1. Our approach to privacy
1.1 Dream Engine Ventures LLC ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy sets out how we collect, store, process, transfer, share and use data that identifies or is associated with you ("personal information") and information regarding our use of cookies and similar technologies.
1.2 We operate a cloud-based logistics-first ERP platform designed to help delivery-driven businesses connect inventory to people, which is available via our websites (our "Websites") including at cosmiccrate.app and mobile application as well as other products and services that we make available (the "CosmicCrate Service").
1.3 This privacy policy applies to the CosmicCrate Service.
1.4 Before accessing or using the CosmicCrate Service, please ensure that you have read and understood our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your personal information as described in this privacy policy. By accessing or using the CosmicCrate Service, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this privacy policy.
2. Personal information we collect about you and how we use it
2.1 Information you give to us. We collect personal information about you when you voluntarily submit information directly to us by filling in forms on our Website or by corresponding with us by phone, email or other means. This includes information you provide when you register to use our Website, subscribe to the CosmicCrate Service, participate in any discussion boards, forums or other social media functions on our site or enter a competition, promotion or survey and when you report a problem with our Website, or use some other feature of the CosmicCrate Service as available from time to time.
2.2 If you choose not to provide personal information, we may not be able to provide the CosmicCrate Service to you or respond to your other requests.
2.3 Information we receive from other sources. We may receive personal information about you from individuals or corporate entities which are subscribers to the CosmicCrate Service ("Subscribers") where you are to be designated a user of the CosmicCrate Service. We may receive personal information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide from time to time. We also work closely with third parties (including, for example, subcontractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them, subject to your agreements with them.
2.4 The table at Annex 1 sets out the categories of personal information you provide to us and that we receive from other sources and how we use that information. The table also lists the legal basis which we rely on to process the personal information and information as to how we determine applicable retention periods.
2.5 We also automatically collect personal information about you indirectly about how you access and use the CosmicCrate Service and information about the device you use to access the CosmicCrate Service.
2.6 The table at Annex 2 sets out the categories of personal information we collect about you automatically and how we use that information. The table also lists the legal basis which we rely on to process the personal information and information as to how we determine applicable retention periods.
2.7 We may link or combine the personal information we collect and/or receive about you and the information we collect automatically. This allows us to provide you with a personalized experience regardless of how you interact with us.
2.8 We may anonymize and aggregate any of the personal information we collect (so that it does not identify you). We may use anonymized information for purposes that include testing our IT systems, research, data analysis, improving the CosmicCrate Service and developing new products and features. We may also share such anonymized information with others.
3. Disclosure of your personal information
3.1 We may share your personal information with any member of our group, which includes our parent organization. We will not share your personal information with any third parties except as described in this privacy policy or in connection with the Service. We may share your information with selected third parties, including: business partners, vendors, suppliers, and subcontractors who perform services on our behalf (these companies are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us); analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our Website; credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you; payment processors for the purpose of fulfilling relevant payment transactions. Mobile opt-in information and SMS/voice consent data are excluded from all third-party sharing described in this Section 3 and are handled solely as set out in Section 3A (Mobile messaging).
3.2 In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet law enforcement requirements. We may disclose personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions of service (see our Terms of Service at /terms) and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Us, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
3.3 Publicly accessible blogs. Our Website includes publicly accessible blogs or community forums. Any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected and used by others who access them. This includes information posted on our public social media accounts. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, contact us at privacy@cosmiccrate.app. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
3.4 Testimonials. With consent, we may display personal testimonials of satisfied customers on our site, along with other endorsements. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, you can contact us at privacy@cosmiccrate.app.
3.5 We may disclose personal information to third parties in connection with a business transaction. Personal information may be disclosed to third parties in connection with a transaction, such as a merger, sale of assets or shares, reorganization, financing, change of control or acquisition of all or a portion of our business. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on our Website of any change in ownership that impacts the use of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.
3A. Mobile messaging (SMS and automated calls)
This section governs mobile phone numbers and SMS/voice consent data and controls over any more general statement in this policy, including Sections 3 and 4.
3A.1 No sharing for marketing. No mobile information — including your mobile phone number and your SMS or voice opt-in/consent data — will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.
3A.2 No third-party sharing of opt-in data. Text-messaging and calling originator opt-in data and consent are not shared with any third parties for any purpose other than delivering the messages and calls you requested.
3A.3 Limited operational use. Phone numbers and consent data are used solely to send the transactional messages and calls you opted in to — delivery scheduling and confirmation, in-route and completion status, post-delivery surveys, and account or security notifications — and are disclosed only to the subprocessors strictly necessary to transmit them (for example, our SMS and voice providers) acting on our behalf under contractual confidentiality obligations.
