PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy applies to your use of the services made available by Stork (the "Services"), including the Stork platform (the "Platform"), the apps (including Writing Assistant), and the website at storkapp.me (the "Site"), as of the effective date indicated above. It applies to information we collect before, on and after the effective date. In this document, "we" refers to Stork, and "you" refers to you, the user or customer to whom this policy applies. This policy should be read in conjunction with our Terms of Service.

In order to offer our Services to you, we must collect certain information about you. Because we respect your privacy, we have documented our policies regarding this information here, and we will not collect or use information about you except in the ways we describe.

1. What information we collect

We collect two types of information about you: Personally Identifiable Information and Non-personally Identifiable Information.

"Personally Identifiable Information" is information that lets us know who you are, specifically. Information in this category includes the information you use when registering to use the Platform, like your name, email address, associated domain name and credit card information. Your login credentials are also Personally Identifiable Information. Finally, this category includes information tied to your identity that you provide us through other means, such as emails to our support service and comments on our blog.

"Non-personally Identifiable Information" is information that doesn't let us determine your identity. This generally comes from your use of the Services after registering. For instance, our web server logs may show us that someone with a certain IP address visited the Site using a certain web browser, but we can't use that information alone to say whether the visitor was you or someone else. Non-personally Identifiable Information also includes information that could personally identify you in its original form, but that we have modified to remove or hide (for instance, by aggregation) any Personally Identifiable Information. This collection of information occurs automatically when you use the Services.

We also use web cookies and reserve the right to use web beacons ("Cookies"). These are small files associated with information that your browser or our servers will save and return as part of the Services for purposes such as saving your login session between visits, remembering your display preferences and tracking your use of the site. While Cookies do not contain Personally Identifiable Information, we may associate the information they contain with Personally Identifiable Information for these and similar purposes. You may opt out of our use of cookies by configuring your browser to reject them. However, this may cause some features of the Services to work incorrectly.

2. How we use your information

We use the information we collect about you to provide the Services to you. As part of that purpose, we may use your Personally Identifiable Information and Non-personally Identifiable Information:

to create and maintain your Platform account, and to control access to it;
to provide you with real-time logs of your use of the Platform;
to respond to any requests you may submit for support or sales information, or similar communications;
to communicate with you (for example through newsletters, announcements or special offers) about the Services;
for billing and collection purposes, if you have subscribed to one of our paid plans; and
to help promote compliance with our Terms of Service or any other agreements between us.

We may use your Non-personally Identifiable Information to enhance the Services, for instance through web analytics or troubleshooting. We may also use aggregated or depersonalized information to promote our Services, such as by citing usage statistics.

We may also use your information in the ways described above through a third-party contractor rather than in-house. If we do, we'll require our contractors to protect your data on terms at least as strict as those in this policy.

3. Third parties

Except for the limited circumstances described in this policy, we do not provide your information to third parties.

We host the Site and operate the Platform using third parties, including Linode, Alibabacloud, and Amazon (the "hosting providers"). For this reason, we will provide the information we collect to Hosting Providers, and the Hosting Providers will serve it from its data centers.

We use third parties, Paypal, Stripe, Alipay etc, to process payments, and therefore provide them with the Personally Identifiable Information required to charge your credit card.

We may use third-party services either embedded into our Site (such as Google Analytics) or outside of it (such as Twitter) to communicate with you or to enhance the function of the Services. While we provide these third parties with no more information than is necessary to enable their use, any information that you provide these services independently is subject to their respective privacy policies and practices. We may in the future add additional third-party services or stop using some that we currently use, and we may not update this policy to reflect these changes.

Finally, we may be required by law or court order to provide Personally Identifiable Information or Non-personally Identifiable Information to government authorities or private parties. We fully cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who use the Services for illegal activities, and we may report to law enforcement any activities that we believe in good faith are unlawful.

4. Your choices

You may opt out from any future communications from us (and/or our partners) by emailing us at support@storkapp.me. We will honor your opt-out within 30 days. If you would like us to cease all of the described uses of your Personally Identifiable Information, you may delete your account at any time by emailing us at support@storkapp.me. This will delete your Personally Identifiable Information from our records, and we will make no further use of it. We may, however, retain copies of your Personally Identifiable Information in backups.

You may request a copy of any or all of your Personally Identifiable Information in our possession, and we will honor your request within 30 days. (If we must incur expenses to comply with your request, we may charge you a reasonable fee to cover these expenses if permitted by law.) If you believe any of the Personally Identifiable Information we have collected from you is inaccurate, you can email support@storkapp.me with a request to update this information. We will honor your request within 30 days.

5. Security

We recognize how important your information is to you, so we maintain safeguards to protect it. We maintain a written internal security policy for our employees and restrict access to your Personally Identifiable Information to only those employees who need it. Our Hosting Providers, provide safeguards to protect your information as well. Our third-party payment processor uses a number of security technologies to safeguard your information. While we cannot guarantee that these measures will prevent every hacking attempt, we will notify you if we discover that the security of any of your Personally Identifiable Information has been materially breached.

