization and verification information from the agent and you in such circumstances.

The CCPA further provides you with the right to receive information about the financial incentives that we offer to you, if any, and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your rights under applicable law.

If you would like further information regarding your legal rights under California law, please contact us at privacy@montagemaker.ai.

California Do Not Sell Notice and Information Request

If you are a California resident, the CCPA provides you with the right to opt out of the "sale" of your "personal information." We may allow some of our advertising partners to collect certain pieces of information from our site visitors, such as device identifiers, cookies, advertising IDs, IP addresses, and usage activity, so that we and our partners can deliver ads that are more relevant to you. This type of information sharing with our advertising partners may be considered a "sale" under the CCPA. If you want to opt out of these activities, please contact us at privacy@montagemaker.ai. Please note that some or all of the Services may not function if you choose to opt out of such activities.

If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 allows you to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, information about the personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. If applicable, this information would include a list of the categories of personal information that was shared and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared information in the immediately preceding twelve calendar months. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to our privacy inbox at privacy@montagemaker.ai.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. Thus, you are advised to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately after they are posted on this page.

Contact

Questions about this Privacy Policy can be sent to privacy@montagemaker.ai