Atlas Privacy Policy

Effective February 1, 2023. Last Revised February 1, 2023.

At Atlas, we believe that privacy is a right. We want to empower our users to be the masters of their identity. In this privacy policy, we want to help you understand how and why Atlas Labs, LLC. ("Atlas,” "we” or "us”) collects, uses, and shares information about you when you use our sites, mobile apps, widgets, and other online products and services (collectively, the "Services") or when you otherwise interact with us or receive a communication from us.

Any data we collect is used primarily to provide our services, which are focused on allowing people to come together and form communities, the vast majority of which are public. If you have questions about how we use your data, you can always ask us for more information.

What Information We Collect

	Information You Provide to Us We collect information you provide to us directly when you use the Services. This includes:
	Account information		If you create an Atlas account, your account will have a username, which you provide or which was automatically generated, your full name, age, and optional social handle(s). Your username and full name is public. You may need to provide a password, depending on whether you register using an email address or using a Single Sign-On (SSO) feature (such as Apple or Google). When you use Atlas, you may provide other optional information. We may ask you to select interests (e.g. history, nature, sports) to help create a home feed for you. You may also provide other information, such as a bio, gender, age, location, or profile picture. This information is optional and may be removed at any time. We also store your user account preferences and settings. We may ask for such information prior to you creating a username or account to help improve your experience exploring Atlas.
	Content you submit		We collect the content you submit to the Services. This includes your posts and comments including saved drafts, audio and videos you broadcast, your messages with other users (e.g., private messages, chats, and modmail), and your reports and other communications with moderators and with us. Your content may include text, links, images, gifs, audio, and videos.
	Actions you take		We collect information about the actions you take when using the Services. This includes your interactions with content, like voting, saving, hiding, and reporting. It also includes your interactions with other users, such as following, friending, and blocking. We collect your interactions with communities, like your subscriptions or moderator status.
	Transactional information		If you purchase an Atlas Account Subscription , we will collect certain information from you, including your name, address, email address, phone number, and information about the product or service you are purchasing. Atlas uses industry-standard payment processor services (for example, Stripe) to handle payment information and does not store Atlas Vault private key information.
	Other information		You may choose to provide other information directly to us. For example, we may collect information when you fill out a form, participate in Atlas-sponsored activities or promotions, apply for a job, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us.

	Information We Collect Automatically When you access or use our Services, we may also automatically collect information about you. This includes:
	Log and usage data		We may log information when you access and use the Services. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), device settings, mobile carrier name, pages visited, links clicked, the requested URL, and search terms. Except for the IP address used to create your account, Atlas will delete any IP addresses collected after 100 days.
	Information collected from cookies and similar technologies		We may receive information from cookies, which are pieces of data your browser stores and sends back to us when making requests, and similar technologies. We use this information to deliver and maintain our services and our site, improve your experience, understand user activity, personalize content and advertisements, measure the effectiveness of advertising, and improve the quality of our Services. For example, we store and retrieve information about your preferred language and other settings. See our Cookie Notice for more information about how Atlas uses cookies. For more information on how you can disable cookies, please see "Your Choices” below.
	Location information		We may receive and process information about your location. We may receive location information from you when you choose to share such information on our Services, including by associating your content with a location, or we may derive an approximate location based on your IP address.

Information Collected from Other Sources

We may receive information about you from other sources, including from other users and third parties, and combine that information with the other information we have about you. For example, we may receive demographic or interest information about you from third parties, including advertisers (such as the fact that an advertiser is interested in showing you an ad), and combine it with data you have provided to Atlas, using a common account identifier such as a hash of an email address or a mobile-device ID. You can control how we use this information to personalize the Services for you by visiting the Safety & Privacy section of the User Settings menu in your account, as described in the section titled "Your Rights and Choices” below.

Linked services

If you authorize or link a third-party service (e.g., an unofficial mobile app client) to access your Atlas account, Atlas receives information about your use of that service when it uses that authorization. Linking services may also cause the other service to send us information about your account with that service. For example, if you sign in to Atlas with a third-party identity provider, that provider may share an email address with us. To learn how information is shared with linked services, see "How Information About You Is Shared” below.

Information collected from integrations

We also may receive information about you, including log and usage data and cookie information, from third-party sites that integrate our Services.

Information Collected by Third Parties

Audience measurement

We partner with service providers that perform audience measurement to learn demographic information about the population that uses Atlas. To provide this demographic information, these companies collect cookie information to recognize your device.