Remember, though, that some parts of the Services are public. If you voluntarily provide Personally Identifiable Information in our blog or another public area of the Site, unrelated parties online will be able to view it and collect it. If you don't want to make this information publicly available, you shouldn't post it.

6. Standards

We are committed to following applicable laws that protect your privacy. In particular, we follow California's privacy rules for online service providers. As a U.S.-based service provider, we comply with the U.S.-EU and U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework and their binding principles as set forth by the US Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland. 

In compliance with the US-EU and US-Swiss Safe Harbor Principles, Stork commits to resolve complaints about your privacy and our collection or use of your personal information. European Union or Swiss citizens with inquiries or complaints regarding this privacy policy should first contact Stork at support@storkapp.me

Stork has further committed to refer unresolved privacy complaints under the US-EU and US-Swiss Safe Harbor Principles to an independent dispute resolution mechanism, the BBB EU SAFE HARBOR, operated by the Council of Better Business Bureaus. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint, or if your complaint is not satisfactorily addressed by Stork, please visit the BBB EU SAFE HARBOR web site at www.bbb.org/us/safe-harbor-complaints for more information and to file a complaint. Please note that the BBB EU SAFE HARBOR can not handle all privacy complaints, but only those related to alleged violations of the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles.

7. Modification

We may need to modify this policy to address new issues or changes to our policies. We will post changes here, so you should check this page regularly. If we make significant changes to this policy, we may notify you in other ways (for instance, by email or with a banner on the Site). Any changes we make will take effect as of the effective date indicated above, which will be at least 30 days after we post them. If you object to the changes, email us at support@storkapp.me before the new effective date to delete your information from our records, and we will do so. Your continued use of the Services after the new effective date will constitute your acceptance of the changed policy.

8. Miscellaneous

The Services are only intended for adults, and use by children under thirteen years old is forbidden. We will never intentionally collect Personally Identifiable Information from children under thirteen years old.

If we elect to transfer ownership or control of the Services, whether in whole or in part, to a third party (for instance through a merger or sale), that third party will take over this policy and abide by its terms. We may notify you of any such transfer, but we won't require your consent to transfer this policy or your information to such a third party.

9. Contact

If you have questions about this policy, or if you're concerned that we are using your information improperly, please contact us by email: support@storkapp.me


隐私政策

本隐私政策适用于您对 Stork 提供的服务（“服务”）的使用，包括 Stork 平台（“平台”）、应用程序（包括 Writing Assistant）和 storkapp.me 网站（“ 网站”），自上述生效日期起。 它适用于我们在生效日期之前、之日和之后收集的信息。 在本文档中，“我们”指 Stork，“您”指您，即本政策适用的用户或客户。 本政策应与我们的服务条款一起阅读。

为了向您提供我们的服务，我们必须收集有关您的某些信息。 因为我们尊重您的隐私，我们已在此处记录了我们关于此信息的政策，并且我们不会以我们描述的方式以外的方式收集或使用有关您的信息。

1. 我们收集哪些信息

我们收集关于您的两类信息：个人身份信息和非个人身份信息。

“个人身份信息”是让我们明确知道您是谁的信息。 此类别中的信息包括您在注册使用平台时使用的信息，例如您的姓名、电子邮件地址、相关域名和信用卡信息。 您的登录凭据也是个人身份信息。 最后，此类别包括您通过其他方式向我们提供的与您的身份相关的信息，例如向我们的支持服务发送电子邮件和在我们的博客上发表评论。

“非个人身份信息”是无法让我们确定您身份的信息。 这通常来自您在注册后对服务的使用。 例如，我们的网络服务器日志可能会向我们显示具有特定 IP 地址的人使用特定网络浏览器访问了网站，但我们不能单独使用该信息来判断访问者是您还是其他人。 非个人身份信息还包括可以以原始形式识别您个人身份的信息，但我们已经修改以删除或隐藏（例如，通过聚合）任何个人身份信息。 当您使用服务时，会自动收集这些信息。

我们还使用网络 cookie 并保留使用网络信标（“Cookie”）的权利。 这些是与您的浏览器或我们的服务器将作为服务的一部分保存和返回的信息相关联的小文件，用于保存您两次访问之间的登录会话、记住您的显示偏好和跟踪您对网站的使用等目的。 虽然 Cookie 不包含个人身份信息，但我们可能出于这些目的和类似目的将它们包含的信息与个人身份信息相关联。 您可以通过将您的浏览器配置为拒绝它们来选择退出我们对 cookie 的使用。 但是，这可能会导致服务的某些功能无法正常工作。

2. 我们如何使用您的信息

我们使用我们收集的有关您的信息来为您提供服务。 作为该目的的一部分，我们可能会使用您的个人身份信息和非个人身份信息：

创建和维护您的平台帐户，并控制对它的访问；
为您提供您使用平台的实时日志；
回应您可能提交的支持或销售信息或类似通信的任何请求；
就服务与您沟通（例如通过时事通讯、公告或特别优惠）；
出于计费和收款目的，如果您订阅了我们的付费计划之一； 和
帮助促进遵守我们的服务条款或我们之间的任何其他协议。

