Privacy Policy

Last Updated: [Date]

1. Introduction

ttriz.com ("we", "us", or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website ttriz.com and use our services (collectively, the "Service").

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways:

• Personal Data (Future - if accounts are added): If you create an account, we may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, and payment information (if applicable for paid tiers).
• Problem-Solving Data: Information you input into the Service, such as problem statements, industry context, selected parameters, notes, diagram data, and generated reports. This data is processed to provide the Service to you. For AI analysis, this data is sent to our AI service provider (Google Gemini API).
• Usage Data: We may automatically collect information when you access and use the Service, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Service. This is collected via server logs and potentially session storage for application state.
• API Key Data (if provided by user): If you provide your own Gemini API key, it is stored in your browser's session storage for the duration of your session and used to make API calls on your behalf. We do not store this key on our servers persistently.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain the Service.
• Process your TRIZ consultations and generate reports.
• Facilitate AI analysis by sending relevant data to the Gemini API.
• Improve, personalize, and expand the Service.
• Understand and analyze how you use the Service.
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the Service, and for marketing and promotional purposes (with your consent where required).
• Process your transactions (for paid tiers).
• Find and prevent fraud.

4. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. This includes Google for the Gemini API services. Google's use of data is governed by their own privacy policies.
• For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
• To Protect Rights: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

We do not sell your personal information or problem-solving data.

5. Data Security

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the information you provide to us, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

Data transmitted to the Gemini API is subject to Google's security practices.

6. Data Retention

Currently, data such as problem statements, notes, and diagram XML are stored in your browser's Session Storage and are cleared when the session ends. If AI analysis is saved to the report, this saved analysis is also part of the session data.

With the introduction of user accounts (a future feature), data retention policies will be updated to reflect server-side storage.

7. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding 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 or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• (Other rights like restriction of processing, data portability, object to processing may apply based on GDPR, CCPA etc.)

To exercise these rights, please contact us.

8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Currently, ttriz.com primarily uses Session Storage for application state. We do not use persistent cookies for tracking across sessions on the main application. The landing page may use minimal local storage for preferences if implemented. We may use server logs for analytics.

9. Children's Privacy

The Service is not intended for use by children under the age of 13 (or a higher age threshold as required by applicable law). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@ttriz.com.