How We Use Information

We use information about you to:

Provide, maintain, and improve the Services;
Personalize services, content, and features that match your activities, preferences, and settings.
Help protect the safety of Atlas and our users, which includes blocking suspected spammers, addressing abuse, and enforcing the Atlas User Agreement and our other policies;
Research and develop new services;
Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, invoices, and other support and administrative messages;
Provide customer service;
Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, and events, and provide other news and information we think will be of interest to you (for information about how to opt out of these communications, see "Your Choices” below); and
Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services.

How We Share Information

Much of the information on the Services is public and accessible to everyone, even without an account. By using the Services, you are directing us to share this information publicly and freely.

When you submit content (including a post, comment, chat message, or broadcast) to a public part of the Services, any visitors to and users of our Services will be able to see that content, the username associated with the content, and the date and time you originally submitted the content. Although some parts of the Services may be private or quarantined, they may become public (e.g., at the moderator's option in the case of private communities) and you should take that into consideration before posting to the Services.

Your Atlas account has a profile page that is public or private. Your profile contains information about your activities on the Services, such as your username, prior questions and answers, other posts, links, trophies, and how long you have been a member of the Services. You can also choose for your profile to include the content you upvote..

We do not sell your personal information. However, in addition to the personal information that is displayed publicly as described above, we may share personal information in the following ways:

With your consent. We may share information about you with your consent or at your direction.
With linked services. If you link your Atlas account with a third-party service, Atlas will share the information you authorize with that third-party service. You can control this sharing as described in "Your Rights and Choices" below.
With our service providers. We may share information with vendors, consultants, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work for us. Their use of personal data will be subject to appropriate confidentiality and security measures. A few examples: (i) payment processors who process transactions on our behalf, (ii) cloud providers who host our data and our services.
To comply with the law. We may share information in response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request, including, but not limited to, meeting national security or law enforcement requirements. To the extent the law allows it, we will attempt to provide you with prior notice before disclosing your information in response to such a request.
In an emergency. We may share information if we believe it's necessary to prevent imminent and serious bodily harm to a person.
To enforce our policies and rights. We may share information if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our User Agreement, rules, or other Atlas policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of ourselves and others.
With our affiliates. We may share information between and among Atlas, and any of our parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership.
Aggregated or de-identified information. We may share information about you that has been aggregated or anonymized such that it cannot reasonably be used to identify you. For example, we may show the total number of times a post has been upvoted without identifying who the visitors were..

How We Protect Your Information

We take measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. For example, we use HTTPS while information is being transmitted. We also enforce technical and administrative access controls to limit which of our employees have access to nonpublic personal information.

You can help maintain the security of your account by configuring two-factor authentication.

We store the information we collect for as long as it is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it. We may retain certain information for legitimate business purposes or as required by law.

Your Rights and Choices

You have choices about how to protect and limit the collection, use, and sharing of information about you when you use the Services. Depending on where you live, you may also have the right to request access to or ability to port, deletion/erasure of, or correction/rectification of, your personal information, to opt out of certain advertising practices, or to withdraw consent for processing where you have previously provided consent. Below we explain how to exercise each of these rights. Atlas does not discriminate against users for exercising their rights under data protection laws.