我们可能会使用您的非个人身份信息来增强服务，例如通过网络分析或故障排除。 我们也可能使用汇总或去个性化的信息来推广我们的服务，例如引用使用统计数据。

我们也可能通过第三方承包商而非内部以上述方式使用您的信息。 如果我们这样做，我们将要求我们的承包商按照至少与本政策中的条款一样严格的条款保护您的数据。

3. 第三方

除本政策所述的有限情况外，我们不会将您的信息提供给第三方。

我们使用第三方托管网站并运营平台，包括 Linode、阿里云和亚马逊（“托管提供商”）。 为此，我们会将收集到的信息提供给托管服务提供商，托管服务提供商将从其数据中心为其提供服务。

我们使用第三方、Paypal、Stripe、支付宝等来处理付款，因此向他们提供向您的信用卡收费所需的个人身份信息。

我们可能会使用嵌入我们网站（例如 Google Analytics）或网站外部（例如 Twitter）的第三方服务来与您沟通或增强服务的功能。 虽然我们不向这些第三方提供更多信息除了启用它们所必需的之外，您独立提供这些服务的任何信息均受其各自的隐私政策和惯例的约束。 我们将来可能会添加额外的第三方服务或停止使用我们目前使用的某些服务，并且我们可能不会更新此政策以反映这些变化。

最后，法律或法院命令可能要求我们向政府当局或私人团体提供个人身份信息或非个人身份信息。 我们与执法机构充分合作，查明那些使用服务进行非法活动的人，我们可能会向执法部门报告我们真诚地认为是非法的任何活动。

4. 你的选择

您可以通过发送电子邮件至 support@storkapp.me 选择退出我们（和/或我们的合作伙伴）的任何未来通信。 我们将尊重您在 30 天内的选择退出。 如果您希望我们停止所有描述的对您的个人身份信息的使用，您可以随时通过发送电子邮件至 support@storkapp.me 来删除您的帐户。 这将从我们的记录中删除您的个人身份信息，我们将不再使用它。 但是，我们可能会在备份中保留您的个人身份信息的副本。

您可以索取我们拥有的您的任何或所有个人身份信息的副本，我们将在 30 天内满足您的请求。 （如果我们必须为满足您的要求而产生费用，在法律允许的情况下，我们可能会向您收取合理的费用以支付这些费用。）如果您认为我们从您那里收集的任何个人身份信息不准确，您可以通过电子邮件发送支持 @storkapp.me 请求更新此信息。 我们将在 30 天内满足您的要求。

5. 安全

我们认识到您的信息对您的重要性，因此我们采取保护措施来保护它。 我们为我们的员工制定了书面的内部安全政策，并将对您的个人身份信息的访问限制为只有那些需要它的员工。 我们的托管服务提供商也提供保护措施来保护您的信息。 我们的第三方支付处理商使用多种安全技术来保护您的信息。 虽然我们不能保证这些措施会阻止每一次黑客攻击，但如果我们发现您的任何个人身份信息的安全性受到重大破坏，我们会通知您。

但请记住，服务的某些部分是公开的。 如果您自愿在我们的博客或网站的其他公共区域提供个人身份信息，在线无关方将能够查看和收集这些信息。 如果您不想公开此信息，则不应发布它。

6.标准

我们承诺遵守保护您隐私的适用法律。 Stork 承诺解决有关您的隐私和我们收集或使用您的个人信息的投诉。 对本隐私政策有疑问或投诉的欧盟或瑞士公民应首先通过 support@storkapp.me 联系 Stork。

7.修改

我们可能需要修改此政策以解决新问题或更改我们的政策。 我们将在此处发布更改，因此您应该定期查看此页面。 如果我们对本政策做出重大更改，我们可能会以其他方式通知您（例如，通过电子邮件或在网站上使用横幅）。 我们所做的任何更改将自上述生效日期起生效，即我们发布更改后至少 30 天。 如果您反对更改，请在新的生效日期之前发送电子邮件至 support@storkapp.me 以从我们的记录中删除您的信息，我们将这样做。 您在新生效日期后继续使用服务即表示您接受更改后的政策。

8.杂项

服务仅用于成人使用，禁止 13 岁以下儿童使用。 我们绝不会故意收集 13 岁以下儿童的个人身份信息。

如果我们选择将服务的所有权或控制权（无论是全部还是部分）转让给第三方（例如通过合并或出售），该第三方将接管本政策并遵守其条款。 我们可能会通知您任何此类转让，但我们不需要您的同意即可将本政策或您的信息转让给此类第三方。

9.联系方式

如果您对此政策有疑问，或者担心我们不当使用您的信息，请通过电子邮件与我们联系：support@storkapp.me