3A.4 Your controls. Message frequency varies; message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to any text to opt out, or HELP for help. You may opt out of calls at any time as described during the call or by contacting support@cosmiccrate.tech. Consent is not a condition of any purchase.
4. Marketing and advertising
4.1 From time to time we may contact you with relevant information about the CosmicCrate Service and our other products and services. Most messages will be sent electronically. For some messages, we may use personal information we collect about you to help us determine the most relevant information to share with you.
4.2 If you do not want to receive such messages from us, you will be able to tell us by selecting certain boxes on forms we use when we first collect your contact details. You can also change your marketing preferences at any time by updating your preferences in your account settings, or by contacting privacy@cosmiccrate.app, or by following the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails.
5. Storing and transferring your personal information
5.1 Security. We have implemented administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect its and its customers' information. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our Service, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. Subscribers should not share their password with anyone.
5.2 While no transmission of information via the internet is completely secure, we take reasonable measures to protect your personal information. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.
5.3 International Transfers of your Personal Information. The personal information we collect may be transferred to and stored in countries outside of the jurisdiction you are in where we and our third-party service providers have operations. If you are located in the European Union ("EU") or the United Kingdom ("UK"), your personal information may be processed outside of the EU including in the United States; these international transfers of your personal information are made pursuant to appropriate safeguards, and we will take suitable steps to ensure that your personal data is treated just as safely and securely as it would be within the EU and under the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") or the UK General Data Protection Regulation ("UK GDPR"). Such measures shall include, but are not limited to, having Data Processing Agreements with applicable subprocessors and ensuring that such subprocessors have adequate security and data protection procedures in place aligned with the GDPR or any other applicable data protection law. If you wish to inquire further about these safeguards used, please contact us using the details set out at the end of this policy.
6. Retaining your information
6.1 We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of our legitimate business interests and satisfying any legal or reporting requirements.
6.2 To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and the applicable legal requirements.
7. Your rights in respect of your personal information
7.1 In accordance with applicable privacy law, you have the following rights in respect of your personal information that we hold: Right of access and portability — the right to obtain access to your personal information along with certain information, and to receive that personal information in a commonly used format and to have it ported to another data controller. Right to rectification — the right to obtain rectification of your personal information without undue delay where that personal information is inaccurate or incomplete. Right to erasure — the right to obtain the erasure of your personal information without undue delay in certain circumstances, such as where the personal information is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was collected or processed. Right to restriction — the right to obtain the restriction of the processing undertaken by us on your personal information in certain circumstances, such as where the accuracy of the personal information is contested by you. Right to object — the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of your personal information, and to object to the processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes, to the extent it is related to such direct marketing. Right to non-discrimination — the right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights as outlined in this policy. This includes, but is not limited to, denying you goods or services, charging you different prices for similar services, or providing a different level or quality of service.
7.2 If you wish to exercise any of these rights, you may do so by email at privacy@cosmiccrate.app. Upon request, we will provide you with information about whether we hold any of your personal information. We may request that you verify your identity prior to transferring personal information. You may also access, correct or request deletion of your personal information by logging into your CosmicCrate Service account. We will respond to your request within 30 days.
7.3 We do not sell personal information shared by you. We have not sold personal information shared by you in the 12 months preceding the modification date for this policy. All use of personal information is done for the delivery, use, and improvement of the Service, as listed in 3.1.
7.4 If you reside in the EU or UK, we are the controller of your personal information for purposes of EU or UK data protection legislation. You also have the right to lodge a complaint to your local data protection authority. Information about how to contact your local data protection authority is available at https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en. UK residents may lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office at https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/data-protection-complaints/.
8. Cookies and similar technologies
8.1 Our Service uses cookies and similar technologies (collectively referred to as cookies) to distinguish you from other users of our Service. This helps us to provide you with good service, enhance and personalize your user experience, monitor and improve our Website and services, and for other internal purposes. As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically. This information we may collect is described in detail in Annex 2.
8.2 We use the following types of cookies: Strictly necessary cookies — required for the essential operation of our Service such as to authenticate you and prevent fraudulent use. Analytical/performance cookies — allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Service, helping us improve the way our Service works. Functionality cookies — used to recognize you when you return to our Service, enabling us to personalize content and remember your preferences. Targeting cookies — record your visit to our Service, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed; we use this information to make our Service and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests, and may share this information with third parties for this purpose.
8.3 Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
8.4 You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including strictly necessary cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
8.5 Social Media. Our Website includes social media features and widgets. These features may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on our Website, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are hosted on our site or by a third party, and your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
9. Links to third party sites
9.1 The CosmicCrate Service may, from time to time, contain links to and from third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies. Please check the individual policies before you submit any information to those websites.