	Accessing and Changing Your Information		You can access your information and change or correct certain information through the Services. See our Help Center page for more information. You can also request a copy of the personal information Atlas maintains about you by following the process described here.
	Deleting Your Account		You may delete your account information at any time from the user preferences page. You can also submit a request to delete the personal information Atlas maintains about you by following the process described below this table. When you delete your account, your profile is no longer visible to other users and disassociated from content you posted under that account. Please note, however, that the posts, comments, and messages you submitted prior to deleting your account will still be visible to others unless you first delete the specific content. After you submit a request to delete your account, it may take up to 90 days for our purge script to complete deletion. We may also retain certain information about you as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.
	Controlling the Use of Cookies		Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject first- and third-party cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of our Services. For more information on controlling how cookies and similar technologies are used on Atlas, see our Cookie Notice.
	Controlling Advertising and Analytics		Some analytics providers we partner with may provide specific opt-out mechanisms and we may provide, as needed and as available, additional tools and third-party services that allow you to better understand cookies and how you can opt out. For example, you may manage the use and collection of certain information by Google Analytics via the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. You can opt out of the Audience Measurement services provided by Nielsen and Quantcast. You may also generally opt out of receiving personalized advertisements from certain third-party advertisers and ad networks. To learn more about these advertisements or to opt out, please visit the sites of the Digital Advertising Alliance and the Network Advertising Initiative, or if you are a user in the European Economic Area, Your Online Choices.
	Do Not Track		Most modern web browsers give you the option to send a Do Not Track signal to the sites you visit, indicating that you do not wish to be tracked. However, there is no accepted standard for how a site should respond to this signal, and we do not take any action in response to this signal. Instead, in addition to publicly available third-party tools, we offer you the choices described in this policy to manage the collection and use of information about you.
	Controlling Promotional Communications		You may opt out of receiving some or all categories of promotional communications from us by following the instructions in those communications or by updating your email options in your account preferences here. If you opt out of promotional communications, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as information about your account or your use of the Services.
	Controlling Mobile Notifications		With your consent, we may send promotional and non-promotional push notifications or alerts to your mobile device. You can deactivate these messages at any time by changing the notification settings on your mobile device.
	Controlling Location Information		You can control how we use location information inferred from your IP address for content recommendation purposes via the Safety and Privacy settings on your account.

If you have questions or are not able to submit a request to exercise your rights using the mechanisms above, you may also email us at to ops@atlasapp.co from the email address that you have verified with your Atlas account.

Before we process a request from you about your personal information, we need to verify the request via your access to your Atlas account or to a verified email address associated with your Atlas account. If we deny your request, you may appeal our decision by contacting us at ops@atlasapp.co.

Additional Information for EEA Users

Users in the European Economic Area have the right to request access to, rectification of, or erasure of their personal data; to data portability in certain circumstances; to request restriction of processing; to object to processing; and to withdraw consent for processing where they have previously provided consent. These rights can be exercised as described in the "Your Rights and Choices section above. EEA users also have the right to lodge a complaint with their local supervisory authority.

As required by applicable law, we collect and process information about individuals in the EEA only where we have a legal basis for doing so. Our legal bases depend on the Services you use and how you use them. We process your information on the following legal bases:

You have consented for us to do so for a specific purpose;
We need to process the information to provide you the Services, including to operate the Services, provide customer support and personalized features and to protect the safety and security of the Services;
It satisfies a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your data protection interests), such as preventing fraud, ensuring network and information security, enforcing our rules and policies, protecting our legal rights and interests, research and development, personalizing the Services, and marketing and promoting the Services; or
We need to process your information to comply with our legal obligations.

International Data Transfers

Atlas Labs, LLC. is based in the United States and we process and store information on servers located in the United States. We may store information on servers and equipment in other countries depending on a variety of factors, including the locations of our users and service providers. By accessing or using the Services or otherwise providing information to us, you consent to the processing, transfer, and storage of information in and to the U.S. and other countries, where you may not have the same rights as you do under local law.

When we transfer the personal data of users in the EEA, UK and/or Switzerland, we rely on the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission for such transfers or other transfer mechanisms deemed ‘adequate' under applicable laws.

Additional Information for California Users

The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA”), as amended, requires us to provide California residents with some additional information, which we address in this section.

In the last 12 months, we collected the following categories of personal information from California residents, depending on the Services used:

Identifiers, like your Atlas username, email address, IP address, and cookie information.
Commercial information, including information about transactions you undertake with us.
Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as information about your activity on our Services and limited information about your activity on the services of advertisers who use our advertising technology.
Geolocation information based on your IP address, or more specific location information if you authorize your device to provide it to us.
Your messages with other users (e.g., private messages, chats, and modmail).
Audiovisual information in pictures, audio, or video content submitted to Atlas.
Professional or employment-related information or demographic information, but only if you explicitly provide it to us, such as by applying for a job or filling out a survey.
Inferences we make based on other collected data, for purposes such as recommending content, advertising, and analytics.

You can find more information about (a) what we collect and sources of that information in the "Information We Collect” section of this notice, (b) the business and commercial purposes for collecting that information in the "How We Use Your Information” section, and (c) the categories of third parties with whom we share that information in the "How We Share Information” section.

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CCPA, including the right to opt out of any sales or sharing of your personal information, to request access to and information about our data practices, and to request deletion or correction of your personal information, as well as the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights. Atlas does not "sell” or "share” personal information as those terms are defined under the CCPA. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information except to provide you the Services or as otherwise permitted by the CCPA.

