Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Seedream AI ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website and use our AI image generation services.

By using Seedream AI, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide

When you use our service, we may collect:

• Prompts and Input Data: The text prompts you enter to generate images
• Generated Images: Images created through our AI service
• Verification Data: Information from human verification systems (Cloudflare Turnstile)

2.2 Automatically Collected Information

We automatically collect certain information when you visit our website:

• Usage Data: IP address, browser type, operating system, pages visited, time spent on pages, and other diagnostic data
• Device Information: Device type, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information
• Analytics Data: We use analytics services to understand how users interact with our service

3. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and store certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device.

3.1 Types of Cookies We Use

• Essential Cookies: Required for the website to function properly, including human verification and rate limiting
• Analytics Cookies: Help us understand how visitors use our website
• Advertising Cookies: Used to serve advertisements relevant to you

3.2 Third-Party Cookies

Important: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to our website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our sites and/or other sites on the Internet.

Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google Ads Settings. Alternatively, you can opt out of third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for various purposes:

• To provide and maintain our AI image generation service
• To process your image generation requests
• To enforce rate limits and prevent abuse
• To verify human users and prevent bot activity
• To analyze usage patterns and improve our service
• To monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities
• To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
• To serve relevant advertisements through third-party partners

5. Data Sharing and Disclosure

5.1 Third-Party Service Providers

We may share your information with third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website and providing our services:

• Cloudflare: For CDN, security, and human verification services
• Analytics Providers: To understand website usage and user behavior
• Advertising Partners: Including Google AdSense, to display relevant advertisements
• AI Service Providers: To process image generation requests

5.2 Legal Requirements

We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.

• Usage Data: Retained for analysis purposes, typically for shorter periods unless required for security or legal compliance
• Generated Images: May be temporarily cached but are not permanently stored by us
• Rate Limit Data: Stored for 24 hours to enforce daily usage limits

7. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights:

• Access: Request copies of your personal data
• Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate data
• Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data
• Restrict Processing: Request restriction of processing your data
• Object to Processing: Object to our processing of your data
• Data Portability: Request transfer of your data to another organization

To exercise these rights, please contact us at the email address provided in the Contact section below.

8. Children's Privacy

Our service is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 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 children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

9. International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ. By using our service, you consent to such transfer of information.

10. Security

We value your trust in providing us your personal information and strive to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. However, 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 absolute security.

11. California Privacy Rights (CCPA)

If you are a California resident, you have specific rights regarding your personal information under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):

• Right to know what personal information is collected, used, shared, or sold
• Right to delete personal information held by businesses
• Right to opt-out of sale of personal information
• Right to non-discrimination for exercising CCPA rights

12. European Privacy Rights (GDPR)

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your personal data.

Our legal basis for collecting and using personal information depends on the specific information and context. We may process your data because we have a legitimate interest, you have given consent, we need to perform a contract, or we need to comply with the law.

13. 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 and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

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.

14. Contact Us

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

• By visiting our Contact page
• By email: privacy@sdream4.com