Sider – Your AI Sidekick

Privacy Policy

Update date: March 23, 2023

Effective Date: March 23, 2023

Sider.ai website, Sider apps for all platforms, and ChatGPT-Sidebar.com and ChatGPT sidebar extensions are products of Vidline Inc., which is registered and located in Boston, MA, USA.

At Sider, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This privacy policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use the service and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

We use your personal data to provide and improve the service. By using the service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask you to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: Your email, your name, your phone number if you choose to login with your phone number etc.

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service through all kinds of OS, We may collect certain information including, but not limited to, Your operating system, Your app version, and other diagnostic data.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.

You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.

Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

In addition to the aforementioned policy, the following information pertains to data collection, handling, storage, and sharing by the Chrome/Edge extension and Sider.ai web service.

Data collection
  1. If you choose to save your chats on Sider.ai via ChatGPT-Sidebar, your chats will be saved on Sider.ai servers in Amazon US data center.
  2. Your registration data will also be saved on Sider.ai servers in Amazon US data center.
  3. Your browser version may be saved and used to diagnose problems you experienced.
  4. If you choose to upload and save files, such as HTML and PDF files on Sider.ai website, those data will be saved on Sider.ai servers on Amazon US.
  5. We may use tools like Google analytics to collect usage data.
Data handling
  1. Data is transferred to servers through HTTPS.
  2. The company has strict restrictions on your data. Basically, no one will be able to access your data unless you request us to diagnose data related issues for you.
  3. We may get stats information of your data, for example, how many new chats the service has today etc.
  4. We may use third party services like Google Analytics to collect some usage data.
  5. We will not sell your data to any third party.
  6. You can choose to delete your account and remove all data stored in our servers.
Data Storage
  1. The data is stored in Amazon servers based in the US.
  2. We use a backup system in Amazon to back up the data.
  3. We utilize security services, such as firewalls, to safeguard your data.
Data sharing:
  1. We may use some third party services, such as Google analytics to collect some usage data, so some usage data is shared to those services.
  2. You can choose to share your chats with AI to other users.
  3. If you choose to Chat with AIs through our tools or services, you agree to share those data with AIs and the organization behind those AIs.
  4. Your chat data is not shared with any other third parties, except when required by law enforcement.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

GDPR compliance

We updated our Privacy Policy to comply with requirements of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which is the European Union data protection law that goes into effect May 25, 2018.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that 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.

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 anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites 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.

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.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

By email: [email protected]