You may exercise your rights to access, delete, or correct your personal information as described in the "Your Rights and Choices” section of this notice. When you make a request, we will verify your identity by asking you to sign into your account or if necessary by requesting additional information from you. You may also make a rights request using an authorized agent. If you submit a rights request from an authorized agent who does not provide a valid power of attorney, we may ask the authorized agent to provide proof that you gave the agent signed permission to submit the request to exercise rights on your behalf. In the absence of a valid power of attorney, we may also require you to verify your own identity directly with us or confirm to us that you otherwise provided the authorized agent permission to submit the request. If you have any questions or concerns, you may reach us using the methods described under Your Rights and Choices or by emailing us at ops@atlasapp.co.

Children

Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to create an account or otherwise use the Services. Additionally, if you are located outside the United States, you must be over the age required by the laws of your country to create an account or otherwise use the Services, or we need to have obtained verifiable consent from your parent or legal guardian.

Changes to This Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we do, we will let you know by revising the date at the top of the policy. If the changes, in our sole discretion, are material, we may also notify you by sending an email to the address associated with your account (if you have chosen to provide an email address) or by otherwise providing notice through our Services. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy. By continuing to use our Services after Privacy Policy changes go into effect, you agree to be bound by the revised policy.

Contact Us

If you have other questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Atlas Labs, LLC.

435 W Dilido Dr,

Miami Beach, Florida, 33139

Atlas Account Subscription Agreement

Effective February 1, 2023. Last Revised February 1, 2023

1. Atlas Account Subscription

Atlas is a subscription membership. When you purchase an Atlas Account, you expressly agree that you are authorizing recurring payments, and that payments will be made to Atlas by the payment method and at the recurring intervals (monthly or annually) you have agreed to, until the subscription is canceled by you or by Atlas.

You can manage your Atlas subscription and Payment Information by accessing your Account’s user settings or via your mobile app. We automatically process your Payment Information on the calendar day corresponding to the start of your subscription. If your subscription starts on a day not contained in the next month, you will be billed on the last day of that month. Mobile renewal processing dates may vary subject to any additional third-party terms. If your Payment Information is declined, you must provide new Payment Information or your Atlas subscription will be canceled. If you provide new Payment Information and are successfully charged, your new subscription period will be based on the original renewal date and not the date of the successful charge.

You can cancel your Atlas subscription at any time. Your subscription automatically renews (each month or year) unless you cancel at least 24 hours before your subscription period ends. To cancel your subscription, follow the instructions in your Account’s user settings. If you purchased an Atlas Account Subscription using your Apple ID, you can cancel your subscription through your device’s Account Settings or in the Manage Subscriptions section of the Apple App Store. If you purchased an Atlas Account Subscription using Google Play, you can cancel your subscription by visiting the Subscriptions section of Google Play. Your subscription will remain active from the time you cancel until the end of your current billing period, and you will not receive a refund or credit for any remaining days in your current billing period. You acknowledge at the end of your subscription, you will lose access to all features associated with an Atlas Account Subscription including, without limitation, any features enabling you to save or store content or data exclusive to an Atlas Account Subscription.

2. Paid Services Obtained Through Third Parties

If you obtain an Atlas Account subscription via a third party (e.g., Google Play, Apple App Store), that purchase may be further subject to the third party’s terms as agreed between you and such third party. For Paid Services purchases obtained via a third party, your billing relationship will be directly with the applicable third party. Any fees charged for your Atlas Account Subscription will be billed by the applicable third party using the payment information you have provided to such third party.

3. Suspension and Termination

As stated in Atlas’ User Agreement and Content Policy, you must follow and comply with the rules of the platform. Failure to do so may constitute a breach of these Terms and result in a temporary or permanent ban from Atlas. In such instances, you might lose the benefits of an Atlas Account Subscription and we will not compensate you for this loss.

If you reside in the EEA, United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you have the right to withdraw from the Atlas Account Subscription Agreement within fourteen (14) calendar days without giving reasons. The withdrawal period is fourteen (14) calendar days from the date of conclusion of the Atlas Account Subscription Agreement. To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must email ops@atlasapp.co. You acknowledge by entering into a subscription for an Atlas Account, you have expressly requested and consented that your Atlas Account Subscription commence immediately at which point your right to withdrawal is lost.