9.2 Some of the pages on our Website may utilize framing techniques to serve content to/from our partners while preserving the look and feel of our Website. Please be aware that you are providing your personal information to these third parties and not to Us.
10. Our policy towards children
10.1 The CosmicCrate Service is not directed at persons under 16 and we do not intend to collect personal information from children under 16 in our capacity as a controller. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without appropriate consent, then please contact us using the details below so that we can take the appropriate steps in accordance with our legal obligations and this privacy policy.
11. Changes to this policy
11.1 We may update this privacy policy from time to time and so you should review this page periodically. When we change this privacy policy in a material way, we will update the "last modified" date at the end of this privacy policy. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
12. Notice to you
12.1 If we need to provide you with information about something, whether for legal, marketing or other business related purposes, we will select what we believe is the best way to get in contact with you. We will usually do this through email or by placing a notice on our Website. The fact that we may send notices to you will not stop you from being able to opt out of certain types of contact as described in this privacy policy.
13. Contacting us
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: Dream Engine Ventures LLC, {{registered address}}, privacy@cosmiccrate.app. To register a complaint or concern, please email privacy@cosmiccrate.app.
Annex 1 — Personal information we collect
All disclosures listed below are made with service providers only and done in accordance with our Terms of Service (/terms) and Privacy Policy (/policy) respectively.
| Category of personal information | How we use it | Legal basis for the processing | CCPA categorization | Prior 12-month disclosures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contact information and basic personal details (name, phone number, address, location, IP address, e-mail address and where applicable professional details). | To communicate with you, including sending statements, news, alerts and marketing communications; to deal with inquiries and other requests including customer service issues; to operate, maintain and provide the features and functionality of the CosmicCrate Service. | Necessary for our legitimate interests (marketing and communicating effectively); necessary for the performance of a contract and to take steps prior to entering into a contract (our Terms of Service); necessary for the fulfillment of legal requirements including verification of identity. | Identifiers | Yes |
| Email account username and password (where you choose to import contacts from your Outlook or other email account to invite them to become members of our Website). | To collect the username and password for the email account you wish to import contacts from. | Necessary for the performance of a contract and to take steps prior to entering into a contract (our Terms of Service). | Identifiers | Yes (for email account username) |
| Correspondence and comments (when you contact us directly or interact with customer service). | To address your questions, issues, and concerns and resolve your customer service issues. | Necessary for our legitimate interests, namely communicating with you effectively to resolve your issues. | Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information | Yes |
| Payment information (credit card or other financial information including credit scores obtained from credit reference agencies). | To facilitate payment through or for use of the CosmicCrate Service, to assess your credit score, and to detect and prevent fraud. | Necessary for the performance of our contract (our Terms of Service); necessary for our legitimate interests, namely the detection and prevention of fraud. | Personal Information (as defined by California Customer Records Statute) | Yes |
| Business and Financial Information (invoices, payments, fund transfers, financial transactions and statements, trust account information and general ledger data). | To provide tools and workflows to perform accounting tasks such as generating financial reports and reconciling accounts. | Necessary for the performance of our contract (our Terms of Service); necessary for our legitimate interests, namely to operate our business and improve/develop our platform. | Personal Information (as defined by California Customer Records Statute) | — |
| All personal information set out above. | To operate, maintain and provide the features and functionality of the CosmicCrate Service, monitor and improve the Service and business, for internal operations (troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes), to keep the Website safe and secure, and to help develop new products and services. | Necessary for our legitimate interest, namely to administer and improve the CosmicCrate Service and develop new services. | Commercial information | Yes |
Annex 2 — Personal information collected automatically
| Category of personal information | How we use it | Legal basis for the processing | CCPA categorization | Prior 12-month disclosures |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Information about how you access and use the CosmicCrate Service (e.g. the website you came from and go to when you leave, your social media profiles, how frequently and how long you access the Service, whether you open emails or click links, whether you access from multiple devices, and other actions; including IP addresses, browser type, ISP, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data). | To conduct market analysis and monitor the Service to improve our business and develop new products and services; to generate marketing leads and determine news, alerts and other products and services that may be of interest to you. | Necessary for our legitimate interests, namely to conduct relevant analysis to improve the Service generally and for marketing purposes. | Geolocation information; Inferences about personal preferences and attributes drawn from profiling; Internet activity | Yes |
| Information about your device (type of device, unique device identifying numbers, operating systems, browsers, and applications connected to the Service through the device, your Internet service provider or mobile network, your IP address). | To enable the Service to be presented to you on your device; to operate, maintain and provide the features and functionality of the Service; to monitor and improve the Service and develop new products and services. | Necessary for the performance of a contract (our Terms of Service); necessary for our legitimate interests, namely to tailor and improve the Service. | Internet or other electronic network activity information | Yes |
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