Privacy Policy

Welcome to Aether Foundry. This Privacy Policy describes how Aether Foundry, located at 789 Maple Shade Lane, Suite 201, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3B 1H4, Canada, collects, uses, and discloses information when you use our services related to AI-powered design tools, predictive analytics, bespoke AI assistants, digital ledger for provenance tracking, virtual reality craft workshops, and ethical AI development for creative industries. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data in an open and transparent manner.

1. Information We Collect

We collect various types of information in connection with the services we provide.

• Personal Data You Provide: This includes information you voluntarily provide when you register for an account, use our AI design tools, participate in workshops, or communicate with us. This may include your name, contact details, payment information (for services), and any data you input into our AI tools or ledger for provenance tracking, such as details about your craft projects.
• Usage Data: We automatically collect information about how you access and use our online platform. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, time spent on pages, and other diagnostic data. For our VR workshops, this might include interaction data within the virtual environment.
• Technical Data: Information about the devices you use to access our services, including device type, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.
• Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service and hold certain information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

2. How We Use Your Information

Aether Foundry uses the collected data for various purposes to provide and improve our services:

• To provide and maintain our service, including the operation of AI-powered design tools and virtual workshops.
• To manage your account, including processing your registration and verifying your identity.
• To personalize your experience and deliver content and product offerings relevant to your interests, including customized AI assistant functionality.
• To process your transactions and manage payments for our services.
• To analyze market trends and provide predictive analytics for craft markets, utilizing aggregated and anonymized data where possible.
• To track the provenance of artisan crafts through our digital ledger, using data you explicitly provide for this purpose.
• To communicate with you, respond to inquiries, and provide customer support related to our services.
• To monitor the use of our service and detect, prevent, and address technical issues or security concerns.
• For ethical AI development and research, ensuring our tools align with responsible practices for creative industries, often using anonymized or aggregated datasets.

3. How We Share Your Information

We may share your information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share your data with third-party vendors and service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, and customer service.
• For Business Transfers: If Aether Foundry is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred.
• With Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
• With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your explicit consent.
• Legal Obligations: We may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend the rights or property of Aether Foundry, prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service, protect the personal safety of users or the public, or protect against legal liability.

4. Data Security

The security of your Personal Data is important to us. We implement commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your Personal Data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

5. Your Data Protection Rights under GDPR

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Aether Foundry aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

• The right to access: You have the right to request copies of your Personal Data.
• The right to rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your Personal Data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your Personal Data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data, under certain conditions.
• The 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.
• The right to withdraw consent: You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Aether Foundry relied on your consent to process your personal information.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the address provided below.

6. Third-Party Links

Our service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

7. Children's Privacy

Our service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

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. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by mail at:

Aether Foundry

789 Maple Shade Lane, Suite 201

Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3B 1H4, Canada