Atlas Content Policy

Atlasis a vast network of questions, answers, and other content that are created, run, and populated by you, the Atlas users.

Through these interactions, you can ask, answer, vote, ,like, link, discuss, learn, debate, support, and connect with people who share your interests, and we encourage you to find—or even create—your home on Atlas.

While not every interaction or piece of content may be for you (and you may find some unrelatable or even offensive), no posting should be used as a weapon. Users should create a positive environment for their fellow users, not try to diminish it for others. Likewise, everyone on Users should have an expectation of privacy and safety, so please respect the privacy and safety of others.

Below the rules governing each community are the platform-wide rules that apply to everyone on Atlas. These rules are enforced by us, the admins.

Atlas can only exist if we operate by a shared set of rules. We ask that you abide by not just the letter of these rules, but the spirit as well.

Rules

Rule 1

Remember everyone is a human. Atlas is a place for learning and positivity, not for attacking or marginalizing people. Everyone has a right to use Atlas free of harassment, bullying, and threats of violence. Users that incite violence or that promote hate based on identity or vulnerability will be banned.

Rule 2

Abide by community rules. Post authentic content where you have a personal interest, and do not cheat or engage in content manipulation (including spamming, vote manipulation, ban evasion, or subscriber fraud) or otherwise interfere with or disrupt the Atlas user experience.

Rule 3

Respect the privacy of others. Instigating harassment, for example by revealing someone’s personal or confidential information, is not allowed. Never post or threaten to post intimate or sexually-explicit media of someone without their consent.

Rule 4

Do not post or encourage the posting of sexual or suggestive content involving minors.

Rule 5

Don’t impersonate an individual or an entity in a misleading or deceptive manner.

Rule 6

Properly label content that is graphic, sexually-explicit, or offensive.

Rule 7

Keep it legal, and avoid posting illegal content or soliciting or facilitating illegal or prohibited transactions.

Rule 8

Don’t break the site or do anything that interferes with normal use of Atlas.

Enforcement

We have a variety of ways of enforcing our rules, including, but not limited to

Asking you nicely to knock it off
Asking you less nicely
Temporary or permanent suspension of accounts
Removal of privileges from, or adding restrictions to, accounts
Adding restrictions to your Atlas account
Removal of content
Banning from Atlas

Cookie Notice

Last updated February 1, 2023.

This Cookie Notice explains how we use cookies and similar technologies as well as the options you have to control them.

What are cookies and how does Atlas use them?

A cookie is a small text file that a site stores on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. Browsers support cookies and similar technologies (such as local storage and pixels) so that a site like Atlas can remember information about your visit and can use the information to improve your experience and to create aggregated anonymized statistics about usage of the site. In this Notice, we use the term “cookie” to refer both to cookies and similar technologies.

Cookies may be set by the site you are visiting (called “first-party cookies”) or by a third party, such as those who provide analytics or advertising services or interactive content on the site (“third-party cookies”). In addition to using cookies on our sites, we may also serve our cookies (specifically, our advertising pixel) on third-party sites operated by Atlas advertisers who use our advertising technology.

Our first-party cookies include cookies that are strictly necessary, functional cookies, cookies related to analytics/performance and advertising-related cookies.

Strictly Necessary: These cookies are necessary for our services to function properly and securely and cannot be switched off in our systems. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but then some parts of the site will not work.

Functional: These cookies enable Atlas to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these features may not function properly.

Analytics and Performance: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site.

Third-Party Cookies: Atlas’ services also include cookies from third parties that we partner with directly or indirectly.

How do I control cookies and how my data is used?

There are a number of ways you can control how information is collected from cookies on Atlas and how that information is used.

Your browser settings

Your browser includes controls that allow you to manage the use of cookies by the sites that you visit. Most browsers have features that enable you to see and delete cookies stored on your device and to block cookies from all or selected sites. For more information, here are links to external help materials from some of the popular browsers:

Your mobile device settings

Your mobile device may also include browser settings that allow you to manage the use of cookies, especially if the device supports installing apps such as iOS and Android devices.

Third-party opt-outs

The major online advertising industry groups offer tools to limit how cookies are used for advertising purposes by participating third parties. More information is available on these sites from the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, and for users in the EU, the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance. Also, Google provides web users with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent the collection of data via Google Analytics.

Atlas user settings

On Atlas, you can control your privacy settings and how Atlas uses data by visiting your user settings.